Acknowledgments
Where do I start? Chapter 7, the one first written (c. 1999), of this multivolume book was the result of many late nights spent after work at Bear Stearns collaborating with Shawn Edwards, an awesome technologist (and dear friend). In December of 2001, I joined Bloomberg, and Shawn joined me there shortly thereafter; we have worked together closely ever since. Shawn assumed the role of CTO at Bloomberg LP in 2010.
After becoming hopelessly blocked trying to explain low-level technical details in Chapter 1 (c. 2002), I turned to another awesome technologist (and dear friend), Sumit Kumar, who actively coached me through it and even rewrote parts of it himself. Sumit — who might be the best programmer I’ve ever met — continues ...
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