 Hello, and welcome to the foundation to be summit. No, no slide changes. Great. Okay. Thank you all for coming. I am or we have a wonderful schedule prepared for you today. There are some interesting pieces of our schedule that I wanted to walk through first. So we have our little mini orientation session first. And then I will talk to you about community. This is orientation. I am Alex Miller. If you have been on our forums or on our GitHub project and dealt with issues of PRs and a wonderful happy golden retriever puppy has responded to you. That is me. It is very nice to meet you. So for today, we are currently here in the main track. This is ballroom five. And we are here to listen about the good things coming in the future. There is a place in the schedule where we split into two groups. Half the time we are a one track event. Half the time we are a two track event. I claim that this averages out to a one and a half track event. Case studies and real world FTB will be occurring in this room. Again, ballroom number five. FTB internals and building layers will be occurring in ballroom eight. Ballroom eight is out the doors to the left. Go essentially through this wall, through the next wall over. Those of you that are student listeners and can do subtraction will realize that I have given you two rooms over for a number that is three away. Don't worry about it. Ballroom six is behind me. I did not write these numbers. It is what it is. With these two sections of two tracks, we have four experiences that are available today. For anyone that has not gone through the schedule in detail and made up their mind to already be let me offer some suggestions. If you are here and you are new to foundation to be, then this is the room for you. You will get case studies, which is the stories of problems where FTB was a good solution. And then you will stay for real world FTB of hearing about people's real production deployments of foundation to be how to run them and what you'll need to know. If you are here as a person who is interested in development, then the other room is for you. You will get to hear details of foundation to be internals and then of the details of writing layers on top of foundation to be. These talks will assume some familiarity with foundation to be already. If you are only interested in layers development and 40 minutes of storage engine talks probably isn't going to meaningfully change your life, then stay in this room, learn how users will likely try and use your layer, and then head to the other room to get the wonderful collective layers wisdom. If you are here with an SRE or operations hat on, then you'll want some knowledge of how foundation to be works internally and then come back for the real tales of production deployments. We have two lengthy breaks in our lunch and reception. This was done very intentionally. Our wonderful presenters have prepared information packed presentations for you, but there is tremendously more information and stories about foundation to be in the heads of everyone around you. This room has more collective foundation to be knowledge than anywhere else in the world right now. I implore you to leave your table of safety, the table that you sat down with all of the people that you came here with and you already know everyone around you and venture out and meet new people and talk to them. So, to facilitate this happening, during breaks, I will be over there. I am your social coordinator. For the majority of you in this room, we have already met or I will recognize you from the forums. This means that I am in a position where for any question or curiosity that you may have, I can likely point you to the best person or people to talk to to get answers. Please come ask me, otherwise I will be lonely in my corner. We will also have two other ways to engage with others at this conference. For each talk, I will be opening a thread for extended discussion on the forums. I edited this, which I did not post you to the technical difficulties that you saw earlier. I will do immediately after my talk ends. The goal of this is so that the presentations that you see today will not just be a one-way information transfer, but can be the beginning of a conversation. In addition, OpenLand is a chat platform that not only has a pre-existing FoundationDB channel with over 300 members, but is also a company based on FoundationDB. Their CTO, Steve Korshikov, is here today as one of our presenters in the real-world FDB track. To return to today, the other parts are a series of short talks from our sponsors during Lightning Talks. We end the day again in this room, Ballroom 5, to hear our take-away summary presentations, and then we have our reception. And that's the summit. Thank you to all of our presenters who spent the long hours preparing and rehearsing your slides for the wonderful presentations that you'll see today. Thank you to our sponsors for supporting the existence of this event. And thank you to all of you for coming and being wonderful members of our community. So let's talk about community. I've gone back through all of the forum posts that have been made and everything that shows up when you search GitHub for FoundationDB, and tried to put together a list of everything that happened up to and including the FoundationDB 2018 summit and then between the 2018 summit and now. If I missed anyone's project or a company list or anything is wrong with this list, I'm terribly sorry. I gave