Basho extends
Basho, the company behind NoSQL database Riak, announced the Basho Data Platform yesterday. Riak, like so many other NoSQL/ NewSQL/ xSQL tools, was designed to be excellent… at addressing a relatively small problem. Basho (and others in the space) recognise the issue, and know that substantial enterprise adoption requires either a tool that can address […]
Introducing Junction
I’ve officially kicked off a new project from my notebook of projects based around building a Riak admin, data manipulation, reporting and news tool for Windows 8. If you want to jump right to the project, here’s the Github Pages Site, the Github Junction Repo and eventually I’ll have it listed in the Windows 8 […]
Farewell Basho, It’s Been Swell Yo!
Whew, it’s been a total blast working at Basho. I’ve accomplished a ton of things. Riak is a solid distributed database system and I’m glad to have worked with the team on advocating its use, teaching distributed systems ideas and concepts and generally spreading the knowledge. I’ve seen some truly great things that people are […]
OSCON : Conversations, Deployments, Architecture, Docker and the Future?
I wrote about my first day of OSCON “OSCON : Day 1, Windows Just Doesn’t Do Cloud Foundry… but, there’s a fix for that…“. The rest of the week was most excellent. I caught up with friends and past coworkers. I heard about people working on some amazing new projects. Some things I will try […]
Conference Recap – The awe inspiring quality & number of conferences in Cascadia!
Rails 2013 Conf (April 29th-May 1st) The Rails 2013 Conference kicked off for me, with a short bike ride through town to the conference center. The Portland conference center is one of the most connected conference centers I’ve seen; light rail, streetcar, bus, bicycle boulevards, trails & of course pedestrian access is all available. I […]
Basho – First Week Coding & Research Adventures…
The First Things This week, the first thing I did was give a solid read to Mark Phillip’s Blog “themarkphillips” (@pharkmillups). Here’s a break down of some entries I found really interesting and helpful in getting kick started here at Basho (or just really a good read in and of itself): Using Open Source to […]
SITREP – Stoking Iron Foundry, Thor Hammering & Joining… ?
What have I been up to? Here’s a quick recap. You may want to get involved with some of these projects! Iron Foundry & Tier 3 Web Fabric Back when I left the kick ass team at Russell Investments in Seattle I stepped directly to bat as team lead at Tier 3. My job, get a […]
Coder’s Vacation : #RICON2012 Shreds the House!
Here I am on day #3 of my Coder’s Vacation and RICON is happening today. This is a new conference put together by the fine folks at Basho, maker of Riak (which note, is a link to the project on Github because Basho is awesome like that, they roll all open source like). However, it’s a […]
