ProxySQL at MySQL BR Conf 2026: Together in São Paulo

After Nerdearla in Buenos Aires, the next stop was São Paulo for MySQL BR Conf 2026. On September 26, we joined the MySQL community at Universidade Anhembi Morumbi in Mooca.

This time I shared the stage with Alkin Tezuysal. Our talk was Managed ProxySQL, in Your Own AWS Account, about the operational work behind running a proxy fleet and the approach we are taking with ProxySQL.Cloud.

We also had Jesmar, Alkin, and myself together — the full ProxySQL executive team. The photo above captures that part of the trip, with three MySQL dolphins making sure nobody had empty hands.

Why we brought this talk to Brazil

Getting the first query through a proxy is only the beginning. Once applications depend on it, the proxy needs the same operational care as the rest of the database infrastructure: consistent configuration, controlled upgrades, monitoring, and a way to recover when a change goes wrong.

That is the work Alkin and I wanted to discuss. ProxySQL already gives teams the tools to manage SQL traffic. With ProxySQL.Cloud, we are working on the operational experience around those tools, while keeping the proxy cluster inside the customer’s own AWS account and VPC.

Our presentation followed that idea through the lifecycle of a deployment: discovering the database topology, reviewing configuration, applying changes across replicas, and managing maintenance. We also explained the boundary between the management control plane and the infrastructure serving application traffic.

A MySQL community conference is a useful place to put these choices in front of the people who work with databases. The details matter: who controls the network, where credentials live, what happens during an upgrade, and what keeps running if the management service is unavailable. Those are the questions we built the presentation around.

The people behind the software

I started ProxySQL in 2013. Today, a photo of Jesmar, Alkin, and me together tells another part of that story: the team behind the project and the work we are doing beyond the proxy itself.

Sharing the stage with Alkin let us bring that work to MySQL BR Conf together. It also made this a very different session from my Argentina talk on SQL routing and consistency, even though both come back to the same concern: helping people run database systems they can depend on.

Thank you to Vinicius Grippa and Marcelo Altmann for organizing the conference, to Universidade Anhembi Morumbi for hosting it, and to the volunteers, speakers, and everyone who joined us in São Paulo.

I’ll share the final slides and a closer look at the architecture in a separate post.