I'm thankful to many people who've helped me write this book. But firstly, I would like to thank the publishers who offered me an opportunity to write this book. If it wasn't for them, who knows what would have happened with this book. Thankfully, the Packt Publishing team was very supportive and helped me deliver this useful book with high quality. A big thanks goes to Sergey Avseyev, who always supported me in the technical and difficult parts of the book. He also made me believe that I could write this book from scratch. I would also like to thank Lee Hambley, who shared his experience with me, and as a result, the last chapter of the book is more hands-on. I have no doubt now that Rake has a very successful future despite other competitive tools.

I'm grateful to my wife for allowing me to allocate enough time to write the chapters. Lastly, I would like to acknowledge the creator of Rake, Jim Weirich. He created a really great and powerful tool. Unfortunately, he won't be with us to see this book published. He passed away recently. But anyway, I believe that he would be happy that his creation helped develop this book.