Padraig O'Sullivan
Software Engineer, Akiban Technologies Inc.

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Padraig O’Sullivan is a software engineer at Akiba Technologies Inc. He is working on the core Akiba Orthogonal Architecture as well as contributing to the open source community. He has been hacking on Drizzle since February 2009 and participated in Google’s Summer of Code working on Drizzle. Contributions to various other open source projects happen when he has the time. He has an M.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Maryland. Originally from Killarney in Ireland, he now lives and works in Boston.

Sessions

1:30pm Monday, 04/12/2010
Developing Replication Plugins for Drizzle
Architecture and Technology, Cloud Computing, Replication and Scale-Out, Storage Engine Development and Optimization, Tutorial
 Location: Ballroom F
Jay Pipes (Rackspace Cloud), Padraig O'Sullivan (Akiban Technologies Inc.)
Average rating: ****.
(4.00, 1 rating)
The Drizzle Project is a fork of the MySQL 6.0 server. One of the many goals of Drizzle is to enable a large plugin ecosystem by improving, simplifying, and modernizing the application programming interfaces between the kernel and the modules providing services for Drizzle. This tutorial serves to showcase the new APIs for Drizzle's replication through a series of in-depth examples. Read more.
11:55am Tuesday, 04/13/2010
Monitoring Drizzle or MySQL With DTrace and SystemTap
General, Performance Tuning and Benchmarking
 Location: Ballroom A
Padraig O'Sullivan (Akiban Technologies Inc.)
Average rating: ****.
(4.00, 5 ratings)
Drizzle and MySQL both have a number of static DTrace probes embedded within them which allows observability tools to gain deep insight into what the server is doing. In this session, an overview of these static probes will be given and examples of utilizing these probes will be shown using both DTrace on Solaris and SystemTap on Linux. Read more.
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