About the Authors
Alok Shrivastwa is a technologist from India, currently working as the director
of cloud services for Microland Ltd. in their Center of Innovation. He has a keen
interest in all things physical and metaphysical and is an innovator at heart. He
has worked with multiple large- and medium-sized enterprises, designing and
implementing their network security solutions, automation solutions, databases,
VoIP environments, datacenter designs, public and private clouds, and integrations.
He has also created several tools and intellectual properties in the eld of
operationalization of emerging technologies. He has authored a book, Learning
OpenStack, with Packt Publishing, and has authored several whitepapers and blogs
on technology and metaphysical topics, in addition to writing poems in Hindi. Also,
he has been a guest speaker for undergraduate engineering students in Chennai.
You can connect with him at
https://in.linkedin.com/in/alokas or follow
him on Twitter at @alok_as.
We are like the re at the end of the matchstick, we appear when we
are needed, and once our work here is completed, we disappear into
the same nothingness we all came from. I thank that nothingness
we all fondly call God. I thank my mother, Seema, for making me
who I am today; my lovely sisters, Kawshiki and Abhabya; my
beautiful wife, Priyanka, for tolerating the insanity; and my father
for supporting me throughout.
I thank the reviewers who were patient in reviewing the work and
shaped the ow of the book. I thank all the editors at Packt for being
extremely helpful and understanding and nally Packt Publishing
for allowing me to share whatever little I know.
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