Acknowledgments

First and foremost, I would like to sincerely thank Vineet Tyagi, AVP and head of Innovation Labs at Impetus. Vineet has been instrumental and enabled me to take up book writing. He has been kind enough to give me three hours of official time over six to seven months—this has been crucial in helping me write the book. Any such scholarly activity needs consistent, dedicated time—it would have been doubly hard if I had to write the book in addition to my day job. Vineet just made it so that at least a portion of book writing is part of my job!

I would also like to express my gratitude to Pankaj Mittal, CTO and SVP, Impetus, for extending his whole-hearted support for research and development (R&D) and enabling folks like me to work ...

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