“…This book will help you design OLTP databases that are high-quality, protect the integrity of your data, and perform fast on-premises, in the cloud, or in hybrid configurations. …”

“…Managing a diverse global company for optimal performance…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…; Emotionflavoured decisions; Push and pull; Danger zone - excessive buy button activity likely; Losses loom larger than gains; The price of impatience; Experience really does count; Chapter takeaways; Food for Thought - Gastronomic impact for better or for worse; Don't wait for the leptin; The influence of bacteria; Fat filled and all sugared up; Sugarcoated vandalism; No vacancies; The best fuel; Pump that brain; Consistent high performance; Endorphins - natural opiates…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Beyond the Bubble Test: How Performance Assessments Support 21st Century Learning; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; The Authors; Chapter 1: Introduction: The Rationale and Context for Performance Assessment; The Need for Performance Assessments; The Return of Performance Assessment; The Challenges for New Assessments; The Purpose of This Book; Part 1: Through a Looking Glass: Performance Assessment Past, Present, and Future; Chapter 2: Looking Back: Performance Assessment in an Era of Standards-Based Educational Accountability; Arguments for Performance Assessment…”

“…Detailed practical instructions of how to perform jar tests follow, including a determination of the dose of reagents for pH adjustment and coagulant dose, dosing sequence, floc separation after jar tests by sedimentation and/or centrifugation simulating sand filtration, sampling, measuring necessary parameters (pH, coagulant residuals, alkalinity, residual impurity concentrations etc.), data recording, data processing and jar test evaluation (with specific examples). …”

“…Beyond Team Building: How to Build High Performing Teams and the Culture to Support Them represents the latest in thinking about creating effective teams. …”

“…There's a big difference between continuously encouraging employees to do their jobs well (coaching), attempting to fix poor performance (counselling), and helping top performers excel (mentoring). …”

“…Use mindfulness to unleash your potential-without adopting spiritual beliefs Mindfulness Without the Bells and Beads strips away the bells, beads, and hyperbole associated with mindfulness, and explains how you can take your performance and leadership to the next level in just eight weeks, without adopting any spiritual or new age beliefs. …”

Materias:

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Setting up Karate Gatling -- Setting up Scala in VS Code -- Creating Maven profiles -- Running Karate tests as performance tests -- Creating a simulation -- Running the simulation -- Using tags -- Testing different simulations -- Gatling assertions -- Checking out Gatling reports -- Summary -- Index -- Other Books You May Enjoy…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Introducing distributed tracing -- Span -- Tracing - building blocks -- Reviewing context propagation -- In-process propagation -- Out-of-process propagation -- Ensuring consistency and structure -- Building application topology -- Resource attributes -- Performance analysis overview -- The baseline -- Investigating performance issues -- Summary -- Questions -- Further reading -- Chapter 2: Native Monitoring in .NET -- Technical requirements -- Building a sample application -- Log correlation -- On-demand logging with dotnet-monitor -- Monitoring with runtime counters -- Enabling auto-collection with OpenTelemetry -- Installing and configuring OpenTelemetry -- Exploring auto-generated telemetry -- Debugging -- Performance -- Summary -- Questions -- Chapter 3: The .NET Observability Ecosystem -- Technical requirements -- Configuring cloud storage -- Using instrumentations for popular libraries -- Instrumenting application -- Leveraging infrastructure -- Configuring secrets -- Configuring observability on Dapr -- Tracing -- Metrics -- Instrumenting serverless environments -- AWS Lambda -- Azure Functions -- Summary -- Questions -- Chapter 4: Low-Level Performance Analysis with Diagnostic Tools -- Technical requirements -- Investigating common performance problems -- Memory leaks -- Thread pool starvation -- Profiling -- Inefficient code -- Debugging locks -- Using diagnostics tools in production -- Continuous profiling -- The dotnet-monitor tool -- Summary -- Questions -- Part 2: Instrumenting .NET Applications…”

“…Conducted properly, information security risk assessments provide managers with the feedback needed to manage risk through the understanding of threats to corporate assets, determination of current control vulnerabilities, and appropriate safeguards selection. Performed incorrectly, they can provide the false sense of security that allows potential threats to develop into disastrous losses of proprietary information, capital, and corporate value. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction -- Female philanthropy and feminism before the welfare state: family law, and the politics of names -- Benevolence and female volunteerism -- Performing child welfare : philanthropy and feminism from the damas to Eva Perón -- Juvenile delinquency, patriarchy, and female philanthropy -- The depression and the rise of the welfare state -- At the crossroads of change : Peronism, the welfare state, and the decline of non-Peronist female authority…”