About the Author

GRANT ALLEN has worked in the IT field for nearly 20 years, most recently as Chief Technology Officer for a leading Australian software vendor, before taking on his current role at Google. His work has involved private enterprise, academia, and government around the world—consulting on large-scale systems design, development, performance, data warehousing, content management, and collaboration. Grant is a frequent speaker at conferences and industry events on topics such as data mining, compliance, relational databases, collaboration technologies, the business of technology, and more. He is now a team leader at Google, using database technologies to tackle problems of Google-scale and beyond.