Riak Puppet Module Now Official
October 17, 2012 A few weeks back Puppet Labs put a bounty on a Riak puppet module, and Henrik Feldt (known as haf) took up the challenge and delivered! After releasing the module, and working with a...
View ArticleTry Riak Cloud Storage
October 18, 2012 Riak CS is enterprise cloud storage built on top of Riak, offering S3-compatible, multi-tenant large object storage. It’s software for building public clouds, or reliable storage...
View ArticleRails Rumble with Riak and Ripple - Three Developers and a Lot of Rs
October 19, 2012 This past weekend, Bryce Kerley, David Andersen, and I had the honor of participating in Rails Rumble 2012 (of which, I am proud to say, Basho was a sponsor). This event is a 48-hour...
View ArticleIntro to Riak Webcast this Thursday
October 22, 2012 If you missed our last ‘Intro to Riak’ webcast, not to fear, we’re doing another. This Thursday (11am PT / 2pm ET) , join Shanley, Basho’s director of product marketing, and Mark,...
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How Basho Pulled Off Our First Developer Conference
October 26, 2012 A few weeks back the Basho Team put on RICON2012. This was our first developer conference, and by nearly all-accounts, we put on a good show. Here are a few comments from those who...
View ArticleBuilding Apps on Riak - Content, Sessions, User Data, Ads and Other Use Cases
October 30, 2012 How do I build my application on Riak? This is one of the first questions we get from people new to Riak. Whether you are new to the key/value model, switching from a relational...
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LevelDB in Riak 1.2
October 30, 2012 Google’s LevelDB has proven very versatile within Riak – LevelDB is implemented in Riak as eleveldb, an Erlang wrapper around levelDB. But Google’s target environment was much...
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Building a Riak Cluster on Raspberry Pi
November 1, 2012 Erlang was created to run on a variety of systems. Riak (written in Erlang) was created as a fault-tolerant distributed datastore, able to run on commodity hardware. Raspberry Pi is...
View ArticleIntro to Riak Webcast this Thursday
October 31, 2012 Our ‘Intro to Riak’ webcasts have proven very popular, so we’re keeping them coming. This Thursday (11am PT / 2pm ET), join Shanley, Basho’s director of product marketing, and Mark,...
View ArticleRiak Core Now Has Its Own Mailing List
November 04, 2012Thanks to the urging of DeadZen, we now have a dedicated mailing list for Riak Core. You can subscribe here.For those of you not familiar with Riak Core, it’s more-or-less the...
View ArticleIntro to Riak CS Webcast
November 05, 2012Earlier 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...
View ArticleA Fresh Start For riak-js
November 13, 2012Today I’m happy to announce a new release of riak-js, the Riak client for Node.js. This release breathes new life back into riak-js. For various reasons, development on riak-js had...
View ArticleMonitoring Distributed Systems (New Approaches)
November 13, 2012Legacy RDBMS systems offered mature monitoring capabilities that usually gave operators a clear view of how their databases were (or weren’t) performing. Emerging distributed systems...
View ArticleAn Introduction To Stasis With Rusty Sears
November 14, 2012The video from last week’s BashoChats Meetup is ready for consumption. Rusty Sears was kind enough to join us for an overview of Stasis [ 1 ] [ 2 ]. Stasis is “a flexible transactional...
View ArticleThe Future of Distributed Systems (RICON Video Roundup)
November 22, 2012With a growing community understanding of distributed systems architectures, where is the field evolving? How are Riak and other Dynamo-inspired databases handling complex data...
View ArticleAnnouncing Riak Cloud Storage With Multi-Datacenter Replication
November 30, 2012Riak Cloud Storage is an S3-compatible, multi-tenant storage platform built on Riak. It combines the availability and fault tolerance of Riak with the ability to store large objects,...
View ArticleCitrix CloudPlatform Partnership Update - Multi-Datacenter Replication;...
November 30, 2012In September, we announced a partnership with Citrix CloudPlatform to provide integrated storage and compute capabilities. Basho and Citrix are working together on a combined platform...
View ArticleRiak Enterprise at Velti
December 03, 2012In 2009, mobile marketing and advertising technology provider Velti had a good (but challenging) problem on their hands. Their technology, which allows people to interact with their TV...
View ArticleRiak Cloud Storage in 15 Minutes (Video)
December 12, 2012Learn the basics of Riak Cloud Storage in 15 minutes in this video from the Citrix CloudPlatform partner program. We discuss the building blocks of cloud services platforms and...
View ArticleRiak AMI Now Available on Amazon Marketplace
December 14, 2012tl;dr - A Riak AMI is now available in the AWS Marketplace. Installation and configuration documentation is on the doc portal.A number of our community members and customers already...
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