Riak in Production: An Atypical Story
A non-enterprisey and non-twitteresque, but very interesting Riak deployment on a church’s kiosks:
Currently, we are running four Riak nodes (writing out to the Filesystem backend) outside of the three Kiosks themselves. I also have various Riak nodes on my random linux servers because I can use the CPU cycles on my other nodes to distribute MapReduce functions and store information in a redundant fashion.
Please note also the reduced complexity of bringing new kiosks up:
As I bring more kiosks into operation, the distributed map-reduce feature is becoming more valuable. Since I typically run reports during off hours, the kiosks aren’t overloaded by the extra processing power. So far I have been able to roll out a new kiosk within 2 hours of receiving the hardware. Most of this time is spent doing the installation and configuration of the touchscreen.
Atypical I’d say, but definitely exciting!
