en-US Mon, 14 Apr 2025 11:48:47 -0700 60 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg 21940560 Best-known for his seminal sf novel Neuromancer, William Gibson is actually best when writing short fiction. Tautly-written and suspenseful, Burning Chrome collects 10 of his best short stories with a preface from Bruce Sterling, now available for the first time in trade paperback. These brilliant, high-resolution stories show Gibson's characters and intensely-realized worlds at his absolute best, from the chip-enhanced couriers of "Johnny Mnemonic" to the street-tech melancholy of "Burning Chrome."

]]> 223 William Gibson Sean 4 2019-to-read 4.25 1986
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]]> 39030 464 Douglas Preston 0765354950 Sean 2 4.03 1997
author: Douglas Preston
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]]> 17262194
As storyteller and chef, Lidia Bastianich draws on anecdotes to educate and illustrate. Recalling lessons learned from her mother, Erminia, and her grandmother Nonna Rosa, Lidia pays homage to the kitchen sages who inspired her.

Whether it's Citrus Roasted Veal or Rustic Ricotta Tart, each recipe is a tangible feast. We learn to look at ingredients as both geographic and cultural indicators. In Campania, the region where mozzarella is king, we discover it best eaten three hours after preparation. In Genova we are taught that while focaccia had its basil origins in the Ligurain culinary tradition, the herbs and flavorings will change from region to region; as home chefs, we can experiment with rosemary or oregano or olives or onions! When it's time for dessert, Lidia draws on the scared customs of nuns in Italian monasteries and convents and reveals the secret to rice pudding with a blessing.

Lidia's Commonsense Guide to Italian Cooking is a masterclass in creating delectable Italian dishes with grace, confidence and love.]]> 304 Lidia Matticchio Bastianich 0385349440 Sean 2 cookbooks, cooking 4.16 1970
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average rating: 4.16
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]]> 17912829 458 Sam Ruby 1937785564 Sean 3 3.95 2005
author: Sam Ruby
name: Sean
average rating: 3.95
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rating: 3
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]]> 18943470 You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll s#*t yourself! Back by popular demand, the mind-blowing follow-up to the bestselling 1,001 Facts That Will Scare the S#*t Out of You. An all-new collection of entertaining and horrifying truths about us, our world, and why we’re totally screwed. With more disturbing facts and fun new topics, including weird celebrities, boobs, the internet, clowns, serial killers, sexual fetishes, bacon, Elvis, things that will eat you, and more. From stupid dead people to halitosis caused by constipation to a singer whose music can get you killed in some Jamaican neighborhoods, it’s all here—everything you need to know about the scary s#*t that surrounds all of us. Men are four times as likely as women to be struck by lightning. McDonald’s McRib sandwich contains some of the same ingredients used to manufacture gym mats and running shoes. Möbius syndrome is a rare neurological disorder that renders victims unable to move their faces. You can get an STD from a bikini wax.]]> 304 Cary McNeal 1101611391 Sean 2 3.47 2012
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name: Sean
average rating: 3.47
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]]> 54479 252 Jules Verne 014044906X Sean 3 3.95 1872
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]]> 330110 240 Edgar Rice Burroughs 0809599848 Sean 3 3.75 1914
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]]> 867462
Using this work to push his realist approach to physics in defiance of much of quantum mechanics, Einstein's The Evolution of Physics was published to great popularity and was featured in a Time magazine cover story. A classic work for any student of physics or lover of Albert Einstein, The Evolution of Physics can be enjoyed by any and should be celebrated by all.]]> 330 Albert Einstein 0671201565 Sean 0 to-read 4.28
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In our deluge of information, it's getting harder and harder to distinguish the revelatory from the contradictory. How do we make health decisions in the face of conflicting medical advice? Does that article on GMOs even show what the authors claim? How can we navigate the next Thanksgiving discussion with our in-laws, who follow completely different experts on climate?
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In Third Millennium Thinking , a physicist, a psychologist, and a philosopher introduce readers to the tools and frameworks that scientists have developed to keep from fooling themselves, to understand the world, and to make decisions. We can all borrow these trust-building techniques to tackle problems both big and small.
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Readers will Ěý
Using provocative thought exercises, jargon-free language, and vivid illustrations drawn from history, daily life, and scientists� insider stories, Third Millennium Thinking offers a novel approach for readers to make sense of the nonsense.]]> 320 Saul Perlmutter 0316438103 Sean 0 to-read 3.63
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No one can make the mysteries of the universe more comprehensible and fun than Neil deGrasse Tyson. Drawing on mythology, history, and literature—alongside his trademark wit and charm—Tyson and StarTalk senior producer Lindsey Nyx Walker bring planetary science down to Earth and principles of astrophysics within reach. In this entertaining book, illustrated with vivid photographs and art, readers travel with him through space and time, starting with the Big Bang and voyaging to the far reaches of the universe and beyond. Along the way, science greets pop culture as Tyson explains the triumphs—and bloopers—in Hollywood’s all part of an entertaining ride through the cosmos.

The book begins as we leave Earth, encountering new truths about our planet’s atmosphere, the nature of sunlight, and the many missions that have demystified our galactic neighbors. But the farther out we travel, the weirder things get. What’s a void and what’s a vacuum? How can light be a wave and a particle at the same time? When we finally arrive in the blackness of outer space, Tyson takes on the spookiest phenomena of the parallel worlds, black holes, time travel, and more.

For science junkies and fans of the conundrums that astrophysicists often ponder, To Infinity and Beyond is an enlightening adventure into the farthest reaches of the cosmos.]]> 319 Neil deGrasse Tyson 1426223307 Sean 0 to-read 4.26 2023
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]]> 51456627 The second edition of a comprehensive introduction to machine learning approaches used in predictive data analytics, covering both theory and practice.Machine learning is often used to build predictive models by extracting patterns from large datasets. These models are used in predictive data analytics applications including price prediction, risk assessment, predicting customer behavior, and document classification. This introductory textbook offers a detailed and focused treatment of the most important machine learning approaches used in predictive data analytics, covering both theoretical concepts and practical applications. Technical and mathematical material is augmented with explanatory worked examples, and case studies illustrate the application of these models in the broader business context. This second edition covers recent developments in machine learning, especially in a new chapter on deep learning, and two new chapters that go beyond predictive analytics to cover unsupervised learning and reinforcement learning.

The book is accessible, offering nontechnical explanations of the ideas underpinning each approach before introducing mathematical models and algorithms. It is focused and deep, providing students with detailed knowledge on core concepts, giving them a solid basis for exploring the field on their own. Both early chapters and later case studies illustrate how the process of learning predictive models fits into the broader business context. The two case studies describe specific data analytics projects through each phase of development, from formulating the business problem to implementation of the analytics solution. The book can be used as a textbook at the introductory level or as a reference for professionals.
]]> 856 John D. Kelleher 0262044692 Sean 0 to-read 5.00 2015
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]]> 173495434
In Areté, Brian Johnson integrates ancient wisdom, modern science, and practical tools to, as per the subtitle of the book, help you win the ultimate game of life and fulfill your destiny.

Phil Stutz, MD, the author of The Tools, who was featured in the Netflix documentary called Stutz, wrote the foreword to the book.

He says: “What Brian has developed is much more than a bunch of coping mechanisms for the over-stressed modern person; although that would be an improvement for most of us. He’s developed a training program for the soul.

Commit to this training and you will gain the ability to transmute your biggest problems, your darkest days, into unstoppable courage, endless enthusiasm, and an unshakable faith in the future.

This book will change your life. And, if enough of us commit, it will change the world.]]> 1068 Brian Johnson Sean 0 to-read 4.64 2023
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]]> 50083115
With this practical guide, Harry Percival and Bob Gregory from MADE.com introduce proven architectural design patterns to help Python developers manage application complexity. Each pattern is illustrated with concrete examples in idiomatic Python that explain how to avoid some of the unnecessary verbosity of Java and C# syntax. You'll learn how to implement each of these patterns in a Pythonic way.

Architectural design patterns include:


Dependency inversion, and its links to ports and adapters (hexagonal/clean architecture)
Domain-driven design's distinction between entities, value objects, and aggregates
Repository and Unit of Work patterns for persistent storage
Events, commands, and the message bus
Command Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS)
Event-driven architecture and reactive microservices]]> 280 Harry Percival 1492052205 Sean 5 python, comp-sci 4.41
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]]> 28260527
This beautifully illustrated, wide-ranging book provides entertaining and eye-opening insight into the story of our world, mankind's place in nature, and our pivotal relationship with the Earth itself: past, present, and future.]]> 416 Christopher Lloyd 1408876388 Sean 0 to-read 4.17 2009
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]]> 18770061 Arthur Herman has now written the definitive sequel to his New York Times bestseller, How the Scots Invented the Modern World, and extends the themes of the book—which sold half a million copies worldwide—back to the ancient Greeks and forward to the age of the Internet. The Cave and the Light is a magisterial account of how the two greatest thinkers of the ancient world, Plato and Aristotle, laid the foundations of Western culture—and how their rivalry shaped the essential features of our culture down to the present day.
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Plato came from a wealthy, connected Athenian family and lived a comfortable upper-class lifestyle until he met an odd little man named Socrates, who showed him a new world of ideas and ideals. Socrates taught Plato that a man must use reason to attain wisdom, and that the life of a lover of wisdom, a philosopher, was the pinnacle of achievement. Plato dedicated himself to living that ideal and went on to create a school, his famed Academy, to teach others the path to enlightenment through contemplation.
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However, the same Academy that spread Plato’s teachings also fostered his greatest rival. Born to a family of Greek physicians, Aristotle had learned early on the value of observation and hands-on experience. Rather than rely on pure contemplation, he insisted that the truest path to knowledge is through empirical discovery and exploration of the world around us. Aristotle, Plato’s most brilliant pupil, thus settled on a philosophy very different from his instructor’s and launched a rivalry with profound effects on Western culture.
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The two men disagreed on the fundamental purpose of the philosophy. For Plato, the image of the cave summed up man’s destined path, emerging from the darkness of material existence to the light of a higher and more spiritual truth. Aristotle thought otherwise. Instead of rising above mundane reality, he insisted, the philosopher’s job is to explain how the real world works, and how we can find our place in it. Aristotle set up a school in Athens to rival Plato’s Academy: the Lyceum. The competition that ensued between the two schools, and between Plato and Aristotle, set the world on an intellectual adventure that lasted through the Middle Ages and Renaissance and that still continues today.
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From Martin Luther (who named Aristotle the third great enemy of true religion, after the devil and the Pope) to Karl Marx (whose utopian views rival Plato’s), heroes and villains of history have been inspired and incensed by these two master philosophers—but never outside their influence.
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Accessible, riveting, and eloquently written, The Cave and the Light provides a stunning new perspective on the Western world, certain to open eyes and stir debate.

Praise for The Cave and the Light
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“A sweeping intellectual history viewed through two ancient Greek lenses . . . breezy and enthusiastic but resting on a sturdy rock of research.��Kirkus Reviews
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“Examining mathematics, politics, theology, and architecture, the book demonstrates the continuing relevance of the ancient world.��Publishers Weekly
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“A fabulous way to understand over two millennia of history, all in one book.��Library Journal
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“Entertaining and often illuminating.��The Wall Street Journal


From the Hardcover edition.]]> 676 Arthur Herman 0553385666 Sean 0 to-read 4.15 2013
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]]> 123245371 143 Stephen Wolfram 1579550827 Sean 0 to-read 3.88
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]]> 58721072 A Brief History of Timekeeping is a story not just about the science of sundials, sandglasses, and mechanical clocks, but also the politics of calendars and time zones, the philosophy of measurement, and the nature of space and time itself.]]> 324 Chad Orzel 1953295606 Sean 0 to-read 3.67 2022
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]]> 59525434 714 Steven F. Lott 1801077266 Sean 0 currently-reading 4.33
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]]> 55841848 375 Jon Bodner 1492077216 Sean 0 comp-sci, currently-reading 4.45
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]]> 310612
His mother thinks he needs to go to work. He does, in a succession of jobs. Each job rapidly escalates into a lunatic adventure, a full-blown disaster; yet each has, like Don Quixote's, its own eerie logic.

