Tuning queries is great, but you can only fix one at a time. Designing systems for high-concurrency workloads takes a lot more care and planning from the get-go, and you need additional knowledge to be successful.

I'm Erik Darling, and I've worked with hundreds of clients in a variety of industries, from banking to gambling to e-commerce, whose needs all came down to one very simple thing: everything has to work fast all the time, or else.

In this session, I’ll explain why all your choices matter when fast, high-concurrency workloads are the requirement: hardware, settings, isolation levels, normalization, indexing, querying, and identifying what really doesn't belong in the database.

You’ll gain understanding of the key factors to curating and managing a transactional workload, and ready to increase the concurrency of your database applications.