Inside the 2026 Monster Scale Summit Agenda

Monster Scale Summit is all about extreme scale engineering and data-intensive applications. So here’s a big announcement: the agenda is now available! Attendees can join 50+ tech talks, including: Keynotes by antirez, Camille Fournier, Pat Helland, Joran Greef, Thea Aarrestad, Dor Laor, and Avi Kivity Martin Kleppmann & Chris Riccomini chatting about the second edition of Designing Data-Intensive Applications Tales of extreme scale engineering – Rivian, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Nextdoor, Uber Eats, Google, Los Alamos National Labs, CERN, and AmEx ScyllaDB customer perspectives – Discord, Disney, Freshworks, ShareChat, SAS, Sprig, MoEngage, Meesho, Tiket, and Zscaler Database engineering – Inside looks at ScyllaDB, turbopuffer, Redis, ClickHouse, DBOS, MongoDB, DuckDB, and TigerBeetle What’s new/next for ScyllaDB – Vector search, tablets, tiered storage, data consistency, incremental repair, Rust-based drivers, and more Like other ScyllaDB-hosted conferences (e.g., P99 CONF), the event will be free and virtual so everyone can participate. Take a look, register, and start choosing your own adventure across the multiple tracks of tech talks. Full Agenda Register [free + virtual] When you join us March 11 and 12, you can… Chat directly with speakers and connect with ~20K of your peers Participate in interactive trainings on topics like real-time AI, database performance at scale, high availability, and cloud cost optimization strategies Pick the minds of ScyllaDB engineers and architects, who are available to answer your toughest database performance questions Win conference swag, sea monster plushies, book bundles, and other cool giveaways Details, Details The agenda site has all the scheduling, abstracts, and speaker details. Please note that times are shown in your local time zone. Be sure to scroll down into the Instant Access section. This is one of the best parts of Monster SCALE Summit. You can access these sessions from the minute the event platform opens until the conference wraps. Some teams have shared that they use Instant Access to build their own watch parties beyond the live conference hours. If you do this, please share photos! Another important detail: books. Quite a few of our speakers are gluttons for punishmentaccomplished book authors. Camille Fournier – Platform Engineering, The Manager’s Path Martin Kleppmann and Chris Riccomini – Designing Data-Intensive Applications 2E Chris Riccomini – The Missing README Dominik Tornow – Think Distributed Systems Teiva Harsanyi – 100 Go Mistakes and How to Avoid Them, The Coder Cafe Felipe Cardeneti Mendes – Database Performance at Scale We will have book giveaways throughout the event, so be sure to attend live. All registrants get 30-day access to the complete O’Reilly platform, which includes all O’Reilly, Manning, and many other tech books. This includes the shiny new second edition of Designing Data-Intensive Applications, which publishes this month. Perfect timing… Register now – it’s free