I was honored to be approached last year by editors Amy Brown and Greg Wilson to write a chapter on Twisted for The Architecture of Open Source Applications Volume II: Structure, Scale, and a Few More Fearless Hacks. This was my first-ever contribution to a book, and a great introduction to the writing, review, and editing cycles for a technical book.

The book was released as a paperback on May 8th and is now available in a number of formats. Other chapters include: Firefox release engineering, GDB, Git, Matplotlib, Mediawiki, Puppet, and PyPy.

As with Volume I, the material is under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license, and all royalties are donated to Amnesty International.

Ways to enjoy the book:

• By chapter, for free online
• As a paperback, epub, or PDF from Lulu
• As a paperback from Amazon (but don’t buy through them, since Amnesty gets way less money for the same price to you), or for the Kindle

Thank you Glyph and JP for letting me pick their brains for hours while researching my chapter, and to Glyph and Adam for their reviews of the numerous drafts.