Percona's HOSS Talks FOSS: The Open Source Database Podcast

The HOSS Talks FOSS is welcoming Patrick McFadin, Developer Relations at DataStax, for the second time. Catch up with open-source databases in general, design, and architecture. Learn more about Pulsar and all ongoing projects from Cassandra, and DataStax. Matt asked a few rapid-fire questions to know more about Patrick

Matt Yonkovit, Head of Open Source Strategy at Percona sits down with Avi Press, Founder & CEO at Scarf. Listen out for an overview of Avi's background, projects that he worked for, and the ideas that took him to Scarf. Dive into Scarf backend and learn how it works. They tackle the pros and cons of collecting data, catch up with some trends in the open-source space, and answer rapid-fire questions.

Gabe Weiss, Developer Advocacy Manager at Google, is at the Percona Podcast The HOSS Talks FOSS with Matt Yonokit, The Head of Open Source Strategy ‘HOSS' at Percona. Gabe is talking about how he got started in database advocacy and explains more about the DevRel motivation besides Marketing, products team, solution architect, and sales. They tackle advocacy success, the trend in particularly adoption of the open-source on the cloud, and Postgres growth before diving into AlloyDB.

After Percona Live, Ovais Tariq, Co-Founder & CEO - of Tigris Data, joined Matt Yonkovit, The Head of Open Source Strategy at Percona, to give more feedback about the event. Ovais explains more about the back end of Tigris Data, the trend in open source, and upcoming talks in the community. Learn more, join and contribute on tigrisdata.com

Join the HOSS as he talks with long-time PostgreSQL contributor, community member, and current SR Software Engineer at Percona, Hamid Akhtar.  Hamid and Matt dive into PostgreSQL development processes, talk about the future of PostgreSQL and talk about tuning, monitoring, and Observability with pg_stat_monitor.

Clint Dovholuk stops by to talk about Zero Trust in Applications, and how it can extend to the database.  He gives us an overview of OpenZiti and explains some of the bigger security-related issues in the tech space

Robert Hodges, CEO at Altinity, joined Matt Yonkovit, The Head of Open Source Strategy at Percona, in this open-source database podcast. They started with how Robert get started and how the Database has evolved along the time that brought him to ClickHouse/Altinity. Robert gets deep into Opensource Data Warehouse with some details behind Clickhouse. As usual, enjoy the session of rapid-fire questions to know more about Robert

It's been a year since we last checked in with David, we brought him back to talk about the evolving role of the DBA to SRE/DBRE.  During our chat, David covers the rise of not only infrastructure as code but databases and schemas as code.  We cover why database design matters more now than ever.

Join Matt Yonkovit, The Head of Open Source Strategy at Percona, as he sat down with Joshua Drake, President of Command Prompt Inc. Learn about the early days in PostgreSQL and the beginning of the Command Prompt. Joshua is sharing his opinion about the open-source community in action, conferences that they organized, and No code Low code solution. They tackle the market and challenges of startups in open source vs. GPL, SSPL, and monetization of open source projects.

The HOSS Talks FOSS is a Percona video podcast dedicated to open-source databases. Matt Yonkovit, Head of Open Source Strategy at Percona - The HOSS -, sat down with Ananias Tsalouchidis, Principal DBA at Percona. Ananias is one of the most famous Percona bloggers with his post “When Should I Use Amazon Aurora and When Should I use RDS MySQL?”.  In addition to this blog post, learn how he started in opensource database, most common problems and challenges that the managed service Team has to fix and tackle the relationship between developers and DBAs. As usual in this Podcast, Matt asked random database and nondatabase questions as well. In case you missed it, Ananias brought a session about “Build a Powerful Alerting Platform by Integrating Alertmanager With PMM” at Percona Live 2022.

