Andrew Hutchings

Andrew Hutchings

Watton, England, United Kingdom
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A Developer Advocate and Software Engineer specialising in Open Source Linux based…

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Experience

Education

Licenses & Certifications

  • Certified MySQL Cluster Database Administrator (CMCDBA)

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    Issued

  • Certified MySQL Developer (CMDEV)

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    Issued

  • Certified MySQL Database Administrator (CMDBA)

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    Issued

  • Zend PHP5 Certified Engineer (ZCE)

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    Issued

Volunteer Experience

  • PTA committee member

    Friends of Watton Junior School

    - 8 months

    Education

    I assist in the fundraising and running of events for the Watton Junior School PTA (a UK registered charity).

  • Chairperson

    Friends of Watton Junior School

    - 1 year

    Education

    I am the new chair of the Watton Junior School PTA (a UK registered charity).

Publications

  • MySQL and the forks in the road

    The H Online

    There's a lot of activity in the MySQL ecosystem currently. Andrew Hutchings takes a look at MySQL and the various forks and spinoffs to give an overview of where MySQL's community and close competition is currently at.

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  • A migrator's guide to Drizzle

    The H Online

    An article on what to look out for, and how to execute migration from MySQL to Drizzle.

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  • MySQL 5.1 Plugin Development

    Packt Publishing

    MySQL has introduced a Plugin API with its latest version – a robust, powerful, and easy way of extending the server functionality with loadable modules on the fly. But until now anyone wishing to develop a plugin would almost certainly need to dig into the MySQL source code and search the Web for missing bits of the information.

    This is the first book on the MySQL Plugin API. Written together with one of the Plugin API primary architects, it contains all the details you need to build a…

    MySQL has introduced a Plugin API with its latest version – a robust, powerful, and easy way of extending the server functionality with loadable modules on the fly. But until now anyone wishing to develop a plugin would almost certainly need to dig into the MySQL source code and search the Web for missing bits of the information.

    This is the first book on the MySQL Plugin API. Written together with one of the Plugin API primary architects, it contains all the details you need to build a plugin. It shows what a plugin should contain and how to compile, install, and package it. Every chapter illustrates the material with thoroughly explained source code examples.

    Starting from the basic features, common to all plugin types, and the structure of the plugin framework, this book will guide you through the different plugin types, from simple examples to advanced ones. Server monitoring, full-text search in JPEG comments, typo-tolerant searches, getting the list of all user variables, system usage statistics, or a complete storage engine with indexes – these and other plugins are developed in different chapters of this book, demonstrating the power and versatility of the MySQL Plugin API and explaining the intricate details of MySQL Plugin programming.

    A hands-on guide for MySQL application developers to creating feature-rich plug-ins

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Projects

  • libAttachSQL

    libAttachSQL is a lightweight, asynchronous, Apache 2 licensed C connector for MySQL servers.

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  • Stackforge Libra

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    Libra is an Open Source set of tools based around a Load Balancer as a Service solution. It currently comprises of a node pool manager to keep a warm spare set of load balancer nodes ready and a worker to configure the load balancers. There is also a related client for this project in another tree.

    Andrew was Lead Engineer
    David, Marc and Endre were Engineers
    Patrick and Jamie were Devops Engineers

    The project is still ongoing but I have since move on to another team inside…

    Libra is an Open Source set of tools based around a Load Balancer as a Service solution. It currently comprises of a node pool manager to keep a warm spare set of load balancer nodes ready and a worker to configure the load balancers. There is also a related client for this project in another tree.

    Andrew was Lead Engineer
    David, Marc and Endre were Engineers
    Patrick and Jamie were Devops Engineers

    The project is still ongoing but I have since move on to another team inside HP.

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  • Libdrizzle

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    A high-performance BSD licensed C connector for MySQL servers. This is a project we work on in our spare time.

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