A Quick Note on Rebar

January 10, 2010 at 11:45 PM | categories: Riak, Rebar

As many of you Erlang and Riak fans know, Dave Smith has been hard at work on Rebar. For those of you who don't know, Rebar is a truly cool packaging and build tool for Erlang applications. Dave took a break from coding this morning to post a few words on his blog Gradual Epiphany about why he was inspired to write Rebar and what it means for building and deploying applications. Check it out. It's a great read.

Also, if you haven't had a chance to join the Rebar mailing list, you can do so here.

Mark


Dave Smith Gives a General Overview of Rebar

December 21, 2009 at 02:00 PM | categories: Riak, Screencast, Erlang, Rebar

As a follow up to my first screencast on using Rebar for embedded Riak nodes, this video gives a more general overview of Rebar using ibrowse, an existing Erlang application, to show functionality and intended uses.

Enjoy,

Dave

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Basho Screencast - Dave Smith Introduces Riak in an Embedded Node

December 17, 2009 at 04:30 PM | categories: Riak, Screencast, Rebar

The team here at Basho has been working hard this past week to take Riak to the next level when it comes to usability in a production environment. The fruits of our labor are demonstrated here in this screencast as we proudly present Riak running in a fully self-contained embedded node environment.

What this means for our users is that it's easier than ever to deploy and manage Riak servers -- mainly no more dependencies on an external Erlang install. What's more, running a Riak node is controlled by a single script that also provides runtime access to the Erlang console even if Riak is running in the background.

Enjoy, and stay tuned, as there are more of these to come!

Dave

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