Acknowledgments

First, we want to thank Bob Calco for getting this project started—without you, the book wouldn’t have happened, and we hope you like the results.

We also want to thank all those readers who bought the Early Access edition and waited so long for us to finish, while we more or less rewrote the book three times. Your interest made us pull through.

Thanks to Jerry Cattell for reviewing the Java code, Francesco Cesarini for his help and promotion, Ulf Wiger for the foreword, Kevin A. Smith for his driver example code, Ryan Rawson for help with Java and HBase, Ken Pratt for the technical proofreading, and Alain O’Dea and all the other Early Access readers who gave us their feedback.

Special thanks to the following peer reviewers who read the manuscript at various stages of development for their invaluable input: Chris Chandler, Jim Larson, Bryce Darling, Brian McCallister, Kevin Jackson, Deepak Vohra, Pierre-Antoine Grégoire, David Dossot, Greg Donald, Daniel Bretoi, James Hatheway, John S. Griffin, Franco Lombardo, and Stuart Caborn.

And a big thank you to the people at Manning for their support and patience, in particular Tiffany Taylor, Katie Tennant, and Cynthia Kane. You didn’t lose hope.