Eric Day

Eric Day
Senior Software Architect, Rackspace Cloud

Web site | @edaypdx

Eric Day has been writing high-performance, multi-threaded servers for most of his career at Concentric, including complete HTTP/SSL, DNS, and IMAP implementations. He has also designed and implemented custom storage and database systems, from the protocol up through the application front-end. 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. You can read his blog and more at http://www.oddments.org/

Sessions

11:55am Wednesday, 04/22/2009
libdrizzle: A New Client Library for Drizzle and MySQL
Architecture and Technology, PHP and MySQL
 Location: Ballroom C
Eric Day (Rackspace Cloud)
What is libdrizzle? A complete client library rewrite for the Drizzle project. Why is this interesting for MySQL users? It supports the MySQL protocol and provides a non-blocking I/O interface. This session will demonstrate the power of connection pooling and how to run parallel queries to decrease overall processing time. PHP examples will be used, but other languages will be very similar. Read more.
10:50am Thursday, 04/23/2009
Map/Reduce and Queues for MySQL Using Gearman
Architecture and Technology, Cloud Computing
 Location: Ballroom C
Eric Day (Rackspace Cloud), Brian Aker (Data Differential)
Come learn the fundamentals of how to leverage Gearman, the open-source, distributed job queuing system. Gearman can help in building scalable MySQL-backed applications or use through a user-defined function. Gearman’s generic design allows it to be used as a building block for a wide variety of applications, from farming out image processing to building your own Map/Reduce implementation. Read more.

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