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Infrastructure & DevOps
2012
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Riak 1.2 Officially Released

Nearly three years ago to the day, from a set of green, worn couches in a modest office Cambridge, Massachusetts, the Riak team announced Riak to the world. To say we've come a long way from that first release would be an understatement, and today we’re pleased to announce the release and general a

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Tarsnap outage post-mortem

When the Tarsnap EC2 instance came back online about an hour later, I found that the abrupt loss of power had resulted in filesystem corruption. As I explained in a blog post in December 2008, Tarsnap stores all user data in Amazon S3, but keeps metadata cached in EC2 . While I could not see any evidence that the…