In early 2009, several developers from Relevance and Viget Labs got together and starting talking about technical conferences. As we discussed our past experiences at regional, national, and international events, we began to realize something: large conferences are wonderful for a lot of things, but we wanted something that met a different set of goals. We came up with Developer Day, which was designed to:

• Build lasting relationships among local peers
• Bridge distinct technical communities

After a year of Developer Days, however, we decided a new look was in order, and thus was born DevNation. We've still got the same ideals, but we feel that the DevNation name better reflects that vision (and it's easier to Google!)

Relationships

The general pattern for a large conference runs something like this: you fly to a city, go to the event, have a great time, meet lots of great people, and fly home. More often than not, you don't see those people again until the next big conference, and that's a problem. We wanted our event to be different, so it's intentionally local. Speakers and attendees are overwhelmingly local to the conference, so when you meet someone doing something cool, you can connect with them a week later for lunch without a problem.

Technology-Agnostic

Sure, there are events that draw a wide range of developers (e.g., OSCON), but even then people tend to segregate; the Pythonists go to their sessions, the Rubyists to theirs, and the PHP devs to theirs. By having only one track, we give everyone the opportunity to see what's happening in other communities.

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.

Basho coworking office hours are every two weeks. The meetup is during the day to come and hack on, deploy or just get a kick start on Riak, Riak CS or discuss NoSQL Solutions and Riak. Our first Coworking Office Hours will be from 9am until 11am on February the 4th.

Feel free to RSVP, but you only need to just show up to the meet. We look forward to seeing you there for an intro or just to ask questions.

This coming Monday Eric Redmond AKA @coderoshi and I AKA @adron will be here to answer any questions, strike up discussions about Riak or help with any architectural or data oriented questions you may have. So come and join us, cheers!

Basho coworking office hours are every two weeks. The meetup is during the day to come and hack on, deploy or just get a kick start on Riak, Riak CS or discuss NoSQL Solutions and Riak. Our first Coworking Office Hours will be from 9am until 11am on February the 4th.

This coming Monday Eric Redmond AKA @coderoshi and I AKA @adron will be here to answer any questions, strike up discussions about Riak or help with any architectural or data oriented questions you may have. So come and join us, cheers!

Basho coworking office hours are every two weeks. The meetup is during the day to come and hack on, deploy or just get a kick start on Riak, Riak CS or discuss NoSQL Solutions and Riak. Our first Coworking Office Hours will be from 9am until 11am on February the 4th.

This coming Monday Eric Redmond AKA @coderoshi and I AKA @adron will be here to answer any questions, strike up discussions about Riak or help with any architectural or data oriented questions you may have. So come and join us, cheers!

This Workshop will cover the following material: -> Install Riak & setup a devrel, and if resources are available, we'll spool up a cluster in AWS, Google Compute or other environment. -> We'll choose a language stack/framework (i.e. C#, Java, Erlang, Ruby, JavaScript or such) and work through connecting to the database and getting data in and out of the database.

So bring your laptop!

We'll also have discussions around architectural guidance, patterns and practices for development.

About this talk

Riak is a masterless, dynamically scalable key-value database. Adron Hall from Basho, the company behind Riak, will be presenting on Riak's design and giving a cluser setup demonstration.

Speaker: Adron Hall

About TechTalks

COPIOUS Labs TechTalks series meets every other Friday at 1pm at the COPIOUS offices. Our talks span artificial intelligence, new programming languages and techniques, computational linguistics, geographic data processing, systems and software architecture, augmented reality, network security, and more as proposed to the COPIOUS engineering team.

Alright Portland, we all love and know the local home grown startup Cloudability here in town, but do we know how they make it all happen? Well, Brad Heller is going to come and enlighten us on how they use Riak at Cloudability. Come and give a listen, we'll have food (give me ideas if you're up for something that isn't Pizza, but we could do both!) and prospectively we'll also be having some other surprises.

Basho coworking office hours are every month. The meetup is during the day to come and hack on, deploy or just get a kick start on Riak, Riak CS or discuss NoSQL Solutions and Riak. Our first Coworking Office Hours will be from 9am until 11am on February the 4th. The regular meeting is scheduled for the same day at 7:00pm, generally we always meet at NedSpace unless otherwise mentioned in the meetup.

This Monday meet Eric Redmond AKA @coderoshi and I AKA @adron will be here to answer any questions, strike up discussions about Riak or help with any architectural or data oriented questions you may have. So come and join us, cheers!

Is the siloed internet over? It's too early to tell, but personal cloud is showing tremendous promise as a counter-paradigm that holds the promise of both providing most or all of the services that we currently enjoy and doing so in a way that is vastly more consistent with more stringent understanding of privacy and consent. While there are numerous countries making slow progress on the personal cloud front, none, as far as I know, are considering Riak as a data store for personal clouds. In this talk, I'd like to make the case for Riak as being an ideal technology for this.

In conjunction with the Portland Big Data User Group (http://www.meetup.com/Hadoop-Portland/), Basho Technologies engineer Eric Redmond talks about the NoSQL Key/Value datastore Riak).

A huge thanks to the Copious (http://www.copio.us/) guys for hosting the event!

Food and Refreshments on the house!

Agenda:

6 - 6:30 : Meet and Greet

6:30 - 7 : Intro to Riak

7 - 7:30 : Eric Redmond's Magic Recipe to master Riak

7:30 - 8 : Q&A

8 - 9 : Food & Networking

Come by Bailey's to meet with Basho engineers - we'll talk through all your distributed systems questions, the finer points of vector clocks, and Riak 2.0... all while enjoying some tasty brews!

Come on by the New Relic offices to talk Riak! Basho core engineer Jordan West will be discussing broader level distributed systems topics as well as what's going on with Riak --> 2.0!!!!

Pizza and beer too!

Nathan Aschbacher throws down on his favorite Erlang topic:

Learning Erlang made me a better engineer and architect.

Even if you don't think you have a use-case for Erlang, don't have an interest in functional programming, and find reading Prolog inspired syntax directly proportional to your increased consumption of Excedrin... according to Nathan Aschbacher (currently Chief Architect at Snapflow and previously Principal Consulting Architect at Basho) you should learn Erlang anyway.

Nathan will be presenting on his path to Erlang and functional programming, his initial disdain, his later begrudging respect, and finally his eventual love and nostalgia for all things Erlang-y.

Join us and share in the conversation.

It's summertime in Portland! Rather than work our brains too hard in the heat, let's just get together, socialize, chat and show off anything we happen to be working on.

Meetup with us at the Lucky Lab on SE Hawethorne. Look for the Erlang laptop stickers!

We'll get back to having speakers in September.

Stay tuned for news about Erlang at OSCON.