Percona has a long tradition of performance investigation and benchmarking. Peter Zaitsev, CEO and Vadim Tkachenko, CTO, led their crew into a series of experiments with MySQL in this space. The discussion that always follows on the results achieved is well known and praised even by the PostgreSQL community. So when Avi joined the team […]
Read MoreJoin Percona Chief Evangelist Colin Charles as he covers happenings, gives pointers and provides musings on the open source database community. Shortly after the last dispatch, I jetted off for a spot of vacation (which really meant I was checking out the hype behind Blockchain with a database developer lens at the Blockchain Week NYC), and then […]
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So, after a whirlwind few days, Percona Live 2018 has been and gone. There was a great energy about the conference, and it was fantastic to meet so many open source database enthusiasts and supporters. A few things that I experienced: Your great willingness to share knowledge. It was a fantastic place to learn for […]
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In this blog post on Percona Live 2018 sessions, we’ll talk with Jun Su, Principal Engineering Manager at Microsoft about how Microsoft built MySQL, PostgreSQL and MariaDB for the cloud. Offering MySQL, PostgreSQL and MariaDB database services in the cloud is different than doing so on-premise. Latency, connection redirection, optimal performance configuration are just a few […]
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In this blog post on Percona Live 2018 sessions, we’ll talk with Christian Antognini, Senior Principal Consultant at Trivadis about the differences between MySQL and PostgreSQL query optimizers. MySQL and PostgreSQL are two of the most popular open-source relational databases. Why would you pick one over the other to support your applications? Of course, it depends on […]
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Percona is extending its world renowned open source database support expertise to provide PostgreSQL support. As a result, organizations can, for the first time, work with a single trusted vendor to meet their support needs for MySQL, MongoDB, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, or any hybrid combination of these database technologies, whether deployed on-premises, in the cloud, or in […]
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Announcing the Percona Live 2018 live stream. This year at Percona Live Open Source Database Conference 2018 we are live streaming the Keynote Talks on Day 1 and 2. Percona is streaming the keynotes on Tuesday, April 24, 2018, and Wednesday, April 25, 2018 beginning at 9 AM PDT (both days). The keynote speakers include people from VividCortex, Upwork, Oracle, Netflix and […]
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Welcome to another interview blog for the rapidly-approaching Percona Live 2018. Each post in this series highlights a Percona Live 2018 featured talk at the conference and gives a short preview of what attendees can expect to learn from the presenter. This blog post highlights Joshua Galbraith, Senior Software Engineer and Bryant Vinisky, Site Reliability Engineer at […]
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We’ve posted the Percona Live 2018 keynote addresses for the seventh annual Percona Live Open Source Database Conference 2018, taking place April 23-25, 2018 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. This year’s keynotes explore topics ranging from how cloud and open source database adoption accelerates business growth, to leading-edge emerging technologies, […]
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We’ve been searching for a great venue for Percona Live Europe 2018, and I am thrilled to announce we’ll be hosting it in Frankfurt, Germany! Please block November 5-7, 2018 on your calendar now and plan to join us at the Radisson Blu Frankfurt for the premier open source database conference. Percona Live in Santa […]
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