You're free to view the older revisions of this gist, but much of this content has been rewritten and will appear on the [Basho blog] (http://basho.com/blog) in the very near future.
Update: First part of the series is now at http://basho.com/understanding-riaks-configurable-behaviors-part-1/
Thanks. I'll work on that. Part of my problem is that I only vaguely grasp the impact of basic_quorum, so conveying its meaning is probably beyond my ken.