Henrietta Dombrovskaya is a database researcher and developer with over 40 years of academic and industrial experience. She holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Saint Petersburg, Russia. At present, she is a Database Architect at DRW Holdings, Chicago, Illinois. She is an active member of the PostgreSQL community, a frequent speaker at the PostgreSQL conference, and the local organizer of the Chicago PostgreSQL User Group. Her research interests are tightly coupled with practice and are focused on developing efficient interactions between applications and databases.Boris Novikov's experience includes leading post-graduate research groups and advising dozens of PhD students, while partnering and collaborating with industrial clients. His research interests are in the broad area of information management and include design, development, and tuning of databases, applications, and database management systems (DBMSs). He alsohas interests in distributed scalable systems for stream processing and analytics..Anna Bailliekova is Senior Data Engineer at UrbanFootprint, where she works on data platform tools and cloud ops for geospatial applications. Previously, she worked in data engineering at Zendesk, and held a variety of DBA and BI roles at Epic. Her writing can be found in the newsletter Better Streets MKE. She received her undergraduate degree with College Honors in Political Science and Computer Science from Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois.