I have never been to Sofia, Bulgaria till this past February 2016, and boy did I enjoy myself. I visited the Bulgaria Web Summit and spoke there amongst many others. A few notes:
Almost 800 people (so more than last year); hence the event was sold out Missed the RocksDB talk due to the massive Q&A session that went on afterwards. Very interesting messaging LinvoDB LinvoDB (embeddable MongoDB alternative) ― LinvoDB /www.strem.io Library written entirely in javascript without any dependencies. Converts any KV store to a MongoDB-like API, with Mongoose-like models, and live queries Use case: < 1 million objects (indexes are in memory using a binary search tree; so don’t use it for more). html5/Electron/NW.js. Best used with AngularJS/React and maybe Meteor. Can also use NativeScript or React Native. You can use it with node.js but its not recommended for server use cases. Works with SQLite or LevelDB (why not RocksDB yet?). Can also use with IndexedDB/LocalStorage Implemented almost entirely the MongoDB query language. Gives you automatic indexes. FTS in memory (linvodb-fts) uses trie/metaphone modules for node.js. Can also do p2p replication, persistent indexes, compound indexes My talkI enjoyed speaking about MariaDB Server as always, and its clear that many people had a lot of questions about it. Slides . Video . It was tweeted that I had to answer questions for about as long as my talk, afterwards, and it was true :)
I got to meet Robert Nyman at the social event (small world, since he works at the office where Jonas of ex-mysql fame does). Also met someone very interested in contributing to InfiniDB. It was nice having a beer with my current colleague Salle too. And speaking to the track moderator, Alexander Todorov was also a highlight since we had many common topics, and he does an amazing amount of work around automation and QA. His blog is worth a read.