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

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!