After months of planning, it's finally here: DataLayer Conference. On Wednesday, we're hosting our second annual conference focused on the space where apps meet data, shining a light on how developers and companies build out their data layer to make the best use of their data to keep their apps working flawlessly.

A few weeks ago you may have read the article on how we a blind review process to select speakers. We used that to get eleven of our thirteen speakers, excluding our two keynotes, Charity Majors from Honeycomb and Amy Unruh from Google. This means that we've drawn our speakers from the talented people in several different industries and from companies ranging in size from consultancies to global enterprises.

What to Expect

If you like your information in podcast format, you should know we were featured on the New Builder's Podcast. Check it out to learn more about DataLayer and hear from Jonas Helfer, a speaker this year.

Keynotes

• Charity Majors, co-founder of Honeycomb kicks us off with her talk "Observability and the Glorious Future," which looks at the next generation of observability, modern tooling and what will be needed moving forward.
• Amy Unruh, from Google Cloud Platform will show us how to scale out SQL using Spanner.

Speakers

• Emile Baizel, developer at Digit, explains how and why Digit built a Fintech Bot on Mongo and Elasticsearch.
• Antonio Chaves, lead engineer and co-found of Queue Technologies, shares why they moved away from MongoDB.
• Joshua Drake, owner at Command Prompt, and Founder of [United States PostgreSQL], (https://postgresql.us/), and chair of PgConf US, details why PostgreSQL is the center of your data universe.
• Jonas Helfer, software engineer at Meteor, talks joins across databases with GraphQL.
• Christina Keelan, dev community developer at Fly, discusses her experience on the state of open source company models from her days at RethinkDB.
• Ross Kukulinski, container guru at [Hepto])(https://www.heptio.com/), gives insight into the state of containers.
• Siddharth Kothari, founder of Appbase, discusses data streams with Elasticsearch.
• Lorna Jane Mitchell, developer advocate at IBM Watson Data Platform, shows how to survive failure with RabbitMQ.
• Loren Sands-Ramshaw, full-stack web and mobile developer - lorensr.me, guides you on how to use all the databases with GraphQL.
• John Singleton, co-founder and COO of Watchful.io, presents Watchful's stream, filter, drain process with data.
• Joshua B. Smith, Advisory Software Engineer at IBM, looks at speeding up slow monoliths with serverless code and caching.

A handful of tickets available

We still have some tickets available, so if you're looking for something worthwhile to do on Wednesday, join us at the Alamo Draft House on Lamar in Austin. Grab your ticket at the DataLayer site. If you're not near Austin, follow our Twitter account and we'll share the videos with you over the next several months.

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