Contributors
About the author
Karthik Appigatla is a highly reputed database architect and is very famous for performance tuning. He has been consulted by many companies all over the world for designing, performance tuning, building database infrastructure, and training. In his decade of experience, he has worked for companies such as Yahoo, Pythian, and Percona. Currently, he is working for LinkedIn, where he has innovated a new way of analyzing queries. He gave a talk about this at SRECon, Dublin in 2017.
I would like to acknowledge the encouragement from my wife, Lalitha, and my brother, Kashyap. This book would not have completed without the cooperation of my little daughter, Samhita.
About the reviewers
Marco Ippolito is an Italian software engineer working as Director of Software Development for Imagining IT. Marco completed his postgraduate in Software Engineering in Oxford and has worked for large corporations such as Intel, HP, Google, Dell, and Oracle (in the acquired MySQL team), as well as for start-ups such as @platformsh and for large production users of MySQL such as @bookingcom (Twitter). He can be reached at marco.ippolito@imaginingit.com and has experience working in teams speaking Italian, English, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, German, and French, remotely or onsite.
Kedar Mohaniraj Vaijanapurkar is a MySQL database consultant with over a decade of experience, ranging from programming to database administration. He aims to spread happiness with the MySQL database systems he works on. Apart from working with MySQL and related open source technologies, he also explores cloud, automation, and NoSQL. He is a 5-year Pythian laureate living with his awesome family in the cultured city of Vadodara, India. You can reach him at kedar@nitty-witty.com.
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