Alkin joins Emin Alemdar on the Kubernetes Bytes podcast ahead of KubeCon North America 2024.
Podcast: Road to KubeCon NA 2024
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MySQL Rockstar 2023, Q&A with Alkin Tezuysal
Oracle’s MySQL Community awarded Alkin Tezuysal the MySQL Rockstar 2023 title, recognizing outstanding contributions to the MySQL ecosystem through writing, speaking, community organizing, and open-source development.In a Q&A published by ODBMS in October 2024, Alkin shared his views on the future of MySQL:”MySQL stepping into the vector realm is not only crucial but inevitable.””The primary…
Podcast: Database Design and Modeling — Data in the Hallway
Alkin and co-author Ibrar Ahmed discuss the book on the TiDB community’s Data in the Hallway podcast.
Podcast: Database Design and Modeling — Packt Episode
A Packt podcast episode covering the Database Design and Modeling with PostgreSQL and MySQL book.
Podcast: Database Design and Modeling — Reader’s Companion
A Packt Reader’s Companion podcast episode on the Database Design and Modeling book.
Redgate 100: Most Influential in the Database Community 2022
Alkin Tezuysal was named Most Influential in the Database Community 2022 by The Redgate 100 — an annual ranking by Redgate Software spotlighting the database community’s most impactful contributors. Alkin was recognized in the Open Source Database category.The recognition reflects his 30+ years working across open-source relational databases, his leadership of global MySQL operations teams,…
Podcast: My First 90 Days with ClickHouse — Dok Talks #133
Alkin shares what it’s like to dive into ClickHouse on the Data on Kubernetes Community podcast.
Podcast: Journey to Vitess
A conversation on Vitess, distributed MySQL, and the open-source database ecosystem, on The Swyx Mixtape.
Profile: The Sailor Who Got His Dream Boat from Turkey, Windy.app
Windy.app — the weather and sailing platform — published a profile on Alkin Tezuysal as part of its series on sailors around the world. The piece focuses on how the COVID-19 pandemic created an unexpected opportunity: with travel restrictions grounding most plans, Alkin bought a 40-foot sailboat from Turkey and spent the following months sailing…
Podcast: All Things Vitess, PlanetScale, MySQL, and Sailing, HOSS Talks FOSS Ep. 10
Alkin Tezuysal was a guest on HOSS Talks FOSS, Episode 10 — one of Percona’s most popular podcast episodes of 2021. The conversation covers his journey from enterprise database administration into open-source, his role as a Vitess maintainer, the rise of PlanetScale and cloud-native MySQL, and — unexpectedly — sailing.The episode explores how Alkin balanced…