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Patrick Galbraith
Principal Software Engineer, Blue Gecko

Website | @CaptTofu

Patrick Galbraith is a senior systems and database administrator at Blue Gecko. He is the author or two recent books:

“Developing Web Applications with Apache, MySQL, memcached, and Perl” (Wiley)

“Expert PHP and MySQL” (Wiley)

In his “spare time”, he also maintains DBD::mysql, DBD::drizzle, FederatedX storage engine and the Memcached Functions for MySQL. He has just authored “Developing Web Applications using Perl, Memcached, MySQL, and Apache”. Patrick lives up in the sticks of New Hampshire with his wife Ruth and son Kiran as well as his Kubota tractor.

Sessions

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 (Rackspace Cloud), Patrick Galbraith (Blue Gecko)

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(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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Patrick Galbraith Principal Software Engineer, Blue Gecko