A conference for anything and everything ØMQ!

Hi, and welcome to the Portland Riak Group.

There are plenty of Riak Users in the PDX area, so it's time we had an official meetup. The team at AppFog was gracious enough to loan their space for the inaugural meeting, and a few members of the Basho team will be on hand to deliver pizza, beer, and stickers.

Here are the talks we have lined up:

7:15

Next Generation Searching with Yokozuna

Eric Redmond; Engineer, Basho Technologies

Riak Search was created to expand Riak's query options. It's worked well enough the past couple years, but it's time to move forward. Yokozuna is the next generation of Riak search, built on the solid Distributed Solr platform. We'll see a preview of what Yokozuna does, what it's going to do, and how that's a marked improvement from the existing Riak Search.

8:00

Riak & Node.js: The Hunt for Cheap, Easy Nines

Nathan Aschbacher; Developer, Coradine

Portland-based Coradine makes an innovative aviation application that helps pilots the world over. Riak powers a lot of this application. Nathan Äschbacher, developer at Coradine, will take you through:

• A quick history of our experience with Riak
• How it came to be we opted to use it at Coradine
• Some of the known hurdles we were going to have to overcome (like cloud deployment)
• Some of the development issues we've encountered
• Why Node.js was a good fit for us and interfacing with Riak
• Abandoning Redis in favor of Riak Memory-store for caching and 2i

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Hope to see you on November 19th. Let me know if you have any questions .

Mark

twitter.com/pharkmillups

Jeremiah Peschka @peschkaj will be giving a talk on the open source .NET Riak Library CorrugatedIron (http://corrugatediron.org/).

Presentation: Riak doesn't have to be limited to the world of open source startups. CorrugatedIron is a full feature .NET Riak client. In this presentation, Jeremiah Peschka will demonstrate using CorrugatedIron and Riak to replace a traditional database in existing applications. We'll cover real world use cases, examine potential problems working with Riak, dive into workarounds and solutions, and even talk about places where Riak isn't a good fit for solving problems.

So get on the RSVP list (via meetup http://www.meetup.com/Portland-Riak/) now to ensure we plan for appropriate seating, food, drinks & prospective hacking.

Join us at CtrlH for food, drinks, discussion and a talk by Juan Benet on IPFS during OSCON week!

What is IPFS?

IPFS is a distributed file system that seeks to connect all computing devices with the same system of files. In some ways, this is similar to the original aims of the Web, but brings in the latest ideas from P2P and cryptography to form a distributed, permanent web.

IPFS could become a new major subsystem of the internet. If built right, it could complement or replace HTTP. It could complement or replace even more. It sounds crazy. It is crazy! We also think it's the future of the web. Come see it in action, and meet the team of developers working on it.

Afterwards hang out, talk tech, hack, recharge your batteries, use our fast WiFi and get a tour of CtrlH, Portland’s newest and largest hackerspace.

See you there!

The inaugural meeting of the Portland Inter-planetary File System (IPFS) Enthusiasts. IPFS (http://ipfs.io/) is a "new peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol" that has great promise for creating an open, distributed web.

Let's meet up, talk and learn about IPFS, and do some coding!

A meeting of the Portland Inter-planetary File System (IPFS) Enthusiasts. IPFS (http://ipfs.io/) is a "new peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol" that has great promise for creating an open, distributed web.

Let's meet up, talk and learn about IPFS, and do some coding!