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xml:id="arch-guide-why-and-who-we-wrote-this-book">
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<title>Why and how we wrote this book</title>
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<para>We wrote this book to guide you through designing an OpenStack cloud
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architecture. This guide identifies design considerations
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for common cloud use cases and provides examples.</para>
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<para>The Architecture Design Guide was written in a book sprint format,
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which is a facilitated, rapid development production method for books.
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The Book Sprint was facilitated by Faith Bosworth and Adam
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Hyde of Book Sprints, for more information, see the Book Sprints website
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(www.booksprints.net).</para>
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<para>This book was written in five days during July 2014 while
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exhausting the M&M, Mountain Dew and healthy options
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supply, complete with juggling entertainment during lunches at
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VMware's headquarters in Palo Alto.</para>
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<para>We would like to thank VMware for their generous
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hospitality, as well as our employers, Cisco, Cloudscaling,
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Comcast, EMC, Mirantis, Rackspace, Red Hat, Verizon, and
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VMware, for enabling us to contribute our time. We would
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especially like to thank Anne Gentle and Kenneth Hui for all
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of their shepherding and organization in making this
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happen.</para>
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<para>The author team includes:</para>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>Kenneth Hui (EMC)
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<link xlink:href="http://twitter.com/hui_kenneth"
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>@hui_kenneth</link></para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Alexandra Settle (Rackspace)
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<link xlink:href="http://twitter.com/dewsday"
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>@dewsday</link></para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Anthony Veiga (Comcast)
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<link xlink:href="http://twitter.com/daaelar"
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>@daaelar</link></para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Beth Cohen (Verizon)
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<link xlink:href="http://twitter.com/bfcohen"
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>@bfcohen</link></para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Kevin Jackson (Rackspace)
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<link xlink:href="http://twitter.com/itarchitectkev"
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>@itarchitectkev</link></para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Maish Saidel-Keesing (Cisco)
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<link xlink:href="http://twitter.com/maishsk"
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>@maishsk</link></para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Nick Chase (Mirantis)
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<link xlink:href="http://twitter.com/NickChase"
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>@NickChase</link></para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Scott Lowe (VMware)
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<link xlink:href="http://twitter.com/scott_lowe"
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>@scott_lowe</link></para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Sean Collins (Comcast)
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<link xlink:href="http://twitter.com/sc68cal"
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>@sc68cal</link></para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Sean Winn (Cloudscaling)
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<link xlink:href="http://twitter.com/seanmwinn"
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>@seanmwinn</link></para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Sebastian Gutierrez (Red Hat)
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<link xlink:href="http://twitter.com/gutseb"
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>@gutseb</link></para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Stephen Gordon (Red Hat)
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<link xlink:href="http://twitter.com/xsgordon"
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>@xsgordon</link></para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Vinny Valdez (Red Hat)
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<link xlink:href="http://twitter.com/VinnyValdez"
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>@VinnyValdez</link></para>
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</listitem>
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</section>
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