Riak Pipe - the New MapReduce Power
September 19, 2011 A few months ago, I announced the opening of Riak Pipe, as well as two goals for the project. With the upcoming 1.0 release of Riak, we have achieved the first goal: new clusters...
View ArticleRemembering Steve Jobs
October 5, 2011 Our worlds have been forever changed by a man who refused to accept the status quo and believed that he could change the world. Not only did he change the world, he made others believe...
View ArticleBasho and Riak Taking Over QConSF
November 14, 2011 QCon is happening this week in San Francisco, with the tutorials taking place today and tomorrow, and the conference proper running Wednesday through Friday. Basho is huge supporter...
View ArticleRiak 1.0 Is Officially Released!
September 30, 2011 We are absolutely thrilled to report that as of today, Riak 1.0 is officially released and ready for your production applications! Riak 1.0 packages are available. Go download one....
View ArticleRiak 1.0 Release Party Recap
November 17, 2011 The Riak 1.0 Release Party happened just over a week ago in San Francisco. It was an exceptional evening, and we were able to bring together the Basho Team and a huge number of local...
View ArticleRiak and Hadoop (Sitting in a tree)
November 29, 2011 It has been pointed out on occasion that Riak MapReduce isn’t real “MapReduce”, often with reference to Hadoop, which is. There are many times that Riak’s data processing pipeline is...
View ArticleRiak and Hadoop Word Count Example
December 1, 2011 My last post was a brief description of the integration between Riak and Hadoop MapReduce. This, the follow up post, will be a bit more hands on and walk you through an example...
View ArticleAnnouncing Riaknostic, your Riak Doctor
December 15, 2011 As much as we love Riak and talk about how easy it is to put into production, the activity on the #riak IRC room, mailing list and customer support issues has a way of telling us...
View ArticleBashoChats 001 - Erlang and DTrace; Storm and Distributed RPC
December 21, 2011 The inaugural BashoChats was held just under a week ago at BashoWest in San Francisco. About 30 local developers came out to have a few beers on Basho’s tab and discuss distributed...
View Article2011 Was A Huge Year. Onto 2012
December 28, 2011 Distilling a year’s worth of work, innovation, and growth into one blog post is a fool’s errand. But we wanted to give it a shot regardless. This post is long, but it’s well worth the...
View ArticleCongratulations, Amazon!
January 18, 2012 Amazon’s unveiling earlier today of DynamoDB, Amazon’s new datastore, is good for the NoSQL movement and great for customer choice. We were early believers in the set of principles...
View ArticleQuickChecking Poolboy for Fun and Profit
This post appeared originally on Andrew Thompson's Blog. January 27, 2012 TL;DRUnit tests are great, but they can't test everythingCode always has bugsQuickCheck helps you generate testcases at a...
View ArticleRiak In Production At Posterous
January 31, 2012 The videos from last month’s San Francisco Riak Meetup are online and ready for consumption. The first features Julio Capote giving a short overview of the work he and Posterous are...
View ArticleBasho is a Proud Sponsor of Travis CI
February 07, 2012 The crowd-funding site for the Travis CI Project went live this morning. For those of you who haven’t had the pleasure of working with it, Travis is a “distributed build system for...
View ArticleRiak Control
February 22, 2012 Riak Control is Basho’s new OSS, REST-driven, user-interface for Riak. The code has been available for a few months now, but it’s officially supported in Riak 1.1, so we wanted share...
View ArticleHow Eventual is Eventual Consistency?
March 02, 2012 The second BashoChats Meetup was held last week at BashoWest. The office was packed with area developers and our two speakers, Ted Nyman and Peter Bailis, each delivered exceptional...
View ArticleInstant-ish Real Service Architecture
March 05, 2012 Happy Monday. What better way to start the week than with a smart, insightful tech talk from a thoughtful, talented engineer? Ted Nyman is the lead engineer at Simple, a startup that is...
View ArticleRiak Talk and Drinkup Tonight in Vancouver
March 14, 2012 Andy Gross is giving a Riak talk tonight at the Vancouver Erlang Meetup taking place at the iQmetrix offices. If you’re in town and aren’t registered for the event, there’s still time...
View ArticleThomas Santero - Technical Evangelist
March 15, 2012 I’m happy to announce the addition of Thomas Santero to the Basho family. Thomas (who also goes by “Tom”) is joining as Technical Evangelist and will be part of the Community Team. He’s...
View ArticleDrinkup with Etsy on March 20
March 16, 2012 A lot of the Basho crew will be in New York City next week for Structure Data (and if you make it to the cocktail reception on Wednesday night, you’ll be taking home some limited-edition...
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