Today was day one of the Percona Live Data Performance Conference! The day began with some excellent keynote speakers and exciting topics, and the packed room was eager to hear what our speakers had to say!
Peter Zaitsev, CEO, Percona
Percona Opening Keynote
Peter kicked it off today by thanking the sponsors, the speakers, the Percona Live committee, and the attendees for contributing and participating in this year’s event. It has grown and changed quite a bit from its initial creation. Peter emphasized how this a gathering of members of a community, one that changes and adapts, and discusses and debates many different points of views and opinions. No longer is just a conference about MySQL, but now includes MongoDB, Cassandra, and many other solutions and products that are all a part of the open source community. The purpose of the conference is to provide open and diverse opinions, quality content, a technical focus, and useful and practical ideas and solutions.
Chad Jones, Chief Strategy Officer, Deep Information
Transcending database tuning problems: How machine learning helps DBAs play more ping pong
Next up was Chad Jones discussing how just as machine learning enables businesses to gain competitive advantage through predictive analytics, by looking deeper into the data stack we find the need for the same predictive capabilities for MySQL tuning. With over 10^13 possible tuning permutations, some requiring reboots or a rebuild, DBAs spend way too much time on MySQL tuning for a point-in-time situation that changes constantly. He demonstrated how unsupervised machine learning based on resource, workload and information modeling could predictively and continuously tune databases. DBAs can transcend the tuning game, saving precious time to work on important things, like improving your mad ping pong skills!
Bill Nye, The Planetary Society, CEO
Bill Nye’s Objective – Change the World
Finally this morning, we were treated to an outstanding lecture from world-renown scientist and media personality Bill Nye the Science Guy. Bill spent his time discussing his life, how he came to love science, and the ability it brings to understand the world. His experiences as an engineer at Boeing helped him appreciate the value in investing time and money into excellent design strategies and processes. Through the power of critical thinking and science, we can embrace optimism in a world that has many touch challenges. Bill Nye fights to raise awareness of the value of science, critical thinking, and reason. He hopes that the data he brings will help inspire people everywhere to change the world!
Those were the morning lectures today! Such a great set of speakers, I can’t wait for tomorrow! Check out our schedule here.
