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Observability Engineering

By: Charity Majors,Liz Fong-Jones,George Miranda

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Observability Engineering

By: Charity Majors,Liz Fong-Jones,George Miranda

Observability is critical for building, changing, and understanding the software that powers complex modern systems. Teams that adopt observability are much better equipped to ship code swiftly and confidently, identify outliers and aberrant behaviors, and understand the experience of each and every user. This practical book explains the value of observable systems and shows you how to practice observability-driven development. Authors Charity Majors, Liz Fong-Jones, and George Miranda from Honeycomb explain what constitutes good observability, show you how to improve upon what youÃ¢??re doing today, and provide practical dos and don'ts for migrating from legacy tooling, such as metrics monitoring and log management. YouÃ¢??ll also learn the impact observability has on organizational culture (and vice versa). You'll explore: How the concept of observability applies to managing software systems The value of practicing observability when delivering and managing complex cloud native applications and systems The impact observability has across the entire software development lifecycle How and why different functional teams use observability with service-level objectives (SLOs) How to instrument your code to help future engineers understand the code you wrote today How to produce quality code for context-aware system debugging and maintenance How data-rich analytics can help you debug elusive issues quickly

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Observability Engineering

By: Charity Majors,Liz Fong-Jones,George Miranda

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Cloud-Native Observability with OpenTelemetry

Learn to gain visibility into systems by combining tracing, metrics, and logging with OpenTelemetry

By: Alex Boten,Charity Majors

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Cloud-Native Observability with OpenTelemetry

Learn to gain visibility into systems by combining tracing, metrics, and logging with OpenTelemetry

By: Alex Boten,Charity Majors

Leverage OpenTelemetry's API, libraries, tools and the collector to produce and collect telemetry along with using open-source tools to analyze distributed traces, check metrics and logs, and gain insights into application health Key Features • Get to grips with OpenTelemetry, an open-source cloud-native software observability standard • Use vendor-neutral tools to instrument applications to produce better telemetry and improve observability • Understand how telemetry data can be correlated and interpreted to understand distributed systems Book Description Cloud-Native Observability with OpenTelemetry is a guide to helping you look for answers to questions about your applications. This book teaches you how to produce telemetry from your applications using an open standard to retain control of data. OpenTelemetry provides the tools necessary for you to gain visibility into the performance of your services. It allows you to instrument your application code through vendor-neutral APIs, libraries and tools. By reading Cloud-Native Observability with OpenTelemetry, you'll learn about the concepts and signals of OpenTelemetry - traces, metrics, and logs. You'll practice producing telemetry for these signals by configuring and instrumenting a distributed cloud-native application using the OpenTelemetry API. The book also guides you through deploying the collector, as well as telemetry backends necessary to help you understand what to do with the data once it's emitted. You'll look at various examples of how to identify application performance issues through telemetry. By analyzing telemetry, you'll also be able to better understand how an observable application can improve the software development life cycle. By the end of this book, you'll be well-versed with OpenTelemetry, be able to instrument services using the OpenTelemetry API to produce distributed traces, metrics and logs, and more. What you will learn • Understand the core concepts of OpenTelemetry • Explore concepts in distributed tracing, metrics, and logging • Discover the APIs and SDKs necessary to instrument an application using OpenTelemetry • Explore what auto-instrumentation is and how it can help accelerate application instrumentation • Configure and deploy the OpenTelemetry Collector • Get to grips with how different open-source backends can be used to analyze telemetry data • Understand how to correlate telemetry in common scenarios to get to the root cause of a problem Who this book is for This book is for software engineers, library authors, and systems operators looking to better understand their infrastructure, services and applications by leveraging telemetry data like never before. Working knowledge of Python programming is assumed for the example applications that you'll be building and instrumenting using the OpenTelemetry API and SDK. Some familiarity with Go programming, Linux, and Docker is preferable to help you set up additional components in various examples throughout the book.

