Matt Yonkovit

The HOSS, Percona

Matt is currently working as the Head of Open Source Strategy (HOSS) for Percona, a leader in open source database software and services. He has over 15 years of experience in the open source industry including over 10 years of executive-level experience leading open source teams. Matt’s experience merges the technical and business aspects of the open source database experience with both a passion for hands on development and management and the leadership of building strong teams. During his time he has created or managed business units responsible for service delivery ( consulting, support, and managed services ), customer success, product management, marketing, and operations. He currently leads efforts around Percona’s OSPO, community, and developer relations efforts. He hosts the HOSS talks FOSS podcast, writes regularly, and shares his MySQL and PostgreSQL knowledge as often as possible.

Percona Community Live June 21 - Day 1

You are invited to participate in the first day of the Percona Community Live stream! Learn about VictoriaMetrics, flexible Indexing with Postgres, PostgreSQL backups, database resiliency, and many other things on June 21st. Join us on June 22nd and June 23d for more amazing content!

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

July 21, 2022 by Matt Yonkovit, Patrick McFadin

The HOSS Talks FOSS is welcoming Patrick McFadin, Developer Relations at DataStax, for the second time. Catch up with open-source databases in general, design, and architecture. Learn more about Pulsar and all ongoing projects from Cassandra, and DataStax. Matt asked a few rapid-fire questions to know more about Patrick.

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

June 30, 2022 by Matt Yonkovit, Avi Press

Matt Yonkovit, Head of Open Source Strategy at Percona sits down with Avi Press, Founder & CEO at Scarf. Listen out for an overview of Avi’s background, projects that he worked for, and the ideas that took him to Scarf. Dive into Scarf backend and learn how it works. They tackle the pros and cons of collecting data, catch up with some trends in the open-source space, and answer rapid-fire questions.

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

June 23, 2022 by Matt Yonkovit, Gabe Weiss

Gabe Weiss, Developer Advocacy Manager at Google, is at the Percona Podcast The HOSS Talks FOSS with Matt Yonokit, The Head of Open Source Strategy ‘HOSS’ at Percona. Gabe is talking about how he got started in database advocacy and explains more about the DevRel motivation besides Marketing, products team, solution architect, and sales. They tackle advocacy success, the trend in particularly adoption of the open-source on the cloud, and Postgres growth before diving into AlloyDB.

10 Deadly PostgreSQL Sins

The Lost Art of Database Design

Tigris Data - Percona Database Podcast 75 /w Ovais Tariq

June 16, 2022 by Matt Yonkovit, Ovais Tariq

After Percona Live, Ovais Tariq, Co-Founder & CEO - of Tigris Data, joined Matt Yonkovit, The Head of Open Source Strategy at Percona, to give more feedback about the event. Ovais explains more about the back end of Tigris Data, the trend in open source, and upcoming talks in the community. Learn more, join and contribute on tigrisdata.com

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

June 15, 2022 by Matt Yonkovit, Hamid Akhtar

Join the HOSS as he talks with long-time PostgreSQL contributor, community member, and current SR Software Engineer at Percona, Hamid Akhtar. Hamid and Matt dive into PostgreSQL development processes, talk about the future of PostgreSQL and talk about tuning, monitoring, and Observability with pg_stat_monitor.

Setting Up and Using Patroni to Automate Failover in PostgreSQL - Percona Community PostgreSQL Live Stream

Setting Up Backups and Scheduling Regular MySQL Backups - Percona Community MySQL Live Stream & Chat - June 10th

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

June 9, 2022 by Matt Yonkovit, Clint Dovholuk

Clint Dovholuk stops by to talk about Zero Trust in Applications, and how it can extend to the database. He gives us an overview of OpenZiti and explains some of the bigger security-related issues in the tech space

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

June 7, 2022 by Matt Yonkovit, Robert Hodges

Robert Hodges, CEO at Altinity, joined Matt Yonkovit, The Head of Open Source Strategy at Percona, in this open-source database podcast. They started with how Robert get started and how the Database has evolved along the time that brought him to ClickHouse/Altinity. Robert gets deep into Opensource Data Warehouse with some details behind Clickhouse. As usual, enjoy the session of rapid-fire questions to know more about Robert

Setting up failover via a replica for PostgreSQL - Percona Community PostgreSQL Live Stream & Chat - June, 3rd

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

June 2, 2022 by Matt Yonkovit, David Murphy

David Murphy covers the rise of not only infrastructure as code but databases and schemas as code

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

May 31, 2022 by Matt Yonkovit, Joshua Drake

Joshua is sharing his opinion about the open-source community in action, conferences that they organized, and No code Low code solution.

