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I take over apps that were made with Lovable, Bolt or v0....

On October 1-2, Chernihiv Polytechnic National University held the II International scientific and practical conference “Free/Open Source Software in Education,...

Building a Database DBA Lab with Docker, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Percona Monitoring and Management How I built a local database playground, learned a few lessons...

PGConf.EU is right around the corner! This year, we’re heading to Valencia for three days of talks on October 20-22, followed by the Community Events Day on Fri...

In our previous blog post ProxySQL HA with BGP ECMP Anycast, we established why we would want to use BGP ECMP as a strategy for making our ProxySQL cluster high...

Every planning cycle starts the same way. We sit together, agree on a handful of goals and everyone leaves the meeting motivated. A few weeks later, Jira holds ...

This post collects the main things Marco Tusa covered in his keynote at Percona Live 2026 in Amsterdam: where Percona stands on MySQL, which features landed in ...

When you read about how LLMs help developers start on a project, it’s usually about how quickly they can create their first meaningful PRs. But is it really the...

Every document-processing system I have worked on arrives at the same shape. Something uploads a file, something else has to read it, run it through an extracti...

Percona gives us room to work on our own AI-assisted projects, and I used mine to fix a problem I kept running into. Every time I wanted to try a new database f...

A backup is only useful if it can be restored. This lab seeds a source database, takes a logical archive, deliberately deletes the source database, restores int...

When I started learning tennis as an adult, I realized that what made tennis difficult was not learning the tennis strokes, instead it was learning to realize t...

A database migration can be syntactically correct and still be a poor release candidate. A regular index build can block writes, an ALTER TABLE may wait behind ...

When setting up a new database for an application, high availability (HA) is one of the main priorities. Let’s assume for this example that you chose to use a P...

When activity spreads across GitHub, the forum, and content, real contribution is easy to lose in the noise. A community program only works when people trust th...