About the Reviewer

Ning Sun is a software engineer currently working for a China-based startup, LeanCloud, providing one-stop "backend as a service" for mobile apps. Being a startup engineer, he has to solve various kinds of problems and play different kinds of roles; however, he has always been an enthusiast for open source technology. He contributes to several open source projects and has also learned a lot from them.

At LeanCloud, he built a messaging system that supports tens of millions of clients per day. The system is fully powered by Clojure and its ecosystem. He has been an early member of Clojure Chinese community since 2011. He has delivered talks at several meetups and has been very active in the mailing list and open source projects. Ning created Clojure RPC library "Slacker", which is widely used at LeanCloud and several other companies.

He worked on https://Delicious.com in 2013, which is known as one of the most important websites in the early Web 2.0 era.

He has been a reviewer of two books about Solr at Packt Publishing. Also, he was the reviewer of Programming Clojure, Chinese edition.

You can always find him on Github.com/sunng87 and Twitter.com/Sunng.