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Try RethinkDB: How we did it

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There are a lot of really cool tricks in this post for deploying Docker in a "real-life" installation, including disk quota, service orchestration, and dynamically routing traffic to your containers. A great example of how to take advantage of Docker's flexibility.

The rest of Nick's blog is worth a look too! Great stuff.

Hello, blog author here. I'm here to answer any questions or to address anything ambiguous in the post.

I read that this week end and what you did is just awesome.

Thank you so much. Docker and Rethink are holding up incredibly well through all of this, my clever implementation hacks are not. I'll provide a full write up after the traffic dies down!

What sort of experience do you have with RethinkDB? Have you used it in production?

I'd also like to hear someone's experience with RethinkDB. The admin interface is fantastic.

slava @ rethink here. There are dozens of production projects built on top of Rethink. We're in the process of working with the customers to publish case studies (rough ETA on this is end of summer).

FYI, here's a list of things to do before we label Rethink production-ready: https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/issues/1174 (though Rethink is already really good for doing real work).

slava @ rethink here. Nick @ dotcloud did phenomenal work with getting this project off the ground, so I'm here to answer any questions about RethinkDB while Nick will be covering Docker questions.

Is RethinkDB suitable for CRUD applications?

RethinkDB has an API that's very capable of doing CRUD operations (and a lot more). Probably the only way it could not fill your CRUD needs is if you didn't like the ways you can access it. We have official drivers for Python, Ruby and Javascript and community drivers for a whole bunch of other languages.

What type of applications do you think would make RethinkDB shine? (Oops... Apparently that's already in the faq: http://www.rethinkdb.com/docs/faq/ )

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