April 18-21
Vancouver, Canada
Percona is thrilled to support Open Source Summit North America this year. It will take place in Vancouver on May 10-12, 2023. We invite all attendees to come to our booth and have a chat with Percona experts!
Also, speakers from Percona will give 4 talks during the event:
Creating a Profitable Open Source Company Without Venture Capital – Ann Schlemmer (CEO).
In this session, Ann Schlemmer will share her experiences and insights on the trade-offs of being a bootstrapped, customer funded company vs taking outside capital. We will go over: – Advantages and disadvantages of customer funding and bootstrapping, including flexibility, control, and scalability – Benefits of leveraging the power of an open source community – Strategies to attract and retain customers and generate sustainable revenue streams – Lessons learned from Ann’s journey leading a customer-funded and bootstrapped business – Questions from the audience for further discussion and exploration of the topic This presentation will particularly interest entrepreneurs, small business owners, and anyone interested in alternative funding models for open source startups. The audience will leave with a better understanding of the pros and cons of bootstrapping and customer funding, as well as actionable steps they can take to make the most of these strategies.
Open Source Is Winning but We Can Still Lose by Dave Stokes (Technical Evangelist).
Open Source databases became more popular than their proprietary counterparts in late 2021 which is a big thing. While this may be a win there are still several areas where the commercial competitors do much better. First, there is a lot of handholding for customers during trial periods and nearly constant outreach to ensure product adoption. Second, error messages are often written by junior developers (the least skilled) that give often cryptic declarations of the issue at hand to the befuddled. And we often treat projects that drive billion dollar companies as if they are still a group of hobbyists coders. In short we may have a better product but the environment around using that product needs to be upscaled rapidly or we risk sliding back into the days of proprietary dominated software constrained lives.
Are Containers Ready for Production Databases? by Joe Brockmeier (Head of Community).
The database community is notoriously skeptical and slow to adopt new technologies, and with good reason. Your app can go down, but you can’t lose or corrupt your customers’ data — that is a potential company-killing event. This session will explore a variety of paths for running stateful database workloads on containers, specifically focusing on fully open-source approaches rather than proprietary software. We’ll explain and show your options spanning from Docker and Podman volumes to Kubernetes operators and beyond. If you’re curious about whether containers are mature enough to run production databases, this session is for you.
Everything You Need to Know about Vim and Text on Linux – Joe Brockmeier (Head of Community)
You don’t need to use Vim to work with Linux, but it helps! In this talk we’ll cover the basics of working with text on Linux with Vim, and look at an assortment of tools that can come in handy when working with text on Linux. This includes tools like uniq, sort, less, and everyone’s favorite, cat. You’ll learn how to search with grep, modify streams of text on the fly, and have the tools to get started feeling comfortable editing text on remote systems.
About the event.
Open Source Summit is the premier event for open source developers, technologists, and community leaders to collaborate, share information, solve problems, and gain knowledge, furthering open source innovation and ensuring a sustainable open source ecosystem. It is the gathering place for open-source code and community contributors.
