Technical Blog

27
Jan

QuickChecking Poolboy for Fun and Profit

This week, the Basho engineering team flew out to Denver and spent a week at the Oxford Hotel. Also attending was John Hughes, the CEO of QuviQ, who spent the week teaching a bunch of us how to use his property-based software testing tool, QuickCheck.

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18
Jan

Congratulations, Amazon!

Amazon’s unveiling earlier today of DynamoDB, Amazon’s new datastore, is good for the NoSQL movement and great for customer choice.

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28
Dec

2011 Was A Huge Year. Onto 2012

A Whirlwind tour of what we did in 2011 and where we are going in 2012 ...

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15
Dec
30
Nov

Riak and Hadoop Word Count Example

An example Riak-Hadoop map/reduce job

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29
Nov

Riak and Hadoop (Sitting in a tree)

A whistle stop tour of a new integration between Riak and Hadoop MapReduce
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17
Nov

Riak 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 Riak community members to celebrate the release.

In addition to the excellent food, drinks, company, and c [...]

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14
Nov

Basho 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 of what QCon is all about, and we came on board this year as a Platinum Sponsor because of it. In addition [...]

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05
Oct

Remembering Steve Jobs

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 that they could do the same. ...
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