acknowledgments
We would like to thank the team at Manning Publications for giving us the opportunity to write this book. We’re especially thankful to our development editor, Elesha Hyde, who remained incredibly patient and endlessly supportive, even when we were missing our deadlines.
We would also like to thank Raphael Villela, who, together with Elesha, was among the first to read and comment on the chapters as they were written. They identified areas that lacked clarity and could have confused readers. Their feedback helped improve the text tremendously.
We would like to thank our technical proofreaders, Mayur Patil and Werner Dijkerman, and all our external reviewers: Alain Lompo, Alex Speranza, Anand Edward, Andres Sacco, Aron Trauring, Björn Neuhaus, Borko Djurkovic, Charles Henrique Gonçalves Santos, Conor Redmond, Fernando Bugni, Gandhi Rajan, Glen Yu, Gunnar Prüfer, Jared Duncan, Jaume Lopez, Jay Vyas, Joan Fuster, John Guthrie, Jorge Contreras, Kent Spillner, Marlon Briguera, Neil Croll, Rob Pacheco, Roman Levchenko, Ruben Vandeginste, Ryan Burrows, Satadru Roy, Sébastien Portebois, Stefano Ongarello, Tylor Dolezal, and Vittal Damaraju, who caught errors and omissions that slipped through the earlier reviews. Their careful attention to detail helped make this book more accurate and reliable.