ICYMI: The MySQL community has a new independent voice. In LinuxInsider, Jack M. Germain covers OurSQL Foundation. Vadim Tkachenko calls it “a platform to promote and support MySQL” while fostering broader collaboration. https://bit.ly/4w3pAGg #MySQL #OpenSource #OurSQL

OurSQL Foundation Gives MySQL Community an Independent Voice

A new nonprofit aims to strengthen MySQL's future by giving users and developers a stronger voice while Oracle retains ownership and development control.

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What happens when moving fewer bytes breaks two #Valkey subsystems? At #PerconaLiveEU, Daniil Kashapov of Yandex Cloud shares what failed, what the team uncovered and how they fixed it. Join us in #Amsterdam Sept. 9–11: https://bit.ly/4vRCGY2 #Tech #OpenSource #Databases

🎨 Nashville, join Percona Sept. 24 for an immersive evening at 7 Paintings with fellow database and infrastructure leaders. Space is limited—reserve your seat: https://bit.ly/4hceZoN #OpenSource #Databases #Nashville

Your database breakthrough starts in Amsterdam. 🌍 Join DBAs, developers, architects & open source leaders at #PerconaLiveEU 2026 for practical sessions and real-world lessons on performance, reliability, Kubernetes, AI & more. Register: https://bit.ly/4vRCGY2 #OpenSource #Databases #TechEvents

Percona Live 2026 | Amsterdam, The Netherlands – September 9-11

Percona Live 2026 in Amsterdam is the premier open-source database conference, featuring deep technical sessions on MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MariaDB, Valkey, and emerging data innovations.

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Get your brand in the room with the database community. Sponsor #PerconaLiveEU 2026 and connect with DBAs, developers, architects and tech leaders tackling real-world data challenges. Explore sponsorship opportunities: https://bit.ly/4yx96ZD #OpenSource #Databases #TechEvents

What does MySQL 9.7 LTS bring to the table? Anil Joshi covers Group Replication monitoring, auto-eviction and rejoin, up-to-date primary elections, JSON duality views and Hypergraph Optimizer. Explore: https://bit.ly/4vXgKdk #MySQL #DatabasePerformance #OpenSource #Databases

What MySQL lessons are worth taking from teams running databases at scale? 🤔 At #PerconaLiveEU, Kedar Vaijanapurkar and Akhilesh Kumar of BigBasket will unpack production MySQL stories and practical lessons. Join them: https://bit.ly/4vRCGY2 #MySQL #OpenSource #Databases

What is the performance impact of TDE in PostgreSQL? Zsolt Parragi explains why one benchmark cannot tell the full story, and where write-heavy workloads and high WAL churn reveal overhead. Read now: https://bit.ly/4bbIHGL #PostgreSQL #DatabaseSecurity #Encryption #OpenSource #TDE

Open source communities are built by people who show up. Laura Czajkowski introduces Mountaineers, recognizing work across GitHub, forums, content, surveys and product feedback. Start your climb: https://bit.ly/4fqQ3IU #OpenSource #Developers #Databases #OSS

#Database costs should reflect what you run, not how vendors price it. Percona helps cut licensing fees, right-size #infrastructure, standardize #operations, and reduce outage #risk. Lower costs without giving up control: https://bit.ly/4vpluZx #OpenSource #Databases #TCO

We’re excited to welcome VillageSQL as a Platinum Sponsor of #PerconaLiveEU! 🎉 They’ll bring their perspective on the future of #MySQL and #opensource #databases to #Amsterdam. Interested in sponsoring? https://bit.ly/4yx96ZD

Running #MySQL on #Kubernetes takes more than putting a #database in a container. Join Mayank Shah on August 19 for a webinar on #storage, #failover, scaling, #backups, upgrades, and #monitoring. Register: https://bit.ly/4wa2lv3 #OpenSource #Database #Databases #HighAvailability

Open source should mean freedom to choose your technology, control your infrastructure, and change direction without vendor permission. For 20 years, Percona has stood for no lock-in, fewer restrictions, and better databases. The way is open: https://bit.ly/43Itnx3

The #opensource #database community is coming to #Amsterdam! 🇳🇱 Join #DBAs, #developers, architects, and tech leaders at #PerconaLiveEU for three days of practical sessions on performance, reliability, #Kubernetes, #AI, and more. Register: https://bit.ly/4vRCGY2

