Business Wire – “…With 206 sessions and 196 speakers, the conference provided an opportunity for beginners and experts to learn from many of the largest organizations in the world, and hear from the people solving some of the biggest database challenges. Percona Live ONLINE 2021 was our biggest and best conference yet,” said Peter Zaitsev, CEO of Percona. “We are proud to provide a platform to many of open source’s foremost database experts, covering a wide range of projects, technologies, and market issues. At this year’s conference, there was much discussion around how companies can manage and optimize the increasing volumes of data they generate. Companies are actively looking at how they can harness this data and are focused on having the right database technologies and tools in place. Many businesses are turning to open source database software to achieve this, as it allows them to reduce costs and avoid vendor lock-in.” Speakers from leading companies such as Groupon, HubSpot, LinkedIn, PayPal, Shopify, and Uber discussed their experiences using leading open source database technologies including MariaDB, MongoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Percona software. One of the main themes was how to efficiently scale to handle increasing numbers of users and volumes of data, while maintaining a highly performant database that is always on, and always available…”