Category: Events
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Server Fest Conclusions
The MariaDB Server Fest 2020 is now over! Time for some spontaneous, initial reflections.
The MariaDB Server Fest
To recap, MariaDB Server Fest
- was a virtual conference
- spread out over three days in September 2020
- taking place first in Paris, then in New York, and last in Singapore / Beijing (three days in each location)
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Beijing and Singapore MariaDB Server Fests
MariaDB Server Fest is coming to Asia Pacific! Beijing and Singapore are the two symbols for the timezones, much like Paris for the Server Fest in Europe, Middle East and Africa, and New York for the Server Fest in the Americas.
The reason we have two different symbols for the same time zone is that we want to adapt to the different Internet landscape in China.
Singapore is like Paris and New York
For Singapore, things look like they do […]
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Server Fest Presenter List
The MariaDB Server Fest next month has approved quite a number of exciting presentations. The presenters are now busy filming their presentations, which will be aired three times – Monday to Wednesday 14-16 September 2020 in the Paris timezone (for EMEA), Tuesday to Thursday 15-17 September 2020 in the New York timezone (for the Americas), and Friday to Sunday 18-20 September 2020 in the Beijing timezone (for APAC).
Interactivity through cloning
Through logic (not magic), we have cloned the presenters. As […]
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Register for the MariaDB Server Fest
The MariaDB Server Fest is approaching fast and registration is now open. We’ve been busy fine tuning things according to the input we got during the Call for Attendance, as well as selecting the final talks.
We have an excellent series of sessions lined up. Whether you’re interested in best practices, migration, new features, use cases, or the latest on hardware innovations and MariaDB, there’ll be something for you when it kicks off on 14 September.
Even the most riveting […]
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MariaDB Server Fest CfP extended until Wed 15 July 2020
Thank you for the many submissions to our Call for Papers, and to your insightful replies to our Call for Attendees.
Based on the CfA replies and other feedback given to us, we could draw a few conclusions.
Attendees: Three-day event
First, we will spread out the event from a two-day event to a three-day event, for the attendees. We received several comments around preferences for shorter days, giving time for “normal” work. Rather three short days, than two long […]
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MariaDB Server Fest 14-20 Sep 2020
Join our Online Conference in September! In three different time zones, we will meet users of MariaDB Server for two packed days of presentations, interactions and insights.
The Call for Papers is open. And we have a favour to ask everyone considering attending: Please fill in our Call for Attendance survey! We need your help to ensure that we do logistics right when it comes to timing and formats, that we cover all topics that interest you, and that we […]
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Selecting the right database
How do you select a database in practice? How do you pretend to select it? And, if you want to be serious, how do you select it logically?
Those are the key questions I dug into, during my keynote last week at Percona Live Online.
For those who feel they don’t want to listen to the entire 30 minute video of the presentation, I have compiled a number of entry points for you below:
- 0:23 Silly hat meme, “Teknologmössa”
- 2:19 Agenda
- 2:43 Choosing a database in practice
- 3:59 Pretending to choose a database
- 5:00 Triggers for making a fresh choice
- 5:51 Monetary impulses
- 7:53 Database lifecycle impulses
- 10:07 MariaDB 5.5 on Github
- 11:24 Framework for database choice: 1. Technology 2. Business 3. Ethics
- 13:49 Technology questions within framework
- 15:21 NoSQL in MariaDB – native JSON support
- 15:41 “Non-relational persistent data considered evil”
- 18:30 “Closed source databases considered evil”
- 18:41 DBS Bank migrated off Oracle to MariaDB 10.3
- 19:47 Choosing a database logically
- 19:57 “This is a sensitive topic”
- 20:25 Picking Postgres vs picking MySQL/MariaDB
- 21:24 Picking MariaDB vs picking MySQL
- 21:54 Questions meant to help you make the right choice
- 22:32 The importance of presence in Linux distributions
- 22:50 The release model: the importance of separating feature releases from bug fix releases
- 23:28 Business questions within framework
- 23:54 Controlling the roadmap of the database
- 24:46 Ethical questions within framework
- 25:30 Comparing Planet MySQL and Planet MariaDB blacklisting and whitelisting
- 26:27 Hats off to Oracle for taking care of MySQL much better than I had thought
- 26:58 Hats off to Percona for helping to keep MySQL alive
- 27:13 Ethical questions: attitude to openness
- 27:59 Ethical questions: governance
- 28:01 MariaDB Corporation
- 28:18 MariaDB Foundation
- 28:43 Checks and balances in governance
- 29:02 Backwards Compatibility, data formats not changing
- 29:35 Promoting health: Solstice Run 20 June 2020 – let’s do some running!
- 30:29 Concluding words: We need your help to make your path of least resistance point towards MariaDB Server
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A different kind of tech conference
Last Wednesday, I received an unexpected text: “Would you like to do some volunteering work? It involves speaking online to some kids for one hour about IT”. It was a classmate from high school.
MariaDB Foundation employees work remotely. Sure, we all meet together in one place a number of times a year so we don’t forget each other’s faces, but in 99% of our logged time, we are distributed around the globe. We are also not required to have […]