Setting Up Alerts and Basic Automation for MySQL - Percona Community MySQL Live Stream & Chat - May, 27th

Percona Community live stream for MySQL is back. Matt Yonkovit and Marcos Albe talked about Setting Up Alerts and Basic Automation for MySQL during the session of May 27th. Check full recording and transcript! Follow us on Twitter and stay tuned to all upcoming Percona events.

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

May 26, 2022 by Matt Yonkovit, Ananias Tsalouchidis

Learn how Ananias started in opensource database, most common problems and challenges that the managed service Team has to fix and more about DBAs

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

May 24, 2022 by Matt Yonkovit, Bruce Momjian

Catching up with Bruce on all things Open Source and PostgreSQL

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

May 12, 2022 by Denis Magda, Matt Yonkovit

Denis Magda stops by and chat’s with the HOSS not only about Yugabyte but also about his work on various Apache projects.

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

May 11, 2022 by Oleksandr Kuzminskyi, Matt Yonkovit

Long time MySQL contributor and community member Oleksandr Kuzminskyi, Staff Database Engineer at Pinterest, stops by the HOSS talks FOSS to share his insights into managing MySQL at massive scales at companies like Pinterest, Box, Drop Box, and others!

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

May 10, 2022 by Andreas Scherbaum, Matt Yonkovit

The man behind the blog PostgreSQL Person of the Week in Percona database opensource podcast

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

May 9, 2022 by Vaidyanathan Subramanian, Matt Yonkovit

Systems and technology behind running such a large scale deployment of MySQL

Setting Up and Installing Backups With pgBackRest - Percona Community PostgreSQL Live Stream & Chat - May, 6th

Cloud, AWS Services, Aurora & RDS – Percona Podcast #63 /W Pandit Prasad and Vijay Karumajji

May 4, 2022 by Pandit Prasad, Matt Yonkovit

Talk about the cloud, AWS services, Aurora & RDS

Running Large Scale Database Applications – Percona Podcast #62 /w Yahav Biran

May 3, 2022 by Yahav Biran, Matt Yonkovit

Yahav Biran talks about some of the challenges and nuances of running large-scale applications in the gaming industry

MongoDB and MySQL Backup – Percona Podcast #61 with Vinicius and Jean

May 2, 2022 by Vinicius Grippa, Jean da Silva, Matt Yonkovit

Having worked on multiple databases from MongoDB to MySQL, they talk about choosing the best database for the job. Join Vinnie and Jean da Silva at Percona Live

Database Performance, Availability, and Operations – Percona Podcast #60 /W Yunus and Kedar

April 29, 2022 by Yunus Shaikh, Kedar Vaijanapurkar, Matt Yonkovit

Listen in on how they go about bringing stable performance, availability, and operations to new databases brought online

Observing & Tuning Your MySQL Workload Using PMM - Percona Community MySQL Live Stream & Chat - April, 29th

Percona Community live stream for MySQL is a biweekly events with Matt Yonkovit and Marcos Albe. This is the recording for the session of April, 29th. We have talked about Observing & Tuning Your MySQL Workload Using PMM (Percona Monitoring and Management). Follow us on Twitter and stay tuned to all upcoming Percona events.

OrioleDB: Fixing the Limitations of PostgreSQL - Percona Podcast #59 /w Alexander Korotkov, Founder & CEO at OrioleDB

April 28, 2022 by Alexander Korotkov, Matt Yonkovit

Alexander Korotkov walks us through the evolution of some of contributions before talking about his work to re-architect some of the PostgreSQL core. Learn more about OrioleDB and what makes it different

Deep Dive Into EdgeDB – Percona Podcast #58 w Yury Selivanov, the CEO of EdgeDB

April 27, 2022 by Yury Selivanov, Matt Yonkovit

Yury Selivanov, The CEO at EdgeDB, and Matt YonkovitWhat, The HOSS at Percona, are talking what makes EdgeDB different

Setting Up and Scheduling Regular PostgreSQL Backups (Part 2) - Percona Community PostgreSQL Live Stream & Chat - April, 21st

Change and Evolution in MongoDB Ecosystems – Percona Podcast #57 /W Ivan Groenwold

April 14, 2022 by Ivan Groenwold, Matt Yonkovit

Overview of Ivan’s career before going deep into MongoDB ecosystems. Short preview of the topics that Ivan is looking forward to presenting at Percona Live 2022.

