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John Vincent
April 24, 2013
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Why Riak Matters
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Transcript
Why Riak Matters Atlanta Riak Meetup 4/23/13
A little about me
Disclaimers and Disclosures
What this is NOT about
What even is a "distributed system"?
Fallacies of Distributed Computing
Riak doesn't matter. What it teaches us does.
None
Riak is honest about its limitations
Riak forces you to think about your data model
Riak is about tradeoffs
Riak is in Erlang (wat)
What can we learn?
Thanks! Questions?
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/