There’s a new place for the people behind the databases to actually talk to each other.

The Percona Community Slack is open. Right now it’s one channel — General — and that’s intentional. It’s a place for DBAs, developers, contributors, and database people of all kinds to meet, swap stories, and get to know who else is out there running open source databases for a living. No silos. No sub-channels for every topic. Just a room.

Come here to talk shop. Share what you’re building, breaking, or fixing. Post about the migration that went sideways, the config that finally clicked, the pager incident you survived. Ask the kind of questions that belong in a conversation rather than a ticket — “how do other people handle X?” is exactly the right energy.

It’s also where we’ll share events we’re attending and, when we have tickets or a spare seat, offer them to the community first. If Percona is heading to a conference near you, this is where you’ll hear about it. And if you’re going somewhere yourself — a meetup, a conference, a local user group — tell us. There might be community members nearby who want to meet up.

That’s the point, really. Less broadcast, more conversation.

Technical support questions belong on the Percona Community Forums. Forum answers are searchable and don’t disappear into scrollback. Percona engineers and experienced community members watch the forums for questions. Your problem is more likely to get a useful answer there — and it’ll help the person who hits the same issue three months from now.

If you post a support question in Slack, expect to be pointed to the forums. That’s not a brush-off.

Introduce yourself. One or two sentences about what you work on and where in the world you are. That’s it. You don’t need a bio.

Share what you’re up to. An event you’re going to, a tool you’ve been testing, a war story from production. The low-key post about a thing you just dealt with is exactly what people come here for.

Lurk freely. You don’t have to post to belong. Read, learn, jump in when you have something to say.

Be the person you’d want to share an on-call rotation with.

Treat everyone as a peer. Assume good faith. No harassment. Critique technology on technical merits. Don’t cold-DM people with pitches. Keep private things private. If something needs a moderator’s attention, DM one directly — reports stay confidential.

If you’re a DBA, a developer, a contributor, or just someone who runs databases and occasionally wants to talk to other people who run databases — you belong here.

Join the Percona Community Slack → ∎