Riak Core Tutorial

Welcome to the Riak Core Tutorial, a shorter, updated version of The Riak Core Book focused more on the implementation details, for more explanation check The Riak Core Book.

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.

Each chapter is a branch in this repo: https://gitlab.com/marianoguerra/tanodb/commits/master

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

• Website
• Github
• Twitter

If you think something could be improved, report it on the issue tracker.

• Setup
  • The Easy Way
  • Setting up rebar3
  • Install Riak Core Rebar3 Template
  • The Hard Way: Building Erlang with kerl
  • Building an Erlang release with kerl
  • Test that Everything Works
• Starting
  • Creating our Project
  • Building and Running
  • Exploring the Template Files
  • Playing with Clustering
  • Building a Production Release
  • Wrapping Up
• Ping Command
  • How it Works
• First Commands
  • Implementing Get, Put and Delete
  • Trying it
• Quorum Requests
  • How it Works
  • Implementing it
  • Trying it
• Handoff
  • How it Works
  • Implementing it
  • Trying it
• Coverage Calls
  • How it Works
  • Implementing it
  • Trying it
• HTTP API
  • How it Works
  • Implementing it
  • Trying it
• Making it a persistent KV Store with leveled backend
  • Implementing it
  • Trying it