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Speakers

Pep Pla

Employers on the program

  1. 2022–2025Percona4 talks
Events4
Conferences3
Talks6
Years active2022–2026
Miles between events6,7213 in-person events · 3 countries

Appearances by year

201920202021202220232024202520262027
  • FOSDEM
  • Percona Live
  • PGDay Napoli

Talks

DateEventConferenceRoleTitleLinks
Jan 31, 2026FOSDEM 2026FOSDEMspeakerPostgreSQL and MySQL, Two Databases, Three Perspectives
In this session, four seasoned database administrators with sound knowledge of both PostgreSQL and MySQL present an unbiased comparison of the two technologies.…Show less

In this session, four seasoned database administrators with sound knowledge of both PostgreSQL and MySQL present an unbiased comparison of the two technologies. Attendees will learn about the architectural and DX differences between the world's two most popular databases.

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Sep 25, 2025PGDay Napoli 2025PGDay NapolispeakerNew kid on the block: Introduction to PostgreSQL Support in ProxySQL 3
as Percona

ProxySQL is a well-known, high-performance, feature-rich proxy for MySQL.

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May 16, 2022Percona Live 2022Percona LivetutorialLet it Go! (Golang for DBAs)
as Percona
Go is the new Python. The Go programming language was designed with concurrency in mind but is also easy to learn. And it has powerful libraries that provide…Show less

Go is the new Python. The Go programming language was designed with concurrency in mind but is also easy to learn. And it has powerful libraries that provide basic MySQL database access and advanced features.These characteristics make Go the ideal language for database administrators that need...

May 16, 2022Percona Live 2022Percona LivespeakerMySQL at Scale: Booking MariaDB to MySQL Migration
as Percona
Booking has one of the largest MySQL deployments in the world. Operating thousands of servers is not trivial. To perform database upgrades and migrations in an…Show less

Booking has one of the largest MySQL deployments in the world. Operating thousands of servers is not trivial. To perform database upgrades and migrations in an environment like this requires careful planning and can take weeks or months.In this session we will cover:The Booking MySQL...

May 16, 2022Percona Live 2022Percona LivespeakerThe Lost Art of Database Design
as Percona
The scalability of your application and your database is only as good as the database design you put behind it. Designing your schema, the database structures,…Show less

The scalability of your application and your database is only as good as the database design you put behind it. Designing your schema, the database structures, and planning for the future need to happen early and needs to evolve over time. In today's rapid pace development cycles, the database...

Feb 5, 2022FOSDEM 2022FOSDEMspeakerWhy your backup strategy is wrong?
"If you have a hammer, all you see is nails." also known as the Law of the Instrument describes the cognitive bias that involves over-reliance on a familiar…Show less

"If you have a hammer, all you see is nails." also known as the Law of the Instrument describes the cognitive bias that involves over-reliance on a familiar tool. To protect MySQL data, a DBA must have a toolbox full of the proper utensils.

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Frequent co-speakers

SpeakerShared eventsShared talksLast together
Shlomi Noach212026
Charly Batista2—2026
Jan-Patrick Lehr2—2026
Jimmy Angelakos2—2026
Matthias Crauwels2—2026
Bruce Momjian2—2022
Daniel Nichter2—2022
Dave Stokes2—2022
Frédéric Descamps2—2022
Jean Da Silva2—2022
Peter Zaitsev2—2022
René Cannaò2—2022
Vinicius Grippa2—2022
Ben Dicken112026
Rohit Nayak112026

Speakers with the same name are merged into one entry, so this page may combine more than one person. Affiliations are shown as each conference listed them.