Riak, Elasticsearch and numad walk into a Red HatWhat starts like a joke is really a serious post about large distributed systems. This is what we run at meltwater - and while there is a lot of fun designing and administering these systems, we run into odd problems from time to time. In this case: some well-meant Red Hat memory optimisations interfering with Riak performance. There is a lot of talk around “Big Data” in the industry - and here at
