Erik Azar has been a professional software architect and developer for over 20 years. He has worked in diverse positions for companies ranging from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies, developing software such as systems and network management platforms, enterprise business applications in the insurance industry (specializing in healthcare, both personal and commercial), and benefit management.

He's currently a senior technical architect at Availity, LLC. He works with a small core team, developing Availity's next-generation healthcare REST API platform. He currently resides in Jacksonville, Florida, USA, with his partner, Rebecca; their three teenage children, Patrick, Kyra, and Cassandra; and their three dogs.

In his spare time, Erik enjoys exploring various open source operating systems, such as Haiku (BeOS). He has been a Linux hobbyist since the days of the original Slackware and Debian distros in the early 90s. Today, he's most interested in embedded devices and building REST APIs to manage IoT devices on the cloud. When he's not behind a computer, you can find him out riding his Harley, out with friends enjoying the local Jacksonville music scene, or working with non-profit organizations to help them understand how they can use technology to help market, fundraise, and manage their information.

Giuliano Araujo Bertoti is a master of science in electronics and computer engineering from the Aeronautics Institute of Technology (ITA), Brazil. He teaches software engineering and human-computer interaction disciplines at FATEC, which is an institute of technology in Brazil. In his free time, he walks with his beautiful wife and son in the gardens and plays soccer.

Ludovic Dewailly is a senior hands-on software engineer and development manager with over 12 years of experience in designing and building software solutions on platforms ranging from resource-constrained mobile devices to cloud computing systems. He is currently helping FancyGiving.com (https://www.fancygiving.com/), which is a social shopping, wishing, and gifting platform, to architect and build their system. His interests lie in software architecture and tackling the challenges of the web scale. He is the author of Building a RESTful Web Service with Spring, Packt Publishing.

Debasis Roy is working as a senior software engineer for NewsCred, in their Dhaka office. He has more than 8 years of professional experience in Java/C++/web-relevant technologies. He is enthusiastic about application architecture.

Currently, he is working on the development of the content marketing system for NewsCred. Previously, he worked at Vizrt. There, he was involved in the development of their sports analysis tool called Viz Sports (also known as LiberoVision), and the Viz Online Suite (also known as Escenic).

He has also worked on RESTful Java Web Services Security and PostgreSQL Administration Essentials, both published by Packt Publishing.