Date: October 1, 2025
Time: 11 AM PT
When we talk about scaling applications, the focus is usually on handling more users, more data, and more queries. But the reality is that true scaling isn’t just about throughput. As systems grow, new and often overlooked challenges emerge: schema changes that drag down velocity, backups and restores that take forever, tenant and metadata management that spiral out of control, and operational tasks that become so heavy they block innovation.
In this webinar, we’ll explore:
- Why scaling pressure doesn’t stop at reads and writes—and where teams are caught off guard.
- How schema migrations, statistics collection, and downstream replication can become the real bottlenecks.
- The hidden impact of growth on developer velocity and operational resilience.
- Strategies modern architectures use to keep scaling sustainable without slowing innovation.
Join us for a practical discussion on the “forgotten” dimensions of scale—so you can anticipate, prepare for, and overcome them before they slow your business down.
Speaker:
Sam Dillard
Principal Solutions Architect
Sam is a database generalist. He’s a technical product manager and solution architect who has brought to market multiple innovations in distributed database systems. He is an expert in both OLTP and OLAP database systems. He’s gone deep helping architect application backends for household name social media and SaaS analytics applications. And with his experience architecting for TiDB, he’s well-versed in the AI application database space, helping get ideas off the ground and future-proofed.