Conference Expands Focus, Includes New Tracks on NoSQL, Data in the Cloud and More

/EINPresswire.com/ -- DURHAM, NC -- (Marketwired) -- 02/01/16 -- Percona, the company that delivers enterprise-class MySQL® and MongoDB® solutions and services, today announced the full schedule of breakout sessions and tutorials for the Percona Live Data Performance Conference 2016 (formerly the MySQL Conference and Expo), which will take place April 18-21, 2016 at The Hyatt Regency Santa Clara and Santa Clara Convention Center. Sponsorship opportunities are still available, and Early Bird Registration Discounts can be purchased through Feb. 3, 2016 at 11:30 p.m. PST. A discounted block of reserved rooms at the Hyatt Regency Santa Clara is filling quickly, so attendees are urged to reserve now. The reservation block expires on March 25, 2016.

Percona Live Data Performance Conference 2016 is the premier event for the rich and diverse open source community and businesses that thrive in the MySQL and NoSQL marketplaces. Attendees include DBAs, sysadmins, developers, architects, CTOs, and CEOs representing organizations from industry giants such as Oracle to start-ups. Vendors increasingly rely on the conference as a major opportunity to connect with potential high-value customers from around the world.

Following are just some of the 143 engaging conference sessions, 18 helpful tutorials, and 22 25-minute talks that attendees can enjoy:

Conference Schedule

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      Session Title                   Speaker(s)                 Company
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Dirty Little Secrets     Jeremy Tinley, Sr. MySQL Operations Etsy
                         Engineer
                         Jenni Snyder, MySQL DBA             Yelp
                         Jonah Berquist, Database            GitHub
                         Infrastructure Engineer
                         Geoffrey Anderson, Database         Box
                         Operations Engineer
                         Silvia Botros, Sr. MySQL DBA        SendGrid
                         Shlomi Noach, Sr. Systems Engineer  GitHub
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Shifting the Paradigm:   Kat Styons, Senior Full Stack       The Washington
MongoDB and the MEAN     Developer                           Post
Stack                    Sruti Cheedalla, Senior Web
                         Developer
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InnoDB Locking Explained Bill Karwin, Senior Database        SchoolMessenger
With Stick Figures       Architect
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Espresso: LinkedIn's     Yun Sun, Staff Software Engineer    LinkedIn
distributed document     Eun-Gyu Kim, Staff Software
store on top of MySQL    Engineer
                         Davi Arnaut, Software Engineer
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MongoDB Security         Stephane Combaudon, MySQL           Percona
                         Consultant
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The Life of a Click:     Richard McFarland, VP Data Sciences Hearst
How Hearst Publishing
Manages Clickstream
Analytics
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Everyday We're Shuffling Daren Seagrave, MySQL               Facebook
-- Online Shard          Infrastructure Engineer
Migration at Facebook
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What's New in MySQL      Geir Høydalsvik, Sr. Software       Oracle
                         Development Director
                         Simon Mudd, DBA                     booking.com
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Vitess: The Complete     Sugu Sougoumarane, Engineer,        YouTube
Story                    Infrastructure & Storage
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MySQL and Docker         Patrick Galbraith, Senior Systems   Hewlett Packard
Strategies               Engineer
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Operational Buddhism:    Ernie Souhrada, Database Engineer   Pinterest
Building Reliable        and Bit Wrangler
Services From
Unreliable Components
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MySQL Performance:       Dimitri KRAVTCHUK, MySQL            Oracle
Scalability & Benchmarks Performance Architect
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A Little Cassandra for   Partrick McFadin, Chief Evangelist  DataStax
the Relational Brain
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Compression for          Peter Zaitsev, CEO                  Percona
OpenSource Databases
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Indexing Strategies and  Kimberly Wilkins, Principal         ObjectRocket by
Tips for MongoDB         Engineer/Databases                  Rackspace
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Tutorials

