{"id":3175,"date":"2016-02-28T11:25:12","date_gmt":"2016-02-28T03:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=3175"},"modified":"2016-02-28T11:53:44","modified_gmt":"2016-02-28T03:53:44","slug":"scale14x-trip-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2016\/02\/28\/scale14x-trip-report","title":{"rendered":"SCALE14x trip report"},"content":{"rendered":"

SCALE14x<\/a> was held at Pasadena, Los Angeles this year from January 21-24 2016. I think its important to note that the venue changed from the Hilton LAX — this is a much bigger space, as the event is much bigger, and you’ll also notice that the expo hall has grown tremendously. <\/p>\n

I had a talk in the MySQL track, and that was just one of over 180 talks. There were over 3,600 people attending, and it showed by the number of people coming by the MariaDB Corporation<\/a> booth. I spent sometime there with Rod Allen, Max Mether<\/a>, and Kurt Pastore, and the qualified leads we received were pretty high. Of course it didn’t hurt that we were also giving away a Sphero BB-8 Droid<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The MySQL track<\/a> room was generally always full. We learned some interesting tidbits<\/a> like Percona Server 5.7 would be GA in February 2016 (true!), the strong crowd at the MariaDB booth<\/a> and quite a bit more. People are definitely interested in MySQL 5.7’s JSON functionality. <\/p>\n

The highlight of my talk, The MySQL Server Ecosystem in 2016<\/a> was that it brought along quite a good discussion on Twitter<\/a>. Its clear people are very interested in this and there is much opportunity for writing about this!<\/p>\n

The Mark Shuttleworth keynote<\/h3>\n

But there were other SCALE14x highlights, like the keynote by Mark Shuttleworth<\/a>. It was generally a very moving keynote, and here are a few bits that I took as notes:<\/p>\n