Acknowledgments

The author is deeply grateful to O'Reilly Media for inventing this incredible series, and to John Osborn both for bringing me into O'Reilly and for letting me write this book.

This book has had some of the best technical editors I've ever had the pleasure to work with, including Nicholas Paldino, Luke Hoban, Michael Weinhardt, and Bill Hamilton.

In addition, a number of faithful readers agreed to provide feedback while the book was being written, including Cristof Falk, Frank Gilgic, Christopher Kimpbell, Daniel O'Connel, Jon Skeet, Dan Nash, Zheng Tianbo, Colin Young, Girish Bharadwaj, Brian Bischof, David Bench, Mattias Sjogren, Jouko Kynsijarvi, Rob Bazinet, Rakesh Rajan, Willem van Rumpt, Joseph Sign, Michael Rodriguez, Jon George, Ross Gray, Vance Kessler, James Thomas, David Novak, and especially Sahil Malik, Carel Blumenstock, Rolf M. Marsh, Michael Taylor, and Jamie McQuay. Their help was invaluable.