Mihalis Tsoukalos is a Unix administrator, programmer, DBA, and mathematician, who enjoys writing technical books and articles and learning new things. He has written more than 250 technical articles for many magazines including Sys Admin, MacTech, Linux Userand Developer, USENIX ;login:, Linux Format, and Linux Journal. His research interests include databases, operating systems, Statistics, and machine learning.
He is also the technical editor for MongoDB in Action, Second Edition, published by Manning.
I would like to thank all the magazines that I have written articles for because they gave me the opportunity to improve my technical writing skills and finally write my first book!
I would also like to thank Agisilaos Ziotopoulos for telling me during a Skype call that after writing so many magazine articles, I should write a book!
Lastly, I would like to thank the people at Packt Publishing for helping me write this book, including Frank Pohlmann, my technical reviewer; Chris McEniry, for his really good comments; and especially my editor, Radhika Atitkar for answering all my questions and encouraging me during the whole process.
For all potential writers everywhere: if you wish to become a writer, start writing!