#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...

Percona Live 2026 is back! Join the open source database community for three days of deep technical talks, hands-on workshops, and real conversations with people building and running MySQL, PostgreSQL...

Percona is proud to be a Silver Sponsor of Kubecon Europe 2026, one of the most important gatherings for the cloud native and open source ecosystem. The event will take place from March 23-26, 2026, a...

Percona is taking part in the DB Mastery: In-Memory Databases summit on March 20, 2026. This virtual event focuses on how teams design and operate high-performance in-memory systems, covering low-late...

Percona is proud to sponsor PGConf India 2026 as a Gold Sponsor, taking place from March 11th to March 13th, 2026, at the Sheraton Grand Hotel at Brigade Gateway in Bengaluru, India....

Percona is proud to sponsor SCaLE 23X, one of the most dynamic and community‑driven open source conferences in North America. As the largest volunteer‑run event of its kind, SCaLE brings together deve...

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...

During FOSDEM I had a chance to join a presentation by Alexander Sosna of GitLab on the backup procedure he has followed with his team to decrease the downtime during major upgrades. I highly recommen...

In case you are awaiting the February PostgreSQL Community minor update released on plan on February 12 we want to make sure that our users and customers are up to date and aware of what to expect....

There is a special kind of boredom that only database people know. The kind where you stare at a server humming along and think, surely there is something here I can tune. Good news: there is....

Percona had a strong presence at FOSDEM 2026, taking place January 31 – February 1, 2026, at the ULB Solbosch Campus in Brussels, Belgium....

We spent a long time, two blog posts to be specific, talking about OAuth/OIDC in theory. Now we’ll take a more practical look at the topic: how can we configure PostgreSQL with a popular open source i...

Configuring the Component Keyring in Percona Server and PXC 8.4 (Or: how to make MySQL encryption boring, which is the goal)...

As the year comes to a close and many of us start slowing down before the winter holidays, I find myself reflecting on patterns I’ve seen repeat, both as a customer and as someone working closely with...