Recent trends in computer architecture make concurrency and parallelism an essential ingredient of efficient program execution. The actor model of concurrency allows you to express real-world concurrency in a natural way using concurrent processes that communicate via asynchronous messages.
Scala is a programming language for the Java...
The field of computer networking has evolved significantly over the past four
decades since the development of ARPANET, the first large-scale computer network.
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Over the years, Exchange Server has become a complicated messaging solution that many
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Welcome to the world of CRM! This chapter introduces you to
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without getting into many of the specifics about Dynamics
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focus on the XRM section of this chapter. If you have administered or
used other CRM...
Digital Design for Print and Web: An Introduction to Theory, Principles, and Techniques was written to help people succeed with digital design. It is a learning product that incorporates both video lessons and an in-depth textbook written from two perspectives—that of a student, and that of a teacher.
Images are all around us. We see them in color and in high resolution. In fact, the
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Parallel hardware has been ubiquitous for some time now. It’s difficult to find a laptop,
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cloud computing could make distributed-memory systems as accessible as...
You are holding the first comprehensive book covering the Oracle Exadata
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The book presents a much needed approach to quality technical communication and a working plan for achieving quality. The examples are excellent and are easy to use and adapt. The editorial advice is simple and clear enough for tech writers who did not major in English or journalism. It is most worthy of a text in university programs, but it...
In the first edition of this book, we focused on what we called the "High Availability Database Administrator." However, that term led G to the question of just what is meant by High Availability? As a term bandied about among database administrators, this can have different meanings depending on who is interpreting it, who has to...
This book provides the reader with a comprehensive review of the entire set of technologies
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audience with varied experience levels ranging from moderate levels of Web development
experience to those who are advanced enterprise Java architects.
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