Eric Day

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. When not hacking on code, he can be found running, biking, or enjoying a good vegan meal with his wife.

Sessions

10:50am Tuesday, 04/13/2010
Using Drizzle
LAMP, Web 2.0, Ajax, and Emerging Technologies
 Location: Ballroom A
Eric Day (Rackspace Cloud), Monty Taylor (Rackspace Cloud)
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, how to install it, and the state of the current tools and language APIs available. The session will also show how to get started with management, writing simple applications, and porting existing applications. Read more.
3:05pm Tuesday, 04/13/2010
Getting Started With Gearman For MySQL
Architecture and Technology, Cloud Computing, Replication and Scale-Out
 Location: Ballroom C
Giuseppe Maxia (Continuent), Eric Day (Rackspace Cloud)
Gearman is a distributed client/server architecture that can handle tasks independently from programming language and operating systems. Using it, you can create flexible and efficient applications. Through MySQL UDFs, Gearman functions can me made available to a MySQL server directly. Read more.
3:05pm Wednesday, 04/14/2010
Boosting Database Performance with Gearman
Architecture and Technology, Replication and Scale-Out
 Location: Ballroom C
Eric Day (Rackspace Cloud), Giuseppe Maxia (Continuent)
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 looks at advanced use cases that demonstrate the power and flexibility of distributed architectures. Read more.
2:00pm Thursday, 04/15/2010
Gearman MySQL Hacks, or Everything You Wanted to Do With a Database Server and You Never Dared to Hope
Architecture and Technology, Cloud Computing, Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence, Replication and Scale-Out
 Location: Ballroom C
Giuseppe Maxia (Continuent), Eric Day (Rackspace Cloud)
Users of Gearman know that it is a distributed client/server system that allows great flexibility to developers and DBAs. Advanced users of this tool have come up with amazing examples of cunning hacks that will possibly help you in your daily tasks immediately or get you started in your path of creating your own hacks. Read more.
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