In this week’s podcast, QCon chair Wesley Reisz talks to Keith Adams, chief architect at Slack. Prior he was an engineer at Facebook where he worked on the search type live backend, and is well ...

There are many different permutations of MySQL available; which should you be using? This whitepaper compares and contrasts the major builds, including MariaDB, Percona, and Galera. Benefits and bugs ...

Sun plunked down $1 billion this week to purchase MySQL, illustrating that open source companies can achieve impressive capital valuations, even if questions remain about their potential for ...