The Windows Azure Platform is Microsoft's Platform-as-a-Service environment for hosting services and data in the cloud. It provides developers with on-demand compute, storage, and service connectivity capabilities that facilitate the hosting of highly-scalable services in Windows Azure datacenters across the globe.
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Difficult Women on Television Drama analyses select case studies from international TV dramas to examine the unresolved feminist issues they raise or address: equal labor force participation, the demand for sexual pleasure and freedom, opposition to sexual and domestic violence, and the need for intersectional...
LPI Linux Certification in a Nutshell, Second Edition is an invaluable resource for determining what you need to practice to pass the Linux Professional Institute exams. This book will help you determine when you're ready to take the exams, which are technically...
You don’t want good pictures from your new Canon PowerShot G10/G11—you demand outstanding photos. After all, the PowerShot G10 and G11 are the most pocketsized digital cameras that Canon has ever introduced. They boast 10 and 14 megapixels of resolution, blazing fast automatic focus, and a dozen and a half Special Scene modes that...
Family photographs are a staple of both amateur and professional photography. While always in demand, they also pose a unique set of challenges. In this book, Canon Explorer of Light Michele Celentano guides beginning- to intermediate-level photographers around the common...
Leverage the power of Elixir programming language to solve practical problems associated with scalability, concurrency, fault tolerance, and high availability.
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Today our civilization is highly dependent upon software-intensive systems. Software-intensive systems are those systems that are highly dependent upon computing infrastructure and software for the basic functionality they provide and the properties they possess. Architecture design of software-intensive systems as a separate and distinct...
In 1999, Dr Willy Chiu, noticing the emergence of many large and complex customer Web sites, and observing how they often failed to deliver the expected robustness and customer satisfaction, set up a new team within IBM called the High-Volume Web Sites (HVWS) team. This team was chartered to work with customers and IBM internal teams involved in...
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