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Celebrating 30 Years of MySQL

Live Webinar
Tuesday, July 22, 2025
9:00 AM - 1:00 PM PDT
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Reflecting on 30 Years of MySQL and Looking Ahead

Join Mughees Minhas, SVP Products, along with leading MySQL community experts to celebrate 30 years of MySQL. Learn why MySQL is the favorite database for new application development and the planned innovations that will help extend MySQL’s leadership in technology and community engagement for decades to come.

During this event, you will have the opportunity to:
  • Hear from community experts who will share MySQL best practices and hands-on knowledge from real-world implementations.
  • Learn about recently released MySQL enhancements for developer productivity, cloud services, GenAI, and more.
  • Interact with MySQL experts and get answers to your questions.

Agenda

9:00 AM
Keynote with Mughees Minhas, SVP Products, Oracle
Watch as Mughees Minhas, SVP Products, discusses the latest innovations in MySQL - and take a look back at the past 30 years of MySQL. You will hear more about:
  • Enterprise Reliability
  • Advanced Security
  • AI/ML Integration
  • Developer Productivity
9:30 AM
30 Years of MySQL: Scaling Smarter with ProxySQL - René Cannaò, ProxySQL
As MySQL celebrates three decades of powering applications worldwide, the challenges of scalability, performance, and high availability have grown alongside it. In this session, René Cannaò, CEO of ProxySQL will explore how ProxySQL has emerged as a key component in modern MySQL architectures, helping organizations scale smarter, not harder. From intelligent query routing and connection multiplexing to support for complex topologies, ProxySQL has become the go-to SQL-aware proxy for MySQL. Whether you are managing hundreds of nodes or just starting to scale, come learn how ProxySQL complements MySQL’s legacy and helps future-proof your infrastructure.
10:00 AM
Using MySQL Binlog to Power Real-Time Caching - Marcelo Altmann, Readyset.io
Modern applications demand low-latency access to dynamic data—but maintaining cache freshness without constant invalidation is the hardest problem in computer science. In this talk, Marcelo Altmann, Senior Software Engineer at Readyset.io will explore how Readyset.io addresses this challenge using dataflow graphs and by directly leveraging the MySQL binary log (binlog) as a real-time change stream.

This is not just a high-level overview—we’ll get our hands dirty. Together, we’ll inspect the low-level binary structure of real binlog events, walking through the bits and bytes to understand how each event is encoded and how Readyset decodes them to drive its cache update engine.

Whether you’re a systems engineer, database internals enthusiast, or someone solving scale problems, this talk will show how Readyset turns replication infrastructure into a foundation for real-time cache maintenance, while delivering sub-milliseconds latency.
10:30 AM
Decades of Success with MySQL - Krishna Mamillapalli, Datavail
Krishna Mamillapalli, Director and Practice Lead of MySQL Services at Datavail Co. will reflect on twenty years of success with MySQL. He will review two decades of solving complex business challenges and adapting to modern data patterns, driving innovation with a powerful, reliable and scalable database platform trusted by global organizations, MySQL continues to enable high performance data driven solutions across several industries.
11:00 AM
JavaScript & MySQL: Perfect Together - A Guide to Using JavaScript to Create Stored Functions - Scott Stroz, Oracle
Did you know you can use JavaScript to create stored functions and stored procedures in MySQL? Join Scott Stroz, MySQL Developer Advocate at Oracle in this session where he will discuss the benefits of using JavaScript to create stored functions and procedures, give a high-altitude overview of how JavaScript is converted to a language MySQL can understand, demonstrate multiple examples, and show some debugging techniques.
11:30 AM
MySQL for Beginners - Benjamin Wood, Oracle
Join Benjamin Wood, MySQL Master Solution Engineer at Oracle to discover the world's most popular open-source database, MySQL, renowned for fueling the most-visited websites like Facebook, X (formerly Twitter), and Uber.

If you're new to MySQL, this session is a must-attend. Join us as we guide you through the fundamental aspects:
  • Essential tools and where to download them
  • Step-by-step installation and configuration of MySQL Server
  • Avoiding common pitfalls for a seamless experience
12:00 PM
20 Years of Operating and Scaling MySQL at Booking.com - Nicolai Plum, Booking.com
Covering the highlights and lessons learned from over 20 years of operating and scaling MySQL applications at Booking.com, a large online travel company, this talk will give you ideas and principles for making your enterprise more successful with MySQL.
12:30 PM
Introduction to MySQL Query Tuning for Devops - Sveta Smirnova, Percona
Sveta Smirnova, Principal Support Engineer at Percona will provide an introductory talk about MySQL Query Tuning. It will start with required knowledge of the MySQL architecture and how MySQL executes queries and stores data. Then she will discuss basic query tuning instruments and techniques, mainly EXPLAIN command with its latest variations. You will learn how to understand its output and how to rewrite queries or change table structure to achieve better performance.
1:00 PM
20 Tips for MySQL Performance Tuning - Unlocking the True Potential of Your Database - Frédéric Descamps, Oracle
MySQL performance tuning is often surrounded by a mix of best practices, outdated advice, and persistent myths. In this session, Frédéric Descamps, MySQL Community Manager at Oracle will cut through the noise and deliver 20 practical tips that can significantly boost your MySQL performance. From configuration tweaks and query optimization to spotting performance bottlenecks (a.k.a. the “ugly ducklings”), you'll gain actionable insights that can make a real difference. Whether you're a developer, DBA, or just passionate about performance, this session is made for you!

