Peter Zaitsev
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where they keep going back
- FOSDEM2 editions2021–2022
- stackconf2 editions2022–2024
- Percona Live2 editions2016–2022
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who talks about the same things
- Matt Yonkovit17 talks
- Sergey Pronin14 talks
- Bruce Momjian52 talks
- Donnie Berkholz14 talks
- Peter Farkas14 talks
- Lisa-Marie Namphy13 talks
| title | conference | date |
|---|---|---|
| Columnstore Revolution | Percona Live Amsterdam 2026 | 2026-09-09 |
ClickHouse claims to handle billions of daily clickstream rows and delivers two orders of magnitude faster analytic scans than legacy MySQL, powering… | ||
| Open Source Database Operations in the Age of AI | Percona Live Amsterdam 2026 | 2026-09-09 |
AI drives bursts of tiny ephemeral databases and huge data generation, pushing adoption of Neon serverless Postgres and sharded/distributed stores, plus demand… | ||
| Smarter Databases in Kubernetes: Applying AI for Query Optimization and Self-Tuning | Cloud Native AI + Kubeflow Day 2026 | 2026-03-23 |
Argues that Kubernetes is a natural control plane for adaptive databases and that current systems sit around level two autonomy, not fully autonomous, with a… | ||
| Why PostgreSQL took the crown from MySQL and what lies ahead | PostgreSQL Conference Europe 2025 | 2025-10-21 |
Claims that PostgreSQL overtook MySQL by combining extensibility and permissive licensing, wide adoption by managed clouds (Heroku, Amazon RDS) and embedding… | ||
| What Developers Should Know About Observability | PG Armenia x Percona University – Yerevan, August 28, 2025 | 2025-08-28 |
Covers practical claims: four pillars (metrics, logs, traces, profiling) and why profiling gives line‑level hotspots while metrics give high‑level health… | ||
| Welcome & State of Open Source Databases | PG Armenia x Percona University – Yerevan, August 28, 2025 | 2025-08-28 |
Fast, concrete survey of where open source databases move: rising designs for distributed by default systems and separation of storage and compute (Neon sold… | ||
| What Makes Open Source Work: Licensing and Beyond | WeAreDevelopers World Congress 2025 | 2025-07-09 |
Claims that a license alone is insufficient: projects need license necessary but not sufficient, clear governance (community-run, foundation or neutral rules)… | ||
| Best Practices for Running Databases on Kubernetes | Berlin Buzzwords 2025 | 2025-06-15 |
Argues Kubernetes is ready for databases if you apply concrete practices: use Percona Operators to automate replication, failover, backups and lifecycle; store… | ||
| Lightning Talk: Cloud Native PostgreSQL - Running PostgreSQL on Kubernetes | Data on Kubernetes Day NA 2024 | 2024-11-12 |
Compares concrete operator choices for production PostgreSQL on Kubernetes, showing that operators are necessary for day‑two tasks (backups, scaling, upgrades… | ||
| Redis Alternatives Compared | P99 CONF 2024 | 2024-10-23 |
Redis shifts license to a non‑competitive source‑available model in March 2024, prompting forks and reimplementations. Major specifics: VY fork with Linux… | ||
| Zero-instrumentation observability based on eBPF | DevConf.US 2024 | 2024-08-14 |
Claims that eBPF collects metrics, logs and traces for containers and hosts with low overhead, no app code changes, and minute-scale deployment via a per-node… | ||
| Zero instrumentation observability with eBPF | stackconf 2024 | 2024-06-18 |
Shows how eBPF attaches tiny programs to kprobes, uprobes and tracepoints to gather metrics, logs, traces and CPU profiles without app instrumentation, and… | ||
| From a database in container to DBaaS on Kubernetes | stackconf 2024 | 2024-06-18 |
Claims Kubernetes can host a full DBaaS that runs anywhere Kubernetes runs and avoid cloud lock‑in by using open source tooling; operators are necessary for… | ||
| The State of Open Source Cloud | Open Source 101 2023 | 2023-03-23 |
Argues for using cloud as commodity infrastructure and running open source on top, with Kubernetes as the API and concrete pieces: CSI for storage, Prometheus… | ||
| State of Open Source Databases | OSA Con 2022 | 2022-11-15 |
Surveys 2022 trends: analytical systems move to distributed architectures with storage/compute separation, many teams run 10 or more databases, and serverless… | ||
| HTAP vs OLTP/OLAP | OSA Con 2022 | 2022-11-15 |
HTAP claims to let a single system serve OLTP and OLAP simultaneously; implementations either keep row and column replicas synchronized or separate engines… | ||
