The objective of APM Best Practices: Realizing Application Performance Management is to establish reliable application performance management (APM) practices—to demonstrate value, to do it quickly, and to adapt to the client circumstances. It's important to balance long-term goals with short-term deliverables, but...

The goal of this book is to explain elementary programming concepts such as loops, abstractions, composition, and conditionals to novices of all ages. It teaches the core programming concepts based on simple problems, involving the manipulation of robots or "turtles" as frequently seen in school learning environments. The ideal reader...

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We started work on this handbook three years ago and, while bringing it to fruition has involved a great deal of work, we have enjoyed the process. We are grateful to our colleagues who have contributed chapters to the volume. Its quality is due to their labor and commitment. We appreciate the considerable time and effort that they...

PAKDD has been recognized as a major international conference in the areas of data mining (DM) and knowledge discovery in databases (KDD). It provides an international forum for researchers and industry practitioners to share their new ideas, original research results and practical development experiences from all KDD-related areas...

Today's Perl developers spend 60-80% of their time working with existing Perl code. Now, there's a start-to-finish guide to understanding that code, maintaining it, updating it, and refactoring it for maximum performance and reliability. Peter J. Scott, lead author of...