Acknowledgments

This book has been some time in the making, and so first and foremost a big thank you goes out to all of our families and friends who tirelessly stood by us all, put up with us, and made those late evening coffees to keep us going through the many additional long hours of work required to write such a book – thank you!

To Alvaro Videla and Jason J.W. Williams, authors of RabbitMQ in Action (also published by Manning Publications, in April 2012), for laying the foundation for countless developers’ insight and interest in RabbitMQ itself.

To Karen, our development editor, for her endless patience and understanding with us all over this entire period, plus the entire Manning team for the fantastic effort involved by all to finally get us to this point. It was hard work, and we ended up doing a fair few rounds, but we are grateful for the solid production effort which has emerged as a result!

Thanks, too, to technical proofreader, Karsten Strøbæk, whose contribution helped the book immensely, as did the comments of the reviewers: Phillip Warner, Jerry Kuch, Nadia Saad Noori, Bruce Snyder, Robert Kielty, Milos Milivojevic, Arathi Maddula, Ian Dallas, George Harley, Dimitri Aivaliotis, Hechen Gao, Stefan Turalski, Andrew Meredith, Artem Dayneko, David Paccoud, Barry Alexander, Biju Kunjummen, Adolfo Pérez Álvarez, Brandon Wilhite, David Pull, and Ray Lugo.