“…What's inside Working with Spark, MLlib, and Akka Reactive design patterns Monitoring and maintaining a large-scale system Futures, actors, and supervision About the Reader Readers need intermediate skills in Java or Scala. …”

“…Two of Microsoft's leading cloud security experts show how to: • Assess the impact of cloud and hybrid environments on security, compliance, operations, data protection, and risk management • Master a new security paradigm for a world without traditional perimeters • Gain visibility and control to secure compute, network, storage, and application workloads • Incorporate Azure Security Center into your security operations center • Integrate Azure Security Center with Azure AD Identity Protection Center and third-party solutions • Adapt Azure Security Center's built-in policies and definitions for your organization • Perform security assessments and implement Azure Security Center recommendations • Use incident response features to detect, investigate, and address threats • Create high-fidelity fusion alerts to focus attention on your most urgent security issues • Implement application whitelisting and just-in-time VM access • Monitor user behavior and access, and investigate compromised or misused credentials • Customize and perform operating system security baseline assessments • Leverage integrated threat intelligence to identify known bad actors…”

“…What’s Inside Comprehensive coverage of Groovy 2.4 including language features, libraries, and AST transformations Dynamic, static, and extensible typing Concurrency: actors, data parallelism, and dataflow Applying Groovy: Java integration, XML, SQL, testing, and domain-specific language support Hundreds of reusable examples About the Authors Authors Dierk König, Paul King, Guillaume Laforge, Hamlet D’Arcy, Cédric Champeau, Erik Pragt, and Jon Skeet are intimately involved in the creation and ongoing development of the Groovy language and its ecosystem…”

“…Learn everything you need to know to make, promote, and distribute your independent films, with time-tested lessons and practical advice on scriptwriting, casting and directing A-list actors, financing, producing, managing a crew, editing in post, creating visual effects on a budget, and successuflly navigating the film festival circuit Find out what it takes to become a true "cheerful subversive" and adopt new and innovative approaches to producing your films, discover hidden loopholes in the Hollywood system and festival scene, take advantage of a broad range of media formats to promote and distribute your indie films, and generally make bold moves in service of your creative work, all while staying flexible enough to pivot at a moment’s notice An extensive companion website features in-depth interviews with filmmakers, more than an hour of behind-the-scenes footage from Dan Mirvish’s films, festival resources, and much more…”

“…Cómo ser una máquina nos presenta la primera exploración completa del transhumanismo: sus raíces filosóficas y científicas, sus actores clave y posibles futuros. Pero también es una sorprendente meditación sobre lo que significa ser humano, un vívido retrato de la excentricidad humana y una importante reflexión acerca del deseo inmemorial de trascender los hechos básicos de nuestra existencia, un deseo que es tan antiguo como las religiones…”

“….), procesados en todas las regiones del país para ser enviados a Europa y Estados Unidos como una valiosa materia prima de las industrias de la moda y de la decoración del momento.Este fenómeno económico involucró también la gestación de nuevos imaginarios culturales de prestigio social, la pérdida de avifauna, la destrucción de sus ecosistemas asociados, la introducción de marcos jurídicos para la explotación comercial de aquellos animales y la creación de nuevas redes de intereses entre los sectores dominantes (como terratenientes e inversionistas nacionales y extranjeros) para excluir de la rentabilidad del negocio a otros actores (colonos, indígenas o afrodescendientes). …”

“…It can neither be bought nor given, even by well-intentioned political actors. As a result Americans generally, as well as locally, are like farmers in the midst of a drought, left to review their resources and wait. …”

“…It transcends watershed investigative projects in favour of the ways in which new actors (citizens, technologists, bloggers and local reporters, among others) join experienced investigative journalists inexperiments with the practices of watchdog journalism in the digital era. …”

“…Los mecanismos promovidos por los actores imperiales para asentar su dominio sobre aquellos vastos territorios, cómo percibieron y concibieron estas distancias; cómo las experimentaron y cómo gobernaron para vencerlas son cuestiones analizadas en esta obra desde la visión de destacados especialistas europeos e iberoamericanos. …”

“…Key topics include: Identifying use cases and describing actors Writing the flow of events, including basic and alternative paths Reviewing use cases for completeness and correctness Diagramming use cases with activity diagrams and sequence diagrams Incorporating user interface description and data description documents Testing architectural patterns and designs with use cases Applying use cases to project planning, prototyping, and estimating Identifying and diagramming analysis classes from use cases Applying use cases to user guides, test cases, and training material An entire section of the book is devoted to identifying common mistakes and describing their solutions. …”

“…It offers an original theoretical framework inspired by the recent strand of post-structuralist economic geography, together with a reliance on ontological tenets coming from Actor-Network Theory and Science and Technology Studies. …”

“…The author, an internationally-recognized expert in Big Data and distributed Artificial Intelligence, demonstrates how base concepts such as agent, actor, and micro-service have reached a point of convergence—enabling next generation systems to be built by incorporating the best aspects of the field. …”

“…Bernardo Bertolucci intenta soñar con las tomas la noche antes, por lo que, si eso no funciona, deambula por el plató con un visor imaginándose las escenas antes de que se unan a él los actores y el equipo. Y Pedro Almodóvar afirma que los cineastas deben abandonar la ilusión de creer que van a poder controlar la totalidad del proceso creativo de su película. …”

“…They capture the varied forms of the corridor concept (developmental, transport, and trade corridors), the multiplicity of actors (including China and the European Union), as well as the different permutations of the infrastructure itself, in corridors linking coastal states and in others that link coastal states with the hinterland. …”

“…Although the campaign is based on the human rights discourse which is shared globally, the controversies concerning eradication of FGM/C on the national level and the responses of communities on the local level in those countries are diverse and complicated. Various actors such as NGOs, government officials, religious leaders, medical workers, and local inhabitants are embroiled and negotiate with each other concerning its eradication. …”

“…What policy measures, institutions and actors play a determinant role in achieving more balanced outcomes? …”

“…However, at the same time East Central European states have been seen to be colonial actors, with individuals from the region often associating themselves with colonial discourses in extra-European contexts. …”

“…In contrast to the traditional historiography of ‘culture’ in international law, it reveals how the highly problematic and Eurocentric ‘standard of civilisation’ in the 19th and 20th centuries served as a driving force for the formation of cultural heritage protection norms. Various actors used the law in different ways to take part in this discourse on ‘civilisation’. …”

“…Con los indicadores jurídicos, los gobiernos, parlamentos y otros actores públicos y privados, incluidas las ONG ambientales, podrán evaluar de manera precisa y concreta, sobre una base científica, las brechas, avances y retrocesos en la implementación de las convenciones internacionales y las leyes nacionales. …”

“…Competing Germanies tracks the paths of several stage actors from European theaters to Buenos Aires and explores how two of Argentina's most influential immigrant groups, German nationalists and antifascists (Jewish and non-Jewish), clashed on the city's stages. …”