Community Events

Join Percona as it sponsors the Cloud Native Databases virtual event on February 20–21, 2026, featuring insights from key Percona leaders and engineers. Founder Peter Zaitsev, Software Engineer Ege Gunes, and Software Engineer George Kechagias will take the stage to share their perspectives and real‑world experience, highlighting how Percona’s open source services and tools empower teams to build, run, and scale modern database platforms with confidence in cloud environments.

Sorted Sets are one of the most powerful data structures in Valkey and Redis, but they are often only associated with gaming leaderboards. In this session, Martin Visser (Valkey and Redis Tech Lead @ Percona) dives deep into how sorted data structures can solve complex engineering challenges with high efficiency.

There’s a lot of discussion about comparing Kubernetes operators for Postgres, but what about how Postgres operators compare to operators for other databases?

Setting up efficient LLM applications requires more than just calling an API. In this session, Martin Visser explains how semantic caching can significantly reduce the cost and latency of Large Language Model (LLM) applications by reusing meaningfully similar responses instead of exact matches.

We’re excited to share that Peter Zaitsev, Founder of Percona, will present his talk “Why PostgreSQL Took the Crown from MySQL and What Lies Ahead.” After participating in Percona PGConf.EU in Riga, Peter is bringing this session to our community once again, with updated insights and perspectives from recent conversations with PostgreSQL experts and users.

We’re gathering in San Francisco on January 14 for a focused, in‑person summit dedicated to strengthening the MySQL ecosystem through collaboration and contribution.

We’re gathering in Brussels on February 2nd for a focused, in-person summit dedicated to strengthening the MySQL ecosystem through collaboration, contribution, and community building.

Data Gravity Podcast Data Gravity is Percona’s community podcast about open data topics. Percona’s Head of Community Joe Brockmeier invites recognized open source experts to talk all things related to open source databases, open source database tools, and open data. He talks to open source contributors, database practitioners, users, and other experts working with MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and other open source databases and tools. You can find all episodes on Podbean and on this page.

In this episode, Joe Brockmeier interviews benny Vasquez of the AlmaLinux Project to discuss open source data, the future of databases, and how databases and Linux distros go together.

In this episode, Joe Brockmeier talks to Percona’s Sonia Valeja and David Gonzalez, about their recent book PostgreSQL for Jobseekers. They talk about the inspiration for the book, why they focus on jobseekers, and what’s covered in the title.