About the Author

Chetan Giridhar is a technology leader, open source enthusiast, and Python developer. He has written multiple articles on technology and development practices in magazines such as LinuxForYou and Agile Record, and has published technical papers in the Python Papers journal. He has been a speaker at PyCon conferences such as PyCon India, Asia-Pacific, and New Zealand and loves working on real-time communications, distributed systems, and cloud applications. Chetan has been a reviewer at Packt Publishing and has contributed to books on IPython Visualizations and Core Python.

I'd like to thank the Packt Publishing team, especially Merint Thomas Mathew, and the technical reviewer, Maurice HT Ling, for bringing out the best content in this book. Special thanks to my mentor, Anand B Pillai, for graciously accepting to review this book and writing the foreword. This book wouldn't be possible without the blessings of my parents, Jyotsana and Jayant Giridhar, and constant support and encouragement from my wife, Deepti, and my daughter, Pihu!