Chris Sinjakli, PlanetScale, and Martin Alderete, Booking.com
This session is an opportunity for people to come together and discuss the challenges inherent in scaling databases, facilitated by our knowledgeable host. This is not a prepared talk or workshop—expect a less-formal session with plenty of opportunity to ask questions and to talk to other attendees who are interested in scaling databases.
Chris Sinjakli, PlanetScale
Chris enjoys working on the strange parts of computing where software and systems meet. He especially likes the challenges of databases and distributed systems.
All his programs are made from organic, hand-picked, artisanal keypresses.
Martin Alderete, Booking.com
Martin Alderete is a Principal Site Reliability Engineer with a long track record in Engineering, Distributed Systems and System Level Programming in both the academia where after getting his degree he worked as teacher assistant. And the industry where he led different teams building complex systems at scale.
He is passionate about Open Source and new technologies, an active contributor to open-source projects and part of different technical groups.
Before joining Booking.com he worked in multiple industries including space where he worked as a Satellite Reliability Engineer building systems (and bugs!) to operate fleets of satellites.
He is based in Amsterdam but originally from the beautiful Patagonia Argentina.
author = {Chris Sinjakli and Martin Alderete},
title = {Scaling Databases},
year = {2024},
address = {Dublin},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = oct
}