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.