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Colin CharlesJoin Percona Chief Evangelist Colin Charles as he covers happenings, gives pointers and provides musings on the open source database community. What a long, packed week! Spent most of it at Open Source Summit North America, while still enjoying the myriad phone calls and meetings you have as a Perconian. In addition to two talks, I […]
Join Percona Chief Evangelist Colin Charles as he covers happenings, gives pointers and provides musings on the open source database community. Percona Live Europe 2017 in Dublin Have you registered for Percona Live Europe Dublin? We have announced some awesome keynotes, and our sponsor list is growing (and we’re always looking for more!). There will also be […]
Join Percona Chief Evangelist Colin Charles as he covers happenings, gives pointers and provides musings on the open source database community. Percona Live Europe Dublin Have you registered for Percona Live Europe Dublin? We’ve more or less finalized the schedule, and the conference grid looks 100% full. We’re four weeks away, so I suggest you register […]
Join Percona Chief Evangelist Colin Charles as he covers happenings, gives pointers and provides musings on the open source database community. We are five weeks out to the conference! The tutorials and the sessions have been released, and there’s an added bonus – you can now look at all this in a grid view: tutorials, day […]
Join Percona Chief Evangelist Colin Charles as he covers happenings, gives pointers and provides musings on the open source database community. Has a week passed already? Welcome back to the second column. A lot of time has been spent neck deep in getting speakers accepted and scheduled for Percona Live Open Source Database Conference Europe 2017 […]
Welcome to a new weekly column on the Percona blog. My name is Colin Charles, Percona Chief Evangelist, and I have been involved in MySQL, MariaDB Server and the open source community for over a decade. Now I am at Percona, and this is my weekly column. When you start a column, you have ask […]
This blog post looks at the recent MariaDB Server 10.2 GA release. Congratulations to the MariaDB Foundation for releasing a generally available (GA) stable version of MariaDB Server 10.2! We’ll definitely spend the next few weeks talking about MariaDB Server 10.2, but here’s a quick overview in the meantime. Keep in mind that when thinking about […]
At Percona, we support MariaDB Server (in addition to MySQL, Percona Server for MySQL, MongoDB and Percona Server for MongoDB, of course!), and that is reflected in the good, high-quality technical content about MariaDB Server at the Percona Live Open Source Database Conference 2017 in Santa Clara. MariaDB is a fork of MySQL, developed and maintained by […]
This blog will review some of the high availability topics featured at this year’s Percona Live Europe, Amsterdam conference. The topic of high availability MySQL is always hot, because beyond just being available, you also want efficient database manageability. I’m sure you’ve all seen the video by Frederic Descamps talking about the launch of MySQL […]
If you’re going to Percona Live Europe Amsterdam 2016, and are specifically interested in MariaDB-related technologies, there are many talks for you to attend. On Tutorial Monday, you will want to attend my tutorial The Complete MariaDB Server Tutorial. In those three hours, you’ll learn about all the differences that MariaDB Server has to offer […]
Let me introduce myself, I’m Colin Charles. Percona turns ten years old this year. To me, there is no better time to join the company as the Chief Evangelist in the CTO office. I’ve been in the MySQL world a tad longer than Percona has, and have had the pleasure of working on MySQL at […]