Percona University Limassol 2024

On April 20th, 2024, people who love working with databases came together in Cyprus for something special - the Percona University Limassol. Percona put on this event to help folks dive deep into the latest database tech.

The meetup was all about sharing knowledge. Percona brought in international and local experts in a database space. These experts talked about the newest trends, best ways to manage databases, and cool new solutions. Everyone could learn from each other and make connections with others who love databases.

Throughout the day, there were talks where people could learn and share ideas. It was a busy day, but everyone left feeling smarter and more connected to the global open source community.

Agenda included the following talks:

• Cloud of Serfdom vs Cloud of Freedom:Why Open Source Will Win in the Cloud age by Peter Zaitsev (Founder, Percona);
• Vector + Full Text Search benefits for edge compute, like mobile deployment by Shivay Lamba (Couchbase);
• Database security and data masking with Greenmask by Vadim Voytenko (Exness, Greenmask);
• Bringing Transparent Data Encryption to Postgres with Open Source Software by Andrew Pogrebnoi (Software Engineer, Percona);
• Separating storage and compute in Postgres by Stas Kelvich (Founder & CEO, Neon);
• Cloud-native Postgres observability: Monitoring from apps to cloud resources by Peter Zaitsev (Founder, Coroot);
• Knowledge Vectorization:The Way RAG Actually Adds Value by Serge Zakharov (rebels.ai) Apache Flink:
• Building a Company-wide Self-service Streaming Data Platform by Gleb Shipilov (Team Leader of DIT, Exness).

The room was full to the brim, with not a single free seat in sight.

We look forward to more meetings in the future, where we can continue to learn and grow together in the exciting world of databases. ∎