Praseed Pai has been working with Software Industry for the last 25 years, starting his career as a MS-DOS systems programmer using ANSI C. He has been actively involved in developing large scale cross-platform system using C++ on Windows, GNU Linux, and macOS. His areas of interest include Engineering Software Development, Enterprise Software Development, and Native Code Programming. He is the co-author of a book .NET Design Patterns, by Packt Publishing.
I would like to acknowledge the contributions of Peter Abraham, Sarath Soman, Vaisakh Babu, Shine Xavier, Aneesh Revi, Benoy Vijayan, Joseph Abraham, and so on, while working on the content of the book. I would like to thank my parents, Mrs. Mohana and Late K.J. Thrivikrama Pai, who taught me the value of continuous learning. I whole heartedly thank my wife Sandhya L, for giving encouragement, while I was writing this book. Last, but not the least, Sidharth and Karthik Pai, my two sons, for co-operating with me, while writing this book. Finally, I thank Sandeep Mishra and Rohit Kumar Singh from Packt Publishing. I also thank Sumant Tambe, who reviewed the content of this book.
Peter Abraham has been a performance fanatic and a C/C++ programming language enthusiast right from his college days, where he excelled in Microsoft Windows programming and GNU Linux programming. He garnered experience in working with CUDA, image processing, and computer graphics programs by virtue of working with companies such as Quest Global, Siemens, and Tektronix.
Peter has been eagerly following the C++ standard and RxCpp libraries as part of his profession. He has worked with C++ based GUI toolkits such as Qt and MFC.
I would like to start off thanking Praseed Pai for choosing me to co-author this book. In addition, I would like to thank: friends and members of computers science fraternity (Joseph Abraham, Benoy Vijayan, Sarath Soman, Vaishak Babu, Soma Jose, Pranav P.S, Stanly Soby, Gururaj Badiger) for their contributions. My parents (Abraham and Susamma) without whom I would cease to exist. My brothers (Joseph and Sebastian) for their whole-hearted support throughout my life. My patrons (Rev. Fr. Varghese Kalarickal, Reena Peter) for believing in me. Finally, I thank the members of Packt Publishing. I also thank Sumant Tambe, who reviewed the content of this book.
Sumant Tambe is a software engineer, researcher, open source contributor, blogger, speaker, author, and gamer. He is experienced in using Modern C++, Kafka, data distribution service, reactive programming, and stream processing to solve new problems in big data and industrial IoT.
He has authored C++ Truths blog and the More C++ Idioms wikibook. He shares his learnings on his blog, and at local code camps, meetups, and conferences. He has been a recipient of the Microsoft MVP Award in development technologies for 5 years. He has a PhD in computer science from Vanderbilt University.
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