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pg_tde: our fork is temporary, our commitment to open TDE is not
Zsolt Parragi Software Engineer, Percona
Recently we noticed a LinkedIn post promoting open_pg_tde, a fork of our pg_tde, claiming to be more open. I looked at the repository, and have to disagree with...
July 8 #PostgreSQL #Opensource #pg_zsolt #TDE
Cross-site Disaster Recovery with Percona Operator for MySQL
Mayank Shah Senior Software Engineer
A MySQL InnoDB Cluster provides high availability for a single database cluster using Group Replication. This works well for node failures inside the cluster, b...
July 6 #Percona #Kubernetes #Cloud #Community
PostgreSQL Autovacuum Internals and Benchmark
Pep Pla Senior Consultant @ Percona PS | PostgreSQL | MySQL
Vacuum, or more precisely autovacuum, is the most important automatic maintenance task in PostgreSQL. It is key for performance, but also for long-term database...
July 1 #PostgreSQL #autovacuum #vacuum #mvcc
Building Smart Semantic Search using PostgreSQL and pgvector. Part 3 - Hybrid Search, Percona Blog, and Widget Improvements
Daniil Bazhenov
Here I write about what I changed after the first launch: hybrid search, filters and counts on the search page, the widget layout, indexer hardening, and the Pe...
June 30 #PostgreSQL #pgvector #search #embeddings
Why PostgreSQL needs an AI usage policy
Jan Wieremjewicz Senior Product Manager, Percona
We often hear that open source is about people....
June 26 #PostgreSQL #Opensource #pg_jan #ai
Guide Multi-Cluster MongoDB on GKE with MCS, Percona Operator
Edith Puclla Technical Evangelist, Percona
Ivan Groenewold MongoDB Tech Lead, Percona | Open source enthusiast
Multi-Cluster MongoDB on GKE with MCS Guide Ivan Groenewold, Technical Lead, Percona MongoDB, and I put together a detailed step-by-step guide on deploying the ...
June 12 #Kubernetes #Operators #Open Source #MongoDB
The Percona Community Slack is open — come hang out
Laura Czajkowski Director of Community, Percona
The Percona Community Slack is open — come hang out There’s a new place for the people behind the databases to actually talk to each other....
June 2 #Community #Percona #Open Source #MySQL
Building Smart Semantic Search using PostgreSQL and pgvector. Case Study - Part 2 - Postgres Layer
Daniil Bazhenov
I’ll explain how I built the Postgres layer for semantic vector search on the Percona Community website: pgvector, chunks, two table modifications, the database...
May 31 #PostgreSQL #pgvector #search #embeddings
Building Smart Semantic Search using PostgreSQL and pgvector. Case Study - Part 1 - Introduction
Daniil Bazhenov
Type “zero downtime database migration” into the site’s search bar and you’ll get articles and talks about database migration with minimal downtime, even if tho...
May 29 #PostgreSQL #pgvector #search #embeddings
Write for the Percona Community
Laura Czajkowski Director of Community, Percona
You’ve fixed something gnarly in production this year. You’ve migrated a database that nobody wanted to touch. You’ve built something on top of Percona Operator...
May 22 #Community #Percona #Open Source #MySQL
Backrest's back, alright!
Jan Wieremjewicz Senior Product Manager, Percona
Events unfolded quickly over the course of a couple of weeks starting on 27 April 2026, when a message appeared on the pgBackRest project announcing: that the r...
May 19 #PostgreSQL #Opensource #pg_jan #pgBackRest
Two projects, one mission - hackorum and pginbox join forces
Kai Wagner
Last week, Zsolt and I jumped on a call with someone who had been building something remarkably similar to what we had been working on, completely independently...
May 13 #Percona #PostgreSQL #Community #pg_kwagner
Our Experience at MongoDB.local London 2026: The Era of AI Agents, Badges, and Surviving on Chips!
Edith Puclla Technical Evangelist, Percona
Keith Quinn Software Test Engineer, Percona
On May 7th, Keith (Quality Engineer, Percona for MongoDB) and I had the super cool opportunity to head over to MongoDB.local London! The event was amazing and p...
May 11 #AI #events #MongoDB #database
Meet the Percona Community team
Laura Czajkowski Director of Community, Percona
We’ve just landed on X and Mastodon, and before the first real post goes out, we wanted to do something we don’t do often enough: introduce ourselves....
May 7 #Community #Percona #Open Source #Events
How I Stopped Babysitting My Coding Agent (With Dotfiles)
Zsolt Parragi Software Engineer, Percona
Most developers at least try to use coding agents for development-related tasks, but babysitting LLMs and managing their permissions is no fun. Completely skipp...
May 5 #AI #development