Open FIPS Build, Vectors, and Binlog Server: Marco Tusa at Percona Live

Fri, 25 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000

This post collects the main things Marco Tusa covered in his keynote at Percona Live 2026 in Amsterdam: where Percona stands on MySQL, which features landed in the server, and what holds the MySQL community together.

Watch it here: “I Was Going to Show You a Roadmap”, about 18 minutes.

Start with the community, because the rest of it follows from there. In 2011, after the Sun and Oracle acquisitions, O’Reilly stopped the MySQL Conference, and Percona kept a conference going when nobody knew what came next. The community scattered again more recently, and Peter Zaitsev and others regrouped it in the OurSQL Foundation. MySQL, MariaDB, and Percona ship competing solutions. The people running and building them are one community, with one shared interest: this environment stays usable and open.

Cassandra Where and How by John Schulz

Wed, 24 Jun 2020 12:20:22 +0000

If Percona Live ONLINE had graded its talks by skill level this year, John Schulz’s talk would have been essential viewing in the Beginners track. (You can watch all the event’s presentations now on Percona’s YouTube channel.) This talk was a good overview and meant for anyone who had heard of the Apache Cassandra distributed database but wasn’t sure whether it would be suitable for their project or not.

Database-veteran, John Schulz has been tinkering with Cassandra for about a decade and to help anyone get started he gave a whistle-stop tour of the Cassandra ecosystem. He introduced Apache Cassandra by laying out some important characteristics of the database. These include the way Cassandra is designed to handle high-traffic volumes, especially writes, and is designed from the ground-up for high availability. John briefly talked about the ‘democratized nature’ of the database; how all its nodes are designed to be equal. However, while Cassandra is designed to scale linearly, he stressed that this ability comes with some serious caveats: “You have to understand the way it was designed,” John cautioned an audience of over 500 attendees. “You have to understand how you need to model data with it, otherwise its linear scaling will go out the window.”

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Open FIPS Build, Vectors, and Binlog Server: Marco Tusa at Percona Live

Cassandra Where and How by John Schulz