About the Reviewers

Magnus Larsson has been in the IT business since 1986. He is an experienced architect in areas such as distributed systems, systems integration, and SOA. He is currently engaged in exploring the benefits of modern technologies such as microservices, container technologies, reactive frameworks, and mobile solutions.

Magnus has a special dedication to the open source community for Java and has been active in various projects over the years. He enjoys exploring other languages and currently finds the Go language very interesting for building microservices. He is also a frequent speaker at conferences such as Cadec, Spring I/O, Jfokus, and jDays.

Magnus lives outside Gothenburg, Sweden, with his family. When time permits, he enjoys cross-country skiing, which must be done either on roller skis or indoors, in the Gothenburg area for most of the year.

He has worked for large corporations such as Digital Equipment Corporation, AstraZeneca, and Ericsson Hewlett Packard Telecom over the years. In 2000, Magnus co-founded Callista Enterprise AB, a Swedish-based consultancy company specialized in software architecture.

Erik Lupander is a software architect and developer with over 15 years of professional experience. A lifelong computer and software enthusiast, he wrote his first GW-BASIC programs at the age of 7 back in the mid-80s.

Erik holds an M.Sc. in applied informatics from the University of Gothenburg and has worked in a variety of roles in the software industry ever since. While JVM-based languages and architecture has been his bread and butter, he is a polyglot software craftsman at heart who, among other technologies, has embraced the Go programming language and microservice architecture.

Erik has spoken at software conferences such as Scandev (2012), dev:mobile (2014), and Cadec (2016, 2017) about topics ranging from OpenGL ES to Golang and microservices.

He lives just outside Gothenburg, Sweden, with his wife and two children. Aside from family, computers, and software, he enjoys alpine skiing, golf, and running, and he is an avid supporter of IFK Gothenburg.

Erik is currently employed by Callista Enterprise AB, a Swedish-based consultancy specialized in software architecture. His previous employers include Siemens Medical Solutions, Epsilon IT, University of Gothenburg, and Squeed AB.