acknowledgments
This book wouldn’t be possible without the large number of smart, professional, and friendly people who helped us throughout its development process.
We’d like to thank the entire Manning team for their huge help in making this book a valuable resource. We especially want to call out Dustin Archibald for being incredibly supportive and professional. His advice brought great value to this book.
Thank you also to our friend Ioana Göz for the drawings she created for the book. She easily turned our thoughts into the cartoons you’ll discover here and there.
Further, we’d like to thank everyone who reviewed the manuscript and provided useful feedback that helped us improve the content of this book: Adrian Rossi, Alain Lompo, Anirudh Murali, Antonio Bruno, Bobby Lin, Christoph Schubert, Clifford Thurber, Conor Redmond, Diego Lapiduz, Dima Knivets, Dror Helper, Emilio Grande, Gitanjali Vohra, Grant Lennon, Greg MacLean, Jakob Mayr, Jeremiah Griswold, Joe Ivans, Joel Caplin, Jose Lecaros Cisterna, Matthew Todd, Miguel Montalvo, Mladen Knežić, Nicholas Selpa, Özay Duman, Patricia Ray, Radhakrishna MV, Renato Gentile, Richard Meinsen, Ryan Sharif, Sam De Coster, Sani Sudhakaran Subhadra, Sanjeev Jaiswal, Snahil Singh, and Travis Hoyt.