Re. code cross reference two bite sized functions I would specifically highlight would be:
chash function. an in depth dissection of it, how you could change it, and/or abuse it and what ramifications would that have for key distribution around the cluster. IMHO this is like one of the key functions in the entire distributed universe. The auto key generator function. how you could replace that with a valid random GUID generator. @siculars on twitter http://siculars.posterous.com Sent from my iRotaryPhone On Apr 19, 2012, at 14:00, Dmitry Demeshchuk <[email protected]> wrote: > The problem of any book is Riak rapid evolution. > > Sometimes very cool and important features are added within a minor > release. That's generally okay, but I wouldn't read even a half-year > old book, it will contain very outdated information. > > I'd add some cross-referencing between code (or features in general) > and the docs related to them (especially wiki pages of course). > Currently, wiki cannot keep up with the code, and probably releasing > docs updates along with pull requests could help that. > > On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 9:53 PM, Evan Kinney <[email protected]> wrote: >> Upvote for a book like this. >> >> I've spent a good deal of my time when evaluating Riak searching the Googles >> (and perusing the Basho git repo - thanks for that, by the way) for >> information like this. This list is a great resource (and so is the wiki, >> for that matter) but having a set of defined and sanctioned "best >> practices," as it were, in such an easily-avaialble and accessible form >> would be killer. I'm sure Packt (or maybe even O'Reilly!) would love to pick >> up something like this. >> >> Heck, I'd even offer to help write it; my love affair for Riak is already at >> a ridiculous level as it is. >> >> A good example of this is the MySQL Cluster project. I'm intimately familiar >> with its internals, as I've written many patches for the engine... but it's >> hard to explain to other people (especially management). Alex Davies >> published a book through Packt that explains everything and even gives >> advanced performance tips and scenarios. I keep this on my bookshelf in my >> office and hand it to anyone who comes to me asking about NDB stuff. >> >> >> --- >> Evan Kinney >> Systems Architect, Research and Development >> SAS Institute Inc. >> >> P.S.: This is what part of the alphabet would look like >> if "Q" and "R" were eliminated. >> >> >> On Apr 19, 2012, at 1:37 PM, Zabrane Mickael wrote: >> >>> +1 for a solid book on advanced Riak usage. >>> >>> Regards, >>> Zabrane >>> >>> >>> On Apr 19, 2012, at 7:31 PM, Mark Phillips wrote: >>> >>>> At this point Riak has been deployed thousands of times. This is >>>> excellent, but as you can imagine we here at Basho feel this is just the >>>> tip of the iceberg. We want everyone to be running Riak. The software >>>> obviously needs to solve enough problems for people to want to deploy it. >>>> However, we need to get the software into developers' hands before this >>>> happens. So the question is: >>>> >>>> What can we be doing better? >>>> >>>> I'm not talking so much about features in Riak itself. I'm more interested >>>> in the other resources, tools, docs, processes, etc., that you think we >>>> need to put in place or refine to take the Riak community from 1000s of >>>> users to 100,000s of users. By virtue of being on this list, you've all >>>> spent some time using or investigating Riak. As such, you're opinions and >>>> experiences would be very valuable. >>>> >>>> Any comments, ideas, or thoughts you had would be great. On or off-list >>>> will work. >>>> >>>> Thanks for your time. Long live the vnode! >>>> >>>> Mark >>>> twitter.com/pharkmillups >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> riak-users mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> riak-users mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> riak-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com > > > > -- > Best regards, > Dmitry Demeshchuk > > _______________________________________________ > riak-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com _______________________________________________ riak-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com
