Paul Swartout - Continuous Delivery and DevOps – A Quickstart Guide: Start your journey to successful adoption of CD and DevOps, 3rd Edition

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Paul Swartout has spent over 2 decades working in the IT industry. He has worked across several different industries and sectors and within organizations of various sizes, from start-ups to multinational corporates. He is and always has been passionate about quality software and how it is delivered. Since first encountering Agile he has been committed to the adoption and implementation of Agile techniques and approaches to improve the efficiency, output, and lives of everyone involved in software development. He strongly believes that CD and DevOps add massive value to the way software is delivered, and he wants to ensure as many people realize this as possible. Paul lives in a small seaside town in the southwest of the UK.

Mitesh Soni is an avid learner with 10 years of experience in the IT industry. He is an SCJP, SCWCD, VCP, IBM Urbancode, as well as IBM Bluemix-certified, and a certified Jenkins Engineer. He loves DevOps and cloud computing, and he also has an interest in programming in Java. He finds design patterns fascinating and believes that a picture is worth a thousand words. He occasionally contributes to the clean-clouds and eTutorials World websites.

He believes in the KISS principle. Yes, you read it right. The KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid) principle states that simplicity should be a key goal in design and unnecessary complexity should be avoided. Hence, he follows the KISS principle in life.

Max Manders is a recovering PHP developer and former sysadmin who currently works as Principal Engineer (DevOps) at FanDuel, the leader in online Daily Fantasy Sports. Max enjoys discussing distributed systems, availability and scalability, infrastructure as code, continuous delivery, and automation. With experience of managing large-scale distributed system configuration with Puppet and Chef, Max has started exploring containerization with Docker and Kubernetes.

Max was a co-founder and organizer of Whisky Web, a Scottish conference for the web development and ops community. When he's not writing code or tinkering with the latest monitoring and operations tools, Max enjoys playing jazz and funk trombone. Max lives in Edinburgh with his wife Jo, their cats Ziggy and Maggie, and their hedgehog, Pickle.

Sami Rnk has a background in software business and has been a keen advocate of DevOps for years. After years of hands-on specialist work, he has moved more into the business and management side and is currently transforming an MSP business into a more agile and development-oriented company using DevOps practices. He has also been reviewing other DevOps-guides for Packt.

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