A few days ago Troy Howard, Jeremiah Peschka and I all traveled via Amtrak Cascades up to Seattle. The mission was simple, Jeremiah was presenting “Riak in a .NET World”, I was handling logistics and Troy was handling video. So I took the video that Troy shot, I edited it, put together some soundtrack to... Continue reading →

Whew, it’s been a total blast working at Basho. I’ve accomplished a ton of things. Riak is a solid distributed database system and I’m glad to have worked with the team on advocating its use, teaching distributed systems ideas and concepts and generally spreading the knowledge. I’ve seen some truly great things that people are... Continue reading →

This week I’ve traveled to Philadelphia to meet with a number of the Basho team to work together and receive training with the trainers or the best ways to approach content on Riak and more generally the best ways we can all brainstorm up to approach specific topics. Some of those topics include things like:... Continue reading →

The release notes for Riak 1.4 can be found via github… Two things have worked together that made me want to write up the new Riak 1.4 features. With Riak 1.4 hitting the streets and the work I’ve been doing with CorrugatedIron there are a few features that are going to add icing the cake.... Continue reading →

Rails 2013 Conf (April 29th-May 1st) The Rails 2013 Conference kicked off for me, with a short bike ride through town to the conference center. The Portland conference center is one of the most connected conference centers I’ve seen; light rail, streetcar, bus, bicycle boulevards, trails & of course pedestrian access is all available. I... Continue reading →