| Percona University - Istanbul Türkiye November 2022 | Percona University Istanbul 2022 | 2022-11-05 |
This is a great opportunity to discover more about open source software, tools, and services, and to bring your open source database questions to our experts… | ||
| State of Open Source Databases and how Percona Contributes | Percona University Istanbul 2022 | 2022-11-05 |
Recent open source database shifts: cluster-first designs and storage/compute separation enable serverless and multi-tenant systems; cloud hosting drives… | ||
| The database trends that are transforming your database infrastructure forever | LeadDev Berlin 2022 | 2022-11-02 |
Argues open source databases move from single-node to distributed architectures and separate storage from compute so serverless querying is feasible; cites… | ||
| From a Database in Container to DBaaS on Kubernetes | Open Source Summit Latin America 2022 | 2022-08-23 |
Docker works well for dev but not for production at scale; containers add overhead, volume management and monitoring gaps. Kubernetes plus the operator… | ||
| Distributed Storage in the Cloud | stackconf 2022 | 2022-07-19 |
Overview of cloud storage choices with concrete recommendations: treat Kubernetes as the cloud OS and design for node loss; prefer open source stacks to avoid… | ||
| Opening remarks and Key Open Source Databases Strategies That Shape 2022 | Percona Live 2022 | 2022-05-16 |
Claims that cloud is the dominant force in open source databases and that cloud DB revenue surpasses on‑prem in 2022; argument that permissive licenses rise as… | ||
| Better MySQL With Percona PMM | Percona Live 2022 | 2022-05-16 |
Percona PMM demonstrates a working stack: a pmm server plus agents (or agentless for RDS), Grafana dashboards and Prometheus metrics, and query analytics that… | ||
| State of Open Source Databases | FOSDEM 2022 | 2022-02-05 |
A discussion on the changes, trends, and database technologies that are going to impact your business in the next 12-18 months.
It has been an exciting year… | ||
| MySQL 8 vs MariaDB 10.7 | FOSDEM 2022 | 2022-02-05 |
MySQL 8 and MariaDB 10.6 are the latest Major versions for MySQL and MariaDB. While MariaDB started by being slightly different MySQL variant, now it has grown… | ||
| Ten Tips for Better MariaDB Performance | FOSDEM 2022 | 2022-02-05 |
Optimizing MariaDB performance and troubleshooting MariaDB problems are two of the most critical and challenging tasks for DBA’s. The databases powering your… | ||
| Distributed Storage in the Cloud | FOSDEM 2022 | 2022-02-05 |
Cloud brought many innovations - one of them is inexpensive, scalable and sometimes secure Distributed Storage options. In this presentation we will talk about… | ||
| MySQL Performance on Modern CPU: Intel vs AMD vs ARM | FOSDEM 2022 | 2022-02-05 |
For years CPU choice for MySQL was pretty boring - just chose what Intel Made CPU you want. In recent years the situation changed with AMD producing very… | ||
| Driving the Future of PostgreSQL Adoption | PGConf NYC 2021 | 2021-12-02 |
Argues that PostgreSQL adoption hinges on three measurable things: balancing relational features with scale, making databases frictionless for application… | ||
| From a Database in Container to DBaaS on Kubernetes | Open Source Summit + Embedded Linux Conference + OSPOCon 2021 | 2021-09-27 |
Explains why databases move from Docker (good for dev/test but risky for prod) to Kubernetes using PersistentVolumes, StatefulSets and the Operator pattern… | ||
| State of MySQL Security in 2021 | Data Con LA 2021 | 2021-09-17 |
MySQL 8.0 is the baseline for 2021 security with concrete features: roles support for simpler privilege management, dynamic privileges to avoid excessive SUPER… | ||
| Database Trends, Open Source and Licenses | ConFoo 2021 | 2021-02-24 |
Discussion of current database trends, open-source software development, and the licensing models associated with open-source databases. Covers how licenses… | ||
| MariaDB Observability | FOSDEM 2021 | 2021-02-06 |
MariaDB exposes concrete observability: Performance Schema with ~80 tables, almost 1,000 instrumentation points (≈300 time-instrumented) and picosecond… | ||
| Why Public Database as a Service is Prime for Open Source Distribution | FOSDEM 2021 | 2021-02-06 |
The database market is changing drastically in ways no one imagined 5 years ago. Database vendors are moving away from traditional deployment methods and… | ||
| Hybrid Cloud Open Source DBaaS with Kubernetes | FOSDEM 2021 | 2021-02-06 |
