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

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.