This book provides a refreshingly new perspective for investigating linguistic texts, which foregrounds models of the human. It presents a close reading of major linguistic theories in the twentieth century with a focus on three main themes: linguistic system and the individual speaker; social order; and linguistic creativity. The examination of these three fundamental themes concerning language and human nature, on the one hand, provides a fine-textured exposition on the implicit and expl...

Nature has gone feral. How can we re-attune ourselves to the new nature? A field guide can help.While the global scientific community recently made headlines by ruling the Anthropocene—an era many date to the Industrial Revolution when human action truly began to transform the planet—did not qualify for a geological epoch quite yet, understanding the nature of human transformation of the Earth is more important than ever. The effects of human activity are global in...

This book analyzes in detail the technological evolution process of databases in the era of cloud computing and explains how traditional database technology has gradually developed to cloud-native form from multiple perspectives such as architecture design, implementation mechanism, and system optimization. This book emphasizes the full combination of theory and practice and also analyzes the SQL optimization and execution, transaction processing, caching and indexing principles of databas...

The future for Nagios in the enterprise is certainly bright! Nagios 3 Enterprise Network Monitoring can help you harness the full power of Nagios in your organization. Nagios 3 contains many significant new features and updates, and this book details them all for you. Once up and running, you'll see how a number of useful add-ons and enhancements for Nagios can extend the functionality of Nagios throughout your organization. And, if you want to learn how to write your own plugins...this is...

Become a better programmer with performance improvement techniques such as concurrency, lock-free programming, atomic operations, parallelism, and memory management Key Features • Learn proven techniques from a heavyweight and recognized expert in C++ and high-performance computing • Understand the limitations of modern CPUs and their performance impact • Find out how you can avoid writing inefficient code and get the best optimizations from the compiler • Learn the tradeoffs and costs of ...

Learn the Root Causes of Software Vulnerabilities and How to Avoid ThemCommonly exploited software vulnerabilities are usually caused by avoidable software defects. Having analyzed tens of thousands of vulnerability reports since 1988, CERT has determined that a relatively small number of root causes account for most of the vulnerabilities.Secure Coding in C and C++, Second Edition, identifies and explains these root causes and sho...

When Practical Unix Security was first published more than a decade ago, it became an instant classic. Crammed with information about host security, it saved many a Unix system administrator from disaster. The second edition added much-needed Internet security coverage and doubled the size of the original volume. The third edition is a comprehensive update of this very popular book - a companion for the Unix/Linux system administrator who needs to secure his or her organization's ...

This book is designed to prepare you for the Amazon Certified Solutions Architect – Professional exam.All efforts were made when writing this book to make the material simple to understand. The net result are strong and capable solutions architects who will have a distinct competitive advantage over their competition.The AWS cloud is the dominant cloud computing platform today. Having strong knowledge of the AWS cloud is a strategic advantage in helping you find the technol...

State-of-the-Art Software Security Testing: Expert, Up to Date, and ComprehensiveThe Art of Software Security Testing delivers in-depth, up-to-date, battle-tested techniques for anticipating and identifying software security problems before the “bad guys” do.Drawing on decades of experience in application and penetration testing, this book’s authors can help you transform your approach from mere “verification” to proactive “attack.” The authors beg...

SELinux: Bring World-Class Security to Any Linux Environment!SELinux offers Linux/UNIX integrators, administrators, and developers a state-of-the-art platform for building and maintaining highly secure solutions. Now that SELinux is included in the Linux 2.6 kernel—and delivered by default in Fedora Core, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and other major distributions—it’s easier than ever to take advantageof its benefits.SELinux by Example is the first complete, ha...

Learn from the AWS subject-matter experts, apply real-world scenarios and clear the AWS Certified Solutions Architect –Associate examKey FeaturesBuild highly reliable and scalable workloads on the AWS platformPass the exam in less time and with confidenceGet up and running with building and managing applications on the AWS platformBook DescriptionAmazon Web Services (AWS) is currently the leader in the public cloud market. Wi...

Principles of Transaction Processing is a comprehensive guide to developing applications, designing systems, and evaluating engineering products. The book provides detailed discussions of the internal workings of transaction processing systems, and it discusses how these systems work and how best to utilize them. It covers the architecture of Web Application Servers and transactional communication paradigms.The book is divided into 11 chapters, which cover the following: Overview of transa...