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Why Riak Matters

Why Riak Matters

John Vincent

April 24, 2013
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  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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