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On 07/02/2014 09:23 PM, Mike Bayer wrote:
> I've just added a new section to this wiki, "MySQLdb + eventlet = sad",
> summarizing some discussions I've had in the past couple of days about
> the ongoing issue that MySQLdb and eventlet were not meant to be used
> together.   This is a big one to solve as well (though I think it's
> pretty easy to solve).
>
> https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/OpenStack_and_SQLAlchemy#MySQLdb_.2B_eventlet_.3D_sad

It's eminently solvable.

Facebook and Google engineers have already created a nonblocking MySQLdb 
fork here:

https://github.com/chipturner/MySQLdb1

We just need to test it properly, package it up properly and get it 
upstreamed into MySQLdb.

Best,
-jay

> On 6/30/14, 12:56 PM, Mike Bayer wrote:
>> Hi all -
>>
>> For those who don't know me, I'm Mike Bayer, creator/maintainer of
>> SQLAlchemy, Alembic migrations and Dogpile caching.   In the past month
>> I've become a full time Openstack developer working for Red Hat, given
>> the task of carrying Openstack's database integration story forward.
>> To that extent I am focused on the oslo.db project which going forward
>> will serve as the basis for database patterns used by other Openstack
>> applications.
>>
>> I've summarized what I've learned from the community over the past month
>> in a wiki entry at:
>>
>> https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Openstack_and_SQLAlchemy
>>
>> The page also refers to an ORM performance proof of concept which you
>> can see at https://github.com/zzzeek/nova_poc.
>>
>> The goal of this wiki page is to publish to the community what's come up
>> for me so far, to get additional information and comments, and finally
>> to help me narrow down the areas in which the community would most
>> benefit by my contributions.
>>
>> I'd like to get a discussion going here, on the wiki, on IRC (where I am
>> on freenode with the nickname zzzeek) with the goal of solidifying the
>> blueprints, issues, and SQLAlchemy / Alembic features I'll be focusing
>> on as well as recruiting contributors to help in all those areas.  I
>> would welcome contributors on the SQLAlchemy / Alembic projects directly
>> as well, as we have many areas that are directly applicable to Openstack.
>>
>> I'd like to thank Red Hat and the Openstack community for welcoming me
>> on board and I'm looking forward to digging in more deeply in the coming
>> months!
>>
>> - mike
>>
>>
>>
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