Tabla de Contenidos: “…Quiz -- Configuring DNS Server Settings -- Forwarding -- Root Hints -- Configuring Zone Delegation -- Debug Logging -- Event Logging -- DNS Security Extensions -- Advanced Server Options -- Monitoring DNS -- Configuring Zone Transfers and Replication -- Replication Scope -- Types of Zone Transfers -- Secure Zone Transfers -- Configuring Name Servers -- Application Directory Partitions -- Review All the Key Topics -- Complete the Tables and Lists from Memory -- Definitions of Key Terms -- Chapter 5 Global Catalogs and Operations Masters -- "Do I Know This Already?" …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Chapter 14: Organising for Continual Improvement -- Scope -- The big picture of continual improvement -- Strategy plan -- Statistical techniques-understanding their importance -- Improvement: macro-micro -- Micro-category -- Guidelines to project selection -- Authors' observation on learning programmes -- Conclusion -- Chapter 15: Anchor Points of the Continual Improvement Thought Process -- Background -- Anchor points -- Questioning -- Critical thinking -- Check and verify: data orientation and data dependency -- Driving out the negatives -- Be a part of the solution, not the problem -- Conflict: confront and resolve -- not sweep under carpet -- Seek opportunities for improvement -- Zero-based thinking -- Picturise the problem in all its details -- Comfort zone: disturb -- Out-of-box thinking -- Correction and corrective action -- Root cause -- Institutionalise the learning -- Horizontal deployment -- Consensus -- Fallacies to be avoided -- Headache-headache-pill fallacy -- Challenge oneself -- Factors of 'appeal and feel good'-have a re-look -- Conclusion -- Annexure 15A -- Annexure 15B -- Annexure 15C -- Chapter 16: Involvement of People in Continual Improvement Process -- Background -- Productivity -- Organising an enterprise -- Fading style -- New style -- Role of knowledge worker -- Continual improvement and productivity in an organisation -- Distinct features of a people-friendly environment -- Inner democracy -- Learning environment -- Education and training -- Decentralisation -- Customer and competitor orientation -- Value addition -- Blind spots to avoid -- CEO's concern/task -- Reality check: involvement -- Impact of continual improvement -- Conclusion -- Annexure 16A -- Annexure 16B -- Annexure 16C -- Annexure 16D -- Annexure 16E -- Annexure 16F -- Annexure 16G -- Annexure 16H…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intro -- A Beginner's Guide -- About the Author -- About the Technical Editor -- Contents at a Glance -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Goals of the Book -- SQL Server 2012 New Features Described in the Book -- Organization of the Book -- Changes from the Previous Edition -- Differences Between SQL and Transact-SQL Syntax -- Working with the Sample Databases -- Part I: Basic Concepts and Installation -- Chapter 1: Relational Database Systems: An Introduction -- Database Systems: An Overview -- Variety of User Interfaces -- Physical Data Independence -- Logical Data Independence -- Query Optimization -- Data Integrity -- Concurrency Control -- Backup and Recovery -- Database Security -- Relational Database Systems -- Working with the Book's Sample Database -- SQL: A Relational Database Language -- Database Design -- Normal Forms -- First Normal Form -- Second Normal Form -- Third Normal Form -- Entity-Relationship Model -- Syntax Conventions -- Summary -- Exercises -- Chapter 2: Planning the Installation and Installing SQL Server -- SQL Server Editions -- Planning Phase -- General Recommendations -- Which SQL Server Components Should Be Installed? -- Where Will the Root Directory Be Stored? -- Should Multiple Instances of the Database Engine Be Used? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Your work environment -- Identifying Risks -- Protecting against Risks -- Perimeter defense -- Firewall/router -- Security software -- Your physical computer(s) and any other endpoints -- Backups -- Detecting -- Responding -- Recovering -- Improving -- Evaluating Your Current Security Measures -- Software -- Hardware -- Insurance -- Education -- Privacy 101 -- Think before you share -- Think before you post -- General privacy tips -- Banking Online Safely -- Safely Using Smart Devices -- Cryptocurrency Security 101 -- Chapter 5 Enhancing Physical Security -- Understanding Why Physical Security Matters -- Taking Inventory -- Stationary devices -- Mobile devices -- Locating Your Vulnerable Data -- Creating and Executing a Physical Security Plan -- Implementing Physical Security -- Security for Mobile Devices -- Realizing That Insiders Pose the Greatest Risks -- Chapter 6 Cybersecurity Considerations When Working from Home -- Network Security Concerns -- Device Security Concerns -- Location Cybersecurity -- Shoulder surfing -- Eavesdropping -- Theft -- Human errors -- Video Conferencing Cybersecurity -- Keep private