2026 Fall RocksDB Meetup @ Meta (Bellevue Campus)

We’re excited to announce our 2026 Fall RocksDB Meetup on Wednesday, September 30th—and for the very first time, we are hosting the event at our Meta Bellevue campus!

Whether you’re building on RocksDB, managing it in production, or researching storage engine innovations, we look forward to bringing the community together for an evening of deep-dive talks, networking, and technical discussions.

📣 Call for Speakers: Share Your RocksDB Story!
Are you or your company leveraging RocksDB in an interesting way? We are currently accepting proposals for industry, academia, and community talks!
Submit your talk proposal here.

📅 Event Details

• Date: Wednesday, September 30, 2026
• Time: 3:30 PM – 8:00 PM PDT
• Location: National Park @ Meta Bellevue Campus (visitor pass instructions will be updated soon)
• Remote Stream: Coming Soon
• Parking: Available at Nojo (recommended) or Pickler (Note: Pickler garage closes at 7:00 PM)
• Perks: Free dinner, drinks, and exclusive RocksDB swag! 🍔🎁

⏰ Schedule

3:30 – 4:00 pm - Check-in, swag pickup & social time
4:00 – 4:10 pm - Kick-off
4:10 – 4:40 pm - Nimble + RocksDB - Xiaoxuan Meng, Xingbo Wang (Meta)
4:40 – 5:10 pm - Stripe on RocksDB - Hemal Shah (Stripe)
5:10 – 5:25 pm - Break
5:25 – 5:35 pm - Evolved Binary - Adam Retter (Evolved Binary)
5:35 – 5:45 pm - Optimizing CPU and Space in New Block Format (format_version 8) - Peter Dillinger (Meta)
5:45 – 5:55 pm - Wide Column Projection with Lazy Blob Resolution - Peter Dillinger (Meta)
5:55 – 6:05 pm - Range Tombstone Optimization - Josh Kang (Meta)
6:05 – 6:15 pm - Block Level Columnar Encoding - Anand Ananthabhotla (Meta)
6:15 – 6:25 pm - Data Integrity in RocksDB - Rittik Banik (Meta)
6:25 – 6:35 pm - ZippyDB Bulk Load on RocksDB - Omkar Gawde (Meta)
6:35 – 6:45 pm - Journey to migrating general purpose InnoDB/MySQL workloads to RocksDB/MyRocks - Yoshinori Matsunobu (Meta)
6:45 – 6:50 pm - Closing remarks
6:50 – 8:00 pm - Dinner & networking

Hope to see you all in Bellevue!