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<jonas11235> can I run an application in the same vm used by riak? is this a good approach? 

11:50 <benblack> you certainly can. what problem are you trying to solve? 

11:52 <jonas11235> benblack: I'm new to riak and this is my first erlang app, 
I'm just verifying if there is any reason to keep the database separated 

11:52 <jonas11235> benblack: I'll using erlang + webmachine + riak 

11:52 <benblack> if you are not experienced in this, i recommend NOT putting them in the same app. 

11:52 <jonas11235> benblack: [I'll be using] 

11:53 <benblack> just access riak via http or pb 

11:53 <jonas11235> benblack: what are the risks? they expose internal 
details of the database? 

11:54 <benblack> risks or not, it does not buy you anything 

11:54 <benblack> and will definitely make your life harder 

11:54 <benblack> use the provided interfaces 

11:54 <jonas11235> benblack: oh, ok 

11:54 <benblack> that way when you run into trouble someone can actually help you 

11:55 <jonas11235> benblack: I think I would save some memory and have some 
performance improvements in the queries 

11:55 <benblack> it's premature optimization day! 

11:55 <jonas11235> benblack: :) 

11:55 <benblack> if you run into memory problems or performance problems, 
then consider changing 

11:55 <benblack> i doubt you will 

11:55 <jonas11235> benblack: actually no, I will use the client interface as you said 

11:56 <benblack> good plan 

11:57 <jonas11235> benblack: I saw that they have two different client apis for erlang, 
should I have a look on both or one of the is generally better? 

11:58 <benblack> one is native the other is protobuffs (pbc) 

11:58 <benblack> both work fine 

11:58 <benblack> but i suspect more people use the pb interface than 
use erlang native 

11:58 <jonas11235> benblack: I'll go for the native in this case 

11:58 <benblack> i'd got he other way, but whatever 

11:58 <jonas11235> benblack: why? 

11:58 <benblack> because you are learning this all for the first time. 
use the most common stuff. 

11:59 <jonas11235> benblack: ok, another good advice :) 

12:00 <drev1> jonas11235: the Wriaki sample app might be a good place to start to learn 
about using Riak from an Erlang application. https://github.com/basho/wriaki 

12:00 <jonas11235> drev1: I watched the video 

12:01 <jonas11235> drev1: thank you for the link