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Speakers

Simon Mudd

Employers on the program

  1. 2022–2025Booking.com2 talks
Events3
Conferences2
Talks3
Years active2022–2026
Miles between events5,2173 in-person events · 3 countries

Appearances by year

201920202021202220232024202520262027
  • Percona Live
  • FOSDEM

Talks

DateEventConferenceRoleTitleLinks
Sep 9, 2026Percona Live 2026 AmsterdamPercona LivespeakerCongratulations, You're Now a MariaDB DBA
One day you’re a MySQL DBA. Comfortable. Fluent. You could tune a MySQL server in your sleep. Then someone hands you a MariaDB cluster and says “it’s the same…Show less

One day you’re a MySQL DBA. Comfortable. Fluent. You could tune a MySQL server in your sleep. Then someone hands you a MariaDB cluster and says “it’s the same thing, basically.” It is not, basically, the same thing today.

Video
Feb 1, 2025FOSDEM 2025FOSDEMspeakerUpgrading to MySQL 8.4 at Booking.com
as Booking.com
A discussion of how we handle upgrades to major new versions of MySQL and the challenges we have to do this at scale. Upgrading to MySQL 8.4 at Booking.com -…Show less

A discussion of how we handle upgrades to major new versions of MySQL and the challenges we have to do this at scale. Upgrading to MySQL 8.4 at Booking.com - why we want to do this?

SlidesVideo
May 16, 2022Percona Live 2022Percona LivespeakerMySQL 8.0 at 4. Where are we now?
as Booking.com
This is to discuss how things have evolved with our use of MySQL 8.0 and where we stand now.- some discussion of things over COVID downscaling- moving…Show less

This is to discuss how things have evolved with our use of MySQL 8.0 and where we stand now.- some discussion of things over COVID downscaling- moving everything to 8.0. Why it's hard to get all systems up to date and how to achieve that- automation-related changes we saw- new features that have...

Frequent co-speakers

SpeakerShared eventsShared talksLast together
Frédéric Descamps3—2026
Peter Zaitsev3—2026
Alkin Tezuysal2—2026
Avinash Vallarapu2—2026
Dmitry Lenev2—2026
Gülçin Yıldırım Jelinek2—2026
Ivan Groenewold2—2026
Jesús Espino2—2026
Marcelo Altmann2—2026
Michal Nosek2—2026
Peter Farkas2—2026
René Cannaò2—2026
Sveta Smirnova2—2026
Takis Stathopoulos2—2026
Tibor Korocz2—2026

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.