Download or read book Cassandra Case Files written by Steven F. Warnock and published by Wordsmith Publishing. This book was released on with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Mack and K.C. McDuff, owners of Mac & Mac Enterprises. They’re security consultants and sometime bounty hunters, but they don't deal with average, every day, mundane threats. They hunt monsters for a living. Traveling like nomads in a converted school bus, they roam America, facing threats too small or too personal for the government to notice, much less deal with. Their calling is to protect the innocent, to fight the good fight. If they make a profit along the way, so much the better. From the mountains of West Virginia to a refurbished ghost town in Colorado, join Mack and KC as they make new friends, meet old friends, and shoot evil in the face. From "The Lewisburg Monster" “Are you Big Foot researchers like that nice fella that came over from Kentucky last month?” “No, ma’am, we’re not cryptozoologists. We’re more what you might call, um, bounty hunters or highly specialized exterminators.” “So, you’re literal Big Foot hunters?”
Download or read book Psychic Case Files written by Tony Stockwell and published by Hodder & Stoughton. This book was released on 2008-03-06 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Missing persons, mystery suicides, haunted houses and murder...Tony Stockwell is regularly asked by victims of crime and their families, to use his psychic powers to help investigate cases, often criminal, that have not yielded to conventional methods. In this fascinating collection, he opens his case files, including: "Suicide or Murder?" in which, at the request of a family, Tony investigates the death of a young boy who was killed in an apparent suicide, which Tony believes involved foul play. In "Missing Children", two children mysteriously disappear while their mother's back is turned. Years later, Tony reads for her and finds a clue to their whereabouts...And many more...This is a treasure trove for anyone who is interested in the realm beyond our own.
Download or read book Case File Phantom written by Dana Ford and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-01-10 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Georgia Richards lost hope of ever seeing her husband again since he disappeared over a year ago. On a Saturday afternoon, she thought she saw him at a play, on stage at the Oaksdale Playhouse. But Georgia didn’t have the courage to find out if it was really him. Constance McCauley was empathetic to Georgia’s faint of heart and decided to offer her investigation services to find the true identity of this mysterious man. Would Constance be able to track down Georgia’s estranged husband? If he was found, why had he been missing for over a year? As Constance pursued this case with a combination of faith and persistence, she witnessed the power of forgiveness unfold before her eyes.
Download or read book Cassandra s Crossing written by Stephen Fredrick and published by Stephen Fredrick. This book was released on 2011-09 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a serial killer loose on Maui, one with a very particular twist.Cassandra Yeats-Thomason is married to one of the world’s richest men, and to the outside world her life is a dream set on the tropical island of Maui. Anything she desires she can have.But what she really wants is a new future. And that requires Cassandra first shed her present.The problem is, the dream is in reality a nightmare filled with secrets - the type of secrets from which a person cannot just walk away - so, Cassandra formulates a plan and reaches into her distant past for help.William Langdon is an ex-Chicago cop with a notorious past and a personal life turned upside down.William is operating a small private detective agency in New Orleans with his partner and ex-wife, Sandy, when Cassandra saunters into his office seeking his assistance years after she turned her back on him and walked out of his life.Mesmerized by Cassie from the day they met in high school, William considers her the one unfinished chapter in his life.And she considers him the perfect man for her plan.
Download or read book Cassandra The Definitive Guide written by Eben Hewitt and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2010-11-12 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What could you do with data if scalability wasn't a problem? With this hands-on guide, you'll learn how Apache Cassandra handles hundreds of terabytes of data while remaining highly available across multiple data centers -- capabilities that have attracted Facebook, Twitter, and other data-intensive companies. Cassandra: The Definitive Guide provides the technical details and practical examples you need to assess this database management system and put it to work in a production environment. Author Eben Hewitt demonstrates the advantages of Cassandra's nonrelational design, and pays special attention to data modeling. If you're a developer, DBA, application architect, or manager looking to solve a database scaling issue or future-proof your application, this guide shows you how to harness Cassandra's speed and flexibility. Understand the tenets of Cassandra's column-oriented structure Learn how to write, update, and read Cassandra data Discover how to add or remove nodes from the cluster as your application requires Examine a working application that translates from a relational model to Cassandra's data model Use examples for writing clients in Java, Python, and C# Use the JMX interface to monitor a cluster's usage, memory patterns, and more Tune memory settings, data storage, and caching for better performance
