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Acknowledgments
The opportunity to write books for O’Reilly is a tremendous honor, and I owe a debt
of gratitude to Simon St. Laurent for seeing the potential in me, and bringing me on
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ment. While everyone’s feedback was incredibly helpful, I want to give special recog‐
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