EightKB 2026: Registration is Open!

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It’s that time of year again! EightKB is back on August 20th at 13:00 UTC, and registration is open right now. It’s completely free. No catch, just a full day of the deepest SQL Server content you’ll find anywhere on the internet.

Mark, Andrew, and I have been putting this event on since 2020, and this year’s lineup might be the best one yet. All sessions are 400-level. That’s by design. We built EightKB specifically to fill the gap for serious internals content in the SQL Server community.

The Schedule

Here’s what we’ve got for you on the 20th:

  • Chrissy LeMaire: Enterprise Vibe Coding
  • Mala Mahadevan: Vector Compression & Memory/Storage Economics: FP16 Vectors and Matryoshka Embeddings
  • Andy Yun: Unraveling the Layers of I/O: Your Next Step to Becoming a Comprehensive Performance Tuner
  • John Morehouse: Accelerated Database Recovery: A Deep Dive Behind the Magic
  • Edwin M Sarmiento: Always On Availability Groups and Failover Clustering Internals

That’s six hours of internals sessions covering I/O performance, recovery internals, Availability Groups, vector storage economics, and AI-era coding patterns. There’s something in here for every level of SQL Server practitioner who wants to go deeper.

Sign Up

Registration takes about 30 seconds. Head over to eightkb.online and grab your spot.

If you haven’t caught any of our previous events, all of the sessions from past years are up on our YouTube channel. There’s a lot of excellent content in there to hold you over until the 20th.

Support EightKB

We run this event entirely from our own pockets. No sponsors, no ticket fees. If you want to help us keep it going, check out our store on bonfire.com. Every shirt sale goes straight back into the event.

Wrapping Up

We started EightKB because we wanted more brain melting deep-dive internals content in the community. Six years later, it’s still the most fun we have all year. I hope to see you there on the 20th.

Register now at eightkb.online. It’s free, and this lineup is worth your afternoon.