Preface

Looking back, I still can’t believe that I did it.

When I started to contribute to Netty in late 2011, I would never have imagined that I’d be writing a book about Netty and be one of the core developers of the Framework itself.

It all started when I got involved in 2009 with the Apache James project, a Java-based mail server developed under the Apache Software Foundation.

Apache James, like many applications, required a solid networking abstraction to build upon. While investigating the field of projects that provide networking abstractions, I stumbled upon Netty and immediately fell in love with it. As I became more familiar with Netty from a user’s perspective, I started to turn my gaze on improvements and giving back to the community. ...

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