Can AI help us better understand our systems, or will it just give us another black box?
I’ll be speaking at Open Source Observability Day with this talk. Let’s look beyond the hype: where can AI genuinely improve observability, and how do we keep transparency and control over the systems we depend on? Open source deserves to be at the heart of that conversation.
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.
