We are excited to announce the schedule for the MySQL & Friends devroom at FOSDEM 2023. This year’s devroom will feature a diverse lineup of talks and presentations focused on MySQL.
The program is still in draft form as we await confirmation of accepted speakers.
We encourage you to mark your calendars and join us for what promises to be an engaging and informative event.
In addition, don’t miss the chance to extend your stay in Belgium and participate to the preFOSDEM MySQL Days that will take place on 2nd and 3rd February 2023. Registration here.
Sunday, Feb 5th
Title
Speaker
Start
A journey to MySQL in K8s
Elisa Usai
13:10
Deep Dive into MySQL Query Performance
Peter Zaitsev
13:40
Configuring and limiting MySQL memory usage
Norvald H. Ryeng
14:10
Life of a Query in Vitess – Impersonating a monolithic database
Harshit Gangal
14:40
On the road to managed databases – Adapt your Galera cluster setup to your needs using ProxySQL
Mykola Marzhan
15:10
Lower your isolation level with ProxySQL
Javier Jaramago Fernández & René Cannaò
15:40
Extending MySQL with component infrastructure – Will MySQL be out of space soon ?
Frédéric Descamps
16:10
Extended observability to agentless monitoring on MySQL using ProcFS UDF plugin
Vinicius Grippa
16:40
We tried to have a wide range of popular topics within the limits of available slots and not forgetting the spirit of FOSDEM which is the right place to promote the development and the hacking mindset.
As you know the CfP for the devroom has been open and you may have noticed that we have only half a day that we also need to share.
Therefore, we will have only 4 sessions and they should look like this:
We didn’t decide yet which of the two colors will be for which project.
Due to the very low number of sessions, we will not attempt to compose a selection committee.
Managing a committee to find the candidates, collect their decisions, communicate and especially ask for votes (and yes often these are very busy people) is a time consuming process.
For the committee, reviewing the proposed sessions is a lengthy procedure and agreeing on 16 sessions is already very complicated so only for 4…
However, you may have also noticed that there will be two pre-FOSDEM MySQL days. We will check the proposed FOSDEM MySQL Devroom session to see if there is any content that could be presented at these pre-FOSDEM MySQL days. I will then contact the speakers and invite them.
Don’t forget to submit inspiring sessions, we look forward to reading them !
FOSDEM 2023 will take place on Sat 4 – Sun 5 February 2023.
However, there are some changes in the organization. Each project will be responsible for its track, so we will divide the devroom into two sub-tracks.
For the convenience of the speakers and participants, we will not mix the two sub-tracks.
You will have the possibility to follow the track you are interested in, or of course both
The other big change is that the devroom is only half a day. This will make talk selection very complicated as MariaDB and MySQL will only have 4 sessions each !
The MariaDB, MySQL & Friends devroom will be held for half a day, probably on Sunday afternoon.
The MariaDB track will also be holding a virtual event, which will take place outside of the physical devroom times. This will be similar to last year, where a video presentation will have to be prepared well in advance of the physical event.
If you submit a proposal and it is accepted, you will be required to confirm that you accept the FOSDEM CoC. If you have any questions about the CoC or wish to have one of the devroom organizers review your presentation slides or any other content for CoC compliance, please contact us and we will do our best to assist you.
Due to a complete misunderstanding about the available slots, FOSDEM’s organization had to remove 2 talks from the previous planned agenda.
However, we didn’t want to announce to previously accepted speakers that their talks were cancelled ! Therefore, we decided, with FOSDEM’s approval, to extend the FOSDEM 2022 MySQL Devroom, opening our room on Saturday afternoon.
Two talks were then moved to Saturday and the two backup talks were immediately added to the schedule !
More work for us and our speakers but more pleasure for all the MySQL fans !
Don’t miss FOSDEM MySQL Devroom’s 2022 edition, free online conference.
Hi all, just some words to let you know that FOSDEM’22 will take place February 5th and 6th. Like last year, this 2022 edition will be an online edition.
As MySQL, we have submitted our candidature for a devroom/track. We are waiting for the approval list.
As soon as we know FOSDEM’s decision, the eventual Call-For-Papers will be opened.
This event is a real success story for the MySQL ecosystem; the content, the speakers and the attendees are growing every year.
The MySQL Developer room focuses on MySQL and its Ecosystem.
It will run on Sunday 7th February.
New rules / What changes since last year:
For obvious reasons, this year the event will not take place in a physical location but online.
