Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- So far, what are the biggest implementation successes? -- And vice versa, where do you see implementation challenges? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- How to define needs and solutions for an AWS enterprise project -- Defining success in AWS enterprise projects -- How to discuss AWS enterprise projects -- How to leverage Terraform in AWS enterprise projects -- Some recommendations for AWS enterprise projects -- Summary -- Chapter 11: Building Git Workflows for IaC and Terraform Projects -- Why do we need a Git workflow? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Using maps and charts in the real world -- Appreciating the different styles of concept charts and mind maps -- Adding movement to your diagrams by drawing flowcharts -- Considering Other Thinking Tools -- Emptying your head with a dump list -- Sifting for gold: Summarizing -- Conjuring up ideas with brainstorming -- Ascending the heights: Meta-thinking -- Trying out triangulation -- Real-life triangles -- Denzin's three-sided methods -- Answers to Chapter 7's Exercises -- The plant problem -- Summarizing exercise -- Chapter 8 Constructing Knowledge: Information Hierarchies -- Building the Knowledge Pyramid -- Viewing the connections between data and information -- Joining the (data) dots to create information -- Social media sifting disinformation -- Birdwatch -- Watching for errors and biases -- Turning the Knowledge Hierarchy Upside Down -- Thinking critically with Benjamin Bloom -- Meeting Bloom's Taxonomy -- Making knowledge flow upwards -- Thinking creatively with Calvin Taylor -- Maintaining Motivation: Knowledge, Skills, and Mindsets -- Feeling your way to academic success! -- Perusing the paradoxical nature of praise -- Developing the necessary mindset -- Answers to Chapter 8's Exercises -- Dewey's recipe for education -- "It's been an exceptionally wet summer" -- Research on the problems of demotivation -- Part 3 Applying Critical Thinking in Practice -- Chapter 9 Getting to the Heart of the (Reading) Matter -- Appreciating Critical Reading as a Practical Skill -- Reading between the Lines -- Checking the publisher's standing -- Cross-examining the author -- Considering why the text was written -- Appraising how a text is written and presented -- Taking into account when a text is written -- Judging the evidence -- Assessing your reasons for reading the text -- Playing Detective: Examining the Evidence…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…TCP/IP PROTOCOL SUITE AND ARCHITECTURE -- TCP/IP Overview and History -- TCP/IP History and Development -- Important Factors in the Success of TCP/IP -- TCP/IP Services -- The TCP/IP Client/Server Structural Model -- Hardware and Software Roles -- Transactional Roles -- TCP/IP Architecture and the TCP/IP Model -- Network Interface Layer -- Internet Layer -- Host-to-Host Transport Layer -- Application Layer -- TCP/IP Protocols -- II-1. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Abstraction and knowledge representation -- Generalization -- Assessing the success of learning -- Steps to apply machine learning to your data -- Choosing a machine learning algorithm -- Thinking about the input data -- Thinking about types of machine learning algorithms -- Matching your data to an appropriate algorithm -- Using R for machine learning -- Installing and loading R packages -- Installing an R package -- Installing a package using the point-and-click interface -- Loading an R package -- Summary -- 2. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Quality of Performance -- Three Levels of Quality3 -- The Five Paradigms of Quality -- The Customer-Craft Paradigm -- The Mass-Production Paradigm -- The Statistical Quality Control Paradigm -- The Total Quality Management Paradigm -- The Techno-Craft Paradigm -- Dimensions of Product Quality -- Dimensions of Service Quality4 -- Old Quality Versus New Quality -- Cost of Quality (COQ)5 -- Size of Four Categories of Quality Costs6 -- Hidden Quality Costs -- Total Quality Costs -- Quality Costs in Service Organizations -- Identifying and Using Quality Cost Information -- Cost of Quality Assessment -- Quality Cost Indices -- Summary -- Key Terms -- Case Study -- Quality is King -- Company -- Business Segments -- The Cost of Success -- Quality Management -- For Discussion -- Exercises -- Short-answer Questions -- Match the Following -- Discussion Questions -- Projects -- End Notes -- Chapter 2: Quality Gurus -- Introduction -- Walter Shewart -- W. