Basho Comments on OpenStack Foundation Board Nomination
August 02, 2012 Recently, Shanley Kane, our director of product management, was nominated as an individual member candidate to the OpenStack Foundation Board of Directors. Following Shanley’s...
View ArticleRiak 1.2 Is Official!
August 07, 2012 Nearly three years ago to the day, from a set of green, worn couches in a modest office Cambridge, Massachusetts, the Basho team announced Riak to the world. To say we’ve come a long...
View ArticleMulti-Data Center Replication in Riak Enterprise 1.2
August 08, 2012 The Replication team @Basho has been hard at work implementing new features for Multi-Data Center (MDC) Replication. These new features are the direct result of customer feedback, and...
View ArticleRiak at ideeli - Using Riak For Peak-Load Service Continuity
August 09, 2012 ideeli is one of the fastest growing retailers in the United States with more than 5 million members and 3,000 brand partners. Every morning at 11:00 a.m. ET, members flood the site to...
View ArticleChoosing the Right Tool
August 10, 2012 We have a poorly defined term in our industry: “NoSQL.” [Does your toaster run SQL? No? Then you own a NoSQL toaster.] Be that as it may, Riak falls under the umbrella of software that...
View ArticleRiak at Braintree
August 14, 2012 The inaugural Chicago Riak meetup happened last month, held at Braintree’s beautiful new offices in Downtown Chicago. In this video, Ben Mills, a developer at Braintree, discusses how...
View ArticleRiak Cloud Storage - New Features and Product Update
August 21, 2012 Earlier this year we launched Riak CS - simple, available cloud storage built on Riak. We gave it an S3-compatible API, made it multi-tenant, and added per-user reporting on network and...
View ArticleRiak Ambassadors For PyCon ZA
August 23, 2012 We’ve been excited about the South African tech scene for some time now. Ever since we had the opportunity to be a part of ScaleConf back in January, we’ve noticed a flurry of Riak...
View ArticleRICON Talks Announced; Brewer, Hellerstein, Flake To Keynote
August 23, 2012 Over the last few weeks we’ve been rolling out the talk details for RICON2012, Basho’s first-ever developer conference dedicated to Riak and the future of distributed systems in...
View ArticleLingua RICON - A Guide For Language Enthusiasts
August 29, 2012 tl;dr - There will be no shortage of language-specific content at RICON when it comes to building Riak-backed applications. If you and your team working on a Riak application and have...
View ArticleRiak at Shareaholic
September 11, 2012 The Riak community is more active than ever. Hundreds of companies have put Riak into production over the past several months alone (some names here) and we’ve been expanding our...
View ArticleIn-Depth on Riak 1.2 [video]
September 12, 2012 In case you missed the announcement, last month we released Riak 1.2 into the wild. This release was many months in the making and contains bug fixes, performance enhancements, as...
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Cluster Management Improvements in Riak 1.2
September 13, 2012 Last month we released Riak 1.2 , with a number of improvements in Riak stats, the protobufs API, LevelDB backend and repair/recovery capabilities. Riak 1.2 also features a new...
View ArticleRolling with Eventual Consistency
September 18, 2012 In a previous post I wrote about the different mindset that a software engineer should have when building for a key-value database as opposed to a relational database. When working...
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Riak at PyConZA
October 03, 2012 PyConZA starts this Thursday in Cape Town, South Africa, and Basho is proud to be a sponsor. As our blurb on the PyConZA site states: Basho is proud to sponsor PyConZA because we...
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Basho Japan Opening Ceremony
Tokyo, Japan October 5, 2012 The opening of Basho’s Tokyo office, has been an exciting endeavor for everyone involved. We felt that Basho’s arm in Japan should embrace the traditions and culture of...
View ArticleRICON Is Sold Out...But Don't Worry
October 08, 2012 At this point you probably know that for the past several months the Basho Team has been planning a two-day conference dedicated to both Riak and distributed systems. We’ve christened...
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Riak Docs Get an Overhaul
October 08, 2012 I’m proud to announce that today, Basho has delivered an overhaul to our existing documents to docs.basho.com. We streamlined the navigation, look and feel, and content. We also made...
View ArticleAnnouncing Riak on Microsoft Windows Azure
October 9, 2012 Basho is excited to announce that – in partnership with Microsoft – Riak is a fully-supported and tested NoSQL database option for Windows Azure. Our goal has been to increase the...
View ArticleOfficial Basho Package Repositories Now Available
October 16, 2012 We are pleased to announce that Basho package repositories for Riak downloads are now available! Hopefully this makes installing Riak even easier. Here’s the summary of what’s...
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