Why Riak Matters

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

Transcript

1. Why Riak Matters Atlanta Riak Meetup 4/23/13
2. A little about me
3. Disclaimers and Disclosures
4. What this is NOT about
5. What even is a "distributed system"?
6. Fallacies of Distributed Computing
7. Riak doesn't matter. What it teaches us does.
9. Riak is honest about its limitations
10. Riak forces you to think about your data model
11. Riak is about tradeoffs
12. Riak is in Erlang (wat)
13. What can we learn?
14. Thanks! Questions?
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/