Alex Braunton is a web developer focusing on the LAMP stack by day and a technical tinkerer by night. He is passionate about all technological things and enjoys trying to build robots and home automation systems with his Raspberry Pi collection. Currently, he is focusing on sharpening his DevOps knowledge and experimenting with a range of technologies, such as serverless, virtual reality, and GraphQL. He also has a growing bonsai collection and constantly bores his wife and family about the art and history of bonsai.
I'd like to start by thanking my wife, Francesca. Without her support, this book would not have been possible. I'd like to thank the incredible team at Packt, who have guided me along every step of this book and have been excellent - especially Rohit Rajkumar and Dattatraya More. I'd like to thank Mitchell Hashimoto/HashiCorp for creating such a fantastic piece of software, Vagrant. Your ideas and code have truly inspired me.
Michał Wołonkiewicz started by participating in the home meteo station network (involving an unbreakable DS1820 connected by a 1-Wire converter to an RS-232 interface in an Optiplex G1, operating under the control of OpenBSD) before he even got his driving license. He gained his first commercial experience as a systems engineer in both the public and private sectors, he improved the infrastructure at an investment bank and taught developers how to use it. He runs a consulting company with the goal of providing expertise on IT, Telco, and security technologies. He can be reached at [email protected].
Special thanks to my family – my wife, Ada, and my son, Wojciech – thanks to whom I am stronger and more persistent every day.
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