About the authors

Jason Morris is a systems and research engineer with over 19 years of experience in system architecture, research engineering, and large data analysis. His primary focus is machine learning with TensorFlow, CUDA, and Apache Spark.

Jason is also a speaker and a consultant on designing large-scale architectures, implementing best security practices on the cloud, creating near real-time image detection analytics with deep learning, and developing serverless architectures to aid in ETL. His most recent roles include solution architect, big data engineer, big data specialist, and instructor at Amazon Web Services. He is currently the Chief Technology Officer of Next Rev Technologies, and his favorite command-line program is netcat.

Chris McCubbin is a data scientist and software developer with 20 years' experience in developing complex systems and analytics. He co-founded the successful big data security start-up Sqrrl, since acquired by Amazon. He has also developed smart swarming systems for drones, social network analysis systems in MapReduce, and big data security analytic platforms using the Accumulo and Spark Apache projects. He has been using the Unix command line, starting on IRIX platforms in college, and his favorite command-line program is find.

Raymond Page is a computer engineer specializing in site reliability. His experience with embedded development engendered a passion for removing the pervasive bloat from web technologies and cloud computing. His favorite command is cat.