An Evening With Riak

RSVP on meetup and register with Skills Matter to attend this event: http://skillsmatter.com/event/nosql/riak-evening/js-4092

We'll have a couple of talks focusing on Riak, a key value distributed database inspired by the publication of the Amazon Dynamo paper. Come along to get a deeper understanding of Riak and how people are using it in large scale production deployments.

We are also teaming up with Skills Matter Progressive NOSQL tutorials to hold a park bench with the expert speakers from the conference before starting our Riak talks.

17:30 - Park Bench with Jim Webber, Ayende Rahien and other experts from the Progressive NOSQL Tutorials + Pizza, beer and chat

18:30 - Quick Break

18:45 - Ian Plosker (http://www.twitter.com/dstroyallmodels) from Basho (http://basho.com) will give an introduction to Riak by covering the core features and use cases of the technology. He will then move on to discuss how to identify whether Riak is a good fit for your project.

19:15 - David Dawson of Mobile Interactive Group. Mobile Interactive Group uses Riak extensively across many of their platforms including their SMS gateway and Facebook/iPhone voting platform. David will give us a high level overview on how they have deployed Riak and some of the problems they faced (including the solutions).

19:45 - Chew over the talks and drift off to the pub

We'll head to the Slaughtered Lamb (http://www.theslaughteredlambpub.com/) afterwards.

Big thanks to Basho (http://basho.com) for supplying the pizza and beer for this event!