Speakers -> Riak Training

QCon New York 2012 Speakers Schedule Tutorials Tracks Social Events Sponsors Registration Volunteers Venue Travel Hotels Video Calendar Follow Us Brought to you by Contacts Exhibit Sponsors General Information Registration Speakers	Training: "Riak Training" Track: Tutorials 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 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 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.