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Database Reliability Engineering

Designing and Operating Resilient Database Systems

By: Laine Campbell,Charity Majors

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Database Reliability Engineering

Designing and Operating Resilient Database Systems

By: Laine Campbell,Charity Majors

The infrastructure-as-code revolution in IT is also affecting database administration. With this practical book, developers, system administrators, and junior to mid-level DBAs will learn how the modern practice of site reliability engineering applies to the craft of database architecture and operations. Authors Laine Campbell and Charity Majors provide a framework for professionals looking to join the ranks of today’s database reliability engineers (DBRE). You’ll begin by exploring core operational concepts that DBREs need to master. Then you’ll examine a wide range of database persistence options, including how to implement key technologies to provide resilient, scalable, and performant data storage and retrieval. With a firm foundation in database reliability engineering, you’ll be ready to dive into the architecture and operations of any modern database. This book covers: Service-level requirements and risk management Building and evolving an architecture for operational visibility Infrastructure engineering and infrastructure management How to facilitate the release management process Data storage, indexing, and replication Identifying datastore characteristics and best use cases Datastore architectural components and data-driven architectures

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149192621X

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One Woman's Army

A Black Officer Remembers the Wac

By: Charity Adams Earley

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One Woman's Army

A Black Officer Remembers the Wac

By: Charity Adams Earley

When America entered World War II, the surge of patriotism was not confined to men. Congress authorized the organization of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (later renamed Women's Army Corps) in 1942, and hundreds of women were able to join in the war effort. Charity Edna Adams became the first black woman commissioned as an officer. Black members of the WAC had to fight the prejudices not only of males who did not want women in their "man's army," but also of those who could not accept blacks in positions of authority or responsibility, even in the segregated military. With unblinking candor, Charity Adams Earley tells of her struggles and successes as the WAC's first black officer and as commanding officer of the only organization of black women to serve overseas during World War II. The 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion broke all records for redirecting military mail as she commanded the group through its moves from England to France and stood up to the racist slurs of the general under whose command the battalion operated. The Six Triple Eight stood up for its commanding officer, supporting her boycott of segregated living quarters and recreational facilities. This book is a tribute to those courageous women who paved the way for patriots, regardless of color or gender, to serve their country.

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Texas A&M University Press

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089096694X

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Psychology and Our Curious World

By: Wind Goodfriend,Gary W. Lewandowski Jr.,Charity Brown Griffin,Thomas Heinzen

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Psychology and Our Curious World

By: Wind Goodfriend,Gary W. Lewandowski Jr.,Charity Brown Griffin,Thomas Heinzen

Your students are curious. Here is a text that shows them how psychology answers the questions they are asking. In this introduction to psychology, Wind Goodfriend, Gary Lewandowski, Charity Brown Griffin, and Tom Heinzen investigate our everyday curiosities through psychological science – approaching the discipline′s core tenets with candor, humor, and wonder. Psychology and Our Curious World invites students to ask questions, think critically, and make evidence-informed decisions to better understand their unique world and that of others. Amplifying the impact of their work, all the authors are donating a portion of their royalties to charities close to their hearts, including: The Trevor Project, Thurgood Marshall College Fund, Make-A-Wish Foundation, Wounded Warrior Project, and GlassRoots. This text is offered in Sage Vantage, an intuitive learning platform that integrates quality Sage textbook content with assignable multimedia activities and auto-graded assessments to drive student engagement and ensure accountability. Unparalleled in its ease of use and built for dynamic teaching and learning, Vantage offers customizable LMS integration and best-in-class support. Watch this video walkthrough and see how Vantage works:

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154438050X

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Talking College

Making Space for Black Language Practices in Higher Education

By: Anne H. Charity Hudley,Christine Mallinson,Mary Bucholtz

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Talking College

Making Space for Black Language Practices in Higher Education

By: Anne H. Charity Hudley,Christine Mallinson,Mary Bucholtz

Talking College shows that language is fundamental to Black and African American culture and that linguistic justice is crucial to advancing racial justice, both on college campuses and throughout society. Writing from a linguistics-informed, Black-centered educational framework, the authors draw extensively on Black college students’ lived experiences to present key ideas about African American English and Black language practices. The text presents a model of how Black students navigate the linguistic expectations of college. Grounded in real-world examples of Black undergraduates attending colleges and universities across the United States, the model illustrates the linguistic and cultural balancing acts that arise as Black students work to develop their full linguistic selves. Talking College provides Black students with the knowledge they need to make sense of anti-Black linguistic racism and to make decisions about their linguistic experiences in college. It also offers key insights to help college faculty and staff create the liberating and linguistically just educational community that Black students deserve. Book Features: Weaves together information and approaches drawn from the authors’ extensive experience working with Black and other students of color in higher education.Provides an up-to-date discussion of Black language practices and their role in Black students’ college experiences.Discusses the racial politics of language, including anti-Black linguistic racism and the struggle for linguistic justice as part of racial justice.Offers a detailed model of Black college students’ diverse linguistic and racial identities. Outlines concrete steps toward racial and linguistic justice that students and faculty can take today.Accessible to students and faculty without a background in linguistics, while also engaging and informative for linguistics scholars.

