I would like to thank everyone at Packt Publishing, it’s been great working with them since Day 1. Super thanks to all to my colleagues, friends and family who have helped me to become a better developer and have helped me become what I am today.

Martin Helmich holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Applied Sciences in Osnabrück. He works as a software architect and specializes in building distributed applications using web technologies and Microservice Architectures. Besides programming in Go, PHP, Python and Node.JS, he also builds infrastructures using configuration management tools like SaltStack and container technologies like Docker.

He is an open source enthusiast and likes to make fun of people who are not using Linux. In his free time, you'll probably find him coding on one of his open source pet projects, listening to music or reading science-fiction literature.