Jonathan Baier is an emerging technology leader living in Brooklyn, New York. He has had a passion for technology since an early age. When he was 14 years old, he was so interested in the family computer (an IBM PCjr) that he pored over the several hundred pages of BASIC and DOS manuals. Then, he taught himself to code a very poorly-written version of Tic-Tac-Toe. During his teenage years, he started a computer support business. Throughout his life, he has dabbled in entrepreneurship. He currently works as Senior Vice President of Cloud Engineering and Operations for Moody's corporation in New York.
I'd like to thank my wonderful wife, Tomoko, and my playful son, Nikko. You both gave me incredible support and motivation during the writing process for both editions of this book. Your smiles move mountains I could not on my own. You are my True North and guiding light in the storm. I'd also like to thank my co-author, Jesse, for all the hard work in updating and adding new chapters to this edition. You not only made this edition possible, but also took the book to the next level!
Jesse White is a 15-year veteran and technology leader in New York City's very own Silicon Alley, where he is a pillar of the vibrant engineering ecosystem. As founder of DockerNYC and an active participant in the open source community, you can find Jesse at a number of leading industry events, including DockerCon and VelocityConf, giving talks and workshops.
Jakub Pavlik is a co-founder, former CTO, and chief architect of TCP Cloud (acquired by Mirantis in 2016). Jakub and his team worked for several years on the IaaS cloud platform based on the OpenStack-Salt, Kubernetes, and Open Contrail projects, which they deployed and operated for global service providers. Leveraging his skills in architecture, implementation, and operation, his TCP Cloud team was acquired by #1 pure play OpenStack company Mirantis. Currently a director of engineering, together with other skilled professionals, Jakub builds and operates a new generation of edge-computing platforms at Volterra Inc. He is also an enthusiast of Linux OS, ice hockey (with Pepa), and films, and loves his wife, Hanulka.
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