For twenty years we have bolted analytics onto MySQL — slaves, columnar plugins, external warehouses, clever replication tricks. DuckDB changes the toolkit again. Vadim looks at what worked, what did not, and whether DuckDB is finally enough to call the stack HTAP without hand-waving.
(Abstract not filed in Jira; short stand-in until the final text lands.)
Co‑founder of Percona and co‑author of High Performance MySQL. Vadim has deep expertise in database scalability and performance, with a long history in the IT and services industry. His professional skills span scalability, performance tuning, and software engineering, and his contributions — including co‑authoring one of the most influential books on MySQL optimization — have helped shape Percona into a trusted name in the open source database community. Vadim is also a frequent speaker at open source and database conferences, where he shares practical insights on performance and scalability.
