Acknowledgments

I have been fortunate to work again with professionals from Waterside Productions, Wiley, and Google to create this study guide.

Carole Jelen, vice president of Waterside Productions, and Jim Minatel, associate publisher at John Wiley & Sons, led the effort to continue to create Google Cloud certification guides. It was a pleasure to work with Gary Schwartz, project editor, who managed the process that got us from an outline to a finished manuscript. Thanks to Katie Wisor, production manager, for making the last stages of book development go as smoothly as they did.

I am especially grateful for Valerie Parham-Thompson’s expertise in Google Cloud. In addition to catching my subtle and not-so-subtle errors, I learned some nuances of GCP that I was not aware of.

I appreciate the close reading by the technical reviewer, Stacy Veronneau, who agreed to continue working with our team after having been a reviewer of the Official Google Cloud Certified Associate Cloud Engineer Study Guide.

Thank you to Google Cloud subject-matter experts Jasen Baker, Marco Ferarri, Rich Rose, Grace Mollison, Samar Bhat, Josh Koh, Kuntal Mitra, Michael Arciola, Lisa Guinn, Eoin Carrol, Tony DiLerto, Volker Eyrich, and Teresa Hardy, who reviewed and contributed to the material in this book.

My sons James and Nicholas, both technology writers themselves, were my first readers and helped me get the manuscript across the finish line. Katherine, my wife and partner in so many ventures, supported this work while fostering her increasingly impactful projects in literary publishing.

—Dan Sullivan