Personal blog of Yzmir Ramirez

AI and machine learning are seemingly everywhere, and that’s forcing every database company to think about vector search. Companies want to build things like smart search that actually understands what you mean, recommendation systems that know what you’ll like, and tools that can spot when something’s off. To make all of this work at the […]

My first experiments creating an MCP Server to provide AI access to a PostgreSQL database using the FastMCP Python framework and Anthropic’s and OpenAI’s APIs highlighted an important requirement: for now, these two APIs can only communicate with an MCP server through HTTPS over a public URL. While researching how to make this work (which […]

I admittedly have some work to do to catch up with the AI “trend”. It’s been around (as in, easily accessible) for a few years now, but I can probably still count on my fingers the number of times I’ve used a prompt to ask it anything. That is, discounting the mostly frustrating and usually […]

Forks aren’t just a technical event. We can look at them as philosophical ruptures, and the open source world isn’t the first to face this. Crypto communities have lived and breathed this reality for over a decade, often in the most chaotic, transparent, and high-stakes ways possible. Now, as Valkey rises to become the de […]

As a member of the Kubernetes Certified Services Provider program, Percona is now part of a select, “pre-qualified tier of vetted service providers who have deep experience helping enterprises successfully adopt Kubernetes…” Kubernetes (frequently abbreviated as K8s) has come a long way over the past decade. From being used almost exclusively for orchestrating stateless container […]

From punch cards to containerization, database technologies have changed tremendously over the years. And there has been no shortage of watershed moments along the way. However, we believe the emergence of advanced AI may very well be the most significant one yet.  Percona certainly isn’t alone in that belief. But, when it comes to the […]

Is your organization’s innovation being constrained by proprietary software restrictions? You’re not alone—these limitations are increasingly at odds with enterprise growth objectives, affecting both bottom lines and competitive agility. For years, proprietary software has dominated the enterprise database space, with MongoDB emerging as one of the most well-known players. Its powerful combination of scalability, flexibility, […]

Over the last few years, there have been many calls to evolve the Open Source Definition (OSD) to fit the modern world. Some would like to see noncompetitive licenses such as the Server Side Public License (SSPL) or Elastic License considered open source. Others approach this by thinking about ethics and “using software for good and […]

Originally published on The New Stack. Building a flexible cloud strategy means making decisions that align with operational efficiency, cost management, and scalability. Public cloud platforms offer immense convenience but come with certain downsides. High long-term costs, vendor lock-in, and lack of flexibility are concerns for many organizations. As businesses grow, the allure of quick-starting […]

TL;DR Kubernetes was built for stateless apps, but as more stateful applications (like databases) run on it, operators include quite heavy implementations to Kubernetes workload management API (such as StatefulSets) deficits. While creating custom methods allows flexibility and faster time to market, it also leads to inconsistency and complexity. In this blog, I want to […]