Acknowledgments

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I write this, having finished the book, two and a half years after I began. Writing this book was the hardest thing I’ve done. I’ve built a few startups and several open source projects — this was much harder. I set out to write a good book people would enjoy and find useful. I’m critical of myself and my work and wouldn’t put out anything I didn’t deem worthy. It took me a long time to write because I didn’t want to compromise. I’m happy with this book and proud of myself.

I thank my editors, Dawn Schanafelt and Katharine Dvorak, for their patience and for helping me to improve my writing and motivating me in hard times.

Thank you to my publisher, The Pragmatic Bookshelf, for the guidance I received in writing my first book and for all of the work out of view.

I thank my book’s reviewers and beta readers for giving me their impressions of the book and contributing suggestions and errata to help me improve the book. Thank you to Clinton Begin, Armon Dadgar, Ben Johnson, Brian Ketelsen, Jay Kreps, Nishant Roy, William Rudenmalm, and Tyler Treat.

Thank you to the free and open source software communities for putting out code to study, change, and run. Special thanks to the people at Hashicorp for open-sourcing their Raft and Serf packages I use in this book and their services like Consul, whose source I studied and learned from a lot. Thank you to the Emacs and Linux contributors — the text editor and operating system I wrote this book with. Thank you to the Go team for creating a simple, stable, useful language.

Thank you to my parents, Dave and Tricia Jeffery, for buying my first computer and programming books and encouraging me with a strong work ethic.

Thank you to my high school English teacher, Graziano Galati, for giving me the right reading at the right time in my life.

Thank you to J. R. R. Tolkien for authoring The Lord of the Rings. I read it while writing this book, and the rapport with Frodo and Samwise aided me on the journey.

I thank my cat, Callie Jeffery. I adopted her a quarter of the way through writing the book, and her useful contributions to the discussion helped speed up my writing pace.

Thank you to Emily Davidson for her love and support and for fueling me with broccoli soup, ginger kombucha, and matcha tea.

Thank you, dear reader, for independently furthering your skills and knowledge and having the ambition to put your dent in the universe.

— Travis Jeffery

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