Percona University, Bangkok

The Death of the Third Pedal: Why Your Database Platform Should Drive Itself

with Sergey Pronin, Founder

We spent decades treating databases like high-maintenance pets because we had no choice. From toggling switches on analog computers to the manual toil of tuning mainframes and VMs, the "DBA tax" was simply the cost of doing business. But in an era of cloud-native abstraction, manual database management has become the "third pedal"—an obsolete manual interface that slows down modern engineering teams.