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CockroachDB is the distributed SQL database that handles the demands of today's data-driven applications. The second edition of this popular hands-on guide shows software developers, architects, and DevOps/SRE teams how to use CockroachDB for applications that scale elastically and provide seamless delivery for end users while remaining indestructible.Data professionals will learn how to migrate existing applications to CockroachDB's performant, cloud-native data architecture. You'...

The implementation of stored procedures in MySQL 5.0 a hugemilestone -- one that is expected to lead to widespread enterprise adoption ofthe already extremely popular MySQL database. If you are serious aboutbuilding the web-based database applications of the future, you need toget up to speed quickly on how stored procedures work -- and how tobuild them the right way. This book, destined to be the bible of storedprocedure development, is a resource that no real MySQL programmer canafford t...

In the haunting Black Hills, ancient spirits and modern ambitions clash, threading a complex tale of environmental crisis and cultural survival. Visions of Samuel Dances and wisdom from elder turtle Crazy Horse foretell a toxic danger lurking below Yellowstone. Gustavus Yeats' Gaia Protocols and journalist Jena Li's investigations converge amidst political intrigue and the whispers of Thunderbirds. As ancestral guardians battle industrial foes, the fate of the Earth hangs in balance, with ...

"It’s not easy to find such a generous book on big data and databases. Fortunately, this book is the one." Feng Yu. Computing Reviews. June 28, 2016.This is a book for enterprise architects, database administrators, and developers who need to understand the latest developments in database technologies. It is the book to help you choose the correct database technology at a time when concepts such as Big Data, NoSQL and NewSQL are making what used to be an easy choice into a complex ...

Winner of the 2022 Outstanding Book Award from the National Communication AssociationWhen sports fans turn on the television or radio today, they undoubtedly find more women on the air than ever before. Nevertheless, women sportscasters are still subjected to gendered and racialized mistreatment in the workplace and online and are largely confined to anchor and sideline reporter positions in coverage of high-profile men’s sports. In On the Sidelines Guy Ha...

Use this fast and complete guide to optimize the performance of MongoDB databases and the applications that depend on them. You will be able to turbo-charge the performance of your MongoDB applications to provide a better experience for your users, reduce your running costs, and avoid application growing pains. MongoDB is the world’s most popular document database and the foundation for thousands of mission-critical applications. This book helps you get the best possible performance from M...

Critical-thinking skills are essential for life in the 21st century. In this follow-up to his introductory guide Think, and continuing his trademark of hopeful skepticism, Guy Harrison demonstrates in a detailed fashion how to sort through bad ideas, unfounded claims, and bogus information to drill down to the most salient facts. By explaining how the human brain works, and outing its most irrational processes, this book provides the thinking tools that will help you make better decisions,...

This fresh and exciting approach to science, skepticism, and critical thinking will enlighten and inspire listeners of all ages. With a mix of wit and wisdom, it challenges everyone to think like a scientist, embrace the skeptical life, and improve their critical thinking skills.Think shows you how to better navigate through the maze of biases and traps that are standard features of every human brain. These innate pitfalls threaten to trick us into seeing, hearing, thinkin...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Confluence brings together twenty stories set along the rivers, ridge lines, and reservations of Alaska, Montana, and the Pacific Northwest, where the land feels alive—watchful, ancient, and never quite neutral. In these stories, a badger drags a snake bitten woman to safety and treats her wound, an elk hunter's bullet finds something that hasn't been human for years, an activist uses her musical gifts to protect a place that cannot pro...

How are we going to live meaningful and prosperous lives in a future radically transformed by Artificial Intelligence, Quantum Computers, and other Information Technologies? Understanding technologies like AI, Blockchain, and quantum computing is not just beneficial—it's essential for those wishing to survive and thrive in our shared future.In this concise book aimed at technical and non-technical readers alike, software industry veteran Guy Harrison demystifies these complex techn...

In the bleak 41st Millennium, the planet Armageddon is on the cusp of annihilation. The strategically vital hive world has captured the attention of infamous ork warlord Ghazghkull Thraka, and when the Astra Militarum and whole Titan Legions prove unable to halt the invasion, it is feared that both the planet and the wider sector will be lost to the greenskins. But the Imperium refuses to succumb and unleashes the Space Marines - genetically engineered warriors who thirst for naught but bl...

Sparks In The Dark: The Prison Project by Denise Harrison and HMP Guys Marsh Jubilee Wing is a powerful, deeply human collection of works, written by the inmates themselves, that explore recovery, redemption, and the transformative potential of community in the most unlikely of places — behind prison walls.When award-winning writer and filmmaker Denise Harrison agreed to spend 12 weeks at HMP Guys Marsh, she walked into a men’s prison with a simple but daring goal: to run a reading...