Wednesday night at Percona Live 2016 was reserved for fun, fun, fun! Once again, the Percona Live Game Night proved to be a popular and amazing event. There were more games this year than last, as well as food, drinks, and lots of friendly competition!

This year, besides the ever-crowd-pleasing Meltdown Challenge, there were Segway Races, pool, foosball, shuffleboard, Wii Boxing, Pac-Man Attack, a shootout gallery, darts, as well as virtual reality stations and a death-defying trampoline.

You can see Percona’s CEO Peter Zaitsev demonstrating how you use it, pro-level:

Below are some more photos of this outstanding night:

Coed boxing: guys, you need to improve your skills!

Some very …

We’re heading into the final day here at Percona Live 2016! People are looking a little tired, but still excited for some excellent talks today. Once again the day started off with two great keynote lectures. Read to the end for an important announcement!

Peter Zaitsev, CEO of Percona
Winning with Open Source Databases

Peter discussed what makes the open source community so vibrant and powerful, and why it is essential to preserve that spirit. Data is critical to the success of your business. You rely on your database and its …

The Percona Live Data Performance Conference in Santa Clara is being held April 18-22, 2016. It is quickly approaching, and Pythian is going to show you how we Love Your Data in a big way!

We have an awesome lineup of speakers this year:

• Alkin Tezuysal, Okan Buyukyilmaz, and Emanuel Calvo will be presenting the Break/Fix Lab tutorial. This is becoming a standard so if you haven’t had the opportunity to participate, don’t miss it!
• Christos Soulios will be presenting a tutorial on MongoDB design patterns with Pythian alum Nik Vyzas and Percona’s Roman Vynar.
• Derek …

Once again, Pythian is organizing an event that by now may be considered a tradition: The MySQL community dinner at Pedro’s! This dinner is open to all MySQL community members since many of you will be in town for Percona Live that week. Here are the details:

What: The MySQL Community Dinner

When: Tuesday April 19, 2016 –  7:00 PM at Pedro’s (You are welcome to show up later, too!)

Where: Pedro’s Restaurant and Cantina – 3935 Freedom Circle, Santa Clara, CA 95054

Cost: Tickets are $40 USD, Includes Mexican buffet, non-alcoholic drinks, taxes, and gratuities (see menu)

How: Purchase your ticket below …