Featured Speakers

Mughees Minhas

Mughees Minhas

SVP Products, Oracle Corp.
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Mughees Minhas

SVP Products, Oracle Corp.
Mughees is responsible for overseeing product management and strategy of MySQL Database, Oracle Enterprise Manager, and OCI Observability and Management technologies.
René Cannaò

René Cannaò

CEO, ProxySQL
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René Cannaò

CEO, ProxySQL
René Cannaò is a database expert and a key contributor to ProxySQL, specializing in MySQL performance optimization, query routing, and high availability solutions. With years of experience working with large-scale MySQL deployments, he has helped companies, including Fortune 500 enterprises, design and implement scalable, resilient database architectures. As an active member of the open-source database community, he regularly speaks at industry conferences and contributes to improving database performance and reliability.
Marcelo Altmann

Marcelo Altmann

Senior Software Engineer, Readyset.io
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Marcelo Altmann

Senior Software Engineer, Readyset.io
Marcelo Altmann is a database professional with almost 20 years of experience working with MySQL. Over the years, he’s contributed code fixes to MySQL itself. As a C++ and Rust developer, he’s passionate about solving tough problems and building tools that make databases faster and more reliable. Marcelo loves sharing what he’s learned, which is why you’ll often find him speaking at MySQL conferences and events. He’s also part of the Oracle ACE program, a recognition of his contributions to the MySQL community. When he’s not knee-deep in code or databases, Marcelo enjoys geeking out over new technologies and connecting with others in the database world. Whether it’s about performance tuning or MySQL internals, he’s always up for a good chat.
Krishna Mamillapalli

Krishna Mamillapalli

Director and Practice Lead of MySQL Services, Datavail Co.
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Krishna Mamillapalli

Director and Practice Lead of MySQL Services, Datavail Co.
Over 16+ years of experience in database architecture and solutions with an extensive technical background in database operations, cloud migrations and modernizations specialized in MySQL. He also has extensive experience in cloud strategies, migrations and supporting opensource database technologies in the cloud. Deep understanding of relational, non-relational and hybrid data models, Krishna’s collaborated with Enterprise customers and led projects that delivered high-end database solutions in Finance, Healthcare, Retail, e-commerce, Manufacturing and Telecommunications industries and help customers. He’s active as a thought leader and presents at database conferences such in SSWUG, IOUG, DBTA and AWS Workshops.
Benjamin Wood

Benjamin Wood

MySQL Master Solution Engineer, Oracle
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Benjamin Wood

MySQL Master Solution Engineer, Oracle
With nearly two decades of service to MySQL customers across North America, Benjamin Wood works in the sales consulting group of MySQL at Oracle. He helps customers meet challenging technical and business requirements in both on-prem and cloud environments.
Nicolai Plum

Nicolai Plum

Senior Database Engineer, Booking.com
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Nicolai Plum

Senior Database Engineer, Booking.com
Nicolai Plum works in the MySQL Engineering team of Booking.com on database product design and service reliability. His previous roles at Booking.com have ranged widely from managing Linux Systems Administration teams through storage and systems architecture to regulatory compliance and construction project management. In his spare time he travels the world and takes pictures.
Sveta Smirnova

Sveta Smirnova

Principal Support Engineer, Percona
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Sveta Smirnova

Principal Support Engineer, Percona
Sveta Smirnova is a world known MySQL expert. She is author of books "MySQL Troubleshooting" and "MySQL Cookbook, 4th Edition", MySQL support engineer with decades of experience, and frequent speaker at international events, including Oracle Open World, Fosdem, Highload. Currently Sveta works as Principal Support Engineering Coordinator at Percona. Her responsibilities include software bugs priority process, production of tools for services teams at Percona, and maintenance of Percona Toolkit.
Scott Stroz

Scott Stroz

MySQL Developer Advocate, Oracle
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Scott Stroz

MySQL Developer Advocate, Oracle
Scott has been a full-stack developer for longer than the term “full-stack developer” has been around. At that time, MySQL was the only constant in his development stack. He is passionate about sharing what he has learned on his coding journey so others may learn from his mistakes. Scott is a MySQL Developer Advocate at Oracle and is part of the MySQL Community Team.
Frédéric Descamps

Frédéric Descamps

MySQL Community Manager, Oracle
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Frédéric Descamps

MySQL Community Manager, Oracle
After graduating in Management Information Technology, Frédéric Descamps started his career as a developer for an ERP under HPUX. He then opted for a career in the world of open source by joining one of the first Belgian startups dedicated 100% to free projects around GNU/Linux. It is in 2011 that lefred joined Percona and in 2016 he decided to join the MySQL Community Team as a MySQL Community Manager for EMEA & APAC.