Patrick Crews: Hello, SkySQL!
So, as LinuxJedi so eloquently noted here, Rackspace and Drizzle are parting ways. While they were kind enough to offer other opportunities with them, my preferences were similar to Andrew’s – to remain in the MySQL/Drizzle world.
I was fortunate enough that SkySQL had need of my services and am happy to announce that today marks my first day as a Senior QA Engineer with them. I am very honored to join such a promising and skilled group and am very excited about the opportunities ahead.
My work will have me developing QA solutions (tests, code, whatever) for a wide variety of things. Naturally, this includes SkySQL’s Reference Architecture where I will work on tests to ensure the delivered packages work perfectly for our customers (among many, many other things). Additionally, I’ll be working with tools such as LinuxJedi’s oh-so-tasty mydumper. Basically, a little bit of everything ; ) One of the first things I’ll be doing is adapting dbqp to work with MySQL. This will allow us to handle a wide variety of testing challenges from a single, adaptable platform in the MySQL world as well. Drizzle will be replacing the legacy test-runner with this tool in the very near future.
Speaking of which, I’ve also been encouraged to continue contributing to Drizzle. I have been speaking with Stewart recently about beefing up xtrabackup tests and putting the random query generator directly in the Drizzle tree. It’s quite amazing to be in a position where I can collaborate on projects across company lines. I also think it is particularly cool that Henrik notes SkySQL were the first to do a production install of Drizzle for someone!
With that said, I have plenty on my plate already and it’s time to get back to work : )
URL: http://www.wc220.com/?p=260
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