About the author

Eric Salituro is currently a senior software engineer with the enterprise data and analytics platform team at Zendesk. He has an IT career that spans more than 30 years, over 20 of which were spent in the motion picture industry working as a pipeline technical director and software developer for innovative and creative studios such as DreamWorks, Digital Domain, and Pixar. Before moving to Zendesk, he worked at Pixar, helping to manage and maintain their production render farm as a senior software developer. Among his accomplishments is the development of a Python API toolkit for Grafana aimed at streamlining the creation of rendering metrics dashboards.

About the reviewers

Šimon Podlipský is a software development engineer with a master's degree in management and software quality management from the University of Economics in Prague. His passion is contributing to open source software, including Grafana. He also maintains and develops the Grafana JSON data source, which you can try out yourself after finishing the book.

Hugh O'Brien is a 15-year veteran of cloud infrastructure and performance monitoring. He is Head of Infrastructure at Thrive Global and has previously worked at Zendesk, Jet.com and Intel. His presentation at Kafka Summit 2018 "ZFS: Better Living Through Filesystems" (viewable online) is basically just a sequence of Grafana screenshots. He has, for no discernible reason, used Grafana/Prometheus to instrument his home router (Wi-Fi RSSI as radar), android phone (XYZ accelerometery for activity detection), and soon his car’s CAN bus (emissions, maybe?). He holds a degree in Computer Engineering from his hometown of Limerick, Ireland, and is the only living person who knows the origins of the 2.4GHz ISM band.

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