Perconians at WeAreDevelopers World Congress 2026: Agents Everywhere, Security Wake-Up Calls, and Buzzword Bingo

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 11:00:00 +0000

On July 9–10, the two of us - Sandra (Engineering, Percona for MongoDB) and Radek (Product, Percona for MongoDB) - packed our backpacks and headed to Berlin for the WeAreDevelopers World Congress Europe 2026 (WAD). The 11th edition of the congress gathered 15,000 developers and 500+ speakers for two intense days, and we came back with full notebooks, fresh ideas, and one very clear message from the industry.

At Percona, we genuinely love getting out of our daily routine to learn what’s new. It is incredibly refreshing to escape the daily grind of sprints and stand-ups just to listen and absorb. Hearing how other teams are tackling scale and complexity reminds us that we are all solving different flavors of the same core problems. These events act as a catalyst for innovation, sparking conversations that inevitably push our own boundaries. Ultimately, taking a couple of days to zoom out and see where the industry is heading helps us build what Sandra calls a mental index - concepts that might not solve today’s ticket, but will absolutely pay off six months from now.

Introducing Mountaineers: A Way to Say Thank You

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 11:00:00 +0000

You filed a bug report at 11pm because you’d already done the work to isolate it. You answered a forum question that had been sitting unanswered for three days. You wrote a PR. You spent an hour on a call telling us what’s broken about a tool you use every day. None of that is small, and none of it should go unnoticed.

That’s what Mountaineers are. It’s how we recognize the time and energy you put into this community — and reward it.

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Perconians at WeAreDevelopers World Congress 2026: Agents Everywhere, Security Wake-Up Calls, and Buzzword Bingo

Introducing Mountaineers: A Way to Say Thank You