Percona Live 2026: DBA hacks, hallway tracks & let's cut the cr@p

Percona Live 2026 in Mountain View centered on open source databases, community networking, and the future of AI-era data management.

CEO Peter Farkas highlighted Percona’s 20-year journey and the conference’s user-focused format, with themes including licensing, metrics, and adoption.

Sessions featured Andy Pavlo, Percona staff, AWS, and founder Peter Zaitsev on automated tuning, Kubernetes DBaaS patterns, and the open source database ecosystem.

Talks also explored the MySQL landscape, changing DBA practices, and broader debates over SQL, relational models, and upstream community contributions.