Moxie is an older golden retriever whose friends depend on her for answers to questions all dogs have. In this book, in a poetic way, Moxie lets her friends figure out the answer this time to their newest question. To their surprise, the answer comes from the one least expected.

“This book continues the very high standard we have come to expect from ServiceTech Press. The book provides well-explained vendor-agnostic patterns to the challenges of providing or using cloud solutions from PaaS to SaaS. The book is not only a great patterns reference, but also worth reading from cover to cover as the patterns are thought-provoking, drawing out points that you should consider and ask of a potential vendor if you’re adopting a cloud solution.”-- Phil Wilki...

Clouds are distributed technology platforms that leverage sophisticated technology innovations to provide highly scalable and resilient environments that can be remotely utilized by organizations in a multitude of powerful ways. To successfully build upon, integrate with, or even create a cloud environment requires an understanding of its common inner mechanics, architectural layers, and models, as well as an understanding of the business and economic factors that result from the adoption ...

A children's book to simply read. Assisting in their knowledge need. Of everyday events we share. Inside this book you'll find them there. The characters endearing friends. It's filled with real life and pretends. You'll laugh when you see that they're true. And maybe cry, to just a few!

Large IT organizations increasingly face the challenge of integrating various web services, applications, and other technologies into a single network. The solution to finding a meaningful large-scale architecture that is capable of spanning a global enterprise appears to have been met in ESB, or Enterprise Service Bus. Rather than conform to the hub-and-spoke architecture of traditional enterprise application integration products, ESB provides a highly distributed approach to integration,...

Foundations of Modern Networking is a comprehensive, unified survey of modern networking technology and applications for today’s professionals, managers, and students. Dr. William Stallings offers clear and well-organized coverage of five key technologies that are transforming networks: Software-Defined Networks (SDN), Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), Quality of Experience (QoE), the Internet of Things (IoT), and cloudbased services.Dr. Stallings reviews current net...

Crazy Mayonnaisy Mum is packed with all sorts of poems and rhymes including a sequence of number rhymes, action rhymes, noisy rhymes and more thoughtful pieces too.If tigerlilies and dandelions growled,And cowslips mooed, and dogroses howled,And snapdragons roared and catmint miaowed,My garden would be extremely loud.Crazy Mayonnaisy Mum is a fantastic collection of funny, silly and entertaining poems for the very young from a...

A new dog in the hilarious series! Jeopardy the Shetland sheepdog could help new-kid Noah make friends -- or she could cause him nothing but trouble!Noah is new in town and nervous about making friends. So when his mom suggests taking their Shetland sheepdog, Jeopardy, to agility training, Noah is ready to give it a try -- and in fact, he meets a lot of other kids (and dogs) at class. But Jeopardy is so embarrassing! She barks, she runs away -- the other kids are going to think Noa...

Some people count their blessings, but dogwalker Stephen Nobel counts mistakes.Dogwalker extraordinaire Stephen Nobel can get a little anxious, but his habit of counting the mistakes he and everyone else makes calms him. His need to analyze gets kicked into hyperdrive after two crazy events happen in one day at school: the bomb squad blows up a backpack and someone smashes a car into the building.To make things worse, that someone thinks Stephen ca...

This is the eBook version of the printed book. If the print book includes a CD-ROM, this content is not included within the eBook version.The focus of the book is on COM Interoperability (since it's a much larger subject), and the heart of the discussion is broken down into four parts:Using COM Components Within the .NET FrameworkUsing .NET Framework Components from COMDesigning Good .NET Framework Components for COM ClientsDesigning Good...

This invaluable guide addresses the Why, What, and How of enterprise cloud adoption, leveraging a clear framework and proven best practices from Microsoft's own experience.“Great book. What’s particularly impressive is the outline of steps Microsoft itself is taking in its move to the cloud. Do as I do is always more powerful than do as I say.”—Al Ries, Coauthor, War in the Boardroom“This book takes on enterprise cloud adoption to a level I’ve not seen before—mad...

An accident-prone baby bird is separated from his flock, and it’s up to Marshall and the rest of Nickelodeon’s PAW Patrol to get him home. Boys and girls ages 3 to 7 will love this storybook featuring full-color illustrations. This Nickelodeon read-along contains audio narration.