Attendee Survey: MariaDB Server Fest New York 2020

Who are you?

Country:

Company:

Time zone: How many hours away are you from New York?

East of New York, by 1 hours or more
New York time zone (Eastern)
West of NY, by 1 hour (Central)
West of NY, by 2 hours (Mountain)
West of NY, by 3 hours (Pacific)
West of NY, by 4 hours or more

Would you classify yourself primarily as a:

Please write your job position:

How did you follow the Fest?

How did you follow fest?

I followed the live New York stream, as it happened
I followed the live New York stream, but slightly late (0-3 hours)
I followed the live New York stream, 3 hours or more later
I didn’t follow the fest, just looked at different videos afterwards

Your opinion of the Fest and its format

😀 = Great, 🙂 = Good, 😐 = Average, 🙁 = Bad, 😡 = Terrible, — = No opinion/not applicable

Content of presentations:

Choice and spread of topics:

Having pre-recorded talks:

Technical delivery of pre-recorded talks, video editing:

Duration of most talks being 25 minutes:

The Q&A session concept:

Subtitles being provided for the talks:

Chatting with presenter and attendees over Zulip:

Having the event in three different timezones, during day-time:

Duration – three short days, rather than two long days:

Lack of coffee breaks (pressing Stop/Play was fine by me!):

Your opinion of our future plans and ideas

😀 = Great, 🙂 = Good, 😐 = Average, 🙁 = Bad, 😡 = Terrible, — = No opinion/not applicable

Streaming the Fest also on Facebook:

Providing tutorials:

Providing iCal links to presentations:

Providing Birds-of-a-Feather type Zoom rooms for attendees:

How often should we do Server Fests?

Every 6 months
Every 12 months
No opinion

Your opinion on the presentations

Tuesday

Supermetrics and the many bears: a modern day fable on the search for the perfect database:

Comparing ecosystems: MariaDB and Public Code

MariaDB meets solid-state computational storage drives: higher performance at lower cost:

Temporal tables:

ANALYZE for statements: MariaDB’s hidden gem:

MariaDB 10.5 new features for troubleshooting:

Dynamic tracing of MariaDB Server on Linux – problems and solutions:

MyTile: a cloud-native storage engine based on TileDB:

Wednesday

MySQL 8 vs MariaDB 10.5:

Modern solutions for modern database load: improvements in the latest MariaDB versions:

How to migrate from MySQL to MariaDB without tears:

sql_mode=ludicrous:

Optimizer Trace walkthrough:

Introduction to MariaDB Galera Cluster:

Galera Clustering in MariaDB 10.5 and beyond:

MariaDB SkySQL: next generation DBaaS from the source:

Thursday

Scalability improvements in MariaDB’s InnoDB storage engine:

MariaDB on ARM:

10.5 and beyond:

AutoML in MariaDB: train and query machine learning models straight from MariaDB:

Bringing MariaDB closer to the data science community – the MariaDB Jupyter kernel:

AMA with Monty:

Building a relational data lake with MariaDB ColumnStore:

Migration tales:

It’s all about you: innovation that matters:

Other feedback:

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