Setting Up and Scheduling Regular PostgreSQL Backups - Percona Community PostgreSQL Live Stream - April, 8th

Learn about the best setting to protect and restore your data with Matt and Charly. They are talking about database backup settings, frequency, and different types of backups. Follow us on Twitter and get informed of all upcoming meetups

Installing MySQL and Setting Up a Default Configuration - Percona Community MySQL Live Stream & Chat - April, 1st

Watch out this recording from Percona Community live stream of April 1st. Learn how to install MySQL and Setting Up a Default Configuration with Matt Yonkovit and Marcos Albe. This is a series of live stream to discuss MySQL tricks with experts.

Setting Up Alerts and Basic Automation for PostgreSQL - Percona Community PostgreSQL Live Stream & Chat - March 25th

Percona Community organized live stream to talk more about Setting Up Alerts and Basic Automation for PostgreSQL. This recording is from the live event of March 25th with Matt Yonkovit, Charly Batista and Agustin Gallego. This is a part of the Percona Community bi-weekly Live Stream series to discuss Postgres-related topics and deep talks with technology secrets.

Talking About the Open Source Community, the CNCF, Rancher and Suse – Percona Podcast 56 With Matt Farina

March 17, 2022 by Matt Farina, Matt Yonkovit

Matt Yonkovit and Matt Farina giving us a little bit about Matt Farina's background and telling us some of the cool things that are happening over at Suse.

All About Database Community, MySQL, and JSON - Percona Podcast 55 /w Dave Stokes, Technology Evangelist at Percona

March 11, 2022 by Dave Stokes, Matt Yonkovit

Dave Stokes joined Percona as Technology Evangelist last February and he sat down with the HOSS Matt Yonkovit to talk more about his background, his interaction with open source database communities, his early days, and his choice of MySQL Community

Observing & Tuning Your PostgreSQL Workload Using PMM - Community PostgreSQL Live Stream & Chat - March 11th

Organize and access easily to your database data by observing and tuning your PostgreSQL workload using PMM. Our experts Matt Yonkovit and Charly Batista present use cases in a bi-weekly live stream about Postgres-related topics.

Installation of MongoDB via a Kubernetes Operator - Community MeetUp - March 10th

Check this full recording of the Percona Community MeetUp of March 10th hosted and learn more about installation of MongoDB via a Kubernetes operator. Matt Yonkovit, the Head of Open Source Strategy at Percona, and Sergey Pronin, Product Owner at Percona, took us through the step-by-step setup to get us started with a new MongoDB cluster.

Percona Community MeetUp - Installation and Configuration of PostgreSQL Operator - March, 2nd

Learn more about Installation and Configuration of PostgreSQL Operator in this video from our meetup of Wednesday, March, 2nd at 11 am EST. Nickolay Ihalainen show us how to work with PG replication cluster and internal components, access to your database, put data in it and use in your application, dealing with failover, backup, restore. This event is a part of our regular meetup series hosted by the Head of Open Source Strategy at Percona, Matt Yonkovit.

Learning About the Open Source Community, DevRel, and how to Make Databases cool - Percona Podcast 54

March 1, 2022 by Lorna Mitchell, Matt Yonkovit

This Percona podcast is very helpful to learn some of the tips and tricks in the DevRel space as well as some interesting things happening at Aiven. Find out more about how to measure success in DevRel, opensource business, and getting people excited about contributing to open source

Community MeetUp - Installation of MongoDB via a Kubernetes Operator - POSTPONED

Talking Databases, Liquibase, and Open Source /w Robert Reeves - Percona Podcast 53

February 16, 2022 by Robert Reeves, Matt Yonkovit

Robert and Matt chat about how everything around managing and running database has evolved and changed, and how automation is a requirement for modern database environments.

Comunity MeetUp - Installation of the main part of Percona products - February 9th, 2022 at 10:00 am EST

This video and its transcript are from the Percona Commmunity Meetup that we had with Evgeniy Patlan last February 9th, 2022. We have talked how to install Percona’s various components, the different software that we have, specifically looking at our server software in Postgres, MySQL, and MongoDB. We tackle how to install from a repository and what are the different install options that we have?

