About the authors

Pranav Shukla is the founder and CEO of Valens DataLabs, a technologist, husband, and father of two. He is a big data architect and software craftsman who uses JVM-based languages. Pranav has over 15 years experience in architecting enterprise applications for Fortune 500 companies and start-ups. His core expertise lies in building JVM-based, scalable, reactive, and data-driven applications using Java/Scala, the Hadoop ecosystem, Apache Spark, and NoSQL databases. Pranav founded Valens DataLabs with the vision of helping companies to leverage data to their competitive advantage. In his spare time, he enjoys reading books, playing musical instruments, and playing tennis.

I would like to thank my wife Kruti Shukla, our sons Sauhadra and Pratishth, my parents Dr Sharad Shukla and Varsha Shukla and my brother Vishal Shukla for inspiring me to write this book. I would like to thank Parth Mistry, Gopal Ghanghar, and Krishna Meet for their valuable feedback for the book. Special thanks to Umesh Kakkad, Alex Bolduc, Eddie Moojen, Wart Fransen, Vinod Patel, and Satyendra Bhatt for their help and support.

Sharath Kumar M N did his master's in computer science at the University of Texas, Dallas, USA. He is currently working as a senior principal architect at Broadcom. Prior to this, he was working as an Elasticsearch solutions architect at Oracle. He has given several tech talks at conferences such as Oracle Code events. Sharath is a certified trainer – Elastic Certified Instructor – one of the few technology experts in the world who has been certified by Elastic Inc. to deliver their official from the creators of Elastic training. He is also a data science and machine learning enthusiast.
In his free time, he likes playing with his lovely niece, Monisha; nephew, Chirayu; and his pet, Milo.

I would like to thank my parents, Geetha and Nanjaiah; sister, Dr. Shilpa; brother-in-law, Dr. Sridhar; and my friends and colleagues - without their support, I wouldn't have been able to finish my part of this book in time. I would like to thank Ali Siddiqui and Venkata Karpuram for their inspirational leadership in AIOps at Broadcom. I would also like to thank Rajat Bhardwaj, Prasanth Kongati and Kiran Kadarla for their encouragement and support.

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