Acknowledgments

I would like to thank my wife Charis for her support through the long process of writing this book, as well as my parents for their lifelong encouragement. And many thanks to my cofounder at Snowplow Analytics, Yali Sassoon, for giving me the “air cover” to work on this book even while we were trying to get our tech startup off the ground.

On the Manning side, I will always be appreciative to commissioning editor Frank Pohlmann for believing I had a book in me. Thanks too to Cynthia Kane, Jennifer Stout, and Rebecca Rinehart for their patience and support through the difficult and lengthy gestation. I am grateful to my coauthor, Valentin Crettaz, for his contributions and his laser focus on getting this book completed. Special thanks also to all the reviewers whose feedback and insight greatly helped to improve this book, including Alex Nelson, Alexander Myltsev, Azatar Solowiej, Bachir Chihani, Charles Chan, Chris Snow, Cosimo Attanasi, Earl Bingham, Ernesto Garcia, Gerd Klevesaat, Jeff Lim, Jerry Tan, Lourens Steyn, Miguel Eduardo Gil Biraud, Nat Luengnaruemitchai, Odysseas Pentakalos, Rodrigo Abreu, Roger Meli, Sanket Naik, Shobha Iyer, Sumit Pal, Thomas Lockney, Thorsten Weber, Tischliar Ronald, Tomasz Borek, and Vitaly Bragilevsky.