His girlfriend, Myrna Minkoff of the Bronx, thinks he needs sex.

Ignatius is an intellectual, ideologue, deadbeat, goof-off, glutton, who should repel the reader with his gargantuan bloats, his thunderous contempt, and one-man war against everybody: Freud, homosexuals, heterosexuals, Protestants, and the assorted excesses of modern times.

A tragicomedy, set in New Orleans.]]> 394 John Kennedy Toole 0802130208 Sean 0 currently-reading 3.89 1980
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]]> 60466196
Picture a computer scientist, staring at a screen and clicking away frantically on a keyboard, hacking into a system, or perhaps developing an app. Now delete that picture. In Once Upon an Algorithm , Martin Erwig explains computation as something that takes place beyond electronic computers, and computer science as the study of systematic problem solving. Erwig points out that many daily activities involve problem solving. Getting up in the morning, for You get up, take a shower, get dressed, eat breakfast. This simple daily routine solves a recurring problem through a series of well-defined steps. In computer science, such a routine is called an algorithm.
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Erwig illustrates a series of concepts in computing with examples from daily life and familiar stories. Hansel and Gretel, for example, execute an algorithm to get home from the forest. The movie Groundhog Day illustrates the problem of unsolvability; Sherlock Holmes manipulates data structures when solving a crime; the magic in Harry Potter’s world is understood through types and abstraction; and Indiana Jones demonstrates the complexity of searching. Along the way, Erwig also discusses representations and different ways to organize data; “intractable� problems; language, syntax, and ambiguity; control structures, loops, and the halting problem; different forms of recursion; and rules for finding errors in algorithms.
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This engaging book explains computation accessibly and shows its relevance to daily life. Something to think about next time we execute the algorithm of getting up in the morning.]]> 332 Martin Erwig 0262545292 Sean 0 to-read 4.33
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]]> 179133 Ralph Johnson, author of Design Patterns "If you don't think you are getting value from your investment in object-oriented programming, this book will tell you what you've forgotten to do. "Eric Evans convincingly argues for the importance of domain modeling as the central focus of development and provides a solid framework and set of techniques for accomplishing it. This is timeless wisdom, and will hold up long after the methodologies du jour have gone out of fashion." --Dave Collins, author of Designing Object-Oriented User Interfaces "Eric weaves real-world experience modeling--and building--business applications into a practical, useful book. Written from the perspective of a trusted practitioner, Eric's descriptions of ubiquitous language, the benefits of sharing models with users, object life-cycle management, logical and physical application structuring, and the process and results of deep refactoring are major contributions to our field." --Luke Hohmann, author of Beyond Software Architecture "This book belongs on the shelf of every thoughtful software developer." --Kent Beck "What Eric has managed to capture is a part of the design process that experienced object designers have always used, but that we have been singularly unsuccessful as a group in conveying to the rest of the industry. We've given away bits and pieces of this knowledge...but we've never organized and systematized the principles of building domain logic. This book is important." --Kyle Brown, author of Enterprise Java(TM) Programming with IBM(R) WebSphere(R) The software development community widely acknowledges that domain modeling is central to software design. Through domain models, software developers are able to express rich functionality and translate it into a software implementation that truly serves the needs of its users. But despite its obvious importance, there are few practical resources that explain how to incorporate effective domain modeling into the software development process. Domain-Driven Design fills that need. This is not a book about specific technologies. It offers readers a systematic approach to domain-driven design, presenting an extensive set of design best practices, experience-based techniques, and fundamental principles that facilitate the development of software projects facing complex domains. Intertwining design and development practice, this book incorporates numerous examples based on actual projects to illustrate the application of domain-driven design to real-world software development. Readers learn how to use a domain model to make a complex development effort more focused and dynamic. A core of best practices and standard patterns provides a common language for the development team. A shift in emphasis--refactoring not just the code but the model underlying the code--in combination with the frequent iterations of Agile development leads to deeper insight into domains and enhanced communication between domain expert and programmer. Domain-Driven Design then builds on this foundation, and addresses modeling and design for complex systems and larger organizations.Specific topics covered include:
Getting all team members to speak the same language Connecting model and implementation more deeply Sharpening key distinctions in a model Managing the lifecycle of a domain object Writing domain code that is safe to combine in elaborate ways Making complex code obvious and predictable Formulating a domain vision statement Distilling the core of a complex domain Digging out implicit concepts needed in the model Applying analysis patterns Relating design patterns to the model Maintaining model integrity in a large system Dealing with coexisting models on the same project Organizing systems with large-scale structures Recognizing and responding to modeling breakthroughs With this book in hand, object-oriented developers, system analysts, and designers will have the guidance they need to organize and focus their work, create rich and useful domain models, and leverage those models into quality, long-lasting software implementations.]]> 560 Eric Evans 0321125215 Sean 0 4.14 2003
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]]> 34921247
Kafka Streams in Action teaches you everything you need to know to implement stream processing on data flowing into your Kafka platform, allowing you to focus on getting more from your data without sacrificing time or effort.

Foreword by Neha Narkhede, Cocreator of Apache Kafka

Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.

About the Technology

Not all stream-based applications require a dedicated processing cluster. The lightweight Kafka Streams library provides exactly the power and simplicity you need for message handling in microservices and real-time event processing. With the Kafka Streams API, you filter and transform data streams with just Kafka and your application.

About the Book

Kafka Streams in Action teaches you to implement stream processing within the Kafka platform. In this easy-to-follow book, you'll explore real-world examples to collect, transform, and aggregate data, work with multiple processors, and handle real-time events. You'll even dive into streaming SQL with KSQL! Practical to the very end, it finishes with testing and operational aspects, such as monitoring and debugging.

What's inside


About the Reader

Assumes some experience with distributed systems. No knowledge of Kafka or streaming applications required.

About the Author

Bill Bejeck is a Kafka Streams contributor and Confluent engineer with over 15 years of software development experience.

Table of Contents]]> 280 Bill Bejeck 1617294470 Sean 4 comp-sci, data-science, java 4.06
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]]> 51163448
The recipes in this book show midlevel to senior developers familiar with Java enterprise application development how to get started with Quarkus quickly. You'll become familiar with how Quarkus works within the wider Java ecosystem and discover ways to adapt this framework to your particular needs.

You'll learn how to:


Shorten the development cycle by enabling live reloading in dev mode
Connect to and communicate with Kafka
Develop with the reactive programming model
Easily add fault tolerance to your services
Build your application as a Kubernetes-ready container
Ease development with OpenAPI and test a native Quarkus application]]> 394 Alex Soto Bueno 1492062650 Sean 3 quarkus, kubernetes 2.75
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In Kubernetes Native Microservices with Quarkus and MicroProfile you’ll learn how

Deploy enterprise Java applications on Kubernetes
Develop applications using the Quarkus runtime
Compile natively using GraalVM for blazing speed
Create efficient microservices applications
Take advantage of MicroProfile specifications

Popular Java frameworks like Spring were designed long before Kubernetes and the microservices revolution. Kubernetes Native Microservices with Quarkus and MicroProfile introduces next generation tools that have been cloud-native and Kubernetes-aware right from the beginning. Written by veteran Java developers John Clingan and Ken Finnigan, this book shares expert insight into Quarkus and MicroProfile directly from contributors at Red Hat. You’ll learn how to utilize these modern tools to create efficient enterprise Java applications that are easy to deploy, maintain, and expand.

Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.

About the technology
Build microservices efficiently with modern Kubernetes-first tools! Quarkus works naturally with containers and Kubernetes, radically simplifying the development and deployment of microservices. This powerful framework minimizes startup time and memory use, accelerating performance and reducing hosting cost. And because it's Java from the ground up, it integrates seamlessly with your existing JVM codebase.

About the book
Kubernetes Native Microservices with Quarkus and MicroProfile teaches you to build microservices using containers, Kubernetes, and the Quarkus framework. You'll immediately start developing a deployable application using Quarkus and the MicroProfile APIs. Then, you'll explore the startup and runtime gains Quarkus delivers out of the box and also learn how to supercharge performance by compiling natively using GraalVM. Along the way, you'll see how to integrate a Quarkus application with Spring and pick up pro tips for monitoring and managing your microservices.

What's inside

Deploy enterprise Java applications on Kubernetes
Develop applications using the Quarkus runtime framework
Compile natively using GraalVM for blazing speed
Take advantage of MicroProfile specifications

About the reader
For intermediate Java developers comfortable with Java EE, Jakarta EE, or Spring. Some experience with Docker and Kubernetes required.

About the author
John Clingan is a senior principal product manager at Red Hat, where he works on enterprise Java standards and Quarkus. Ken Finnigan is a senior principal software engineer at Workday, previously at Red Hat working on Quarkus.

Table of Contents
PART 1 INTRODUCTION
1 Introduction to Quarkus, MicroProfile, and Kubernetes
2 Your first Quarkus application
PART 2 DEVELOPING MICROSERVICES
3 Configuring microservices
4 Database access with Panache
5 Clients for consuming other microservices
6 Application health
7 Resilience strategies
8 Reactive in an imperative world
9 Developing Spring microservices with Quarkus
PART 3 OBSERVABILITY, API DEFINITION, AND SECURITY OF MICROSERVICES
10 Capturing metrics
11 Tracing microservices
12 API visualization
13 Securing a microservice]]> 328 John Clingan 1617298654 Sean 4 comp-sci, kubernetes, quarkus 4.07
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]]> 50515045 471 Atishay Jain 1617297003 Sean 2 2.81
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In Google Anthos in Action you will


Google Anthos in Action demystifies Anthos with practical examples of Anthos at work and invaluable insights from the Google team that built it. You’ll learn how to use this modern, Kubernetes-based cloud platform to balance costs, automate security, and run your software literally anywhere. The book is full of Google-tested patterns that will boost efficiency across the development lifecycle. It’s an absolutely essential guide for anyone working with Anthos, or delivering software in a cloud-centric world.

Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.

About the technology

The operations modern applications run on-prem, in the cloud, at the edge, on bare metal, in containers, over VMs, in any combination. And you’re expected to handle the rollouts, dataOps, security, performance, scaling, backup, and whatever else comes your way. Google Anthos feels your pain. This Kubernetes-based system simplifies hybrid and multicloud operations, providing a single platform for deploying and managing your applications, wherever they live.

About the book

Google Anthos in Action introduces Anthos and shows you how it can simplify operations for hybrid cloud systems. Written by 17 Googlers, it lays out everything you can do with Anthos, from Kubernetes deployments to AI models and edge computing. Each fully illustrated chapter opens up a different Anthos feature, with exercises and examples so you can see Anthos in action. You’ll appreciate the valuable mix of perspectives and insight this awesome team of authors delivers.

What's inside


About the reader

For software and cloud engineers with experience using Kubernetes.

About the author

Google Anthos in Action is written by a team of 17 Googlers involved with Anthos development, and Google Cloud Certified Fellows assisting customers in the field.

