From the Author

Ihave relied on many people, both directly and indirectly, in writing this book.First,I would like to thank my co-authors and the wonderful team at PacktPub for thiseffort. I would like to especially thank my wonderful wife, Mittal, and mysweet son, Devam, for putting up with the long days, nights, and weekends whereI was camped out in front of my laptop.Manypeople have inspired and made contributions to this book and provided comments,edits, insights, and ideas -- specifically Krupal Khatri and Chintan Gajjar. There were several things that could haveinterfered with my book. I also want to thank all the reviewers of this book. Last, but not least, I want to thank all my Mom& Dad, friends, family and colleagues for supporting me throughout thewriting of this book

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About the Author

Shabbir Challawala has over 8 years of rich experience in providing solutions based on MySQL and PHP technologies. He is currently working with KNOWARTH Technologies. He has worked in various PHP-based e-commerce solutions and learning portals for enterprises. He has worked on different PHP-based frameworks, such as Magento E-commerce, Drupal CMS, and Laravel.Shabbir has been involved in various enterprise solutions at different phases, such as architecture design, database optimization, and performance tuning. He has been carrying good exposure of Software Development Life Cycle process thoroughly. He has worked on integrating Big Data technologies such as MongoDB and Elasticsearch with a PHP-based framework.Jaydip Lakhatariya has rich experience in portal and J2EE frameworks. He adapts quickly to any new technology and has a keen desire for constant improvement. Currently, Jaydip is associated with a leading open source enterprise development company, KNOWARTH Technologies, where he is engaged in various enterprise projects.Jaydip, a full-stack developer, has proven his versatility by adopting technologies such as Liferay, Java, Spring, Struts, Hadoop, MySQL, Elasticsearch, Cassandra, MongoDB, Jenkins, SCM, PostgreSQL, and many more.He has been recognized with awards such as Merit, Commitment to Service, and also as a Star Performer. He loves mentoring people and has been delivering training for Portals and J2EE frameworks.Chintan Mehta is the co-founder at KNOWARTH Technologies and heads Cloud/RIMS/DevOps. He has rich progressive experience in Systems and Server Administration of Linux, AWS Cloud, DevOps, RIMS, and Server Administration on Open Source Technologies. He is also an AWS Certified Solutions Architect-Associate.Chintan's vital role during his career in Infrastructure and Operations has also included Requirement Analysis, Architecture design, Security design, High-availability and Disaster recovery planning, Automated monitoring, Automated deployment, Build processes to help customers, performance tuning, infrastructure setup and deployment, and application setup and deployment. He has also been responsible for setting up various offices at different locations, with fantastic sole ownership to achieve Operation Readiness for the organizations he had been associated with.He headed Managed Cloud Services practices with his previous employer and received multiple awards in recognition of very valuable contributions made to the business of the group. He also led the ISO 27001:2005 implementation team as a joint management representative. Chintan has authored Hadoop Backup and Recovery Solutions and reviewed Liferay Portal Performance Best Practices and Building Serverless Web Applications.He has a Diploma in Computer Hardware and Network from a reputed institute in India.Kandarp Patel leads PHP practices at KNOWARTH Technologies. He has vast experience in providing end-to-end solutions in CMS, LMS, WCM, and e-commerce, along with various integrations for enterprise customers. He has over 9 years of rich experience in providing solutions in MySQL, MongoDB, and PHP-based frameworks. Kandarp is also a certified MongoDB and Magento developer.Kandarp has experience in various Enterprise Application development phases of the Software Development Life Cycle and has played prominent role in requirement gathering, architecture design, database design, application development, performance tuning, and CD/CI.Kandarp has a Bachelor of Engineering in Information Technology from a reputed university in India.

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