Average time to read: 3 minutes

First and foremost, we would again like to sayย THANK YOU!ย Thank you, to everyoneย whoย contributed, bought a copy, helped spread the word, or otherwise. Itโ€™s been quite a roller-coaster, and to say we enjoyed every moment of it would be an understatement.

โ€œIf You Want To Go Fast, Go Alone. If You Want To Go Far, Go Togetherโ€

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This quote reminds us of the unexpected success of this first book release. The force of the community is strong. As it stands today, weโ€™ve sold just short of 700 physical copies to countries all over the world. With another 200 copies that were distributed in other ways, by sponsors, IT companies, giveaways and such…  

One Laptop Per Child 

Just recently we received our first payment from Amazon KDP, meaning we will be making our first donation to One Laptop Per Child not too long from now.  

Their mission statement, as per their website: 

โ€œTo create educational opportunities for the worldโ€™s poorest children by providing each child with a rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop with content and software designed for collaborative, joyful, self-empowered learning.โ€

When children have access to this type of tools they get engaged in their own education. They learn, share, create, and collaborate. They become connected to each other, to the world and to a brighter future. 

More information can be found on their website: www.laptop.org/en 

Please, donate extra!  

Unfortunately, we need to pay income taxes over the money we collect. However, we will personally chip in as well, partly compensating our tax โ€œlossesโ€. Anyway, since our book is now publicly available, free for everyone to download we donโ€™t expect to sell a lot of physical copies from now on. Thatโ€™s why weโ€™ve included a PayPal donate button – see below. This way, anyone who already owns a physical copy might consider donating a little extra. 

Or…  

If you donโ€™t own a paperback version (it’s still possible to order a physical copy, here), please consider donating when you decide to download a virtual copy to show your support. Just remember, it’s not for us, all the money goes to charity. Every penny helps.  

Go grab it here, NOW! 

Enough talk, without further ado, and as promised, here it is… our Byte-Sized book free of charge. From the Community, for the Community… Click image to see the back-cover – opens in a separate tab.

Why this book? Throughout the year we spend a great deal of time studying, testing, fixing (and breaking) stuff, helping customers, colleagues, attending conferences, webinars, and so on. It would be a waste to keep it all to ourselves, right?

After a period of 3 months, we received a total number of 152 submissions from all over the globe (20 countries), which we think is truly awesome. All together 140 people contributed.

Byte-Sized is our (small) way of giving back, in the form of Cloud related design principles, architectural recommendations, tips, tricks, best and/or common practices, quotes, you name it.

Hopefully, everyone who picked up a copy will take something useful away from it in their journey to the Cloud. Bas & Christiaan.

For the best viewing experience set Acrobat reader to a “Two page view”. This is done via “View” -> “Page Display” -> “Two Page View”.

Whatโ€™s next? 

Well, we donโ€™t want to spoil anything yet, but donโ€™t worry because this project is far from over! We just met up a few weeks ago and future plans are already in the making.  

In fact, we have an upcoming meeting planned where we will discuss the details of our next endeavour. Of course, it wouldnโ€™t be a Byte-Sized project if the community, meaning YOU, wasnโ€™t involved.  

We canโ€™t wait to get started, expect to hear more soon.

In the meantime, keep an eye on our personal Twitter accounts, @Brinkhoff_C and @BasvanKaam or the following ByteSized websites/socials below, youโ€™ll hear and read it there first. 

For now, happy reading and weโ€™ll meet soon, hopefully, somewhere… 

Again, thank you very much, 

Bas and Christiaan.  

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Bas van Kaam
Bas van Kaam
Field CTO EMEA by day, author by night @ Nerdio
Father of three, EMEA Field CTO @ Nerdio, Author of the book Van de Basis tot aan Meester in de Cloud, Co-author of the book Project Byte-Sized and Yuthor of the book: Inside Citrix โ€“ The FlexCast Management Architecture, over 500 blog posts and multiple (ultimate) cheat sheets/e-books. Public speaker, sport enthusiastยญยญยญยญยญยญยญยญ: above-average runner, 3 x burpee-mile finisher and a former semiprofessional snooker player. IT community participant and initiator of the AVD User group Community world wide.
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