About the Authors

Rafael Benevides (@rafabene) is a Director of Developer Experience at Red Hat. With many years of experience in several fields of the IT industry, he helps developers and companies all over the world to be more effective in software development. Rafael is a committer and PMC member of Apache DeltaSpike. He has been an active speaker over the last three years at the major IT conferences in the world and is a top author at the Red Hat Developer blog. When not working, he enjoys building and flying RC airplanes and drones, and also does 4x4 wheeling. He lives with his cat Gregory. This book is dedicated to his passed-away son, João Gabriel, and to Cynthia Azevedo for her support.

Christian Posta (@christianposta) is a Field CTO at solo.io and is well known in the community for being an author (his books include Istio in Action from Manning and Introducing Istio Service Mesh for Microservices from O’Reilly), frequent blogger, speaker, open source enthusiast, and committer on various open source projects, including Istio and Kubernetes. Christian has spent time at web-scale companies and now helps companies create and deploy large-scale, resilient distributed architectures—many of them what we now call serverless and microservices architectures. He enjoys mentoring, training, and leading teams to be successful with distributed systems concepts, microservices, DevOps, and cloud-native application design.