#Community articles and events

You’ve fixed something gnarly in production this year. You’ve migrated a database that nobody wanted to touch. You’ve built something on top of Percona Operators, or Percona Toolkit, or Percona Monito...

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...

Last week, Zsolt and I jumped on a call with someone who had been building something remarkably similar to what we had been working on, completely independently. That someone is Jack Bonatakis, the cr...

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...

We’ve just landed on X and Mastodon, and before the first real post goes out, we wanted to do something we don’t do often enough: introduce ourselves....

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 ...