Matthew Boehm
Matthew has been involved with MySQL since 2006 and is an expert in operations, backups, recovery, high availability, and performance. He has traveled the world educating organizations on how to better use MySQL. In his spare time, Matthew is a novice beekeeper, nationally-ranked West Coast Swing dancer, and amateur recurve bowman. He is married with 3 kids, and 3 cats.
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