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 joined Percona last February 2022. Dave is MySQL Community Manager and the author of MySQL & JSON - A Practical Programming Guide
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.
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