Percona Build and Release Process - Percona Podcast 52 with Evgeniy Patlan

February 4, 2022 by Evgeniy Patlan, Matt Yonkovit

Listen to Evgeniy Patlan as he is talking about his background, build engineering, the local community, and go deep into the build process

MeetUp PostgreSQL - The ins and outs of PostgreSQL Configurations and Tuning - January 27th, 2022 at 10:00 am EST

The Percona Commmunity meetup for PostgreSQL was live on last Thursday, January 27th, 2022 with Charly Batista and Matt Yonkovit. They have talked about the optimal settings to tune a new fresh database. Learn in this recording the different parameters that you should check.

Installing PG and Setting Up a Default Configuration - Community PostgreSQL Live Stream & Chat - Jan 27th

Listen out to this full recording of the 1st Live Stream dedicated to PostgreSQL hosted by The Head Of Open Source Strategy at Percona, Matt Yonkovit with Charly Batista, PostgreSQL Tech Lead at Percona. They took us through the installation of Postgres and the setting up of the default configuration. This is a part of the bi-weekly Live Streaming series to discuss Postgres-related topics and go deep into technology secrets and tricks.

Learning MySQL Book with Sergey Kuzmichev and Vinicius Grippa - Percona Podcast 51

January 26, 2022 by Sergey Kuzmichev, Vinicius Grippa, Matt Yonkovit

Sergey Kuzmichev and Vinicius Grippa wrote this Practical book guide for beginers and advanced users of MySQL

Open source database, MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB, MariaDB - Part 02 - Percona Podcast Special Edition 50

January 19, 2022 by Matt Yonkovit

Listen to this special episode of Percona's podcast to look back at the highlights of talk all along the year 2021

MeetUp MySQL - Troubleshooting Database Outages, Slowdowns, and Security Issues - Jan 14th, 2022 at 12:00 pm EST

If you missed the meetup of Friday January 14th, 2022 at 12:00 pm EST with Matt Yonkovit and Marcos Albe, here is the recording as they talk about why complexity is driving outages, slowdowns, and security issues. Matt play stump the expert and see if Marcos can improve my MySQL workload.

Open source database, MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB, MariaDB - Percona Podcast Special Edition 49

December 29, 2021 by Alvaro Hernandez, Matt Yonkovit

All along 2021 Matt Yonkovit, The Head of Open Source Strategy, sat down with special guests to talk about the open-source community, databases features, trends, and more.

Percona MeetUp for PostgreSQL - Optimization of PostgreSQL instances - Dec 15th, 2021

We have talked about what’s been going on support side with Jobin Augustine, Senior Support Engineer at Percona, before starting to stump the expert with RDS and EC2 live tuning. This Community MeetUp for PostgreSQL is 1-hour live streaming hosted by Matt Yonkovit, The HOSS at Percona, to talk more about Optimization of PostgreSQL instances.

MeetUp for MySQL - Database Tuning Secrets of the Stars - Dec 8th 2021

Listen to this Community MeetUp for MySQL hosted by Matt Yonkovit to discuss Database Tuning and Troubleshooting with Marcos Albe and Nando Camargos. They reveal some Support Cases From Hell, Database Tuning Secrets of the Stars and stump the expert Troubleshooting on RDS/Aurora.

OnGres, PostgreSQL, Open Source, Kubernetes, Babelfish w/ Alvaro Hernández - Percona Podcast 48

December 7, 2021 by Alvaro Hernandez, Matt Yonkovit

Alvaro Hernández, Founder & CEO at OnGres is talking about the story behind the elephant wall decoration in his office and go deep into the Postgres contribution ecosystem, OnGres, databases on Kubernetes, and Babelfish

Percona MeetUp for Percona Monitoring and Management PMM Dec 1st, 2021

Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is designed and constantly updated with useful features for monitoring and optimizing your database performance. The Community MeetUp for PMM of last Dec 1st, 2021 was live streaming from AWS re:Invent with Michael Coburn, hosted by Matt Yonkovit. Together, they have resolved database performance issues and stump the expert.

Talking Open Source, Linux OS, Fedora With David Duncan (Solutions Architect, AWS) - Percona Podcast 47

November 22, 2021 by David Duncan, Matt Yonkovit

David Duncan, Principal Solutions Architect, at AWS to talk about his experience, being a key contributor to the Fedora Project (Linux), and in general the open source community and more

Percona MeetUp for PostgreSQL November 2021 - Autovacuum

Listen to the full recording of The MeetUp for PostgreSQL of November 17th. We have talked about autovacuum in PostgreSQL with Percona Senior Support Engineer Sergey Kuzmichev. Matt Yonkovit, the HOSS at Percona, asked Sergey to resolve a database issue live.

