riak_core_lite Dynamo-style database

[Mohamed Mandouh]

Hello,

I'm considering applying for Erlang's Project 'riak_core_lite'  - Idea1 : Implementation of Dynamo-style KV-store.

I spent the last few weeks learning about distributed actor systems as I'm taking 'Programming Reactive Systems' course on edX,

and I made a project using Akka framework and Scala Language.

The Project was a Single-Leader Distributed KV-store

you can see the code here :

https://github.com/MohamedMandouh/Akka-KV-Store  

I first read about Dynamo-style Databases and Riak when I read the chapter on Replication  in Martin Kleppmann's book "Designing Data-Intensive Applications".   

However, I'm completely new to Erlang Ecosystem.

Do you think I should apply to the project?

If so, would you please recommend me some resources to get familiar with the Erlang/Elixir and with Riak?

Thanks

[schimp...@gmail.com]

Hi!

Thank you for your interest in this project.

Having already implemented a distributed KV-Store is already a good starting point to understand and use riak core lite for the project.

Try to check some language resources to get a gist of how to use them and pick either Erlang or Elixir, the one you like the most. 

Some recommendations:

• Elixir website: https://elixir-lang.org/
• Erlang online courses 

• https://learnyousomeerlang.com/
  
• https://www.erlang.org/course

• Riak Core reference:
  
• https://marianoguerra.github.io/riak-core-tutorial/ (erlang)
• http://marianoguerra.org/posts/riak-core-on-partisan-on-elixir-tutorial-introduction.html (elixir)

• Erlang and Elixir resources: http://spawnedshelter.com/