Table of Contents

1 Overview of Anthos
2 One single pane of glass
3 Computing environment built on Kubernetes
4 Anthos Service Security and observability at scale
5 Operations management
6 Bringing it all together
7 Hybrid applications
8 Working at the edge and the telco world
9 Serverless compute engine (Knative)
10 Networking environment
11 Config Management architecture
12 Integrations with CI/CD
13 Security and policies
14 Marketplace
15 Migrate
16 Breaking the monolith
17 Compute environment running on bare metal]]> 496 Antonio Gulli et al. 1633439577 Sean 0 to-read 4.00
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]]> 55560607 277 Dan McTeer Sean 4 4.00
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]]> 917832
Todd calmly and straightforwardly takes stock of many negative trends, including America's weakened commitment to the socio-economic integration of African Americans, a bulimic economy that increasingly relies on smoke and mirrors and the goodwill of foreign investors, and a foreign policy that squanders the country's reserves of "soft power" while its militaristic arsonist-fireman behavior is met with increasing resistance. Written by a demographer and historian who foresaw the collapse of the Soviet Union, this original and daring book cannot be ignored.]]> 192 Emmanuel Todd 0231131038 Sean 0 to-read 3.64 2002
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]]> 25205333 Ěý

Hundreds of cocktail bitters are on the market, and millions are turning to them to add punch, pizzazz, and complexity to their cocktails and even their cooking. But the storm of exciting brands and flavors has even the savviest bartenders puzzled over their personalities and best uses. Bitterman's Field Guide to Bitters and Amari is the handbook that decodes today’s burgeoning selection of bitters, along with their kindred spirits amari and shrubs, complete with 190 photographs.
Ěý
The introduction includes everything you need to know to understand what bitters and amari are and how to use them. recipes for making essential and inventive bitters at home. The next section offers 123 recipes for making essential bitters at home, mixing, and cooking bitters, from a Burnt Grapefruit Gimlet to a Martini Julep, from Bittered Bittersweet Chocolate Torte to BBQ Pork Ribs with Bittersweet BBQ Sauce. Bitterman's Field Guide to Bitters and Amari cracks open the full potential of bitters, inspiring and empowering people to try them. The final section includes a comprehensive field guide to the wide world of the more than 500 great bitters and 50 amari available today. Complete with tasting notes, profiles of important makers and brand photography, the guide gives everyone from pro bartenders to home cooks a solid foundation for buying and using bitters.]]> 216 Mark Bitterman 1449470696 Sean 5 cocktails 4.33 2015
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name: Sean
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]]> 48508406 Learn all you need to know about SMLLCs



Single-member LLCs are the business entity of choice for small businesses with one owner. With an SMLLC, you get personal liability protection, pass-through taxation, and flexibility of management.



Nolo’s Guide to Single-Member LLCs has all the essential information you need to decide whether an SMLLC is the right choice for your business. It



how to form an SMLLC and why it can be a good business entity choice
the attractive features of an SMLLC, such as pass-through taxation, personal liability protection, and flexibility of management
how to choose the proper tax treatment for your SMLLC
the tasks involved in running your SMLLC, like paying taxes, filing annual reports, and keeping proper records.



This edition explains the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, most importantly the 20% pass-through deduction available to SMLLC owners.



David M. Steingold is a Nolo author and a Michigan attorney. His practice covers multiple areas, including business law.]]> 184 David M. Steingold Sean 0 4.31
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]]> 65199 1040 Pierce J. Howard 1885167644 Sean 0 to-read 4.13 1994
author: Pierce J. Howard
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]]> 40405444 The key to living well in a high tech world is to spend much less time using technology.

Georgetown computer scientist Cal Newport's Deep Work sparked a movement around the idea that unbroken concentration produces far more value than the electronic busyness that defines the modern work day. But his readers had an urgent follow-up question: What about technology in our personal lives?

In recent years, our culture's relationship with personal technology has transformed from something exciting into something darker. Innovations like smartphones and social media are useful, but many of us are increasingly troubled by how much control these tools seem to exert over our daily experiences--including how we spend our free time and how we feel about ourselves.

In Digital Minimalism, Newport proposes a bold solution: a minimalist approach to technology use in which you radically reduce the time you spend online, focusing on a small set of carefully-selected activities while happily ignoring the rest.

He mounts a vigorous defense for this less-is-more approach, combining historical examples with case studies of modern digital minimalists to argue that this philosophy isn't a rejection of technology, but instead a necessary realignment to ensure that these tools serve us, not the other way around.

To make these principles practical, he takes us inside the growing subculture of digital minimalists who have built rich lives on a foundation of intentional technology use, and details a decluttering process that thousands have already used to simplify their online lives. He also stresses the importance of never clicking "like," explores the underappreciated value of analog hobbies, and draws lessons from the "attention underground"--a resistance movement fighting the tech companies' attempts to turn us into gadget addicts.

Digital Minimalism is an indispensable guide for anyone looking to reclaim their life from the alluring diversions of the digital world.]]> 284 Cal Newport 0525536515 Sean 0 4.03 2019
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average rating: 4.03
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]]> 20707970 A revolutionary approach to making better-looking, better-tasting drinks.

In Dave Arnold’s world, the shape of an ice cube, the sugars and acids in an apple, and the bubbles in a bottle of champagne are all ingredients to be measured, tested, and tweaked.

With Liquid Intelligence, the creative force at work in Booker & Dax, New York City’s high-tech bar, brings readers behind the counter and into the lab. There, Arnold and his collaborators investigate temperature, carbonation, sugar concentration, and acidity in search of ways to enhance classic cocktails and invent new ones that revolutionize your expectations about what a drink can look and taste like.

Years of rigorous experimentation and study—botched attempts and inspired solutions—have yielded the recipes and techniques found in these pages. Featuring more than 120 recipes and nearly 450 color photographs, Liquid Intelligence begins with the simple—how ice forms and how to make crystal-clear cubes in your own freezer—and then progresses into advanced techniques like clarifying cloudy lime juice with enzymes, nitro-muddling fresh basil to prevent browning, and infusing vodka with coffee, orange, or peppercorns.

Practical tips for preparing drinks by the pitcher, making homemade sodas, and building a specialized bar in your own home are exactly what drink enthusiasts need to know. For devotees seeking the cutting edge, chapters on liquid nitrogen, chitosan/gellan washing, and the applications of a centrifuge expand the boundaries of traditional cocktail craft.

Arnold’s book is the beginning of a new method of making drinks, a problem-solving approach grounded in attentive observation and creative techniques. Readers will learn how to extract the sweet flavor of peppers without the spice, why bottling certain drinks beforehand beats shaking them at the bar, and why quinine powder and succinic acid lead to the perfect gin and tonic.

Liquid Intelligence is about satisfying your curiosity and refining your technique, from red-hot pokers to the elegance of an old-fashioned. Whether you’re in search of astounding drinks or a one-of-a-kind journey into the next generation of cocktail making, Liquid Intelligence is the ultimate standard—one that no bartender or drink enthusiast should be without.]]> 416 Dave Arnold 0393089037 Sean 0 to-read 4.51 2014
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]]> 32605769
More than ever, the effective management of technology is critical for business competitiveness. For decades, technology leaders have struggled to balance agility, reliability, and security. The consequences of failure have never been greater―whether it's the healthcare.gov debacle, cardholder data breaches, or missing the boat with Big Data in the cloud.

And yet, high performers using DevOps principles, such as Google, Amazon, Facebook, Etsy, and Netflix, are routinely and reliably deploying code into production hundreds, or even thousands, of times per day.

Following in the footsteps of The Phoenix Project, The DevOps Handbook shows leaders how to replicate these incredible outcomes, by showing how to integrate Product Management, Development, QA, IT Operations, and Information Security to elevate your company and win in the marketplace.]]> 674 Gene Kim Sean 3 4.37 2015
author: Gene Kim
name: Sean
average rating: 4.37
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rating: 3
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]]> 7901962
Bellos has traveled all around the globe and has plunged into history to uncover fascinating stories of mathematical achievement, from the breakthroughs of Euclid, the greatest mathematician of all time, to the creations of the Zen master of origami, one of the hottest areas of mathematical work today. Taking us into the wilds of the Amazon, he tells the story of a tribe there who can count only to five and reports on the latest findings about the math instinct—including the revelation that ants can actually count how many steps they’ve taken. Journeying to the Bay of Bengal, he interviews a Hindu sage about the brilliant mathematical insights of the Buddha, while in Japan he visits the godfather of Sudoku and introduces the brainteasing delights of mathematical games.

Exploring the mysteries of randomness, he explains why it is impossible for our iPods to truly randomly select songs. In probing the many intrigues of that most beloved of numbers, pi, he visits with two brothers so obsessed with the elusive number that they built a supercomputer in their Manhattan apartment to study it. Throughout, the journey is enhanced with a wealth of intriguing illustrations, such as of the clever puzzles known as tangrams and the crochet creation of an American math professor who suddenly realized one day that she could knit a representation of higher dimensional space that no one had been able to visualize.

Whether writing about how algebra solved Swedish traffic problems, visiting the Mental Calculation World Cup to disclose the secrets of lightning calculation, or exploring the links between pineapples and beautiful teeth, Bellos is a wonderfully engaging guide who never fails to delight even as he edifies. Here’s Looking at Euclid is a rare gem that brings the beauty of math to life.]]> 319 Alex Bellos 1416588256 Sean 4 4.07 2010
author: Alex Bellos
name: Sean
average rating: 4.07
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rating: 4
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]]> 18423 The Left Hand of Darkness tells the story of a lone human emissary to Winter, an alien world whose inhabitants spend most of their time without a gender. His goal is to facilitate Winter's inclusion in a growing intergalactic civilization. But to do so he must bridge the gulf between his own views and those of the completely dissimilar culture that he encounters.

Embracing the aspects of psychology, society, and human emotion on an alien world, The Left Hand of Darkness stands as a landmark achievement in the annals of intellectual science fiction.]]> 304 Ursula K. Le Guin Sean 0 4.11 1969
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name: Sean
average rating: 4.11
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]]> 19196310 194 Richard Dawkins Sean 0 currently-reading 4.27 1995
author: Richard Dawkins
name: Sean
average rating: 4.27
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]]> 26192128 170 Rockridge Press 1623156874 Sean 4 4.10 2015
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]]> 60543778
Possessing the knowledge and skills to leverage Kubernetes and cloud-native technologies is a huge career boost for you. It can get you the best roles, on the best projects, at the best organisations. It can even earn you more money.

With this in mind, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation designed the Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate (KCNA) certification and exam as a way for you to prove your competence with these technologies.

This book covers every exam objective in one place in a well-organised and concise format. It's useful as both a revision guide and a place to start learning new technologies and concepts. For example, if you already know the basics of Kubernetes, the book will reinforce what you know and test your knowledge with its extensive quizzes and explanations. However, if you're new to any of the exam topics, the book will get you up-to-speed quickly.

Contains over 200 chapter-review questions, as well as a full 60-question sample exam.

When you've finished the book, you'll be ready to smash the KCNA exam!]]> 199 Nigel Poulton 1916585159 Sean 0 to-read 4.56
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]]> 18296830
A foodist simply has a different way of looking at food, and makes decisions with a clear understanding of how to optimize health and happiness. Foodist is a new approach to healthy eating that focuses on what you like to eat, rather than what you should or shouldn’t eat, while teaching you how to make good decisions, backed up by an understanding of what it means to live a healthy lifestyle.

Foodist: Using Real Food and Real Science to Lose Weight Without Dieting is filled with tips on food shopping, food prep, cooking, and how to pick the right restaurants and make smart menu choices.]]> 339 Darya Pino Rose Sean 3 health 3.99 2009
author: Darya Pino Rose
name: Sean
average rating: 3.99
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rating: 3
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]]> 45252 Second Chance, is dispatched to learn what has occurred and whether it represents a threat. In command is Wilson Kime, a five-time rejuvenated ex-NASA pilot whose glory days are centuries behind him.

