Here are the last details about the Percona Live 2016 Community Dinner hosted at Booking.com:

you can still register the menu is below the program of the lightning talks is on Giuseppe blog

Booking.com will also do a short talk.  The subject is a surprise !

If you are coming directly to the dinner (not via boats), please bring your registration ticket (electronic version ok) so you can access

Or should I say "to avoid getting soaked"...

The Amsterdam weather forecasts for next week is out and even if it looks good for the Percona Live MySQL and (No)SQL Conference (Monday to Wednesday) and for the MariaDB Developer Meeting (Thursday to Saturday), it could still change (or you might suffer the rain in the week-end):

Of course, this is not a problem during talks, and I take this

I have a new blog post on blog.booking.com describing MariaDB 10.1 Optimistic Parallel Replication (with benchmark results):

Evaluating MySQL Parallel Replication Part 4: More Benchmarks in Productionhttp://blog.booking.com/evaluating_mysql_parallel_replication_4-more_benchmarks_in_production.html

If you want to know more about MySQL/MariaDB Parallel Replication and if you are attending 

Percona Live Amsterdam is in 3 weeks, and on the evening of the second day of the conference (Tuesday October 4th 2016), there is the traditional Community Dinner.

As last year, Booking.com is hosting the event and as last year, canal boats will bring attendees from the conference venue to Booking.com headquarters.

This event involves some planning: Percona needs to arrange for canal boats and

Or should I say to: "not to get soaked"...

The Amsterdam weather forecasts for next week is out  and it does not look so good during Percona Live MySQL and NoSQL Conference:

Of course, this is not a problem during talks, and I take this opportunity to invite you to my talks:

Riding the Binlog: an in Deep Dissection of the Replication Stream(22 September 11:20AM - 12:10PM @ Matterhorn 3)