Talks

Accepted sessions at Percona Live 2026 Amsterdam. Browse all speakers or view the agenda.

Sessions

"JavaScript in My Database? Over My Dead Query."

Marco Tusa

MySQL Tech Lead

Percona

Dmitry Lenev

Principal Software Engineer

Percona

Session Sep 9 2:35pm–3:05pm · Matterhorn 1 MySQL

10 tools for your o11y stack

Kris Buytaert

Principal Yak Shaver o11y.eu

Session Sep 10 2:35pm–3:05pm · Matterhorn 2 Observability

A framework for autonomous PostgreSQL

Luigi Nardi

Founder & CEO

DBtune

Marc Linster

DBtune

Session Sep 9 4:30pm–5:00pm · Matterhorn 3 Postgres AI

A War Story of Survival: Taming Memory Spikes for Percona Server for MySQL on Kubernetes with Swap

Marco Tusa

MySQL Tech Lead

Percona

Chetan Shivashankar

Kubernetes Tech lead

Percona

Session Sep 10 11:00am–12:00pm · Matterhorn 1 MySQL Kubernetes

Architecting Database deployments on Kubernetes: Patterns, Trade-offs and Experiences

Takis Stathopoulos

Enterprise Architect

Percona

Chetan Shivashankar

Kubernetes Tech lead

Percona

Session Sep 9 2:35pm–3:05pm · Matterhorn 2 Kubernetes

Before and after PXC upgrades with PMM and Percona Toolkit

Dominik Bay

Network Architect with a hint of DevOps

Bastian Triller

Gamma Placetel GmbH

Session Sep 10 4:30pm–5:00pm · Matterhorn 1 MySQL

Beyond "Postgres is up": detecting failures before they become incidents

Nikolay Sivko

CEO, Co-Founder

Coroot

Session Sep 11 3:10pm–3:40pm · Matterhorn 3 Observability

Beyond the Dumb Pipe: Solving MySQL Topology Nightmares with the Percona Binary Log Server

Yura Sorokin

Principal Software Engineer

Percona

Session Sep 9 3:10pm–3:40pm · Matterhorn 1 MySQL

Building Resilient Multi-Region MongoDB Deployments Using Native Replica Set Capabilities

Daniel Osuntoyinbo

DBRE

Wise

Session Sep 9 11:00am–12:00pm · Matterhorn 2 MongoDB

Congratulations, You're Now a MariaDB DBA

Andrew Moore

Ironing out toil as a DBRE

Ironing out toil as a DBRE

Simon Mudd

Change is always good

Change is always good

Session Sep 9 11:00am–12:00pm · Matterhorn 1 MariaDB

Contribution Over Control: Open Source Responsibility in PostgreSQL

Kai Wagner

Head of PostgreSQL Product & Engineering

Percona

Jan Wieremjewicz

PostgreSQL Product Manager

Percona

Session Sep 9 10:15am–10:30am · Matterhorn 1 Postgres

Eating an Elephant: Converting PostgreSQL extensions to MySQL

Dominic Preuss

CEO, Co-Founder

VillageSQL

Session Sep 10 10:00am–10:30am · Matterhorn 1 MySQL

Extending MariaDB the Easy Way: A Tour d’Horizon of Server Plugins

Frédéric Descamps

Community Advocate

MariaDB Foundation

Session Sep 9 12:05pm–12:35pm · Matterhorn 1 MariaDB

Finding Your Perfect Route: Vectors, Full-Text, and Geospatial Queries with Valkey

Paul Ross

Senior Specialist Solution Architect - In-Memory Databases

AWS

Session Sep 9 3:45pm–4:15pm · Matterhorn 2 Valkey

Fireside Chat - the Columnstore Revolution

Peter Zaitsev

Founder

Percona

Session Sep 11 9:00am–9:30am · Matterhorn 1

Following the Token: A Practical Guide to OAuth in PostgreSQL

Zsolt Parragi

Software Engineer

Percona

Session Sep 11 2:35pm–3:05pm · Matterhorn 3 Postgres

From Neglected to Community-Driven: Reviving Percona Toolkit

Sveta Smirnova

Principal Support Engineering Coordinator

Percona

Session Sep 9 4:30pm–5:00pm · Matterhorn 1 Open Source

From Prompt to PR: Shipping AI-Written Data Models Without Losing Trust

Akash Srivastava

Lead Software Engineer

Careem

Puneet Singh

Staff Software Engineer

Careem

Session Sep 10 4:30pm–5:00pm · Matterhorn 3 AI

From Single Point of Failure to Highly Available: Re-architecting PMM for Production

