#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...

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...

With PostgreSQL 18 introducing built-in OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect (OIDC) authentication, tools like pg_oidc_validator have become an essential part of the ecosystem by enabling server-side verifica...

Percona Toolkit 3.7.1 has been released on Dec 17, 2025. The most important updates in this version are:...

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...