Anuj Kumar is the co-founder and chief architect of FORMCEPT, a data analytics startup based in Bangalore, India. He has more than 10 years of experience in designing large-scale distributed systems for storage, retrieval, and analytics.
He has been in industry hacking, mainly in the area of data integration, data quality, and data analytics using NLP and machine learning techniques. He has published research papers at ACM conferences, got a few patents granted, and has spoken at TEDx.
Prior to FORMCEPT, he has worked with the Oracle Server Technologies division in Bangalore, India.
I would like to thank my technical reviewer, Michael Vitz, for his valuable feedback and the Packt editorial team for an excellent feedback loop to come up with good quality content. I would also like to thank my teachers and FORMCEPT team members, who have helped me on various topics covered in this book. And especially, I would like to thank my parents, my wife, and my entire family for their continuous encouragement.
Michael Vitz has many years of experience building and maintaining software for the JVM. Currently, his main interests include microservice and cloud architectures, DevOps, the Spring Framework, and Clojure.
As a senior consultant for software architecture and engineering at INNOQ, he helps clients by building well-crafted and value-providing software.
He also is the writer of a column in the German magazine, JavaSPEKTRUM, where he publishes articles about JVM, infrastructure, and architectural topics every two months.
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