Join Percona’s, CEO and Co-Founder, Peter Zaitsev as he presents Why We’re Excited About MySQL 8.0 on Wednesday, January 10, 2018, at 11:00 am PST / 2:00 pm EST (UTC-8).
Experience: Basic
Tags: Developer, DBAs, Operations, Executive, MySQL
There are many great new features in MySQL 8.0, but how exactly can they help your applications? This session takes a practical look at MySQL 8.0 features and improvements. It looks at the bugs, issues and limitations of previous MySQL versions and how MySQL 8.0 addresses them. It will also cover what you can do with MySQL 8.0 that you couldn’t before.
Peter Zaitsev, CEO
Peter Zaitsev co-founded Percona and assumed the role of CEO in 2006. As 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. With over 140 professionals in 30 plus countries, Percona now serves over 3000 customers. This includes the “who’s who” of internet giants, large enterprises and many exciting startups. Inc. 5000 recognized Percona in 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016. Peter was an early employee at MySQL AB, eventually leading the company’s High-Performance Group.
A serial entrepreneur, Peter co-founded his first startup while attending Moscow State University where he majored in Computer Science. Peter 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 MySQL and related conferences, and regularly posts on the Percona Database Performance Blog. Fortune and DZone tapped Peter as a contributor multiple times, and his recent ebook Practical MySQL Performance Optimization is one the most popular downloads.
