“…Maciariello leads you from week to week, lesson to lesson, using previously unpublished material and selected readings from Drucker's classic works to highlight critical lessons in leadership, personal effectiveness, and mission-driven strategy. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 General Introduction -- 2 The Growing Threat to Herbicide Use -- 3 A System Model for Crop Yield Potential as a Function of Herbicide Weed Control over Time -- 4 Physical Weed Control -- 5 A Brief Review of Microwave Heating -- 6 A Brief History of Microwave Weed Control Research -- 7 Applying Microwave Energy to Plants and the Soil -- 8 The Potential of Microwave Treatment to Kill Weed Plants -- 9 The Potential of Microwave Soil Treatment to Kill Weed Seeds -- 10 The Effect of Microwave Treatment on Soil Biota -- 11 The Effect of Microwave Soil Treatment on Subsequent Crop Growth and Yield -- 12 A System Model for Crop Yield Potential as a Function of Microwave Weed Control over Time -- 13 A Preliminary Economic Assessment of the Microwave Technology in an Herbicide Resistant World -- 14 Industry Acceptance and Conclusion -- Table of Figures -- Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cassandra anti-patterns -- Frequently updated data -- Frequently deleted data -- Queues or queue-like data -- Solutions requiring query flexibility -- Solutions requiring full table scans -- Incorrect use of BATCH statements -- Using Byte Ordered Partitioner -- Using a load balancer in front of Cassandra nodes -- Using a framework driver -- Cassandra hardware selection, installation, and configuration -- RAM -- CPU -- Disk -- Operating system -- Network/firewall -- Installation using apt-get -- Tarball installation -- JVM installation -- Node configuration -- Running Cassandra -- Adding a new node to the cluster -- Using Cassandra -- Nodetool -- CQLSH -- Python -- Java -- Taking a backup with Cassandra -- Restoring from a snapshot -- Tips for success -- Run Cassandra on Linux -- Open ports 7199, 7000, 7001, and 9042 -- Enable security -- Use solid state drives (SSDs) if possible -- Configure only one or two seed nodes per data center -- Schedule weekly repairs -- Do not force a major compaction -- Remember that every mutation is a write -- The data model is key -- Consider a support contract -- Cassandra is not a general purpose database -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 6: HBase -- Architecture -- Components in the HBase stack -- Zookeeper -- HDFS -- HBase master -- HBase RegionServers -- Reads and writes -- The HBase write path -- HBase writes - design motivation -- The HBase read path -- HBase compactions -- System trade-offs -- Logical and physical data models -- Interacting with HBase - the HBase shell -- Interacting with HBase - the HBase Client API -- Interacting with secure HBase clusters -- Advanced topics -- HBase high availability -- Replicated reads -- HBase in multiple regions -- HBase coprocessors -- SQL over HBase -- Summary -- Chapter 7: DynamoDB -- The difference between SQL and DynamoDB -- Setting up DynamoDB -- Setting up locally…”

“…Annotation Australasian Computer Science Week Feb 02, 2016-Feb 05, 2016 Canberra, Australia. …”