FOSDEM 2023

Speakers: Aleks Abramova, Edith Puclla, Vinicius Grippa, Peter Zaitsev, Dmitry Kostiuk, Dmitry Lenev

FOSDEM is very special: people from all over the world come to Brussels to participate in the biggest open source event in Europe. How many people? FOSDEM attracts more than 5000 attendees to the ULB Solbosch campus.

Many open source projects have stands at the event that are provided to them free of charge by the organizers. It is a perfect opportunity not only to collect some swag with the logo of your favorite project, but also to chat with its representatives and maybe even core developers and ask your questions in person.

This year, PostgreSQL, MariaDB Server, Grafana, Ansible, Ubuntu, GitLab, Jenkins, and many other of our favorite projects were accepted to have a stand.

Percona Team was lucky to meet Slonik, the PostgreSQL mascot.

Peter Zaitsev, Percona’s Founder, gave five talks during the weekend. He talked about several topics:

Distributed Storage in the Cloud (Sovereign Cloud devroom);
Is Open Source Coming back to your Cloud? (Sovereign Cloud devroom);
From a database in container to DBaaS on Kubernetes (Containers devroom);
Deep Dive into MySQL Query Performance (MariaDB, MySQL and Friends devroom);
Deep Dive Into Query Performance (PostgreSQL devroom)

All the recordings are now available on the FOSDEM website, just follow the links above.

And Peter wasn’t the only Perconian who presented during the event. Percona’s Technical Evangelist Edith Puclla talked about Exploring Database Containers and Monitor Your databases With Open Source Tools. Many people came to hear her, the room was almost full.

Dmitry Kostiuk told everyone how to draw your Kubernetes cluster the right way and how not to scare people. There were 400 attendees in the room!

Vinicius Grippa and Dmitry Lenev participated in MariaDB, MySQL and Friends devroom with talks about Using New Generated Invisible Primary Key Feature in MySQL 8.0 and Extended Observability to Agentless Monitoring on MySQL Using ProcFS UDF Plugin.

Also, I, Aleks Abramova, talked about Nurturing, Motivating and Recognizing None Code Contributions.

To my mind, the most important part of every event is networking. FOSDEM has so many great opportunities for you to get acquainted with new people, chat with old community friends and finally meet your remote colleagues in-person!

Traditionally, the Percona Team gathers together for a team dinner. We also invited some of our ex-colleagues who happened to be at FOSDEM - Matt Yonkovit, Sergey Kuzmichev, Alkin Tezuysal.

We also walked around the city to see the sights of charming Brussels. Did you know that Belgium is the birthplace of the smurfs? It was really a surprise for me.

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Speakers

Aleks Abramova

Global Events Specialist

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Edith Puclla

Technical Evangelist, Percona

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Vinicius Grippa

Percona, Senior Support Engineer

Vinicius Grippa is a Senior Support Engineer at Percona. Vinicius joined Percona Support Engineer team in 2017. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science with a passion for technology and more than 13 years experiences in databases systems. He has experience in designing databases for critical applications and, in the last few years, has become a specialist in MySQL and MongoDB ecosystems. He has helped Percona customers with hundreds of different cases featuring a vast range of scenarios and complexities. Vinicius is also active in the OS community, participating in virtual rooms like Slack, speaking at meetups, and presenting conferences in Europe, Asia, and North and South America.

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Peter Zaitsev

CEO, Percona

Peter Zaitsev is CEO and co-founder of Percona. As one of the foremost experts on MySQL strategy and optimization, Peter leveraged both his technical vision and entrepreneurial skills to grow Percona from a two-person shop to one of the most respected open source companies in the business. A serial entrepreneur, Peter co-founded his rst startup while attending Moscow State University where he majored in Computer Science. Peter is a co-author of High Performance MySQL: Optimization, Backups, and Replication, one of the most popular books on MySQL performance. Peter frequently speaks as an expert lecturer at Open Source Databases and related conferences. He has also been tapped as a contributor to Fortune and DZone.

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