Alok Shrivastwa is a technologist from India, currently working as the director of special projects for Microland in the CMD's office. He currently runs special projects on cloud technologies. Having worked at multiple enterprises of varied sizes, designing and implementing solutions, public and private clouds, and integrations, he has created a myriad number of tools and intellectual properties in the operationalization of emerging technologies. He has authored two books on OpenStack alongside several white papers and blogs on technology, in addition to writing poems in Hindi.
We as humans need contrast, without which we cannot perceive. Because of this, to show something in a good light, something has to be made the villain. This book is about being pragmatic when looking at the cloud. I thank God for the perspective, and my family—my mother, father, sisters and my niece, Aarya—who helped me see it. I am thankful to each and every person who I meet and learn from.
David Duncan is a partner solutions architect at Amazon Web Services who specializes in enabling open source platform partners. He focuses on enabling Linux support on Amazon EC2, cloud native deployments, and hybrid cloud workloads with operating system partners such as Red Hat OpenShift, SUSE Cloud Application Platform, and the Canonical distribution of Kubernetes. David is a coauthor of the book AWS Quick Start for Red Hat OpenShift.
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