Peter Zaitsev

Peter Zaitsev

Peter Zaitsev is the Co-founder of Percona. 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. 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 technology events.

Montreal 2023 sessions

Deep dive into Query Performance

English session - Intermediate

In this presentation, we will explore this seemingly simple aspect of working with database in details. We will talk about how to group queries together in the meaningful way so you’re not overwhelmed with amount of details but find the right queries to focus on. When you should focus on tuning specific queries or when it is better to focus on tuning the database. We will also look at other ways to minimize user facing response time.

Open Source Databases Strategies that Shape Business in 2023

English session - Intermediate

2022 was an exciting year in the open source database industry, with more choice, more cloud, and key changes in the industry. We will dive into the key developments over 2022 and new ones of 2023, including the most important open-source database software releases in general, the significance of cloud-native solutions in a multi-vendor, multi-cloud world, the new criticality of security challenges, and the evolution of the open source industry.

Montreal 2022 sessions

Online 2021 sessions