At Percona Live, Dave Stokes talked to Matthew Boehm, Principal Architect at Percona. One of the best at troubleshooting database problems discusses best practices for resolving issues. Do not miss his MySQL 5.7 to 8.0 upgrade examples.
Dave joined Percona last February 2022. Dave is MySQL Community Manager and the author of MySQL & JSON - A Practical Programming Guide
Percona is a Bronze sponsor at AWS re:Invent, November 30-December 4 in Las Vegas. We’ll be on the Expo floor with the cloud community — talking open source databases, performance tuning, and data infrastructure that holds up in AWS production environments.
November 30-December 4, 2026
Percona is a Silver sponsor at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America, November 9-12 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Find us in the Solutions Showcase to talk databases on Kubernetes — performance at scale, high availability, and what actually breaks when you run MySQL, PostgreSQL, or MongoDB in production clusters.
November 9-12, 2026
Percona is a Gold sponsor at PGConf Europe, October 20-23 in Valencia. We contribute to the PostgreSQL community year-round — this is where we catch up with contributors, operators, and the people running PostgreSQL in production.
October 20-23, 2026
