Last week the annual Percona Live Data Performance Conference was held in Santa Clara, California. This conference is a great time to catch up with the industry, and be exposed to new tools and methods for managing MySQL and MongoDB.
Sessions
The highlights from this year’s sessions and tutorials centered around a few technologies:
- The typical sessions for Galera Cluster and Performance Schema are always getting better, along with visualization techniques.
- Oracle MySQL’s new Document Store blurs the line between RDBMS and NoSQL.
- Facebook’s RocksDB is getting smaller and faster.
- ProxySQL, the new proxy kid on the block, promises to address MySQL scalability issues.
- If security is a concern, which it should be, Hashicorp’s Vault project would be something to look into for managing MySQL secrets or encrypting data in transit.
- MongoDB was a hot topic as well, with a number of sessions addressing management of environments and design patterns.
I expect to see an influx of articles regarding ProxySQL and MySQL’s Document Store in the next few months.
Networking
The evenings were also great events for networking and socializing, giving attendees the chance to rub shoulders with some of the most successful ‘WebScale’ companies to hear stories from the trenches. Events included the Monday Community Networking Reception and Wednesday’s Game Night.
Thank you to all those who attended the Annual Community Dinner at Pedro’s organized by Pythian on Tuesday night! We had a blast and we hope you did as well.
Thank you!
Pythian sponsored and provided a great range of sessions this year, and we want to thank all those who stopped by our booth or attended our sessions.
I’d like to give a huge shout-out to Percona for continuing to organize a high-quality MySQL user conference focused on solving some of the toughest technical issues that can be thrown at us, and an equal shout-out to the other sponsors and speakers that play a huge part in making this conference happen.
I am looking forward to what PerconaLive Europe will bring this fall, not to mention what we can expect next year when Percona Live Santa Clara rolls around again.
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