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About the Authors
Maqsood Alam is a Director of Product Management at Oracle and has over 17 years
of experience in architecting, building, and evangelizing enterprise and system
software. Maqsood is a pure technologist at heart and has a wide range of expertise,
ranging from parallel and distributed systems to high performance database
applications and big data. His current initiatives at Oracle are focused on Oracle
NoSQL Database, Oracle Exadata, Oracle Database 12c, and the Oracle Big Data
Appliance. He is a coauthor of the book Achieving Extreme Performance with Oracle
Exadata published by McGraw-Hill Education, and also the author of several
whitepapers and best practices dealing with various Oracle technologies. He is an
Oracle Certified Professional and holds both bachelor’s and master’s degrees in
computer science.
Aalok Muley is a Senior Director of Product Management at Oracle. He is
responsible for driving adoption of Oracle’s family of database products: Oracle
NoSQL Database, Oracle Big Data Connectors, Oracle Database 12c, and engineered
systems such as Oracle Big Data Appliance and Oracle Exadata. Aalok has over 19
years of experience; he has led teams working on database industry standard
benchmarks, database product development, and Fusion Middleware technologies. He
has been part of the technology integration of many Oracle acquisitions. As part of the
product development organization, Aalok is currently focused on working closely with
partners and customers to design high-throughput, highly available enterprise-grade
solutions. He holds a master’s degree in computer engineering from Worcester
Polytechnical Institute in Massachusetts.
Ashok Joshi is the Senior Director of Development for Oracle NoSQL Database,
Berkeley DB, and Database Mobile Server. Ashok has been involved in database
systems technology for over two decades as an individual contributor, as well as in a
management role. Ashok has made extensive contributions to indexing, concurrency
control, buffer management, logging and recovery, and performance optimizations in
a variety of products, including Oracle Rdb, Oracle Database, and Sybase SQL Server.
He is the author or coauthor of several papers as well as 12 patents on database
technology. Ashok graduated from the Indian Institutes of Technology, Bombay with a
bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and received a master’s degree in computer
science from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Chaitanya Kadaru is an accomplished software professional with over 12 years of
industry experience. He has spent the majority of his time with Oracle, working in
databases, middleware, and Oracle applications in various roles, including developer,
evangelist, pre-sales, consulting, and training. He recently co-founded Extuit, a
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