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Panel: Cloud Native, Cost Conscious, No Comprimise: Leveraging Open Source Databases in Financial Industry

Event: State of Open Con 2025

Location: London, UK

Dates: 4 February 2025 – 5 February 2025

Presentation: 4 February 2025 , 4:50pm

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Link: On event website

Speakers: Lori Lorusso, Sergey Pronin

In the fast-paced world of fintech, the pressure to deliver innovative solutions while controlling costs is relentless. Cloud-native architectures offer a path to agility and scalability, but the choice of database technology is critical. This talk explores how open source databases, optimized for cloud-native environments, can be the cornerstone of a cost-conscious and high-performing infrastructure. Many financial institutions rely on open source databases like PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MongoDB. These databases offer in conjunction with Kubernetes and the broader CNCF ecosystem offer powerful tools to optimize resource utilization, automate database management, and significantly reduce operational costs. The next evolution of controlling costs when managing your data on Kubernetes is Percona Everest. Everest is an open source platform that empowers enterprises to streamline database operations across diverse environments, ensuring a seamless user experience without sacrificing features or falling prey to vendor lock-in - a perfect compliment to financial institutions need for scalable, cost effective and efficient solutions.

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Panel: Cloud Native, Cost Conscious, No Comprimise: Leveraging Open Source Databases in Financial Industry

Speakers

Lori Lorusso

Lori Lorusso

Open Source Advocate | Community Organizer | Program Manager | Speaker

Lori Lorusso is the Head of Community at Percona, where she brings developers, database experts, and open-source enthusiasts together. She is passionate about building strong technical communities, driving conversations around database performance, and making open-source knowledge accessible. Outside of work, she enjoys traveling and exploring new cultures.

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Sergey Pronin

Sergey Pronin

Sergey is a product leader at Percona focusing on delivering robust open-source database and cloud-native solutions. Prior to Percona Sergey led product management and engineering teams in other organizations with a primary focus on products in infrastructure and platforms space.

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