Eric Day: Drizzle Developer Day Recap
Last Friday we held the Drizzle Developer Day at the Santa Clara convention center, taking advantage of the fact that many developers and interested contributors were already there for the MySQL Conference & Expo. Minus a few small glitches like wifi and pizza consumption location, I would say it was an overall success. There were a lot of new folks interested in learning about Drizzle and getting the server up and running. The day was organized by splitting folks up into small groups with matching interests, and then switching up groups every hour or so. We had groups focused on replication, documentation, writing plugins, the optimizer, Boots (the new client tool), and a “getting started” group.
The first group I participated in was about Boots, the new command line tool developed by a group of students I sponsored at Portland State University. One of the students who created it was there (Chromakode), so he gave a demo of all the features and ways you could extend it for custom use. Baron from Percona was there and had a lot of good feedback on what is needed by DBAs, as well as for monitoring/troubleshooting problems. Some of the new features in Boots will help quite a bit with this since you are able to write simple Python scripts that work inside the program rather than having to write a bunch of shell processing code around the existing tool. This extended into a discussion about testing tools for production systems, and how to capture and replay production traffic with the same timing and load (or increased lo! ad).
The next group I sat in on was around creating plugins. There were topics like getting started with writing your own plugin, a script to generate a skeleton for your own, and more advanced topics like dependency tracking. Since I used the same pandora-plugin system for another project and added dependency tracking there, I am interested in getting dependency tracking into Drizzle. We didn’t get to any code, but this will require some changes in how plugins are loaded in the Drizzle kernel.
I had to leave a little early to catch my flight home, but for the second half of the day I bounced between helping a group get started from scratch (mainly installing dependencies to getting Drizzle built and running) and the other group topics. Thanks to everyone who showed up and helped participate, we all had some great conversations providing valuable feedback for directions to take moving forward.
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