About the Author

Nitin Padalia is the technical leader at Aricent Group, where he is involved in building highly scalable distributed applications in the field of telecommunications. From the beginning of his career, he has been working in the field of telecommunications and has worked on protocols such as SMPP, RTP, SIP, and VOIP. Since the beginning of his career, he has worked on the development of applications that can scale infinitely with highest performance possible. He has experience of developing applications for bare metal hardware, virtualized environments, and cloud-based applications using various languages and technologies.

I would like to thank all the reviewers of this book; their comments helped me to present data effectively.

Meeta Rajani, for setting things up and providing input during the initial phase of the book.

Anish Sukumaran, for helping me through his comments and input till the completion of this book.

Chaoran Yu, for good suggestions regarding presenting data and examples in a way that could be more helpful from the readers' perspective.

Ranjit, for his input throughout the book.

I also would like to thank my family—my mother, father, wife, and kids—for letting me take some time out to write this book.