Positioning Cloud Native Open Source Project - Percona Podcast 46

November 16, 2021 by Emily Omier, Matt Yonkovit

Listen in and learn more about positioning of cloud native open source projects, messaging and marketing in a context of growing Open Source adoption and in software as service SaaS business models.

Building a Strong Open Source Community With Corey Hulen (CTO, Mattermost) - Percona Podcast 45

November 5, 2021 by Corey Hulen, Matt Yonkovit

Mattermost is an enterprise messaging workspace for teams. They are so dedicated to build a strong and vibrant open source community. Beside the code contributions, the biggest gap would be things like design, whether that's software automation QA, whether that's just manual QA, feedback, user testing, ...

MeetUp for MySQL - Database Backup and Xtrabackup - Nov 3rd 2021

Full recording of the Percona MeetUp for MySQL of Nov 3rd 2021. Marcelo Altmann and Pep Pla joined Matt Yonkovit to talk about Database Backup and Xtrabackup. In this video you will be aware of different database Backup solutions out there, Best practices vs. wrong strategies, Percona XtraBackup and more. As usual during the Community Meetup, They have answered questions from attendees live.

MariaDB ServerFest and Contribution With Kaj Arnö, CEO at MariaDB Foundation - Percona Podcast 44

October 27, 2021 by Kaj Arnö, Matt Yonkovit

The CEO of the MariaDB Foundation, Kaj Arnö, joined Matt Yonkovit, The Head of Open Source Strategy at Percona, to talk about all things MariaDB related

Percona MeetUp for PMM Oct 27th, 2021

Percona Community Team orgnize Community MeetUp for Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) every month to introduce some features that help optimizing performance, and improve the security of your open-source database environments. Here is the full video recording of the live-streamed Community MeetUp for PMM of last Oct 27th, 2021. Matt Yonkovit and Michael Coburn make a demo of the dashboard and some of the more incremental changes.

Percona MeetUp for MongoDB Oct 20th, 2021

This video from Percona MeetUp for MongoDB of October 20th talk about backups, scalability, security, MongoDB 5.0, and more. Full recording with Andrew Pogrebnoi, Principal Software Engineer at Percona, and Kimberly Wilkins, MongoDB Technical Lead at Percona, hosted by Matt Yonkovit, The Head of Open Source Strategy at Percona.

Percona MeetUp for PostgreSQL October 2021

Community MeetUp for PostgreSQL was live stream on Oct 13th at 11:00am EDT to talk about how to improve your database performance with appropriated tools for monitoring and optimization. Here are the full recording and transcript :

Percona MeetUp for MySQL Oct 6th 2021

The Community MeetUp for MySQL on Oct 6th 2021 was about MySQL basics for prod environment starting from the system level and monitoring with PMM or Zabbix and backups. In addition, it was a great talk how to enable MySQL Audit Logging and to view the output. Watch the video here!

How and Why Quora Moved From HBase to RocksDB via MyRocks - Percona Podcast 43

October 1, 2021 by Nagavamsi Ponnekanti, Matt Yonkovit

JMatt Yonkovit, The HOSS at Percona, sits down with Nagavamsi (Vamsi) Ponnekanti, Software Engineer at Quora.

Percona MeetUp for PMM Sept 2021

The Community MeetUp for PMM was an extraordinary one-hour Live Broadcast MeetUp from the OSS Summit on last Sept 29th, to talk about open source databases, observability and monitoring MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL with PMM. Percona experts Matt Yonkovit and Michael Coburn has made a PMM Demo. Check the the full recording by clicking the video here:

Engineering Experience, Tips and Tricks for Managing a Team, and Monitoring With PMM - Percona Podcast 42

September 24, 2021 by Steve Hoffman, Matt Yonkovit

Join Percona’s HOSS (Head of Open Source Strategy) Matt Yonkovit as he sits down with Steve Hoffman, VP Engineering at Percona, to talk about his Engineering experience and his journey to Percona.

