Gwen Shapira
Database Administrator, Pythian

Website | @gwenshap

Gwen Shapira is a Senior DBA at Pythian, and the company’s newest Oracle ACE. Gwen Shapira studied computer science, statistics and operations research at the University of Tel Aviv, and then went on to spend the next 10 years in different technical positions in the IT industry. Gwen is an Oak Table member, Oracle ACE and Oracle Certified Professional. She specializes in scalability and high-availability solutions especially for SaaS, and has presented at various conferences including Hotsos Symposium 2009 and RMOUG 2010. Gwen Shapira also maintains a popular database blog:
http://www.pythian.com/news/author/shapira/

Sessions

5:15pm–6:00pm Wednesday, 04/13/2011
No Silver Bullet - The Slightly Less Painful Way to Sharding
Architecture and Technology, Replication and Scale-Out
 Location: Ballroom E
Tags: sharding
Gwen Shapira (Pythian)
Average rating: ****.
(4.00, 4 ratings)
Sharding is a pain. Anyone who says differently is trying to sell you something. Gwen Shapira will share stories from her 13 years of sharding experience: Learn how you can have less-painful sharded architecture using your favorite relational database. Read more.
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