Denis Salamanca - Hands-On Linux for Architects: Design and implement Linux-based IT solutions

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Denis Salamanca is a technology enthusiast living in Costa Rica with his fiance and step-son. He has been working in IT since he was 20 and has worked for the most influential and leading companies in the industry, including VMware, Microsoft, and Hewlett-Packard Enterprise. He currently holds more than 10 technical certifications across different fields, such as cloud, storage, Linux, Docker, and virtualization. He has also participated in the development of Linux certifications and is part of the CompTIA Linux Subject Matter Experts and Technical Advisory Committee.

His love for technology has driven him to work in different positions and fields across his career, and this has helped him to develop an understanding about the different points of view that a technical solution requires.
Esteban Flores has been meddling with computers since he was 8 years old. His life as an IT expert began when he lost a lot of important data belonging to his family by saying he was "fixing the computer." He's worked for top-tier companies, including Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, VMware, Akamai, and Microsoft. With 10 years' experience, his passion for cutting-edge technology has driven him to work on different roles during his professional career. Storage technologies have always been his forte, focusing mostly on performance tuning and optimization. A photographer during his free time, he's been doing Linux-related things since his first job, finding amazement in its flexibility to run from a small laptop all the way up to the world's fastest supercomputers.

Donald Tevaultbut you can call him "Donnie"has been working with Linux since way back in 2006. He's a professional Linux trainer, with the LPI Level 3 - Security and the GIAC Incident Handler certifications. Donnie is also a fellow Packt Publishing author, having published Mastering Linux Security and Hardening as his first book. He's the brains behind the BeginLinux Guru channel on YouTube, and works as a Linux consultant for the VDOO IoT security company.

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Welcome to Hands-On Linux For Architects, an in-depth look at what goes through the mind of an architect when dealing with Linux-based solutions. This book will help you achieve the level of knowledge required to architect and implement different IT solutions.

Additionally, it will show you the flexibility of open source software by demonstrating some of the most widely used products of the industry, presenting you with a solution and analyzing every aspect, from the very beginning of the design phase, all the way up to the implementation stage, where we will build, from the ground up, the infrastructure proposed in our design.

Delve inside the technical aspects of designing a solution, where we dissect every aspect with in-depth details to implement and tune open source Linux-based solutions.