Opposed to the mission are the Guardians of Selfhood, a cult that believes the human race is being manipulated by an alien entity they call the Starflyer. Bradley Johansson, leader of the Guardians, warns of sabotage, fearing the Starflyer means to use the starship's mission for its own ends.

Pursued by a Commonwealth special agent convinced the Guardians are crazy but dangerous, Johansson flees. But the danger is not averted. Aboard the Second Chance, Kime wonders if his crew has been infiltrated. Soon enough, he will have other worries. A thousand light-years away, something truly incredible is waiting: a deadly discovery whose unleashing will threaten to destroy the Commonwealth... and humanity itself. Could it be that Johansson was right?]]> 768 Peter F. Hamilton 0345461622 Sean 0 to-read 4.23 2004
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average rating: 4.23
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]]> 60282184 1058 Joseph Albahari 1098121953 Sean 0 to-read, c-sharp, comp-sci 4.70
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]]> 51633549 Alternate cover for this ASIN can be found here

Geralt of Rivia is a witcher. A cunning sorcerer. A merciless assassin. And a cold-blooded killer. His sole purpose: to destroy the monsters that plague the world. But not everything monstrous-looking is evil and not everything fair is good... and in every fairy tale there is a grain of truth.

A collection of short stories introducing Geralt of Rivia, to be followed by the first novel in the actual series, The Blood of Elves. Note that, while The Last Wish was published after The Sword of Destiny, the stories contained in The Last Wish take place first chronologically, and many of the individual stories were published before The Sword of Destiny.]]> 292 Andrzej Sapkowski Sean 0 to-read 4.21 1993
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average rating: 4.21
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]]> 58230361 282 Rui Costa 1492092894 Sean 3 cloud 3.50
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rating: 3
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Useful, but limited in scope as you would expect from a cookbook format.
]]> 59974614 Become a Professional Cloud Architect by exploring the essential concepts, tools, and services in GCP and working through practice tests designed to help you take the exam confidently

Key FeaturesPlan and design a GCP cloud solution architectureEnsure the security and reliability of your cloud solutions and operationsAssess your knowledge by taking mock tests with up-to-date exam questionsBook DescriptionGoogle Cloud Platform (GCP) is one of the industry leaders thanks to its array of services that can be leveraged by organizations to bring the best out of their infrastructure. This book is a comprehensive guide for learning methods to effectively utilize GCP services and help you become acquainted with the topics required to pass Google's Professional Cloud Architect certification exam.

Following the Professional Cloud Architect's official exam syllabus, you'll first be introduced to the GCP. The book then covers the core services that GCP offers, such as computing and storage, and takes you through effective methods of scaling and automating your cloud infrastructure. As you progress through the chapters, you'll get to grips with containers and services and discover best practices related to the design and process. This revised second edition features new topics such as Cloud Run, Anthos, Data Fusion, Composer, and Data Catalog.

By the end of this book, you'll have gained the knowledge required to take and pass the Google Cloud Certification � Professional Cloud Architect exam and become an expert in GCP services.

What you will learnUnderstand the benefits of being a Google Certified Professional Cloud ArchitectFind out how to enroll for the Professional Cloud Architect examMaster the compute options in GCPExplore security and networking options in GCPGet to grips with managing and monitoring your workloads in GCPUnderstand storage, big data, and machine learning servicesBecome familiar with exam scenarios and passing strategiesWho this book is forIf you are a cloud architect, cloud engineer, administrator, or any IT professional looking to learn how to implement Google Cloud services in your organization and become a GCP Certified Professional Cloud Architect, this book is for you. Basic knowledge of server infrastructure, including Linux and Windows Servers, is assumed. A solid understanding of network and storage will help you to make the most out of this book.

Table of ContentsGCP Cloud Architect ProfessionalGetting Started with Google Cloud PlatformGoogle Cloud Platform Core ServicesWorking with Google Compute EngineExploring Google App Engine as a Compute OptionManaging Kubernetes Clusters with Google Kubernetes EngineDeploying Cloud-Native Workloads with Cloud RunManaging Cloud-Native Workloads with AnthosRunning Serverless Functions with Google Cloud FunctionsNetworking Options in GCPExploring Storage and Database Options in GCP � Part 1Exploring Storage and Database Options in GCP � Part 2Analyzing Big Data OptionsPutting Machine Learning to WorkSecurity and ComplianceGoogle Cloud Management OptionsMonitoring Your Infrastructure]]> 664 Konrad Cłapa 1801811415 Sean 0 to-read 3.00
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]]> 48573601 Become a Professional Cloud Architect by exploring essential concepts, tools, and services in GCP and working through tests designed to help you get certified

Key FeaturesPlan and design a GCP cloud solution architectureEnsure the security and reliability of your cloud solutions and operationsTest yourself by taking mock tests with up-to-date exam questionsBook DescriptionGoogle Cloud Platform (GCP) is one of the leading cloud service suites and offers solutions for storage, analytics, big data, machine learning, and application development. It features an array of services that can help organizations to get the best out of their infrastructure. This comprehensive guide covers a variety of topics specific to Google's Professional Cloud Architect official exam syllabus and guides you in using the right methods for effective use of GCP services.

You'll start by exploring GCP, understanding the benefits of becoming a certified architect, and learning how to register for the exam. You'll then delve into the core services that GCP offers such as computing, storage, and security. As you advance, this GCP book will help you get up to speed with methods to scale and automate your cloud infrastructure and delve into containers and services. In the concluding chapters, you'll discover security best practices and even gain insights into designing applications with GCP services and monitoring your infrastructure as a GCP architect.

By the end of this book, you will be well versed in all the topics required to pass Google's Professional Cloud Architect exam and use GCP services effectively.

What you will learnManage your GCP infrastructure with Google Cloud management options such as CloudShell and SDKUnderstand the use cases for different storage optionsDesign a solution with security and compliance in mindMonitor GCP compute optionsDiscover machine learning and the different machine learning models offered by GCPUnderstand what services need to be used when planning and designing your architectureWho this book is forIf you are a cloud architect, cloud engineer, administrator, or any IT professional who wants to learn how to implement Google Cloud services in your organization and become a GCP Certified Professional Cloud Architect, this book is for you. Basic knowledge of server infrastructure, including Linux and Windows Servers, is assumed. Knowledge of network and storage will also be helpful.

Table of ContentsGCP Cloud Architect ProfessionalGetting Started with Google Cloud PlatformGoogle Cloud Platform Core ServicesWorking with Google Compute EngineManaging Kubernetes Clusters with Google Kubernetes EngineExploring Google App Engine as a Compute OptionRunning Serverless Functions with Google Cloud FunctionsNetworking Options in GCPExploring Storage Options in GCP Part 1Exploring Storage Options in GCP Part 2Analyze Big Data OptionsPutting Machine Learning to WorkSecurity and ComplianceGoogle Cloud Management OptionsMonitoring Your InfrastructureCase StudiesTest Your Knowledge]]> 923 Konrad CĹ‚apa 1838553525 Sean 3 3.25
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]]> 48928235 Building Microservices, this new book details a proven method for transitioning an existing monolithic system to a microservice architecture.

With many illustrative examples, insightful migration patterns, and a bevy of practical advice to transition your monolith enterprise into a microservice operation, this practical guide covers multiple scenarios and strategies for a successful migration, from initial planning all the way through application and database decomposition. You'll learn several tried and tested patterns and techniques that you can use as you migrate your existing architecture.

*Ideal for organizations looking to transition to microservices, rather than rebuild
*Helps companies determine whether to migrate, when to migrate, and where to begin
*Addresses communication, integration, and the migration of legacy systems
*Discusses multiple migration patterns and where they apply
*Provides database migration examples, along with synchronization strategies
*Explores application decomposition, including several architectural refactoring patterns
*Delves into details of database decomposition, including the impact of breaking referential and transactional integrity, new failure modes, and more]]> 466 Sam Newman 1492047805 Sean 4 comp-sci 4.37
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]]> 37653062 An audacious, darkly glittering novel set in the eerie days of civilization’s collapse, Station Eleven tells the spellbinding story of a Hollywood star, his would-be savior, and a nomadic group of actors roaming the scattered outposts of the Great Lakes region, risking everything for art and humanity.

A National Book Award Finalist
A PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist

Kirsten Raymonde will never forget the night Arthur Leander, the famous Hollywood actor, had a heart attack on stage during a production of King Lear. That was the night when a devastating flu pandemic arrived in the city, and within weeks, civilization as we know it came to an end.

Twenty years later, Kirsten moves between the settlements of the altered world with a small troupe of actors and musicians. They call themselves The Traveling Symphony, and they have dedicated themselves to keeping the remnants of art and humanity alive. But when they arrive in St. Deborah by the Water, they encounter a violent prophet who will threaten the tiny band’s existence. And as the story takes off, moving back and forth in time, and vividly depicting life before and after the pandemic, the strange twist of fate that connects them all will be revealed.]]> 354 Emily St. John Mandel Sean 0 to-read 4.18 2014
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name: Sean
average rating: 4.18
book published: 2014
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]]> 59681979 ASP.NET Core in Action, Second Edition is a comprehensive guide to creating web applications with ASP.NET Core 5.0. Go from basic HTTP concepts to advanced framework customization.

Summary
Fully updated to ASP.NET 5.0, ASP.NET Core in Action, Second Edition is a hands-on primer to building cross-platform web applications with your C# and .NET skills. Even if you've never worked with ASP.NET you'll start creating productive cross-platform web apps fast. And don’t worry about late-breaking changes to ASP.NET Core.

Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.

About the technology
Build full-stack web applications that run anywhere. Developers love ASP.NET Core for its libraries and pre-built components that maximize productivity. Version 5.0 offers new features for server-side apps, as well as background services for cross-platform development.

About the book
ASP.NET Core in Action, Second Edition is a comprehensive guide to creating web applications with ASP.NET Core 5.0. Go from basic HTTP concepts to advanced framework customization. Illustrations and annotated code make learning visual and easy. Master logins, dependency injection, security, and more. This updated edition covers the latest features, including Razor Pages and the new hosting paradigm.

What's inside
ĚýĚýĚý Developing apps for Windows and non-Windows servers
ĚýĚýĚý Configuring applications
ĚýĚýĚý Building custom components
ĚýĚýĚý Logging, testing, and security

About the reader
For intermediate C# developers.

About the author
Andrew Lock is a Microsoft MVP who has worked with ASP.NET Core since before its first release.

Table of Contents
PART 1 - GETTING STARTED WITH ASP.NET CORE
1 Getting started with ASP.NET Core
2 Your first application
3 Handling requests with the middleware pipeline
4 Creating a website with Razor Pages
5 Mapping URLs to Razor Pages using routing
6 The binding Retrieving and validating user input
7 Rendering HTML using Razor views
8 Building forms with Tag Helpers
9 Creating a Web API for mobile and client applications using MVC
PART 2 - BUILDING COMPLETE APPLICATIONS
10 Service configuration with dependency injection
11 Configuring an ASP.NET Core application
12 Saving data with Entity Framework Core
13 The MVC and Razor Pages filter pipeline
14 Adding users to your application with Identity
15 Securing your application
16 Publishing and deploying your application
PART 3 - EXTENDING YOUR APPLICATIONS
17 Monitoring and troubleshooting errors with logging
18 Improving your application’s security
19 Building custom components
20 Building custom MVC and Razor Pages components
21 Calling remote APIs with IHttpClientFactory
22 Building background tasks and services
23 Testing your application]]> 832 Andrew Lock 1638356459 Sean 4 4.17 2018
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average rating: 4.17
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]]> 56217827 188 Benjamin Muschko 1492083739 Sean 4 kubernetes 4.03
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Covered everything I saw on the current CKAD.
]]> 46166841 The official book on the Rust programming language, written by the Rust development team at the Mozilla Foundation, fully updated for Rust 2018.

