Just watch the talk by Voxer on Riak (on Basho's site). It's basically an hour long explanation of why the things that come out of the box with Riak don't work

Just watch the talk by Voxer on Riak (on Basho's site). It's basically an hour long explanation of why the things that come out of the box with Riak don't work for them. We ran into those problems as well. Also, I'm giving a talk on it in 9 days at ErlangDC...Whisper is now top 10 social networking apps and we had a number of critical Riak failures. i'll be elaborating on them, though the focus of the talk is not to bash Riak, no pun intended... just to provide our experience and how we worked around it.