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Perrin Harkins
Engineer, We Also Walk Dogs

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Perrin is a developer for We Also Walk Dogs, where he builds Web applications for groups like MoveOn.org, Credo Mobile, and the ONE Campaign. His prior experience includes large web-based businesses like eToys.com and CitySearch.com. He has published articles on perl.com and contributed to several books about web development. He is a frequent participant in open source projects, and a member of the Apache Software Foundation.

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11:35am Thursday, 07/24/2008

Scaling Databases with DBIx::Router

Perl
Location: F150

Perrin Harkins (We Also Walk Dogs)

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Making databases scale on commodity hardware requires tricks: writing to multiple servers, splitting large tables into "shards" across servers, diverting reads to a local copy, etc. DBIx::Router provides a general solution to this problem using the new DBI::Gofer system. Queries can be routed based on examination of the SQL and even the data for shards. Read more.