Bruce and the Hoss catch up on all things Open Source and PostgreSQL.  They talk about the impact of the war in Ukraine on the PostgreSQL community & the rise of protest ware in open source.  Matt and Bruce also jump into the impact of end user/developers feelings towards databases in general on the future of PostgreSQL development.  Some developers care about databases but don't have time, but there are others who don't care. How do we involve both of these groups and inspire them?  Will derivative projects based on PostgreSQL help or hinder this effort?  Tune in and hear our thoughts.

Distributed SQL (also called New SQL) aims to modernize relational databases by bringing better availability, scale, and performance through a cloud-native approach.  Yugabyte is one of the leaders at the forefront of this movement by marrying the rock solid PostgreSQL client & protocol with a brand new cloud-native backend.  Denis Magda stops by and chat's with the HOSS not only about Yugabyte but also about his work on various Apache projects.

When a bug affects 1 out of 1000 systems, but you are running 10K systems… odds are you are going to have to fix it.  Long time MySQL contributor and community member Oleksandr Kuzminskyi, Staff Database Engineer at Pinterest,  stops by the HOSS talks FOSS to share his insights into managing MySQL at massive scales at companies like Pinterest, Box, Drop Box, and others! He shares his insights and advice on managing those systems where you know weird problems are going to happen just because of the scale at which you are running.  Devops and automation are key, but are they the only things you should consider?

Heard of the PostgreSQL Person of the Week (https://postgresql.life/ )?  You should have!  The man behind the blog and effort stops into to chat with the HOSS about all things PostgreSQL-related

Vaidyanathan runs the team at Flipkart that helps build and maintain their MySQL fleet.  Join the HOSS as he talks to Vaidy his journey to his current role, and the systems and technology behind running such a large scale deployment of MySQL.

Pandit Prasad, Principal Product Manager at Amazon, and Vijay Karumajji, Sr. Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services inc join the HOSS in this episode to talk about the cloud, AWS services, Aurora & RDS.  Both Prasad and Vijay are presenting at Percona Live on Multi-Zone failover in Aurora & RDS.  Get not only a preview of the feature and a bit more background into these Experts.

Yahav Biran, Principal Solutions Architect at AWS, joins Matt Yonkovit, the Head of Open Source Strategy (HOSS) at Percona, to talk about some of the challenges and nuances of running large-scale applications in the gaming industry.  Yahav has a deep background not only in gaming but in technology.  Join the HOSS and Yahav as they discuss technology, open-source, and more.

Matt Yonkovit, The HOSS at Percona, presents this friendly podcast with two engineers from Support at Percona. Both Vinicius Grippa and Jean da Silva are from Brazil. Get to know Vini and Jean as they suggest the must-do activities if you visit Brazil.  Jean and Vini then jump into talking databases. Having worked on multiple databases (from MongoDB to MySQL), Vinnie talks about choosing the best database for the job (hint: the best database is the one that you know the best). Matt can't stop playing "favorite open-source question-answer" as well! Join Vinnie and Jean da Silva at Percona Live. They will present their talk "Percona Backup for MongoDB (PBM short) - The Backup Open Source Tool for MongoDB at Percona Live". In this session, they will highlight how PBM can help back up the large database.

Yunus Shaikh and Kedar Vaijanapurkar are two of Percona's Managed Service DBA's, they help stabilize and manage 100's of different customer systems.  During our podcast listen in on how they go about bringing stable performance, availability, and operations to new databases brought online.  Also hear about some of the tools and processes they rely on to stabilize environments.

The HOSS Talks FOSS podcast welcomes Alexander Korotkov, Founder & CEO at OrioleDB. Alexander is a major contributor and committer in the PostgreSQL Global Development Group. With more than 10 years of experience and a ton of features under his belt he knows more about the early days in Postgres then most.  He walks us through the evolution of some of contributions before talking about his work to re-architect some of the PostgreSQL core. Learn more about OrioleDB and what makes it different. Those interested in learning more about the work, check out OrioleDB's Github webpage https://github.com/orioledb.     Also join us at Percona Live where Aleksander will be presenting his talk "Solving PostgreSQL Wicked Problems: Oriole DB Inc.".

