Meet Monty Widenius: A Technical Deep Dive into MariaDB Enterprise at the VSHN Tower

VSHN is now an official MariaDB partner. To mark it properly and to give teams already running MariaDB (or considering it) something hands-on, we’re hosting a technical workshop at the VSHN Tower in Zürich, with Michael “Monty” Widenius, the creator of MySQL and MariaDB, joining in person.

When: Monday, October 19, 1:30 PM – 5:00 PM (CEST)
Where: VSHN Tower, Neugasse 6, Zürich
Seats: Limited to 40

This is a hands-on technical session, not a sales pitch. VSHN and MariaDB engineers will walk through what MariaDB Enterprise actually adds on top of Community, and what that looks like running in production, live, not in slides.

What we’ll cover

• A live demo of MaxScale failover and read-write splitting, paired with Enterprise Monitor for visibility into what’s actually happening under the hood
• A walkthrough of MariaDB Cloud, including AI agents, managed deployment, and how BYOA and BYOC let you bring your own cloud account or provider, including sovereign and non-hyperscaler clouds, into the picture
• Where AI is heading for databases: RAG, vector search, and what “AI-native” actually means at the data layer, alongside a look at the current state of open source
• Monty Widenius on migrations, the MariaDB roadmap, and the wider ecosystem, drawing on two decades of building the database many of you already run

Why this matters now

MariaDB Community deployments tend to grow organically, useful until they’re business-critical, at which point questions about support, patching, licensing, and operational risk stop being optional. This workshop is for the people who actually run these systems: a chance to see what closes the gap between “it works” and “it’s operated properly,” and to ask the engineers building it directly.

Bring your questions

Got something specific you want covered, on MaxScale, MariaDB Cloud, migrations, or anything else? Let us know when you register, and we’ll make sure it’s on the table. The session closes with open Q&A, and there’s an Apéro afterwards with plenty of time to talk shop.

Register now for Monday, October 19, 1:30 PM – 5:00 PM at the VSHN Tower, Zürich