Tibor Korocz

Head of PMM Product & Engineering

Percona

Session Sep 10 3:10pm–3:40pm · Matterhorn 2 Observability

Hanging hundreds of Postgres shutdowns with a simple CDC plugin

La Cancellera Yoann

Senior Database Performance Engineer

Percona

Session Sep 11 3:45pm–4:15pm · Matterhorn 3 Postgres

How to create database optimized for petabytes of logs and wide events

Jesús Espino

Principal Engineer

VictoriaMetrics

Session Sep 10 3:45pm–4:15pm · Matterhorn 2

I Was Going to Show You a Roadmap

Dennis Kittrell

Head of Product and Engineering, MySQL

Percona

Session Sep 10 9:45am–10:00am · Matterhorn 1 MySQL

If Database Operators Automate Everything, Why Are You Still on Call?

Natalia Marukovich

Software Developer

Percona

Session Sep 9 3:10pm–3:40pm · Matterhorn 2 Kubernetes

Key-value for the relational mind

Martin Visser

Valkey Tech Lead

Percona

Kyle Davis

General Manager, Valkey/Redis Ecosystem

Percona

Session Sep 10 11:00am–12:00pm · Matterhorn 2 Valkey

Management — the prodigal child is back.

Tibor Korocz

Head of PMM Product & Engineering

Percona

Session Sep 9 5:05pm–5:35pm · Matterhorn 3

MariaDB 11.8 Protocol Security — It just works: Zero-configuration SSL and PARSEC authentication

Sergei Golubchik

Chief Architect

MariaDB

Session Sep 9 5:05pm–5:35pm · Matterhorn 1 MariaDB

MariaDB at Percona

T

Tarus Balog

General Manager, MariaDB

Percona

Session Sep 9 9:45am–10:00am · Matterhorn 1 MariaDB

MariaDB Is Only the Beginning: Building the Adoption Layer Around Open Source

Anna Widenius

CEO

Session Sep 10 2:00pm–2:30pm · Matterhorn 3 MariaDB

Moving Less Bytes in Valkey: How One Optimization Broke Two Subsystems and What We Did About It

Daniil Kashapov

Valkey Hacker

Yandex Cloud

Session Sep 10 12:05pm–12:35pm · Matterhorn 2 Valkey

MySQL + Vitess @ Slack: Managing Databases to Support 1+ Billion Daily Messages

Eduardo Ortega Urrego

Staff Software Engineer - Datastores

Slack

Session Sep 11 2:35pm–3:05pm · Matterhorn 1 MySQL

MySQL stories - lessons worth stealing from BigBasket and Percona

Kedar Vaijanapurkar

DBA II

Percona

Akhilesh Kumar

Principal Engineer

Big Basket

Session Sep 10 12:05pm–12:35pm · Matterhorn 1 MySQL

MySQL Time Travel: Practical Row-Level Recovery With Open Source Tools

Daniel Guzman Burgos

Creator

DBTrail

Session Sep 11 3:45pm–4:15pm · Matterhorn 1 MySQL

On-Disk and Redis-Compatible: When Kvrocks beats Valkey and when it doesn't

Martin Visser

Valkey Tech Lead

Percona

Session Sep 9 5:05pm–5:35pm · Matterhorn 2 Valkey

One Control Plane, Three Databases: Evaluating Open Everest as a Private DBaaS for MySQL, PostgreSQL

Makhshif Tanvir

Lead Data Platform Engineer

PureCS

Session Sep 11 2:00pm–2:30pm · Matterhorn 1 Kubernetes

One Valkey, Multiple Tenants: Per-Database Isolation on Kubernetes

Ishan Jain

Software Engineer II

Mastercard

Gourav Sharma

Client Technical Architect and Success Manager

Hashicorp

Session Sep 9 4:30pm–5:00pm · Matterhorn 2 Valkey Kubernetes

PMM Beyond Monitoring: Observe, Understand, Act

Tibor Korocz

Head of PMM Product & Engineering

Percona

Session Sep 9 10:00am–10:15am · Matterhorn 1 Observability

PMM High Availability: Building Confidence Beyond Deployment

Shruti Pradhan

Senior Quality Engineer

Percona

Session Sep 11 3:10pm–3:40pm · Matterhorn 2 Observability

Postgres 19 - What's in it for me?

