acknowledgments
A book is a reliability project in its own right, and this one wouldn’t have shipped without a great many people catching the failures I couldn’t see myself.
Thank you to Brian Sawyer for reaching out to me and bringing this book to Manning in the first place. This project wouldn’t exist without that first conversation. Thank you as well to the entire team at Manning for their patience and craft in turning a rough manuscript into a finished book, and especially to Elesha Hyde, my development editor, whose steady focus on the reader shaped these chapters far more than any single technique I wrote about. Her instinct for where a reader would stumble made the book clearer on nearly every page.
Siddharth Shroff, Yifan Wang, and Jonathan Reeves shaped the technical heart of this book. Siddharth reviewed the code and technical content with a rigor that saved readers from more than a few sharp edges, and I’m thankful for his care in making sure that the examples do what the prose claims they do. Yifan and Jonathan pushed on the arguments and the technical reviews until they held up.