acknowledgments

I want to thank the people at Manning who made this book possible: publisher Marjan Bace and everyone on the editorial and production teams, including Patrick Barb, Elesha Hyde, and many others who worked behind the scenes.

Many thanks go to the technical peer reviewers, led by Aleksandar Dragosavljević—Abhilash Babu, Allan Makura, Ariel Gamiño, Bin Hu, Christian Sutton, Fernando García Sedano, Harsh Raval, James J. Byleckie, Japneet Singh, Johnny Hopkins, Jordan Samek, Kai Gellien, Khai Win, Kumar Abhishek, Madhav Ayyagari, Maria Ana, Marvin Schwarze, Maxim Volgin, Morteza Kiadi, Or Golan, Ravi Kiran Bamidi, Sadhana Ganapathiraju, Sanket Naik, Shreyas B. G., Sleiman Salameh, Sriram Macharla, Sumit Bhattacharyya, Vatsal Desai, and Walter Alexander Mata Lopez—as well as the forum contributors. The reviewers provided section-by-section feedback on everything from contents to figures to code implementation, and they played an important role in shaping the manuscript.