Community Podcast

Want to spend your spare time with pleasure and benefit? We prepared for you a Percona Community-focused podcast “The HOSS talks FOSS” hosted by the HOSS (Head of Open Source Software) Matt Yonkovit.

Matt invites outstanding community members, engineers, contributors, and industry leaders to have some tech talk and discuss their experience, open source, and databases. Find out more about the latest trends, technologies, use cases and learn from outstanding experts.

New episodes are available on almost all podcast platforms.

All Things Pulsar, Cassandra and DataStax - Percona Database Podcast 78 /w Patrick McFadin

Transcript Matt Yonkovit Hello, everyone. Welcome to another HOSS talk FOSS. I’m the HOSS Matt Yonkovit, Head of Open Source Strategy at Percona. And I am joined once again by our old friend from DataStax, Patrick McFadin, Patrick, welcome to another round of my podcast.

July 21, 2022

Data Collection, Download Metrics, and Scarf - Percona Database Podcast 77 /w Avi Press

Transcript Matt Yonkovit Hello, everybody. Welcome to another HOSS Talks FOSS. I’m the HOSS, Matt Yonkovit, Head of Open Source Strategy, here at Percona. And today, I’m joined by Avi Press, the CEO of Scarf. Avi, how’re you doing today?

June 30, 2022

All things Open Source Database Advocacy and AlloyDB - Percona Database Podcast 76 /w Gabe Weiss

Transcript Matt Yonkovit Hello, everybody. Welcome to another HOSS talk FOSS. I’m the HOSS Head of Open Source strategy at Percona. Matt Yonkovit. And today I’ve got Gabe Weiss from Google. Gabe, how are you doing today?

June 23, 2022

Tigris Data - Percona Database Podcast 75 /w Ovais Tariq

Transcript Matt Yonkovit Hello, everyone. Welcome to another HOSS Talks FOSS. I’m the HOSS, head of open source strategy here at Percona, Matt Yonkovit. And today I am here with Ovais Tariq. Hello, Ovais. Welcome back to the HOSS Talks FOSS.

June 16, 2022

Insight from a PostgreSQL contributor and developer: Ep 74 of the HOSS talks with Hamid Akhtar

Transcript Matt Yonkovit Hey everybody, welcome to another HOSS Talks FOSS. I’m the HOSS, Matt Yonkovit, here at Percona. I am here with Hamid Akhtar today, our Senior Software Engineer involved in all things Postgres. How are you doing today Hamid?

June 15, 2022

Zero Trust in Applications and OpenZiti - Percona Database Podcast 73 with Clint Dovholuk

Transcript Matt Yonkovit Hello, everyone. Welcome to another HOSS Talks HOSS. I’m the HOSS Matt Yonkovit, Head of Open Source Strategy here at Percona. And today I am with Clint Dovholuk.

June 9, 2022

All Things Opensource Data Warehouse - Percona Database Podcast 72 /w Robert Hodges

Transcript Matt Yonkovit Hey everybody, welcome to another HOSS Talks FOSS, I am the HOSS Matt Yonkovit, Head of Open Source Strategy here at Percona. And I’m here with Robert Hodges from Altinity. Robert, how are you doing today?

June 7, 2022

The Evolving Role of the DBA to SRE/DBRE – Open Source Database Podcast 71 /w David Murphy

Transcript Matt Yonkovit Hey everybody, welcome to another HOSS Talks FOSS. I’m the HOSS, Head of Open Source Strategy here Percona Matt Yonkovit and today I am joined by David Murphy. David, what’s up?

June 2, 2022

Making Business in Open Source Environment – Database Podcast 70 /w Joshua Drake

Transcript Matt Yonkovit Hello, everyone, welcome to another episode of the HOSS talks FOSS. I’m Matt Yonkovit and I am here to talk to JD, Joshua Drake, the founder and the lead over at command prompt. Who’s been doing Postgres since the early days of Postgres. I know. JD,

May 31, 2022

Talking database with DBA - Percona Database Podcast 69 with Ananias Tsalouchidis

Transcript Matt Yonkovit Hello, everybody. Welcome to another HOSS Talks FOSS. I’m the HOSS Matt Yonkovit, Head of Open Source Strategy here at Percona. And today I am joined by a fellow Perconian. He’s actually famous and he doesn’t even know that he’s famous. He doesn’t know that I’m going to do this. He’s just looking at the screen now in complete shock. Ananias is here today! And if you don’t know, and he has, he actually has, and did you know this? Maybe you didn’t? Maybe you did? The most popular blog in the Percona blog history. Did you know that? No, you didn’t know that.

May 26, 2022

Impact of the War in Ukraine on the PostgreSQL Community – HOSS Talks FOSS 68 With Bruce Momjian

Transcript Matt Yonkovit: Hey everybody, welcome to another HOSS Talks FOSS. I’m the HOSS Matt Yonkovit, Head of Open Source Strategy here at Percona. And I am joined once again by Bruce Momjian, from EnterprisedB. Bruce has been on this podcast before, and we had been ships passing in the night last week at the Postgres conference. we saw each other but didn’t get to catch up. So we figured why not exactly on a call like this and chat and catch up on what’s going on? And so it’s always exciting. we’ve got other conferences, and we’re starting to be in person again, I don’t know about you, but I’m glad to actually talk to people in person. Right

May 24, 2022

Modernize Relational Databases Through a Cloud-Native Approach – Opensource Podcast 67 /w Denis Magda

Transcript Matt Yonkovit: Hey everybody, welcome to another HOSS Talks FOSS. I’m the HOSS, Matt Yonkovit, Head of Open Source Strategy here at Percona. Today, I’m joined by Denis Magda from Yugabyte. Denis, how are you doing?

May 12, 2022

Running MySQL at Hyper Scale, When You Know Weird Things Will Happen – Percona Database Podcast 66 – Oleksandr Kuzminskyi

Transcript Matt Yonkovit: Hey, everybody, welcome to another HOSS talks FOSS. I’m the HOSS, Head of Open Source Strategy here at Percona Matt Yonkovit. And today I’m joined by a longtime member of the MySQL community, someone that I used to work with years and years ago, and we’ve kept up over the years at various conferences and things when they were in person. Olex Kuzminskyi. Oleks, how are you doing today?

May 11, 2022

The HOSS Talks FOSS 65 - Andreas Scherbaum, Head of Databases at Adjust GmbH

Transcript Matt Yonkovit: Hey, everybody, welcome to another HOSS Talks FOSS. I’m the HOSS, Matt Yonkovit, Head of Open Source Strategy here at Percona. And today, I’m joined by an extra special guest from the Postgres community. Andreas Scherbaum. Andreas, how are you today?

May 10, 2022

Running 1000’s of MySQL Instances: Vaidyanathan Subramanian, Engineering Manager at Flipkart, OpenSource Database Podcast64

Transcript Matt Yonkovit: Hey, everybody, welcome to another HOSS Talks FOSS. I’m the HOSS, Head of Open Source Strategy here at Percona. And today I’m here with Vaidy from Flipkart, who is one of India’s largest e-commerce sites, and they have one of the largest e-commerce MySQL deployments in the world. And I’m really excited to have him here today to chat with us a little bit about his journey and about the stuff going on at Flipkart. How are you today, Vaidy?

May 9, 2022