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Matt YonkovitHello, open source community! We need your help. We want to make sure you are getting what you need from Percona software, so we have built a series of quick surveys – of six or fewer questions – each asking if you are using our software and if you would recommend it to others. They […]
Last week Elastic announced that they were “Doubling Down” on open source by changing their licensing to a non-open license – MongoDB’s Server Side Public License, or SSPL. Let me clarify in my opinion this is not doubling down – unless, as our good friend @gabidavila highlighted, that maybe the thinking was a double negative […]
The Percona team provided the community with some excellent content and several new releases in 2020. I wanted to highlight some of your favorites (based on popularity) if you missed them. First up is our most-read blog from last year, which ironically was published before 2020. Ananias Tsalouchidis’s blog on when you should use Aurora […]
For the third time in the last five years, PostgreSQL took home the Database of the Year award from DB-Engines. If you have not checked out DB-Engines before, they track databases’ popularity by looking at job openings, blog posts, search traffic, and more. Congratulations to the PostgreSQL community, its contributors, and its users! There is […]
Hello everyone! I wanted to outline a new program we are trying out. We are calling it, Percona Open Source Expert Missions. So, you might be asking… What the heck is that? An Expert Mission is a challenge or a contest of skill. Here at Percona, we are always looking for new ways to get […]
Covid-19 has had a significant impact on most aspects of our lives in 2020. Although some companies saw unexpected growth due to offering in-demand tools or services, I think most of us will be happy to draw a line under 2020 and hope for a better 2021. In the spirit of 2021 optimism, I have […]
How many times have we seen this headline lately: “X million records leaked in data breach”? The answer is, too many! In fact, because “millions of records” are starting to leak so frequently, larger news outlets are not covering the “smaller” leaks as often as they were a few years ago. These days it’s all […]
Billy Duberstein’s article, If You Invested $1000 in MongoDB’s IPO, This Is How Much Money You’d Have Now, illustrated how much money you would have made if you had invested in the MongoDB IPO — over five times what you bought in at! Although that’s impressive, what was really striking was the reasoning behind why […]
This post is the last in a four-part blog series by Matt Yonkovit, Percona Chief Experience Officer. Read Matt’s other blogs in the series here – “Baseline Data and the Size of the Market”, “Migrating from Proprietary Software to Open Source”, and “The Most Popular Open Source Databases 2020.” When is Open Source Not Really […]
A four-part blog series by Matt Yonkovit, Percona Chief Experience Officer. Read Matt’s other blogs in this series – “Baseline Data and the Size of the Market“, “Migrating from Proprietary Software to Open Source“, and “When is Open Source Not Really Open?“ The Most Popular Open Source Databases 2020 Although there are some variations, the […]
A four-part blog series by Matt Yonkovit, Percona Chief Experience Officer. Read Matt’s other blogs in this series – “Baseline Data and the Size of the Market“, “The Most Popular Open Source Databases 2020″, and “When is Open Source Not Really Open?“ Migrating from Proprietary Software to Open Source There are two main sources of […]
A four-part blog series by Matt Yonkovit, Percona Chief Experience Officer. Read Matt’s other blogs in this series – “Migrating from Proprietary Software to Open Source“, “The Most Popular Open Source Databases 2020‘, and “When is Open Source Not Really Open?“ Baseline Data and the Size of the Market Over the last few years, we have […]
Last week I wrote about How IT Can Scale and Manage Costs in an Economic Downturn. In that blog, I talked about ways to cut costs and prepare your systems for what could be next. With any massive world-changing event, there are going to be companies that have to scale down and weather the proverbial […]
The full impact of coronavirus (COVID-19) on the world is yet to be seen, but it certainly has taken an immediate and drastic toll. Although not as important as the human toll, one that will have a broad effect is a downturn in what was a booming economy. During economic downturns, companies must start to […]
Tips from Matt Yonkovit, Chief Experience Officer, Percona Percona has years of experience with fully remote teams: I have personally been working remotely for over 15 years! Many of our employees have previous experience working remotely at least part-time. In interviews, more and more applicants list remote working as one of the main reasons they […]
The year is almost over and it’s time to recap the biggest stories in our industry over the past twelve months and how they might impact us in the coming year. The Cloud Wars Begin When we look back at 2019, we can summarize that it was the year the “Cloud Wars” was felt in […]
If you work in open source, we’re going to bet you may not know that what you do every day affects a billion people. Surprised? You shouldn’t be! In fact, that number is most likely even larger than that, given the popularity of open source software throughout industries across the globe. Open source software and […]
Technology is the great enabler for all modern business growth, and databases of some sort or another underpin all modern business technology. Database technology is the infrastructure upon which modern applications and businesses are built. This is no different than what has occurred in the past with other technologies. For example, new methods of transportation […]
It’s November, so we all know what that means; it’s peak shopping season, and no date is bigger than Black Friday. But how will your database handle all that new, relentless traffic? Not only does your database have to handle traffic without slowing down, but web servers can sometimes see such sudden traffic as an […]
Capital One dominated the headlines this week when they disclosed that they had become the latest hacking victim with a massive data breach this past March. Over 100 million people had social security numbers, bank account information, and other personal data exposed when a hacker got access to Capital One’s critical infrastructure running in AWS […]