Brussels / 31 January & 1 February 2026

schedule

UB2.252A (Lameere)


Day Start End Track(s)
Saturday 10:30 19:00 Databases
Sunday 09:00 16:55 Rust
09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
Saturday PostgreSQL and MySQL, Two Databases, Three Perspectives
"Drop-in Replacement": Defining Compatibility for Postgres and MySQL Derivatives
Jack of all trades: query federation in modern OLAP databases
Cracking Down the Code: What Really Happens When You Run a SELECT?
Server, Storage Engine, Protocol, Client: Suspects of a MySQL Performance Mystery
Real-Time AI Powered by RonDB
DuckDB in the Cloud: A Simple, Powerful SQL Engine for Your Lakehouse
Cube, dbt and Grafana: the OSS stack that blends Data Analytics with Observability data
Data on Kubernetes / stateless storage
Delegating SQL Parsing to PostgreSQL
Replicating Transactional Databases to ClickHouse : Transaction Log Analysis and Time Travel
You do not need an ORM
Working with Filesystem in Time Series Database
Contributing to MariaDB & Postgres
Magical Mystery Tour: A Roundup of Observability Datastores
Multi writer CDC Challenges
Inverted database indexes: The why, the what, and the how.
Apache Arrow, Hostage Negotiator: Revisiting the case for Client Protocol Redesign
From Disks to Distributed: Our Journey of Database Evolution in the Cloud
Federating Databases with Apache DataFusion: Open Query Planning and Arrow-Native Interoperability
LSM vs. B‑Tree: RocksDB and WiredTiger for Cloud‑Native Distributed Databases
How to Prevent Your AI from Returning Garbage: It Starts and Ends with Data Engineering
Sunday Bringing WebAssembly to constrained devices with Rust: Runtimes, tooling, and real-world tradeoffs
Rust meets cheap bare-metal RISC-V
RustBoy: A Rust journey into Game Boy dev
Async Rust in Godot 4: Leveraging the engine as a runtime
Common Expression Language (CEL) in Rust
Calling JIT-compiled Roto scripts from Rust
Clickhouse’s C++ and Rust journey
Profiling Rust applications with Parca
Building performance-critical Python tools with Rust: Lessons from production
Ty: Adventures of type-checking Python in Rust
Rust in Mercurial: The wider benefits
Taming Git complexity with Rust and Gitoxide
Rust Coreutils in Ubuntu: Yes, we rewrote /bin/true in Rust — Here’s what really happened
Rethinking network services: Freedom and modularity with Rama
Random seeds and state machines: An approach to deterministic simulation testing in Rust
Syd: Writing an application kernel in Rust

Events

Title Speakers Track Start End

Saturday

  PostgreSQL and MySQL, Two Databases, Three Perspectives
Rohit Nayak, Shlomi Noach, Ben Dicken, Pep Pla Databases 10:30 11:20
  "Drop-in Replacement": Defining Compatibility for Postgres and MySQL Derivatives
Jimmy Angelakos, Daniël van Eeden Databases 11:25 11:50
  Jack of all trades: query federation in modern OLAP databases
Nicoleta Lazar Databases 11:55 12:15
  Cracking Down the Code: What Really Happens When You Run a SELECT?
Charly Batista Databases 12:20 12:40
  Server, Storage Engine, Protocol, Client: Suspects of a MySQL Performance Mystery
Vitor Oliveira Databases 12:45 13:05
  Real-Time AI Powered by RonDB
Mikael Ronström Databases 13:10 13:15
  DuckDB in the Cloud: A Simple, Powerful SQL Engine for Your Lakehouse
Gábor Szárnyas, Guillermo Sanchez Databases 13:15 13:20
  Cube, dbt and Grafana: the OSS stack that blends Data Analytics with Observability data
Sam Jewell Databases 13:20 13:25
  Data on Kubernetes / stateless storage
Matthias Crauwels Databases 13:25 13:30
  Delegating SQL Parsing to PostgreSQL
Greg Potter Databases 13:35 13:55
  Replicating Transactional Databases to ClickHouse : Transaction Log Analysis and Time Travel
Arnaud Adant Databases 14:00 14:20
  You do not need an ORM
Giacomo Databases 14:25 14:45
  Working with Filesystem in Time Series Database
Aliaksandr Valialkin Databases 14:50 15:10
  Contributing to MariaDB & Postgres
Kevin Biju, Georgi Kodinov Databases 15:15 15:40
  Magical Mystery Tour: A Roundup of Observability Datastores
Josh Lee Databases 15:45 16:05
  Multi writer CDC Challenges
Sunny Bains Databases 16:10 16:30
  Inverted database indexes: The why, the what, and the how.
Robert Schulze Databases 16:35 16:55
  Apache Arrow, Hostage Negotiator: Revisiting the case for Client Protocol Redesign
Matthew Topol Databases 17:00 17:20
  From Disks to Distributed: Our Journey of Database Evolution in the Cloud
Thor Databases 17:25 17:45
  Federating Databases with Apache DataFusion: Open Query Planning and Arrow-Native Interoperability
Michiel De Backker, Ghasan Mohammad (hozan23) Databases 17:50 18:10
  LSM vs. B‑Tree: RocksDB and WiredTiger for Cloud‑Native Distributed Databases
Franck Pachot Databases 18:15 18:35
  How to Prevent Your AI from Returning Garbage: It Starts and Ends with Data Engineering
Matt Yonkovit ( The Yonk ) Databases 18:40 19:00

Sunday

  Bringing WebAssembly to constrained devices with Rust: Runtimes, tooling, and real-world tradeoffs
Fedor Smirnov Rust 09:00 09:25
  Rust meets cheap bare-metal RISC-V
Marcel Ziswiler Rust 09:30 09:55
  RustBoy: A Rust journey into Game Boy dev
Federico Bassini Rust 10:00 10:25
  Async Rust in Godot 4: Leveraging the engine as a runtime
Jovan Gerodetti Rust 10:30 10:55
  Common Expression Language (CEL) in Rust
Alex Snaps Rust 11:00 11:25
  Calling JIT-compiled Roto scripts from Rust
Terts Diepraam Rust 11:30 11:55
  Clickhouse’s C++ and Rust journey
Alexey Milovidov Rust 12:00 12:25
  Profiling Rust applications with Parca
Brennan Vincent Rust 12:30 12:55
  Building performance-critical Python tools with Rust: Lessons from production
Cian Butler Rust 13:00 13:25
  Ty: Adventures of type-checking Python in Rust
Shaygan Hooshyari Rust 13:30 13:55
  Rust in Mercurial: The wider benefits
Raphaël Gomès, Pierre-Yves David Rust 14:00 14:25
  Taming Git complexity with Rust and Gitoxide
Kiril Videlov Rust 14:30 14:55
  Rust Coreutils in Ubuntu: Yes, we rewrote /bin/true in Rust — Here’s what really happened
Sylvestre Ledru Rust 15:00 15:25
  Rethinking network services: Freedom and modularity with Rama
Glen De Cauwsemaecker Rust 15:30 15:55
  Random seeds and state machines: An approach to deterministic simulation testing in Rust
Frederic Branczyk Rust 16:00 16:25
  Syd: Writing an application kernel in Rust
Ali Polatel Rust 16:30 16:55