“…Erlang and OTP in Action teaches you to apply Erlang's message passing model for concurrent programming--a completely different way of tackling the problem of parallel programming from the more common multi-threaded approach. …”

“…Network professionals who hold the CCNA certification generally earn more than coworkers who have not earned the CCNA This guide, by author and trainer Todd Lammle, provides a focused, concise review that works with other learning tools such as CCNA: Cisco Certified Network Associate Study Guide, 7th Edition Covers the eight domains of the exam objectives, including how a network works, configuration, IP addresses, network security threats, and troubleshooting Includes a CD with two bonus exams, handy flashcard questions, and a searchable PDF of a Glossary of Terms CCNA candidates will find this focused review guide greatly improves their chances of success as they tackle the exam…”

“…Learn the steps necessary to prepare your environment for automation Understand how Salt works when running commands from the CLI Dive into Salt’s configuration management and the advanced templating capabilities Tackle advanced configuration management with Salt’s state subsystem Learn how Salt’s event bus internally sends messages from one process to another Explore Beacon modules and how they perform a variety of tasks by interacting with the event bus Import external events or export Salt events with bidirectional engines…”

“…Model Management and Analytics for Large Scale Systems covers the use of models and related artefacts (such as metamodels and model transformations) as central elements for tackling the complexity of building systems and managing data. …”

“…The closing chapter brings everything together by tackling a real-world, structured dataset with several feature-engineering techniques. …”

“…Understand the differences between UI and interaction design—for embedded devices as well as apps Learn the key activities involved in designing the form of physical devices Design a coherent experience across the whole system through appropriate distribution of functionality, consistency across different UIs, and fluent cross-device interactions Tackle the UX impact of putting the quirks of the network into physical devices, such as latency, reliability, and intermittent connectivity Learn how device and service experience are inseparable for IoT products Craft a compelling value proposition to move your product from early adopters to the mass market Explore the UX challenges of interoperability and designing platforms for common-sense coordination between multiple connected products…”

“…This book demonstrates the benefits of document embedding, polymorphic schemas, and other MongoDB patterns for tackling specific big data use cases, including: Operational intelligence: Perform real-time analytics of business data Ecommerce: Use MongoDB as a product catalog master or inventory management system Content management: Learn methods for storing content nodes, binary assets, and discussions Online advertising networks: Apply techniques for frequency capping ad impressions, and keyword targeting and bidding Social networking: Learn how to store a complex social graph, modeled after Google+ Online gaming: Provide concurrent access to character and world data for a multiplayer role-playing game…”

“…The book is the story of industrial concentration, but it matters to everyone, because the stakes could not be higher. The book will tackle the big questions of: why is the US becoming a more unequal society, why is economic growth anemic despite trillions of dollars of federal debt and money printing, why the number of start-ups has declined, and why are workers losing out…”

“…Leading consultant Marc Hamilton tackles all three key components of successful development: people, processes, and technology. …”

“…The Myth of Capitalism is the story of industrial concentration, but it matters to everyone, because the stakes could not be higher. It tackles the big questions of: why is the US becoming a more unequal society, why is economic growth anemic despite trillions of dollars of federal debt and money printing, why the number of start-ups has declined, and why are workers losing out…”

“…In the last section, the book tackles questions of managing and organising research from individual to institutional scales.Alan Wilson deploys his wide experience - researcher in urban science, university professor and vice-chancellor, civil servant and institute director - to build the narrative. …”

“…For more than fifteen years following the collapse of Japan’s economic bubble, politicians, business people and academics tackled a range of institutional reforms. The sweeping changes they enacted—covering almost all facets of the public sphere, including elections, public administration, courts and the central bank—fundamentally altered Japanese political processes and policies. …”

“…Based on 16-month ethnographic fieldwork in Shanghai, Ageing with Smartphones in Urban China tackles the intersection between the 'two revolutions' experienced by the older generation in Shanghai: the contemporary smartphone-based digital revolution and the earlier communist revolutions. …”

“…In Undue Hate , Daniel F. Stone tackles the biases undergirding affective polarization head-on. …”

“…This book aims to collect a diverse and complementary set of articles that demonstrate new developments and applications in image and video forensics to tackle new and serious challenges to ensure media authenticity…”

“…Financing Prosperity by Dealing with Debt moves beyond critique to present a wealth of concrete ways to tackle debt and forge the prosperous communities we want for the future…”

“…By the end of this book, you’ll have learned how to transform your robot into a helpful assistant with NLP and give it an artificial personality, ready to tackle real-world tasks and even crack jokes…”

“…important skills for professional project managers Leading teams, setting and achieving goals, and making sure that projects are completed on time and within budget Identifying and solving problems that arise during complex projects, and making informed decisions that move projects forward Using a project-based approach: breaking the project down into smaller, manageable??chunks and tackling each one separately Focusing on specific problems or decisions and implementing solutions tailored to the??…”

“…As multiplex measures tackling the simplex, these tensors overcome the cultural relativism of the postmodern matrix…”

“…Clement Attlee’s postwar government aimed to remedy the failings of the prewar minimal state, while Margaret Thatcher’s governments in the 1980s in turn sought to remedy the failings of Attlee’s planned state by developing the marketised state, which morphed into the financialised state we see today.This analysis highlights the urgent need for a new political settlement of an enabling state that tackles current systemic weaknesses from market failures and over-centralisation. …”