The path to OpenSource DBaaS with Kubernetes
DBaaS is the fastest growing way to deploy databases. It is fast and convenient and it helps to reduce toil a… | ||
| Performance Analysis and Troubleshooting Methodologies for Databases | FOSDEM 2021 | 2021-02-06 |
Have you heard about the USE Method (Utilization - Saturation - Errors), RED (Rate - Errors - Duration) or Golden Signals (Latency - Traffic - Errors -… | ||
| 18 Things To Do When You Have a MySQL Bottleneck | FOSDEM 2021 | 2021-02-06 |
The presentation will be focused on dealing with an unexpected high traffic event as it is happening. We will address the impact a traffic spike can have on… | ||
| Pg_stat_monitor - The new way to analyze query performance in PostgreSQL | FOSDEM 2021 | 2021-02-06 |
If you're tasked with optimizing PostgreSQL performance, chances are you're relying on pgstatstatements extension to capture information about query… | ||
| Data Con LA 2020 - Friday Keynotes | Data Con LA 2020 | 2020-10-23 |
A county builds an information hub that merges health, housing, justice and social services into a master data management platform with a common anonymized… | ||
| Why Public Database as a Service is Prime for Open Source Distribution | Percona Live Online 2020 | 2020-10-20 |
Database-as-a-service wins on convenience but creates vendor lock-in, higher incidents and surprise costs; the talk claims a premium rose from ~30% to parity… | ||
| Advanced Optimization and Troubleshooting MySQL Using PMM2 | Percona Live Online 2020 | 2020-10-20 |
Demonstrates PMM2’s actionable features: ClickHouse-backed query analytics surfaces a specific case where an UPDATE query spends 99% time on lock and lets… | ||
| Power Hour, Managing Databases at Scale – Peter Zaitsev | Percona Live Online 2020 | 2020-10-20 |
Three vendors give concrete stances: embrace open source to avoid vendor lock in, limit database sprawl to a controlled set, and invest in automation for… | ||
| Open Source Software Licenses and Business Models Explained | All Things Open 2020 | 2020-10-19 |
History links license choices to business outcomes and gives concrete tradeoffs: choose goals first, then license to match whether revenue comes from support… | ||
| MySQL 8 Observability | Percona Tech Days 2020 | 2020-08-05 |
MySQL 8 adds concrete observability: Performance Schema with >1,000 instruments and configurable consumers, session vs global SHOW STATUS deltas… | ||
| 17 Things Developers Need to Know About Databases | Open Source 101 at Home 2020 | 2020-05-12 |
Seventeen concrete items list practical claims and tools: MySQL single-threaded queries limit single-query CPU scaling while Postgres parallel query can use… | ||
| Distributed MySQL Architectures: Past, Present and Future | Distributed SQL Summit 2019 | 2019-09-20 |
A practical survey of MySQL at scale: single instances hit >1M QPS on simple hardware and handle tens of thousands of updates, yet large apps force… | ||
| 10 Things Developers should know about Databases | Percona University Montevideo 2019 | 2019-04-23 |
Ten concrete rules: learn schema and query execution, test at scale and benchmark rather than trust vendor claims, and treat databases as a shared… | ||
| Percona Vision and Plans | Percona University Montevideo 2019 | 2019-04-23 |
Percona outlines concrete products, benchmarks and timelines: Percona Server for MySQL 8 is released with enterprise features and advanced encryption; Percona… | ||
| Championing Open Source Databases | Percona Live Open Source Database Conference Europe 2017 | 2017-09-25 |
Talk claims accelerating adoption of open source databases and warns of cloud lock‑in and shifting business models while promoting concrete Percona work… | ||
| To Shard or Not to Shard | Percona Live 2016 | 2016-04-18 |
Argues most apps avoid sharding because a single MySQL box routinely reaches 100,000 qps and a 3M DAU example maps to ~31k peak queries, so sharding is often… | ||
| MySQL Indexing Best Practices | Percona Live MySQL Conference & Expo 2015 | 2015-04-13 |
Explains how MySQL uses B+tree-style indexes (point lookups, open/closed ranges, ORDER BY) and why InnoDB’s clustered primary key matters; shows when… | ||
| Introduction to TokuDB storage engine for large data sets | Percona Live MySQL Conference & Expo 2015 | 2015-04-13 |
Percona reports TokuDB as a production-ready MySQL/MariaDB engine offering fractal tree compression that gives higher compression ratios with low CPU overhead… | ||
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