2022 is coming! While we look forward to it, it is time to summarize the results of this year to find out what content was the most viewed, and raised the most interest, during the past months.
Percona’s HOSS (Head of Open Source Strategy) Matt Yonkovit hosts an amazing podcast with tech talks on all things open source. He invites absolutely different people (CEOs, engineers, DBAs, community leaders) to chat about their experiences.
Here is an overview of the Top 10 Most Popular episodes of the HOSS Talks FOSS podcast, the ones that attracted the largest part of the viewer’s attention. Look through to find something to entertain yourself on the long winter evenings!
- The absolute hit is the episode with Peter Zaitsev talking about Open Source and the SSPL (Server-side Public License). Peter and Matt discussed if SSPL is good or bad and what is the possible impact on open source.
- The second place takes the episode with Karthik Ranganathan, CTO at Yugabyte. Karthik was on the team that first built Apache Cassandra, helped optimize and scale HBase, and most recently built Yugabyte. In this video, he talks about lessons he learned and how Yugabyte takes those lessons and implements them.
- Data Geekery GmbH and JooQ to speed up open source databases – Matt sits down with Lucas Eder to discuss the open-source Java framework that gives you an API that allows writing SQL statements through natural Java API calls.
- Get involved in Databases on Kubernetes (DoK) Community with Bart Farrell, Head of the DoK community DoK. Bart and Matt chatted about what is happening in the community, how people can get involved, and what fun things are coming up next.
- All things Vitess, PlanetScale, MySQL, and Sailing Passion – in this video, Matt talked to Alkin Tezuysal on his role as a Vitess maintainer, who is using & contributing to Vitess, and where it makes sense for companies to switch to this solution.
- PingCAP, HTAP, NewSQL, and TiDB with Liquan Pei talking to Matt about hybrid transactional analytical processing ( HTAP), and getting deeper into TiDB.
- MySQL Backups and Database Recovery Best Practices with Walter Garcia, Percona’s remote DBA experts, talking about recovery best practices, common backup mistakes, the difference between logical and physical backups, and more.
- Open Source Databases, Debugging, GDB & RR – Record and Replay with Marcelo Altmann, Software Engineer at Percona. Listen to it if you are interested in finding and debugging hard-to-find bugs.
- Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB DBAs to DBREs – a talk with David Murphy about his experience of bringing more of a DevOps and SRE mentality to a company and why keeping control of your data is so important.
- The episode with MySQL and open source veteran Morgan Tocker about database monitoring, alerting, contributing to MySQL and TiDB, and waffles.
There is even more great content on the Percona YouTube channel! Subscribe to stay tuned to new episodes in the upcoming year.
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