about the author

 
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Phil Wilkins has spent more than 30 years in the software industry, with broad experience in businesses and environments from multinationals to software startups and consumer organizations to consultancy. He has worked with household names and has been part of award-winning teams. He started as a developer on real-time, mission-critical solutions and worked his way up through technical and development leadership roles, primarily in Java-based environments. Along the way, Phil became TOGAF-certified. Phil now works for Oracle as a cloud architect and evangelist specializing in cloud-native development, APIs, and integration technologies and is involved with the development of a new generation of SaaS products.

Phil was a peer reviewer of books for several publishers before coauthoring several titles on API and integration, as well as Logging in Action, which is the partner to this book. Outside his daily commitments, Phil is an active blogger and contributor to websites such as Software Daily, DZone, and InfoQ. He has made presentations physically and virtually at conferences in the United Kingdom and around the world.