The Rust Programming Language is the official, definitive guide to Rust, a hugely popular, community-supported programming language. This is the second edition of the improved version of the free online Rust book, so well-loved in the Rust community that it is simply referred to as "the Book".
Programmers love Rust because it allows them to write powerful code efficiently, without the risk of crashes and errors common in languages like C and C++. This book will show readers how to use Rust's robust type system to keep programs memory-safe and speedy, and make the most of the Cargo package manager that brings the pieces of a program together. The reader will learn all about Rust's ownership rules, which lie at the heart of Rust's reliability and crash-resistant compiling.
The Rust Programming Language covers everything from basic concepts like variable bindings, control flow, functions, and error handling, to more advanced topics, such as crates, generics, concurrency, and the nitty gritty of Rust's type system. With improved organization, hands-on features, and a more tutorial-oriented style, this version offers a vast improvement over the original.
The second edition also provides an entirely new chapter on macros and an expanded chapter on crates, two key aspects of Rust that make it so popular. Readers will also find extra appendices on Rust development tools and Rust versions.]]> 560 Steve Klabnik 1718500440 Sean 0 4.48
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]]> 51364
In this compelling and fascinating book, Ehrman shows where and why changes were made in our earliest surviving manuscripts, explaining for the first time how the many variations of our cherished biblical stories came to be, and why only certain versions of the stories qualify for publication in the Bibles we read today. Ehrman frames his account with personal reflections on how his study of the Greek manuscripts made him abandon his once ultra–conservative views of the Bible.]]> 272 Bart D. Ehrman 0060859512 Sean 0 to-read 3.91 2005
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name: Sean
average rating: 3.91
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]]> 8117884 Book Three in the Magnificent Dune Chronicles—the Bestselling Science Fiction Adventure of All Time

The Children of Dune are twin siblings Leto and Ghanima Atreides, whose father, the Emperor Paul Muad’Dib, disappeared in the desert wastelands of Arrakis nine years ago. Like their father, the twins possess supernormal abilities—making them valuable to their manipulative aunt Alia, who rules the Empire in the name of House Atreides.

Facing treason and rebellion on two fronts, Alia’s rule is not absolute. The displaced House Corrino is plotting to regain the throne while the fanatical Fremen are being provoked into open revolt by the enigmatic figure known only as The Preacher. Alia believes that by obtaining the secrets of the twins� prophetic visions, she can maintain control over her dynasty.

But Leto and Ghanima have their own plans for their visions—and their destinies....]]> 623 Frank Herbert 1440630518 Sean 0 currently-reading 4.24 1976
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average rating: 4.24
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Dune Messiah continues the story of Paul Atreides, better known—and feared—as the man christened Muad’Dib. As Emperor of the known universe, he possesses more power than a single man was ever meant to wield. Worshipped as a religious icon by the fanatical Fremen, Paul faces the enmity of the political houses he displaced when he assumed the throne—and a conspiracy conducted within his own sphere of influence.

And even as House Atreides begins to crumble around him from the machinations of his enemies, the true threat to Paul comes to his lover, Chani, and the unborn heir to his family’s dynasty...]]> 331 Frank Herbert 0441172695 Sean 5 sci-fi 3.88 1969
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rating: 5
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]]> 53205888 Welcome to Charon's Crossing.
The tea is hot, the scones are fresh, and the dead are just passing through.

When a reaper comes to collect Wallace from his own funeral, Wallace begins to suspect he might be dead.

And when Hugo, the owner of a peculiar tea shop, promises to help him cross over, Wallace decides he’s definitely dead.

But even in death he’s not ready to abandon the life he barely lived, so when Wallace is given one week to cross over, he sets about living a lifetime in seven days.

Hilarious, haunting, and kind, Under the Whispering Door is an uplifting story about a life spent at the office and a death spent building a home.]]> 376 T.J. Klune 1250217342 Sean 0 to-read 4.11 2021
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]]> 54814834 The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sixth Extinction returns to humanity’s transformative impact on the environment, now asking: After doing so much damage, can we change nature, this time to save it?

That man should have dominion “over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth� is a prophecy that has hardened into fact. So pervasive are human impacts on the planet that it’s said we live in a new geological epoch: the Anthropocene.

In Under a White Sky, Elizabeth Kolbert takes a hard look at the new world we are creating. She meets scientists who are trying to preserve the world’s rarest fish, which lives in a single, tiny pool in the middle of the Mojave. She visits a lava field in Iceland, where engineers are turning carbon emissions to stone; an aquarium in Australia, where researchers are trying to develop “super coral� that can survive on a hotter globe; and a lab at Harvard, where physicists are contemplating shooting tiny diamonds into the stratosphere in order to reflect sunlight back to space and cool the earth.

One way to look at human civilization, says Kolbert, is as a ten-thousand-year exercise in defying nature. In The Sixth Extinction, she explored the ways in which our capacity for destruction has reshaped the natural world. Now she examines how the very sorts of interventions that have imperiled our planet are increasingly seen as the only hope for its salvation. By turns inspiring, terrifying, and darkly comic, Under a White Sky is an utterly original examination of the challenges we face.]]> 234 Elizabeth Kolbert 0593136276 Sean 0 to-read 4.07 2021
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]]> 56790170 For those who could read between the lines, the censored news out of China was terrifying. But the president insisted there was nothing to worry about.

Fortunately, we are still a nation of skeptics. Fortunately, there are those among us who study pandemics and are willing to look unflinchingly at worst-case scenarios. Michael Lewis’s taut and brilliant nonfiction thriller pits a band of medical visionaries against the wall of ignorance that was the official response of the Trump administration to the outbreak of COVID-19.

The characters you will meet in these pages are as fascinating as they are unexpected. A thirteen-year-old girl’s science project on transmission of an airborne pathogen develops into a very grown-up model of disease control. A local public-health officer uses her worm’s-eye view to see what the CDC misses, and reveals great truths about American society. A secret team of dissenting doctors, nicknamed the Wolverines, has everything necessary to fight the pandemic: brilliant backgrounds, world-class labs, prior experience with the pandemic scares of bird flu and swine flu…everything, that is, except official permission to implement their work.

Michael Lewis is not shy about calling these people heroes for their refusal to follow directives that they know to be based on misinformation and bad science. Even the internet, as crucial as it is to their exchange of ideas, poses a risk to them. They never know for sure who else might be listening in.]]> 304 Michael Lewis 0393881555 Sean 0 to-read 4.25 2021
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]]> 56015023 This Is Your Mind on Plants, Michael Pollan dives deep into three plant drugs--opium, caffeine, and mescaline--and throws the fundamental strangeness, and arbitrariness, of our thinking about them into sharp relief. Exploring and participating in the cultures that have grown up around these drugs while consuming (or, in the case of caffeine, trying not to consume) them, Pollan reckons with the powerful human attraction to psychoactive plants. Why do we go to such great lengths to seek these shifts in consciousness, and then why do we fence that universal desire with laws and customs and fraught feelings?]]> 288 Michael Pollan 0593296907 Sean 0 to-read 3.86 2021
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]]> 55825273 The new uplifting book from Matt Haig, the New York Times bestselling author of The Midnight Library, for anyone in search of hope, looking for a path to a more meaningful life, or in need of a little encouragement.

“It is a strange paradox, that many of the clearest, most comforting life lessons are learnt while we are at our lowest. But then we never think about food more than when we are hungry and we never think about life rafts more than when we are thrown overboard.�

The Comfort Book is Haig’s life raft: it’s a collection of notes, lists, and stories written over a span of several years that originally served as gentle reminders to Haig’s future self that things are not always as dark as they may seem. Incorporating a diverse array of sources from across the world, history, science, and his own experiences, Haig offers warmth and reassurance, reminding us to slow down and appreciate the beauty and unpredictability of existence.]]> 272 Matt Haig 0143136666 Sean 0 to-read 4.07 2021
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]]> 53019456 The Arthur C. Clarke award-winning author of Children of Time brings us an extraordinary space opera about humanity on the brink of extinction, and how one man's discovery will save or destroy us all.

The war is over. Its heroes forgotten. Until one chance discovery . . .

Idris has neither aged nor slept since they remade him in the war. And one of humanity's heroes now scrapes by on a freelance salvage vessel, to avoid the attention of greater powers.

After earth was destroyed, mankind created a fighting elite to save their species, enhanced humans such as Idris. In the silence of space they could communicate, mind-to-mind, with the enemy. Then their alien aggressors, the Architects, simply disappeared—and Idris and his kind became obsolete.

Now, fifty years later, Idris and his crew have discovered something strange abandoned in space. It's clearly the work of the Architects—but are they returning? And if so, why? Hunted by gangsters, cults and governments, Idris and his crew race across the galaxy hunting for answers. For they now possess something of incalculable value, that many would kill to obtain.]]> 548 Adrian Tchaikovsky 0316705853 Sean 0 to-read 4.07 2021
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]]> 57094295 A visionary technothriller about climate change.

Neal Stephenson's sweeping, prescient new novel transports readers to a near-future world where the greenhouse effect has inexorably resulted in a whirling-dervish troposphere of superstorms, rising sea levels, global flooding, merciless heat waves, and virulent, deadly pandemics.

One man has a Big Idea for reversing global warming, a master plan perhaps best described as "elemental." But will it work? And just as important, what are the consequences for the planet and all of humanity should it be applied?

Ranging from the Texas heartland to the Dutch royal palace in the Hague, from the snow-capped peaks of the Himalayas to the sunbaked Chihuahuan Desert, Termination Shock brings together a disparate group of characters from different cultures and continents who grapple with the real-life repercussions of global warming. Ultimately, it asks the question: Might the cure be worse than the disease?]]> 708 Neal Stephenson 0063028050 Sean 0 to-read 3.68 2021
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]]> 54120408
In Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro looks at our rapidly changing modern world through the eyes of an unforgettable narrator to explore a fundamental question: what does it mean to love?]]> 340 Kazuo Ishiguro 059331817X Sean 0 to-read 3.71 2021
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name: Sean
average rating: 3.71
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]]> 54493401
Except that right now, he doesn’t know that. He can’t even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it.

All he knows is that he’s been asleep for a very, very long time. And he’s just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company.

His crewmates dead, his memories fuzzily returning, Ryland realizes that an impossible task now confronts him. Hurtling through space on this tiny ship, it’s up to him to puzzle out an impossible scientific mystery—and conquer an extinction-level threat to our species.

And with the clock ticking down and the nearest human being light-years away, he’s got to do it all alone.

Or does he?]]> 476 Andy Weir 0593135202 Sean 0 to-read 4.49 2021
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name: Sean
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]]> 44647144
Throughout the book, you’ll explore relevant material gleaned from numerous books, papers, blog posts, and the source code of several open source databases. These resources are listed at the end of parts one and two. You’ll discover that the most significant distinctions among many modern databases reside in subsystems that determine how storage is organized and how data is distributed.

This book examines:

Storage engines: Explore storage classification and taxonomy, and dive into B-Tree-based and immutable log structured storage engines, with differences and use-cases for each
Distributed systems: Learn step-by-step how nodes and processes connect and build complex communication patterns, from UDP to reliable consensus protocols
Database clusters: Discover how to achieve consistent models for replicated data]]> 376 Alex Petrov 1492040347 Sean 0 4.26
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]]> 36410104 400 Cornelia Davis 1617294292 Sean 5 4.14
author: Cornelia Davis
name: Sean
average rating: 4.14
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rating: 5
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]]> 55892271 Entity Framework Core in Action, Second Edition teaches you to write flawless database interactions for .NET applications.

