Percona Connect San Jose

Agenda

12:00 p.m. - 12:30 p.m.	Registration and light lunch
12:30 p.m. - 12:45 p.m.	Welcome Message — John Breitenfeld, CRO, Percona
12:45 p.m. - 1:20 p.m.	The Future of Open Source — Lori Lorusso, Head of Community, Percona
1:20 p.m. - 1:50 p.m.	The Enterprise's Guide to Open Source Database Solutions: Possibilities, Risks, and Success Stories (Barrett Chambers, Director, Solutions Engineering, Percona) Selecting, testing, migrating, and implementing a new database to replace a proprietary, licensed version of open source software is a difficult task. Percona’s Solutions Engineering team will share its proven methodology through real-world success stories with deep insight into objectives, challenges, architectures, migration paths, and future vision enjoyed by those who have migrated to open source software to break free of Enterprise licensed versions. This talk will focus on specific success stories in the real-world to share insights gained.
1:50 p.m. - 2:05 p.m.	*Break*
2:05 p.m. - 2:10 p.m.	Paul Au, Head of Community for the Data on Kubernetes Community
2:10 p.m. - 2:40 p.m.	Running Databases in the Cloud: How to Reduce Infrastructure Costs Using Open Source Components and Kubernetes (Michael Coburn, Principal Architect, Percona) When it comes to scaling your database environment, even seemingly minor decisions can majorly impact your bottom line. This is true regardless of whether you’re running a Database as a Service (DBaaS) or an on-premises solution. In this session, we will look at the common reasons why costs spiral out of control when scaling, as well as discuss potential open source, cloud-native solutions for PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and MySQL.
2:40 p.m. - 3:25 p.m.	Fireside Chat with Percona Customer — Riley Hockett, Software Engineer, Airtable and Michael Coburn, Principal Architect, Percona In 2021, Airtable upgraded its MySQL databases from 5.6 to 8.0, which was a major undertaking because they were upgrading two versions at once. Since then, they have completed a minor version upgrade, from 8.0.21 to 8.0.35, and are currently planning a future upgrade. Join us for this fireside chat as Riley Hockett, Software Engineer at Airtable, discusses their upgrade process, challenges they faced along the way, best practices they learned at the end, and how Percona was an invaluable partner throughout their journey.
3:25 p.m. - 3:40 p.m.	*Break*
3:40 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.	Empowering Platform Engineering with Percona Everest: Cloud Native Database Platform for MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and MySQL (Joshi Vallejo, Solutions Engineer, Percona) Platform Engineering plays a pivotal role in enhancing security, compliance, cost-efficiency, and time-to-business value. Crafting a platform to seamlessly deliver these benefits, particularly in the realm of data services, is a formidable challenge. Join us for an insightful exploration of Percona Everest – our latest cloud-native, open-source offering designed to empower you in establishing a robust Cloud Native Database Platform. Discover how Percona Everest elevates the developer experience with databases providing self-service capabilities on your terms.
4:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m	Product Vision and Roadmap for the Future (Barrett Chambers, Director, Solutions Engineering, Percona) Gain insight into Percona’s vision for its products and services to better serve our community and customers by providing enterprise-grade open source software solutions. This session will focus on important milestones such as bringing Transparent Data Encryption into open source PostgreSQL and automating database tasks with Kubernetes.
4:30 p.m.	Wrap Up and Networking