BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//HasGeek//NONSGML Funnel//EN DESCRIPTION:It worked in theory. Let’s talk about production. X-WR-CALDESC:It worked in theory. Let’s talk about production. NAME:Special Edition on Databases X-WR-CALNAME:Special Edition on Databases REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT12H SUMMARY:Special Edition on Databases TIMEZONE-ID:Asia/Kolkata X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT12H X-WR-TIMEZONE:Asia/Kolkata BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Special Edition on Databases DTSTART:20260529T033000Z DTEND:20260530T123000Z DTSTAMP:20260506T171635Z UID:session/BCaQkTWPFimxdyz7qSHEdW@hasgeek.com SEQUENCE:21 CREATED:20260503T120550Z DESCRIPTION:## What is this special edition about?\nA special Rootconf edi tion on databases\, co-located with the ACM SIGMOD/PODS Conference 2026 — bringing practitioners and researchers into the same room to examine h ow modern data systems are actually designed\, scaled\, and run in product ion. \nWith SIGMOD/PODS bringing global database researchers to Bengaluru\ , this edition creates a rare opportunity to connect research ideas with p roduction systems.\n*Curated by Sandeep Joshi (Uber) with reviewers from C ouchbase\, Microsoft\, Stripe\, and more.*\n\n### Tracks\n* **Exploratory/ survey** -- cut through the noise with talks that unpack emerging database ideas\, architectures\, and research\, helping you build a clear mental m odel of where the ecosystem is heading.\n* **Production-informed learnings ** -- what worked\, what failed\, and why. Real-world lessons from running databases in production\, including failures\, bottlenecks\, performance trade-offs\, and hard-earned decisions.\n\n---\n## Highlights\n![highlight s](https://images.hasgeek.com/embed/file/96e7b7e81f8c4766942fd067a8c5ed1e) \n\n1. **Mihai Budiu (Chief Scientist\, Feldera) -- Rethinking incremental computation**\nA deep dive into Incremental View Maintenance (IVM)—one of the hardest problems in databases—and how a set of simple ideas can s olve it for arbitrary SQL queries (including recursive ones). See how Feld era applies these ideas in practice to deliver orders-of-magnitude improve ments in query latency and compute efficiency over traditional batch syste ms.\n2. **Arpit Bhayani (Principal Engineer\, Razorpay) -- Why databases w ere not designed for agents**\nModern databases assume predictable queries \, short-lived connections\, and human-readable schemas. Agentic systems b reak all of these. Arpit Bhayani unpacks what changes when LLMs start inte racting with your data layer—and shares concrete patterns (idempotency k eys\, append-only logs\, per-agent roles) to make your systems resilient.\ n3. **Sarthak Makhija (Principal Architect\, Caizin) -- Fast on paper\, sl ow in reality**\nA candid post-mortem on building a distributed key-value store: why designs that were “correct” failed under production pressur e. Sarthak Makhija breaks down bottlenecks like 2PC overhead\, lock conten tion\, and redundant I/O—and shows how to rethink systems for real-world performance.\n\n*This lineup brings together research breakthroughs\, pro duction failures\, and next-gen workloads — the full spectrum of how mod ern databases are evolving in practice.*\n\nSubmissions are already in fro m teams at Yugabyte\, CockroachDB\, Microsoft\, Amazon Web Services\, Anti thesis\, InMobi\, Razorpay\, Nutanix\, and Teradata.\nExplore what’s com ing: https://hasgeek.com/rootconf/database-conf-cfp/sub\n\n---\n## Editori al team\nTalks are reviewed and selected by an editorial team of practitio ners building and operating large-scale data systems.\n\n### Editor\nSande ep Joshi (ex-Amazon\, ex-Nutanix\, ex-Kognitos)\; Editor of Data Engineeri ng and Infrastructure track at The Fifth Elephant. \n\n![Editor spotlight] (https://images.hasgeek.com/embed/file/d27c053b4c3f4aad876d314684089cda#al ign-center)\n\n### Reviewers\n* Anirudh Rowjee (Couchbase)\n* Varuni HK (C ouchbase)\n* Kumar Abhijeet (Index Exchange)\n* Ranganadh Thatha (Mico)\n* Rajkumar Iyer (Microsoft\, SQL team)\n* Siddhartha Reddy (Udaan)\n* Raj S uvariya (Stripe)\n* Rolland Santimano (Rubrik)\n* Rohan Reddy Alleti (Saha j)\n\n---\n## The agenda\n**📅 Friday\, 29 May**\nHands-on workshops\, f ollowed by a mixer and informal social activities — hosted across venues in Whitefield and Bengaluru.\n\n**📅 Saturday\, 30 May**\nConference at Polaris School of Technology\, Brookfield.\nIf you’re attending the ACM SIGMOD/PODS Conference 2026\, you’re practically in the Rootconf neighb ourhood.\n\n---\n## Who is this Rootconf special edition for?\nYou should attend if you:\n* Build or operate databases\, data platforms\, or large-s cale data pipelines\n* Care about performance\, reliability\, and correctn ess in data systems\n* Want to understand how ideas from research (e.g.\, SIGMOD) show up in production\n* Have faced (or want to avoid) real-world issues like scaling bottlenecks\, query inefficiencies\, or data failures\ n\n## Why attend?\nThis is where you sharpen how you think about databases in the real world:\n1. **Learn from production\, not just theory**\n He ar directly from practitioners about what *actually* worked\, what failed\ , and the trade-offs behind real systems.\n2. **Build a strong peer networ k**\n Connect with engineers\, architects\, and researchers working on s imilar problems — the kind of conversations that outlast the event.\n3. **Find your community**\n Become part of a group that continues to excha nge ideas\, share learnings\, and collaborate well beyond the conference.\ n\n---\n## How to attend\n🎟 **Ticket**\nAll-access pass to the workshop s (29 May) and conference (30 May)\, with the option to attend in person o r remotely.\n*Note: Food is not included for in-person attendees — pleas e add a food ticket.*\n\n🤝 **Annual membership**\n[One-year access to R ootconf events and community activities across India.](https://hasgeek.com /rootconf#memberships) Attend sessions in person or online — plus record ings of all sessions\, so you never miss out.\n*Note: Members attending in person will need to purchase a food ticket separately.*\n\n🍽 **Food ti cket**\nFor in-person attendees\, the food ticket includes tea/coffee with morning snacks\, lunch\, and evening tea — so you can stay fuelled and keep the conversations going through the day.\n\n👕 **T-shirt**\nWe love d the fine-grain fabric from The Layer Project and have partnered with the m to create Rootconf tees.\nOwn one — you won’t regret it. Add it to y our cart.\n\n---\n## Contact information\n📞 **Call or WhatsApp Rootconf :** +91 76763 32020\n📧 **Email:** info@hasgeek.com\n\n---\n## Sponsorsh ip inquiries\nInterested in placing your brand before a niche audience of technologists? Reach out to sales@hasgeek.com LAST-MODIFIED:20260503T170006Z LOCATION:Polaris School of Technology\, Bengaluru - https://hasgeek.com/ro otconf/special-edition-on-databases/ ORGANIZER;CN=Rootconf:MAILTO:no-reply@hasgeek.com URL:https://hasgeek.com/rootconf/special-edition-on-databases/ BEGIN:VALARM ACTION:display DESCRIPTION:Special Edition on Databases in 5 minutes TRIGGER:-PT5M END:VALARM END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR