Power to Operations

A Riak Love Story.

How I went from an operations engineer to a technical evangelist by using and watching how customers used Riak.

Transcript

1. Power to Operations A Riak Love Story @cheeseplus
2. basho
5. I <3 operations
6. I </3 firefighting
7. rewind a few years
9. lesson: know a SPOF
   
11. lesson: bolted on replication can be brittle
    
13. lesson: ?
    
14. back to the present
15. basho
16. riak tl;dr
    
17. dynamo inspired
18. {"key": "value"}
19. 2i
20. solr integration*
21. map/reduce
23. operational properties
    
24. masterless
25. pluggable backends
26. bitcask
27. levelDB
28. memory
29. scalable
34. highly available
35. fault tolerant
36. predictably performant
37. rolling upgrades
38. operationally boring
39. (massive retailer)
41. bonus: Erlang
42. caveats
43. riak lets your ops teams sleep easy
    
44. Want to know more? Ask me! http://docs.basho.com http://littleriakbook.com http://ricon.io