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Doing it in Python -- Hypothesis testing -- Binomial test -- Time for action - testing probability of success -- What just happened? -- Tests of proportions and the chi-square test -- Time for action - testing proportions -- What just happened? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…. -- There's more... -- Totaling success and error web page response codes -- See also -- Displaying web page response time statistics -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Displaying web page response time by action -- See also -- Listing the top-viewed products -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Searching for the percentage of cart additions from product views -- See also -- Charting the application's functional performance -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- See also -- Charting the application's memory usage -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- See also -- Counting the total number of database connections -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- See also…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Meeting the requirements to make an IPO happen -- Writing the prospectus -- Supporting the IPO: Making success last -- Seeing What Sell-Side Analysts Do -- The goals of the sell-side analyst -- What investors look to sell-side analysts for -- Spreading the word: Disseminating sell-side research -- Examining a Sample Research Report -- What to look for in the document -- The main sections of a research report -- Ways to look beyond the "buy" or "sell" -- Chapter 4 How Investment Banking Is Used in Mergers and Acquisitions -- Come Here Often? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Why are SQL injection attacks so successful? -- How to figure out you have been attacked -- How to protect yourself from an SQL injection attack -- NET Protection Against SQL Injection -- Protecting Dynamic SQL within Stored Procedures from SQL Injection Attack -- Using "Execute as" to Protect Dynamic SQL -- Impersonating a Login -- Impersonating a User -- Removing Extended Stored Procedures -- Not Using Best Practice Code Logic Can Hurt You -- What to Return to the End User -- Database Firewalls -- Test, Test, Test -- Cleaning up the database after a SQL injection attack -- Other front end security issues -- The Web Browser URL is not the Place for Sensitive Data -- Using xEvents to monitor for SQL injection -- Summary -- Reference -- Chapter 10 - Database Backup Security -- Information in this chapter: -- Overwriting backups -- Deleting Old Backups -- Media set and backup set passwords -- Backup encryption -- Native Encryption in SQL Server 2014 -- LiteSpeed for SQL Server -- Red Gate SQL Backup -- Third-Party Tape Backup Solutions -- Transparent data encryption -- Securing the Certificates -- Compression and encryption -- Encryption and Data Deduplication -- Offsite backups -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 11 - Storage Area Network Security -- Information in this chapter: -- Securing the array -- Locking Down the Management Ports -- Authentication -- User Access to the Storage Array -- Locking Down the iSCSI Ports -- LUN Security -- Moving LUNs -- Deleting LUNs -- Snapshots and Clones…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Chapter 14 DevOps Isn't a Team (Except When It Is) -- Forming DevOps Teams -- Aligning functional teams -- Dedicating a DevOps team -- Creating cross-functional product teams -- Interviewing Quickly (But Not Too Quickly) -- Deciding on a Job Title -- Recruiting Never Ends -- Finding the right folks -- Passing along great candidates -- Evaluating Technical Ability -- Whiteboarding revisited -- Offering take-home tests -- Reviewing code -- Firing Fast -- The jerk -- The martyr -- The underperformer -- Chapter 15 Empowering Engineers -- Scaling Engineering Teams with DevOps -- Three stages of a company -- Motivating Engineers -- Researching motivation -- DevOpsing motivation -- Avoiding reliance on extrinsic rewards -- Autonomy -- Mastery -- Purpose -- Making work fun -- Allowing people to choose their teams -- Measuring Motivation -- Part 4 Practicing Kaizen, the Art of Continuous Improvement -- Chapter 16 Embracing Failure Successfully -- Failing Fast in Tech -- Failing safely -- Containing