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72 session recordings from Percona Live 2026 Amsterdam. View the full session list or conference schedule.
Wednesday, Sep 9
▶Welcome to Percona Live
Peter Farkas
Percona
▶Upstream First: Building Databases, AI , Communities, and Trust
Casper Coertze
AWS
▶Contribution Over Control: Open Source Responsibility in PostgreSQL
Kai Wagner
Percona
Jan Wieremjewicz
Percona
▶Open Source Database Operations in the Age of AI
Peter Zaitsev
Percona
▶Congratulations, You're Now a MariaDB DBA
Andrew Moore
Ironing out toil as a DBRE
Simon Mudd
Change is always good
▶Tuning PostgreSQL for performance: the role of random_page_cost
Fernando Laudares Carmagos
Percona
▶Extending MariaDB the Easy Way: A Tour d’Horizon of Server Plugins
Frédéric Descamps
MariaDB Foundation
▶PostgreSQL Features That Buy You a Fast Performance Win
Suman Michael
HexaCluster
Avinash Vallarapu
HexaCluster
▶Right-Sizing MySQL EC2 with Production Evidence
Aditya Seth
Booking.com
▶Zero-Downtime, Zero-Code: Migration from MongoDB Enterprise to Percona Server for Mongo
Evgeny Alexandrovich
Bank Leumi
▶Architecting Database deployments on Kubernetes: Patterns, Trade-offs and Experiences
Takis Stathopoulos
Percona
Chetan Shivashankar
Percona
▶Vector Search on Your Terms: From Prototype to Production with Percona for MongoDB
Radoslaw Szulgo
Percona
Sandra Romanchenko
Percona
▶If Database Operators Automate Everything, Why Are You Still on Call?
Natalia Marukovich
Percona
▶SQL Injection Is Boring - Advanced Threats You're Not Watching
Narendra Tawar
AWS
▶Postgres 19 - What's in it for me?
Alastair Turner
Percona
Andreas Karlsson
Percona
▶A framework for autonomous PostgreSQL
Luigi Nardi
DBTune
Marc Linster
DBTune
▶From Neglected to Community-Driven: Reviving Percona Toolkit
Sveta Smirnova
Percona
▶On-Disk and Redis-Compatible: When Kvrocks beats Valkey and when it doesn't
Martin Visser
Percona
▶800 TB, 6,000 Tenants, Complex Business Logic: A SaaS Platform Moves From Oracle To PostgreSQL
Michal Nosek
Percona
Avinash Vallarapu
HexaCluster
Thursday, Sep 10
▶World of Open Source: European Spotlight 2026
Mirko Boehm
Linux Foundation Europe
▶Your favourite second database
Kyle Davis
Percona
▶PMM Beyond Monitoring: Observe, Understand, Act
Tibor Korocz
Percona
▶Eating an Elephant: Converting PostgreSQL extensions to MySQL
Dominic Preuss
VillageSQL
▶A War Story of Survival: Taming Memory Spikes for Percona Server for MySQL on Kubernetes with Swap
Marco Tusa
Percona
Chetan Shivashankar
Percona
▶Key-value for the relational mind
Martin Visser
Percona
Kyle Davis
Percona
▶The many meanings of "responsible" - Using AI well in an Open Source world
Sveta Smirnova
Percona
Bennie Grant
Percona
Zsolt Parragi
Percona
Alastair Turner
Percona
Federica Marrella
University of Parma
▶Beyond the Proxy: The Expanding ProxySQL Ecosystem
René Cannaò
ProxySQL
Alkin Tezuysal
ProxySQL
▶Moving Less Bytes in Valkey: How One Optimization Broke Two Subsystems and What We Did About It
Daniil Kashapov
Yandex Cloud
▶MariaDB Is Only the Beginning: Building the Adoption Layer Around Open Source
Anna Widenius
MariaDB Foundation
▶Real-World MongoDB: From Kernel Tuning to Query Optimization
Eralp Eryanilmaz
Garanti BBVA
▶What Is MySQL Doing Right Now? Real-Time Analytics in PMM
Mattia Simonato
Percona
Michal Nosek
Percona
▶10 tools for your o11y stack
Kris Buytaert
▶Schrödinger's Backup - It's Only Good Until You Try to Restore It
Neil Armitage
Anaplan
▶What Makes Open Source Work: Licensing and Beyond
Peter Farkas
Percona
▶How to create database optimized for petabytes of logs and wide events
Jesús Espino
VictoriaMetrics
▶SQL injection is a thing of the past…. & other lies we tell ourselves
Mackenzie Jackson
Aikido Security
▶Who Is Using What? - Building a MySQL Audit Plugin & Governance Pipeline at Booking.com Scale
Martin Alderete
Booking.com
▶Before and after PXC upgrades with PMM and Percona Toolkit
Dominik Bay
Bastian Triller
▶Zero-Downtime Migration with Percona ClusterSync for MongoDB
Adnan Šupić
Percona
▶Real-Time MongoDB Observability with PMM
Ivan Groenewold
Percona
Puneet Kala
Percona
▶The Rising Tide - Update on Opening MySQL Innovation
Henrik Ingo
Oracle
Friday, Sep 11
▶Fireside Chat - the Columnstore Revolution
Peter Zaitsev
Percona
▶Ready for the Agentic Era: Where Percona for MongoDB Is Going Next
Radoslaw Szulgo
Percona
▶MariaDB at Percona
Tarus Balog
Percona
▶Stop Hand-Tuning MySQL: Teaching a Kubernetes Operator to Do It for You
Slava Sarzhan
Percona
Kate Obiidykhata
Percona
▶I Was Going to Show You a Roadmap
Dennis Kittrell
Percona
▶I Didn't Know Postgres Could Do That!
Robert Treat
▶The Storage Layer Behind Kubernetes Database Operators That Enables Real-World DBaaS
George Kechagias
Percona
▶The Vector Search Quintet
Ivan Groenewold
Percona
Dmitry Lenev
Percona
Alastair Turner
Percona
Martin Visser
Percona
Sergei Golubchik
MariaDB
▶What’s New with Monitoring in PostgreSQL 19
Gülçin Yıldırım Jelínek
Clickhouse
▶Stopping PostgreSQL collations going wrong
Andreas Karlsson
Percona
▶When 3,951x Is Not a Speedup: Measurement Integrity in Database Benchmarking
Nima Torabi
Liberatii
Vitalii Akimov
Liberatii
▶Following the Token: A Practical Guide to OAuth in PostgreSQL
Zsolt Parragi
Percona
▶MySQL + Vitess @ Slack: Managing Databases to Support 1+ Billion Daily Messages
Eduardo Ortega Urrego
Slack
▶Beyond "Postgres is up": detecting failures before they become incidents
Nikolay Sivko
Coroot
▶What Happened to the MySQL Query Cache?
Marcelo Altmann
Readyset.io
▶When Your Benchmarks Argue Against You
Zach Peirce
DigitalOcean
▶Hanging hundreds of Postgres shutdowns with a simple CDC plugin
La Cancellera Yoann
Percona
▶MySQL Time Travel: Practical Row-Level Recovery With Open Source Tools
Daniel Guzman Burgos
DBTrail
▶What does it actually take to build a managed database service on Kubernetes?
Marcin Gwozdz
Solanica
