Percona Announces Conference Schedule for the Percona Live Data Performance Conference 2016

DURHAM, NC--(Marketwired - Feb 1, 2016) - Percona, the company that delivers enterprise-class MySQL® and MongoDB® solutions and services, today announced the full schedule of breakout sessions and tutorials for the Percona Live Data Performance Conference 2016 (formerly the MySQL Conference and Expo), which will take place April 18-21, 2016 at The Hyatt Regency Santa Clara and Santa Clara Convention Center. Sponsorship opportunities are still available, and Early Bird Registration Discounts can be purchased through Feb. 3, 2016 at 11:30 p.m. PST. A discounted block of reserved rooms at the Hyatt Regency Santa Clara is filling quickly, so attendees are urged to reserve now. The reservation block expires on March 25, 2016.

Percona Live Data Performance Conference 2016 is the premier event for the rich and diverse open source community and businesses that thrive in the MySQL and NoSQL marketplaces. Attendees include DBAs, sysadmins, developers, architects, CTOs, and CEOs representing organizations from industry giants such as Oracle to start-ups. Vendors increasingly rely on the conference as a major opportunity to connect with potential high-value customers from around the world.

Following are just some of the 143 engaging conference sessions, 18 helpful tutorials, and 22 25-minute talks that attendees can enjoy:

Conference Schedule

Session Title		Speaker(s)		Company
Dirty Little Secrets		Jeremy Tinley, Sr. MySQL Operations Engineer Jenni Snyder, MySQL DBA Jonah Berquist, Database Infrastructure Engineer Geoffrey Anderson, Database Operations Engineer Silvia Botros, Sr. MySQL DBA Shlomi Noach, Sr. Systems Engineer		Etsy Yelp GitHub Box SendGrid GitHub
Shifting the Paradigm: MongoDB and the MEAN Stack		Kat Styons, Senior Full Stack Developer Sruti Cheedalla, Senior Web Developer		The Washington Post
InnoDB Locking Explained With Stick Figures		Bill Karwin, Senior Database Architect		SchoolMessenger
Espresso: LinkedIn's distributed document store on top of MySQL		Yun Sun, Staff Software Engineer Eun-Gyu Kim, Staff Software Engineer Davi Arnaut, Software Engineer		LinkedIn
MongoDB Security		Stephane Combaudon, MySQL Consultant		Percona
The Life of a Click: How Hearst Publishing Manages Clickstream Analytics		Richard McFarland, VP Data Sciences		Hearst
Everyday We're Shuffling -- Online Shard Migration at Facebook		Daren Seagrave, MySQL Infrastructure Engineer		Facebook
What's New in MySQL		Geir Høydalsvik, Sr. Software Development Director Simon Mudd, DBA		Oracle booking.com
Vitess: The Complete Story		Sugu Sougoumarane, Engineer, Infrastructure & Storage		YouTube
MySQL and Docker Strategies		Patrick Galbraith, Senior Systems Engineer		Hewlett Packard
Operational Buddhism: Building Reliable Services From Unreliable Components		Ernie Souhrada, Database Engineer and Bit Wrangler		Pinterest
MySQL Performance: Scalability & Benchmarks		Dimitri KRAVTCHUK, MySQL Performance Architect		Oracle
A Little Cassandra for the Relational Brain		Partrick McFadin, Chief Evangelist		DataStax
Compression for OpenSource Databases		Peter Zaitsev, CEO		Percona
Indexing Strategies and Tips for MongoDB		Kimberly Wilkins, Principal Engineer/Databases		ObjectRocket by Rackspace

Tutorials

Session Title		Speaker(s)		Company
InnoDB Architecture and Performance Optimization for MySQL 5.7		Peter Zaitsev, CEO		Percona
MySQL GTID Implementation, Maintenance, and Best Practices		Brian Cain, MySQL Database Administrator Mark Filipi, Senior Database Administrator Gillian Gunson, Staff MySQL DBA		Dropbox SurveyMonkey Okta
MySQL Replication, the Community Sceptic Roundup		Giuseppe Maxia, Quality Assurance Architect		VMware
Advanced Percona XtraDB Cluster in a nutshell, La Suite: Hands on Tutorial not for Beginners!		Frederic Descamps, Sr. Architect Kenny Gryp, Principal Architect		Percona
MyRocks deep dive -- Flash optimized LSM database for MySQL, and its use case at Facebook		Yoshinori Matsunobu, Database Engineer		Facebook
Best practices for MySQL High Availability		Colin Charles, Chief Evangelist		MariaDB
MongoDB 3.2		David Murphy, MongoDB Practice Manager		Percona
An introduction to OpenStack Trove		Amrith Kumar, Founder & CTO Doug Shelley, VP Product Development		Tesora Inc.

Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather (BOF) sessions enable attendees with interests in the same project or topic to enjoy some quality face time. BOFs can be organized for individual projects or broader topics (e.g., best practices, open data, standards). Any attendee or conference speaker can propose and moderate an engaging BOF. Percona will post the selected topics and moderators online and provide a meeting space and time. The BOF sessions will be held Tuesday, April 19, 2016 at 6:00 p.m. The deadline for BOF submissions is February 7.

Lightning Talks
Lightning Talks provide an opportunity for attendees to propose, explain, exhort, or rant on any MySQL, NoSQL or Data in the Cloud-related topic for five minutes. Topics might include a new idea, successful project, cautionary story, quick tip, or demonstration. All submissions will be reviewed, and the top 10 will be selected to present during one of the scheduled breakout sessions during the week. Lighthearted, fun or otherwise entertaining submissions are highly welcome. The deadline for submitting a Lightning Talk topic is February 7, 2016.

Sponsorships
Sponsorship opportunities for Percona Live Data Performance Conference 2016 are available and offer the opportunity to interact with more than 1,300 DBAs, sysadmins, developers, CTOs, CEOs, business managers, technology evangelists, solution vendors, and entrepreneurs who typically attend the event. Current sponsors include:

Diamond Plus: Deep Information Science, VMware
Platinum: Rackspace
Silver: Yelp
Exhibit: Codership
Media: Database Trends & Applications, Linux New Media, O'Reilly Media

Planning to Attend?
Early Bird Registration Discounts for Percona Live Data Performance Conference 2016 are available through Feb. 3, 2016 at 11:30 p.m. PST.

Visit the Percona Live Data Performance Conference 2016 website for more information about the conference. Interested community members can also register to receive email updates about the conference.

Percona Live Conferences

What: Percona Live Data Performance Conference 2016
Where: The Hyatt Regency Santa Clara and Santa Clara Convention Center
5101 Great America Parkway Santa Clara, CA 95054
When: April 18-21, 2016

About Percona

With more than 3,000 customers worldwide, Percona is the only company that delivers enterprise-class solutions for both MySQL and MongoDB across traditional and cloud-based platforms. The company provides Software, Support, Consulting, and Managed Services to some of the largest and most well-known brands on the Internet such as Cisco Systems, Time Warner Cable, Alcatel-Lucent, Groupon, and the BBC, as well as to many smaller companies looking to maximize application performance while streamlining database efficiencies. Well established as thought leaders, Percona experts author content for the Percona Data Performance Blog. The popular Percona Live conferences draw attendees and acclaimed speakers from around the world. For more information, visit www.percona.com.

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