stephen.colson [scolson]

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My company has two modules that we would like to submit back to the Drupal community. One is a user interface/jquery module that makes it significantly more efficient to manage pages with large amounts of checkboxes. In it's current incarnation, this module is specifically geared towards the permissions page.

The second, and much larger project, that we would like to contribute is an interface layer for using MogileFS (http://www.danga.com/mogilefs/) as a high-performance back-end file storage mechanism to help solve the problems with file synchronization introduced in multi-server architectures. Currently, the only mechanisms are to constantly rsync (or unison) or to use some shared filesystem like Coda, NFS, etc. The former option is only suitable in environments that have largely static file serving needs and the latter demands root access and the know-how to configure *nix systems in a high performance system and has the additional detriment that it is harder to do across multiple data centers. MogileFS fixes the problem by being a redundant mechanism that is massively scalable for decreasing complexity while also solving the problems that exist with an rsync- or unison-backed stack.

At this time, we are applying based off of the first module alone. The second module is still in development internally and will be coming later.