ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Writing a book is a collaborative task involving many people without whom the finished book wouldn’t be impossible. We’d like to thank our peer reviewers for taking the time to give detailed feedback on the book: Charles T. Betz, Jeremy Brown, Joanne Molesky, Nick Tune, and Ruth Malan. We also want to thank the authors and originators of our case studies and industry examples: Albert Bertilsson, Anders Ivarsson, Andy Humphrey, Andy Rubio, Damien Daly, Dave Hotchkiss, Dave Whyte, Eric Minick, Fernando Cornago, Gustaf Nilsson Kotte, Henrik Kniberg, Ian Watson, Markus Rautert, Michael Lambert, Michael Maibaum, Miguel Antunes, Paul Ingles, Pulak Agrawal, Robin Weston, Stephanie Sheehan, and Wolfgang John.

We’d like to thank everyone who contributed to the original DevOps Topologies patterns, especially James Betteley, Jamie Buchanan, John Clapham, Kevin Hinde, and Matt Franz. A special thanks goes to John Cutler for a passionate outsider’s view of the Team Topologies approach, and to Gareth Rushgrove for helping to expand the audience for the original DevOps Topologies patterns. We also want to thank our colleague Jovile Bartkeviciute at Conflux for her tireless research.

The team at IT Revolution Press has been amazing, especially Anna Noak, Lean Brown, and the other editors and designers—we’ve really valued their advice, support, and infectious enthusiasm. We’re grateful to Gene Kim for inviting us to speak at DevOps Enterprise Summit in London in 2017, which helped us to realize the value of the emerging Team Topologies ideas.

Finally, we’d like to thank the people whose ideas, talks, and writing inspired us to become interested in the fascinating relationship between teams and software in the first place, and helped to make this book a reality: Allan Kelly, Andy Longshaw, Charles T. Betz, Donella Meadows, James Lewis, Gene Kim, Mel Conway, Mirco Hering, Rachel Laycock, Ruth Malan, and Randy Shoup.