Acknowledgments
We’ve learned firsthand that it takes a village to publish a book. Although we get the privilege of seeing our names on the front cover, dozens of other people have contributed to putting it all together. We’d like to thank everyone at Manning, especially our publisher, Marjan Bace, and our development editors, Howard Jones, Joyce King, Jackie Carter, and Nermina Miller (we were really hard on our editors, so we went through a lot of them), for their continuous support and help on so many aspects of the manuscript. Thanks also to the others at Manning who worked with us in different stages of the project: Andrea Kaucher, Katie Tennant, Gordan Salinovic, Gabriel Dobrescu, Steven Hong, Leslie Haimes, and Mary Piergies.
Many reviewers read the chapters during various stages of completion and provided valuable feedback and input that helped to make the book what it is today. We would like to thank Anil Saldhana, Tray Scates, David Strong, Scott Dawson, Patrick Dennis, Norman Richards, Andrew C. Oliver, Scott Stirling, John Tyler, Nathan Slip-pen, Michael Abney, Deepak Vohra, TVS Murthy, Sumit Pal, Bas Vodde, Goldy Lukka, and Riccardo Audano. We especially want to thank David Strong and Rod Coffin who provided detailed notes on things that needed to be corrected. Rod also did a final pass through the manuscript just before publication, ensuring that the technical content and code were up to date and correct.