FOSDEM 2022

Percona Team actively participated in FOSDEM 2022. It is a large, non-commercial free event for thousands of developers of free and open-source software from all over the world to meet, share ideas and collaborate. Traditionally held in the beautiful city of Brussels (Belgium), it took place online this year on February 5-6. FOSDEM is widely recognized as the best such conference in Europe organized by the community for the community.

Tracks are grouped into devrooms. Devrooms are a place for teams to discuss, hack and publicly present the latest directions, lightning talks, news, and discussions. Percona speakers gave 13 presentations in 10 rooms this year.

MariaDB Devroom

• MySQL 8 vs MariaDB 10.6 by Peter Zaitsev

• 10 Tips for Better MariaDB Performance by Peter Zaitsev

MySQL Devroom

• Percona XtraDB Cluster(PXC) Non blocking operations, what you need to know to avoid pitfalls by Marco Tusa

• MySQL on Kubernetes demystified. How foolishness can lead you to fell in a very dangerous trap by Marco Tusa

• Why your backup strategy is wrong? A brief overview of MySQL backup concepts by Pep Pla

• MySQL Performance on Modern CPU: Intel vs AMD vs ARM by Peter Zaitser

• Backup/Restore tools performance comparison by Vinicius Grippa and Jean Da Silva at

Containers Devroom

• Distributed Storage in the Cloud by Peter Zaitsev

• Solutions for running MySQL in Kubernetes: A brief overview of the current state of Kubernetes Operators for MySQL by Mykola Marzhan

Miscellaneous Track

• State of Open Source Databases by Peter Zaitsev

• The Business Of Open Source by Matt Yonkovit