Postgres Conference 2024

Speakers: Peter Zaitsev, Charly Batista, Dave Stokes, Robert Bernier

In April 2024, the Percona Team journeyed to San Jose for the Postgres Conference in San Jose, CA, taking place from April 17th to 19th.

This conference holds great importance for the thriving Postgres Community on the West Coast.

Percona proudly sponsored the event at the Partner level. Percona experts also gave many talks at the conference:

Reducing Costs and Improving Performance With Data Modeling in Postgres by Charly Batista.
Monitoring PostgreSQL: Navigating the Landscape of Metrics, OS and Hardware Relationships, and Toolsets by Charly Batista.

MERGE() - A Quick Introduction by Dave Stokes.
Do You Know A CID From An OID Or An XID? A beginner’s guide to the alphabet soup found in and around PostgreSQL touples by Dave Stokes.
Cloud Native PostgreSQL - Running PostgreSQL on Kubernetes by Peter Zaitsev.

Working With The Citus Extension by Robert Bernier.
Cloud-native Postgres observability: from client apps to underlying cloud resources by Peter Zaitsev.

Our team of top-tier engineers was eagerly present to address any inquiries attendees might bring forth. Attendees were excited to join in. Anyone could stop by our booth and pick up some cool Percona gifts. It was a chance for everyone to have fun and get something special.

We also had organized a raffle of a Flipper Zero at the booth.

On the evenings, the Percona team usually gathered for a team dinner. Meeting face-to-face every now and then is really important when you work remotely!

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Speakers

Peter Zaitsev

Co‑founder of Percona

Co‑founder of Percona and one of the foremost experts on MySQL strategy and optimization. Peter leveraged both his technical vision and entrepreneurial skills to grow Percona from a two‑person shop to one of the most respected open source companies in the business. A serial entrepreneur, he co‑founded his first startup while attending Moscow State University where he majored in Computer Science. He is a co‑author of High Performance MySQL: Optimization, Backups, and Replication, one of the most popular books on MySQL performance. Peter frequently speaks as an expert lecturer at open source database conferences and has contributed articles to outlets such as Fortune and DZone.

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Charly Batista

Percona, PostgreSQL Tech Lead

Charly Batista is currently PostgreSQL Tech Lead at Percona. Possesses over twelve (12) years of experience in various areas of IT including Database Administration, Data Analysis, Systems Analysis and Software Development. Strong analytical skills combined with experience in object oriented programming techniques. Technical Leader for more than four (4) years for the Developer Team. Born in Brazil and now living in Shanghai-China.

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Dave Stokes

Technology Evangelist at Percona

Dave joined Percona last February 2022. Dave is MySQL Community Manager and the author of MySQL & JSON - A Practical Programming Guide

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Robert Bernier

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Postgres Conference 2024

Speakers

Peter Zaitsev

Charly Batista

Dave Stokes

Robert Bernier

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