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Get in touch! Your data is invaluable. Master using Riak to make sure it's always there when you need it. Availability is not an option, it's a requirement.

Download a free PDF sample. What Mathias Meyer has done with the Riak Handbook is to capture in a short, accessible text what developers need to know to work with Riak and why it's one of the most powerful open source databases available.

Your Data is Your Biggest Asset It's only fair that you treat it that way and store it in the most reliable way possible. Using Riak is a Paradigm Shift Coming to Riak requires rethinking of data modeling and access patterns.

Practice Over Theory Instead of boring you with theoretical details, the book takes a very practical approach , taking you right in to the world of Riak and distributed databases. Start Mastering Riak Today! Buy a site license to share with up to people in your organization. The last spike is the 1. The interesting bit about marketing started not too long before I published the book.

The really hard part about it all was writing the copy for the website. Bringing out the value of the book for someone interested in Riak is hard, really hard. The same is true for the newsletter.

It took me full day to write the text, lay out the email, re-read it multiple times and to finally hit that send button. It was really, really scary. It felt like being exposed to an unknown public with my pants off. The newsletter helped a lot, so did the initial blog posts and other blog posts following over time. Regularly writing and publishing something related to the book, related to Riak, being helpful on IRC and on the Riak mailing list made a difference too.

It got people curious about the book. I need to work on the second step, taking the customer from there. As a last thought, the best kind of marketing you can get is word of mouth. Great, sincere and personal customer support goes a long way. People will remember that and tell others about it.

The same is true for offering sincere apologies to people who are annoyed for valid reasons. With the right kind of support you can turn them into loyal customers. An apology goes a long way. Despite this massive change in growth, we still do not employ any full-time engineers to work on our Riak cluster.

Riak has been a valuable partner in our transformation and Riak has proven to be a critical component as the NoSQL distributed database powering our new platform. My experience with Riak has been that the core promise of being an available, scalable, minimal operational support, key-value store delivers as advertised.

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