Acknowledgments

Writing a book is one of the hardest projects you can take on. It requires an incredible amount of time, energy, and dedication. It also requires the support of a sizeable group of people. I have a lot of people to thank for helping me, and for good reason.

I’d like to start by thanking the team at Manning publications: Erin Twohey, Ana Romac, Candace Gillhoolley, Rebecca Rinehart, Aleksandar Dragosavljević, Toni Bowers, Mehmed Pasic, Karen Gulliver, Katie Tennant, Janet Vail, and Lynn Beighley. You can’t imagine how much work goes into making a book, and they have been great at helping me through the process of creating and promoting it. I would also like to thank technical proofreader Clive Harber and the following reviewers: Angelo Costa, Daniel Baktiar, Darko Bozhinovski, Deepak Karanth, Fernando Monteiro Kobayashi, Jeff Smith, Matt Borack, Nicolas Boulet-Lavoie, Olivier Ducatteeuw, Patrick Regan, Patrick Rein, Robert Walsh, Rocio Chongtay, Stephen Byrne, Toni Lähdekorpi, William Wheeler, Yogesh Poojari, and Marcelo Pires; and Natko Stipaničev, for his diagram help.