About the Authors

Simon Riggs is a major developer and one of the few committers on the PostgreSQL database project, as well as CTO of 2ndQuadrant, providing 24x7 support and services to PostgreSQL users worldwide.

Simon works actively as a database architect and support troubleshooter, skills which drive and shape his contributions to the development of operational features for PostgreSQL. Feature credits include Point in Time Recovery, Warm Standby replication, Hot Standby, Asynchronous Commit, Partitioning and many other performance and tuning features. His designs and solutions can be found throughout the PostgreSQL code and documentation.

Simon has also previously worked with Oracle, Teradata, and DB2 and holds multiple certifications. His previous experience covers management and senior technical roles in the banking, telecommunications and software industries. Simon's early research work has been published by the Royal Society.

Hannu Krosing is a principal consultant at 2ndQuadrant and a Technical Advisor at Ambient Sound Investments. As the original database architect at Skype Technologies, Hannu was responsible for designing the Skytools suite of replication and scalability technologies. Hannu has more than 12 years experience working with and contributing to the PostgreSQL project.