Acknowledgement

Mummy, Papa, and Nani—thanks for your love and support. Even though I am not with you all the time, you are always there in my heart.

I would like to thank Vicky, Dhruti, Sunilkumar, Harde, Vevayji, Vevanji, Rakeshbhai, Ravibhai, and Buntybhai.

I would like to remember Bipinkaka who passed away this year. He was someone I admired a lot.

Thanks to Sarojkaki, Ujwal, Leniya, Amitkumar, Binita, Priteshkumar, Moksha, Motapapa, Motimummy, Mamtaben, Nilesh Jiju, Kalpeshbhai, Reenabhabhi, Hirenbhai, Bhavibhabhi, Akasha, Sagar, Urvi, Babulafuva, Pushpafoya, Jayben, Nareshjiju, Dhansukhbhai, Tarabhabhi, Guddi, Mayurkumar, Pintoo, Bablu, Kinjal, Praveenfuva, Hansafoya, Pankajiju, Alpaben,,Pankaj bhai, Sangeetabhabhi, Leenabe, Manjojiju, Bimalbhai, Komalbhabhi, Kinjal, Chiku, Amar, Jheel, Viral,Krish, Rujul, Kushi, Vidulamasi, Masaji, Ripalbhai, Bhabhi, Chitan, Pinkiben and her family, and all my other relatives not mentioned here due to lack of space.

I would also like to remember all my neighbors and friends: Dr Uncle, Nayna Aunty, Jigar, Trusha, Babu, Gaugang, Rahul, Tinuben and their parents, Kalpesh Sir, Shailesh and his family, Shashikant Sir and his family, Kavitaben and her family.

All my college friends Jignesh, Manish, Sandeep, Parag, Mausam, Prashant, Jaydeep, Jigar, Tapan, Shaunak, Divyesh, Nirav, Pritesh, Deepak, Lokesh. Thanks also to Aarti, Vushal, Amit, Ajit, Ramesh, Kaiser, Vinod, Kailash, Umesh, Rajendra, Digambar, Sandeep, Arun, Vikat.

A big token of gratitude to Ninad Sir from Interpole Technologies who was the reason I started working on Linux.

Many, many thanks to Dipali—she has always been there to support and guide me.

I can’t let this opportunity pass without mentioning my ex-colleagues at Packt—Sandeep, Shelly, Manjiri, Jimmy, Priyanka, Tripti, Shravani, Teerth, Manu and their friends Nikhil da Dawggie and Ved da Prakash Jha, Raj, Bansari, Saurabh, Sagara, Tints, Ritika, Zenab, Aboli, Devdoot Naidu, Girish, and Rajeev (thanks a lot buddy).

Thanks to Packt where I found so many of my friends—Lata, Poochi, Monica, Shantanu, Nilpreet, Patricia, Sumathi, my previous AEs (Nanda, Viraj, and Shayantani), Silpa <3 Sameer, Rameshbhau, Harshada, Neelanchal, Swarna, Ajay, Swapna, Akshara, Mithil, Abhijeet, and Bhushan.

Special thanks to Rupaldee and Mineshjiju (with whom I have been living for the last four years), Dada/Dadi who have treated me like a son, Mudra my niece and Chandra my nephew (two of my favorite chelas), Mayankjiju, Neetaben, Bimaljiju, Chhayaben, Prakashjiju, Nimishaben, Vevayji, Vama, Dhara, Labdhi, Reeti, Mitwa, and Jainam.

Thanks to all my neighbors at Mumbai—Pradeepmasa, Masi, Ruchi, Snehalbhai, Masa-Masi, Nehadidi, Pradeepbhaiya, Niyatididi, Heet, Anushka, and Bhavya.

Louay Fatoohi—for believing in me and giving me the opportunity to work on this book.

Special thanks to Rashmi—she always believed in me and without her this book would never have been completed.

And finally the real architect of this book, Aric Pedersen. VPJ was right when he said, Author book thode hi na banata hai, reviewer banata hai. Aric is everything that the open source culture stands for. He is a great guy to work with and I wish the world is overrun with his clones.