russelldb74

Great post, many thanks for writing it.

Ah they didn't. I went to work for them after I was let go by Basho in January, but have since moved on to general contract work on Riak. I am lucky enough to remain in contact with the people at bet365. My take, for what it is worth, is that this is a very generous gesture from bet365 and it helps the whole community. bet365 really hide their light under a bushel in terms of how big a UK technology success story they are. I'm looking forward to working on the newly open sourced replication code.

Me too. I think we all have our own stories about Basho's demise. Some people left early, some hung on until the end, but IMO it stopped being the Basho it once was (the "mythical basho") around the all hands in Estes Park in 2014. The first and biggest exodus was 2014/2015. I clung on until 2017. Even managed to squeak out a few bits of decent work in that time, but the writing was on the wall from 2014 IMO. When Basho finally dies (rather than this weird ghost ship/zombie shell company that remains) and all looming threats of litigation are gone I think it would do me good to write my view of the story from 2011. Right now I'm focussing on how to keep working on Riak, because it's still a great piece of software with a very wide deployment of active users.