Join the Movement for the Future of MySQL + Your February Community Update

Welcome to the Pulse of Open Source. Percona’s monthly community newsletter is your front-row seat to what’s next for our open source work, our products, and the broader database community we’re proud to support.

The Time is Now for Percona Live Registration!

Secure your spot at Super Early Bird pricing of just $399 for Percona Live before this limited-time rate disappears on March 22—once it’s gone, prices go up. Register NOW!

Calling all bold, forward-thinking sponsors—this is your moment to partner with Percona Live and put your brand at the center of the open source database universe! Act now to stand alongside the innovators and experts shaping the future of data and power the most dynamic, insight-packed Percona Live yet!

Got something you want to say to the open source community? Submit your abstract and proposal now for the chance to speak at Percona Live. Deadline to submit talks is March 6, 2026.

Join the Movement!

Join Percona and the open source community in an open letter to Oracle about the future of the MySQL Ecosystem.

Experts in the Field

Find our Perconians in the wild and get the latest and greatest in the open source community from our many experts.

In-Memory Databases (February 20, VIRTUAL)

Peter Zaitsev, Founder
Edith Puclla, Technical Evangelist

Confoo (February 25–27, Montreal, Canada)

Peter Zaitsev, Founder

Scale23X (March 5–8, Pasadena, California)

Peter Farkas, CEO

PostgreSQL Berlin Meetup (March 5, Berlin, Germany)

Kai Wagner, Senior Software Engineering Manager

PGConf India (March 11–13, Bengaluru, India)

Jobin Augustine, PostgreSQL Tech Lead

PGConf.De (April 21–22, Essen, Germany)

Kai Wagner, Senior Software Engineering Manager
Jan Wieremjewicz, Sr. Product Manager
Zsolt Parragi, Software Engineer
Takis Stathopoulos, Enterprise Architect
Andreas Karlsson, Software Engineer

DevOpsDay (April 30–May 1, Raleigh, North Carolina)

Peter Zaitsev, Founder

PGConf.Dev (May 19–22, Vancouver, Canada)

Andreas Karlsson, Software Engineer

Upcoming Events!

Percona is proud to sponsor these upcoming events. Come find us on the exhibit floors or interact with us around each event!

Find us at even more events around the world!

Percona FOSDEM February

FOSDEM For the Win! Percona was a proud FOSDEM sponsor and thrilled to be with so many community members!

Whether it was chatting with you at our stand, greeting you and hosting you at our dev rooms (community and databases), engaging with you at multiple pre and post FOSDEM functions or just making sure you had coffee on our dime, we loved our time at FOSDEM 2026!

See more from our time at FOSDEM here.

Featured Community Content

Join Valkey and Redis Tech Lead, Martin Visser, for a deep dive on Valkey and Redis: Sorted Sets: leaderboards and beyond.

PostgreSQL Tech Lead Jobin Augustine explores unused indexes in the PostgreSQL cluster: Analysis of Unused Indexes in PostgreSQL Cluster.

Percona Turns 20!

Percona is celebrating its 20th birthday. Click below to share your Percona stories and memories over the last two decades to be included in the 20-year book.

Celebrate With Us!