Basho Blog

Introducing the Riak CS for Startups program, which provides early-stage companies with access to Basho's simple, multi-tenant, distributed cloud storage at a significant discount.

I'm excited to announce that Matt Rannay and the team at Voxer just open-sourced their production node.js client for Riak, node_riak.

Today we are introducing something called the Riak Community Release Notes. Much like codebases grow and evolve, so does a community and its accomplishments. So why not present and chronicle what the community does in the same way that you would with a piece of code? The Riak Community Release Notes are an attempt to do just that.

The majority of the Basho team is descending upon Cambridge, MA this week for an All-Hands Meetup. We're a distributed company, and function well as such, but it's great to get everyone together when feasible to see new faces, build culture, and reinforce why we are all a part of the company.

Here at Basho we want to make sure that your Riak implementations are set up from the beginning to succeed. While you can use the Riak Fast Track to quickly set up a 3-node dev/test environment, we recommend that all production deployments use a minimum of 5 nodes, ensuring you benefit from the architectural principles that underpin Riak's availability, fault-tolerance and scaling properties.

BashoChats 003 happened at BashoWest this past Tuesday. The crowd was standing-room only, and we were lucky enough to have Ryan Kennedy, Yammer's Director of Core Services, talking about some of the impressive work that he and his colleagues are doing with Berkeley DB.

If you're running Riak and want to tell the world, we now have official Riak badges you can display proudly.

We will be at the Philadelphia Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise Conference on April 10-11.

The Basho team will be attending the Erlang Factory conference in San Francisco this week, as well as hosting the afterparty on Thursday March, 29th. We hope to see you at Basho Bash West 2012!

We'll be in Brooklyn, NY at 8:00pm this coming Tuesday, hosting a Drinkup with our friends from Etsy.