Acknowledgments
Many people played a role in the long process of creating the book that you now hold in your hands, either by contributing to the body of knowledge that it contains, or by making comments and improvements to the manuscript during its writing and development.
We’d like to start with a big thank-you to the team at Manning for their support and guidance as this book evolved. They include Marjan Bace, Mike Stephens, Emily Macel, Karen Tegtmeyer, Rachel Schroeder, Tiffany Taylor, and Mary Piergies; and there were no doubt many others, through whose hands the manuscript passed on its journey from first draft to bound book.
Thanks also to the following reviewers who read the manuscript at different stages of its development, for their feedback and comments: David Sinclair, Kunal Mittal, Deiveehan Nallazhagappan, Robert Hanson, Timothy Binkley-Jones, Shreekanth Joshi, Orhan Alkan, Radhakrishna M.V., Sumit Pal, Francesco Goggi, Chad Davis, Michael Bain, Patrick Dennis, Robby O’Connor, and Christian Siegers. Also a big shout-out to the readers of Manning’s Early Access Program (MEAP) for their careful reading of the early drafts of the chapters and their posts in the online forum.
Special thanks to Patrick Lightbody for contributing chapter 7, to Shawn Henry for managing the final technical review of the manuscript shortly before it went to press, and to Anne Thomas Manes for agreeing to pen the foreword to our book.