NoSQL Search Roadshow Zurich 2013
Todd Tyree, TweetClient Services Engineer for Basho
Biography: Todd Tyree
Todd Tyree is a Client Services Engineer for Basho EMEA who specialises in application development, data modelling and training customers to get the very best out of Riak. A long time web application developer with a passion for building high performance, beautiful, scalable sites.
Twitter: @TyreeTodd
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!