Technical Blog

22
Feb

Riak Control

Riak Control is Basho's new OSS, REST-driven, user-interface for their NoSQL database 'Riak'. You can find more information on setting up RIak Control on the Basho Wiki.

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07
Feb

Basho is a Proud Sponsor of Travis CI

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 the open source community" with support for Ruby, PHP, Clojure, Erlang, and JavaScript (with more on the way).

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30
Jan

Riak In Production At Posterous

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 doing with Riak as a post cache. The second presentation was from Mark Phillips and it was all about Riak Control, the new Admin Tool that will be fully supported in the forthcoming Riak 1.1 release.

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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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