Eric Day

Drupal Camp PDX

I just proposed sessions for Drizzle and Gearman to Drupal Camp PDX coming up this weekend in Portland, OR. I’ve only used Drupal for a couple small sites I helped out with, but I’ll be talking about what Drizzle and Gearman can bring to current or future Drupal development. For example, today you could easily write Drupal modules that used Gearman to distribute work out to other machines either for real time processing or as asynchronous queues. For Drizzle, we’ll eventually want to get it added as a supported database backend.

2 Responses to "Drupal Camp PDX"

1. Dipen says:

   October 5, 2009 at 9:29 pm

   This would be awesome, we definitely need drizzle as one of the supported database backend specially when drupal being used on so many trafficked sites It can surely use some concurrency love. I am very interested in this effort, I am a drupal developer and would love to work in that direction. Would this session be recorded? Also can u point to me links which show how to use gearman for queuing tasks via drupal. I am sure batch API is the way. Any pointers to realize both of these goals would be really helpful. It was on my TODO list to get drizzle backend in drupal.
2. Eric Day says:

   October 7, 2009 at 9:20 pm

   Hi! I’m not sure if these will be recorded or not. Since it’s a smaller camp my guess would be no. I have no links regarding direct Drupal + Gearman usage, but if you put a Drupal module writing tutorial together with this Gearman tutorial, I think you’ll be on your way.

   I’m willing to help out where I can with getting a Drizzle back end in Drupal, I just don’t have the time at the moment to take a lead on it. You might email the Drizzle list and see if anyone else wants to hack on it with you!

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