Here is a summary of what's come over our user list since the last recap. ## Announcements
* John Musser, ProgrammableWeb founder and API expert, has joined Basho as Vice President of Technology. Press release [1] The New Stack article [2] ## Latest Releases * Riak Go Client updates - v1.5.1 released on February 11 — This is a maintenance release. Release notes [3] Source code [4] - v1.6.0 released on February 19 — This release includes fixes and a few enhancements. Release notes [5] Source code [6] ## Recently Answered * Zeeshawn explained that Riak search operates via Distributed Solr in response to a question about Solr join queries [7] * Vitaly and Zeeshan offered assistance on a question about whether Riak Search indexes documents sent as JSON, and Colin wrote up a good summary of the resolution to his issue [8] * Zeeshan helped resolve Riak Search questions where a record is deleted and new one created. This is solved by Configuring the delete_mode to immediate. [9] * Christopher and Damien explained how to to set the epmd port listener via riak.conf [10] ## Open Discussions * Alex answered a question about how to use mapreduce to run a monthly report on daily and weekly data kept in different buckets [11] * Kinson is looking for guidance on implementing Basho Bench [12] * There is an open question regarding whether it’s possible to rebalance Riak without adding/removing nodes or making any hardware changes [13] * Luke thinks that Gerhard’s proposed architecture will ensure replicas are distributed to every node, but invites someone with more knowledge of the hashing method to chime in [14] * Robert is looking for guidance on choosing EC2 instance types for use with Riak/levelDB [15] * There is an open question about adding request handlers to enable language detection in Solr for Riak nodes [16] ## Jobs at Basho We have an opening for a Developer Advocate in our London office. [17] ## Weekend Reads * The Stack interviewed Basho’s European head of operations, Manu Marchal, for their article “Why NoSQL is the Future of IoT” [18] Have a great weekend, Dorothy Pults Basho Technologies @deepults [1] http://basho.com/posts/press/hires-api-expert-john-musser-as-vice-president-of-technology/ [2] http://thenewstack.io/apis-central-databases-can-aid-enterprise-use-iot-big-data/ [3] https://github.com/basho/riak-go-client/blob/master/RELNOTES.md [4] https://github.com/basho/riak-go-client/releases/tag/v1.5.1 [5] https://github.com/basho/riak-go-client/blob/master/RELNOTES.md [6] https://github.com/basho/riak-go-client/releases/tag/v1.6.0 [7] http://lists.basho.com/pipermail/riak-users_lists.basho.com/2016-February/018077.html [8] http://lists.basho.com/pipermail/riak-users_lists.basho.com/2016-February/018085.html [9] http://lists.basho.com/pipermail/riak-users_lists.basho.com/2016-February/018094.html [10] http://lists.basho.com/pipermail/riak-users_lists.basho.com/2016-February/018095.html [11] http://lists.basho.com/pipermail/riak-users_lists.basho.com/2016-February/018075.html [12] http://lists.basho.com/pipermail/riak-users_lists.basho.com/2016-January/018039.html [13] http://lists.basho.com/pipermail/riak-users_lists.basho.com/2016-February/018074.html [14] http://lists.basho.com/pipermail/riak-users_lists.basho.com/2016-February/018086.html [15] http://lists.basho.com/pipermail/riak-users_lists.basho.com/2016-February/018079.html [16] http://lists.basho.com/pipermail/riak-users_lists.basho.com/2016-February/018090.html [17] http://bashojobs.theresumator.com/apply/nVY7Ea/Developer-Advocate-EMEA [18] https://thestack.com/iot/2016/02/15/why-nosql-is-the-future-of-iot/
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