Meeting Start Time: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 19:30:00 -0700

Drizzle and Gearman are open source projects aimed towards helping build scalable web applications. This talk will take a closer look at the ideas behind both and at the PHP interfaces available. Simple source code examples for each will be provided to help developers get started quickly. Drizzle - Vision, community, and roadmap - Micro-kernel architecture - Modules and interfaces - New PHP extension for both Drizzle and MySQL Gearman - History and basics - Distributed processing and Map/Reduce - Asynchronous queues - New PHP extension Presenter is Eric Day @edaypdx http://www.oddments.org/