Cool Technologies Showcase

Automatization of Postgres Administration
Cloud services like Amazon RDS or Google Cloud SQL help to automate half of DBA tasks: launch database instances, provision replicas, create backups. But the other, very important part is almost not automated now: database tuning and query optimization.

High Performance, Scalable, and Available MySQL Clustering System for the Cloud
Vitess is now used in production at multiple companies. Vitess shines in this area by providing query logs, transaction logs, information URLs, and status variables that can feed into a monitoring system like Prometheus.

Ghostferry: the Swiss Army Knife of Live Data Migrations with Minimum Downtime
Inspired by gh-ost, our tool is named Ghostferry and allows application developers at Shopify to migrate data without assistance from DBAs. We plan to open source Ghostferry at the conference so that anyone can migrate their own data with minimal hassle and downtime.

What is a Self-Driving Database Management System?
People are touting the rise of ""self-driving"" database management systems (DBMSs). But nobody has clearly defined what it means for a DBMS to be self-driving. Thus, in this keynote, Andy provides the history of autonomous databases and what is needed to make a true self-driving DBMS.