Download or read book Cassandra The Definitive Guide written by Jeff Carpenter and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2016-06-29 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine what you could do if scalability wasn't a problem. With this hands-on guide, you’ll learn how the Cassandra database management system handles hundreds of terabytes of data while remaining highly available across multiple data centers. This expanded second edition—updated for Cassandra 3.0—provides the technical details and practical examples you need to put this database to work in a production environment. Authors Jeff Carpenter and Eben Hewitt demonstrate the advantages of Cassandra’s non-relational design, with special attention to data modeling. If you’re a developer, DBA, or application architect looking to solve a database scaling issue or future-proof your application, this guide helps you harness Cassandra’s speed and flexibility. Understand Cassandra’s distributed and decentralized structure Use the Cassandra Query Language (CQL) and cqlsh—the CQL shell Create a working data model and compare it with an equivalent relational model Develop sample applications using client drivers for languages including Java, Python, and Node.js Explore cluster topology and learn how nodes exchange data Maintain a high level of performance in your cluster Deploy Cassandra on site, in the Cloud, or with Docker Integrate Cassandra with Spark, Hadoop, Elasticsearch, Solr, and Lucene
Download or read book Right Guard With Case Files written by Cassandra K Compher and published by . This book was released on 2019-01-16 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: RightGuard with Case Files is a pocketsize Security Officers Manual. Condition is Brand New. Shipped with US Post Office. Case Files includes security work scenario's: "You're the officer what will you do?" I created case files as an example of on the job situations everyday officers find themselves in. This manual is excellent for individuals who are seriously considering becoming an officer. Right Guard "Never let them see you sweat" - Dr. Cassandra Compher Ph.D
Download or read book Case Files Pediatrics Fifth Edition written by Eugene C. Toy and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2015-12-06 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixty high-yield pediatrics cases helps students sharpen their diagnostic and problem-solving skills The Case Files series is an award-winning learning system proven to improve shelf-exam scores and clerkship performance. Unlike other books on the market, this series helps students learn in the context of real patients instead of simply memorizing. Case Files Pediatrics teaches students how to improve their diagnostic and problem-solving skills as they work through sixty high-yield clinical cases. Each case includes a complete discussion, clinical pearls, references, and USMLE-style review questions with answers. The fifth edition has been updated to include a new Case Correlations feature which highlights differential diagnosis and related cases in the book. Updated to reflect the most current high-yield clerkship topics and the latest in medical management and treatment
Download or read book Cassandra The Definitive Guide Revised Third Edition written by Jeff Carpenter and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2022-01-24 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine what you could do if scalability wasn't a problem. With this hands-on guide, you'll learn how the Cassandra database management system handles hundreds of terabytes of data while remaining highly available across multiple data centers. This revised third edition--updated for Cassandra 4.0 and new developments in the Cassandra ecosystem, including deployments in Kubernetes with K8ssandra--provides technical details and practical examples to help you put this database to work in a production environment. Authors Jeff Carpenter and Eben Hewitt demonstrate the advantages of Cassandra's nonrelational design, with special attention to data modeling. Developers, DBAs, and application architects looking to solve a database scaling issue or future-proof an application will learn how to harness Cassandra's speed and flexibility. Understand Cassandra's distributed and decentralized structure Use the Cassandra Query Language (CQL) and cqlsh (the CQL shell) Create a working data model and compare it with an equivalent relational model Design and develop applications using client drivers Explore cluster topology and learn how nodes exchange data Maintain a high level of performance in your cluster Deploy Cassandra onsite, in the cloud, or with Docker and Kubernetes Integrate Cassandra with Spark, Kafka, Elasticsearch, Solr, and Lucene
Download or read book The Fallen Angel written by John Alex Harrison and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2020-01-09 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1993, Michael Pappenhauser, a Catholic Monsignor, is shot in the head and stuffed into the trunk of his own Buick. A priceless artifact is missing so says emissaries from the Vatican in Rome. A postmarked letter from Mexico to the Gazelle Daily News in San Bernardino is evidence that the priest was alive in Mexico. The killer is never found. The seemingly perfect crime. 16 years later, Prosecutor Johnny Drake discovers that Tony Buffalino had accused the Monsignor of infidelity with his wife, the rich, beautiful, and world renown diviner of the Tarot, Madame Ivory. She wears a ring of Fortune, that when she blows on it, her eyes glow red like the Devil. Tony telephones Scott Hartless a.k.a. Mr. S. Monk, a devout monk at the Canterbury Cathedral in England is an assassin willing to kill anyone and anything to defend the faith of the Roman Catholic Church. Scott leaves for America and is arrested by patrol officer Big Will who tells him that confession is good for the soul. Sheila Williams, an African- American gay defense attorney from Palm Springs, takes the case. She elicits the help of a robot named Roberta with artificial intelligence and vast legal knowledge. The robot is the first synthetic human who is sentient with the capability to testify in court. The robot will soon be knocking on the U.S. Supreme Courthouse doors. Cyberspace libraries from around the world fling open their coffers and money comes rolling in to the Mr. S. Monk Defense Fund. On the courthouse steps, the robot is assassinated, Pandemonium, like an atomic bomb sends the crowds into chaos. This is a gripping novel that pulls the reader into the lives and sexual affairs of the characters in what looks like a world gone mad. Electrifying and shocking. Brilliantly executed.