Summary
Entity Framework Core in Action, Second Edition is an in-depth guide to reading and writing databases with EF Core. Revised from the bestselling original edition, it’s filled with over 100 diagrams, code snippets, and examples—including building and scaling your own bookselling web application. Learn from author Jon Smith’s extensive experience working with EF Core in production, as you discover time-saving patterns and best practices for security, performance tuning, and unit testing. All of the book’s code is available on GitHub.

Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.

About the technology
Entity Framework radically simplifies data access in .NET applications. This easy-to-use object-relational mapper (ORM) lets you write database code in pure C#. It automatically maps classes to database tables and enables queries with standard LINQ commands. It even generates SQL, so you don’t have to!

About the book
Entity Framework Core in Action, Second Edition teaches you to write flawless database interactions for .NET applications. Following relevant examples from author Jon Smith’s extensive experience, you’ll progress quickly from EF basics to advanced techniques. In addition to the latest EF features, this book addresses performance, security, refactoring, and unit testing. This updated edition also contains new material on NoSQL databases.

What's inside

ĚýĚýĚý Configure EF to define every table and column
ĚýĚýĚý Update your schema as your app grows
ĚýĚýĚý Integrating EF with existing C# application
ĚýĚýĚý Write and test business logic for database access
ĚýĚýĚý Applying a Domain-Driven Design to EF Core
ĚýĚýĚý Getting the best performance out of EF Core

About the reader
For .NET developers familiar with relational databases.

About the author
Jon P. Smith is a freelance software developer and architect with a special focus on .NET and Azure.

Table of Contents

PART 1
1 Introduction to Entity Framework Core
2 Querying the database
3 Changing the database content
4 Using EF Core in business logic
5 Using EF Core in ASP.NET Core web applications
6 Tips and techniques for reading and writing with EF Core
PART 2
7 Configuring nonrelational properties
8 Configuring relationships
9 Handling database migrations
10 Configuring advanced features and handling concurrency conflicts
11 Going deeper into the DbContext
PART 3
12 Using entity events to solve business problems
13 Domain-Driven Design and other architectural approaches
14 EF Core performance tuning
15 Master class on performance-tuning database queries
16 Cosmos DB, CQRS, and other database types
17 Unit testing EF Core applications]]> 624 Jon P. Smith 1617298360 Sean 5 dot-net, software-development 4.42
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average rating: 4.42
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rating: 5
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]]> 43633741
In Kafka in Action you will learn:

ĚýĚýĚý Understanding Apache Kafka concepts
ĚýĚýĚý Setting up and executing basic ETL tasks using Kafka Connect
ĚýĚýĚý Using Kafka as part of a large data project team
ĚýĚýĚý Performing administrative tasks
ĚýĚýĚý Producing and consuming event streams
ĚýĚýĚý Working with Kafka from Java applications
ĚýĚýĚý Implementing Kafka as a message queue

Kafka in Action is a fast-paced introduction to every aspect of working with Apache Kafka. Starting with an overview of Kafka's core concepts, you'll immediately learn how to set up and execute basic data movement tasks and how to produce and consume streams of events. Advancing quickly, you’ll soon be ready to use Kafka in your day-to-day workflow, and start digging into even more advanced Kafka topics.

Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.

About the technology
Think of Apache Kafka as a high performance software bus that facilitates event streaming, logging, analytics, and other data pipeline tasks. With Kafka, you can easily build features like operational data monitoring and large-scale event processing into both large and small-scale applications.

About the book
Kafka in Action introduces the core features of Kafka, along with relevant examples of how to use it in real applications. In it, you’ll explore the most common use cases such as logging and managing streaming data. When you’re done, you’ll be ready to handle both basic developer- and admin-based tasks in a Kafka-focused team.

What's inside

ĚýĚýĚý Kafka as an event streaming platform
ĚýĚýĚý Kafka producers and consumers from Java applications
ĚýĚýĚý Kafka as part of a large data project

About the reader
For intermediate Java developers or data engineers. No prior knowledge of Kafka required.

About the author
Dylan Scott is a software developer in the insurance industry. Viktor Gamov is a Kafka-focused developer advocate. At Confluent, Dave Klein helps developers, teams, and enterprises harness the power of event streaming with Apache Kafka.

Table of Contents
PART 1 GETTING STARTED
1 Introduction to Kafka
2 Getting to know Kafka
PART 2 APPLYING KAFK
3 Designing a Kafka project
4 Producers: Sourcing data
5 Consumers: Unlocking data
6 Brokers
7 Topics and partitions
8 Kafka storage
9 Management: Tools and logging
PART 3 GOING FURTHER
10 Protecting Kafka
11 Schema registry
12 Stream processing with Kafka Streams and ksqlDB]]> 375 Dylan Scott 161729523X Sean 3 comp-sci, kafka 3.65
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]]> 2663856
In Why Some Things Should Not Be for Sale , philosopher Debra Satz takes a penetrating look at those commodity exchanges that strike most of us as problematic. What considerations, she asks, ought to guide the debates about such markets? What is it about a market involving prostitution or the sale of kidneys that makes it morally objectionable? How is a market in weapons or pollution different than a market in soybeans or automobiles? Are laws and social policies banning the more noxious markets necessarily the best responses to them? Satz contends that categories previously used by philosophers and economists are of limited utility in addressing such questions because they have assumed markets to be homogenous. Accordingly, she offers a broader and more nuanced view of markets-one that goes beyond the usual discussions of efficiency and distributional equality--to show how markets shape our culture, foster or thwart human development, and create and support structures of power.
An accessibly written work that will engage not only philosophers but also political scientists, economists, legal scholars, and public policy experts, this book is a significant contribution to ongoing discussions about the place of markets in a democratic society.]]> 264 Debra Satz 0195311590 Sean 0 to-read 3.68 2008
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name: Sean
average rating: 3.68
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]]> 44080331
Sean Carroll, theoretical physicist and one of this world’s most celebrated writers on science, rewrites the history of 20th century physics. Already hailed as a masterpiece, Something Deeply Hidden shows for the first time that facing up to the essential puzzle of quantum mechanics utterly transforms how we think about space and time. His reconciling of quantum mechanics with Einstein’s theory of relativity changes, well, everything.

Most physicists haven’t even recognized the uncomfortable truth: physics has been in crisis since 1927. Quantum mechanics has always had obvious gaps—which have come to be simply ignored. Science popularizers keep telling us how weird it is, how impossible it is to understand. Academics discourage students from working on the "dead end" of quantum foundations. Putting his professional reputation on the line with this audacious yet entirely reasonable book, Carroll says that the crisis can now come to an end. We just have to accept that there is more than one of us in the universe. There are many, many Sean Carrolls. Many of every one of us.

Copies of you are generated thousands of times per second. The "many worlds theory" of quantum behavior says that every time there is a quantum event, a world splits off with everything in it the same, except in that other world the quantum event didn't happen. Step by step in Carroll's uniquely lucid way, he tackles the major objections to this otherworldly revelation until his case is inescapably established.

Rarely does a book so fully reorganize how we think about our place in the universe. We are on the threshold of a new understanding—of where we are in the cosmos, and what we are made of.]]> 400 Sean Carroll 152474302X Sean 0 to-read, science 4.15 2019
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name: Sean
average rating: 4.15
book published: 2019
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]]> 13651 387 Ursula K. Le Guin Sean 0 to-read 4.24 1974
author: Ursula K. Le Guin
name: Sean
average rating: 4.24
book published: 1974
rating: 0
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]]> 45007875
Concurrency is now more common in responsive and scalable application development, but it's still extremely difficult to code. The detailed solutions in this cookbook show you how modern tools raise the level of abstraction, making concurrency much easier than before. Complete with ready-to-use code and discussions about how and why solutions work, these recipes help you:


Get up to speed on concurrency and async and parallel programming
Use async and await for asynchronous operations
Enhance your code with asynchronous streams
Explore parallel programming with .NET's Task Parallel Library
Create dataflow pipelines with .NET's TPL Dataflow library
Understand the capabilities that System.Reactive builds on top of LINQ
Utilize threadsafe and immutable collections
Learn how to conduct unit testing with concurrent code
Make the thread pool work for you
Enable clean, cooperative cancellation
Examine scenarios for combining concurrent approaches
Dive into asynchronous-friendly object-oriented programming
Recognize and write adapters for code using older asynchronous styles]]> 251 Stephen Cleary 149205450X Sean 5 c-sharp, comp-sci, dot-net 3.98 2014
author: Stephen Cleary
name: Sean
average rating: 3.98
book published: 2014
rating: 5
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date added: 2021/12/01
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]]> 6478525 166 Alan Dean Foster Sean 3 sci-fi 4.30 1972
author: Alan Dean Foster
name: Sean
average rating: 4.30
book published: 1972
rating: 3
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]]> 53876902
Authors Jeff Carpenter and Eben Hewitt demonstrate the advantages of Cassandra’s nonrelational design, with special attention to data modeling. If you’re a developer, DBA, or application architect looking to solve a database scaling issue or future-proof your application, this guide helps you harness Cassandra’s speed and flexibility.

Understand Cassandra’s distributed and decentralized structure
Use the Cassandra Query Language (CQL) and cqlsh—the CQL shell
Create a working data model and compare it with an equivalent relational model
Develop sample applications using client drivers for languages including Java, Python, and Node.js
Explore cluster topology and learn how nodes exchange data]]> Jeff Carpenter 1098115155 Sean 4 comp-sci 4.31 2010
author: Jeff Carpenter
name: Sean
average rating: 4.31
book published: 2010
rating: 4
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]]> 13435768 Gain a solid understanding of T-SQL—and write better queries

Master the fundamentals of Transact-SQL—and develop your own code for querying and modifying data in Microsoft® SQL Server® 2012. Led by a SQL Server expert, you’ll learn the concepts behind T-SQL querying and programming, and then apply your knowledge with exercises in each chapter. Once you understand the logic behind T-SQL, you’ll quickly learn how to write effective code—whether you’re a programmer or database administrator.

