Mario García

Technical Evangelist, Percona

Mario has been an active Open Source contributor for more than 15 years. Technical Evangelist @ Percona. Python developer with experience automating stuff and web development. Speaker at tech and innovation events since 2008. DevOps enthusiast. Member of GitLab Heroes, GitKraken Ambassadors and HashiCorp Ambassadors.

Latest Blog Posts

PostgreSQL: Query Optimization With Python and PgBouncer

Database application by Nick Youngson CC BY-SA 3.0 Pix4free...

Backups for MySQL With mysqldump

Basic Usage mysqldump is a client utility that can be used for doing logical backups. It will generate the necessary SQL statements to reproduce the original database....

Setting Up PMM For Monitoring Your Databases on Windows

Before deploying Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) in production, you might want to test it or set up a development instance locally. Since many developers and DBAs have Windows desktops, I want...

Latest Events

Securing Your Data Using PostgreSQL - January 12, 2022 Developer Meetup

When we talk about database security, it encompasses different modules of different distinct areas. It is a very vast topic because it requires securing your (1) Network, (2) Network Node, (3) Data, (4) Database, (5) Users and (6) Application.

MySQL performance troubleshooting with PMM - Percona Community MySQL Live Stream & Chat - December 16th

End of the Year Session: Query Troubleshooting - Percona Community PostgreSQL Live Stream & Chat - December 1st

How To Generate Test Data for Your Database Project With Python

If you need test data for the database of your project, you can get a dataset from Kaggle or use a data generator. In the first case, if you need to process the data before inserting it into the datab...

Using PostgreSQL and Redis to Boost Performance - Percona Community PostgreSQL Live Stream & Chat - November 17th

How to Secure MySQL Database - Percona Community MySQL Live Stream & Chat - Nov 11th

AWS Summit Mexico City: Back to In-Person Events

In March 2020, I presented my latest talk at an in-person event. This event was organized by a local university, Then when events started to happen online, during the pandemic, I was a speaker at abou...

Setting Up a PostgreSQL Connection Pool - Percona Community PostgreSQL Live Stream & Chat - Oct, 20th

How to Benchmark Your MySQL Database - Percona Community MySQL Live Stream & Chat - Oct 14th

Finding Poorly Designed Schema's and How to Fix Them - Percona Community MySQL Live Stream & Chat - Sept 30th

Creating a Kubernetes cluster on Amazon EKS with eksctl

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) is a managed Kubernetes service that makes it easy for you to run Kubernetes on AWS and on-premises. Kubernetes is an open-source system for automating d...

Setting up PMM for monitoring MySQL on a local environment

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