Download or read book Practical Cassandra written by Russell Bradberry and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2014 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Eric and Russell were early adopters of Cassandra at SimpleReach. In Practical Cassandra, you benefit from their experience in the trenches administering Cassandra, developing against it, and building one of the first CQL drivers. If you are deploying Cassandra soon, or you inherited a Cassandra cluster to tend, spend some time with the deployment, performance tuning, and maintenance chapters... If you are new to Cassandra, I highly recommend the chapters on data modeling and CQL." -From the Foreword by Jonathon Ellis, Apache Cassandra Chair Build and Deploy Massively Scalable, Super-fast Data Management Applications with Apache Cassandra Practical Cassandra is the first hands-on developer's guide to building Cassandra systems and applications that deliver breakthrough speed, scalability, reliability, and performance. Fully up to date, it reflects the latest versions of Cassandra-including Cassandra Query Language (CQL), which dramatically lowers the learning curve for Cassandra developers. Pioneering Cassandra developers and Datastax MVPs Russell Bradberry and Eric Lubow walk you through every step of building a real production application that can store enormous amounts of structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data. Drawing on their exceptional expertise, Bradberry and Lubow share practical insights into issues ranging from querying to deployment, management, maintenance, monitoring, and troubleshooting. The authors cover key issues, from architecture to migration, and guide you through crucial decisions about configuration and data modeling. They provide tested sample code, detailed explanations of how Cassandra works "under the covers," and new case studies from three cutting-edge users: Ooyala, Hailo, and eBay. Coverage includes Understanding Cassandra's approach, architecture, key concepts, and primary use cases- and why it's so blazingly fast Getting Cassandra up and running on single nodes and large clusters Applying the new design patterns, philosophies, and features that make Cassandra such a powerful data store Leveraging CQL to simplify your transition from SQL-based RDBMSes Deploying and provisioning through the cloud or on bare-metal hardware Choosing the right configuration options for each type of workload Tweaking Cassandra to get maximum performance from your hardware, OS, and JVM Mastering Cassandra's essential tools for maintenance and monitoring Efficiently solving the most common problems with Cassandra deployment, operation, and application development
Download or read book No Ordinary Love written by Bernadette Lindemer and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2022-06-30 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Call it fate or destiny or maybe it’s both. No Ordinary Love is a sweet story about two ordinary people from opposite sides of the world who are brought together quite serendipitously. Each receives unusual messages in their dreams that, unbeknownst to either of them, contribute to making decisions that will change their lives forever. A story whose time has come. It speaks about lost love, growing older, loss through death, and fear of the unknown, while finding love again under the least likely of circumstances. It is a pure and simple love story with an unusual and interesting twist that will lift your spirits and open your hearts to all of the possibilities that love can bring to your lives.
Download or read book The Best American Mystery Stories 2020 written by C. J. Box and published by Mariner Books. This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of the year's best mystery short fiction selected by New York Times best-selling and Edgar Award-winning author C. J. Box. C. J. Box, #1 New York Times best-selling author of the hugely popular Joe Pickett series, selects the best short mystery and crime fiction of the year in this annual "treat for crime-fiction fans" (Library Journal).
Download or read book Cassandra 3 x High Availability written by Robbie Strickland and published by Packt Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2016-08-29 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Achieve scalability and high availability without compromising on performance About This Book See how to get 100 percent uptime with your Cassandra applications using this easy-follow guide Learn how to avoid common and not-so-common mistakes while working with Cassandra using this highly practical guide Get familiar with the intricacies of working with Cassandra for high availability in your work environment with this go-to-guide Who This Book Is For If you are a developer or DevOps engineer who has basic familiarity with Cassandra and you want to become an expert at creating highly available, fault tolerant systems using Cassandra, this book is for you. What You Will Learn Understand how the core architecture of Cassandra enables highly available applications Use replication and tunable consistency levels to balance consistency, availability, and performance Set up multiple data centers to enable failover, load balancing, and geographic distribution Add capacity to your cluster with zero downtime Take advantage of high availability features in the native driver Create data models that scale well and maximize availability Understand common anti-patterns so you can avoid them Keep your system working well even during failure scenarios In Detail Apache Cassandra is a massively scalable, peer-to-peer database designed for 100 percent uptime, with deployments in the tens of thousands of nodes, all supporting petabytes of data. This book offers a practical insight into building highly available, real-world applications using Apache Cassandra. The book starts with the fundamentals, helping you to understand how Apache Cassandra's architecture allows it to achieve 100 percent uptime when other systems struggle to do so. You'll get an excellent understanding of data distribution, replication, and Cassandra's highly tunable consistency model. Then we take an in-depth look at Cassandra's robust support for multiple data centers, and you'll see how to scale out a cluster. Next, the book explores the domain of application design, with chapters discussing the native driver and data modeling. Lastly, you'll find out how to steer clear of common anti-patterns and take advantage of Cassandra's ability to fail gracefully. Style and approach This practical guide will get you implementing Cassandra right from the design to creating highly available systems. Through a systematic, step-by-step approach, you will learn different aspects of building highly available Cassandra applications and all this with the help of easy-to-follow examples, tips, and tricks.