failure -- Accepting human error (and keeping it blameless) -- Failing Well -- Maintaining a growth mindset -- Creating the freedom to fail -- Chapter 17 Preparing for Incidents -- Combating "Human Error" with Automation -- Focusing on systems: Automating realistically -- Using automation tools to avoid code integration problems -- Handling deployments and infrastructure -- Limiting overengineering -- Humanizing On-Call Rotation -- When on-call duties become inhumane -- Humane on-call expectations -- Managing Incidents -- Making consistency a goal -- Adopting standardized processes -- Establishing a realistic budget -- Making it easy to respond to incidents -- Responding to an unplanned disruption -- Empirically Measuring Progress -- Mean time to repair (MTTR) -- Mean time between failures (MTBF) -- Cost per incident (CPI)…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The Three Important Ingredients -- The Business Process Reengineering Cycle -- Methods and Approaches to Business Process Reengineering -- Business Process Reengineering Project and Success Criteria -- The Pros of Business Process Reengineering -- The Cons of Business Process Reengineering -- Conclusion -- TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT -- Introduction -- Implementing Total Quality Management in the Organization -- Key Elements for Change -- The Use of Total Quality Management in Process Work -- TOOLS FOR TQM -- House of Quality or Quality Function Deployment -- Taguchi Techniques -- Pareto Diagrams -- Process Diagrams -- Cause &amp -- Effect Analysis Diagrams -- Statistical Process Control -- The PDCA Cycle -- Business Excellence and EFQM -- Conclusion -- SIX SIGMA -- Introduction -- What Six Sigma Means -- The Purpose of Six Sigma -- DMAIC -- DMADV -- Conclusion -- End Notes -- 4: What Is Business Process Management? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Chapter 13 Making Sure the Company Has Cash to Carry On -- Measuring Income Success -- Calculating free cash flow -- Figuring out cash return on sales ratio -- Checking Out Debt -- Determining current cash debt coverage ratio -- Computing cash debt coverage ratio -- Calculating Cash Flow Coverage -- Finding out the cash flow coverage ratio -- Mattel -- Hasbro -- What do the numbers mean? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Exploring the phases of cloud migration -- Phase 1 - Discover -- Phase 2 - Plan -- Phase 3 - Migrate -- Phase 4 - Automate -- Phase 5 - Optimize -- Summary -- Further reading -- Chapter 3: Preparing for Cloud Migration -- Learning about cloud migration insights -- Begin with cost savings, evolve with innovation -- Cloud migration propels cultural shift -- High-level metrics are not enough -- Proper planning drives successful migration -- Thinking beyond CapEx and OpEx -- There are many great cloud providers -- Choosing the right cloud partner for your business -- Security -- Certifications, compliance, standards, and attestation frameworks -- Innovation and roadmap -- Service-level agreements and contracts -- Support model -- Pricing model -- Vendor lock-in criteria and exit provisions -- Reliability and performance -- Service dependencies and partnerships -- Overall business health -- Checklist for choosing a strong partner -- Evaluation of potential vendor lock-ins -- Unraveling the multi-cloud - benefits, challenges, and strategy -- Benefits -- Challenges -- Multi-cloud strategy -- Aligning your IT landscape with the cloud - best practices -- Summary -- Further reading -- Chapter 4: Implementing Cloud Migration Strategies -- Introducing cloud migration strategies -- What is a cloud migration strategy? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Costs and trade-offs of interoperability -- ESP32-H2 -- Interoperability concept, approaches, and principles for building with IoT -- Concepts, approaches, and principles -- Types of interoperability -- Layers of IoT -- Architecting for interoperability -- Projects working toward greater interoperability -- Global interoperability -- Interoperability within the cloud -- E-health platform case study -- Advancing the interoperability of IoT platforms -- Practical - Creating a Telegram household motion detector -- Creating a chatbot -- Getting a Telegram user ID -- Working with the Arduino IDE -- Hardware setup -- Coding it up -- Outcome -- Summary -- Further reading -- Part 3: Operating, Maintaining, and Securing IoT Networks -- Chapter 