Over the last fourteen years Alex Podelko supported major performance initiatives for Oracle, Hyperion, Aetna, and Intel in different roles including performance tester, performance analyst, performance architect, and performance engineer. Currently he is Consulting Member of Technical Staff at Oracle, responsible for performance testing and optimization of Hyperion (a.k.a. Enterprise Performance Management and Business Intelligence) products . Before specializing in performance, Alex led software development for Rodnik Software. Having more than twenty years of overall experience in the software industry, he holds a PhD in Computer Science from Gubkin University and an MBA from Bellevue...