Download or read book The Weapon Bearer s Son written by Steven F. Warnock and published by Wordsmith Publishing. This book was released on 2021-07-04 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is a Werewolf supposed to do when he finds out he's descended from fallen angels? Hang on for another unexpected adventure, Mac and KC are back. From Montana to Delaware be prepared for new friends and old acquaintances to cross your path. From The Weapon Bearer's Son: "What evil in its right mind is gonna attack a ranch protected by a pack of heavily armed Montanan cowboy werewolves?"
Download or read book Fast Data Processing Systems with SMACK Stack written by Raul Estrada and published by Packt Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2016-12-22 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combine the incredible powers of Spark, Mesos, Akka, Cassandra, and Kafka to build data processing platforms that can take on even the hardest of your data troubles! About This Book This highly practical guide shows you how to use the best of the big data technologies to solve your response-critical problems Learn the art of making cheap-yet-effective big data architecture without using complex Greek-letter architectures Use this easy-to-follow guide to build fast data processing systems for your organization Who This Book Is For If you are a developer, data architect, or a data scientist looking for information on how to integrate the Big Data stack architecture and how to choose the correct technology in every layer, this book is what you are looking for. What You Will Learn Design and implement a fast data Pipeline architecture Think and solve programming challenges in a functional way with Scala Learn to use Akka, the actors model implementation for the JVM Make on memory processing and data analysis with Spark to solve modern business demands Build a powerful and effective cluster infrastructure with Mesos and Docker Manage and consume unstructured and No-SQL data sources with Cassandra Consume and produce messages in a massive way with Kafka In Detail SMACK is an open source full stack for big data architecture. It is a combination of Spark, Mesos, Akka, Cassandra, and Kafka. This stack is the newest technique developers have begun to use to tackle critical real-time analytics for big data. This highly practical guide will teach you how to integrate these technologies to create a highly efficient data analysis system for fast data processing. We'll start off with an introduction to SMACK and show you when to use it. First you'll get to grips with functional thinking and problem solving using Scala. Next you'll come to understand the Akka architecture. Then you'll get to know how to improve the data structure architecture and optimize resources using Apache Spark. Moving forward, you'll learn how to perform linear scalability in databases with Apache Cassandra. You'll grasp the high throughput distributed messaging systems using Apache Kafka. We'll show you how to build a cheap but effective cluster infrastructure with Apache Mesos. Finally, you will deep dive into the different aspect of SMACK using a few case studies. By the end of the book, you will be able to integrate all the components of the SMACK stack and use them together to achieve highly effective and fast data processing. Style and approach With the help of various industry examples, you will learn about the full stack of big data architecture, taking the important aspects in every technology. You will learn how to integrate the technologies to build effective systems rather than getting incomplete information on single technologies. You will learn how various open source technologies can be used to build cheap and fast data processing systems with the help of various industry examples
Download or read book AI Factory written by Ramin Karim and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2023-05-24 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides insights into how to approach and utilise data science tools, technologies, and methodologies related to artificial intelligence (AI) in industrial contexts. It explains the essence of distributed computing and AI technologies and their interconnections. It includes descriptions of various technology and methodology approaches and their purpose and benefits when developing AI solutions in industrial contexts. In addition, this book summarises experiences from AI technology deployment projects from several industrial sectors. Features: Presents a compendium of methodologies and technologies in industrial AI and digitalisation. Illustrates the sensor-to-actuation approach showing the complete cycle, which defines and differentiates AI and digitalisation. Covers a broad range of academic and industrial issues within the field of asset management. Discusses the impact of Industry 4.0 in other sectors. Includes a dedicated chapter on real-time case studies. This book is aimed at researchers and professionals in industrial and software engineering, network security, AI and machine learning (ML), engineering managers, operational and maintenance specialists, asset managers, and digital and AI manufacturing specialists.
