Brian Aker [SEP] place of birth
Brian Aker
Brian Aker, born August 4, 1972 in Lexington, Kentucky, US is an open-source hacker who has worked on various Apache modules, the Slash system, and numerous storage engines for the MySQL database. Aker was Director of Architecture at MySQL AB until it was acquired by Sun Microsystems. He led Sun's web scaling research group, where he worked on the Drizzle database project. He later became a Distinguished Engineer for Sun Microsystems. He left Sun Microsystems after Oracle acquired it. After leaving Sun
Storage Engine
- CSV Storage Engine
- Blackhole Storage Engine
- WebMethods (HTTP) Storage Engine
External links.
- Portrait: Brian Aker, database strategist
- Interview with Brian Aker
- Slashdot Interview with Brian Aker
- Brian Aker's Blog
- Audio Interview with Brian Aker on the Future of Databases
- Interview with Brian Aker on how to get a job as an open source developer
- Public Open Source Software Repository
- Interview with Brian Aker on FLOSS Weekly