Microservices – Please, Don’t (2016)

This blog post is adapted from a lightning talk I gave at the Boston Golang meetup in December of 2015.For a while, it seemed like everyone was crazy for microservices. You couldn’t open up your favorite news aggregator of choice without some company you had never heard of toutin … | Continue reading


@riak.com | 3 years ago

Why Vector Clocks Are Hard (2010)

April 5, 2010A couple of months ago, Bryan wrote about vector clocks on this blog. The title of the post was "Why Vector Clocks are Easy"; anyone who read the post would realize that he meant that they're easy for a client to use when talking to a system that implements them. For … | Continue reading


@riak.com | 4 years ago