Today I participated in the OpenShift Community Day here in Portland at the Doubletree Hotel. One of the things I wanted to research was the possibility of putting together a OpenShift Origin Cartridge for Riak. As with most PaaS Systems this isn’t the most straight forward process. The reason is simple, OpenShift and CloudFoundry have... Continue reading →

Before diving into this entry, you might want to check out some of my other getting Erlang installed with appropriate testing frameworks entries. Moving on… At Basho we’re are always trying to make it easier to do big things. A short time ago we pushed forward on Rebar, Riak Core and getting things put together... Continue reading →

I wanted to write up an intro to getting Riak installed on AWS, even though the steps are absurdly simple and already available on the Basho Docs site, there’s a few extra notes that can be very helpful for a few specific points during the process. Start off by logging into AWS. At this point... Continue reading →

This last week has been a bit more exciting for a number of reasons than I expected and dragged out for a few other reasons. (shakes fist in air with frustration!) RICON|East lands in New York City! Last year, well before I was working for Basho, I signed up for RICON in San Francisco. RICON... Continue reading →

After installing Erlang on OS-X and then getting QuickCheck installing via Erlang, I wanted to expand the OS options I’m using to Ubuntu (i.e. Linux). So in this entry I’m going to cover the Erlang install, a quick eunit bit, and then a QuickCheck install and sample. The first step in geting Erlang installed is... Continue reading →