Brian Aker

Brian Aker
CTO, Data Differential

Website | @brianaker

Brian Aker is the Director of Technology for MySQL. At MySQL he helps set direction for technology and looks for opportunies to harness and shape the MySQL database for efforts in Web, OEM, and Telephony. In his copious amounts of free time he works on Apache and Perl modules, and hacks on the Asterisk Telephony System (hence never has a working home phone number). In the past, he has been involved with projects for the Army Engineer Corps, The Virtual Hospital, Splunk, and Slashdot. He lives in Seattle with his dog Rosalynd.

Sessions

8:30am Monday, 04/20/2009
The Revised memcached Tutorial
Architecture and Technology, Performance Tuning and Benchmarks, Tutorial
 Location: Ballroom H
Alan Kasindorf (Six Apart), Brian Aker (Data Differential)
The original memcached tutorial has done its rounds around the globe, and it's time for round two. Quickly get up to speed with integration and tuning examples, then dive into new topics and community tricks. See how the new binary protocol and storage engine interfaces can solve hard problems. Read more.
2:00pm Tuesday, 04/21/2009
Rethinking MySQL, Enter Drizzle
Architecture and Technology
 Location: Ballroom A
Brian Aker (Data Differential)
Ever wondered what would happen if we could rethink a decade worth of design changes? Drizzle is a fork of the MySQL server targeted at web development and cloud computing. We are looking at how to create database for modern multi-core, large memory databases that fit inside of an overall application framework. 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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