A single hype is not enough to change the world. But multiple hypes together can
change it as long as they are part of a bigger trend.
This book discusses more than one hyped technology: cloud computing, NoSQL, and
HTML5. The technologies in this book combine well with other hyped technologies:
functional...
In the last decade there has been a growing interest in the research and software
industry communities toward techniques, methods and tools that allow one to manage
system performance concerns in the software developer domain. Poor performance
can often be the cause of software project failure, and the need to address
performance...
Foundations of IT Service Management based on ITIL has become the industry classic guide on the topic of ITIL. Over the years this authoritative itSMF guide has earned its place on the bookshelves and in the briefcases of industry experts as they implement best practices within their organizations.
Welcome to Agile ALM. This book has three main goals. The first is to describe Agile
Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) in practical terms and to provide a plan for
rolling out Agile strategies and best-of-breed tools. The second purpose is to explain
how to create ALM toolboxes based on standard tools used in advanced, real-world...
Recently, the rapid and fundamental advances in computing technologies have been driving the role and
scope of software systems to a new level. A number of new types of software systems are emerging,
among which service based systems, cloud computing, pervasive computing, and Internet of Things are
eminent examples. For these systems,...
Service Manager 2010 is without a doubt the most customizable and extensible product in
the System Center suite. The ability to customize and extend the product is enabled by
the common technology platform born in Operations Manager that now underlies other
Microsoft products such as System Center Essentials, Windows InTune, Virtual...
In the five years since the first edition was published,
Microsoft has made impressive progress in building out its
data warehousing and business intelligence tools suite. It is
gratifying to those of us who work in this space to see the
steady commitment that Microsoft has made to provide
usable, professional quality tools. During...
Governance is the process of creating policies and rules and assigning roles and responsibilities to make a system work properly. Even if your attitude is “Good Government is Less Government,” very few of us
would want to have no government. In short, governance is the difference between order and chaos.
A complete guide to Pentaho Kettle, the Pentaho Data lntegration toolset for ETL
This practical book is a complete guide to installing, configuring, and managing Pentaho Kettle. If you’re a database administrator or developer, you’ll first get up to speed on Kettle basics and how to apply Kettle to create ETL...
The expansion of our reliance on software in many aspects of modern society
has coincided with a number of incidents in aeronautics, astronautics,
transportation, medical devices, energy generation, banking and finance.
Failures caused by software have introduced more than just inconvenience,
but significant property damage,...
The purpose of this book is to provide a practical approach to managing security in
FPGA designs for researchers and practitioners in the electronic design automation
(EDA) and FPGA communities, including corporations, industrial and government
research labs, and academics. This book combines theoretical underpinnings with
a practical...
