Acknowledgments

Many people have contributed to this book. In particular, we’d like to thank our reviewers: David Clack, Leyna Cotran, Lisa Crispin, Sarah Edrie, Damon Edwards, Martin Fowler, James Kovacs, Bob Maksimchuk, Elliotte Rusty Harold, Rob Sanheim, and Chris Smith. We’d also like to extend special thanks to our editorial and production team at Addison-Wesley: Chris Guzikowski, Raina Chrobak, Susan Zahn, Kristy Hart, and Andy Beaster. Dmitry Kirsanov and Alina Kirsanova did a fantastic job of copyediting and proofreading the book, and typesetting it using their fully automated system.

Many of our colleagues have been instrumental in developing the ideas in this book, including (in no particular order) Chris Read, Sam Newman, Dan North, Dan Worthington-Bodart, Manish Kumar, Kraig Parkinson, Julian Simpson, Paul Julius, Marco Jansen, Jeffrey Fredrick, Ajey Gore, Chris Turner, Paul Hammant, Hu Kai, Qiao Yandong, Qiao Liang, Derek Yang, Julias Shaw, Deepthi, Mark Chang, Dante Briones, Li Guanglei, Erik Doernenburg, Kraig Parkinson, Ram Narayanan, Mark Rickmeier, Chris Stevenson, Jay Flowers, Jason Sankey, Daniel Ostermeier, Rolf Russell, Jon Tirsen, Timothy Reaves, Ben Wyeth, Tim Harding, Tim Brown, Pavan Kadambi Sudarshan, Stephen Foreshew, Yogi Kulkarni, David Rice, Chad Wathington, Jonny LeRoy, and Chris Briesemeister.

Jez would like to thank his wife, Rani, for being the most loving partner he could wish for, and for cheering him up when he was grumpy during the writing of this book. He also thanks his daughter, Amrita, for her babbling, cuddles, and big gummy smiles. He is also profoundly grateful to his colleagues at ThoughtWorks for making it such an inspiring place to work, and to Cyndi Mitchell and Martin Fowler for their support of this book. Finally, a big shout out to Jeffrey Fredrick and Paul Julius for creating CITCON, and to the people he met there for many great conversations.

Dave would like to thank his wife Kate, and children Tom and Ben, for their unfailing support at every point, in this project and in many others. He would also like to make a special mention of ThoughtWorks, who, although no longer his employer, provided an environment of enlightenment and encouragement for the people that worked there, thus fostering a creative approach to finding solutions, many of which populate the pages of this book. In addition, he would like to thank his current employer, LMAX, with a special mention for Martin Thompson, for their support, trust, and willing adoption of the techniques described in this book in an intensely challenging technical environment of world-class high-performance computing.