Why Riak Matters

Speaker notes here:
https://gist.github.com/lusis/5451557

Transcript

1. Why Riak
   Matters
   Atlanta Riak Meetup 4/23/13
   

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2. A little about me
   

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3. Disclaimers and
   Disclosures
   

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4. What this is
   NOT about
   

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5. What even is a
   "distributed
   system"?
   

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6. Fallacies of
   Distributed
   Computing
   

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7. Riak doesn't
   matter. What it
   teaches us does.
   

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9. Riak is honest
   about its
   limitations
   

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10. Riak forces you
    to think about
    your data model
    

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11. Riak is about
    tradeoffs
    

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12. Riak is in Erlang
    (wat)
    

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13. What can we
    learn?
    

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14. Thanks!
    Questions?
    

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15. Links and other thingies
    • http://www.somethingsimilar.com/2013/01/14/notes-on-distributed-systems-for-yo
    • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacies_of_Distributed_Computing
    • http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?AlanKaysDefinitionOfObjectOriented
    • http://aphyr.com/posts/278-timelike-2-everything-fails-all-the-time
    • http://boundary.com/blog/2012/08/01/riak-kobayashi-post-mortem/
    • http://boundary.com/blog/2012/09/26/incuriosity-killed-the-infrastructur/
    • http://ricon.io/
    

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