Firstly I would like to say a big thank you to my darling wife Jane, who has had to put up with a husband who for the past few months has done little more than spend every spare moment staring at a computer screen typing lots of thingswhich eventually turned into this book.
Thank you to my daughter Harriet for her proof reading skillsI knew that education would come in handy one day.
Next is my good friend and colleague John Clapham whose level headed approach and consistent vision helped to make the implementation of CD and DevOps within Nokia entertainment the success it was. Without that success there would be little to write about.
I would also like to thank Deon Fourieone of the best bosses out thereand my CD team for their faith and commitment to delivering the CD and DevOps vision. Without you this body of work would be rather dry and many pages lighter.
A big thank you to John Fisher for allowing me to include his transition curve within the book and to Patrick Debois for his support and never ending enthusiasm and drive to bring DevOps to the masses.
About the Reviewers
Daniel Albu is a freelance Interactive Developer who specializes in Flash Platform and HTML5 based solutions, with more than 10 years of experience in production and deployment of rich media websites, games, and applications.
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Jacob Kottackal Ninan is a Project Manager with a Bachelor of Engineering and MBA degree. He has worked globally for companies like International Air Transport Association (IATA) and eBay.
Jacob is passionate about technology. He also takes up consulting assignments in management and business.
Jacob was a contributor to the 5th edition of the Project Management Book of Knowledge (PMBOK) for the Project Management Institute, USA.
He was also a member and Independent Consultant at Technical Working Group, World Resources Institute / WBCSD Scope 3 Emissions Protocol Development contributing to the GHG emission standards.
Jacob co- founded Kottackal Business Solutions Pvt. Ltd., which is behind the e-commerce hotel booking portal for the Indian market (www.luxotel.in).
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I would like to thank my father K. C. Ninan, mother Mariamma Ninan, and my wife Irina for their support.
Leonardo Risuleo is a designer and developer with several years experience in mobile, new media, and user experience (http://www.leonardorisuleo.info/). He's a highly dedicated professional and passionate about what he does. He started back in 2003 and during these years he worked on a variety of different mobile and embedded platforms for a number of well-known brands. Leo designs, prototypes, and develops mobile applications, games, widgets, and websites.
Apart from being a Flash Platform enthusiast Leo also contributes to the Flash and mobile community as an author and blogger, and he's co-founder of the Italian Mobile & Devices Adobe User Group. From 2008 to 2010 Leo had the honor to be the Forum Nokia Champion, a recognition and reward program for top mobile developers worldwide.
In 2010 he formally founded Small Screen Design (http://www.smallscreendesign.com/), a design and development studio focused on mobile design and user experience.
Veturi JV Subramanyeswari is currently working as a Solution Architect at a well-known software consulting MNC in India. Post joining this company she served a few Indian MNCs, many start ups, and R&D sectors in various roles such as Programmer, Tech Lead, Research Assistant, Architect, and so on. She has more than eight years of experience working with web technologies covering media and entertainment, publishing, healthcare, enterprise architecture, manufacturing, public sector, defense communication, gaming, and so on. She is also a well-known speaker who delivers talks on Drupal, Open Source, PHP, Women in Technology, and so on.