Vikram Vaswani is the author of seven books on software and database programming, published by The McGraw-Hill Companies and Pearson Education and translated into more than ten languages. He is an active participant in the open source software community and has contributed more than 250 tutorials on open source programming for publications such as Zend Developer Zone, IBM developerWorks, and Developer.com. Currently, he works with Dagger as a Developer Advocate, helping devs and ops teams eliminate “push and pray” from their day.