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Teachers College Press

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0807781053

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The Indispensable Guide to Undergraduate Research

Success in and Beyond College

By: Anne H. Charity Hudley,Cheryl L. Dickter,Hannah A. Franz

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The Indispensable Guide to Undergraduate Research

Success in and Beyond College

By: Anne H. Charity Hudley,Cheryl L. Dickter,Hannah A. Franz

Despite all of the information that exists to encourage students to attend and do well in college, this is the first research-based guide that directly advises first- and second-year college students. With a focus on the needs and interests of students who are underrepresented in the academy (African American, Latinx, low-income, and first-generation students), this book will help all students take full advantage of the academic resources that the university setting has to offer. The authors introduce students to different types of research across the disciplines, showing them how to work with professors to build a course of study, how to integrate research work into coursework, and how to write and present research. This timely volume will also assist faculty, staff, and parents in providing the needed tools to promote student success. Book Features: Prepares students for the transition from high school to college with a focus on writing, time management, and research skills.Addresses the challenges that face high-achieving, underrepresented students.Empowers students to seek out resources and research opportunities to achieve their full academic potential.Includes models, approaches, student voices, and vignettes from the authors’ successful undergraduate research program. “A must read for every college student. This practical guide provides a roadmap for success as a researcher, a scholar, and a learner.” —Tia Brown McNair, Association of American Colleges & Universities “Faculty mentors and administrative leaders who aspire to be effective sponsors and supporters of students from diverse backgrounds should definitely acquire this resource.” —Elizabeth L. Ambos, Council on Undergraduate Research “What I love about this book is the broader, humanistic conversation about how pursuing research becomes a window into how one becomes a supremely informed and critical citizen.” —Armando Bengochea, director, Mellon-Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program

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0807775827

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We Do Language: English Variation in the Secondary English Classroom

By: Anne H. Charity Hudley,Christine Mallinson

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We Do Language: English Variation in the Secondary English Classroom

By: Anne H. Charity Hudley,Christine Mallinson

We Do Language builds on the authors' highly acclaimed first collaboration, Understanding English Language Variation in U.S. Schools, and examines the need to integrate linguistically informed teaching into the secondary English classroom. The book includes specific information about the language varieties students bring with them to school so that educators can better assist students in developing the literacy skills necessry for the Common Core State Standards. This resource features concrete strategies, models, and vignettes, as well as classroom materials developed by English educators for English educators.

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Teachers College Press

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0807754994

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Transforming Students

Fulfilling the Promise of Higher Education

By: Charity Johansson,Peter Felten

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Transforming Students

Fulfilling the Promise of Higher Education

By: Charity Johansson,Peter Felten

It is preparation for life.--Rachel A. Heath "Reflective Teaching

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JHU Press

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1421414376

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John Cassavetes: Lifeworks

By: Tom Charity

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John Cassavetes: Lifeworks

By: Tom Charity

Drawing on interviews with his closest collaborators, Tom Charity's critical biography explores the pain and perseverance of Cassavetes, widely known as a passionate and charismatic film director and producer.

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Understanding English Language Variation in U.S. Schools

By: Anne H. Charity Hudley,Christine Mallinson

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Understanding English Language Variation in U.S. Schools

