Percona Live Open Source Database Conference 2019  – Austin, Texas is on 28-30 May 2019, This is no longer a MySQL only conference and it is a must attend conference for every open source database systems geek who is passionate about building an web-scale database infrastructure operations which is optimal, scalable, highly reliable and secured. This conference provides great opportunity to network, learn and share knowledge with passionate technology professionals from across the globe. I personally track this conference for several years and it is among those few very organized Technology Ops. conferences, This year Percona Live is personally more special to me because I had an opportunity to be on the Percona Live conference committee ( https://www.percona.com/live/19/conference-committee ) and really enjoyed the entire process from kick-off call to …

Peter Zaitsev speaks at the Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo in Santa Clara, Calif. in April 2013.

In the MySQL ecosystem, there is some sort of conference or another all year long. But why are they important?

To answer this, we can split the audience into 3 groups:

- MySQL Professionnals
- MySQL Community Members
- MySQL (Future?) Users

Depending on which category you are in, you can have different expectations about conferences.

For MySQL Professionals, it’s the best opportunity to meet partners, customers and also other business players in real life – and this is a very important point. As most of our contact with customers is virtual, meeting people and discussing things with them in person is very beneficial for future collaboration. This is also …