#Community articles

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...

Every great journey needs a guide....

On July 9–10, the two of us - Sandra (Engineering, Percona for MongoDB) and Radek (Product, Percona for MongoDB) - packed our backpacks and headed to Berlin for...

You filed a bug report at 11pm because you’d already done the work to isolate it. You answered a forum question that had been sitting unanswered for three days....

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....

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...

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...

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....

The Percona team is heading to KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe in Amsterdam, and we’d love to meet you in person!...

This is a recap of Percona at preFosdem and Fosdem!...

Percona.Connect London 2025 brought the open-source database community together for a half-day of learning and collaboration. The event focused on providing pra...

We believe this is something every strong team aspires to: taking interactions beyond the office, building a sense of community outside of work, and getting to ...