Percona MeetUp for MongoDB Sept 2021

Matt Yonkovit hosted the Percona MeetUp for MongoDB on September 22nd with Vinodh Krishnaswamy, Support Engineer at Percona, to talk about “MongoDB sharded Cluster- best practices” and Ege Güneş, Software Engineer at Percona, to discuss “Cross-regional replication for MongoDB with Kubernetes”. Check full video on youtube by clicking the link below :

Percona’s 15th Anniversary, MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL With Peter Zaitsev and Vadim Tkachenko - Percona Podcast 41

September 19, 2021 by Peter Zaitsev, Vadim Tkachenko, Matt Yonkovit

Over the last 15 years Percona has been helping, enhancing, and helping millions in the Open Source ecosystem!

Percona MeetUp for PostgreSQL Sept 2021

Full video recording of the live-streamed Community MeetUp for postgreSQL we held on September 15th, 2021. Matt Yonkovit, the HOSS, sat down with Jobin Augustine, PostgreSQL Escalation Specialist in Support at Percona, and Ibrar Ahmed, Senior Software Architect at Percona to talk about “PostgreSQL Data and Database Security” and “Driving factors for increased PostgreSQL adoptions”.

PostgreSQL Community and Why PostgreSQL Continues to Grow in Popularity - Percona Podcast 40

September 9, 2021 by Umair Shahid, Matt Yonkovit

The Percona HOSS, Matt Yonkovit sits down with Umair Shahid, Head of PostgreSQL at Percona, to chat about his background, the PostgreSQL community, and why PostgreSQL continues to grow in popularity.

Percona MeetUp for MySQL Sept 2021

Watch the video record of the live-streamed Community MeetUp for MySQL we held on September 8, 2021. Matt Yonkovit, the HOSS, sat down with 2 MySQL experts, Nando Camargos and Marcos Albe, and discusses the ways you REALLY can make your database faster. They touched query optimization, indexes, the art of database design, hiding columns, and things that occupy Matt’s thoughts when he wakes up at 3 AM.

PingCAP, HTAP, NewSQL, and TiDB - Percona Podcast 39

September 3, 2021 by Liquan Pei, Matt Yonkovit

Liquan Pei, Senior Software Engineer, Database Kernel at PingCAP sat down with the HOSS Matt Yonkovit to talk about PingCAP, HTAP, NewSQL, and getting deeper into TiDB.

Free Open Source Software Community in Action and Community Efforts Metrics - Percona Podcast 38

August 25, 2021 by Jono Bacon, Matt Yonkovit

Matt Yonkovit sits down with Jono Bacon, Community & Collaboration Consultant and Author to talk about building and growing Communities

Developer Advocate Background and AWS Open Source Fork OpenSearch - Percona Podcast 37

August 16, 2021 by Kyle Davis, Matt Yonkovit

The Percona HOSS, Matt Yonkovit sits down with Kyle Davis, Senior Developer Advocate AWS, to tackle his background as Developer Advocate before diving into the details around AWS’s new open source fork OpenSearch.

Uber Technologies, Inc and Uber’s Custom Built Database DocStore - Percona Podcast 36

August 11, 2021 by Ovais Tariq, Himank Chaudhary, Matt Yonkovit

The Percona HOSS Matt Yonkovit invited Ovais Tariq, Sr. Engineering Manager - Core Storage @Uber and Himank Chaudhary, Staff Software Engineer, Uber Technologies to talk more about Uber’s custom built database DocStore.

Open Source Database Testing, Tooling, Debugging Code, Using Microservices - Percona Podcast 35

August 6, 2021 by Rob Richardson, Matt Yonkovit

Join Percona’s HOSS (Head of Open Source Strategy) Matt Yonkovit as he sits down with Rob Richardson, Developer Advocate at Cyral to talk about testing, tooling, debugging code, using microservices, and more.

Current Trends in Database Technologies and Postgres 14 With Bruce Momjian - Percona Podcast 34

August 4, 2021 by Bruce Momjian, Matt Yonkovit

Bruce Momjian, Vice President, Postgres Evangelist at EDB sat down with the HOSS Matt Yonkovit to talk through the current trends in database technology as well as to get details on the release of Postgres 14

Variety of MySQL Topics, SE Linux, Database Security, Backups and Recovery - Percona Podcast 33

July 30, 2021 by Matthias Crauwels, Matt Yonkovit

Percona’s Hoss Matt Yonkovit talks to Lead Database Consultant at Pythian, Matthias Crauwels to tackle SE Linux, ensuring database security, backups, recovery, testing, and more

Recap From Percona Live and Percona Postgres Operator - Percona Podcast 32

July 22, 2021 by Sergey Pronin, Matt Yonkovit

Sergey Pronin, Kubernetes Operator Product Owner at Percona stops by again to chat with the HOSS about the current state of operators at Percona.

