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5 Virtual DevOps Events You Can’t Afford to Miss This Year

Conferences and events makeup to a trillion-dollar industry and have been playing a major role in connecting people from different parts of the world and exchange ideas. Because of the COVID-19 outbreak, the first major tech conference that got canceled due to health and safety concerns was the Mobile World Congress (MWC), the annual gathering of electronics makers.

Along the way, similarly, Facebook also canceled all physical conferences and events by June 2021, including the major F8 Developer Conference and most awaited Oculus Connect 7 virtual reality event that was supposed to be held in San Jose.

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New Distribution of PostgreSQL Provides Expanded Support for Open Source Databases

Tom Smith speaks with Peter Zaitsev

I had the opportunity to speak with Peter Zaitsev, CEO and Founder, Percona following his presentation on Distributed MySQL Architectures, Past, Present and Future at the Distributed SQL Summit in San Jose.

Earlier in the week, Percona announced the new distribution of PostgreSQL to provide expanded support for open source databases. According to Peter, as Percona started providing support to need single source to run PostgreSQL, they realized the need for monitoring from one source with the most appropriate versions and compatibility.