#Opensource articles and events

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 ot...

MySQL replication has been around forever, and yet… people still manage to set it up in ways that break at the worst possible moment. Even in 2025, you can get burned by tiny schema differences, missi...

Back in October, before PGConf.EU, I explained the issues impacting the prolonged wait for TDE in PostgreSQL 18. Explanations were needed as users were buzzing with anticipation, and they deserved to ...

When I first got into woodworking, my mentor shared a piece of advice that has stuck with me ever since: “Use the right tool for the job.” You wouldn’t reach for a belt sander to flatten a board when ...

We’re excited to share that the new Percona Operator for MySQL (based on Percona Server for MySQL) is officially in General Availability (GA)!...

In the previous blog post about the topic, OAuth, OIDC and validators, we discussed basic terminologies to understand the differences between the protocols and how they relate to PostgreSQL....

I recently got back from PostgreSQL Conference Europe in Riga, marking the end of my conference activities for 2025. The speakers were great. The audience, for the Extensions Showcase on Community Day...

Somebody might tell you, “let’s configure PostgreSQL 18 with OIDC, it should be simple, only takes a few minutes!” And that might be the case if you already have an OIDC provider set up and know all t...

If you’ve ever wondered how to set up OpenID Connect (OIDC) authentication in PostgreSQL, the wait is almost over....

If you’ve been following the buzz around PostgreSQL, you’ve probably already heard that database level open source data-at-rest encryption is now available thanks to the Transparent Data Encryption (T...

In my first post on the MySQL 8.4 Audit Log Filter component, I covered how to install the component and configure a basic filter that captures all events. The Audit Log Filter framework offers a high...

We’re proud to announce that Percona is a Platinum Sponsor of PostgreSQL Conference Europe (PGConf.EU) 2025, taking place October 21–24, 2025 in Riga, Latvia 🇱🇻 at the Radisson Blu Latvija Conference ...

The audit log filter component in MySQL 8.4 provides administrators with a powerful mechanism for auditing database activity at a fine-grained level. While it offers significant flexibility—such as se...

Percona is proud to support educational and community-driven initiatives in collaboration with Chernihiv National Technological University and the Chernihiv IT Cluster. As an official partner of the u...

Let’s install and try out a new package for PostgreSQL — PG_TDE by Percona. This extension adds Transparent Data Encryption (TDE), a mechanism that allows data to be encrypted at the storage level wit...