At Percona, our priority has always been to provide the open source database solutions that our users can count on for the long term. Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) is a core part of that promise, delivering the high availability,…

How contribution decisions shape the sustainability of the PostgreSQL ecosystem Last week at PGConf.DE, I gave a talk titled Not Just Altruism: Selling PostgreSQL Contributions to Your Employer. It didn’t attract a large audience. To be…

Boring is an investment. Exciting is a bill. The calmest PostgreSQL deployments in production share one trait. They are boring. Pages stay quiet. Dashboards stay green. The on-call engineer reads a book on Tuesday night. And the people…

Jimmy Morzaria discusses the evolution of Stripe’s database tier to support 5 million QPS with 5.5 nines of reliability. He explains the architecture of DocDB and shares how Stripe leverages a custom zero-downtime data movement platform to…