Drizzle, Gearman and their PHP API's August 11, 2009

OpenSourcery has graciously provided the space for this meeting but is still a functioning business so we ask that you show up no earlier than 6:20pm

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/