It was hard writing this book, as it was our first one. Some of the chapters have been rewritten over five times to get to the point that you, as a reader, would easily grasp it and learn the most. During the process, we had lots of support from our friends and families, but we’d like to thank a few people specifically that helped us tremendously along the way.

First and foremost, we’d like to thank Gojko Adzic. He introduced the world of serverless to us several years ago. Especially for his reviews during the development of our book and comments such as “this page is worthless, delete it”, “don’t lie to your readers about the steps,” and so on. We loved them.

Next we’d like to mention our editor at Manning, Toni Arritola. Thank you for working with us, when we struggled in the first few chapters, for being patient when we got behind schedule and supporting us with everything we needed. You always pushed for quality and made the book better for everyone who reads it. Also we’d like to thank Michael Stephens and Bert Bates, who helped us better explain all the serverless details and focus on important topics. We’d also like to thank the folks at Manning who worked on the production and promotion of the book, it was a team effort. We’d also like to thank Valentin Crettaz, our technical proofreader, and Kostas Passadis, our technical development editor, for their careful reviews of the code.

Thanks, too, to the Manning reviewers who took the time to read our manuscript at various stages and gave amazing feedback, including Arnaud Bailly, Barnaby Norman, Claudio Bernardo Rodríguez Rodríguez, Damian Esteban, Dane Balia, Deepak Bhaskaran, Jasba Simpson, Jeremy Lange, Kaj Ström, Kathleen R. Estrada, Kumar Unnikrishnan, Luca Mezzalira, Martin Dehnert, Rami Abdelwahed, Surjeet Manhas, Thomas Peklak, Umur Yilmaz, and Yvon Vieville.

Our thanks also go to Amazon and AWS teams for creating such an amazing computing service: AWS Lambda. You are changing the world.

Lastly we’d like to thank Aunt Maria and all other imaginary characters from the book!