Tarun Arora is obsessed with high-quality working software, continuous delivery, andAgile practices. He has worked on various industry-leading programs for fortune 500 companies in the financial and energy sectors. For many years, Tarun has been a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional in Visual Studio and Development Technologies. His core strengths are designing application architecture for cloud scale and everything DevOps. He was recognized as an MVP by Microsoft in 2014 for going over and above in supporting the product teams and community with his contributions. Tarun is an active open source community contributor, speaker, and Blogger. Follow Tarun on Twitter @arora_tarun for the latest and greatest updates in DevOps.
To my 6-month-old son Ryan and my beautiful wife Annu. You both are the best part of my life!
Utkarsh Shigihalli is passionate about technology and has a keen interest in developing tools and extensions. Currently working for Avanade in the United Kingdom, he has experience in the areas of Azure, DevOps, Agile, and Architecture. Over the years he has worked for many top companies as an architect, independent consultant, and as a DevOps coach in India, the United States, Netherlands, and United Kingdom.He has been awarded as Microsoft Most Valuable Professional five times. He regularly writes at Visual Studio Geeks and you can follow him on Twitter at @onlyutkarsh.
I would like to thank my father Dr. Balanna Shigihalli and my mother Mrs. Padmaja Shigihalli for their love, care, and encouragement. I am extremely thankful to my wife Rajeshwari for her patience and continuing support to complete this book. My lovely daughter Kruti for her smiles and hugs. I also like to express my thanks to my sister Kavya, brother-in-law Piyush for all their support and my niece Stuti and nephew Vismay for their love.
Michael Juřek, after working for Microsoft for many years, is now a freelance consultant specializing in the software development life cycle and DevOps tools and principles. Other areas of his professional interests include software architecture and PaaS technologies in the cloud. In his free time, Michael has various hobbies, such as volleyball, skiing, astronomy, and bee-keeping.
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