Alastair Turner

Community Technologist

Percona

Andreas Karlsson

Principal Software Engineer

Percona

Session Sep 9 3:45pm–4:15pm · Matterhorn 3 Postgres

PostgreSQL DBA's Troubleshooting toolkit - Distilling 20 Years of Notes and learning

Jobin Augustine

Postgres Tech Lead

Percona

Session Sep 9 11:00am–12:00pm · Matterhorn 3 Postgres

PostgreSQL Features That Buy You a Fast Performance Win

Suman Michael

Technical Director

HexaCluster

Avinash Vallarapu

CEO, Database Specialist

HexaCluster

Session Sep 9 12:05pm–12:35pm · Matterhorn 3 Postgres

PostgreSQL on Kubernetes: What causes failures, Things I Wish Everyone Knew

Jobin Augustine

Postgres Tech Lead

Percona

Session Sep 11 2:00pm–2:30pm · Matterhorn 3 Postgres

Production-to-Dev in One Button: K8s-native PII anonymization for Percona XtraDB Cluster Backups

Yannick Dixken

Freelance Senior Platform Engineer

Session Sep 10 5:05pm–5:35pm · Matterhorn 3 MySQL

Ready for the Agentic Era: Where Percona for MongoDB Is Going Next

Radoslaw Szulgo

MongoDB Product Manager

Percona

Session Sep 11 10:00am–10:15am · Matterhorn 1 MongoDB

Real-Time MongoDB Observability with PMM

Ivan Groenewold

MongoDB Technology Lead

Percona

Session Sep 10 5:05pm–5:35pm · Matterhorn 2 MongoDB

Real-World MongoDB: From Kernel Tuning to Query Optimization

Eralp Eryanilmaz

Senior Associate Cloud Big Data Technologies System Engineer

Garanti BBVA

Session Sep 10 2:00pm–2:30pm · Matterhorn 1 MongoDB

Reducing Complexity: Migrating Banking Applications from Hadoop NoSQL to Percona for MongoDB

Arnab Chatterjee

Cloud Native Expert

Nomura

Session Sep 9 12:05pm–12:35pm · Matterhorn 2 MongoDB

Right-Sizing MySQL EC2 with Production Evidence

Aditya Seth

SRE Leader

Booking.com

Session Sep 9 2:00pm–2:30pm · Matterhorn 1 MySQL

RTA in PMM: Real-Time Eyes for AI-Assisted Database Troubleshooting

Mattia Simonato

Senior Frontend Engineer

Percona

Fernando Laudares Carmagos

Senior Architect

Percona

Session Sep 10 2:00pm–2:30pm · Matterhorn 2 MongoDB

Running Percona Operators in Production: Lessons from 40+ Databases per Cluster

Verena Traub

Cloud & DevOps Consultant

b'nerd

Session Sep 11 12:05pm–12:35pm · Matterhorn 2 Kubernetes

Schrödinger's Backup - It's Only Good Until You Try to Restore It

Neil Armitage

Senior DBRE

Anaplan

Session Sep 10 2:35pm–3:05pm · Matterhorn 1 MySQL

Seamless Major Upgrade in Aurora RDS Postgres

Emanuel Calvo

Database Engineer

Workato

Session Sep 11 11:00am–12:00pm · Matterhorn 3 Postgres

SQL injection is a thing of the past…. & other lies we tell ourselves

Mackenzie Jackson

Developer and security advocate

Aikido Security

Session Sep 10 3:45pm–4:15pm · Matterhorn 3 Security

Stitching mydumper to Aurora's Binlog: A Cross-Cloud CDC Pipeline at 1.2B Rows

Shimpei Kodama

SRE

Gaudiy

Session Sep 10 3:10pm–3:40pm · Matterhorn 1 MySQL

Stop Hand-Tuning MySQL: Teaching a Kubernetes Operator to Do It for You

Slava Sarzhan

Head of Cloud Native Engineering

Percona

Kate Obiidykhata

Taking the Complexity out of Going Cloud Native

Percona

Session Sep 10 9:30am–9:45am · Matterhorn 1 MySQL Kubernetes

The many meanings of "responsible" - Using AI well in an Open Source world

Sveta Smirnova

Principal Support Engineering Coordinator

Percona

Bennie Grant

Percona

COO

Session Sep 10 11:00am–12:00pm · Matterhorn 3 AI

The Rising Tide - Update on Opening MySQL Innovation

Henrik Ingo

MySQL Community Architect

Oracle

Session Sep 10 5:05pm–5:35pm · Matterhorn 1 MySQL

The Storage Layer Behind Kubernetes Database Operators That Enables Real-World DBaaS