Discover how to:


Work with programming practices unique to T-SQL
Create database tables and define data integrity
Query multiple tables using joins and subqueries
Simplify code and improve maintainability with table expressions
Implement insert, update, delete, and merge data modification strategies
Tackle advanced techniques such as window functions, pivoting and grouping sets
Control data consistency using isolation levels, and mitigate deadlocks and blocking
Take T-SQL to the next level with programmable objects]]> 442 Itzik Ben-Gan 0735658145 Sean 4 comp-sci 4.44 2012
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name: Sean
average rating: 4.44
book published: 2012
rating: 4
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]]> 13178498
The full list of topics are as

The Interview Process This section offers an overview on questions are selected and how you will be evaluated. What happens when you get a question wrong? When should you start preparing, and how? What language should you use? All these questions and more are answered.
Behind the Scenes Learn what happens behind the scenes during your interview, how decisions really get made, who you interview with, and what they ask you. Companies covered include Google, Amazon, Yahoo, Microsoft, Apple and Facebook.
Special Situations This section explains the process for experience candidates, Program Managers, Dev Managers, Testers / SDETs, and more. Learn what your interviewers are looking for and how much code you need to know.
Before the Interview In order to ace the interview, you first need to get an interview. This section describes what a software engineer's resume should look like and what you should be doing well before your interview.
Behavioral Preparation Although most of a software engineering interview will be technical, behavioral questions matter too. This section covers how to prepare for behavioral questions and how to give strong, structured responses.
Technical Questions (+ 5 Algorithm Approaches) This section covers how to prepare for technical questions (without wasting your time) and teaches actionable ways to solve the trickiest algorithm problems. It also teaches you what exactly "good coding" is when it comes to an interview.
150 Programming Questions and Answers This section forms the bulk of the book. Each section opens with a discussion of the core knowledge and strategies to tackle this type of question, diving into exactly how you break down and solve it. Topics covered includeĚý For the widest degree of readability, the solutions are almost entirely written with Java (with the exception of C / C++ questions). A link is provided with the book so that you can download, compile, and play with the solutions yourself.
Changes from the Fourth Ěý The fifth edition includes over 200 pages of new content, bringing the book from 300 pages to over 500 pages. Major revisions were done to almost every solution, including a number of alternate solutions added. The introductory chapters were massively expanded, as were the opening of each of the chapters under Technical Questions. In addition, 24 new questions were added.
Cracking the Coding Interview, Fifth Edition is the most expansive, detailed guide on how to ace your software development / programming interviews.]]> 510 Gayle Laakmann McDowell 098478280X Sean 4 comp-sci 4.32 2008
author: Gayle Laakmann McDowell
name: Sean
average rating: 4.32
book published: 2008
rating: 4
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]]> 12470265 Every other month, Cook's Illustrated Magazine attracts more than a million readers. Now subscribers and non-subscribers alike can benefit from the expertise of these America's Test Kitchen cooking wizards. This deluxe hardcover contains more than 2,000 foolproof recipes and 150 test kitchen discoveries. Browse it; buy it; use it.

]]> 890 Cook's Illustrated 1933615893 Sean 4 cooking 4.51 2011
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name: Sean
average rating: 4.51
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rating: 4
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]]> 30228733 Deep Nutrition illustrates how our ancestors used nourishment to sculpt their anatomy, engineering bodies of extraordinary health and beauty. The length of our limbs, the shape of our eyes, and the proper function of our organs are all gifts of our ancestor's collective culinary wisdom. Citing the foods of traditional cultures from the Ancient Egyptians and the Maasai to the Japanese and the French, the Shanahans identify four food categories all the world's healthiest diets have in common, the Four Pillars of World Cuisine.

Using the latest research in physiology and genetics, Dr. Shanahan explains why your family's health depends on eating these foods. In a world of competing nutritional ideologies, Deep Nutrition gives us the full picture, empowering us to take control of our destiny in ways we might never have imagined.]]> 512 Catherine Shanahan 1250113822 Sean 4 food-sci, health, nutrition 4.29 2008
author: Catherine Shanahan
name: Sean
average rating: 4.29
book published: 2008
rating: 4
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]]> 96888 192 Dennis Prager 0060987359 Sean 4 4.16 1998
author: Dennis Prager
name: Sean
average rating: 4.16
book published: 1998
rating: 4
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]]> 249213 392 Bruce A. Schumm 080187971X Sean 4 physics 4.36 2004
author: Bruce A. Schumm
name: Sean
average rating: 4.36
book published: 2004
rating: 4
read at: 2015/02/01
date added: 2021/10/30
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]]> 234225 Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, heir to a noble family tasked with ruling an inhospitable world where the only thing of value is the "spice" melange, a drug capable of extending life and enhancing consciousness. Coveted across the known universe, melange is a prize worth killing for...

When House Atreides is betrayed, the destruction of Paul's family will set the boy on a journey toward a destiny greater than he could ever have imagined. And as he evolves into the mysterious man known as Muad'Dib, he will bring to fruition humankind's most ancient and unattainable dream.

A stunning blend of adventure and mysticism, environmentalism and politics, Dune won the first Nebula Award, shared the Hugo Award, and formed the basis of what is undoubtedly the grandest epic in science fiction.]]> 604 Frank Herbert 0340839937 Sean 5 sci-fi 4.21 1965
author: Frank Herbert
name: Sean
average rating: 4.21
book published: 1965
rating: 5
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]]> 38728977 Why is addiction "perfectly logical" to an addict?
Why does love change so quickly from passion to indifference?
Why are some people diehard liberals and others hardcore conservatives?
Why are we always hopeful for solutions even in the darkest times--and so good at figuring them out?

The answer is found in a single chemical in your brain: dopamine. Dopamine ensured the survival of early man. Thousands of years later, it is the source of our most basic behaviors and cultural ideas--and progress itself.

Dopamine is the chemical of desire that always asks for more--more stuff, more stimulation, and more surprises. In pursuit of these things, it is undeterred by emotion, fear, or morality. Dopamine is the source of our every urge, that little bit of biology that makes an ambitious business professional sacrifice everything in pursuit of success, or that drives a satisfied spouse to risk it all for the thrill of someone new. Simply put, it is why we seek and succeed; it is why we discover and prosper. Yet, at the same time, it's why we gamble and squander.

From dopamine's point of view, it's not the having that matters. It's getting something--anything--that's new. From this understanding--the difference between possessing something versus anticipating it--we can understand in a revolutionary new way why we behave as we do in love, business, addiction, politics, religion - and we can even predict those behaviors in ourselves and others.

In The Molecule of More: How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity--and will Determine the Fate of the Human Race, George Washington University professor and psychiatrist Daniel Z. Lieberman, MD, and Georgetown University lecturer Michael E. Long present a potentially life-changing proposal: Much of human life has an unconsidered component that explains an array of behaviors previously thought to be unrelated, including why winners cheat, why geniuses often suffer with mental illness, why nearly all diets fail, and why the brains of liberals and conservatives really are different.]]> 240 Daniel Z. Lieberman 1946885118 Sean 0 to-read 4.12 2018
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]]> 54713676 One ingredient can change the nature of a dish, elevating it from flat to transcendent—with 58 ingredient profiles and more than 260 recipes and variations.

Do you have a kitchen full of jars and pastes and flours you want to use more? From capers, crème fraîche, and fish sauce to date syrup, labneh, preserved lemon, and more, Michelle McKenzie offers a fresh perspective on magical pantry items that are often overlooked by home cooks.

With 58 ingredient profiles and more than 260 recipes and variations featuring those ingredients, learn to harness the power of your pantry to make dishes extraordinary. Undeniably inspiring yet also happily pragmatic, The Modern Larder will change your approach to cooking and elevate your everyday meals.]]> 376 Michelle McKenzie 1611805708 Sean 0 to-read 3.81
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]]> 24738
So begins T. Coraghessan Boyle's wickedly comic look at turn-of-the-century fanatics in search of the magic pill to prolong their lives - or the profit to be had from manufacturing it. Brimming with a Dickensian cast of characters and laced with wildly wonderful plot twists, Jane Smiley in The New York Times Book Review called The Road to Wellville "a marvel, enjoyable from beginning to end."]]> 496 T. Coraghessan Boyle 0140167188 Sean 3 2019-to-read 3.70 1993
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]]> 51478509
The Rust language is a way to write incredibly fast - and safe - code. It's being used to build tools at Google, Facebook, Amazon, and many other companies where performance is critical.

While there are some good resources on how to learn the Rust programming language by itself, what these other books don't teach is how to build applications with Rust.

Fullstack Rust solves that. In this book we show you how to use Rust to build incredibly fast web-servers, build command-line tools, and compile apps to run in the browser with Web Assembly (WASM).]]> 320 Andrew Weiss Sean 3 comp-sci 3.90
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]]> 43998043 268 Lee calcote 1492043788 Sean 3 3.30
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]]> 58067942 370 Stephen Wolfram 1579550428 Sean 0 to-read 3.75 2021
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]]> 7493
An illuminating study of the intertwined lives of the founders of the American republic--John Adams, Aaron Burr, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and George Washington.

During the 1790s, which Ellis calls the most decisive decade in our nation's history, the greatest statesmen of their generation--and perhaps any--came together to define the new republic and direct its course for the coming centuries. Ellis focuses on six discrete moments that exemplify the most crucial issues facing the fragile new nation: Burr and Hamilton's deadly duel, and what may have really happened; Hamilton, Jefferson, and Madison's secret dinner, during which the seat of the permanent capital was determined in exchange for passage of Hamilton's financial plan; Franklin's petition to end the "peculiar institution" of slavery--his last public act--and Madison's efforts to quash it; Washington's precedent-setting Farewell Address, announcing his retirement from public office and offering his country some final advice; Adams's difficult term as Washington's successor and his alleged scheme to pass the presidency on to his son; and finally, Adams and Jefferson's renewed correspondence at the end of their lives, in which they compared their different views of the Revolution and its legacy.

In a lively and engaging narrative, Ellis recounts the sometimes collaborative, sometimes archly antagonistic interactions between these men, and shows us the private characters behind the public personas: Adams, the ever-combative iconoclast, whose closest political collaborator was his wife, Abigail; Burr, crafty, smooth, and one of the most despised public figures of his time; Hamilton, whose audacious manner and deep economic savvy masked his humble origins; Jefferson, renowned for his eloquence, but so reclusive and taciturn that he rarely spoke more than a few sentences in public; Madison, small, sickly, and paralyzingly shy, yet one of the most effective debaters of his generation; and the stiffly formal Washington, the ultimate realist, larger-than-life, and America's only truly indispensable figure.

Ellis argues that the checks and balances that permitted the infant American republic to endure were not primarily legal, constitutional, or institutional, but intensely personal, rooted in the dynamic interaction of leaders with quite different visions and values. Revisiting the old-fashioned idea that character matters, Founding Brothers informs our understanding of American politics--then and now--and gives us a new perspective on the unpredictable forces that shape history.]]> 288 Joseph J. Ellis 0375705244 Sean 0 to-read 3.94 2000
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]]> 17255186
The company's new IT initiative, code named Phoenix Project, is critical to the future of Parts Unlimited, but the project is massively over budget and very late. The CEO wants Bill to report directly to him and fix the mess in ninety days or else Bill's entire department will be outsourced.

With the help of a prospective board member and his mysterious philosophy of The Three Ways, Bill starts to see that IT work has more in common with manufacturing plant work than he ever imagined. With the clock ticking, Bill must organize work flow streamline interdepartmental communications, and effectively serve the other business functions at Parts Unlimited.

In a fast-paced and entertaining style, three luminaries of the DevOps movement deliver a story that anyone who works in IT will recognize. Readers will not only learn how to improve their own IT organizations, they'll never view IT the same way again.]]> 345 Gene Kim 0988262592 Sean 5 4.23 2013
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]]> 113934 Written in a fast-paced thriller style, The Goal is the gripping novel which is transforming management thinking throughout the Western world.

Alex Rogo is a harried plant manager working ever more desperately to try and improve performance. His factory is rapidly heading for disaster. So is his marriage. He has ninety days to save his plant—or it will be closed by corporate HQ, with hundreds of job losses. It takes a chance meeting with a colleague from student days—Jonah—to help him break out of conventional ways of thinking to see what needs to be done.

The story of Alex's fight to save his plant is more than compulsive reading. It contains a serious message for all managers in industry and explains the ideas which underline the Theory of Constraints (TOC) developed by Eli Goldratt.]]> 384 Eliyahu M. Goldratt 0884271781 Sean 0 to-read 4.06 1984
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]]> 38191426
"Every person involved in a failed IT project should be forced to read this book."--TIM O'REILLY, Founder & CEO of O'Reilly Media

"The Phoenix Project is a must read for business and IT executives who are struggling with the growing complexity of IT."--JIM WHITEHURST, President and CEO, Red Hat, Inc.