stuff out of camera view -- Keep video conferences secure from unauthorized visitors -- Social Engineering Issues -- Regulatory Issues -- Part 3 Protecting Yourself from Yourself -- Chapter 7 Securing Your Accounts -- Realizing You're a Target -- Securing Your External Accounts -- Securing Data Associated with User Accounts -- Conduct business with reputable parties -- Use official apps and websites -- Don't install software from untrusted parties -- Don't root your phone -- Don't provide unnecessary sensitive information -- Use payment services that eliminate the need to share credit card numbers -- Use one-time, virtual credit card numbers when appropriate -- Monitor your accounts -- Report suspicious activity ASAP…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…In conclusion: The biological roots of identity -- Notes -- References -- Implicit body representations in action -- 1. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…How Shared Libraries Work -- Managing Shared Library Dependencies -- Exercise 10-4: Working with Shared Libraries -- Chapter Review -- Questions -- Answers -- Chapter 11 Managing the Linux Boot Process -- The BIOS POST Phase -- The Classic BIOS -- The Modern UEFI -- The GRUB2 Bootloader Phase -- Modify the GRUB2 Bootloader -- Change a Forgotten root Password -- Exercise 11-1: Working with GRUB2 -- The Kernel Initiation Phase -- System V Initialization -- The Linux Runlevels -- The inittab Startup File -- Shutting Down the System -- The systemd Initialization Phase -- systemd Unit Files -- Service Procedures -- Targets -- Kernel Panic -- Chapter Review -- Questions -- Answers -- Chapter 12 Managing Hardware Under Linux -- Discovering Devices -- Displaying the Kernel Ring Buffer with dmesg -- Detecting USB Devices with lsusb -- Detecting PCI Devices with lspci -- Managing Kernel Modules -- Exercise 12-1: Working with Kernel Modules -- Referencing Kernel and User Space -- /sys and sysfs -- udev -- Configuring Hardware Devices -- lsdev -- lshw -- Exercise 12-2: Discovering Devices -- Configuring Bluetooth -- Classes -- Bluetooth Commands -- Configuring Wi-Fi -- Scanning for Network Devices -- Configuring a Wi-Fi Network -- Configuring Storage Devices -- IDE -- SCSI -- SATA -- Optical Drives -- Solid State Drives -- USB -- hdparm -- lsscsi -- Printing in Linux -- Adding Printers -- Printing to a Printer -- Managing Printers and Print Queues -- Canceling Print Jobs -- lpmove -- Removing a Printer or Printer Class -- Exercise 12-3: Printing -- Chapter Review -- Questions -- Answers -- Chapter 13 Writing Shell Scripts -- Advanced Shell Concepts -- Globbing Wildcard Characters -- Sequencing Commands -- Command Substitution -- Understanding Shell Script Components -- Defining the Interpreter with #! …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Working with the threat of disruption -- Understanding How Your People Will Benefit from OKRs -- Focusing on what matters most -- Aligning from top to bottom and beyond -- Thinking vertically -- The silo scourge -- Rooting out dependencies -- Increasing engagement -- Driving accountability with strategic knowledge -- Rising to the next level through visionary thinking -- Working within a system that is easy to understand and use -- Part 2 Preparing to Create OKRs -- Chapter 3 First Things First: Identify Why You Are Creating OKRs -- Knowing How Not to Kick Off Your OKRs Journey -- Avoid having your administrative assistant call consultants -- What to do instead -- Don't embark on a change effort lightly -- What to do instead -- Getting to Your "Why" for Creating OKRs -- Determining your unique reason for implementing OKRs -- The need for awareness and execution of strategy -- A way to manage fast growth…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Reinforcing Repetitive Patterns of Production -- Summary -- 19 Scheduling Readiness Criteria -- Readiness and Sustainability -- Project Roles -- Readiness Examples -- 20 Accessible, Accurate, and Complete Data -- Master Data and Transaction Data -- Examples of Data Accuracy and Timeliness Problems -- Data Audits or Checking Practices -- Documenting the Process -- Checking Data against a Standard -- Measuring and Tracking Results against a Goal -- Analyzing the Root Cause of Gaps -- Leadership Visibility -- Planning and Scheduling Data -- Summary -- 21 Effective Production and Capacity Planning…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Characteristics of Complex Adaptive Systems -- Summary of Key Points -- Discussion Topics -- Notes -- Chapter 11 the Roots of Agile -- Influence of Total Quality Management (TQM) -- Cease Dependence on Inspection -- Emphasis on the Human Aspect of Quality…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Turn APIs inside out by treating events as contracts -- Invert responsibility for invocation -- Connect services through an event hub -- Dividing a system into autonomous subsystems -- By actor -- By business unit -- By business capability -- By data life cycle -- By legacy system -- Creating subsystem bulkheads -- Separate cloud accounts -- External domain events -- Dissecting an autonomous subsystem -- Context diagram -- Micro frontend -- Event hub -- Autonomous service patterns -- Backend For Frontend -- External Service Gateways -- Control services -- Dissecting an autonomous service -- Repository -- CI/CD pipeline and GitOps -- Tests -- Stack -- Persistence -- Trilateral API -- Events -- API Gateway -- Functions -- Nano architecture -- Micro architecture -- Shared libraries -- Governing without impeding -- Providing automation and cross-cutting concerns -- Promoting a culture of robustness -- Harnessing the four key team metrics -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Taming the Presentation Tier -- Presentation tier innovation - zigzagging through time -- Client-side versus server-side rendering -- Build-time versus runtime rendering -- Web versus mobile -- Breaking up the frontend monolith -- By subsystem -- By user activity -- By device type -- By version -- Dissecting micro frontends -- The main app -- The index file -- The importmap file -- Micro-app registration -- Micro-app -- The entry file -- Root component -- Micro-app activation -- Micro-app life cycle -- Route-based activation -- Manual activation -- Mount points -- Manifest deployer -- Inter-application communication -- Designing for offline-first -- Transparency -- Status indicators -- Outbox -- Inbox -- Local cache -- Caching code -- Caching data reads -- Caching data writes -- Live updates -- WebSocket -- Long polling -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Trusting Facts and Eventual Consistency…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Sci. 2017, 7, 1196, doi: 10.3390/app7111196 -- Emanuela Del Dottore, Alessio Mondini, Ali Sadeghi and Barbara Mazzolai Swarming Behavior Emerging from the Uptake-Kinetics Feedback Control in a Plant-Root-Inspired Robot Reprinted from: Appl. Sci. 2018, 8, 47, doi: 10.3390/app8010047 -- Josué Castañeda Cisneros, Saul E. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Educate Everyone as to How AI/ML Can Solve Business Problems -- Define Your Business Objectives -- Identify the Pain Points -- Start with Root-Cause Analysis -- Identify the Success Metrics -- Explore the Latest Industry Trends -- Review AI Applications in Various Industries -- Map the Use Case to the Business Problem -- Prioritizing Your Use Cases -- Define the Impact Criteria -- Define the Feasibility Criteria -- Assess the Impact -- Assess the Feasibility -- Prioritize the Use Cases -- Review and Refine the Criteria -- Choose the Right Model -- Use Cases to Choose From -- AI Use Cases for DevOps -- AI for Healthcare and Life Sciences -- AI Enabled Contact Center Use Cases -- Business Metrics Analysis -- Content Moderation -- AI for Financial Services -- Cybersecurity -- Digital Twinning -- Identity Verification -- Intelligent Document Processing -- Intelligent Search -- Machine Translation -- Media Intelligence -- ML Modernization -- ML-Powered Personalization -- Computer Vision -- Personal Protective Equipment -- Generative AI -- Workbook Template: Use Case Identification Sheet -- Summary -- Review Questions -- Answer Key -- Chapter 9 Evaluating AI/ML Platforms and Services -- Benefits and Factors to Consider When Choosing an AI/ML Service -- Benefits of Using Cloud AI/ML Services -- Factors to Consider When Choosing an AI/ML Service -- AWS AI and ML Services -- AI Services -- Amazon SageMaker -- AI Frameworks -- Differences Between Machine Learning Algorithms, Models, and Services -- Core AI Services -- Text and Document Services -- Chatbots: Amazon Lex -- Speech -- Vision Services -- Specialized AI Services -- Business Processing Services -- Kendra for Search -- Code and DevOps -- Industrial Solutions -- Healthcare Solutions -- Machine Learning Services -- Amazon SageMaker -- Amazon SageMaker Canvas -- SageMaker Studio Lab…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…User Journey Mapping -- User Research -- Discovery Tools for Process Optimization -- Service Blueprints -- Domain Discovery with Event Storming -- Identifying Waste with Value Stream Mapping -- Root Cause Analysis with the Five Whys and Cause-Effect Diagrams -- Visualizing Problem Discovery and Definition with Impact Mapping -- Approaches to Manage the Solution Space -- Solution Delivery Life Cycles -- Project Delivery Life Cycle -- Continuous Delivery Life Cycle -- Exploratory Life Cycle -- Delivery Management -- Waterfall / BDUF -- Scrum -- Kanban -- Development Methodologies -- Extreme Programming (XP) -- Lean Principles in Software Development -- Operations Methodologies: Devops -- Summary -- Chapter 7 How We Govern -- What Is Governance? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Configuring routing -- Developing the ProductCard component -- Developing the ProductDetail component -- Implementing authentication -- Creating a custom useToken hook -- Writing the Login component -- Writing the custom cart context -- Writing the Cart component -- Writing the Order component -- Writing the root (App) component -- Running the application -- Summary -- Questions -- Answers -- Further reading -- Chapter 8: Testing APIs -- Technical requirements -- Testing APIs and code manually -- Testing automation -- Unit testing -- Testing exceptions -- Executing unit tests -- Code coverage -- Integration testing -- Summary -- Questions -- Answers -- Further reading…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Title page -- Copyright and Credits -- Foreword -- Contributors -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Part 1: Driving Transformation through AWS and DevOps -- Chapter 1: Accelerating Your DevOps Journey with AWS -- AWS and DevOps - a perfect match -- Production-like environments -- Scaling with the cloud -- DevOps methodologies to accelerate software delivery -- Key AWS DevOps services -- CI -- CD and continuous deployment -- IaC -- Summary -- Further reading -- Chapter 2: Choosing the Right Cloud Service -- The three tiers of cloud offerings -- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) -- Platform as a Service (PaaS) -- Software as a Service (SaaS) -- What to choose when -- Simplicity versus control -- Cloud skills and resources -- Business requirements -- Security considerations -- Understanding your organization's cloud operating model -- Focusing on sustaining workloads with the traditional approach -- Focusing on optimizing workloads -- Focusing on growth in the cloud -- Key AWS services -- Abstracting the infrastructure -- Accelerating software delivery with platform services -- Fully managed software services -- Summary -- Further reading -- Chapter 3: Leveraging Immutable Infrastructure in the Cloud -- Technical requirements -- Pets versus cattle -- Mutable and immutable infrastructure -- Mutable infrastructure -- Immutable infrastructure -- Getting started with AWS -- Creating a new AWS account -- Securing your root user credentials -- Creating additional users -- Setting up an AWS Cloud9 IDE in your AWS account -- Navigating your Cloud9 environment -- Working with the test application -- Test application -- Building an AMI with Packer -- Deploying our test instance -- Securing incoming traffic with security groups -- Creating the test EC2 instance -- Terminating the test EC2 instance -- Summary -- Further reading…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Heijunka and standardized work: Craftsmanship in an industrial setting -- Conclusion on the technical element of TPS -- Note -- Section 3 Managerial innovation: Industrial craftsmanship by reconciling the creative nature of people with the mundane requirements of industrial work -- Chapter 5 Management based on a vision of the ideal-true north -- The purpose of the ideal -- Application of the ideal -- Focused attention -- Grasping the gap between the current and the target condition -- Images of the ideal -- Characteristic of the ideal condition -- Technical characteristics of the ideal condition -- Zero defect (highest quality) -- 100% value-added, (lowest cost) -- On-demand and in sequence, (lowers cost and shortest lead-time) -- One-by-one (shortest lead-time) -- Human characteristics of the ideal condition -- Physical safety -- Mental safety -- Human development -- Note -- Chapter 6 Kaizen, a scientific problem-solving activity -- Observation (plan) -- Using our senses -- Grasping point-of-cause and root-cause deeply -- Cultivate expertise at all levels -- Hypothesizing (do) -- Testing (check) -- Draw a conclusion (act) -- Chapter 7 Institutionalization of problem-solving by developing experts: Learning problem-solving and solving learning-problems -- Humility -- Management shares in success and failure with others -- No problem is too small to solve -- Confirm by yourself -- "Go-see" -- Reach for the standard and the standardized work -- An intimate relationship between learning new tasks and scientific problem-solving -- Progressive learning -- Types of excess capacity to mitigate learning risk -- Teamwork -- Demonstrate results by realizing true efficiencies -- Chapter 8 Practical principle-based performance indicators -- Managing by total efficiency through the elimination of unevenness, overburden, and waste to achieve true efficiency…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Evaluating classification performance -- Tuning models with cross-validation -- Summary -- Exercises -- References -- Chapter 3: Predicting Online Ad Click-Through with Tree-Based Algorithms -- A brief overview of ad click-through prediction -- Getting started with two types of data - numerical and categorical -- Exploring a decision tree from the root to the leaves -- Constructing a decision tree -- The metrics for measuring a split -- Gini Impurity -- Information gain -- Implementing a decision tree from scratch -- Implementing a decision tree with