PostgreSQL Database Management, Backup Tools, Migration From Oracle - Percona Podcast 31

July 20, 2021 by Jobin Augustine, Sergey Kuzmichev, Matt Yonkovit

Jobin Augustine (PostgreSQL Escalation Specialist) and Sergey Kuzmichev (Senior Support Engineer) both from Percona stop by the HOSS talks FOSS to talk with Matt Yonkovit about open source, PostgreSQL, Migrations, and more

Database Automation, Google Spanner, Ansible, and Kubernetes - Percona Podcast 30

July 15, 2021 by Derek Downey, Matt Yonkovit

Derek Downey who recently joined the Google cloud team to talk about his career in the database space, learning Google Spanner, Ansible, database automation, Kubernetes, and more.

Database Infrastructure at Linkedin, and Challenging Situations - Percona Podcast 29

July 13, 2021 by Karthik Appigatla, Matt Yonkovit

Karthik is passionate about distributed, scalable and highly available databases and is eager to share his knowledge and experience with us.

Serial Micropatcher of Open Source Projects and Patches for MariaDB - Percona Podcast 28

July 8, 2021 by Daniel Black, Matt Yonkovit

Daniel is a self-professed serial micropatcher of open source projects. He is passionate about all things performance, understanding how things work, and has worked tirelessly on porting coding for POWER Systems.

Open Source Databases Performance, Dynamic Tracing, BPftrace - Percona Podcast 27

July 7, 2021 by Valerii Kravchuk, Matt Yonkovit

Valerii is passionate about all things Performance, Open Source, and Databases.

ZettaDB and Kunlun Database Takes the Best of PostgreSQL and MySQL - Percona Podcast 26

June 30, 2021 by David Zhao, Matt Yonkovit

David sits down with Matt Yonkovit (The HOSS) to talk about the Kunlun project, distribution, implementation, scalability, and more.

ProvenDB BlockChain Tech to Databases, All Things MongoDB - Percona Podcast 25

June 25, 2021 by Guy Harrison, Matt Yonkovit

In this episode we talk about all things MongoDB, Databases, and the future landscape of technology

PostgreSQL Performance Extensions, Memory Settings, and Hardware - Percona Podcast 24

June 17, 2021 by Ibrar Ahmed, Matt Yonkovit

Matt and Ibrar talk about the impact of 3rd party extensions, memory settings, and hardware.

Highlights From Percona Live Talk 2021: Database Recovery and backups - Percona Podcast 23

June 3, 2021 by Pep Pla, Matt Yonkovit

Listen to this episode 23 of the HOSS talks FOSS and learn why you should stop worrying so much about backups, and start worrying about recovery.

MySQL Open Source, Linux Kernel Patches, and Performance Tuning - Percona Podcast 22

May 28, 2021 by Marcos Albe, Matt Yonkovit

In what will become a recurring feature we “Grill Open Source” talking about BBQ, Open Source, MySQL, and real life fun! Join Marcos and Matt for this fun walk through food, open source, Linux kernel patches, finding difficult bugs in code, performance tuning, and of course all things MySQL

Open Source Databases, Debugging, GDB & RR - Record and Replay - Percona Podcast 21

May 20, 2021 by Marcelo Altmann, Matt Yonkovit

In this episode we cover his career, finding and debugging hard to find bugs, GDB & RR - Record and Replay - and talk about ideas for a potential special in-person barbecue & open source event

Challenges and Issues in Open Source, and the Benefits of MyRocks - Percona Podcast 20

May 6, 2021 by Mike Benshoof, Matt Yonkovit

The HOSS sits down with Technical Account Manager and long time MySQL DBA Mike Benshoof to talk about the key challenges and issues enterprises are facing today, the benefits of MyRocks, and of course Philadelphia Cheesesteaks!

Overview of MySQL Project, Orchestrator, Ghost, Vitess and PlanetScale - Percona Podcast 19

April 27, 2021 by Shlomi Noach, Matt Yonkovit

Shlomi has been developing and enhancing some of the MySQL communities most popular tools for years. You may know his mysql work from projects like Orchestrator, Ghost, and Vitess. He shares his experiences and his motivations behind some of these projects and gives us a preview into what he is up to next!

KVM Hypervisor Experience, Developing a New OS, and All Things ScyllaDB - Percona Podcast 18

April 24, 2021 by Dor Laor, Matt Yonkovit

We then go Deep diving into all things ScyllaDB including design decisions, the benefits, and what users are looking for.

