Riak in Silicon Alley - Why Distributed Databases Should Matter To You

Hi All,

We're very excited to announce September's Riak meetup. We'll be joined by our friends at Gilt Groupe, who are also providing the space, to discuss Riak under load and some features from the upcoming release.

The space opens at 6:30, and talks will begin shortly thereafter, so arrive promptly. Bring your friends and your hard questions. As always, food and refreshments are on us.

See you there,
Tom (http://twitter.com/tsantero)

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6:45pm
WelcomeMichael Bryzek, CTO and Co-Founder, Gilt Groupe

Michael will provide a brief introduction to the evening's talks.

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7:00pm
Riak Passed Our Stress TestJim Englert, Lead Software Engineer, Gilt Groupe

Earlier this summer a team from Basho joined the folks at Gilt Tech in Dublin for a few days to help test out how Riak would handle Gilt's production traffic on their main user store. In this talk Jim will discuss this process and the results of this stress test.

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7:50pm
NoSQL Database Architectures Elliott Cordo, Principal Consultant, Caserta Concepts

Elliot will deliver a lightning talk on NoSQL data storage architectures: what they are, how they're used and why you can't ignore them in the context of existing enterprise data ecosystems.

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8:00pm
The Next Generation of Riak SearchTom Santero, Technical Evangelist, Basho Technologies

Full-text search capabilities have existed in Riak since 2010. Known simply as Riak Search, the implementation is a homegrown adaptation inspired by Lucene. While Riak Search has been used in production for many years now, Basho has been developing a replacement over the course of the past 12 months in a project codenamed 'Yokozuna (http://github.com/basho/yokozuna)'. In this talk Tom will discuss the motivation behind Yokozuna, how it works and why you want to run it in production.