EdgeDB has recently reached version 1.0. Listen out to Yury Selivanov, The CEO of EdgeDB, as he joined the Head of Open Source Strategy at Percona, The HOSS Matt Yonkovit. Yury is talking about his background from contributor to a python core developer, and transition to EdgeDB. What makes EdgeDB different?  EdgeDB is focused first and foremost on the developer experience. Combining the best of PostgreSQL with a new intuitive interface designed for developers to easily adopt it makes EdgeDB a project worth watching.  Join us as we dive into the implementation of EdgeDB, open source, relational database, ORM's, and the “Graph Relational” Model. Check out https://www.edgedb.com/ for tutorials and documentation.

Developers love MongoDB, and the changes and growth of the community has been awesome. The Head Of Open Source Strategy at Percona, Matt Yonkovit, sat down with Ivan Groenewold, Senior Architect at Percona to talk about all things MongoDB from growth, to challenges, to sharding. We take a look at an overview of Ivan's career before going deep into MongoDB ecosystems: the evolution, change, performance, jumbo chunks, most common issues, escalation in mongo space, and automation. In addition to all of that, they tackle the topics that Ivan is looking forward to presenting at Percona Live 2022

This is a double Matt episode of the HOSS talks FOSS! The Head of Open Source Strategy at Percona, Matt Yonkovit, sits down with Matt Farina, Distinguished Engineer at SUSE to talk about starting out in open source, what helped Matt become a better contributor in the community, and his work on many projects including OpenStack, Kubernetes, and Rancher.  Matt Farina talks about how his drive to understand how things work lead him into the depths of some open source code (from Drupal to OpenStack, to Rancher).  Matt was drawn to containers, orchestration, docker, and technologies like Kubernetes, etc. The pair of Matts dig into the ongoing and upcoming projects at Rancher and Suse, their shared experience in Kubernetes,  and Matt's ( Farina ) work with the CNCF as part of their Technical Oversight Committee (TOC).

This episode is a passionate talk about database technologies between The Head Of Open Source Strategy at Percona, Matt Yonkovit, and the Technology Evangelist at Percona Dave Stokes. Dave joined Percona last February and he is welcome to the podcast as well. Listen about Dave's background, his interaction with open source database communities, his early days, and his choice of MySQL Community. They tackle also the difference between MySQL Community and Postgres Community, the recent change and evolution in the database space with more and more explosive data, before plunging into the future of the technology space, particularly the JSON datatype.

The Head Of Open Source Strategy at Percona, Matt Yonkovit, sat down with Lorna Mitchell, Head of Developer Relations at Aiven to talk about all things Open Source, DevRel, and Databases.  During this episode learn some of the tips and tricks in the DevRel space as well as some interesting things happening at Aiven.  Find out more about how to measure success in DevRel, opensource business, and getting people excited about contributing to open source.

Listen to this episode of The HOSS Talks FOSS podcast. The HOSS at Percona, Matt Yonkovit, is joined by Robert Reeves, CTO at Liquibase.  Robert and Matt chat about how everything around managing and running database has evolved and changed, and how automation is a requirement for modern database environments.  Learn more about Robert's unique background and some of the interesting things happening not only at Liquidbase but also in the open source space.  We then go deep in the evolution and change into operations including the DevOps role, database reliability engineers (DBRE), and automation in general.

This week's episode of Percona Podcast, The HOSS Talks FOSS is with Evgeniy Patlan, Manager, Build & Release Engineering Team at Percona. We are talking about Evgeniy's background, build engineering, how to work in the local community,  and go deep into the build process: including monitoring, debugging, automated package testing. Matt Yonkovit, the HOSS at Percona, Talks to Evgeniy's recent work in the open-source space with the Chernihiv IT cluster where he has been teaching DevOps courses.

