Tech Events by AMS DB

with Ian Zhai (, TiDB) · Mattias Jonsson (, TiDB) · Daniël van Eeden (, TiDB) + 1 more

AMS DB's November meetup is hosted by TiDB (PingCAP) in the Disruption Hall at Epicenter Amsterdam. The theme is distributed, scalable transactional databases. Ian Zhai of TiDB talks about db9, a PostgreSQL-compatible database written in Rust with autonomous AI agents. Mattias Jonsson and Daniël van Eeden of TiDB cover running transactions on an object store. Rohit Nayak, a core Vitess engineer now at PlanetScale, covers sharding PostgreSQL with Neki. Doors at 18:00, talks from 18:20, food and networking until 21:00. Free, with about 40 spots left when we checked. Why go: three database builders in one evening, including a core Vitess engineer on sharding Postgres. Best for backend engineers and data infrastructure leads comparing ways to scale.

Two MySQL talks from people who run and steward it: where Oracle is taking MySQL's open-source development model after the 9.7 Community Edition release, and a deep dive into how the Clone plugin actually copies a live database. Hosted by the MySQL team at Oracle. Heather VanCura, Oracle's VP of External Standards and Community Engagement, opens at 18:05 on "The Path to MySQL Open Innovation". At 19:00 Matthias Crauwels of PlanetScale walks through Clone's three-stage protocol inside InnoDB, modified-page tracking, redo archiving and what the donor pays while a clone runs. Q&A and networking until 20:00. Doors 17:45. Free, at Oracle's office on Nieuwevaart 5-9. Meetup currently shows RSVPs as not open, so check before travelling. Why go: the Clone talk is the kind of practitioner reading of the internals you rarely get outside a conference, and the first talk is the MySQL roadmap from the source. For DBAs and backend engineers who provision replicas.

Amsterdam's database meetup, hosted at Adyen. AMS DB stays deliberately vendor-neutral and runs across Postgres, distributed stores and the query-engine layer, which makes it a better read on what Dutch engineering teams actually run than any single-product user group.