Michael Coburn
Michael Coburn is a Principal Architect at Percona with over 15 years of experience managing open-source databases. A former Product Manager for Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM), he architects observability stacks and deploys highly available MySQL and PostgreSQL clusters across on-prem, cloud, DBaaS, and Kubernetes environments. He is a regular contributor to open-source infrastructure projects and leads zero-downtime migrations for Percona customers.
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