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

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.".