Acknowledgements & Technologies

Acknowledgements & Technologies

I want to acknowledge the incredible open-source tools, platforms, and AI assistants that power my book's architecture:

• Frontend: Angular, ng-packagr, Prettier, ESLint, Native Browser APIs, Firebase, Vitest, AnalogJS
• Design system & typography: THEME.md (Viking-UI premium palette v2); Inter (body/UI), Orbitron and Michroma (CES instrumentation and marketing display)
• UI patterns (inspiration for Viking-UI): Flux UI (composable component APIs), Spartan (headless accessibility patterns) — re-implemented natively in @dataengineeringformachinelearning/viking-ui without third-party UI runtime dependencies
• Backend & APIs: Django (Django Ninja, Django Channels), Daphne, Gunicorn, NGINX, cryptography, liboqs (PQC)
• Data & Broker: PostgreSQL, Redpanda (internal event bus), Dragonfly, Polars
• Official Integrations: Kubernetes, TensorFlow, PyTorch, Apache Spark, Databricks, AWS Redshift — see docs/integrations/
• Machine Learning & AI: PyTorch, Scikit-learn, Skops, Hugging Face, Google Gemini, Antigravity AI Agent (Google)
• Observability, Security & CMS: Sentry, OpenTelemetry, ClickHouse, Semgrep, Renovate, FOSSA, Checkov, Trivy, Socket.dev, Gitleaks, detect-secrets, Mend, OSV-Scanner, Wappalyzer, Sanity.io, AbuseIPDB, ipify, IPinfo, Google Analytics, Microsoft Clarity, Cloudflare Web Analytics, Resend, Dependency-Track, Tor, Have I Been Pwned, crt.sh, Ahmia
• DevOps, Infrastructure & Tooling: Docker, Distroless, Cloud Run, Google Cloud, Infisical, pre-commit, uv, Ruff, Django Migration Linter
• Billing & Payments: Stripe
• Organizations & Standards: NIST, The Python Software Foundation, The Angular Team
• IDEs & AI Coding Assistants (used to author and maintain this codebase):
  • Visual Studio Code + Cline — Grok Code Fast 1 (xAI)
  • Windsurf — Grok Code Fast 1 (xAI)
  • Google Antigravity — Gemini 3.1 Pro, Gemini 3.5 Flash, Claude Opus, Claude Sonnet
  • Grok Build (Beta)
  • Cursor — Grok 4.3, Grok Build 0.1 (xAI)

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