C/C++ | 2009-10-27
Drizzle Replication – Changes in API to support Group CommitHi all. It’s been quite some time since my last article on the new replication system in Drizzle. My apologies for the delay in publishing the next article in the […]
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.
C/C++ | 2009-10-23
Yet Another Post on REPLACESometimes, as Sergei rightly mentioned, I can be, well, “righteously indignant” about what I perceive to be a hack. In this case, after Sergei repeatedly tried to set me straight […]
C/C++ | 2009-10-22
The Deal with REPLACE .. Or Is It UPDATE?Yesterday, I posed a question to the ZanyWeb about what exactly a REPLACE statement does behind the scenes in the storage engine. There were many excellent comments and these comments […]
Drizzle | 2009-10-21
Pop Quiz – What Does REPLACE Do?Hi ZanyWeb. Here’s a pop quiz for you, and the answer may surprise you. The MySQL manual states the following about the REPLACE statement: REPLACE works exactly like INSERT, except […]
C/C++ | 2009-08-14
Drizzle Replication – The CommandReplicator and CommandApplier Plugin APIIMPORTANT: This article is out of date and the replication API has been updated. Please see the follow-up article for the most up to date information! OK, so here is […]
C/C++ | 2009-08-12
Drizzle Replication – The Command MessageIMPORTANT: This article is out of date and the replication API has been updated. Please see the follow-up article for the most up to date information! I wanted to start […]
MySQL | 2009-06-25
Performance Tuning webinar today 1pm EST/ 10am PDTJust a quick note to say I’ll be giving a 1 hour webinar on performance tuning practices for MySQL at 1pm EST, 10am PDT today. Here is a link to […]
Drizzle | 2009-06-10
Drizzle Performance Regression Solved – TCMalloc vs. No TCMallocAs many of you who follow the drizzle-discuss mailing list know, for the last three months, Drizzle developers have been hot (and many times cold) on the tail of a […]
Drizzle | 2009-04-27
Drizzle, MySQL and a Public Apology to Karen PadirOK, so those who know me well can attest to the fact that I can sometimes be a little quick to speak my mind. Sometimes I say snarky things without […]
Drizzle | 2009-04-21
Sorry, but Drizzle is Not…the “MySQL Drizzle Project”. Nor is it “shepparded by MySQL”. Sorry, Karen, but in the future, MySQL may play more of a role in Drizzle, but currently, it doesn’t. And […]