About the Authors

Burr Sutter (@burrsutter) is a lifelong developer advocate, community organizer, technology evangelist, and featured speaker at technology events around the globe—from Bangalore to Brussels and Berlin to Beijing (and most parts in between). He is currently Red Hat’s Director of Developer Experience. A Java Champion since 2005 and former president of the Atlanta Java User Group, Burr founded the DevNexus conference, now the second-largest Java event in the United States. When spending time away from the computer, he enjoys going off-grid in the jungles of Mexico and the bush of Kenya. You can find Burr online at burrsutter.com.

Christian Posta (@christianposta) is Field CTO at solo.io and well known in the community for being an author (Istio in Action, Manning; Microservices for Java Developers, O’Reilly), frequent blogger, speaker, open-source enthusiast, and committer on various open source projects including Istio and Kubernetes. Christian has spent time at web-scale companies and now helps companies create and deploy large-scale, resilient, distributed architectures—much of it what we now call serverless and microservices. He enjoys mentoring, training, and leading teams to be successful with distributed systems concepts, microservices, devops, and cloud native application design.