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Colin Charles

Colin Charles is the Chief Evangelist at Percona. He was previously on the founding team for MariaDB Server in 2009, worked in MySQL since 2005, and been a MySQL user since 2000. Before joining MySQL, he worked actively on the Fedora and OpenOffice.org projects. He's well known within many open source communities, and has spoken on the conference circuit.

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Colin Charles

MariaDB vs MySQL: Key Differences and Use Cases

September 28, 2018

This Week in Data with Colin Charles #54: Percona Server for MySQL is Alpha

September 21, 2018

This Week in Data with Colin Charles 53: It’s MariaDB Week PLUS Percona Live Europe Update

September 14, 2018

This Week in Data With Colin Charles 52: London MySQL Meetup

August 31, 2018

This Week in Data With Colin Charles 51: Debates Emerging on the Relicensing of OSS

August 28, 2018

Webinar Wed 8/29: Databases in the Hosted Cloud

August 24, 2018

This Week in Data with Colin Charles 50: Percona Live Europe Sessions, PostgreSQL in Google Cloud

August 20, 2018

Webinar Tues 8/21: MariaDB 10.3 vs. MySQL 8.0

August 17, 2018

This Week in Data with Colin Charles 49: MongoDB Conference Opportunities and Serverless Aurora MySQL

August 10, 2018

This Week in Data with Colin Charles 48: Coinbase Powered by MongoDB and Prometheus Graduates in the CNCF

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