Open source means collaboration, transparency, and building better technology together. Zsolt Parragi explains why Percona’s pg_tde fork was a technical necessity, not vendor lock-in, and why the goal remains upstreaming TDE into PostgreSQL. https://bit.ly/4h8sV30

Could Swap make Kubernetes applications more resilient? Join Percona’s upcoming Open Source Unplugged with to learn how swap can manage memory spikes and avoid OOMKilled pods. 📅 July 21, 09:00 UTC Register: https://bit.ly/4f3NCMd

🚨 Last call! Percona Live Amsterdam’s Call for Papers closes today. 🚨 Share your technical story on MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Kubernetes, AI, performance, HA, observability, migrations, and more. Submit today: https://bit.ly/4y9y5C0 #PerconaLiveEU

When MongoDB restore time matters, your backup strategy needs to do more than check a box. ✅ Ivan Groenewold explains why snapshots and mongodump can fall short, and how Percona Backup for MongoDB supports faster, more consistent recovery. Read the blog. 👉 https://bit.ly/3R54Rnh

Percona Operator for MySQL 1.2.0 is here. 🚀 Ready to be 10X more productive? New cross-site replication supports multi-region DR, migrations, and read scaling. The release adds encrypted backups, automated storage resizing, improved Secrets, and stronger security. Read on: https://bit.ly/4eZDzI8

Semantic search gets a lot more useful when it understands how people actually search. 🔎 In part 3 of his Percona Community series, Daniil Bazhenov shares lessons on hybrid search, filters, result counts, and widget updates. Read more: https://bit.ly/4eYYJF3

We just closed out a fantastic couple of days at WeAreDevelopers in Berlin. A big thanks to everyone who stopped by to talk open source!

We’re hiring! At Percona, you’ll work with a global team of open source experts helping companies solve real database challenges across MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Valkey, and more. Explore our open careers: https://bit.ly/3PFetV0 #OpenSource #Databases #Hiring

Percona Live Amsterdam is starting to take shape, with sessions like Verena Traub’s talk on running Percona Operators in production across 40+ databases per cluster. Have your own database story? Submit your proposal: https://bit.ly/4y9y5C0

AI can be useful in open source, but AI slop is something else entirely. In his latest Percona Community blog, Jan Wieremjewicz explains why PostgreSQL needs a clearer AI usage policy for PRs, bug reports, security reports, and reviews. Read more: https://bit.ly/4p1HVSc

ICYMI: Percona and HexaCluster are collaborating to help enterprises move from legacy and proprietary databases to open source. The partnership gives teams an assessment-led path to PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB Community. More from dbtrends: https://bit.ly/44JrQY6

Percona and HexaCluster Collaborate to Help Enterprises Move from Legacy Databases to Open Source

Percona, a provider of open source database software and services, is partnering with HexaCluster, a PostgreSQL migration and services specialist, to help organizations move off proprietary and legacy...

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The database-on-Kubernetes debate has moved from “should we?” to “how do we do it well?” In his latest Percona blog, Chetan Shivashankar breaks down stateful workloads, data safety, downtime, operators, tuning, and lock-in. Read more: https://bit.ly/4eKKVz4

MySQL governance is back in the spotlight. In The Register, Lindsay Clark covers Oracle’s promise to open up MySQL governance, with perspective from Percona co-founder Peter Zaitsev on why community involvement needs stronger guarantees. Read more: https://bit.ly/4pps8x3

Oracle promises to open up MySQL governance, but the community wants guarantees

Open source advocates remain concerned over lack of binding commitments

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Curious how to optimize database performance? Watch us break down how Percona helps teams spot issues, reduce costs, and solve infrastructure challenges before they impact the business. Watch now: https://bit.ly/4aDm5i8 #DatabasePerformance #OpenSource

In InfoWorld, Bill Doerrfeld explores why open infrastructure will define the AI era, with perspective from Percona CEO Peter Farkas on the risks of building entirely on proprietary platforms. Read the full article: https://bit.ly/4vBy5ZH

Why open infrastructure will define the AI era

Remember when writing code was free? AI is pushing software development into usage-billed proprietary platforms. But history repeats itself, and open foundations tend to win.

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Databases will define how far teams can actually take AI. 🤖 Percona helps teams build for what comes next with AI-capable databases, open infrastructure, and more control over performance, cost, governance, and data. Become future ready: https://bit.ly/4uZT8UH