Announcing the opening of the Percona Live Open Source Database Conference 2018 in Santa Clara, CA, call for papers. It will be open from now until December 22, 2017.
Our theme is “Championing Open Source Databases,” with topics of MySQL, MongoDB and other open source databases, including PostgreSQL, time series databases and RocksDB. Sessions tracks include Developers, Operations and Business/Case Studies.
We’re looking forward to your submissions! We want proposals that cover the many aspects and current trends of using open source databases, including design practices, application development, performance optimization, HA and clustering, cloud, containers and new technologies, as well as new and interesting ways to monitor and manage database environments.
Describe the technical and business values of moving to or using open source databases. How did you convince your company to make the move? Was there tangible ROI? Share your case studies, best practices and technical knowledge with an engaged audience of open source peers.
Possible topics include:
- Application development. How are you building applications using open source databases to power the data layers? What languages, frameworks and data models help you to build applications that your customers love? Are you using MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, time series or other databases?
- Database performance. What database issues have you encountered while meeting new application and new workload demands? How did they affect the user experience? How did you address them? Are you using WiredTiger or a new storage engine like RocksDB? Have you moved to an in-memory engine? Let us know about the solutions you have found to make sure your applications can get data to users and customers.
- DBaaS and PaaS. Are you using a Database as a Service (DBaaS) in the public cloud, or have you rolled out your own? Are you on AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure or RackSpace/ObjectRocket? Are you using a database in a Platform as a Service (PaaS) environment? Tell us how it’s going.
- High availability. Are your applications a crucial part of your business model? Do they need to be available at all times, no matter what? What database challenges have you come across that impacted uptime, and how did you create a high availability environment to address them?
- Scalability. Has scaling your business affected database performance, user experience or the bottom line? How are you addressing the database environment workload as your business scales? Let us know what technologies you used to solve issues.
- Distributed databases. Are you moving toward a distributed model? Why? What is your plan for replication and sharding?
- Observability and monitoring. How do we design open source database deployment with observability in mind? Are you using Elasticsearch or some other analysis tool? What tools are you using to monitor data? Grafana? Prometheus? Percona Monitoring and Management? How do you visualize application performance trends for maximum impact?
- Container solutions. Do you use Docker, Kubernetes or other containers in your database environment? What are the best practices for using open source databases with containers and orchestration? Has it worked out for you? Did you run into challenges and how did you solve them?
- Security. What security and compliance challenges are you facing and how are you solving them?
- Migrating to open source databases. Did you recently migrate applications from proprietary to open source databases? How did it work out? What challenges did you face, and what obstacles did you overcome? What were the rewards?
- What the future holds. What do you see as the “next big thing”? What new and exciting features just released? What’s in your next release? What new technologies will affect the database landscape? AI? Machine learning? Blockchain databases? Let us know what you see coming.
The Percona Live Open Source Database Conference 2018 Call for Papers is open until December 22, 2017. We invite you to submit your speaking proposal for breakout, tutorial or lightning talk sessions. Share your open source database experiences with peers and professionals in the open source community by presenting a:
- Breakout Session. Broadly cover a technology area using specific examples. Sessions should be either 25 minutes or 50 minutes in length (including Q&A).
- Tutorial Session. Present a technical session that aims for a level between a training class and a conference breakout session. Encourage attendees to bring and use laptops for working on detailed and hands-on presentations. Tutorials will be three or six hours in length (including Q&A).
- Lightning Talk. Give a five-minute presentation focusing on one key point that interests the open source community: technical, lighthearted or entertaining talks on new ideas, a successful project, a cautionary story, a quick tip or demonstration.
Speaking at Percona Live is a great way to build your personal and company brands. If selected, you will receive a complimentary full conference pass!
Tips for Submitting to Percona Live
Include presentation details, but be concise. Clearly state:
- Purpose of the talk (problem, solution, action format, etc.)
- Covered technologies
- Target audience
- Audience takeaway
Keep proposals free of sales pitches. The Committee is looking for case studies and in-depth technical talks, not ones that sound like a commercial.
Be original! Make your presentation stand out by submitting a proposal that focuses on real-world scenarios, relevant examples, and knowledge transfer.
Submit your proposals as soon as you can – the call for papers is open until December 22, 2017.