
MEETUP · SAN FRANCISCO
THE SF DATABASE MEETUP: Neki Edition
Join us on September 10th for a first look into Neki, our sharded Postgres product. We'll have talks from our database professor Ben Dicken, CTO Nick Van Wiggeren, and some members of the Ne...
- When
- Thu, Sep 10
5:30 PM to 9:00 PM PT - Where
- Yerba Buena, San Francisco, CA
- Host
- PlanetScale
- Entry
- Free to attend
About this event
Join us on September 10th for a first look into Neki, our sharded Postgres product. We'll have talks from our database professor Ben Dicken, CTO Nick Van Wiggeren, and some members of the Neki team doing a deep dive into Neki's architecture.
We’ll also be giving away our newly refreshed Database hats, Neki stickers and more! There’s limited spots available for this event so make sure to RSVP.
Speakers:
6:00 pm | Ben Dicken, Head of Developer Education Why Postgres needs sharding
6:15 pm | Nick Van Wiggeren, CTO Neki: A first look into PlanetScale's new Sharded Postgres architecture
6:30 pm | Harshit Gangal From SQL to shard and back: how data topology drives Neki query routing
6:45 pm | Rohit Nayak One replication engine, three problems: data movement in Neki
7:00 pm | Florent Poinsard When your database is a fleet: how the Neki operator manages 1,000 Postgres servers
Schedule:
5:30–6:00 — Doors Open and Networking
6:00–7:15 — Talks
7:15–7:45 — Questions
7:40–9:00 — Networking
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