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.

Drizzle | 2010-01-06

Describing Drizzle’s Development Process

Yesterday, I was working on a survey that Selena Deckelmann put together for open source databases. She will be presenting the results at Linux.conf.au this month. One of the questions […]

MySQL | 2009-12-15

Great Job, MySQL Engineering!

Just a quick note to congratulate MySQL engineering on their next milestone release, MySQL 5.5. There seem to be some excellent new features, some of which have been hotly requested […]

Drizzle | 2009-11-18

Macro Support in new Drizzle Client Console?

Hi all! I’ve been reading through the requested features for the new client on the wiki here: Proposed Client Features BOOTS Console API Design I think all the stuff on […]

Thought Tree | 2009-11-10

Somebody in Marketing Needs to be Fired

Sitting here chatting with Padraig and listening to the television. A commercial comes on for Aciphex. Yep, the name is pronounced “Ass Effects”. Unbelievable. Somebody’s marketing department should be, well, […]

C/C++ | 2009-11-04

The Great Escape

This week, I am working on putting together test cases which validate the Drizzle transaction log‘s handling of BLOB columns. I ran into an interesting set of problems and am […]

Drizzle | 2009-10-29

A Month of Milestones

I’m finding myself smiling today. I lay in bed last night thinking about a number of milestones that this month marks for me. October 15th marked four months since the […]

Open Source | 2009-10-28

If Ever There Was a Sure-fire Tenant…

My wife and I have a double that we rent out to two couples. Luckily, one of these couples has been in one side of the double for a couple […]

C/C++ | 2009-10-27

Drizzle Replication – The Transaction Log

In this installment of my Drizzle Replication blog series, I’ll be talking about the Transaction Log. Before reading this entry, you may want to first read up on the Transaction […]