The database has two important roles: 1. Serve the data—databases are commonly referred to as data servers; 2. Protect the data. Yes that’s right, the database is there to serve and protect. Database security features are vast and complex. While the complexity can afford us many ways to provide a robust...

Performance Analysis for Java(TM) Web Sites is an information-packed guide to...

You're not alone. At any given moment, somewhere in the world someone struggles with the same software design problems you have. You know you don't want to reinvent the wheel (or worse, a flat tire), so you look to Design Patterns--the lessons learned by those who've faced the same problems. With Design Patterns, you get to take...

Paleoclimatology: Reconstructing Climates of the Quaternary, Third Edition―winner of a 2015 Textbook Excellence Award (Texty) from The Text and Academic Authors Association―provides a thorough overview of the methods of paleoclimatic reconstruction and of the historical changes in climate during the past three million...

Nginx is an open source high-performance web server, which has gained quite some popularity recently. Due to its modular architecture and small footprint, it has been the default choice for a lot of smaller Web 2.0 companies to be used as a load-balancing proxy server. It supports most of the existing backend web protocols such as FCGI,...

• Acquaint yourself with all the options to extend PostgreSQL using the programming language of your choice such as C++ and...

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• Write your own custom information security tools using Perl and object-oriented Perl modules
• Apply powerful Perl Regular Expression syntax to finely tune intelligence gathering techniques
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