The HOSS Talks FOSS,  a Percona's Podcast dedicated to Open Source, databases, and technology, starts the new year 2022 with a special episode to learn and improve knowledge about MySQL. Matt Yonkovit, The Head of Open Source Strategy (HOSS) at Percona, sits down with Vinicius Grippa and Sergey Kuzmichev from Support Engineer Team at Percona to talk about their book “Learning MySQL: Get a Handle on Your Data”. This practical guide provides the insights and tools necessary to take full advantage of this powerful RDBMS.This edition includes new chapters on high availability, load balancing, and using MySQL in the cloud.

Listen to this special episode of Percona's podcast to look back at the highlights of talk all along the year 2021. Matt Yonkovit, The Head of Open Source Strategy, sat down with CEO, CTO, evangelist, authors, and engineers from around the community space and talked about all things open-source,  contribution to the community, databases features, trends, and more.  More talks are coming for 2022. Thank you for following us!

Special edition! All along 2021 Matt Yonkovit, The Head of Open Source Strategy, sat down with special guests to talk about the open-source community, databases features, trends, and more. In this episode, we have selected some short talks from previous podcasts. More talks are coming for 2022. Thank you for following us!

Matt Yonkovit, The HOSS at Percona, sits down with Alvaro Hernández, Founder & CEO at OnGres. Find out the story behind the history behind the elephant wall decoration in Alvaro's office.  Then listen as we go deep into the Postgres contribution ecosystem, OnGres, running databases on Kubernetes, and Babelfish. The HOSS talks FOSS is a free Percona podcast presented by Matt Yonkovit, The HOSS at Percona, dedicated to the open source community members, engineers, contributors, and industry leaders to have some tech talk and discuss their experience, databases, the latest trends, technologies, use cases and learn from outstanding experts.

Open source is key to the growth and success of cloud providers like  Amazon Web Services (AWS). Internally these companies are focused on growing how open source platform partners and their customers can achieve more from Open Source. The HOSS, Head of Open Source Strategy, at Percona sits down with David Duncan, Principal Solutions Architect, at AWS to talk about his experience working at AWS, being a key contributor to the Fedora Project (Linux), and in general the open source community and more.  David is focused on helping tech partners make it easier to deploy and use their products in the cloud.

In this HOSS Talks FOSS 46, Matt Yonkovit, Head of Open Source Strategy at Percona, sits down with Emily Omier, Founder of Emily Omier Consulting. Emily is specialist in the positioning of cloud native open source projects.  She sits down to talk to us about how to position your project and gain additional traction in the market. We discuss the often subtle differences between positioning vs. messaging vs. marketing in a context of growing Open Source adoption and in software as service (SaaS) business models.

Engaging users and contributors is key to building a strong and vibrant open source community.  At Mattermost, the team spends a lot of time ensuring their community can be successful by making the contribution process as easy as possible and providing a welcoming environment.   Corey Hulen the CTO and Co-Founder of Mattermost joins the HOSS to talk about his journey to the open-source space and how he has been helping to build a culture internally that promotes and embraces the community as key members of the engineering team.  Listen in and get tips on how to grow your contributor communities as well as learn about the cool things happening at Mattermost.  Whether you are in your company's OSPO (Open source Program Office), DevRel team, or an open-source maintainer this is a great talk to learn about some cool ideas and best practices.

The CEO of the MariaDB Foundation, Kaj Arnö, joined Matt Yonkovit, The Head of Open Source Strategy at Percona, to talk about all things MariaDB related!  Kaj and Matt also talk about the value and process behind getting contributions from the open-source community, and why code is not the only way to contribute.  Kaj also got to also talk about all the highlights from MariaDB Server Fest including key speakers and new changes to the MariaDB release process.  We hope you enjoy the latest episode of the HOSS talks FOSS!

