About the Reviewers

Doug Ortiz is an Independent Consultant who has been architecting, developing, and integrating enterprise solutions throughout his whole career. Organizations that leverage his skillset have been able to rediscover and reuse their underutilized data via existing and emerging technologies, such as Microsoft BI Stack, Hadoop, NoSQL databases, SharePoint, Hadoop, and related toolsets and technologies.

He is the founder of Illustris, LLC, and can be reached at dougortiz@illustris.org.

Interesting aspects of his profession are listed here:

• Has experience integrating multiple platforms and products
• Helps organizations gain a deeper understanding and value of their current investments in data and existing resources, turning them into useful sources of information
• Has improved, salvaged, and architected projects by utilizing unique and innovative techniques

His hobbies include yoga and scuba Ping.

Miroslav Kopecky has been a passionate JVM enthusiast since the first moment he joined SUN Microsystems in 2002. He truly believes in distributed system design, concurrency and parallel computing. One of Miro’s most favorite hobbies is the development of autonomic systems. He is one of the co-authors and main contributors to the open source Java IoT/Robotics framework Robo4J.
Miro is currently working on the online energy trading platform for enmacc.de as a senior software developer.

I would like to thank my family and my wife Tanja for the big support during reviewing this book.