Pramod J. Sadalage Principal Consultant at ThoughtWorks enjoys the rare role of bridging the divide between database professionals and application developers. He regularly consults with clients who have particularly challenging data needs requiring new technologies and techniques. He developed pioneering techniques that allowed relational databases to be designed in an evolutionary manner based on version-controlled schema migrations. With Scott Ambler he coauthored Refactoring Databases(Addison-Wesley 2006).   Martin Fowler Chief Scientist at ThoughtWorks focuses on better ways to design software systems and improve developer productivity. His books include Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture; UML Distilled Third Edition; Domain-Specific Languages (with Rebecca Parsons); and Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code (with Kent Beck John Brant and William Opdyke). All are published by Addison-Wesley. . Language: English