Eric Day
Eric Day
Rackspace Cloud- Website: http://oddments.org/
- Twitter: edaypdx
- Identi.ca: eday
Biography
Eric Day currently works on the Drizzle and Gearman projects, and has been writing high-performance, multi-threaded servers and databases for most of his career. Most of his work has been done in clustered and distributed environments, always with an emphasis on efficiency and security. Eric keeps active in the open source community through speaking at conferences and user groups, as well as helping organize camps and conferences in Portland, OR. When not hacking on code, he can be found playing hockey, biking, or enjoying a good vegan meal.
Open Source Bridge 2011
Sessions for this user
* Qs on Queues
Not sure what queuing system to use for your next project? How about the differences between broker vs direct queue services? What is a good fit for cloud vs your own data center? This session gathers information from open source queuing projects to help answer these questions and more. Queues are part of almost every scalable website and application, it's time to find the best fit for yours.
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Chemistry |
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* The Open Cloud
Why be locked into a cloud vendor?
Shouldn't Cloud be Open Cloud and powered by Open Source software?
Open Stack is a collection of open source technologies to deliver a cloud operating system. Learn about Open Stack and how to use it to deliver your own Open Source powered clouds.
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Cooking |
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Proposals for this user
* Introduction to OpenStack
The OpenStack project was launched last summer during OSCON by Rackspace, NASA, and a number of other cloud technology leaders in an effort to build a fully-open cloud computing platform. It is a collection of scalable, secure, standards-based projects consisting of compute, storage, images, and more. This session will introduce the projects, the principles behind it, and how to get started.
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Cooking | 03/30/2011 03:04PM |
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Open Source Bridge 2010
Sessions for this user
* Efficient Multi-core Application Architectures
This session examines common application architectures in regards to threading and I/O handling. Various threading models are described and weighed, explaining the pros and cons of each. For I/O, topics such as the the c10k problem and buffering are discussed with solutions. A C++ framework is introduced as an example, but the concepts are applicable to other languages as well.
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Chemistry |
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Open Source Bridge 2009
Proposals for this user
* Gearman: Bringing the Power of Map/Reduce to Everyday Applications
Come learn the fundamentals of how to leverage Gearman, the open-source, distributed job queuing system. Originally designed to scale LiveJournal.com, Gearman is now faster than ever and can help you build your own scalable applications. Gearman's generic design allows it to be used as a building block for almost any use - from speeding up your website to building your own Map/Reduce cluster.
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Cooking | 03/30/2009 04:08PM |
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