Posted on March 16, 2012

Afternoon, Evening, Morning to All -

This Recap is coming to you live from Clojure/West in San Jose. If you’re here and haven’t told me yet, get in touch.

For today’s Recap: new meetups, new code, drinkups in New York City, some jobs, and more.

Enjoy and have a great weekend.

Mark

Riak Recap for March 14 – 15

1. We announced a new Riak Meetup in Leeds! The first installment will happen on April 18th and will feature Basho Hacker (and Leeds-local) Russell Brown and Brightbox Developer John Leach (though it’s unclear if he’ll be bringing his dog).
   → Details and RSVP here
2. Something for all our coffee fans out there: @voluntas tweeted a picture of what looks like a latte with the Basho logo stenciled on top. (This is awesome, by the way!)
   → Picture here
3. The team at Thoughtworks released their latest Technology Radar report. Riak was highlighted in a few spots.
   → Details here
   → Direct PDF here
4. David Dawson and Marcus Kern gave a presentation at QCon London last week called NoSQL for the Masses. They talk a lot about Riak. :)
   → Presentation PDF here
5. For those of you who are in/around New York City, Basho and Etsy are putting on Drinkup at reBar in Brooklyn on March 20. Come out and have a drink on us.
   → Details here

Jobs

1. The team at Voxer is hiring for some exciting positions (and in case you hadn’t heard, they have one of the biggest Riak clusters around).
   → Voxer Jobs here
2. Brenden Grace made it known on Twitter that he’s hiring remote hackers to work with Riak and a few other cool pieces of tech.
   → More details here