{"id":1752,"date":"2010-03-11T17:42:46","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T07:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/?p=1752"},"modified":"2014-10-08T09:16:07","modified_gmt":"2014-10-07T23:16:07","slug":"continuing-the-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/11\/continuing-the-journey\/","title":{"rendered":"Continuing the journey"},"content":{"rendered":"

A couple of months ago (December 1st for those playing along at home) it marked five years to the day that I started at MySQL AB<\/a> (now Sun<\/a><\/del>, now Oracle<\/a>). A good part of me is really surprised it was for that long and other parts surprised it wasn’t longer. Through MySQL and Sun, I met some pretty amazing people, worked with some really smart ones and formed really solid and awesome friendships. Of course, not everything was perfect (sometimes not even close), but we did have some fun.<\/p>\n

Up until November 2008 (that’s 3 years and 11 months for those playing at home) I worked on MySQL Cluster<\/a>. Still love the product and love how much better we’re making Drizzle so it’ll be the best SQL interface to NDB :)<\/p>\n

The ideas behind Drizzle had been talked about for a while… and with my experience with internals of the MySQL server, I thought that some change and dramatic improvement was sorely needed.<\/p>\n

Then, in 2008, Brian created a tree. I was soon sending in patches at nights, we announced to the whole world at OSCON and it captured a lot of attention.<\/p>\n

Since November 2008 I’ve been working on Drizzle<\/a> full time. It was absolutely awesome that I had the opportunity to spend all my days hacking on Drizzle – both directly with fantastic people and for fantastic people.<\/p>\n

But… the Sun set… which was exciting and sad at the same time.<\/p>\n

Never to fear! There were plenty of places wanting Drizzle hackers (and MySQL hackers). For me, it came down to this: “real artists ship”. While there were other places where I would no doubt be happy and work on something really cool, the only way I could end up working out where I should really be was: what is the best way to have Drizzle make a stable release that we’d see be suitable for deployment? So, Where Am I Now?<\/p>\n

Rackspace<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Where I’ll again be spending all my time hacking Drizzle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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