At the July MySQL User Group, Eric Day and Patrick Galbraith spoke about Drizzle, a lightweight, microkernel, open source database for high-performance scale-out applications, and Gearman, an open source, distributed job queuing system.
The slides can be downloaded from http://www.oddments.org/notes/DrizzleGearmanBoston2009.pdf.
The first hour of video, where Eric and Patrick talk about
Drizzle, is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hi4cGzFlcuU, and
below:
The second part, about 1.5 hours, where Eric and Patrick talk about Gearman, and then illustrate Gearman and Drizzle working together in a custom search application called Narada, is …
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