Database Performance Tuning: Best Practices & Pitfalls

Ensuring optimal performance of business-critical applications is one of the most important goals for IT leaders. But even in today’s modern IT environment, performance management is often conducted reactively instead of proactively. With the rise in pressure across industries for doing more with less, it is especially critical now to consider how much you’re getting out of your database infrastructure. Everyday, the demand for more and more data-intensive apps is putting more and more pressure on your systems. This is where database optimization comes in.

Join Rob Reid, Tech Evangelist and Software Developer and Glenn Fawcett, CockroachDB DBMS Performance Specialist in this tech talk, where they will discuss:

• The fundamentals of database performance

• How to identify improvement opportunities (including indexes, queries, clusters, schemas)

• Real-world lessons  from CockroachDB customers

• Performance differentiators for a distributed SQL database