RESCHEDULED: Riak 1.3 Overview

We're excited to announce the latest version of Riak. Join us on 3/27 for a summary of the major enhancements in Riak 1.3!

Introduced Active Anti-Entropy. Riak now has active anti-entropy. In distributed systems, inconsistencies can arise between replicas due to failure modes, concurrent updates, and physical data loss or corruption. Pre-1.3 Riak already had several features for repairing this "entropy," but they all required some form of user intervention. Riak 1.3 introduces automatic, self-healing properties that repair entropy on an ongoing basis. Improved Riak Enterprise’s multi-datacenter replication performance: New advanced mode for multi-datacenter replication capabilities, with better performance, more TCP connections, and easier configuration.
Improved graphical user experience. Riak Control, the user interface for managing and monitoring Riak, has a brand new look. Expanded IPv6 support. IPv6 support in Riak now is supported by all interfaces.
Improved MapReduce. Riak MapReduce has improved back-pressure to reduce the risk of overwhelming endpoint processes during large tasks. Simplified log management. Riak can now optionally send log messages to syslog.
Download the new release here (http://docs.basho.com/riak/latest/downloads/) and check out the official release notes (https://github.com/basho/riak/blob/1.3/RELEASE-NOTES.md). Documentation for all products and releases is available on the documentation site (http://docs.basho.com/).

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact me at .

UPDATE:

In the spirit of, and to accomodate, guests joining us who are in town for Monitorama (http://monitorama.com/), we will also briefly discuss monitoring Riak in production--pitfalls, tools, etc.

Look forward to seeing you all later tonight.

-Tom (http://twitter.com/tsantero)