Upcoming Percona University Events – France, Germany, and India

Experience a full day of deep-dive technical sessions and meet database experts and a community of open source database users, developers, and technologists at Percona University events!

Percona University is a series of free, Percona-hosted events focused on open source databases and related technologies. Since 2013, we have held these events in cities across the world to educate professionals and gather the community together.

In May and June 2024, we will be holding three Percona University events – in Paris (France), Berlin (Germany) and Delhi (India).

Covered technologies

• Open source databases, with a focus on MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and MariaDB
• Database monitoring
• Databases in the cloud
• Kubernetes for databases

Percona University Paris – May 29th

Percona University Paris will take place in BlaBlarCar Office (6 Rue Saint Sabin 75011 Paris). Talks will be delivered in English and French. 

Percona’s Founder, Peter Zaitsev, headlines the agenda with a talk: 

• State of Open Source Databases
• Cloud-native Postgres observability: Monitoring from apps to cloud resources

Percona engineers will present talks: 

• Apprendre les types de données avancés de manière inversée dans PostgreSQL by Yoann La Cancellera (Support engineer)
• Reasons to migrate to MySQL 8 and problems you might encounter while doing it by Dmitry Lenev (Principal Software Engineer)

Also, external speakers will participate in the event with talks: 

• Assessing the Compatibility of Postgres for MongoDB Workloads by Peter Farkas (CEO and co-founder at FerretDB)
• Indexation distribuée à grande échelle avec Kafka by Remi Dettai (Core Engineer at Quickwit)
• What information are package & container registries hiding from you? by Avi Press (CEO and Founder at Scarf)
• Déchiffrer le code de l’investissement en open source by Maxime Corbani (Senior Associate at Runa Capital)

Percona University Delhi – June 21st

Percona University Delhi will take place at The Circle – Huda City Centre Gurugram.

Experienced Percona engineers will present talks: 

1. Providing MongoDB as a Service by Divyanshu Soni (Sr. MongoDB DBA) and Santosh Varma (MongoDB DBA);
2. Exploring MySQL 8.0 Innovations and Challenges of Upgrading by Alok Pathak (Principal DBA);
3. Vector Databases and pgvector by Ninad Shah (PostgreSQL DBA);
4. MySQL Upgrade 8.0 – Best Practices by Alok Pathak (Principal DBA);
5. Walking Through MongoDB Resharding by Divyanshu Soni (Sr. Mongo DBA) and Santosh Varma (MongoDB DBA, Percona);
6. Case Study: Archiving data in MySQL by Smit Arora, MySQL DBA).
7. Managing PostgreSQL on Kubernetes: Provisioning, Scaling, Backup, and Restore by Daniil Bazhenov (Community Manager)

Note—due to safety rules in the building, only registered attendees will be able to enter the venue. Please make sure that you fill out your Name and Surname. Registration will close two days prior to the event. 

Percona University Berlin – June 20th

The agenda and venue address for Percona University Berlin will be published soon. Stay tuned and save your spot! 

Networking refreshment breaks are also available at all events.

Join us!

Free registration, agendas, and detailed information is available on each event page.

Percona University Paris – 29 May 2024

Percona University Berlin – 20 June 2024

Percona University Delhi – 21 June 2024

For more information or if you have any questions, please contact [email protected].