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      Session Title                   Speaker(s)                 Company
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InnoDB Architecture and  Peter Zaitsev, CEO                  Percona
Performance Optimization
for MySQL 5.7
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MySQL GTID               Brian Cain, MySQL Database          Dropbox
Implementation,          Administrator
Maintenance, and Best    Mark Filipi, Senior Database        SurveyMonkey
Practices                Administrator
                         Gillian Gunson, Staff MySQL DBA     Okta
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MySQL Replication, the   Giuseppe Maxia, Quality Assurance   VMware
Community Sceptic        Architect
Roundup
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Advanced Percona XtraDB  Frederic Descamps, Sr. Architect    Percona
Cluster in a nutshell,   Kenny Gryp, Principal Architect
La Suite: Hands on
Tutorial not for
Beginners!
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MyRocks deep dive --     Yoshinori Matsunobu, Database       Facebook
Flash optimized LSM      Engineer
database for MySQL, and
its use case at Facebook
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Best practices for MySQL Colin Charles, Chief Evangelist     MariaDB
High Availability
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MongoDB 3.2              David Murphy, MongoDB Practice      Percona
                         Manager
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An introduction to       Amrith Kumar, Founder & CTO         Tesora Inc.
OpenStack Trove          Doug Shelley, VP Product
                         Development
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Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather (BOF) sessions enable attendees with interests in the same project or topic to enjoy some quality face time. BOFs can be organized for individual projects or broader topics (e.g., best practices, open data, standards). Any attendee or conference speaker can propose and moderate an engaging BOF. Percona will post the selected topics and moderators online and provide a meeting space and time. The BOF sessions will be held Tuesday, April 19, 2016 at 6:00 p.m. The deadline for BOF submissions is February 7.

Lightning Talks
Lightning Talks provide an opportunity for attendees to propose, explain, exhort, or rant on any MySQL, NoSQL or Data in the Cloud-related topic for five minutes. Topics might include a new idea, successful project, cautionary story, quick tip, or demonstration. All submissions will be reviewed, and the top 10 will be selected to present during one of the scheduled breakout sessions during the week. Lighthearted, fun or otherwise entertaining submissions are highly welcome. The deadline for submitting a Lightning Talk topic is February 7, 2016.

Sponsorships
Sponsorship opportunities for Percona Live Data Performance Conference 2016 are available and offer the opportunity to interact with more than 1,300 DBAs, sysadmins, developers, CTOs, CEOs, business managers, technology evangelists, solution vendors, and entrepreneurs who typically attend the event. Current sponsors include:

Diamond Plus: Deep Information Science, VMware
Platinum: Rackspace
Silver: Yelp
Exhibit: Codership
Media: Database Trends & Applications, Linux New Media, O'Reilly Media

Planning to Attend?
Early Bird Registration Discounts for Percona Live Data Performance Conference 2016 are available through Feb. 3, 2016 at 11:30 p.m. PST.

Visit the Percona Live Data Performance Conference 2016 website for more information about the conference. Interested community members can also register to receive email updates about the conference.

Percona Live Conferences

What: Percona Live Data Performance Conference 2016
Where: The Hyatt Regency Santa Clara and Santa Clara Convention Center
5101 Great America Parkway Santa Clara, CA 95054
When: April 18-21, 2016

About Percona

With more than 3,000 customers worldwide, Percona is the only company that delivers enterprise-class solutions for both MySQL and MongoDB across traditional and cloud-based platforms. The company provides Software, Support, Consulting, and Managed Services to some of the largest and most well-known brands on the Internet such as Cisco Systems, Time Warner Cable, Alcatel-Lucent, Groupon, and the BBC, as well as to many smaller companies looking to maximize application performance while streamlining database efficiencies. Well established as thought leaders, Percona experts author content for the Percona Data Performance Blog. The popular Percona Live conferences draw attendees and acclaimed speakers from around the world. For more information, visit www.percona.com.

Percona®, XtraBackup®, TokuDB® and Fractal Tree® are registered trademarks of Percona LLC or its subsidiaries. All other registered and unregistered trademarks in this document are the sole property of their respective owners.

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