FLOSS Weekly 129

FLOSS Weekly Episode 129

"Riak"Hosts: Randal Schwartz and Aaron Seigo Guests: Mark Philips and Andy Gross of Basho Recorded: August 4, 2010 Published: August 6, 2010 Duration: 1:04:19 Transcript Previous episode – Next episode

Contents 1 Guest(s) 2 Topics 3 External Links 4 Questions from the audience 5 Sponsors 6 Production Information

Guest(s)

• Mark Philips, Community Manager at Basho

As Community Manager at Basho, Mark is responsible for engaging with and growing a powerful network of developers and building out the collaborative infrastructure around Riak and Basho's other open source technologies.

• Andy Gross, VP of Engineering at Basho

Andy is a distributed systems nerd and VP of Engineering at Basho Technologies, the company behind the Riak. Before Riak, Andy hacked on various distributed systems at Mochi Media, Apple Computer, and Akamai Technologies.

• basho.com

Topics

Riak, a highly scalable, fault tolerant, no SQL database.

External Links

• wiki.basho.com
• basho.com
• http://blog.mozilla.com/data/2010/05/18/riak-and-cassandra-and-hbase-oh-my/
• http://github.com/basho/riak
• http://vimeo.com/13667174
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NoSQL
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamo_(storage_system)
  • http://s3.amazonaws.com/AllThingsDistributed/sosp/amazon-dynamo-sosp2007.pdf
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAP_Theorem
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Brewer_(computer_scientist)
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MapReduce
• http://www.infoq.com/news/2009/07/leberknight-polyglot-persistence
• http://webmachine.basho.com/
• https://wiki.basho.com/display/RIAK/Links
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlang_(programming_language)

Questions from the audience

Sponsors

Production Information

• Edited by: Tony
• Notes:

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