NoSQL Search Roadshow Amsterdam 2013
Dan Brown, TweetClient Services Engineer at Basho
Biography: Dan Brown
Dan Brown is a Client Services Engineer for Basho EMEA and spends his days tuning, troubleshooting and training customers to get the very best out of Riak, their infrastructure and their applications. Formerly a Web Services Consultant working with IaaS providers, building highly available online services. Dan has a passion for all things distributed, fault tolerant and horizontally scalable.
Twitter: @roooms
Presentation: TweetYokozuna, combining Solr with Riak
Solr is a well-established search technology in the JVM software space, providing scalable and highly-reliable search indexing for many of the world's largest internet sites. With Riak, our open-source, distributed, fault-tolerant database we're building direct support into Riak to allow you to perform document-based searching at scale.
Workshop: RIAK Training Tweet
Riak is the scalable, highly available, ops-friendly key value database that's in use at GitHub, Rovio and BestBuy.
In this session you'll learn how to work with Riak as a developer, with topics including:
- Modelling your data in the schema-free, key-value world.
- Taking the development environment for a spin on your laptop.
- Add data to your Riak cluster using the REST interface.
- Build a simple Ruby application that store and retrieves data with Riak.
All you need to attend is your laptop, the Ruby runtimes and a sense of fun!