About the Reviewers

Emilien Kenler, after working on small web projects, began focusing on game development in 2008 while he was in high school. Until 2011, he worked for different groups and specialized in system administration.

In 2011, he founded a company that sold Minecraft servers while studying computer science engineering. He created a lightweight IaaS (https://github.com/HostYourCreeper/) based on new technologies such as Node.js and RabbitMQ.

Thereafter, he worked at TaDaweb as a system administrator, building its infrastructure and creating tools to manage deployments and monitoring.

In 2014, he began a new adventure at Wizcorp, Tokyo. The same year, Emilien graduated from the University of Technology of Compiègne.

Emilien has written MariaDB Essentials for Packt Publishing. He has also contributed as a reviewer on Learning Nagios 4, MariaDB High Performance, OpenVZ Essentials, Vagrant Virtual Development Environment Cookbook, and Getting Started with MariaDB - Second Edition, all books by Packt Publishing.

Saurabh Minni has an engineering degree with specialization in computer science. A polyglot programmer with over 10 years of experience, he has worked in a variety of technologies, including Assembly, C, C++, Java, Delphi, JavaScript, Android, iOS, PHP, Python, ZMQ, Redis, Mongo, Kyoto Tycoon, Cocoa, Carbon, Apache Kafka, Apache Storm, and ElasticSearch. In short, he is a programmer at heart and loves learning new tech-related things each day.

Currently, he is working as technical architect at Near (an amazing start-up building a location intelligence platform). Apart from handling several projects, he was also responsible for deploying an Apache Kafka cluster. This was instrumental in streamlining the consumption of data in big data processing systems such as Apache Storm, Hadoop, and so on at Near.

Saurabh is also the author of a book on Apache Kafka, Apache Kafka Cookbook, Packt Publishing.

He has also been a reviewer on the book Learning Apache Kafka, Packt Publishing.

He is reachable on Twitter at @the100rabh and on GitHub at https://github.com/the100rabh/.