Manuel is a passionate software engineer, author, speaker, consultant and community leader. Since 2008, he has guided and trained enterprise teams on the transformation to distributed computing, focused primarily on production systems built with Scala, Akka, and Play Framework. When he isn't writing books on computing from his home in Vienna, you can find Manuel at various conferences and meet ups around the globe, where he will be happy to discuss his experiences over a good cup of coffee or a glass of Pinot Noir. You can find out more up-to-date information at https://manuel.bernhardt.io