Restarting This Thing

So…..been away from this thing for a while. Lots has changed in the interim and I finally feel like blogging again.

I’ll tackle the obvious stuff first. For anyone who doesn’t know I’ve shuttered my consulting company, Hypothetical Labs, in favor of working as a senior developer at Basho Technologies. I joined Basho in January and have really enjoyed working on several releases of Riak.

I’ve cleared my speaking and travel schedule so I have more time for coding and writing. A happy result of this decision is I’m planning a series of articles describing how to build your own distributed application on top of riak_core. riak_core is the heart of Riak and implements cluster membership, data replication and distribution, and hinted handoff among other niceties.

The current plan is to start small and build incrementally with the goal of ending with a complete distributed non-key/value data store. I’ll be releasing the code under the Apache2 license on github as the series progresses. I’m aiming to have the first article up by the end of this week.