Peter Zaitsev
CEO at Percona
Peter co-founded Percona in 2006, assuming the role of CEO. Percona helps companies of all sizes maximize their success with MySQL. Percona was named to the Inc. 5000 in 2013. 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.
As CEO of Percona, Peter enjoys mixing business leadership with hands on technical expertise. Peter is co-author of High Performance MySQL published by O'Reilly, one of the most popular books on MySQL performance. Peter blogs regularly on MySQLPerformanceBlog.com and speaks frequently at conferences. Peter lives in North Carolina with his wife and two children. In his spare time, Peter enjoys travel and spending time outdoors.
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Past presentations
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17 Things Developers Need to Know About Databases
Foundational best practices you as a Developer should know about databases
Most applications use databases, yet many fail to follow even the most basic best practices causing poor performance, downtime and security incidents.
In this presentation, we will look into the foundational best practices you as a Developer should know about databases, with particular focus on the most popular Open Source Databases - MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB.
Nov 20 2020
The Changing Landscape of Open Source Databases
A discussion on the changes, trends, and database technologies that are going to impact your business in the next 12-18 months.
In the current technology landscape, we have a lot of great innovation happening especially when it comes to Database Technology. A few examples include introducing new data models such as time series or graph, which focus on solving SQL at hyper-scale problem, this has been an elusive solution and scale was becoming synonymous with NoSQL environments. We now have a new Cloud-Native database de...
Nov 20 2020
Although MySQL is now more than two decades old, it continues to power some of the world's largest internet applications. In this presentation we'll look at the history and evolution of distributed MySQL deployments. We'll explore the original designs and the common architecture patterns still in use today. Finally, we'll predict what the future has in store for us with the advent of the cloud ...
Sep 20 2019