The reference time will be Brussels local time (CET).
Talks will be pre-recorded, and streamed during the event – Before proposing a session, please make sure you will have the facilities (camera, microphone, network) and time to prepare, upload and review a recording during the first two weeks of January if your proposal is accepted.
Q&A session will be live after your talk.
A platform will be provided for people watching to join a common chat.
A platform will be provided for people watching to submit questions.
Key dates:
Because creating such event is not easy, because of the indecisive situation, etc… we are now bound by time.
Submission deadline: 22nd December 2020
Announcement of selected talks: 31st December 2020
Submission of recorded talks: Sunday, January 17th 2021
Devroom date: Sunday 7th February 2021
How to submit:
For this edition, we decided to have a mix of sessions. We are accepting talks of 15, 25 and 40 minutes, with time for questions afterward. The Q&A session will be live. Please, don’t forget to specify the duration in your submission.
You might be aware that the usual standard length for MySQL Devroom is 25 minutes and the majority of accepted talks will certainly be in that range but we are open to exception (explain why in your submission).
While creating your proposal, please provide the title of your talk, a short abstract, some information about yourself (eg. name, bio, photo, contact information, but remember that your profile might be already stored in Pentabarf).
It’s very important that you select the right track “MySQL devroom” and don’t forget to specify the duration.
And as usual, marketing and sales speeches are not welcome. Please focus on the engineering side, the operations and of course the developers. We want to hear how you are hacking MySQL and develop around it !
Recording of Talks:
The talks in the MySQL developer room as in other rooms must be pre-recorded.
Speakers have to submit a recording of their talk to the devroom in Pentabarf (if the talk is accepted and when recorded, not during the proposal) and be available for Q&A during the event.
By participating in the event you agree to the publication of your recordings, slides and other content provided under the same license as all FOSDEM content (CC-BY).
In the “Submission notes” field in Pentabarf, please indicate that you agree to the publications.
For example: “If my speech is accepted for FOSDEM MySQL Devroom, I agree to the publication of my recordings, slides provided under the same license as all FOSDEM content (CC-BY). Sincerely, Name”.
Thank you, and see you soon virtually during FOSDEM 2021 ! Don’t wait too much and submit as soon as possible.
The MySQL Devroom is pleased to announce the committee that will decide on the talks to be presented for this totally new format of the next FOSDEM edition. Indeed, if you are not yet aware of it, FOSDEM 2021 will be an online event. Every year we are overwhelmed with submissions and it’s the committee that has the thankless task of deciding on the final selections and agenda.
Every year, we try to have a mix of experienced members knowing the process of the devroom talks rating and expect them to mentor the new members.
Let me introduce them (not sure it’s needed ;-) ) and as usual, don’t hesitate to thank them (this year a virtual thank has the same value as a drink at FOSDEM’s bar).
Elisa Usai
Elisa is an Italian living in the French speaking part of Switzerland since 2010. She has more than 12 years of experience in the field of Information Technology. Her expertise includes MySQL and Oracle technologies as well as monitoring solutions. She actually works for dbi services as Delivery Manager and Consultant. Elisa is MySQL 5.7 OCP certified. She is active in the Oracle community, she participates as a speaker to conferences and events. Elisa is a member of the ITOUG board and Oracle ACE Associate.
Gabriela D’Ávila Ferrara
Gabi is a Developer Advocate at Google Cloud and a passionate Software Engineer. She likes simplifying complex systems, and believes abstractions are best when they can be understood in a real life example. She’s driven to go beyond DBA lingo to make database and storage technology more accessible to software developers.
Liz Van Dijk
Coming from a long-term MySQL background, Liz is currently focused on helping businesses scale horizontally with Vitess as a Solution Architect at PlanetScale. Though her roots are in tech, her true passion is understanding the drive and motivations behind systems and people alike. Lizz is an optimizer at heart, always focused on gaining deeper understanding and re-evaluating her knowledge and place.
Silvia Botros
Silvia is a Software Architect at Twilio. She focuses on ways to break databases but is also talented at finding bugs in all your software. Whether she helped build it or not. When she is not helping teams at Twilio build more resilient software, she is busy training her little replicas on also breaking computers and trolling her friends on Twitter.
Miguel Araújo
Miguel is a Principal Software Engineer on the MySQL Team, at Oracle. He’s the Tech Lead of the AdminAPI, core component of MySQL InnoDB Cluster, at the MySQL Shell team. In the past, he has worked on different projects and teams, mostly related to Middleware and High-Availability. He has a Computer Science Engineering degree and Master’s degree, from the University of Minho, Portugal, where he was also a researcher. His backgrounds are on distributed systems, scalability, database replication and high-availability. He is based in Portugal.
