Exploring Riak's Service Architecture

Please join us for our November meeting with special guest speaker Steve Vinoski (@stevevinoski) from Basho Technologies.

Dinner is included. Here is the abstract of the talk:

For decades we've known that modularity, loose coupling, and service orientation allow for the construction of large software systems that can be reasonably maintained and extended. In this talk, Steve explores from a services perspective the architecture of Riak, the open source distributed database from Basho Technologies, focusing on how it achieves fault tolerance and high availability based on modularity, supervision, replication, and message passing between services, as well as how it integrates subsystems written in different programming languages. He also
discusses how Erlang, the language used to implement most of Riak, facilitates the construction of service-oriented systems.

I hope you can join us for this talk - it is sure to be a great look into the design and implementation of a highly scalable service.

Reminder: We will be dark for December, but restart meetings in January 2014.