Posted on March 31, 2012

Riak Recap for March 28 – 31

1. Joseph Blomstedt’s Erlang Factory Slides are online. His talk was called Test First Construction of Distributed Systems and is a great look at some of the approaches he and others at Basho take to writing and testing the code that make up Riak’s internals.
   → Slides here
2. More from Erlang Factory: Jesse Newland gave an exceptional talk about how he and a few others are rewriting GitHub Pages using Riak and Webmachine.
   → Slides here
3. Some new code: Alice Kaerast just released a proof of concept of a Riak plugin for Moodle 2.
   → Code here on GitHub
4. New Stack Overflow Content:
   → Issues building a three node Riak Cluster from Homewbrew install
   → Is there any way to use JS libraries in Riak?
5. Colin Austin has picked up work on txriak, a library that the AuricSystems crew released last year.
   → Code here

Issues

1. New
   → preflist_exhausted message when running out of VMs