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Explore the evolution and improvements of Riak KV under the OpenRiak community in this 40-minute conference talk from Code BEAM America 2025. Discover the non-functional characteristics that make Riak a compelling distributed database technology and understand why it remains relevant in today's landscape. Dive deep into the technical enhancements achieved by embracing BEAM technology more fully, including the migration from NIFs to native Erlang implementations, better utilization of OTP improvements, and adherence to the Erlang efficiency guide. Learn how development tools like eprof and eqwalizer have contributed to code quality and performance optimization, while examining the valuable community support provided by the Erlang Ecosystem Foundation (ErlEF). Gain insights into the strategic decisions behind leaning more heavily on BEAM's capabilities and see practical demonstrations of the performance and reliability benefits these changes have delivered to the Riak distributed database system.
