About the Authors

Matt Pelletier is a partner at EastMedia, a software, mobile, and business development firm based in New York City. In conjunction with technology partner VeriSign, EastMedia provided commercial sponsorship of Mongrel for the Apache Heraldry project, where it serves as a key component of the Identity 2.0 Software stack. Matt is cofounder of NYC.rb, the New York City Ruby group.

Zed Shaw is the original and primary author of Mongrel (as well as a number of other Ruby projects) and plays an active role in the growing Mongrel community, answering questions, responding to feature requests and bug reports, and helping troubleshoot and work with the growing needs and uses.