Author: jaypipes

Jay is a Principal Open Source Engineer at Amazon Web Services in the Elastic Kubernetes Service team. Prior to AWS, he was a Principal Technical Architect at Mirantis. He works to develop core and ecosystem projects in the OpenStack cloud computing platform community. Before Mirantis, he worked at AT&T, focusing on OpenStack development and operations. Previously, he was a Director of Engineering in HP's Open Source Cloud Services team, a development manager and software engineer at Rackspace Cloud, a software engineer at Sun Microsystems and the North American Community Relations Manager at MySQL. Co-author of Pro MySQL (Apress, 2005), Jay has also written articles for Linux Magazine and regularly assists developers in identifying how to make the most effective use of MySQL and other software. He has given sessions on performance tuning at the MySQL Users Conference, RedHat Summit, NY PHP Conference, ZendCon, php-tek, OSCON, and Ohio LinuxFest, amongst others. He lives in Columbus, Ohio, with his wife, Julie, and his beloved dogs.

MySQL | 2005-11-29

Here’s My System

OK, so I was up in Cleveland visiting friends for the holiday and got into a discussion with a writer friend of mine who is unabashedly disinterested in the blogging […]

DB Rambles | 2005-11-23

Great MySQL Idea from Giuseppe Maxia

Roland Bouman sent me an email yesterday alerting me to an idea presented by Giuseppe Maxia on the MySQL Stored Procedures forum a couple days ago. The idea, in a […]

MySQL | 2005-11-21

December’s Linux Magazine Article

This month’s Linux Magazine development article was written by Mike Kruckenberg and I. It covers aspects of MySQL 5, including stored procedures, views, and triggers. It was actually quite fun […]

| 2005-11-20

Pictures from the House Building

OK, so I know that at least a few people are interested in seeing what’s been going on with supposed house I’ve been building. Over the summer, when I met […]

Thought Tree | 2005-11-17

Holy Crap, I’m Back

So long to be gone. Many reasons for it: I got married (Woohooo!) Yeah, I got hitched to my beautiful wife, Julie and went on my honeymoon, which was a […]

Articles | 2005-06-17

MySQL 5 Stored Procedures and INFORMATION_SCHEMA

A Handy One-Two Punch for Administrators In writing Pro MySQL, I’ve become extremely excited about the new features debuting in MySQL 5—features that have already started to get thoroughly tested […]

Thought Tree | 2005-06-17

Thunderbird Rocks in Global Inbox Mode

You know, sometimes it just pays to read the wiki every once in a while! Recently, I was getting increasingly frustrated with Thunderbird. I have about a dozen email accounts, […]

Thought Tree | 2005-05-09

RFID Traffic Light System

No, we’re not yet directing traffic using RFID technology (wouldn’t that be scary.) But, Walmart, who plans on implementing RFID technology on an enterprise level this year, had some innovative […]

Thought Tree | 2005-05-03

Follow Up on Gates Thing

After I wrote an entry on Sunday about the comments Bill Gates made in February about American high-school students, I got an InformationWeek newsletter, with the headline “Microsoft Is Hiring, […]

Thought Tree | 2005-05-01

Gates Speech on American Education

I’ve long been a fan of Thomas Friedman‘s work. He’s a columnist for the NY Times, and recently published a book called The World Is Flat, in which he argues, […]