Peter Farkas

Co-Founder and CEO at FerretDB Inc.

About

Peter is an expert in leading and managing distributed teams working on Open Source projects. He has spent the majority of his career in Open Source, with a focus on database and Big Data technologies at companies such as Percona and Cloudera

While at Percona, Peter played a pivotal role in building Percona Support, which quickly became a benchmark for service quality and excellence in Enterprise Open Source database software support. Peter holds a Master's degree in Management from the University of Buckingham and has a passion for reading and exploring new places around the world.

Peter Farkas has presented the following presentations

    Peter Farkas FerretDB: Bringing MongoDB workloads to PostgreSQL at Seattle 2024

    presented by Peter Farkas

    You will learn how easy migration from MongoDB to PostgreSQL can be. MongoDB is a life-changing technology for many developers. However, MongoDB abandoned its Open-Source roots, changing the license to SSPL and making it unusable for many Open Source and Commercial projects. During the talk, you will learn how FerretDB can be used as a MongoDB replacement and why we decided to use PostgreSQL a...

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    Wed 6 2024 Essentials
    Peter Farkas Moving MongoDB Workloads to Postgres with FerretDB at Silicon Valley 2023
    The Quest to Migrate MongoDB Workloads Back to Open Source Using Postgres

    presented by Peter Farkas

    MongoDB, a widely used database, has garnered both love and hate from its users across different industries due to its ease of use. However, it is no longer open source, faces licensing issues, and requires additional resources and knowledge to run. Is there a viable alternative? Can we move existing MongoDB workloads to Postgres without any application-level changes? How can we ensure MongoDB ...

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    Fri 21 2023 Ops