#Community articles and events

Percona is proud to sponsor PGConf.dev, taking place May 19–22 in Vancouver, reinforcing our strong commitment to the open source ecosystem. As a company deeply rooted in the PostgreSQL community, Per...

Percona will be a Silver Sponsor at Open Source Summit North America, taking place May 18–20 in Minneapolis. Stop by booth #8 in the Solutions Showcase to connect with our team and see how we’re helpi...

Traditional MySQL troubleshooting assumes you control the server, but in the cloud, that assumption is gone. In this session, Sveta Smirnova will explore practical, field-tested techniques for diagnos...

Redis has been a key technology for many developers, companies, and open-source communities for years. With the emergence of Valkey, many people are now asking what this change means, what stays famil...

PMM 3 introduces new observability capabilities with Real-Time Query Analytics and High Availability. In this session, Tibor Korocz will explore how these features help teams troubleshoot faster and b...

Starting with version 1.1.0, the Percona Kubernetes Operator for MySQL now supports incremental backups. This feature lets you backup only the changed data since the last backup, instead of copying yo...

Character collations - the rules for comparing and sorting character strings - are not universal, even languages which use the same characters may sort them differently. These rules may also not be st...

Introduction Many MySQL setups begin life with a familiar incantation:...

Building and distributing software for diverse Linux environments, like database servers and distributed systems, presents unique challenges in dependency management and lifecycle orchestration. In th...

Setting up data-at-rest encryption correctly requires more than just flipping a switch. In this session, Konstantin Trushin will explain how Percona Server for MongoDB implements this critical securit...

Discover how Percona’s latest PostgreSQL Operator feature transforms database backups with Kubernetes VolumeSnapshots. Learn the setup, benefits such as near-instant snapshots and improved disaster re...

I spend a lot of time in Slack. Most people in tech do. It’s where a lot of “work” happens such as quick questions, async decisions, the “hey can you look at this?” threads that never seem to end. It ...

Discover how Percona is bringing Vector Search and Full-Text Search capabilities to the open source MongoDB ecosystem. In this session, we will walk through the strategic roadmap for integrating mongo...

MySQL Security Best Practices: A Practical Guide for Locking Down Your Database Introduction MySQL runs just about everywhere. I’ve seen it behind small personal projects, internal tools, SaaS platfor...

AI-driven pressure on open source maintainers, reviewers and, even, contributors, has been very much in the news lately. Nobody needs another set of edited highlights on the theme from me. For a Postg...