MySQL University: Gearman for MySQL
This
Thursday (November 12th, 14:00 UTC), Giuseppe Maxia of the MySQL Community Team will present Gearman for MySQL. Gearman is a client/server infrastructure for generic tasks, usable on
distributed servers, with little worry about the details. No matter
what language you speak, Gearman can meet your needs in C, PHP, Perl,
Ruby, shell scripting, and several more. Gearman can also work in
conjunction with MySQL, either using UDFs, or simply through its basic
architecture. Giuseppe's talk will show examples of how to use Gearman for
remote installation and how to call a complicate data warehousing
function written in Perl from any other language, with no knowledge of
Perl at all.
For MySQL University sessions, point your browser to this page. You need a browser with a working Flash plugin. You may register for a Dimdim account, but you don't have to. (Dimdim is the conferencing system we're using for MySQL University sessions. It provides integrated voice streaming, chat, whiteboard, session recording, and more.) All MySQL University sessions are recorded, that is, slides and voice can be viewed as a Flash movie (.flv). You can find those recordings on the respective MySQL University session pages which are listed on the MySQL University home page.
MySQL University is a free educational online program for engineers/developers. MySQL University sessions are open to anyone, not just Sun employees. Sessions are recorded (slides and audio), so if you can't attend the live session you can look at the recording anytime after the session.
Here's the schedule for the rest of this year:
- November 19: memcached Functions for MySQL (UDFs) (Patrick Galbraith)
- November 26: The Spider Storage Engine (Giuseppe Maxia)
- December 3: Practical Full-Text Search in MySQL (Bill Karwin)
The schedule is not engraved in stone at this point. Please visit http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/MySQL_University#Upcoming_Sessions for the up-to-date list. On that page, you can also find the starting time for many time zones.
