Thank you for your kind words, they're very humbling and flattering for us, and they are what keep us going. It's a great boost for us that people suggest GitHub should buy us. Thank you!
Thank you for your suggestions as well, it's something we've been thinking about ourselves as well, independently of whether it's a part of GitHub or an independent project/product.
We've been working hard on making Travis CI available for building private GitHub repositories, and we're coming along quite nicely. Stay tuned! :)
The Travis Pro edition has been being used actively by customers for almost two months now, we're just not making a big fuss about it because we focus on ironing out kinks :)
If you're interested, you're more than welcome to get in touch with us ([email protected]).
In the article I wrote that there was no guarantee the book would be a success. The reason for that is that I didn't have any validation upfront whether the book is a good and viable product idea or not. I started work on it long before I joined the 30x500 class, and how the book came about is not exactly in the spirit of it, as it takes a whole different approach on finding audiences for products and all that.
The total time that went into the book is hard to put a number on. I'd say at least three months of dedicated writing, testing out theories in practice, editing, proof-reading and building up marketing momentum around it went into the book.
Thank you so much for the kind words. I'm really glad you're finding the book this helpful!
Now, about the Node client. You are correct that there's been stalling over the last six or more months, but there's work on continuing the work on it, adapting it to new features in Riak and to push Frank's (original author) work on rewriting it in pure JavaScript towards the finish line.
Thanks again, your comment is very much appreciated!
It was that snarky comment on my first post on "awesome" and "lifestyle" (although I thought I'd make pretty clear that I don't consider Redis a lifestyle) that made me write this second one. I'm glad it helped clarify some things.
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