About the author

Brian L. Troutwine is a software engineer with an interest in low-latency and high-scale software. He has worked at Rackspace Hosting, AdRoll, and Postmates. As his first book publishes, he will be starting at Unity Technologies.

He has delivered the following talks:

• The Charming Genius of the Apollo Guidance Computer
• Getting Uphill on a Candle: Crushed Spines, Detached Retinas, and One Small Step
• 10 Billion a Day, 100 Milliseconds Per: Monitoring Real-Time Bidding at AdRoll
• Fetching Moths from the Works: Correctness Methods in Software
• Build Good Software: Of Politics and Method

I'd like to thank Tom Santero for reading early drafts of this book. I'd like also to thank Miriam Pena, Sonny Scroggin, Irina Guberman, and Brian Mitchell for talking through what the book was and helping me find, thereby, what it could be. Special thanks to Chris Markiewicz for being an excellent roommate in high school.