Six-ish Months of eBook Sales: Riak Handbook
It’s been slightly more than six months since I released the first version of the Riak Handbook. It’s been an amazing and incredible ride so far, and it’s about time I wrote about how things went from the perspective of publishing, marketing and selling this book all on my own. For this I draw inspiration from Jarrod Drysdale’s post on his book Bootstrapping Design and Jesse Storimer’s post on the sales of his book Working With Unix Processes. Both books are awesome, by the way, and well worth checking out.
June Reading List
I’ve been on vacation in France for most of June, and that means lots of time to read. Originally I planned on reading more on distributed systems, but I had a decent backlog of books on my Kindle, so this was just the right time to plow through them. By the way, if you don’t have a Kindle yet, you should get one. It’s a great little device. I’ve been reading so much more since I got it. Anyhoo, here’s the list of books I’ve been reading in June.
Playing with Riak and CRDTs - Counters
I recently spent some quality time with CRDTs, which is short for commutative replicated data types. I’ve gotten curious about them when working on the Riak Handbook and I gave a talk about designing data structures for Riak the other week at NoSQL matters, slides are available too
Riak Handbook 1.1 is out!
I’m happy to report that the Riak Handbook has hit a major update, bringing a whopping 43 pages of new content with it. If you already bought the book, this is a free update, and instructions how and where to download it were sent in a separate email.
On Notifications, Log Subscribers, and Bringing Sanity to Rails’ Logging
Wherein I write about Rails’ current implementation of logging and ActiveSupport’s greatest feature that was added in 3.0.