Patrick Galbraith

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

11:55am Tuesday, 04/15/2008
Replication for Dummies
Replication and Scale-Out
 Location: Ballroom D
Patrick Galbraith (Blue Gecko)
Replication is one of the most important features in MySQL. Having the ability to replicate data across data centers is invaluable. Learn how to set up replication, monitoring, and problem-solving. Read more.
4:25pm Wednesday, 04/16/2008
Grazr: Lessons Learned Building a Web 2.0 Application Using MySQL
Web 2.0, Ajax, and Emerging Technologies
 Location: Ballroom F
Patrick Galbraith (Blue Gecko), Michael Kowalchik (Grazr Corporation)
Grazr is a new platform for aggregating, consolidating, and sharing information. We would like to share lessons we've learned with others considering using MySQL as the foundation for their product. Read more.
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