By: Anne H. Charity Hudley,Christine Mallinson

In today’s culturally diverse classrooms, students possess and use many culturally, ethnically, and regionally diverse English language varieties that may differ from standardized English. This book helps classroom teachers become attuned to these differences and offers practical strategies to support student achievement while fostering positive language attitudes in classrooms and beyond. The text contrasts standardized varieties of English with Southern, Appalachian, and African American English varieties, focusing on issues that are of everyday concern to those who are assessing the linguistic competence of students. Featuring a narrative style with teaching strategies and discussion questions, this practical resource: Provides a clear, introductory explanation of what is meant by non-standard English, from both linguistic and educational viewpoints. Emphasizes what educators needs to know about language variation in and outside of the classroom. Addresses the social factors accompanying English language variation and how those factors interact in real classrooms. “A landmark book. . . . It guides linguists and educators as we all work to apply our knowledge on behalf of those for whom it matters most: students.” —From the Afterword by Walt Wolfram, North Carolina State University “In the ongoing debate about language we typically hear arguments about what students say and/or how they say it. Finally, a volume that takes on the ‘elephant in the parlor’—WHO is saying it. By laying bare the complicated issues of race, culture, region, and ethnicity, Charity Hudley and Mallinson provide a scholarly significant and practically relevant text for scholars and practitioners alike. This is bound to be an important contribution to the literature.” —Gloria Ladson-Billings, University of Wisconsin–Madison “An invaluable guide for teachers, graduate students, and all lovers of language. The authors provide a comprehensive and fascinating account of Southern and African American English, showing how it differs from standardized English, how those differences affect children in the classroom, and how teachers can use these insights to better serve their students.” —Deborah Tannen, University Professor and professor of linguistics, Georgetown University

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0807774022

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The Rough Guide to Film

By: Jessica Winter,Lloyd Hughes,Richard Armstrong,Tom Charity

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The Rough Guide to Film

By: Jessica Winter,Lloyd Hughes,Richard Armstrong,Tom Charity

The Rough Guide to Film is a bold new guide to cinema. Arranged by director, it covers the top moguls, mavericks and studio stalwarts of every era, genre and region, in addition to lots of lesser-known names. With each film placed in the context of its director’s career, the guide reviews thousands of the greatest movies ever made, with lists highlighting where to start, arranged by genre and by region. You’ll find profiles of over eight hundred directors, from Hollywood legends Alfred Hitchcock and John Huston to contemporary favourites like Steven Soderbergh and Martin Scorsese and cult names such as David Lynch and Richard Linklater. The guide is packed with great cinema from around the globe, including French New Wave, German giants, Iranian innovators and the best of East Asia, from Akira Kurosawa to Wong Kar-Wai and John Woo. With overviews of all major movements and genres, feature boxes on partnerships between directors and key actors, and cinematographers and composers, this is your essential guide to a world of cinema.

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Penguin

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1405384980

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Job Seekers Guide to Private and Public Companies

By: Peggy Kneffel Daniels,Charity A. Dorgan

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Job Seekers Guide to Private and Public Companies

By: Peggy Kneffel Daniels,Charity A. Dorgan

Answers important questions regarding company benefits and employment opportunities and identifies human resource contacts and other corporate officials. Covering the midwest, this volume tell job seekers who to contact and how to submit applications. Information includes contact data, business description, application procedures, internship availability, benefits, and more. It also features a metropolitan statistical areas table.

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Gale Cengage

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0810380676

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Database Reliability Engineering

Designing and Operating Resilient Database Systems

By: Laine Campbell,Charity Majors

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Database Reliability Engineering

Designing and Operating Resilient Database Systems

By: Laine Campbell,Charity Majors

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1491926228

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Cloud-Native Observability with OpenTelemetry

Learn to gain visibility into systems by combining tracing, metrics, and logging with OpenTelemetry

By: Alex Boten,Charity Majors

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Cloud-Native Observability with OpenTelemetry

Learn to gain visibility into systems by combining tracing, metrics, and logging with OpenTelemetry

By: Alex Boten,Charity Majors

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Did I Give Back Enough?

By: Arthur Siew Ming Lim,Charity Wai

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Did I Give Back Enough?

By: Arthur Siew Ming Lim,Charity Wai

The aim of this book is to encourage Singaporeans to give back to society and this applies not only to the wealthy but also to everyone. Giving back to society could take the form of donation of money, contributing one's time, skills, effort and so on. Both Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong have spoken extensively about the need for our society to care for the less fortunate, and that we should aspire to become a "giving society." It is hoped that the stories in this book will imbue readers with a spirit of giving. The book includes first-hand accounts by a wide spectrum of people from renowned philanthropits to common folks. It contains interesting anecdotes with insights into each individual's thought and feelings with regard to giving. The book is written in an easy-to-read style and contains attractive photos and stirring pictures. This book contains real-life stories of some 100 people and groups who have given generously in various ways, particularly in Singapore. The areas in which they have contributed include education, medicine and for poverty alleviation programs.

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World Scientific Publishing Company Incorporated

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9814289868

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9789814289863

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