At Percona Live, Dave Stokes talked to Peter Farkas, CEO at FerretDB. Peter tells us how he helped envision a database that spoke MongoDB but ran atop PostgreSQL. They also discussed the recent release of FerretDB and where and how it was developing.
Dave Stokes Talks Open - Episode 5 - Peter Farkas, FerretDB - Percona Live 2023
Speaker Bios
Dave Stokes
Technology Evangelist at PerconaDave joined Percona last February 2022. Dave is MySQL Community Manager and the author of MySQL & JSON - A Practical Programming Guide
Peter Farkas
CEO @ PerconaPeter 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.