Five years after this sleeper hit took on the world of IT and flipped it on it's head, the 5th Anniversary Edition of The Phoenix Project continues to guide IT in the DevOps revolution.

In this newly updated and expanded edition of the bestselling The Phoenix Project, co-author Gene Kim includes a new afterword and a deeper delve into the Three Ways as described in The DevOps Handbook.

Bill, an IT manager at Parts Unlimited, has been tasked with taking on a project critical to the future of the business, code named Phoenix Project. But the project is massively over budget and behind schedule. The CEO demands Bill must fix the mess in ninety days or else Bill's entire department will be outsourced.

With the help of a prospective board member and his mysterious philosophy of The Three Ways, Bill starts to see that IT work has more in common with a manufacturing plant work than he ever imagined. With the clock ticking, Bill must organize work flow streamline interdepartmental communications, and effectively serve the other business functions at Parts Unlimited.

In a fast-paced and entertaining style, three luminaries of the DevOps movement deliver a story that anyone who works in IT will recognize. Readers will not only learn how to improve their own IT organizations, they'll never view IT the same way again.

"This book is a gripping read that captures brilliantly the dilemmas that face companies which depend on IT, and offers real-world solutions."--JEZ HUMBLE, Co-author of Continuous Delivery, Lean Enterprise, Accelerate, and The DevOps Handbook

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"I'm delighted at how The Phoenix Project has reshaped so many conversations in technology. My goal in writing The Unicorn Project was to explore and reveal the necessary but invisible structures required to make developers (and all engineers) productive, and reveal the devastating effects of technical debt and complexity. I hope this book can create common ground for technology and business leaders to leave the past behind, and co-create a better future together."--Gene Kim, November 2019]]> 537 Gene Kim 1942788320 Sean 5 4.36 2013
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]]> 24694 "Bartleby" (also known as "Bartleby the Scrivener") is an intriguing moral allegory set in the business world of mid-19th-century New York. A strange, enigmatic man employed as a clerk in a legal office, Bartleby forces his employer to come to grips with the most basic questions of human responsibility, and haunts the latter's conscience, even after Bartleby's dismissal.
"Benito Cereno," considered one of Melville's best short stories, deals with a bloody slave revolt on a Spanish vessel. A splendid parable of man's struggle against the forces of evil, the carefully developed and mysteriously guarded plot builds to a dramatic climax while revealing the horror and depravity of which man is capable.
Reprinted here from standard texts in a finely made, yet inexpensive new edition, these stories offer the general reader and students of Melville and American literature sterling examples of a literary giant at his story-telling best.
--back cover]]> 104 Herman Melville 0486264734 Sean 0 to-read 3.78
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]]> 57148867 A guide to discovering the hidden behaviors of ASP.NET Core that can be customized to optimize your .NET 5 applications

Key FeaturesCustomize the default behavior of ASP.NET Core to get the most out of the frameworkEnhance the app configuration, change the default dependency injection, and build your own tag helpersDiscover best practices for configuring ASP.NET Core, from user interface design to hosting it on platformsBook DescriptionASP.NET Core is the most powerful Microsoft web framework. Although it’s full of rich features, sometimes the default configurations can be a bottleneck and need to be customized to suit the nature and scale of your app. If you’re an intermediate-level .NET developer who wants to extend .NET Core to multiple use cases, it's important to customize these features so that the framework works for you effectively.

Customizing ASP.NET Core 5.0 covers core features that can be customized for developing optimized apps. The customization techniques are also updated to work with the latest .NET 5 framework.

You’ll learn essential concepts relating to optimizing the framework such as configuration, dependency injection, routing, action filters, and more. As you progress, you’ll be able to create custom solutions that meet the needs of your use case with ASP.NET Core. Later chapters will cover expert techniques and best practices for using the framework for your app development needs, from UI design to hosting. Finally, you’ll focus on the new endpoint routing in ASP.NET Core to build custom endpoints and add third-party endpoints to your web apps for processing requests faster.

By the end of this application development book, you’ll have the skills you need to be able to customize ASP.NET Core to develop robust optimized apps.

What you will learnExplore various application configurations and providers in ASP.NET Core 5Understand dependency injection in .NET and learn how to add third-party DI containersDiscover the concept of middleware and write your own middleware for ASP.NET Core appsCreate various API output formats in your API-driven projectsGet familiar with different hosting models for your ASP.NET Core appDevelop custom routing endpoints and add third-party endpointsConfigure WebHostBuilder effectively for your web applicationsWho this book is forThis .NET 5 book is for .NET developers who need to change the default behaviors of the framework to help improve the performance of their applications. Intermediate-level knowledge of ASP.NET Core and C# is required before getting started with the book.

Table of ContentsCustomizing LoggingCustomizing App ConfigurationCustomizing Dependency InjectionConfiguring and Customizing HTTPS with KestrelUsing IHostedService and BackgroundServiceWriting Custom MiddlewareContent Negotiation Using a Custom OutputFormatterManaging Inputs with Custom ModelBindersCreating a Custom ActionFilterCreating Custom TagHelpersConfiguring WebHostBuilderUsing Different Hosting ModelsWorking with Endpoint Routing]]> 160 JĂĽrgen Gutsch 1801079307 Sean 4 aspnet, c-sharp 4.20
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]]> 30656673 74 Lacy Boggs Sean 3 4.10
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]]> 52962223 The best way to learn microservices development is to build something! Bootstrapping Microservices with Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform guides you from zero through to a complete microservices project, including fast prototyping, development, and deployment. You’ll get your feet wet using industry-standard tools as you learn and practice the practical skills you’ll use for every microservices application. Following a true bootstrapping approach, you’ll begin with a simple, familiar application and build up your knowledge and skills as you create and deploy a real microservices project.

Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.

About the technology
Taking microservices from proof of concept to production is a complex, multi-step operation relying on tools like Docker, Terraform, and Kubernetes for packaging and deployment. The best way to learn the process is to build a project from the ground up, and that’s exactly what you’ll do with this book!

About the book
In Bootstrapping Microservices with Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform , author Ashley Davis lays out a comprehensive approach to building microservices. You’ll start with a simple design and work layer-by-layer until you’ve created your own video streaming application. As you go, you’ll learn to configure cloud infrastructure with Terraform, package microservices using Docker, and deploy your finished project to a Kubernetes cluster.

What's inside

Developing and testing microservices applications
Working with cloud providers
Applying automated testing
Implementing infrastructure as code and setting up a continuous delivery pipeline
Monitoring, managing, and troubleshooting

About the reader
Examples are in JavaScript. No experience with microservices, Kubernetes, Terraform, or Docker required.

About the author
Ashley Davis is a software developer, entrepreneur, stock trader, and the author of Manning’s Data Wrangling with JavaScript .

Table of Contents

1 Why microservices?

2 Creating your first microservice

3 Publishing your first microservice

4 Data management for microservices

5 Communication between microservices

6 Creating your production environment

7 Getting to continuous delivery

8 Automated testing for microservices

9 Exploring FlixTube

10 Healthy microservices

11 Pathways to scalability]]> 440 Ashley Davis 1617297216 Sean 0 3.97
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]]> 55665446 Apply Kubernetes beyond the basics of Kubernetes clusters by implementing IAM using OIDC and Active Directory, Layer 4 load balancing using MetalLB, advanced service integration, security, auditing, and CI/CD

Key FeaturesFind out how to add enterprise features to a Kubernetes cluster with theory and exercises to guide youUnderstand advanced topics including load balancing, externalDNS, IDP integration, security, auditing, backup, and CI/CDCreate development clusters for unique testing requirements, including running multiple clusters on a single server to simulate an enterprise environmentBook DescriptionContainerization has changed the DevOps game completely, with Docker and Kubernetes playing important roles in altering the flow of app creation and deployment. This book will help you acquire the knowledge and tools required to integrate Kubernetes clusters in an enterprise environment.

The book begins by introducing you to Docker and Kubernetes fundamentals, including a review of basic Kubernetes objects. You’ll then get to grips with containerization and understand its core functionalities, including how to create ephemeral multinode clusters using kind. As you make progress, you’ll learn about cluster architecture, Kubernetes cluster deployment, and cluster management, and get started with application deployment. Moving on, you’ll find out how to integrate your container to a cloud platform and integrate tools including MetalLB, externalDNS, OpenID connect (OIDC), pod security policies (PSPs), Open Policy Agent (OPA), Falco, and Velero. Finally, you will discover how to deploy an entire platform to the cloud using continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD).

By the end of this Kubernetes book, you will have learned how to create development clusters for testing applications and Kubernetes components, and be able to secure and audit a cluster by implementing various open-source solutions including OpenUnison, OPA, Falco, Kibana, and Velero.

What you will learnCreate a multinode Kubernetes cluster using kindImplement Ingress, MetalLB, and ExternalDNSConfigure a cluster OIDC using impersonationMap enterprise authorization to KubernetesSecure clusters using PSPs and OPAEnhance auditing using Falco and EFKBack up your workload for disaster recovery and cluster migrationDeploy to a platform using Tekton, GitLab, and ArgoCDWho this book is forThis book is for anyone interested in DevOps, containerization, and going beyond basic Kubernetes cluster deployments. DevOps engineers, developers, and system administrators looking to enhance their IT career paths will also find this book helpful. Although some prior experience with Docker and Kubernetes is recommended, this book includes a Kubernetes bootcamp that provides a description of Kubernetes objects to help you if you are new to the topic or need a refresher.

Table of ContentsDocker and Containers EssentialsWorking with Docker DataUnderstanding Docker NetworkingDeploying Kubernetes using KindKubernetes BootcampServices, Load Balancing, and External DNSIntegrating Authentication into your ClusterRBAC Policies and AuditingDeploying a Secured Kubernetes DashboardCreating Pod Security PoliciesExtending Security using Open Policy Agent]]> 526 Scott Surovich 1839212144 Sean 3 4.43
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]]> 12497 Alternate Cover Edition for ISBN 9780375706677

In his blistering new novel, Cormac McCarthy returns to the Texas-Mexico border, the setting of his famed Border Trilogy. The time is our own, when rustlers have given way to drug-runners and small towns have become free-fire zones.

One day, Llewellyn Moss finds a pickup truck surrounded by a bodyguard of dead men. A load of heroin and two million dollars in cash are still in the back. When Moss takes the money, he sets off a chain reaction of catastrophic violence that not even the law–in the person of aging, disillusioned Sheriff Bell–can contain.

As Moss tries to evade his pursuers–in particular a mysterious mastermind who flips coins for human lives–McCarthy simultaneously strips down the American crime novel and broadens its concerns to encompass themes as ancient as the Bible and as bloodily contemporary as this morning’s headlines.
No Country for Old Men is a triumph.]]> 309 Cormac McCarthy Sean 0 to-read, 2022-to-read 4.15 2005
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]]> 18989 Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy begins George Smiley's chess match of wills and wits with Karla, his Soviet counterpart.

It is now beyond a doubt that a mole, implanted decades ago by Moscow Centre, has burrowed his way into the highest echelons of British Intelligence. His treachery has already blown some of its most vital operations and its best networks. It is clear that the double agent is one of its own kind. But which one? George Smiley is assigned to identify him. And once identified, the traitor must be destroyed.]]> 379 John Le Carré 0743457900 Sean 0 to-read, 2022-to-read 4.04 1974
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]]> 9717 The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera tells the story of a young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing and one of his mistresses and her humbly faithful lover. This magnificent novel juxtaposes geographically distant places, brilliant and playful reflections, and a variety of styles, to take its place as perhaps the major achievement of one of the world’s truly great writers.]]> 314 Milan Kundera 0571224385 Sean 0 to-read, 2022-to-read 4.12 1984
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