The SF MySQL Meetup Group

Why Drizzle

Mar '09 2 Mon 6:30 PM

Location: CBS Interactive

235 2nd St
San Francisco, CA 94105
415.344.2000

Attendance: 71 people attended.
5.0018 (18 ratings)
Who organized?
Mike Tougeron and Rich

Brian Aker gives the "zinger" talk about the newly announced "Drizzle". Brian highlights why he started the Drizzle project and how Drizzle is different from MySQL -- both in what has been removed from MySQL and what features Drizzle can accomodate.

This is a combined MySQL & PHP group 75 open seats have been assigned to each group. If the RSVP list here is full, please check with the PHP group's side: http://www.meetup.com... as there may still be open seats there. Please do not RSVP to both.

Agenda:
6:30 - 7:00 -- Doors open/general socializing & food
7:00 - 7:15 -- Intro talk TBD
7:30 - 8:30 -- Main presentation by Brian Aker on Drizzle
8:30 - 9:00 -- Main presentation Q&A
9:00 - 10:00 -- General discussion/Q&A/networking/etc.
10:00ish -- end of group

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Mike Tougeron
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Posted Mar 3, 2009 8:13 AM

Who attended?

71 attendees
- Chris C
  
  “ interesting stuff, anxious for it to be production-ready ”
- erin
  
  “ It was great to hear about Drizzle from the horses mouth! Plus Brian Aker is a great speaker. Thanks! ”
- Sarah Mei
  
  “ Brian was great! He was obviously delighted to rip out the parts of MySQL he'd always hated - I think we all have projects like that. The talk was a great case study in re-engineering. I'm looking forward to seeing what Drizzle becomes. ”
- Joseph Engo
  
  “ Drizzle is an amazing beast, I am very excited about the project. ”
- David Dull
  
  “ This was a great opportunity to hear the design decisions that went into a new product that will be taking the industry by storm in about a year. It was good to get the big picture from a critical member of the development team. ”
- Nathan Ferris
  
  “ Great talk full of good information. Really glad that I came to this one ”
- Mike Hogan
  
  “ Brian is excellent, Drizzle is very interesting, the Pizza was excellent. ”
- Mike Tougeron
- jose d lopez
- Kieran
- Ryan Lowe
- John Maronilla
- Jaswinder Singh
- XUE
- Michael Malone
- Brion
- fuad
- TAKARIT Soufir
- emily
- David Trollman
- David Stainton
- Eric Day (+2 guests)
- PAS
- Ed Johnson
- Brian
- Rich
- Eric Lofaso
- Edward Hernandez
- Milena
- Matthew Hooker
- Robert Hodges
- Alka Gupta, Yahoo!-Inc
- Richard Crowley
- Eric Florenzano
- Mikhail P
- Yang (+2 guests)
- Purushothaman
- Matt Jones
- Chris Fraser
- Tony Hansmann
- Jauder Ho
- Tyler
- bichonfrise74

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