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Nicholas Adams

Director of global support operations at T.I Tokyo

Nicholas is a British IT engineer living in Japan, early adopter of tech, early discarder of tech, legacy user and Head of Global Support for TI Tokyo, running the team that provides 24/7/365 Enterprise Grade support for Riak.

Past Activities

Nicholas Adams / Andrei Zavada
Code BEAM America 2021
03 Nov 2021
13.15 - 13.40

Fireside chat on Riak

A fireside chat covering recent updates in the Riak community, an in depth look into challenges presented in the OTP uplift process from OTP16 to OTP22 and a special announcement.

Nicholas Adams
Code BEAM V Europe
19 May 2021
13.20 - 14.00

How not to fail at distributed systems with examples from Riak

In this talk, we reflect on our years of supporting the Erlang based distributed key/value store, Riak, and share stories of how our clients' best intended configurations have come back to bite them in ways they did not foresee. This talk is intended as edutainment. We showcase some common pitfalls of distributed systems as taken from our Riak helpdesk history, explain why things went wrong and how to avoid making the same mistakes. Disclaimer: no client names are used in this talk and any logs or config files used have been anonymised. All characters and impressions used in this talk are entirely fictitious ones of my own creation and any resemblance to real persons, dead or alive, or other real-life entities, past or present, is purely coincidental.

AUDIENCE: This talk is recommended for helpdesk veterans, people interested in distributed systems and anybody who has ever touched Riak.

Nicholas Adams
Code BEAM V America
11 Mar 2021
12.40 - 13.20

How not to fail at distributed systems with examples from Riak

In this talk, we reflect on our years of supporting the Erlang based distributed key/value store, Riak, and share stories of how our clients' best intended configurations have come back to bite them in ways they did not foresee. This talk is intended as edutainment. We showcase some common pitfalls of distributed systems as taken from our Riak helpdesk history, explain why things went wrong and how to avoid making the same mistakes. Disclaimer: no client names are used in this talk and any logs or config files used have been anonymised. All characters and impressions used in this talk are entirely fictitious ones of my own creation and any resemblance to real persons, dead or alive, or other real-life entities, past or present, is purely coincidental.

AUDIENCE: This talk is recommended for helpdesk veterans, people interested in distributed systems and anybody who has ever touched Riak.

Nicholas Adams
Code BEAM SF
05 Mar 2020
12.20 - 12.45

Riak KV 3.0: worth the wait?

A look at the new Riak KV 3.0 distributed NoSQL key-value store, how it compares to its predecessors and does the 4 version jump of OTP justify it being in your data center today?

THIS TALK IN THREE WORDS

Riak

Upgrade

OTP

OBJECTIVES

Increase industry awareness of Riak KV 3.0 and its improvements of both existing and upcoming features.

Touch on when you should and should not use Riak in your business.

TARGET AUDIENCE

People interested in key/value stores, existing Riak users, people interested in how updating OTP can affect the performance of software.

Nicholas Adams
Code BEAM STO 2019
17 May 2019
15.20 - 15.45

Riak's rebound

This talk will cover the death of Basho, the rescue of the "Enterprise Edition" and dead code, and the resurgence of Riak as a viable distributed NoSQL database and cloud storage service thanks to an active development community

OBJECTIVES

To inform people of how Riak is developing, what has improved, and how they can get involved.

TARGET AUDIENCE

General audience with an interest in NoSQL/key-value stores, distributed systems, cloud storage and existing Riak users.

Nicholas Adams
Code BEAM SF 2019
28 Feb 2019
11.35 - 12.20

Riak's Rebirth

How Riak has changed after becoming fully open-source: new priorities, new features, new documentation, new ideas.

OBJECTIVES

To inform people of how Riak is developing, what has improved, and how they can get involved.

TARGET AUDIENCE

General audience with an interest in NoSQL/key-value stores, distributed systems, cloud storage and existing Riak users.