Monday, December 9, 2013

Attended UKOUG Tech13 and Oaktable World UK

In cold, yet dry Manchester’s winter, it was quite thermal to simultaneously relish the meritorious UKOUG Tech13 and elite Oaktable World UK 2013 conferences. Pythian’s presence was overwhelming at both congresses. Paul Vallee, Alex Gorbachev, Elliot Zissman, Luke Davies, Paul Logan, Maris Elsins, Marc Fielding, Christo Kutrovsky and Michael McKee rocked the events.


Everyone was spoiled for the choice of the sessions. I remained focused on the engineered systems and performance tuning. Both conferences soaked me up in plenty of sessions from these tracks and much more. Jonathan Lewis talked about compression, and CBO. Tom Kyte also bestowed with his keen outlook on the various features. Pythian’s folks Luke Davies, Maris, Alex Gorbachev, and Michael Mckee shared their great insight too.