We love supporting communities and open source. One of the things we are thrilled about at Percona is hybrid and in-person conferences coming back this fall. Local events are a perfect opportunity to meet and reinforce you, community members, and open source lovers, talk about databases and remote work, and maybe even hug!
Especially for this conference season, Matt Yonkovit built an arcade controller – a gadget to manage database workloads in real-time and play with them in Percona Monitoring and Management. Have you ever thought about managing your database workload with the help of selectors? Now all visitors of our booth can try to literally manipulate the database with their hands! That was really a hit. It consists of several buttons and switches which allow you to run a vacuum, stop all the workload, and do lots of other stuff. If you want to see it in action, watch the video of the live-streamed PMM meetup from OSS (Open Source Summit) in Seattle with the demo. And for those who decide to replicate it or build their own version, Matt shared the code on his GitHub.
Traditionally, we sponsor the OSDN Conf Kyiv in September where Percona staff members from Ukraine actively participate and organize. It is a one-day, non-commercial, volunteer-organized event centered on free and open source software. Richard Stallman was their special guest this year with the talk “Free Software and the GNU General Public License.”
Also, it was really exciting for our team to meet again in person at All Things Open in Raleigh and celebrate Percona’s 15 years with everyone! Approximately 1000 people were on-site and 2500 people were online. All of them were able to get to know our experts and play with Matt’s PMM arcade controller. Also, Percona speakers gave four talks with good attendance.
One of the virtual events we were happy to support was Nerdearla 2021, the most important IT conference in the Latin American region. Though it was lots of fun virtually, we hope that in the future we will be able to meet in person again!
So, what is up next? At the end of November, we are flying to Las Vegas to the breathtaking AWS re:Invent. It promises to become a notable event of the year celebrating 10 years of the conference. If you are going to be there, stop by the Percona booth and see us!
Right after re:Invent, our team will be in New York at the non–profit, community-run PGConf NYC. We will be Platinum sponsors this time, and Percona Postgres experts will give five talks on Postgres topics. Preparations for this event are already in full swing!
We are thinking of the next year, too. In January, we will welcome you to the booth in Silicon Valley at the Postgres Conference. Come and enjoy this event with us. We are looking forward to it!
Want us to speak at your event? Organize a conference or a local meetup in any part of the globe and need speakers? Contact us at [email protected] and we will work with you on the support we can provide.
And we are hiring! The Community Team is actively looking for the Technical Evangelists to join our team and work with open source communities all over the world. Watch a short video to get an idea of the work of the team and how we encourage open source growth.
