At Percona Live, Dave Stokes talked to David Murphy, Principal Database Reliability Engineer at Udemy. David Murphy is responsible for various types of databases at scale and provides insights from his many years of experience in this area. His expertise might guide you through your future data battles.
Dave joined Percona last February 2022. Dave is MySQL Community Manager and the author of MySQL & JSON - A Practical Programming Guide
David is a Principal Architect in SRE, Database and Cloud. Previously he was the Practice Manager for MongoDB at Percona, and before that, he was one of the early members for ObjectRocket the leader in DBaaS for MongoDB specializing in performance. Other previous roles include Database System and Technology Architect as Electronic Arts. As a speaker, he prefers to focus on solutions in the real world to issues, to this point he tries to regularly publish code to help everyone use his solutions or have ideas to inspire their own. Additionally, he is a Mongo Master Alumni and core code contributor to MongoDB, MySQL, and other open source technologies.
Percona is a Bronze sponsor at AWS re:Invent, November 30-December 4 in Las Vegas. We’ll be on the Expo floor with the cloud community — talking open source databases, performance tuning, and data infrastructure that holds up in AWS production environments.
November 30-December 4, 2026
Nerdearla México 2026 takes place 2026-11-18 – 2026-11-20 in Mexico City.
November 18, 2026
Open Source Monitoring Conference 2026 takes place 2026-11-17 – 2026-11-19 in Germany.
November 17, 2026
