Mitesh Soni is an avid learner with 10 years' experience in the IT industry. He is an SCJP, SCWCD, VCP, IBM Urbancode, and IBM Bluemix certified professional. He loves DevOps and cloud computing and he also has an interest in programming in Java. He finds design patterns fascinating. He believes "a picture is worth a thousand words."

He occasionally contributes to etutorialsworld.com. He loves to play with kids, fiddle with his camera, and take photographs at Indroda Park. He is addicted to taking pictures without knowing many technical details. He lives in the capital of Mahatma Gandhi's home state.

Mitesh has authored the following books with Packt:

"I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."-Michael Jordan.

I've always thanked a lot of people who have been instrumental in contributing to my life's journey up to now, but I guess it's time to really acknowledge that One person who has been with me as long as I can remember.

With this book, I would like to thank the one and only invisible yet omnipresent Almighty. We share a mutual love and hate relationship and I really value it. You were always there equally during my good and bad times and without you, I wouldn't have made it this far!

Last but not the least, I want to thank all who taught me how to love myself, first!