Data-Based, Part 1: Mathias Meyer and The Riak Handbook

Our own Ines Sombra interviews Mathias Meyer, the author of the Riak Handbook and Infrastructure Engineer at Travis-CI. Mathias on Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/roidrage Mathias' Website: http://www.paperplanes.de/ Discussion * 0:20 All about Mathias * 2:45 The Riak handbook * 6:30 Using specific DBs for different use cases * 9:30 Postgres and why it's exciting * 14:30 The challenges that big data stores will face and the future of databases * 20:00 Advice for people getting started Promotions Buy the Riak Handbook here, and enter code EYDATA to get 20% off through May 17: http://riakhandbook.com/ Links * Riak - http://basho.com/products/riak-overview/ * CouchDB -http://couchdb.apache.org/ * MongoDB - http://www.mongodb.org/ * Redis - http://redis.io/ * Percona - http://www.percona.com/ * MongoDB Best Practices - http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2011/mongodb-best-practices/ * Travis-CI - http://travis-ci.org/ * Martin Fowler's Polyglot Persistence Blog Post - http://martinfowler.com/bliki/PolyglotPersistence.html * Cassandra - http://cassandra.apache.org/