Name: Heapcon 2026
Start: 2026-11-05T00:00:00+00:00
End: 2026-11-06T00:00:00+00:00
Location: Belgrade

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Heapcon 2026 takes place 2026-11-05 – 2026-11-06 in Belgrade.

Conference site: https://heapcon.io/2026

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Lessons from 20 Years of Bootstrapping an Open Source Business to $50M+ by Peter Farkas

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Speakers

Peter Farkas

Peter Farkas is a seasoned open source leader with over 15 years of experience building sustainable open source projects and businesses. He currently serves as the CEO of Percona, a global leader in open source database software and services.

Before joining Percona, Peter was the Co-Founder and CEO of FerretDB, the truly open source MongoDB alternative that enables developers to use MongoDB drivers seamlessly with PostgreSQL as the backend.

Peter is a strong advocate for open source solutions, believing that they can drive innovation and sustainable growth on par with-or beyond-proprietary software.

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