{"id":3275,"date":"2016-08-17T11:47:41","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T03:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=3275"},"modified":"2016-08-17T13:37:04","modified_gmt":"2016-08-17T05:37:04","slug":"whats-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2016\/08\/17\/whats-next","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s next"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I received an overwhelming number of comments when I said I was leaving <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2016\/08\/15\/changing-of-the-guard\">MariaDB Corporation<\/a>. Thank you &#8211; it is really nice to be appreciated.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t left the MySQL ecosystem. In fact, I&#8217;ve joined Percona as their Chief Evangelist in the CTO Office, and I&#8217;m going to focus on the MySQL\/Percona Server\/MariaDB Server ecosystem, while also looking at MongoDB and other solutions that are good for Percona customers. Thanks again for the overwhelming response on the various social media channels, and via emails, calls, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s to a great time at Percona to focus on open source databases and solutions around them!<\/p>\n<p>My first blog post on the Percona blog &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.percona.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/16\/colin-charles-perconas-new-chief-evangelist\/\">I\u2019m Colin Charles, and I\u2019m here to evangelize open source databases!<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.percona.com\/about-percona\/newsroom\/press-releases\/colin-charles-joins-percona-as-chief-evangelist\">press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20What%27s%20next&body=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2016%2F08%2F17%2Fwhats-next&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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Thank you &#8211; it is really nice to be appreciated. I haven&#8217;t left the MySQL ecosystem. In fact, I&#8217;ve joined Percona as their Chief Evangelist in the CTO Office, and I&#8217;m going to focus on the MySQL\/Percona Server\/MariaDB Server ecosystem, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20What%27s%20next&body=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2016%2F08%2F17%2Fwhats-next&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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And the next new thing to note? You have to go through a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;MariaDB&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3292,"url":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2016\/11\/11\/cfp-for-percona-live-santa-clara-closes-november-13","url_meta":{"origin":3275,"position":1},"title":"CfP for Percona Live Santa Clara closes November 13!","date":"11\/11\/2016","format":false,"excerpt":"At Percona Live Amsterdam recently, the conference expanded beyond just its focus areas of MySQL & its ecosystem and MongoDB to also include PostgreSQL and other open source databases (just look at the recent poll). The event was a sold out success. 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It started in London, had a smashing success last year in Amsterdam (conference sold out), and by design the travelling conference is now in Dublin from\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;MariaDB&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2906,"url":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2014\/04\/18\/congratulations-ubuntu-for-the-wide-choice","url_meta":{"origin":3275,"position":3},"title":"Congratulations Ubuntu, for the wide choice!","date":"18\/4\/2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Inspired by Yngve Svendsen\u2019s post, I too think it makes absolute sense to congratulate Ubuntu on the 14.04 LTS release\u00a0(some server notes\u00a0- MySQL has a section dedicated to it). Ubuntu users have a lot of server choice today (that\u2019s from all major MySQL ecosystem vendors): MySQL 5.5.35 ships in\u00a0main. It\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;MariaDB&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3129,"url":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2015\/11\/09\/rackspace-cloud-high-availability-databases-for-mariadb-mysql-percona-server","url_meta":{"origin":3275,"position":4},"title":"Rackspace Cloud High Availability Databases for MariaDB, MySQL, Percona Server","date":"9\/11\/2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Continuing on with the cloud theme, I think its worth noting that since mid-2014, Rackspace has offered MariaDB (as well as MySQL and\u00a0Percona Server) in the cloud, as part of their Cloud Databases offering. It\u2019s powered by OpenStack. Now there is an additional \u201cHigh Availability instance\u201d being offered \u2013 this\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;MariaDB&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3300,"url":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2016\/12\/05\/tab-sweep-mysql-ecosystem-edition","url_meta":{"origin":3275,"position":5},"title":"Tab Sweep &#8211; MySQL ecosystem edition","date":"5\/12\/2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Tab housekeeping but I also realise that people seem to have missed announcements, developments, etc. that have happened in the last couple of months (and boy have they been exciting). 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