If you’re reading this, it’s because you heard about Storm somehow, and you’re interested in better understanding what it does, how you can use it to solve various problems, and how it works.
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Acknowledgements
First and foremost, we would like to thank Nathan Marz who created Storm. His effort working on this opensource project is really admirable. We also would like to thank Dirk McCormick for his valuable guidance, advice and corrections. Without his precious time spent on this book we wouldn't have been able to finish it.
Additionally we would like to thank Carlos Alvarez for his awesome observations and suggestions while reviewing the book.
Besides, we would like to thank Shawn Wallace from O'Reilly for guiding us through the writing and reviewing process and providing us with a good environment and facilities to complete the project.
Also, we would like to take this opportunity to thank MercadoLibre for giving us the time to play with Storm in real world applications. It gave us an opportunity to learn a lot about Storm.
Finally, an honorable mention goes to our families and friends for their understanding and support for us in completing this project. Without the help of the people mentioned above, we would never have got there.