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

Listen in as the HOSS talks with Daniel Black, Chief Innovation Officer at the MariaDB Foundation. Daniel  is a self-professed serial micropatcher of open source projects. He is passionate about all things performance, understanding how things work,  and has worked tirelessly on porting coding for POWER Systems. He was formerly a DBA consultant for Open Query where he started writing far too many patches for MariaDB, a tradition which he continues today, and ultimately led him to become the Chief Innovation Officer at the MariaDB foundation.

Join the HOSS Matt Yonkovit and MySQL & MariaDB expert Valerii Kravchuk on the latest episode of the HOSS talks FOSS.  Valerii is passionate about all things Performance, Open Source, and Databases. Listen to the Database Performance and Bug guru talk about performance tools and methods like dynamic tracing, flame graphs, BPftrace, and more! Valerii is a Principal Support Engineer at MariaDB Corp with over 20 years of experience in the database field.

David Zhao (ZettaDB) has been working on database kernels for years, developing code and enhancements for Berkeley DB, MySQL, and TDSQL.  David is back with a new Hybrid database called Kunlun which aims to take the best of what's in the PostgreSQL and MySQL space both and output a better database.   David sits down with Matt Yonkovit ( The HOSS) to talk about the Kunlun project, distribution, implementation, scalability, and more. If you are interested in learning more David also delivered a talk at Percona Live 2021 entitled “Performance Comparison of MySQL and PostgreSQL based on Kernel Level Analysis” which is also available now.

Guy Harrison, CTO @ ProvenDB (AKA: Southbank Software) is the special guest of Matt Yonkovit in The latest HOSS Talks FOSS Ep25.  Guy has authored several books on database technology including MongoDB Performance Tuning, Next Generation Databases, and the Oracle Database Problem Solving and Troubleshooting Handbook.  He is currently the CTO of ProvenDB where he is bringing BlockChain tech to databases.  In this episode we talk about all things MongoDB, Databases, and the future landscape of technology

The Percona HOSS Matt Yonkovit sits down with Ibrar Ahmed, Senior Software Engineer, at  Percona to talk about PostgreSQL Performance!  Matt and Ibrar talk about the impact of 3rd party extensions, memory settings, and hardware.  Get a bit more detail behind Ibrar’s talk he delivered at Percona Live 2021.  The full recording of his Percona Live session entitled : “High-Performance PostgreSQL” is now available.

The Percona HOSS Matt Yonkovit invited Pep Pla, Consultant at Percona to talk about why database recovery trumps database backups every time as well as some highlights from his 2021 Percona Live talk on "How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Backups".  Listen to this episode 23 of the HOSS talks FOSS and learn why you should stop worrying so much about backups, and start worrying about recovery

The HOSS sits down with Marcos Albe Principal Support Engineer at Percona and official BBQ master of Percona. In what will become a recurring feature we “Grill Open Source” talking about BBQ, Open Source, MySQL, and real life fun! Join Marcos and Matt for this fun walk through food, open source, Linux kernel patches, finding difficult bugs in code, performance tuning, and of course all things MySQL

The HOSS sit down with the Software Engineer at Percona Marcelo Altmann to talk about all things open source, database, and debugging big projects.  In this episode we cover his career, finding and debugging hard to find bugs, GDB & RR - Record and Replay - and talk about ideas for a potential special in-person barbecue & open source event

The HOSS sits down with Technical Account Manager and long time MySQL DBA Mike Benshoof to talk about the key challenges and issues enterprises are facing today, the benefits of MyRocks, and of course Philadelphia Cheesesteaks!

Listen in as the HOSS talks with long time MySQL community contributor  Shlomi Noach.  Shlomi has been developing and enhancing some of the MySQL communities most popular tools for years.  You may know his mysql work from projects like Orchestrator, Ghost, and Vitess.  He shares his experiences and his motivations behind some of these projects and gives us a preview into what he is up to next!