London, Hockey, and Taco Bell! 💂 🏒🌮 What a great time for events with the community! Last week, our experts gathered with the community for Percona.Connect London! Thanks to everyone who came out for insightful open source and database conversations. This week, we packed a box at the Vegas Golden Knights vs. Chicago Blackhawks game with leaders pushing open source forward. Then we joined Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Valkey to take over a Taco Bell on the Las Vegas strip for an AWS re:Invent afterparty! Thanks to all the builders, the maintainers, the contributors, the curious, and especially those who are 𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙞𝙣 on open source for joining our community at these recent events!
⚔️ Our journey through #KubeCon + #CloudNativeCon North America was nothing short of an epic adventure! We crossed the halls like a fellowship, handed out swag worthy of dwarven craftsmanship, met incredible allies along the way, and shared stories from our favourite realms—open source, Kubernetes, and databases. Many brave souls joined us for booth-side chess battles and tried their luck in our raffles for precious treasures. ⭐ 🧙♂️ To everyone who visited our booth on this quest: you have our thanks (and our axe). Until next time, travellers.
We had a great time at Percona.Connect in New Delhi, where the open source database community came together for insightful sessions and real-world stories. Thanks to Tata Consultancy Services, who joined us to share ideas on performance, scalability, and simplifying data management. 📌 Join us on November 19 for our virtual Percona.Connect - made for wherever you are in the world 🌎: https://bit.ly/3JtxFlt
Yesterday, we brought open source and high performance together—both on and off the track. 😉 At Open Source Unlocked – From Redis to Valkey, we dove into migration strategies, cost optimization, and how Amazon Web Services (AWS) databases power Valkey and GenAI innovation. 🏎️ Then at F1 Arcade Boston, the Valkey conversation continued—this time while racing for the leaderboard. Huge thank you to everyone who joined us. Let's keep the open source conversations going. Catch our team at these upcoming events: 💥 Nov 10-13 — Kubecon North America 2025, Atlanta 💥 Nov 19 — Percona.Connect, Virtual 💥 Dec 2 —Big Plays, Big Conversations: Hockey Night with Percona, Las Vegas
We’re thrilled to announce that Peter Farkas has been named Percona’s new Chief Executive Officer. 🎉 A former Perconian and open source leader with deep technical expertise, Peter brings more than a decade of experience driving innovation in the open source database space. As COO Bennie Grant shared, “Peter’s return ensures continuity in our vision and direction during a pivotal time for the industry.” Read more in today's announcement: https://hubs.ly/Q03MxQln0
