OPINION
KINGS AND DATABASES
Matt Yonkovit is the chief experience officer at Percona.
Are architects the new kingmakers of the database world? To get market insight, Percona conducts an annual Open Source Data Management Software survey [http://bit.ly/lxf269sur]. When it comes to actual decision-making, architects (43 per cent) were flagged as most likely to decide which database technology would be used rather than devs down at 26 per cent.