Training: "Riak Training"

Time: Thursday 13:00 - 16:00

Location: Brooklyn Actors

Abstract:
Riak is an open source, scalable, fully distributed database built by Basho Technologies and the Riak community. Riak is built to be the primary data store behind production applications, to be tolerant of multiple failures, and to make life easier for Ops professionals everywhere.

Here is what you can expect to learn:

* Installation and configuration of a local Riak Cluster
* Lab: Add values, read values, kill node, still see data
* Architectural Overview - Why Riak is the most fundamentally-sound distributed database available.
* Application Design, Data Model, and Querying Basics
* Riak for Operations
* Tuning and troubleshooting - What to look out for when in production

Jimmy Mullen, Basho

 Jimmy  Mullen

Jimmy Mullen joined Basho in May 2012.  Prior to Basho, Jimmy worked as Technical Director at Metaversal Studios, creating mobile games for phones and tablets.  He also wrote and maintained the data reporting framework used in all of Metaversal's products.  Jimmy has a degree in Computer Science and Multimedia Studies from Northeastern University.

Tryn Mirell, Basho

 Tryn  Mirell

Tryn Mirell joined Basho in January 2012. Prior to that, he worked on diverse projects such as debugging credit card transaction processing, reverse engineering network protocols and writing simulators, hacking on embedded Linux devices, developing API stacks for routers and IPSs, and writing automation code for testing web pages.