Database Evolution: Partitioning and Indexing | Purushotham Jinka | Conf42 Cloud 2026
Presenters Purushotham Jinka Source Conf42 Cloud 2026 The Database Revolution: How Cloud-Native Architectures are Learning to Think for Themselves! 🚀 Hello, tech enthusiasts! Have you ever wondered how the databases powering our increasingly dynamic digital world keep up? For decades, we built our data systems on assumptions of stability: predictable workloads, fixed infrastructure, and manual tuning. But as Purushotham Jinka, a Vice President at Citi focusing on large-scale data and cloud platforms, brilliantly explains, those days are over. We are now witnessing a profound shift in database design, moving from rigid, on-prem models to intelligent, self-optimizing cloud-native architectures. ...