Little Riak Core Book

Note

While the content of this book is still valid, the code may not run with latest versions of the tools and libraries, for an updated version of the code check the Riak Core Tutorial

This book shows how to build an application using riak_core by building an actual application called tanodb step by step and linking to each change on its the description.

The book can be read online at marianoguerra.github.io/little-riak-core-book/, it can also be downloaded as pdf: LittleRiakCoreBook.pdf and as epub LittleRiakCoreBook.epub.

The book was written by Mariano Guerra, you can find him at:

• Website
• Github
• Twitter

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• Starting
  • Tools
  • Installing the Template
  • Creating our Project
  • Building and Running
  • Exploring the Template Files
  • Playing with Clustering
  • Building a Production Release
  • Wrapping Up
• Ping as a Service (PaaS)
  • Setting Up
  • UPDATE: changes required to make this code run as of 2016-05-03
  • Testing it
  • Changing Some Configuration
• Metrics
  • API Metrics
  • Erlang Runtime Metrics
  • Web Server Metrics (Cowboy)
• Users, Groups and Permissions
  • Riak Core Security Model
• How a Command Works
• Adding our First Commands
  • Riak Core API
  • REST API
  • Implementing Delete
• Listing Keys from a Bucket
  • Implementing the CORE API
  • Implementing the REST API
• Tolerating Node Failures
  • Quorum Based Writes and Deletes
  • Handoffs
• Riak Core Metadata
  • 1. Overview
  • 2. API
  • 3. Common Pitfalls & Other Notes
  • 4. Playing in the REPL
• Riak Core Security
  • Implementation
  • Vocabulary
  • Extra Features
  • API Overview
  • Playing in the REPL
  • API Gotchas
• Ring Resize Operations
  • Preparation
  • Handoffs
  • Additional functions