acknowledgments

I want to say thanks first of all to Jonathan Gennick, who reached out to ask if I was interested in sharing my experience on this topic through a book and for helping me through the nontrivial process of building the book proposal in such a way that it might be approved by the publisher. Thanks to Jonathan, and Manning Publications in general, for the support I received when, in the middle of writing, I had to stop for some months to address some urgent personal matters. Thanks to Dustin Archibald for all his precious feedback on making this book better. Thanks to Riccardo Mattivi, a senior AI and Machine Learning engineer at Integral Ad Science (IAS), who previously led AI engineering and Machine Learning initiatives at Mastercard, for serving as a technical editor on the book. And thanks, of course, to all the other Manning people who assisted during the different phases of this book, from inception to production.