acknowledgments
This book wouldn’t be possible without the large number of smart, professional, and friendly people who helped me out throughout its development process.
A heartful thank you goes to my wife Daniela, who was there for me, helped with valuable opinions, and continuously supported and encouraged me.
I’d like to thank the entire Manning team for their huge help in making this a valuable resource. I specifically want to mention Marina Michels and Nick Watts for being incredibly supportive and professional. Their advice brought great value to this book.
I also thank my friend Ioana Göz for the drawings she created for the book. She did a great job turning my thoughts into the cartoons you’ll discover here and there in the book.
Next, I thank everyone who reviewed the manuscript and provided useful feedback. To Alok Ranjan, Andrew Oswald, Becky Huett, Burkhard Nestmann, Chris Allan, Curtis Krauskopf, Faiz Gouri, Frank Beutelschiess, German Gonzalez-Morris, Jason Clark, Jitender Jain, Lars Opitz, Max Loukianov, Mebin Jacob, Naga Rishyendar Panguluri, Nancy Al Kalach, Nicolas Bievre, Prashant Gupta, Purushotham Krishnegowda, Ravi Laudya, Sachin Handiekar, Sanjay Belaturu Krishnegowda, Sathiesh Veera, Sumit Bhatnagar, Vamsi Kavuri, William Brawner, Heinz Kabuz, and Vlad Mihalcea, your feedback helped me improve the content of this book.
Finally, thanks to Ben Evans for taking the time to review the book and write its foreword.