Eric Day
Senior Software Architect, Rackspace Cloud

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Eric Day works on the Drizzle and Gearman projects. He has been writing high-performance, multi-threaded servers and databases for most of his career, always with an emphasis on efficiency and security. He has written complete HTTP/SSL, DNS, and IMAP implementations, along with designing and implementing custom storage and database systems. Most of his work has been done in clustered and distributed environments.

Eric also keeps active in the open source community through speaking at conferences and user groups, as well as helping organize camps and conferences in Portland, OR. When not hacking on code, he can be found playing hockey, biking, or enjoying a good vegan meal with his wife.

Sessions

1:30pm Monday, 07/19/2010

The Gearman Cookbook

Cloud Computing
Location: D139/140

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Eric Day (Rackspace Cloud), Brian Aker (HP)

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(3.87, 15 ratings)

Many people view topics like Map/Reduce and queue systems as advanced concepts that require in-depth knowledge and time consuming software setup. Gearman is changing all that by making this barrier to entry as low as possible with an open source, distributed job queuing system. This session dives into advanced use cases that demonstrate the power and flexibility of distributed architectures. Read more.

11:30am Wednesday, 07/21/2010

Using Drizzle

Databases
Location: Portland 255

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Eric Day (Rackspace Cloud)

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(3.88, 8 ratings)

Drizzle is a fork of the MySQL server focused on modularity, improved performance, and community development. This session will give an overview of the current state of Drizzle, tools around it, and the various language APIs available. The session will go through the steps to install Drizzle, how to get started with management, and things to watch out for when porting and writing applications. Read more.

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Eric Day Senior Software Architect, Rackspace Cloud