2011 Year In Review

Wow, what an insane year. Looking back on it, a lot of stuff has happened this year for me. Let's look back:

• With the help of Patrick Crews and Andrew Hutchings, and building on the work of Jay Pipes, I managed to implement a pretty solid replication solution in Drizzle and made the slave plugin available.
• Implemented multi-source replication (more accurate name than multi-master) in Drizzle.
• I ventured into new territory by giving my first-ever presentation at the MySQL User Conference in Santa Clara, CA.
• Rackspace made life interesting and forced me find another position. I joined a local startup company as their first real hire. Two of the founders are former coworkers and current friends of mine, and the timing worked out well for all parties.
• For my new job, I had to learn Python, GIT, and how to work with AWS systems. Python rocks. I feel like I can fly now.
• Lost 20 lbs! Woohoo!

The new job has kept me unbelievably busy, so I haven't had the time to contribute more to Drizzle, other than a bug fix here or there. That makes me a sad panda, but priorities have changed. Perhaps next year will offer more opportunity.

I don't know what 2012 has in store for me, but hopefully it is just as exciting. I hope everyone has a Happy New Year.