Acknowledgments

I would like to express my gratitude to the many people in the CloudML team at Microsoft who saw us through this book; to all those who provided support, read, offered comments, and assisted in the editing, and proofreading. I wish to thank my coauthors, Val and Wee-Hyong, for their drive and perseverance which was key to completing this book, and to our publisher Apress, especially Kevin Walter and James T. DeWolf, for making this all possible. Above all I want to thank my wife, Terre, and my daughters Amelie and Jolie, who supported and encouraged me in spite of all the time it took me away from them.

—Roger Barga

I would like to thank my co-authors, Roger and Wee-Hyong, for their deep collaboration on this project. Special thanks to my wife, Veronica, and loving kids, Engu, Chembe, and Nayah, for their support and encouragement.

—Valentine Fontama

I would like to thank my coauthors, Roger and Val, for working together to shape the content of the book. I deeply appreciate the reviews by the team of data scientists frm the CLoudML team. I’d also like to thank the Apress team who worked with us from concept to shipping. And I’d like to thank Juliet, Nathaniel, Siak-Eng, and Hwee-Tiang for their love, support, and patience.

—Wee-Hyong