The last few weeks have been particularly quiet from me on the
blogging front. Behind the scenes things have been quite
the opposite so here is a summary of things past, present and
future.
Rackspace and Drizzle
If you have read my last 'Last Week in
Drizzle' post you will know that Rackspace are no longer
supporting Drizzle. They have done a fantastic job so far
and have decided to pass the baton to other companies. As
for the staff, they wished to redeploy us to other teams which is
something I personally was not keen on. I would rather
remain within the MySQL/Drizzle sphere which I would have no
longer been able to do effectively inside Rackspace any
more.
Drizzle itself will go on to do great things without Rackspace,
there are a number of companies that announced support for
Drizzle during the O'Reilly MySQL Conference and Expo …
The last few weeks have been particularly quiet from me on the blogging front. Behind the scenes things have been quite the opposite so here is a summary of things past, present and future.
Rackspace and Drizzle
If you have read my last ‘Last Week in Drizzle‘ post you will know that Rackspace are no longer supporting Drizzle. They have done a fantastic job so far and have decided to pass the baton to other companies. As for the staff, they wished to redeploy us to other teams which is something I personally was not keen on. I would rather remain within the MySQL/Drizzle sphere which I would have no longer been able to do effectively inside Rackspace any more.
Drizzle itself will go on to do great things without Rackspace, there are a number of companies that announced support for Drizzle during the O’Reilly MySQL Conference and …
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Welcome to this week's edition of Last Week in Drizzle.
Unfortunately I could not write this at the Drizzle
Developer Day because it is was much busier than I expected.
So this one had to wait until I landed in the UK :)
O'Reilly MySQL Conference and Expo
Last week was the MySQL Conference which at this point should
probably be called the MySQL & friends or the Open Database
Conference. We had many talks, great exposure and some
fantastic questions and feedback of ideas we had never thought of
during the week. I urge anyone who wasn't there to watch
Brian
Aker's keynote on the State
of Drizzle.
Drizzle Developer Day
On the Friday after the conference we had Drizzle Developer Day
which contained people from every level, new users to some of the
biggest names in MySQL …
Welcome to this week’s edition of Last Week in Drizzle. Unfortunately I could not write this at the Drizzle Developer Day because it is was much busier than I expected. So this one had to wait until I landed in the UK
O’Reilly MySQL Conference and Expo
Last week was the MySQL Conference which at this point should probably be called the MySQL & friends or the Open Database Conference. We had many talks, great exposure and some fantastic questions and feedback of ideas we had never thought of during the week. I urge anyone who wasn’t there to watch Brian Aker’s keynote on the State of Drizzle.
Drizzle Developer Day
On the Friday after the conference we had Drizzle Developer Day which contained people from every level, new users to some of the …
[Read more]Red Hat grows revenue 20%+. Google withholding Honeycomb source code. And more.
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# Red Hat reported Q4 revenue up 25% to $245m, FY revenue up 22% to $909m
# Google is withholding the source code to Honeycomb for the foreseeable future.
# Rick Clark explained why he left Rackspace amid concerns that the company is exerting too much control over OpenStack.
# DataStax …
[Read more]As I’m sure all of you know already, today marks the GA release of Drizzle7. But what was the recipe behind Drizzle?
- Take the raw ingredients from previous delicious, well-tried recipes
- Sieve out the lumps, separate the eggs and mix
- Bake using many cooks in many ovens for around 3 years
- Drizzle the special source on top
What is Drizzle?
There are many marketing buzzwords which can describe what Drizzle is such as “A lightweight, microkernel fork of MySQL optimized for the web and cloud”. To me such things are pretty meaningless. So, lets start at the beginning…
Several people inside MySQL saw that the code could really do …
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As I'm sure all of you know already, today
marks the GA release of Drizzle7. But what was the
recipe behind Drizzle?
-
- Take the raw ingredients from previous delicious, well-tried
recipes
- Sieve out the lumps, separate the eggs and mix
- Bake using many cooks in many ovens for around 3 years
- Drizzle the special source on top
What is Drizzle?
There are many marketing buzzwords which can describe what
Drizzle is such as "A lightweight, microkernel fork of MySQL
optimized for the web and cloud". To me such things are
pretty meaningless. So, lets start at the
beginning...
…
Digia gets Qt. VMware makes waves. Rackspace launches OpenStack support. And more.
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to.”
# Digia signed an agreement with Nokia to acquire the Qt commercial licensing and services business.
# VMware’s Springsource division acquired Wavemaker.
# Rackspace formally launched services and support for OpenStack via Rackspace Cloud Builders.
# Red Hat defended …
[Read more]drizzle> select concat(char(0xe299a5,0xe29da4,0xe299a5), ‘ Happy Valentine\’s Day ‘, char(0xe299a5,0xe29da4,0xe299a5)) as Message\G
*************************** 1. row
***************************
Message: ♥❤♥ Happy Valentine’s Day ♥❤♥
1 row in set (0 sec)
I may be British, but I am no MI6 spy (and I’m certainly no Sean Connery). Although the 007 reference is still relevant because we are nearing the first GA release of Drizzle7.
This week is a special week for many reasons. First of all, probably the most obvious, it is Valentine’s day (yes guys, the flower shop is still open, run before she finds out you forgot!).
Probably not quite as important, depending on your relationship status, is Drizzle’s first RC release will be out over the next couple of days. The amount of work that has gone into Drizzle is …
[Read more]Nuxeo contributes its Core to Eclipse. Nokia bets its future on Windows Phone. And more.
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# Nuxeo is contributing its Nuxeo Core content repository technology to the Eclipse Foundation.
# Nokia adopted Windows Phone as smartphone platform, Symbian becomes a franchise platform, MeeGo reserved for market exploration.
# Rackspace acquired Anso Labs, the developer behind NASA’s contribution to OpenStack. …
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