Daniel Black
Daniel is a MariaDB all rounder. He started doing as a DBA, and then starting fixing the bugs. On the journey to continue these multi-perspectives of the same product, he found a niche at the MariaDB Foundation as their Chief Innovation Officer. There he continues to drive improvements in the code, the user usage, and the ecosystem in-between.
Sessions
MariaDB forked from MySQL many years ago. MariaDB's mature development team continued development on MariaDB. Its important to compare where MariaDB and MySQL are now from a user point of view.
Some things are the same, some are different.
I'll finish by talking about MariaDB as a project that can be contributed to.
Rust is a great language for fast and secure code. Databases like MariaDB are great for fetching data. Lets go through a working example on how to use existing crates to make some fast and secure SQL functions implemented in Rust.
PHP and Laravel is a powerful way to program. But don't program too much! Databases do some fantastic things really well and its best to use the advantages they do have. I'll go through some common patterns of things implemented wrong in Laravel and look how to restructure the code do to the right things. Adding functionality and reliability in a simple way. I'll be predominately using MariaDB as an example but the concepts will apply generally.