9: Operating and Monitoring IoT Networks -- Technical requirements -- Continuous operation of IoT systems -- Challenges and benefits of maintaining continuous operation -- Strategies for achieving continuous operation -- Automation and machine learning in monitoring -- Exercise on simulating monitoring networks -- Setting KPIs and the metrics for success -- Setting clear objectives and goals for monitoring -- Different types of KPIs -- Selecting, analyzing, and monitoring KPIs -- Monitoring capabilities on-premises and on the cloud -- Monitoring for security purposes -- Creating a unified monitoring solution -- Practical - operating and monitoring a joke creator with IoT Greengrass -- Setting up your OpenAI account -- Spinning up an Amazon EC2 instance -- Configure AWS Greengrass on Amazon EC2 -- Monitoring the EC2 Thing when publishing messages -- Summary -- Further reading -- Chapter 10: Working with Data and Analytics -- Technical requirements…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Monitoring and observability in multi-cloud -- Optimizing costs in multi-cloud -- Case studies -- Case Study 1: E-commerce platform using microservices and sharding -- Case Study 2: Financial services firm leveraging circuit breaker and replication -- Case Study 3: Media streaming company adopting eventual consistency and API gateway -- Best practices for multi-cloud application design -- Summary -- 4 -- Chapter 4: Crafting and Deploying in the Multi-Cloud as a Developer -- IaC -- Strengths of IaC -- Weaknesses of IaC -- Tools to implement IaC -- CI/CD -- CI/CD best practices -- Scaling mountainous success - a tale of DevOps and GitOps -- Challenges -- Service meshes in multi-cloud environments -- Containerization and orchestration -- Containerization -- Kubernetes -- Multi-cloud networking and security -- Summary -- Part 3: Managing and Operating Cloud-Native Apps in Multi-Cloud -- 5 -- Chapter 5: Managing Security, Data, and Compliance on Multi-Cloud -- Managing data and security in multi-cloud environments -- Understanding data security and privacy in multi-cloud -- Data residency and sovereignty -- Automated compliance checks and data portability -- Implementing best practices for data protection -- Data privacy and compliance considerations -- Introduction to security in cloud-native multi-cloud environments -- CIS benchmarks -- CSA framework -- DevSecOps best practices for cloud-native apps in multi-cloud environments -- Integrating security into the DevOps workflow -- Automation and configuration management for secure deployments -- Ensuring secure development practices -- Managing compliance across multiple clouds environments -- Understanding the compliance landscape in multi-cloud environments -- Implementing governance frameworks and controls -- IAM across multiple clouds environments -- Centralized IAM -- MFA and secure access…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Further reading -- Chapter 12: Practical Use Cases of Google Cloud in Real-World Scenarios -- Invoice management - deconstructing the monolith -- Specifications -- Analysis and opportunities -- Approaching the migration -- Designing the new architecture -- Hybrid and multi-cloud options -- Highway toll system - centralizing and automating a distributed scenario -- Specifications -- Analysis and opportunities -- Designing the new architecture -- Making the most of our data -- Hybrid and multi-cloud options -- Fashion Victims - using the cloud as an extension of our business -- Specifications -- Analysis and opportunities -- Designing the new architecture -- Hybrid and multi-cloud options -- Summary -- Further reading -- Chapter 13: Migration Pitfalls, Best Practices, and Useful Tips -- Common pitfalls while moving to the cloud -- Management not on board -- Unclear strategy and poorly defined migration roadmap -- Unmanaged expectations regarding benefits and costs -- Too disruptive or too conservative -- Not knowing your infrastructure and services well enough -- Migrating to the cloud is just moving infrastructure -- Being too careless with your data -- Making migration waves too big or too long -- Unbalanced latency, complexity, and cost -- Best practices for bringing your code to Google Cloud -- Avoid migrate and delete -- Check regulations and compliance before moving ahead -- Prepare a migration toolkit in advance -- Try to simplify, that's what the cloud is about -- Analyze and prioritize