Laura Czajkowski

Packing for @PGConfdev, what's the right shirt for day one: PGConf.dev 2025, oldest @PostgreSQL event shirt that still fits (EU 2018), some other OSS event? AT

Honest question for DBAs and devs: How far do you actually let an AI coding agent into your database work? No judgement. We just want to know where the community line is.

Meet the team behind this account. Five of us, one shared inbox, and a habit of turning up at every database conference going. Each post is signed with our initials so you know who you're talking to. percona.community/blog/2026/05/0… — LC

Stop treating cybersecurity compliance like a checklist—it’s an architecture problem. The EU CRA is now official, and it targets the industry’s weakest link: the supply chain. If your product uses third-party components, you are now legally responsible for their security posture. 3 essentials to know: CE Marking: Mandatory conformity for software. Duty of Care: Legal liability for the entire lifecycle. Transparency: You can’t secure what you can’t see. Is the CRA a bottleneck or a structural opportunity for your team? Read the full technical breakdown on The Side Channel: thesidechannel.tech/opinion/unders… #EUCRA #CyberSecurity #AppSec #DevSecOps #SBOM

📈 DRAM prices and hardware scarcity pose a challenge for infra teams. IT Brief covers how the Valkey 8.0 lean memory tactics tackle the crunch. Martin Visser & @Czajkowski for the insights on building for resource efficiency: itbrief.news/story/valkey-s… #Valkey #OpenSource #SRE

Securing MongoDB Data at Rest, Key Management with KMIP and Vault - March 17 join us at next weeks Open Source unplugged @Percona percona.community/events/2026-co…

What Exactly Is the MySQL Ecosystem?  percona.com/blog/what-exac…

Percona is heading to @FOSDEM 2026. 🙌 You’ll find Perconians throughout the weekend, ready to talk open source databases, real-world production challenges, and what’s next for the community. Join us: 🗄️ Hosting the Database Dev Room — Saturday, January 31 🌍 Leading the Community Dev Room — Sunday, February 1 With Founder Peter Zaitsev and CEO Peter Farkas on site, there’ll be plenty of chances for one-on-one conversations around MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Percona services, and community initiatives. Stop by Building K, Stand K1-B-02, grab a coffee ☕, and say hi. 🗓️ January 31–February 1, 2026 📍 ULB Solbosch Campus, Brussels Learn more: bit.ly/4rqWZsS #FOSDEM2026

Is MySQL hitting a 30-year mid-life crisis or a second wind? My first post for @InfoWorld looks at the "stasis" in MySQL innovation. Perfect timing for the #FOSDEM crowd—are the announcements this week enough to close the gap with Postgres? infoworld.com/article/412089…

I’ve been quiet for a bit, but a recent argument at my local tennis club got me thinking. 🎾 If your first reaction to a member's post is "don't post that here," you aren't managing a community—you're policing it. 👮‍♂️ Why "organised" communities are actually dying: laura.community/2026/01/18/the…

@OPoncz What’s the difference in all the total boxes ? Blue gold and no colour at the end ! One needs to know 😛

למה לא כותבים איזה פקק יש לשפורפרת? ולמה בעצם לא מייצרים רק עם פקק ללא הברגה?

🔥 House of Valkey at re:Invent. What a Night! 🔥 Huge thanks to everyone who joined us at the House of Valkey event! 🌮🚀 🎁 And good news — the raffle is STILL OPEN (DEADLINE IS EOD TODAY, DEC 03)! Enter here 👉docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI… #Valkey #Percona #AWSReinvent

Irembo is transforming Rwanda's government services with open source databases. Using Percona Operators for PostgreSQL and MongoDB on Kubernetes, they've automated nearly 300 digital services for citizens—faster, cheaper, and completely paperless. bit.ly/4p2ERVg

@abdur_rehman_22 @Percona Howdy doody ! Thanks for the feedback. The Docs are now updated. We plan to implement this logic in the Operator 1.20.0. The task to address it is perconadev.atlassian.net/browse/K8SPXC-… thanks for reaching out !

A genuine question to the docs team: if the field doesn’t exist, why include it in the documentation? @Percona

Percona operator for MySQL has been really frustrating to work with… idk why i always tend to have a very rough experience with Percona's documentations... it is just misquoted ALL THE TIME

A evening in front of the fire and watching TV while reviewing all the amazing talks after being submitted to the #fosdem #community devroom! I love this part of the process! WOW people are so creative and smart! Get your proposals in fosdem.org/2026/news/2025…

Percona scaled globally without VC funding by treating every dollar like its own. CFO Eileen Doody shares how financial discipline, open source software, and automation built a profitable, borderless enterprise with 350+ distributed staff: bit.ly/3X9vXJ4 via @TGTreasurer

Valkey 9.0 is here with multidatabase clustering that handles over 1B requests per second. The open source data store adds atomic slot migration, hash field expiration, and 20% higher throughput: bit.ly/4ogLnHv via @thenewstack

Yesterday, we brought open source and high performance together—both on and off the track. 😉 At Open Source Unlocked – From Redis to @valkey_io, we dove into migration strategies, cost optimization, and how AWS databases power Valkey and GenAI innovation. 🏎️ Then at F1 Arcade Boston, the Valkey conversation continued—this time while racing for the leaderboard. Huge thank you to everyone who joined us. Let's keep the open source conversations going. Catch our team at these upcoming events: 💥 Nov 10-13 — Kubecon North America 2025, Atlanta 💥 Nov 19 — Percona.Connect, Virtual 💥 Dec 2 —Big Plays, Big Conversations: Hockey Night with Percona, Las Vegas

Sunday morning lazing catching up on reading and planning out a talk I'm giving and wondering how many references to #Disney and #EPCOT can I fit in or add as imagery and seeing if I can hide them as a hidden mickey referene or would they be lost....