Introduction to Riak CS
Apr. 16, 2012
Basho Engineers Kelly McLaughlin and Reid Draper explain the basics of Riak CS, why it exists,
and what some good use cases are.
Riak Control
Apr. 2, 2012
An introduction to Riak Control from Basho Technologies.
Riak on Drugs (and the Other Way Around)
Oct. 11, 2011
Kresten Krab Thorup discusses a MySQL project that was moved to Riak for high availability, scalability and to run off multiple data centers, sharing the experiences, pitfalls and lessons learned.
Riak Overview
Nov. 14, 2011
A brief overview covering some of the basic features of Riak as a fault-tolerant, highly-available, distributed database.
Riak 1.0 Cluster Membership Screencast
Sept. 9, 2011
In this in-depth screencast, Basho Software Engineer Joseph Blomstedt will take you through the new and improved code, design choices, and functionality that govern Riak's cluster membership.
Webinar: Riak and Python
Aug. 2, 2011
This webinar covers the basics of working with the Riak Python client and illustrates how Riak can integrate with the Django framework.
Riak at Formspring
Aug. 2, 2011
In this talk, Tim Bart of Formspring gives an overview of how and why they are using Riak as the data storage layer for two new features they are rolling out.
Riak Search Explained
May 3, 2011
In this talk, Basho Developer Advocate Dan Reverri takes you through the basics of building an application on top of Riak Search.
Riak Operations
April 15, 2011
This is a webinar covering the various operational aspects of running a production Riak cluster.
Riak and Scala at Yammer
March 28, 2011
In this talk Coda Hale and Ryan Kennedy give an overview of "Streamie," the Riak-backed notifications service they recently built and put into production at Yammer.
Riak with node.js Webinar
March 16, 2011
Learn how to use Riak from node.js applications..
MapReducing Big Data With Riak
February 17, 2011
This presentation is a companion to two posts on the Basho blog, about using Riak's "Luwak" library to map/reduce across a large body of data.
Riak Overview and Schema Design
Jan. 12, 2011
Basho Hackers Jon Meredith and Dave "Dizzy" Smith give an extensive overview of what Riak is and how you should approach schema design when developing with Riak. (Special thanks to the team at Pivotal Labs Boulder for making this happen.)
Introduction to Riak at Pivotal
Dec. 15, 2010
Basho Developer Rusty Klophaus gives and extensive overview of Riak, from design decisions, to code samples, to operations best practices.
Webinar: Schema Design for Riak
Dec. 8, 2010
A discussion of strategies for designing application schemas that use the Riak distributed key-value store.
Links and Link Walking in Riak
Aug. 30, 2010
Recorded for the "Riak Fast Track," this 12 minute screencast will take you through basic usage of links in Riak and then show you how they can be used to establish powerful relationships in your data and applications.
Webinar: Riak in Action
Aug. 19, 2010
Wriaki is a sample application built with Riak and Webmachine that implements a simple Wiki. Bryan Fink takes you through how Wriaki works and takes advantage of Riak's unique features.
Webinar: Riak with Rails
Aug. 5, 2010
Ruby on Rails is a powerful web framework that focuses on developer productivity. Riak is a friendly key-value store that is simple, flexible and scalable. Put them together and you have lots of exciting possibilities!
Consistent Smashing
July 27, 2010
Sometimes you need more than words to illustrate a point. Here is Basho's humble attempt to clarify the difference between "Dynamo-Style" systems (like Riak) that use consistent hashing to achieve fault tolerance and prevent data loss, and systems that use techniques like sharding.
Webinar: MapReduce Querying in Riak
July 22, 2010
MapReduce is a flexible and powerful alternative to declarative query languages like SQL that takes advantage of Riak's distributed architecture. Dan Reverri covers basics and best-practices for MapReduce querying in Riak.
Riak in Production: Lexer
July 21, 2010
In this short clip, Basho's Community Manager Mark Phillips speaks with Andrew Harvey, a developer for Lexer, and gets a few details on how and why they are using Riak in their applications.
JavaScript MapReduce in Riak
April 29, 2010
In this short screencast, Basho's Sean Cribbs will show you how to perform some MapReduce operations in a three node Riak cluster using some pre-loaded data.
Setting up a Three Node Riak Cluster
April 26, 2010
In this short screencast, Basho hacker Sean Cribbs walks you through the simple process of building a three node Riak Cluster on your local environment.
Tuning CAP Controls in Riak
April 23, 2010
A short walk through of how Riak lets developers tune their data's consistency and availability requirements.
An Introduction to JavaScript MapReduce in Riak
Feb. 3, 2010
A brief overview of Riak's built in JavaScript Map/Reduce Functionality. Riak is Basho's fully distributed, fault-tolerant datastore.
Rebar Demo using ibrowse
Dec. 21, 2009
Dave Smith demonstrates Rebar with an existing Erlang application (ibrowse). Rebar is a packaging and build tool for Erlang applications.
Riak Embedded Node Screencast
Dec. 17, 2009
The fruits of our labor are demonstrated in this screencast as we proudly present Riak running in a fully self-contained embedded node environment. What this means for our users is that it's easier than ever to deploy and manage Riak servers.
