About the author
Naren Yellavula, known in the developer community as Naren Arya, started his programming career in a somewhat surprising manner. He ditched mechanical engineering in favor of computer science after watching The Matrix for the first time. With domain expertise in cloud telephony and e-commerce, Naren has a total of 6 years' professional experience and 10 years of programming experience. His articles on open source have been read over a million times worldwide.
Naren has spoken at the PyCon India conference on two occasions. He currently works as a software engineer, building microservices for Tradebyte Software GmbH (a Zalando enterprise). In his spare time, he travels to new places. He also loves reading – nonfiction most of the time, and Victorian and Russian fiction on occasion.
On this occasion, I would like to thank my parents and my younger brother, Saikiran Yellavula, who was very patient with me all the time spent writing this book. I am also happy to have a wonderful friend in the shape of Zahra Zaredar, who has earnestly wished me success throughout my life. Lots of love to you guys!
I am greatly indebted to my mentor, Chandrashekar Munibudha , Senior Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services, for his encouragement and guidance throughout my career.
This book would not have been possible without the help of Denim Pinto , Acquisition Editor at Packt, and a good friend of mine. He was the one who approached me for both editions of my book. I would also like to thank Divya Vijayan , my content editor, who was very patient throughout the book's timeline and monitored its progress closely. I also want to thank Vincent Smith for reviewing the chapters and providing insightful feedback. If you were anticipating this book much sooner, forgive me, but I am responsible. There were a few awkward moments when I annoyed the editorial team owing to poor communication. Ultimately, I am human too, but the Packt team always supported me with the necessary tools and resources. Kudos!