MySQL Legend 2024. Q&A with Shlomi Noach
Q1. Congratulations for your title of MySQL Legend 2024. What is your role now that you are a Legend and how do you support the MySQL community? I have been involved with the MySQL...
Category: Databases – Blog Posts
On Database Performance. Q&A with Dirk Beerbohm
Q1. Database query performance is an important metric. In one of your recent blogs, you argued that this is not enough, “resulting in complicated implementations and high operational efforts.” What do you mean by...
On Databases, AI Agents and Security. Q&A with Dave Eyler.
Q1. In your opinion, what are the features and factors that are needed to make a database well-suited to the demands of enterprise AI? Enterprise AI is already complicated, and the last thing customers...
On MySQL Ecosystem. Q&A with Vinicius Grippa
Q1. You have 18 years of experience in mission-critical database design. What are the main lessons you have learned in all these years? Test, test, and test one more time! When I started at...
On Large Language Models (LLMs) and Databases. Q&A with Madeleine Corneli
Q1. You believe in collaboration, working closely with engineering, data science, marketing, and customers. How does it work in practice? What are the challenges you face in bringing different stakeholders together? Collaboration across technical...
On HeatWave MySQL: Query Execution, Performance, Benchmarks, and Vector type. Q&A with Kaan Kara.
Q1. You are working as a lead developer mainly responsible for query execution in HeatWave MySQL. What are the challenges that you try to solve? HeatWave is an in-memory data processing engine, so for...
On Processing and Analyzing large datasets of Financial data. Q&A with Michaela Woods
Q1. What is your role at KX and what are your current projects? As a Developer Advocate at KX, my primary focus is on kdb+, along with creating technical content, developing training courses for...
On Data Migration. Q&A with Eric Hanson
Q1. What are the typical challenges when performing data migration? Performing data migration requires you to decide what to migrate, build tables in the target system with the right schema, do initial movement of...
HeatWave Japan User Group. Q&A with Masataka Narita and Tatsuya Naito
Q1. We hear about GenAI every day. How can we leverage HeatWave GenAI specifically? What makes HeatWave GenAI unique? The big difference is that the entire GenAI process can be completed within customer’s HeatWave. There are...
MySQL Rockstar 2013: Q&A with Sveta Smirnova.
Q1. You work at work Percona as Principal Support Engineer for MySQL, its forks and utilities. What are your responsibilities? My title is Principal Support Engineering Coordinator and my responsibility is to ensure that...