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RiakCS is not open source right now. Parts of it may well be open sourced over time.

Ha! Very good. The reason it is sometimes worth saying "highly available" is that most people don't know or don't understand the CAP theorem. Also, the A in CAP is one (very strict…

Lamport's logical clocks work across multiple nodes, but they can lose information about causality. Hence Mattern's extensions to Lamport's work, which introduce the idea of vector…

It's more like Mattern's expansion of Lamport's logical time. (a lattice, not a total ordering)

I suppose we are hardly anyone, but we are writing multiple Web applications in Erlang right now, and slowly giving away the tools we build as well. http://blog.therestfulway.com/2…