Matt Yonkovit, The HOSS at Percona, sits down with Nagavamsi (Vamsi) Ponnekanti, Software Engineer at Quora.  During the show we dive into the details on how and why Quora moved from HBase to RocksDB via MyRocks.   We also learn about the need to reduce latency and improve predictability in performance in large infrastructure and database systems.   Vamsi highlights some of his favorite features and tools and gives us tips and tricks on database migrations.

Join Percona's HOSS (Head of Open Source Strategy) Matt Yonkovit as he sits down with Steve Hoffman, VP Engineering at Percona, to talk about his Engineering experience and his journey to Percona. Steve dives into several interesting topics including: tips and tricks for managing a team, challenges face in the open source space, the growth and development of Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM), finding and hiring engineers, and how to contribute to an open source project.

This year marks Percona's 15th anniversary!  Over the last 15 years Percona has been helping, enhancing, and helping millions in the Open Source ecosystem! Matt Yonkovit, the Percona Head of Open Source Strategy (HOSS), invited the two founders of Percona, CEO Peter Zaitsev and CTO Vadim Tkachenko, to talk about the beginning and the evolution of Percona all along those 15 years. We cover the early days of MySQL, moving into MongoDB, jumping into the PostgreSQL community, and handling the modern landscape.   Listen to the technical and business challenges as Percona evolved from an idea to 2 geeks starting something new to a successful bootstrapped company with over 300 employees and thousands of customers. It has been an interesting ride! Hear all about it and what  the next 15 years of Percona will look like?

The Percona HOSS, Matt Yonkovit sits down with Umair Shahid, Head of PostgreSQL at Percona, to chat about his background, the PostgreSQL community, and why PostgreSQL continues to grow in popularity. Umair counts 20 years experience in PostgreSQL and open source experience serving some of the highly competitive technology markets in USA & Europe in roles of increasing responsibility.

Liquan Pei, Senior Software Engineer, Database Kernel at PingCAP sat down with the HOSS Matt Yonkovit to talk about PingCAP, Hybrid Transactional and Analytical Processing ( HTAP), NewSQL, and getting deeper into TiDB.  PingCAP is founded by the team that built TiDB, a world leading Open-Source distributed NewSQL database, for globally scalable HTAP which is compatible with MySQL, and enables companies to painlessly scale their business while keeping the underlying infrastructure simple.

Join Percona's HOSS (Head of Open Source Strategy) Matt Yonkovit as he sits down with Jono Bacon, Community & Collaboration Consultant and Author to talk about building and growing Communities!  Listen in on the discussion on the impact of the pandemic, the growth of diverse and larger communities, the free open source  software community in action, ideas on measuring the effect and impact of community efforts , and more. Jono is the author of 'People Powered: How communities can supercharge your business, brand, and teams', and 'The Art of Community'.  Jono has also written on community for Forbes, Harvard Business Review, Fortune, and elsewhere. Listen into this dive into building and managing communities.

The Percona HOSS, Matt Yonkovit sits down with Kyle Davis, Senior Developer Advocate AWS, to tackle his background as Developer Advocate before diving into the details around AWS's new open source fork OpenSearch. Kyle dives into the history of OpenSearch, the license, challenges,  and roadmap. Kyle fills us in on how to use and to contribute to OpenSearch. If you did not see, Kyle generously donated his knowledge recently handling an entire track at Percona Live focused on OpenSearch.   For a deep dive on how to use and deploy OpenSearch check out all his sessions which are available for free on percona.community or on our youtube channel.

Uber Technologies, Inc., commonly known as Uber, is an American technology company. Its services include ride-hailing, food delivery, package delivery, couriers, freight transportation, and more. It is one of the largest firms in the gig economy. In Episode 36, The Percona HOSS Matt Yonkovit invited Ovais Tariq, Sr. Engineering Manager - Core Storage @Uber and Himank Chaudhary, Staff Software Engineer, Uber Technologies to talk more about Uber's custom-built database DocStore.  Recently the pair also teamed up at Percona Live to deliver the talk “Docstore - Uber's Highly Scalable Distributed SQL Database” to give us more details about the technology. 