Marcos Albe
After 12 years working as a developer for local and remote firms, Marcos decided to pursuit true love and become full time DBA. He has been doing MySQL Support at Percona for the past 10+ years, providing advise on anything-MySQL and in-depth performance analysis to Inc.50 firms as well as startups with explosive growth rates. Besides his technology knowledge, Marcos is also appreciated for his good mood and his sense of partying. He is an expert of BBQ in the wilderness.
Markus Winand
As the SQL Renaissance Ambassador, it is Markus Winand‘s mission to make developers aware of the evolution of SQL in the 21st century. His book “SQL Performance Explained” has been published in five languages and can be read online free of charge at use-the-index-luke.com. His next book is currently in the works and can already be read online as it’s being written (modern-sql.com). Markus is available as a trainer, speaker and consultant for all companies and developers interested in SQL.
Giuseppe Maxia
Giuseppe aka Datacharmer, is a Software Explorer and creator of tools. Formerly at MySQL AB, and then through acquisitions at Sun Microsystems and Oracle, and currently at VMware through a merge. Giuseppe is an active member of the MySQL community and long timer open source enthusiast. During the past decades he has worked in various IT related fields, with focus on databases, software development, quality assurance, and system administration. Fluent in Italian, English, Go, Spanish, SQL, Bash, and a good speaker of C, French, and Perl. He works in cyberspace, with a virtual team.
Thank you !
Once again, thank you to all the Committee to have started this new journey to FOSDEM 2021 MySQL Devroom.
Stay tuned, the Call for Paper will be announced shortly !
As always, the MySQL, MariaDB and Friends devroom received far more high-quality submissions than we could fit in. The committee, consisting of Marco Tusa (Percona), Kenny Gryp (MySQL), Vicențiu Ciorbaru (MariaDB Foundation), Matthias Crauwels (Pythian), Giuseppe Maxia (Community), Federico Razzoli (Community) and Øystein Grøvlen (Alibaba/Community) had the task of reducing 75 submissions into the final 17.
The following sessions were selected:
Session
Speaker
Start
End
Welcome
Frédéric Descamps and Ian Gilfillan
10h30
10h40
MySQL 8 vs MariaDB 10.4
Peter Zaitsev
10h40
11h00
MyRocks in the Wild Wild West!
Alkin
11h10
11h30
How Safe is Asynchronous Master-Master Setup?
Sveta Smirnova
11h40
12h00
The consequences of sync_binlog != 1.
Jean-François Gagné
12h10
12h30
Overview of encryption features
Hrvoje Matijakovic
12h40
13h00
Whats new in ProxySQL 2.0? – Exploring the latest
features in ProxySQL 2.0
Nick Vyzas
13h10
13h30
SELinux fun with MySQL and friends
Matthias Crauwels & Ivan Groenewold
13h40
14h00
Running MySQL in Kubernetes in real life
Sami Ahlroos
14h10
14h30
ALTER TABLE improvements in MariaDB Server –
Optimized or instantaneous schema changes,
including ADD/DROP COLUMN
Marko Mäkelä
14h40
15h00
Rewinding time with System Versioned Tables
Sergei Golubchik
15h10
15h30
Knocking down the barriers of ORDER BY LIMIT
queries with MariaDB 10.5
VARUN GUPTA
15h40
16h00
CPU performance analysis for MySQL using
Hot/Cold Flame Graph
Vinicius Grippa
16h10
16h30
Hash Join in MySQL 8
Erik Frøseth
16h40
17h00
Comparing Hash Join solution, the good, the bad
and the worse.
Marco (the Grinch) Tusa
17h10
17h30
MySQL 8.0: Secure your MySQL Replication
Deployment
Pedro Figueiredo
17h40
18h00
Automating schema migration flow with GitHub
Actions, skeema & gh-ost – And end-to-end schema
migration automation, from design to production, at
GitHub
Shlomi Noach
18h10
18h30
20 mins to write a MySQL Shell Plugin – Extend the
MySQL Shell with a plugin created from scratch
Frédéric Descamps
18h40
19h00
All sessions will be taking place in H.2214 on Saturday 1st February. There will be five minutes for questions between each session.
Please check closer to the time for any schedule changes. Look forward to seeing you there!
