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Personal schedule for Brian Aker

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8:30am Tuesday, 07/21/2009

Gearman: Build Your Own Distributed Platform in 3 Hours

Databases, Web Applications
Location: Meeting Room J2

Eric Day (craigslist), Brian Aker (HP)

Average rating:

(3.82, 11 ratings)

This tutorial will show you how to get started with Gearman, the flexible job queuing system used to power websites such as LiveJournal and Digg. We'll cover common architectures, installation, APIs, and deployment. A few use cases will be described and built, including a Map/Reduce cluster and database-driven URL mining application. Read more.

11:35am Wednesday, 07/22/2009

Gearman: Bringing the Power of Map/Reduce to Everyday Applications

Databases, Web Applications
Location: Ballroom A4/A5

Eric Day (craigslist), Brian Aker (HP)

Average rating:

(4.11, 19 ratings)

Come learn the fundamentals of how to leverage Gearman, the open-source, distributed job queuing system. Originally designed to scale LiveJournal.com, Gearman is now faster than ever and can help you build your own scalable applications. Gearman's generic design allows it to be used as a building block for almost any use - from speeding up your website to building your own Map/Reduce cluster. Read more.

8:00pm Wednesday, 07/22/2009

Future of MySQL Forks, Branches, and Patches

Location: Ballroom A7

Moderated by: Peter Zaitsev

Average rating:

(5.00, 1 rating)

MySQL, Drizzle, MariaDB, XtraDB, Google Patches, Percona Patches, OurDelta... there is a lot of forks patches and branches around. Join us to learn about current state of affairs and share your vision and desires Read more.

10:45am Thursday, 07/23/2009

Drizzle: Status, Principles, and Ecosystem

Databases, People, Programming
Location: Ballroom A8

Brian Aker (HP), Monty Taylor (HP), Mark Atwood (HP Cloud Services), Ronald Bradford (EffectiveMySQL), Eric Day (craigslist), Patrick Galbraith (Blue Gecko)

Average rating:

(3.50, 4 ratings)

In this panel talk a number of core Drizzle developers will explain where development sits today, critical tools involved, best practices that were used to get here, and how a vibrant open-source developer community has been built. Read more.

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