[erlang-questions] Couple Riaks question

[Max Grigoriev]

- Should I create a connection pool or it's OK to create {ok, Pid} = riakc_pb_socket:start_link("127.0.0.1", 8087) on each web request

It's very strange and pity that erlang native client doesn't support all features Java one has: http://docs.basho.com/riak/latest/references/Client-Libraries/

- Am I right that Link walking is implemented as Map/Reduce and it uses full scan? 

- How do you connect to riak nodes (I mean how to decide to which node connet) or just put Riak cluster behind HAProxy and that's all

Thanks