I Was Going to Show You a Roadmap

Every other event’s product keynotes come with a roadmap. This one does not, because Percona is publishing its MySQL roadmap online and Dennis Kittrell would rather use the 15 minutes on something harder to publish. A career open source product person who is new to building the database itself, he takes on MySQL at Percona at a moment when trust in the steward has swung hard, when MySQL’s perceived value for new projects is in decline, and when AI is changing how applications talk to data. This is an honest look at the pressure that comes with those shoes, why Percona has always been the rebel in this ecosystem, and why keeping MySQL open is personal long before it is commercial.