About the Reviewers

Gabriele Bartolini is a long time open-source programmer, writing Linux/Unix applications in C and C++ for over 10 years, specializing in search engines and web analytics with large databases.

Gabriele has a degree in Statistics from the University of Florence. His areas of expertise are data mining and data warehousing, having worked on web traffic analysis in Australia and Italy.

Gabriele is a consultant with 2ndQuadrant and an active member of the international PostgreSQL community.

Gabriele currently lives in Prato, a small but vibrant city located in the northern part of Tuscany, Italy. His second home is Melbourne, Australia, where he has studied at Monash University and worked in the ICT sector.

His hobbies include "calcio" (football or soccer, depending on which part of the world you come from) and playing his Fender Stratocaster electric guitar.

Dimitri Fontaine is part of the PostgreSQL community and has been contributing to open source for more than 10 years. He is the lead developer of enterprise ready solutions such as pgloader (ETL), PostgreSQL prefix indexing (telephony routing), pg_staging (development environment maintenance from production backups), preprepare (allow easy usage of prepare statements behind a connection pooler), and some backports of recent PostgreSQL features

He also contributed to Skytools and the Londiste replication system and, authored a PHP layer for the PGQ event handler, allowing for robust asynchronous processing and code reuse.

Dimitri's passion is system architecture & design, with the goals of reduced maintenance time and very high availability

Professional experience, community involvement, and PostgreSQL expertise have led Dimitri to now work as a principal consultant at 2ndQuadrant, France.