Martin is a researcher in distributed systems at the University of Cambridge. Previously he was a software engineer and entrepreneur at Internet companies including LinkedIn and Rapportive, where he worked on large-scale data infrastructure. In the process he learned a few things the hard way and he hopes this book will save you from repeating the same mistakes.

Martin is a regular conference speaker, blogger and open source contributor. He believes that profound technical ideas should be accessible to everyone and that deeper understanding will help us develop better software.