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Sveta Smirnova, Principal Support Engineer at Percona, has spent twenty years answering database questions. In this episode of Join Table she talks about how AI changed what lands in support, why a bug that looks trivial to an engineer can be an outage for a customer, how she triages the Percona Toolkit backlog, and what off-road motorbiking and weightlifting have to do with solving hard problems.
Recorded at Percona Live Amsterdam, September 2026.
Read the written interview: https://mariadb.org/sveta-smirnova-interview/
JOIN TABLES is the MariaDB Foundation's interview series with people from the wider open source database community.
MariaDB Foundation: https://mariadb.org
Newsletter: https://mariadb.org/newsletter
Ecosystem Hub: https://ecohub.mariadb.org
Recorded at Percona Live Amsterdam, September 2026.
Read the written interview: https://mariadb.org/sveta-smirnova-interview/
JOIN TABLES is the MariaDB Foundation's interview series with people from the wider open source database community.
MariaDB Foundation: https://mariadb.org
Newsletter: https://mariadb.org/newsletter
Ecosystem Hub: https://ecohub.mariadb.org