Using Riak as a Storage Service for Datomic by Hector Castro of Basho
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I'm super excited to announce a talk on Riak, one of the backend stores supported by Datomic, and an all around interesting product trying to answer the needs of The Cloud™. Our intrepid presenter, Hector Castro, is employed by Basho and has extensive experience using Riak from Clojure.
Hector's been a really wonderful nice guy to interact with over mail and I'm very much looking forward to meeting him in person.
If you're interesting in learning a little bit more about Riak and Basho in general (as well as Simple Check, which we so need a presentation on), I'd recommend listening to the recent Cognicast episode with Reid Draper.
A little house keeping now:
EDIT: Considering the RSVPs, I asked Monetate if they could host us and they graciously agreed. So the Meetup location is now in Conshohocken at Monetate HQ.
I'm inclined to always host at Relay as they are the spiritual home of Clojadelphia. That said, space is limited there and the location is less than ideal for many of our members. I'm setting the location to Relay at this point with a cap on attendance. Please still RSVP if you're interested and comment if Relay can't work for you as a location! If I get enough interest, we have other places that can host us that are in and around the city and have higher capacities.
Alright, on with the details! :)
The talk's abstract:
"Datomic is a distributed database system written in Clojure that
supports pluggable storage backends.
"Riak is an incrementally scalable, masterless, and highly-available
key/value store.
"Currently, Datomic only has support for two truly distributed storage
services: DynamoDB and Riak. We'll explore the architecture of Riak
and discuss why it is an attractive storage service for Datomic. I'll
also go into some specifics on how Riak can be enabled as a storage
service for Datomic."
A little bit more about Hector:
"Hector Castro works at Basho Technologies, the sponsors of Riak 1
and Riak CS 2. Previously, he was a software engineer at Wharton
Research Data Services (WRDS), where he worked on enabling full-text
search for Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) documents. He also
co-organizes Philly DevOps 3, a DevOps user group in Philadelphia.
Hector lives and works in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania."