Sankar Bheemarasetty is doing his master's at Technische Universit?t Darmstadt, Germany. He worked as a systems engineer for more than 3 and a half years on various technologies and programming languages. Zabbix is one of the monitoring solutions he has worked on. Bheemarasetty completed his bachelor's degree in information technology at VIT University, Vellore, India. Experimenting with new technologies is his hobby. You can contact him at www.learnsomuch.com and http://learnsomuch.github.io/.
I would like to thank my dad, mom, brother, and sister, who have always supported me. I'd also like to thank the author—Patrik Uytterhoeven—Packt Publishing, and its staff for giving me the opportunity to contribute to this project.
Siju Oommen George works as the chief information security officer with ZestyBeanz Technologies. He oversees the data visualization, cloud computing, security auditing, and digital forensics departments, and is active in research. He is also involved in several product development initiatives of the company.
Siju completed his BTech course in production engineering from the University of Calicut in 2000 and worked in the systems administration department of HIFX (hifx.co.in) for 15 years. During this period, he learned technologies such as BSDs, OS X, Linux, cloud computing, and Microsoft Windows platforms involving both open source and proprietary software. He has written articles (https://www.linkedin.com/today/author/57177969) for BSD Magazine and has contributed to many open source mailing lists. He is an advocate of open source software and encourages newcomers by mentoring them.
Siju also reviews books in his spare time. Earlier, he reviewed Squid Proxy Server 3.1 Beginner's Guide, Packt Publishing.
I would like to thank my Lord and savior, Jesus Christ, who carried me thus far and gave success in my career, regardless of the sickness I continually struggle with. I would also like to thank my wife, Sophia, and daughter, Manahane, for bearing the burdens I put on them.
Luke MacNeil is a 32-year-old Linux engineer and developer from Massachusetts. He has worked on scalable Linux and *nix systems and the development of web-based system administration tools for the last 10 years. He spends his free time on irc.freenode.net (#linuxpeople) along with a handful of other open source professionals, sharing mostly "yo mama" jokes and internet memes in the middle of the night. Currently, Luke is expanding his knowledge of complex cloud computing at https://www.salesforce.com/. Some of his other interests include audio production, guitar repairs, songwriting, and hosting an open mic at the Rose Garden restaurant in Upton, Massachusetts, where he can be found every Thursday night (provided he is not out in a hotel room playing with golang in San Francisco).
I'd like to thank my mother, Lynn Leblanc-MacNeil, as well as my girlfriend, Jennifer Crawford, for their support throughout the many years of my antisocial geek-like behavior.