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Denis Zuev is a worldwide IT expert with 15+ yrs of experience. Some people in the industry think that he is not a human, and not without a reason. His areas of expertise are Networks, Servers, Storage, Cloud, Containers, DevOps, SDN/NFV, Automation, Programming, and WebDev, you name it. Denis is also known for his certification achievements. At the very moment, he holds following industry expert level certifications: RHCI, RHCA.VI, 6xCCIE, 4xJNCIE, CCDE, HCIE, VCIX-NV. Denis is a contractor and an instructor who works with top tech companies like Cisco, Juniper, Red Hat, ATT, etc.

Artemii Kropachev is a worldwide IT expert and international consultant with more than 15 years of experience. He has trained, guided and consulted hundreds of architects, engineer, developers, and IT experts around the world since 2001. Artemii’s architect-level experience covers Solutions development, Data Centers, Clouds, DevOps and automation, Middleware and SDN/NFV solutions built on top of any Red Hat or Open Source technologies. I also possess one of the highest Red Hat Certification level in the world - Red Hat Certified Architect in Infrastructure Level XX. Artemii’s life principles can be defined as “never stop learning” and “never stop knowledge sharing”. Artemii would love to share some of his experience and knowledge via this book.

Aleksandr Varlamov is an IT expert that stood at the origins of many public cloud platforms, high-load platforms, and challenging solutions. He is the mentor and lead of powerful and talented engineers, designed and implemented large-scale country-level projects, lead them to success. Aleksandr is the co-founder of technology solutions and start-ups. Evangelist of the most exciting technological solutions, author of a Russian translation of Nutanix Bible. His expertise covers Enterprise level architecture, Data Centers design, Public and Private Clouds, IaaS/PaaS/SaaS services. He appreciates and enjoys solving complex issues and challenges. Aleksandr says - every architecture solution should be stable, simple, and powerful.