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

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.