Peter Zaitsev

We’re excited to share that Peter Zaitsev, Founder of Percona, will present his talk “Why PostgreSQL Took the Crown from MySQL and What Lies Ahead.” After participating in Percona PGConf.EU in Riga, Peter is bringing this session to our community once again, with updated insights and perspectives from recent conversations with PostgreSQL experts and users.

We’re gathering in San Francisco on January 14 for a focused, in‑person summit dedicated to strengthening the MySQL ecosystem through collaboration and contribution.

We’re gathering in Brussels on February 2nd for a focused, in-person summit dedicated to strengthening the MySQL ecosystem through collaboration, contribution, and community building.

Percona and PG Armenia invite you to a free, in-person event in Yerevan, Armenia, as part of Percona University!

Percona University is an ongoing series of community-driven database meetups, bringing together open-source enthusiasts from around the world. On September 7th, we landed in Istanbul, the vibrant cultural and economic hub of Türkiye, for a day of learning, networking, and meaningful connections.

On April 20th, 2024, people who love working with databases came together in Cyprus for something special - the Percona University Limassol. Percona put on this event to help folks dive deep into the latest database tech.

FOSDEM is very special: people from all over the world come to Brussels to participate in the biggest open source event in Europe. How many people? FOSDEM attracts more than 5000 attendees to the ULB Solbosch campus.

Two days before the main FOSDEM event, MySQL enthusiasts all over the world gather together for learning and networking at preFOSDEM MySQL Days in Brussels. This time the event took place at the same building where it was interrupted by COVID - ICAB Incubator. The event was free but required registration due to limited capacity. A couple of weeks before the event, all available tickets were sold out.

Transcript Matt Yonkovit: Hey everybody, welcome to an exciting, this is a very exciting episode of the HOSS talks FOSS, because I have with us the founders of Percona, Peter and Vadim, who are here to celebrate our 40th episode of the HOSS talks FOSS. That’s what we’re all here for right? Now, actually, we’re here to talk about Percona’s 15 years, 15 years in the open source space. 15 years, we’ve been around 15 years, Peter and Vadim have been looking at each other cross eyed and funny for 15 years we’ve been here, and we thought it would be good to get together and talk about some of the good old days, some of the reasons why Percona exists, why we were started, and tell you some of the things you might not be aware of. So, hi, Peter and Vadim.

Transcript Matt Yonkovit: I guess the big news of the week for us is that Elastic has decided to kick open to the curb despite saying they’ve doubled down on open, which is kind of silly because I have always thought doubling down meant you were going to do more of it, not less of it. But as someone pointed out on Twitter, maybe they’re looking at doubling down as two negatives make a positive. So it looks like they’re going to SSPL because they don’t want to be open anymore.