About
Peter Farkas is the Co-Founder and CEO of FerretDB, bringing a wealth of experience in leading distributed teams and managing innovative Open Source projects. With a robust background in database and Big Data technologies, Peter has made significant contributions to the field during his tenures at prominent companies such as Percona and Cloudera. At Percona, he was instrumental in establishing Percona Support, setting new industry standards for service quality in Enterprise Open Source database software support. Peter holds a Master's degree in Management from the University of Buckingham. Outside of his professional life, he enjoys reading and traveling to new places around the globe.
Peter Farkas has presented the following presentations
From MongoDB to Postgres: Building an Open Source Standard for Document Databases
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Postgres Conference 2025
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presented by Peter Farkas
MongoDB has become a widely adopted database across industries due to its ease of use, but its shift away from open source and licensing challenges have raised concerns. Running MongoDB also demands additional resources and expertise. Is there a viable alternative? Can we seamlessly migrate MongoDB workloads to Postgres without making application-level changes? And how can MongoDB users continu...
more Thu 20 2025 Dev
Moving MongoDB Workloads to Postgres
at
Postgres Conference 2024
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 ...
more Fri 19 2024 Ops