George Kechagias

Senior Software Engineer

Percona

Session Sep 11 11:00am–12:00pm · Matterhorn 2 Kubernetes

The Vector Search Quartet

Ivan Groenewold

MongoDB Technology Lead

Percona

Dmitry Lenev

Principal Software Engineer

Percona

Session Sep 11 11:00am–12:00pm · Matterhorn 1

Trust Is the New License What sovereignty actually demands of the databases you run

Andreas Prins

Head of Sovereign Solutions

SUSE

Session Sep 10 3:10pm–3:40pm · Matterhorn 3 Open Source

Tuning PostgreSQL for performance: the role of random_page_cost

Fernando Laudares Carmagos

Senior Architect

Percona

Session Sep 9 3:10pm–3:40pm · Matterhorn 3 Postgres

Understanding PostgreSQL Workloads: Beyond Slow Query Logs

Fernando Laudares Carmagos

Senior Architect

Percona

Session Postgres PMM

Using PMM to Analyze What's Going On with MySQL: A Walkthrough

Fernando Laudares Carmagos

Senior Architect

Percona

Session Sep 11 12:05pm–12:35pm · Matterhorn 1 MySQL Observability

Vector Search on Your Terms: From Prototype to Production with Percona for MongoDB

Radoslaw Szulgo

MongoDB Product Manager

Percona

Sandra Romanchenko

Staff Quality Engineer

Percona

Session Sep 9 2:35pm–3:05pm · Matterhorn 3 MongoDB

Welcome to Percona Live

Peter Farkas

CEO

Percona

Session Sep 9 9:00am–9:15am · Matterhorn 1

What does it actually take to build a managed database service on Kubernetes?

Marcin Gwozdz

Head of GTM

Solanica

Session Sep 11 3:45pm–4:15pm · Matterhorn 2 Kubernetes

What Happened to the MySQL Query Cache?

Marcelo Altmann

Senior Software Engineer

Readyset.io

Session Sep 11 3:10pm–3:40pm · Matterhorn 1 MySQL

What Is the Fastest Database? Open-Source Benchmarking with HammerDB

Steve Shaw

HammerDB

Creator

Session Sep 11 2:35pm–3:05pm · Matterhorn 2

What Makes Open Source Work: Licensing and Beyond

Peter Farkas

CEO

Percona

Session Sep 10 2:35pm–3:05pm · Matterhorn 3 Open Source

What We've Learned Building an AI DBA

Andrew Morgan

CTO, Co-Founder

SIXTA

Session Sep 10 12:05pm–12:35pm · Matterhorn 3 AI

What’s New with Monitoring in PostgreSQL 19

Gülçin Yıldırım Jelínek

Staff Database Engineer

Clickhouse

Session Sep 11 12:05pm–12:35pm · Matterhorn 3 Postgres

When 3,951x Is Not a Speedup: Measurement Integrity in Database Benchmarking

Nima Torabi

CEO, Co-Founder

Liberatii

Vitalii Akimov

CTO

Liberatii

Session Sep 11 2:00pm–2:30pm · Matterhorn 2

When MySQL meets DuckDB: Best practices for columnar engines on MySQL

zongzhi chen

Senior Technical Expert

Alibaba Cloud

Session Sep 9 3:45pm–4:15pm · Matterhorn 1 MySQL

When Vectors Aren’t Enough: Unlocking Your Agent's Hidden Connections with Graphs

Nyah Macklin

AI Developer Advocate

Neo4j

Session Sep 9 2:00pm–2:30pm · Matterhorn 2 AI

Who Is Using What? - Building a MySQL Audit Plugin & Governance Pipeline at Booking.com Scale

Martin Alderete

Principal SRE

Booking.com

Session Sep 10 3:45pm–4:15pm · Matterhorn 1 MySQL

Your favourite second database

Kyle Davis

General Manager, Valkey/Redis Ecosystem

Percona

Session Sep 11 10:15am–10:30am · Matterhorn 1 Valkey

Your Retention Policy Is a Legal Position: Databases, Legal Holds, and What Actually Gets Produced

Daniel Garrie

Founder, Law & Forensics | Faculty Harvard

Law & Forensics

Session Sep 10 2:00pm–2:30pm · Matterhorn 3

Zero-Downtime Migration with Percona ClusterSync for MongoDB

Adnan Šupić

Software Engineer

Percona

Session Sep 10 4:30pm–5:00pm · Matterhorn 2 MongoDB

Zero-Downtime, Zero-Code: Migration from MongoDB Enterprise to Percona Server for Mongo

Evgeny Alexandrovich

DBA Unit Manager

Bank Leumi

Session Sep 9 2:00pm–2:30pm · Matterhorn 3 MongoDB