Archive 29. March 2011

Send in Münster again

In Münster, it's Send again. This time for a whole week because of the large rides - the Ferris wheel and the roller coaster are already quite impressive. One doesn't quite realize how big the Send actually is, only when you see the large rides during setup and then later at the finished Send, the whole surrounding area makes it clear. The Hindenburgplatz is also considered one of the largest inner-city open spaces in Germany. Photos, by the way, again with the M8.

Tuckesburg and the old zoo

The Tuckesburg is the old residence of the executioner in Münster - and later the retirement home of Prof. Landois, the founder of the Münster Zoo and the developer of the Aa Lake. I've already had this some time ago, but it's always a nice subject. Photos with the M8 and the Elmarit-M 2.8/50.

Basho: An Introduction to Riak. I should take a closer look at this, it has a quite clean and simple architecture and all nodes in the system are equal (this is similar to Cassandra). The whole thing is written in Erlang here, but interesting is the MapReduce interface: functions can be delivered as JavaScript code and the communication goes over a simple JSON interface.