accordingly -- Measure, analyze, optimize, and prove success -- Connectivity and latency can make a huge difference -- Build once, deploy anywhere, and as many times as required -- Summary -- Further reading -- Index -- Other Books You May Enjoy…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- The Playbook Translates Vision and Strategy to Tactics -- The Playbook Looks at Gap Closures -- The Playbook Communicates to Team Members -- Playbooks Clarify Roles and Integrate Team Efforts -- The Playbook Drives Best Practices -- Preface: Your Treasure Chest of Value and Success -- The Innovation Systems Cycle and Types of Innovation -- Acknowledgments -- About the Authors -- Chapter 1. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Changing the status of multiple records -- Mass-deleting Lead records -- Chapter 7 Using Accounts -- Getting Familiar with the Account Record -- Getting accustomed to standard Account fields -- Building parent/child relationships -- Performing Actions with Account Related Lists -- Displaying an Account's Opportunities -- Viewing Cases -- Tracking your Account teams -- Maintaining Your Account Database -- Increasing Account accuracy with Lightning Data -- Deleting Account records -- Chapter 8 Developing Contacts -- Understanding the Contact Record -- Customizing Contact Information -- Entering and Updating Your Contacts -- Entering new Contacts -- Importing your Contacts and Accounts -- Updating Contact fields -- Cloning existing Contacts -- Organizing Your Contacts -- Using Contact list views -- Creating custom Contact views -- Developing Organizational Charts -- Chapter 9 Tracking Opportunities -- Getting Familiar with the Opportunity Record -- Entering Opportunities -- Modifying Opportunity Records -- Updating Opportunity fields -- Rolling up Opportunity data onto the Account record -- Tracking your deals on the Opportunity kanban board -- Defining Contact Roles -- Using Opportunity Teams -- Associating an Opportunity Team to your Opportunity -- Following Opportunities with Chatter -- Chapter 10 Tracking Products and Price Books -- Discovering Products and Price Books -- Defining standard Product fields -- Understanding the different types of pricing -- Using Products and Price Books -- Adding Products to Opportunities -- Adding and updating schedules on Opportunities -- Searching for Products -- Building the Product Catalog -- Planning products for success -- Adding Products to the Product catalog -- Changing Product details in the Product catalog -- Setting Up Schedules -- Enabling schedules for your company…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Status quo: Treat people like commodities-all alike -- Your choice: Put people first, work together, and make something great -- Status quo: Celebrate statistics only, not accompanying success stories -- Your choice: Celebrate stories of impact underpinned by data -- How to foster a mindful and impactful team using the PURSUE framework -- Positive -- Understandable -- Relatable -- Stalwart -- Useful -- Enthusiastic -- When the going gets tough, turn to daily micro habits to get unstuck and get going -- Micro Habit #1: Great teams embrace the work and one another, flaws and all -- Micro Habit #2: Great teams overpower the isolation and misunderstood nature of social impact work -- Micro Habit #3: Great teams know one another personally as well as professionally -- Micro Habit #4: Great teams draw energy from complementary capabilities -- Micro Habit #5: Great teams show gratitude before attitude-there's nothing to prove until you have something to prove -- Micro Habit #6: Great teams navigate complexity with calm, not chaos -- Micro Habit #7: Great teams seek cohesion rather than full clarity-people feel part of something great, even external partners -- Micro Habit #8: Great teams champion honesty, admit when things could be better, and work to make it so -- Teamwork is only renewable to the extent you invest in it -- Key Questions -- Chapter 5: Secret #5: Highly effective social impact communicators ... reframe every setback as the crest of a hill -- New insights yield new direction-and the potential for disorienting doubt -- Crest-climbing insight No. 1: Hills provide unprecedented perspective -- Crest-climbing insight No. 2: Each hill must be tackled differently, though there are patterns -- Crest-climbing insight No. 3: Once you've defined what's hard, you can determine what's possible…”