Aliaksandr Valialkin

Co-Founder and CTO at VictoriaMetrics

Prior to VictoriaMetrics, Aliaksandr held CTO and Architect roles with adtech companies serving high volumes of traffic. He holds a Master’s Degree in Computer Software Engineering. He decided to found VictoriaMetrics after experiencing the shortcomings of all available time series databases and monitoring solutions

Aliaksandr is a co-founder and the principal architect of VictoriaMetrics. He is also a well-known author of the popular performance-oriented libraries: fasthttp, fastcache and quicktemplate.

Agenda Talks

Data & Cloud Con

14:00 to 14:45

04 Nov 2026

How to Create a Database Optimized for Petabytes of Logs and Wide Events

Databases for logs are usually forced to pick a side: build heavy inverted indexes for the ingested logs and pay for them on every write, or ingest raw data cheaply and pay with slow queries later. Is there a better approach? Yes - to make brute-force scanning so selective that most data is never read. This approach is taken by VictoriaLogs.

Aliaksandr Valialkin Co-Founder and CTO at VictoriaMetrics