There are more applications running in the cloud than there are ones that run well there. If you're considering taking advantage of cloud technology for your company's projects, this practical guide is an ideal way to understand the best practices that will help you architect applications that work well in the cloud, no matter which vendors, products, or languages you use.Architects and lead developers will learn how cloud applications should be designed, how they fit into a larger...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 12th Latin American Conference on High Performance Computing, CARLA 2025, held in Kingston, Jamaica, during September 22–26, 2025.The 16 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 28 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: High-Performance Computing (HPC); Artificial Intelligence at HPC Scale; and High-Performance Computing Applications.

“Ladies and gentlemen of the jury,” the Judge says. “You have just experienced the extraordinary technology of ‘Mind-Watching’; a technology that has revolutionized the courtroom. This technology allows us to see into someone’s mind. It brings forth untainted memories. We see and hear exactly what the subject experienced.“This technology, as you can imagine, makes guilt or innocence easy to determine; trials are now used solely for the purpose of sentencing. All five defendants in ...

As a dark flame consumes the world, a larger threat looms over the refugees of Solpate.WINNER: Readers' Favorite Book Awards 2020 - Bronze Medal - Young Adult Fiction-Epic FantasyWINNER: Pinnacle Book Achievement Award, Winter 2020 - Best Young Adult Fantasy“The world-building is intricate, strange but compelling, drawing fantasy elements into its own cohesive and engaging lore... Full of dar...

From alpha-galactosidases to xylanases, Enzymes in Farm Animal Nutrition provides a comprehensive guide to all aspects associated with enzyme-supplemented animal feeds. It details the history and size of the feed enzyme market, before describing how feed enzymes are manufactured and employed in monogastric, aqua and ruminant diets. This new edition explores considerable advances such as the use of enzymes in fish and shrimp diets, new understanding of how phytases function in the animal, N...

Give God a Chance is an effort to present the information in the Edgar Cayce readings in ways that are meaningful and useful to Christians of all persuasions, and even to those of other faiths. Give God a Chance consists of the following five sections:PART I: The Edgar Cayce ReadingsThis part focuses on Edgar Cayce and the ways in which Cayce presented health and spiritual advice in what has been called readings. It also deals with the authors personal expe...

The hit creator-owned comic series from Patton Oswalt and Jordan Blum, showrunners of Marvel’s M.O.D.O.K on HULU and superstar artist Scott Hepburn (Tom Morello’s Orchid), comes this new deluxe hardcover edition collecting the first two Minor Threats tie-in miniseries.The multiversal misfits and the punk rock super-bug finally get their due in this oversized, deluxe hardcover collection from the world of Minor Threats!A s...

Get answers FAST with the Landscape Architect’s One-Stop,Take-It-Anywhere GuideIn the office or out on the job, the Landscape Architect’s Portable Handbook puts the 20% of information you need 80% of the time at your fingertips! You get instant data for every architectural landscaping project: public and private gardens…athletic facilities…highways…urban/suburban settings…MORE! From project administration, planning, design standards and analysis to site development, construction, m...

Spinning out of the world of the hit Minor Threats superhero series by Patton Oswalt, Jordan Blum, and Scott Hepburn comes a new tale of costumed underdogs—featuring a low-level henchman without a leader to serve.The Lower Lair bar is home to all sorts of supervillains, lowlifes, and scumbags... but only one of them has to puke digestive fluids onto his food to eat. $#!%eater, the humanoid mutant fly, is a loser, a lifelong minion who lives to serve his cr...

During a random one night stand, in the final weeks of college. Teddy has a realization that he wants to settle down and have a boyfriend for the first time. He slowly starts to finally accept that his teen years are limited and that adulthood is quickly approaching. To his surprise, Teddy realizes that online dating is not as charming and simple as he thought it would be. He reluctantly learns how to cope with his conflicting feelings of love, while also facing the most challenging and un...

Thirty stories from thirty authors, including Jane Yolen, Mike Resnick & J. J. Steinfeld.How will the world end? With aliens or angels? Or a ground hog? Bleak despair? Martial fervor? Or a belly laugh? Whatever the Apocalypse, It will be borne by people and their families and their dogs and most of all, it will challenge their notions of themselves. This anthology includes international award winning writers, poets, and thinkers that give you their version of the A...

Songs of protest have been inspiring activists for millennia, and continue to be created, shared, and reworked across musical genres. From the prophet Habakkuk as proto-protest singer, through a broad spectrum of twentieth and twenty-first century artists and diverse faith traditions, Theology and Protest Music gathers compelling contributions that examine Brazilian eschatology, Black liberation and womanism, esoteric Islam in Five Percenter rap, heavy metal as anti-theology, Howard Thurma...