Join Percona's HOSS (Head of Open Source Strategy) Matt Yonkovit as he sits down with Rob Richardson, Developer Advocate at Cyral to talk about testing, tooling, debugging code, using microservices, and more. Rob is a Microsoft MVP, published author, frequent speaker at tech conferences, user groups, and community events.  Recently he shared his knowledge with our community during a session about Databases in the Microservices World during the Percona Live 2021.  Find more presentations on his blog https://robrich.org/presentations  or follow him on twitter at @rob_rich to continue the conversation.

Bruce Momjian, Vice President, Postgres Evangelist at EDB sat down with the HOSS Matt Yonkovit to talk through the current trends in database technology as well as to get details on the release of Postgres 14.  Bruce has been around the database space for more than 30 years : He is a co-founder and core team member of the PostgreSQL Global Development Group as well as a known speaker, author, and contributor in the PostgreSQL community who has appeared at many international open-source conferences.   Recently he visited Percona Live and talked to us about how to choose the best hardware for PostgreSQL in the cloud.

Percona's Hoss ( Head of Open Source Strategy ) Matt Yonkovit talks to Lead Database Consultant at Pythian, Matthias Crauwels on a variety of MySQL Topics including how to tackle SE Linux,  ensuring database security, backups, recovery, testing, and more. Mathias is a long time member of the MySQL community and has spoken at numerous conferences on MySQL related topics.

Sergey Pronin, Kubernetes Operator Product Owner at Percona stops by again to chat with the HOSS about the current state of operators at Percona. We also get a recap of Sergey's talks he shared at Percona Live, and about the latest entry into Percona's Operator lineup, the Percona Postgres Operator. Check out Sergey's talks from Percona Live including “Percona XtraDB Cluster Operator - Architecture Decisions”. Full recording of this session is now available for in-depth tech talk for free.

Jobin Augustine (PostgreSQL Escalation Specialist) and Sergey Kuzmichev (Senior Support Engineer) both from Percona stop by the HOSS talks FOSS to talk with Matt Yonkovit about open source, PostgreSQL, Migrations, and more.  In this episode we cover a large number of topics from the challenges they are facing in their day to day jobs, recommendations and best practices for managing your databases, the differences in backup tools, challenges when migrating from other databases like Oracle, and more!  They also give us an overview of their talk during Percona Live 2021. Finally we get a sneak preview of Sergey's and his fellow colleague Vinicius upcoming book “Learning MySQL” that will be published in Autumn.

Matt Yonkovit, The HOSS, talks with Google Dev Rel Engineer Derek Downey who recently joined the Google cloud team to talk about his career in the database space, learning Google Spanner, Ansible, database automation, Kubernetes, and more. Derek recently gave a talk at Percona Live entitled "Practical DB Automation Ansible", and has been active in the open source community for over 10 years.

Karthik Appigatla, Staff Engineer, Linkedin is the guest of the HOSS in this episode to talk about the database infrastructure at Linkedin, challenging situations that arise from running databases at scale, the evolving role of DBAs and DBREs, and dive deep into his recent Percona Live talks. Karthik is passionate about distributed, scalable and highly available databases and is eager to share his knowledge and experience with us.

Listen in as the HOSS talks with Daniel Black, Chief Innovation Officer at the MariaDB Foundation. Daniel  is a self-professed serial micropatcher of open source projects. He is passionate about all things performance, understanding how things work,  and has worked tirelessly on porting coding for POWER Systems. He was formerly a DBA consultant for Open Query where he started writing far too many patches for MariaDB, a tradition which he continues today, and ultimately led him to become the Chief Innovation Officer at the MariaDB foundation.