acknowledgments

Many people brought this book to life. Thanks to the development and editorial staff at Manning, especially Frances Lefkowitz (development editor) and Frances Buontempo (technical development editor). In addition, thanks to the production staff for all the hard work behind the scenes to shepherd this book into its final format.

Thanks to all the reviewers whose suggestions helped make this a better book: Abe Taha, Adi Shavit, Aditya Visweswaran, Alain Couniot, Allan Makura, Amaresh Rajasekharan, Andrew Mooney, Ariel Gamino, Atilla Ozgur, Atul Saurav, Ayush Bihani, Cosimo Attanasi, Daniel Berecz, Davide Cadamuro, Fernando García Sedano, Gautham K., George Loweree Gaines, Giampiero Granatella, Gourav Sengupta, Igor Vieira, Ioannis Atsonios, John Powell, Karrtik Iyer, Keith Kim, Maciej Szymkiewicz, Maxime Dehaut, Maxim Volgin, Mikael Dautrey, Ninoslav Čerkez, Noah Flynn, Or Golan, Peter Henstock, Richard Tobias, Rodolfo Allendes, Rohit Agarwal, Sadhana Ganapathiraju, Sanjeev Kilarapu, Sergio Govoni, Simona Russo, Simone Sguazza, Sowmya Vajjala, Sri Ram Macharla, Thomas Joseph Heiman, Tymoteusz Wołodz´ko, Vidhya Vinay, Viton Vitanis, Vojta Tuma, and Wei Luo.