Acknowledgments

Authoring a book requires great effort and it’s difficult to list everyone who helped us during this project. First and foremost we’d like to thank everyone at Manning for their encouragement and support, especially publisher Marjan Bace, associate publisher Michael Stephens, and our editor Nermina Miller. We’d also like to thank others at Manning who worked on different stages of the project: review editor Olivia Booth; project editor Jodie Allen; development manager Maureen Spencer; technical proofreader Deepak Vohra, who performed a final review of the book shortly before it went to press; Linda Recktenwald and Melody Dolab, who edited, proofread, and polished our prose; and typesetter Dennis Dalinnik, who converted our Word documents into a real book! Thanks also to all of those who worked behind the scenes to help get our book published.

Many reviewers spent their valuable time reading the manuscript at various stages of its development, and their feedback greatly improved the quality of the book. We’d like to thank Artur Nowak, Aziz Rahman, Bob Casazza, Christophe Martini, David Strong, Jeet Marwah, John Griffin, Jonas Bandi, Josef Lehner, Jürgen De Commer, Karan Malhi, Khalid Muktar, Koray Güclü, Luis Peña, Matthias Agethle, Palak Mathur, Pavel Rozenblioum, Rick Wagner, Sumit Pal, Victor Aguilar, Wellington Pinheiro, Wellington Pinheiro, Gregor Zurowski, and Zorodzayi Mukuya.