Atul S. Khot is a self-taught programmer and has written software programmes in C and C++. Having extensively programmed in Java and dabbled in multiple languages, these days, he is increasingly getting hooked on Scala, Clojure, and Erlang. Atul is a frequent speaker at software conferences and a past Dr. Dobb's product award judge. He was the author of Scala Functional Programming Patterns and Learning Functional Data Structures and Algorithms, published by Packt Publishing.

Anubhava Srivastava is a Lead Engineer Architect with more than  22 years of systems engineering and IT architecture experience. He has authored the book Java 9 Regular Expressions published by Packt Publishing. He's an active contributor to Stackoverflow and figures in its top 0.5% overall reputation. As an open source evangelist he actively contributes to various open source development and some popular computer programming Q&A sites like Stack Overflow with a reputation/score of more than 170k.

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