About the Reviewers

Erik Azar is a professional software developer with over 20 years of experience in the areas of system administration, network engineering and security, development, and architecture. Having worked in diverse positions in companies ranging from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies, he currently works as a REST API architect for Availity, LLC in Jacksonville, FL. He is a dedicated Linux hobbyist who enjoys kernel hacking while experimenting with Raspberry Pi and BeagleBone Black boards. In his spare time, he works on solutions using embedded microprocessor platforms, Bluetooth 4.0, and connects to the cloud using RESTful APIs.

Ismail Marmoush is a Java and Machine Learning Certified Expert. He has published the open source projects RESTful Boilerplates for IAAS and PAAS (GAE), an artificial neural network framework, and crawlers/dataminers and some language code examples. You can find more about him, his work, and his tutorials on his personal blog (http://marmoush.com).

Thanks to my family and the Packt Publishing team.

Debasis Roy is working as the Team Lead / Scrum Master of the sports team for Vizrt Bangladesh based at Dhaka. He has 7 years of professional working experience as a software engineer in Java/C++-relevant technologies.

He has been working at Vizrt for the past 5 years. He started his journey here with a product called the Online Suite, also known as Escenic Content Engine/Studio, and he is now continuing with products related to Viz Sports. Vizrt provides real-time 3D graphics, studio automation, sports analysis, and asset management tools for the broadcast industry—interactive and virtual solutions, animations, maps, weather forecasts, video editing, and compositing tools.

Previously, he worked at SDSL/AfriGIS for 2 years, where he was involved mainly in the projects, Marbil and Grid. AfriGIS is a technology innovation company that creates geographic information and communication solutions.