scikit-learn -- Predicting ad click-through with a decision tree -- Ensembling decision trees - random forests -- Ensembling decision trees - gradient-boosted trees -- Summary -- Exercises -- Chapter 4: Predicting Online Ad Click-Through with Logistic Regression -- Converting categorical features to numerical - one-hot encoding and ordinal encoding -- Classifying data with logistic regression -- Getting started with the logistic function -- Jumping from the logistic function to logistic regression -- Training a logistic regression model -- Training a logistic regression model using gradient descent -- Predicting ad click-through with logistic regression using gradient descent -- Training a logistic regression model using stochastic gradient descent (SGD) -- Training a logistic regression model with regularization -- Feature selection using L1 regularization -- Feature selection using random forest -- Training on large datasets with online learning -- Handling multiclass classification -- Implementing logistic regression using TensorFlow -- Summary -- Exercises -- Chapter 5: Predicting Stock Prices with Regression Algorithms -- What is regression? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- The auto-correlation function (ACF) -- The partial auto-correlation function (PACF) -- Other data science implications of time series data -- What we have learned -- ARIMA models -- Integrated -- Auto-regression -- Moving average -- Combining the AR(p), I(d), and MA(q) into an ARIMA model -- Variants of ARIMA modeling -- What we have learned -- ARIMA modeling in practice -- Unit root testing -- Interpreting ACF and PACF plots -- auto.arima -- What we have learned -- Machine learning approaches to time series analysis -- Routine application of machine learning to time series analysis -- Deep learning approaches to time series analysis -- AutoML approaches to time series analysis -- What we have learned -- Summary -- Exercises -- Notes and further reading -- Chapter 7: Hypothesis Testing -- Technical requirements -- What is a hypothesis test? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Scaling vectors -- Adding and subtracting vectors -- More vector operations -- Moving the player character -- Changing the current player node -- Applying forces to the player -- Process and physics process functions -- Mapping input -- Using the input -- Smoothing out the movement -- Debugging a running game -- Breakpoints -- Remote tree -- Additional exercises - Sharpening the axe -- Summary -- Quiz time -- Chapter 8: Splitting and Reusing Scenes -- Technical requirements -- Saving a branch as a new scene -- Creating a separate player scene -- The root node of a scene -- Using saved scenes -- Organizing scene files -- Additional exercises - Sharepening the axe -- Summary -- Quiz time -- Chapter 9: Cameras, Collisions, and Collectibles -- Technical requirements -- Making a camera that follows the player -- Setting up a basic camera -- Adding drag margins -- Making the camera look ahead -- Smoothing out the look ahead -- Collisions -- The different physics bodies -- The Area2D node…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Managing data with config contexts and using Git -- Nautobot jobs versus Ansible playbooks -- Summary -- Chapter 11: Automating Networks with Nautobot Jobs -- Technical requirements -- Nautobot Jobs overview -- Introduction to the Django ORM -- Learning about the Nautobot Shell and ORM -- Reading data -- Adding and updating data -- Deleting data -- Adding Jobs to Nautobot -- Synchronizing Jobs into Nautobot from a Git repository -- Distributing Jobs as part of a Nautobot app -- Mounting or placing Jobs directly in JOBS_ROOT -- Creating your first Nautobot Job -- "Hello World" Nautobot Job -- Breaking down and building a Nautobot Job -- Adding dynamic dropdowns to your job -- Using Jobs to populate data in Nautobot -- Converting Python scripts into Nautobot Jobs -- Diving into even more Job features -- Job buttons -- Job Hooks -- Job scheduling -- Job approvals -- The Jobs API -- Job permissions -- Summary -- Chapter 12: Data-Driven Network Automation Architecture -- Data-driven network automation architecture -- Evolution of managed networks -- Manually managed networks -- Power tool automated networks -- Legacy and domain network management managed networks -- Infrastructure as Code (IaC) automated networks -- Nautobot automated networks -- SoT with Nautobot -- Integrations and extensibility -- SoT life cycle -- Nautobot enablers for SoT -- Automation and orchestration -- Understanding workflows -- Nautobot enablers for automation and orchestration -- APIs - REST, GraphQL, and Webhooks -- Modern network monitoring - telemetry and observability -- Data enrichment -- Data normalization -- Data collection -- Closed loop network automation -- User interactions -- Summary -- Part 4: Nautobot Apps -- Chapter 13: Learning about the Nautobot App Ecosystem -- Nautobot Apps overview -- Why Nautobot Apps? …”