About the authors
JEFF NICKOLOFF builds large-scale services, writes about technology, and helps people achieve their product goals. He has done these things at Amazon.com, Limelight Networks, and Arizona State University. After leaving Amazon in 2014, he founded a consulting company and focused on delivering tools, training, and best practices for Fortune 100 companies and startups alike. In 2019, he and Portia Dean founded Topple Inc., where they build productivity software as a service. Topple helps teams address the communication and coordination issues that slow them down, put their business at risk, and generally make work suck. If you’d like to chat or work together, you can find him at http://allingeek.com, or on Twitter as @allingeek.
STEPHEN KUENZLI has designed, built, deployed, and operated highly available, scalable software systems in high-tech manufacturing, banking, and e-commerce systems for nearly 20 years. Stephen has a BS in systems engineering and has learned, used, and built many software and infrastructure tools to deliver better systems. He loves working through challenging design problems and building solutions that are safe and enjoyable for customers, users, and stakeholders. Stephen founded and leads QualiMente, which helps businesses migrate and grow on AWS securely. If you would like help adopting secure, modern application delivery processes using technologies such as containers and infrastructure as code, reach out to him at www.qualimente.com.