…presenting a preview of an exciting new product at RICON , Basho's Distributed Systems Conference.
Riak in the Cloud - Ines Sombra and Michael Brodhead, RICON2012 from Basho Technologies on Vimeo .
We are currently using and testing our first productized NoSQL database. Riak will be a first-class citizen in our stack starting Q1 of 2013. We are very excited about the changes pioneered by our upcoming support for Riak and …
- Engine Yard Developer Blog: Database Stack End of Life Announcements
- Ruby Inside: The Last 2 Weeks in Ruby: Rails 3.2.6, Savon 1.0, RailsInstaller for OS X, Pow 0.4.0, Rails 2 Asset Pipeline
- Riding Rails - home: Rails 3.1.2 has been released
- giant robots smashing into other giant robots: This week in open source
- Paul Gross's Blog: Scaling PostgreSQL at Braintree: Four Years of Evolution
- WyeWorks Blog - The Team's Voice: Rails 4 compilation links
…Ben Orenstein is joined by Sean Cribbs, Software Engineer at Basho, the makers of Riak.
Ben and Sean start off discussing the interesting overlap of programmers and musicians and why it seems to happen so much. They then discuss Sean's role at Basho, what Riak is, how it works, and how it differs from other NoSQL databases. Sean works remotely for Basho, which has several offices, so Ben and Sean discuss remote workers and remote offices, and the ins and outs …
- Opscode Blog: Future of Opscode Cookbooks
- Dmitry Belitsky: Rack:Tidy with RadiantCMS
- Heroku: Radiant CMS in 5 Minutes Or Less
- Zerosum Dirt(nap): Radiant Super Multi Go!
- Ruby News: Red Dirt RubyConf 2010
- jystewart.net | notes, tips and commentary by James Stewart: Weekend Links
Back to the grindstone. Actually, I think it's following me around.
ToS;DR : An attempt to reduce various Terms of Service to simple terms with icons and ratings. I'd be astounded if it led to any actual change on the rated sites.
Bypass Mass-Assignment Protection in Rake db:seed - A quick little Rails tip.
API Design - An opinionated set opf rules for OS X and iOS components.
Riak 1.2 Is Official! - Basho marches on.
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…big chunks of HTML text in views.
Skim - Client-side templating using CoffeeScript and Slim.
Tyler - Tiling window manager for OS X.
Riak Control - New GUI management tool for Riak, straight from Basho.
Tumult Hype - GUI tool for building HTML5 animated and interactive content.
- Trevor Turk: Links for 07-08-11
…full-length explanation too. Here's a graphic showing the basic idea of consistent hashing, courtesy of Basho.
Instead I want to look at the practical implications of consistent hashing in distributed databases and cache farms.
Easier to Avoid Hotspots
When you put data on nodes based on a random result, which is what the hash function calculates, a value that's a lot more random than the key it's based on, it's easier to avoid hotspots. Why?
Assume a key based on …
- Trevor Turk: Links for 12-9-2011
- paperplanes: List All of the Riak Keys
- High Scalability: Is NoSQL a Premature Optimization that's Worse than Death? Or the Lady Gaga of the Database World?
- Axon Flux // A Ruby on Rails Blog: What if Foursquare wasn't using MongoDB and was using something else?
- Spyced: Cassandra: Fact vs fiction
- techno weenie: Nori: Node.js Riak wrapper
…and CouchDB are the most direct competitors to MongoDB. The employees of Basho, the company behind Riak, seem to have several bones to pick with both MongoDB and 10gen. At JSConf, Basho employee Sean Cribbs was giving a presentation on Riak. When asked a question comparing Riak to MongoDB, he responded , " Mongo loses data."
A week later, in a weird self-congratulatory blog post , Basho COO Antony Falco laid into the marketing of …
- Viget.com Blogs: Getting Started with MongoDB & MongoMapper
- paperplanes: Notes on MongoDB
- How Software is Built: Interview with Eliot Horowitz - CTO of 10gen / MongoDB
- Engine Yard Developer Blog: Fikus: Deploying Padrino to Engine Yard AppCloud
- Phusion Corporate Blog: Union Station beta is back online, and here's what we have been up to
- LoGeek's software blog: Notes from Sinatra, Heroku and MongoHQ deployment
LevelDB is an exciting new entrant into the pantheon of embedded databases, notable both for its pedigree, being authored by the makers of the now mythical Google MapReduce and BigTable products, and for its emphasis on efficient disk based random access using log-structured-merge ( LSM) trees.
The plan is to keep LevelDB fairly low-level. The intention is that it will be a useful building block for higher-level storage systems. Basho is already investigating using LevelDB as one if its storage engines.
- Nick Sieger: activerecord-jdbc-adapter 1.0.0
- McKinney Station: Microapps Encourage Hacking
- Jason Staten» – Jason Staten: In Memory Database Testing with SQLite and NHibernate
- Daddy Fixes Everything: Ruby on Rails Ubuntu Server VM with VMPlayer
- the evolving ultrasaurus: start learning ruby on rails tomorrow night 1/25
…attendance is growing. We have big plans this year with upcoming presentations from companies like Basho, 10gen, Cloudera, Oracle, VoltDB, Membase, and DataStax among others. What goals do you hope to accomplish at Engine Yard in terms of data? Short term, I'd like to keep working with our internal teams to continually improve our PosgreSQL and MySQL offering. Long term, I want to drive the evolution of our Engine Yard data offering to best serve users. Inspired by Ines…
- Engine Yard Developer Blog: Introducing the Engine Yard Data Team
- Jeet's world: Bridging the gap to Rails
- Riding Rails - home: Rails 3 Bugmash
- the evolving ultrasaurus: rubyconf hallway track
- Software by Rob: Why Startup Founders Should Stop Reading Business Books
- Wynn Netherland: Rubyists I'm thankful for this year
…backwards compatibility with C nor adds a ton of features, I originally had a hard time getting excited about Go. Now I see that Go is a modern language that tries to follow what I think of as C's philosophy . It's simple, elegant, small, and native.
There's an old saying: Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise men of old. Seek what they sought.
- Matsuo Munefusa (" Basho") I think that perfectly describes Go.
- How Software is Built: Interview with Ian Clarke - Luminary and Freenet Creator
- Graceless Failures: Propagating View Bounds to Traits
- Ruby, Javascript, Erlang blog: Snakes, Gems & Coffee: The Scala vs Erlang Debate, Part 1: The Managers Overview
- Vineet Gupta | Computer Programmer: Groovy, Scala and Clojure - A Comparison
- Khelll's Blog: Scala is my next choice
- giant robots smashing into other giant robots: Scala: A Better Java for Android
How would you implement a key-value storage system if you were starting from scratch? The approach Basho settled on with Bitcask , their new backend for Riak, is an interesting combination of using RAM to store a hash map of file pointers to values and a log-structured file system for efficient writes. In this excellent Changelog interview , some folks from Basho describe Bitcask in more detail.
The essential Bitcask:
- paperplanes: 10 Annoying Things About CouchDB
- Opscode Blog: Chef Reaches 200 Contributors
- Ruby News: Red Dirt RubyConf 2010
- till's blog: My Berlin Buzzwords 2010 recap