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

The HOSS talks with Dor about his career covering working on the KVM hypervisor, developing a new OS, and also building an Open Source Database.  We then go Deep diving into all things ScyllaDB including design decisions, the benefits, and what users are looking for.

Karthik Ranganathan CTO at Yugabyte knows databases inside and out having been on the team that first built Apache Cassandra, helped optimize and scale HBase, and most recently built Yugabyte.  What insights does he have from participating in these efforts?  He sat down with Percona’s HOSS Matt Yonkovit to talk through what he learned, what he regretted, and how Yugabyte takes those lessons and implements them.

Amanda Brock is the CEO of OpenUK an organization that promotes the use of open source software, hardware, and data in the UK.  Amanda has a deep background in open source dating back to the time she was the general council for Canonical.  The HOSS talks with Amanda about her background, the business of open source, licensing, contributor agreements, FOSS growth in the UK, and more!  Join us for the great discussion on all things open source.

Lukas Eder is the CEO and founder of Data Geekery GmbH, the company behind JooQ an open source Java framework that gives you an API that allows you to write SQL statements through natural Java api calls.  The HOSS (Matt Yonkovit) sat down with Lukas to discuss ORM’s like Hibernate and how JooQ is different. We also talk about how speed is important and how JooQ can help speed up database applications.

Bart Farrell heads up the Data on Kubernetes community ( Dok ).  Matt and Bart sit down to talk about what is happening in the community, how people can get involved, and what fun things are coming up next.

The two open-source veterans of over 20 years sit down and talk about coming to open source, growing the community, the changes to open source licensing, and of course the new role of SRE/DBRE and how DBA’s are stepping up and turning into awesome contributors in this new role.  We will also hear what is new and exciting with Apache Cassandra and what the folks over at Datastax are working on!

Sergey Pronin ( Percona Product Owner for Percona's Kubernetes operators ) visits with the HOSS again talking about the latest releases as Percona adds functionality to Percona's MongoDB and MySQL Operators ( Also coming soon a PostgreSQL Operator! ).

Percona’s Hoss ( Head of Open Source Strategy ) Matt Yonkovit talks to Percona’s SR Director of Solution Engineering on his journey from Teradata and Oracle to Open Source at Percona.  Brian explores what he sees as the drivers and obstacles for enterprises moving and adopting more open source.

Percona’s Hoss ( Head of Open Source Strategy ) Matt Yonkovit talks to Planetscale’s SR Technical Manager Alkin Tezuysal on his role as a Vitess maintainer, who is using & contributing to Vitess, and where does it make sense for companies.   We also dive into Alkin’s passion for sailing and talk about sailing during the global pandemic.  You won’t want to miss this week’s episode!

Last year AWS announced ARM-based Graviton2 EC2 instances providing a cheaper more efficient option to classic X86 instances.  Jobin and Sergey Kuzmichev wanted to know if the cheaper instances came at a cost in overall performance and set out on a deep dive into benchmarking and testing the different instances.   Their hard work culminated in the first of a potential group of blogs highlighting the performance of PostgreSQL on the ARM processor.  The HOSS sat down with Jobin and talked about not only Jobin’s journey into the PostgreSQL space, but also the benchmarks, PostgreSQL features, and all things Open.