it a good effort. I will leave this slide up for a while as a free vision test to everyone, so don't worry too much. There's two parts of this slide that I would like to highlight. Upon the open-sourcing, our community did a fantastic job of going through and filling in bindings, and you see this massive bindings list under 2018 summit. I particularly enjoyed finding the few repos that were from like 2014 and 2015 that then about within a week after the open-sourcing happened immediately updated to the new version, which was both very timely and very impressive. Since the 2018 summit, you'll see that like there's continued to be good work on bindings being done, there's also been this explosion of layers. And with the problem of how to talk to FoundationDB solved, people are now free to go work on more complex use cases and actually trying to solve real problems. Second is that there is a significant increase in the number of companies that are here to talk to you about their FoundationDB usage or evaluation. eBay, OpenLand, IBM Cloud, Axtrum, Goldman Sachs are all here to do that. Triggering my LinkedIn searches or my LinkedIn watches for the FoundationDB keyboard are Segment and Branch who are also recruiting and hiring for FoundationDB-related roles, wink, wink. I'm really happy to see both personal projects and corporate involvement in FoundationDB increasing over time. I also think that this slide highlights a couple problems that we need to work on. How many of you knew that these projects existed? Like, if I hid this slide, could you recreate it? And like, no, I could not either. I had to spend time going through and trying to compile this, and it was surprised by some of the results. So I think there's two important tasks that all of you can help with. If we're going to get everyone in the world to use FoundationDB, then we need some social proof that FoundationDB is a good thing. And if we're going to get people to be contributing and reusing and giving back to the community, then we need better organizations so that we can actually discover and reuse these projects. So for social proof, using FoundationDB is an investment. For any database, using anything is an investment. If it's a personal project, it's an investment of time. If it's a corporation, it's an investment of money. Anyone looking at FoundationDB and wondering if they should try it out will want to know who is using FoundationDB, how are they using FoundationDB, and most importantly, how can I replicate their success for myself? Our real-world FTB track is a good step in this direction. We have four talks, all focusing on details of real uses of FoundationDB. Having a wider list of who all is using FoundationDB would be great. Detailed posts, like those made by Snowflake, Wavefront, and Ski Vault on the details of, like, exactly how they're using FoundationDB and what problems it has solved are even better. Please consider turning your use cases and solutions into blog posts, forum threads, talks, like whatever gets the word out. If you'd like any help in doing so, please feel free to reach out. I think our organization problem can be solved by better indexing. And thus, I'd like to introduce the awesome list. A community-maintained official endorsed index of all FoundationDB-related projects and posts. Getting content, either code or posts online, is key, but making it findable amplifies its effect. Other communities seem to have solved this before, and I think copying their ideas is fantastic. So Leopold Shable, or Leoluck on GitHub, started and added most of the content for an awesome list already. He has generously agreed to or he generously transferred it to the FoundationDB organization. Thank you, Leopold. And I hope for this to become the index that you can use to check and see what projects exist. These are its current headings. It already has a lot of good content. Please add more. Improve the structure. Add at something we've missed. If it's an improvement, I'll merge it. But seriously, like, I have high hopes for this list. I think amplifying and promoting the wonderful work that our community is already doing is vital. There's one other change for our community that I'd like to highlight, which is a seemingly minor refactoring of categories on the forums. The document layer and record layer were reparented under a new using layers category. While this might seem minor, it is an incredibly important change to me, because it now allows people to ask questions about layers that are not the record layer nor document layer. A steady stream of questions on some layer shows an interest in the project and shows the common pitfalls and how to resolve them. As members of our community have released more fantastic projects over time, and particularly with accelerating layers work, I'd like to make sure that there's nothing blocking other layers from receiving the same level of support as our document layer and record layers have received. And there's, of course, a tremendous number of additional things that could be done to promote Foundation2B's adoption and improve life for the community. We've had a brainstorming session before, which is what this more difficult vision test of a slide is, which I only have to mean there's a tremendous amount of impactful low-hanging fruit. If you are interested in helping but don't know what to do, please reach out. There are more tasks than I know what to do with. Please help. And that's our summit. Thank you.