Open Source Database From Apache Cassandra, HBase to Yugabyte - Percona Podcast 17

April 9, 2021 by Karthik Ranganathan, Matt Yonkovit

Karthik Ranganathan CTO at Yugabyte knows databases inside and out having been on the team that first built Apache Cassandra, helped optimize and scale HBase, and most recently built Yugabyte.

OpenUK and the Use of Open Source Software, Hardware, and Databases - Percona Podcast 16

March 31, 2021 by Amanda Brock, Matt Yonkovit

The HOSS talks with Amanda about her background, the business of open source, licensing, contributor agreements, FOSS growth in the UK, and more!

Data Geekery GmbH and JooQ to Speed Up Open Source Databases - Percona Podcast 15

March 30, 2021 by Lukas Eder, Matt Yonkovit

The HOSS (Matt Yonkovit) sat down with Lukas to discuss ORM’s like Hibernate and how JooQ is different.

Get Involved in Databases on Kubernetes (DoK) Community - Percona Podcast 14

March 17, 2021 by Bart Farrell, Matt Yonkovit

Matt and Bart sit down to talk about what is happening in the community, how people can get involved, and what fun things are coming up next.

Apache Cassandra, DataStax, Role of SRE/DBRE and DBA's - Percona Podcast 13

March 10, 2021 by Patrick McFadin, Matt Yonkovit

The two open-source veterans of over 20 years sit down and talk about coming to open source, growing the community, the changes to open source licensing, and of course the new role of SRE/DBRE and how DBA’s are stepping up and turning into awesome contributors in this new role.

Database on Kubernetes Operator, PITR Point in Time Recovery - Percona Podcast 12

March 4, 2021 by Sergey Pronin, Matt Yonkovit

Sergey Pronin (Percona Product Owner for Percona's Kubernetes operators) visits with the HOSS again talking about the latest releases as Percona adds functionality to Percona's MongoDB and MySQL Operators (Also coming soon a PostgreSQL Operator!).

Solution Engineering From Teradata and Oracle to Open Source - Percona Podcast 11

March 3, 2021 by Brain Walters, Matt Yonkovit

Brian explores what he sees as the drivers and obstacles for enterprises moving and adopting more open source.

All Things Vitess, Planetscale, MySQL, and Sailing Passion - Percona Podcast 10

March 2, 2021 by Alkin Tezuysal, Matt Yonkovit

Matt Yonkovit talks to Planetscale’s SR Technical Manager Alkin Tezuysal on his role as a Vitess maintainer, who is using & contributing to Vitess, and where does it make sense for companies.

PostgreSQL Performance on the ARM Processor and All Things Open - Percona Podcast 09

March 1, 2021 by Jobin Augustine, Matt Yonkovit

The HOSS sat down with Jobin and talked about not only Jobin’s journey into the PostgreSQL space, but also the benchmarks, PostgreSQL features, and all things Open.

Evolving Open Source Space MySQL, MariaDB, MongoDB, and Datastax - Percona Podcast 08

February 25, 2021 by Henrik Ingo, Matt Yonkovit

We talk about the evolving open source space and what Datastax is doing to open more code and features up to the community.

All Things Open Source Including Suse, MySQL, and Ceph - Percona Podcast 07

February 23, 2021 by Lenz Grimmer, Matt Yonkovit

We talk about how we both got started in the open-source business, how people can contribute, and some of the cool things he has been up to.

From PHP and MySQL to Application, Databases, Infrastructures - Percona Podcast 06

February 22, 2021 by Gabriela Ferrara, Matt Yonkovit

The HOSS sits down with Gabi to talk about her journey from Brazil to the US, how she broke into the tech space, and how she ended up at Google.

Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB DBA's to DBRE's - Percona Podcast 05

February 19, 2021 by David Murphy, Matt Yonkovit

Covering multiple databases (Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB) and multiple clouds is never easy, we talk about why keeping control of your data is so important, and how companies can enable developers to move faster by removing the database basics as a bottleneck.

Database Monitoring Management, Alerting, Contributing MySQL, TiDB, and Waffles - Percona Podcast 04

February 18, 2021 by Morgan Tocker, Matt Yonkovit

Join the HOSS (Percona’s Head of Open Source Strategy) as he talks with MySQL and open source veteran Morgan Tocker about open source development, how we both got started in the open-source business, how people can contribute, and some of the cool things he has been up to.