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Data stewards in any organization are the backbone of a successful data governance implementation because they do the work to make data trusted, dependable, and high quality. Since the publication of the first edition, there have been critical new developments in the field, such as integrating Data Stewardship into project management, handling Data Stewardship in large international companies, handling "big data" and Data Lakes, and a pivot in the overall thinking around the best way to align data stewardship to the datämoving from business/organizational function to data domain. Furthermore, the role of process in data stewardship is now recognized as key and needed to be covered.Data Stewardship, Second Edition provides clear and concise practical advice on implementing and running data stewardship, including guidelines on how to organize based on organizational/company structure, business functions, and data ownership. The book shows data managers how to gain support for a stewardship effort, maintain that support over the long-term, and measure the success of the data stewardship effort. It includes detailed lists of responsibilities for each type of data steward and strategies to help the Data Governance Program Office work effectively with the data stewards.

With over 75 million downloads per month, Spring Boot is the most widely used Java framework available. Its ease and power have revolutionized application development from monoliths to microservices. Yet Spring Boot's simplicity can also be confounding. How do developers learn enough to be productive immediately? This practical book shows you how to use this framework to write successful mission-critical applications.Mark Heckler from VMware, the company behind Spring, guides you through Spring Boot's architecture and approach, covering topics such as debugging, testing, and deployment. If you want to develop cloud native Java or Kotlin applications with Spring Boot rapidly and effectively--using reactive programming, building APIs, and creating database access of all kinds--this book is for you.Learn how Spring Boot simplifies cloud native application development and deploymentBuild reactive applications and extend communication across the network boundary to create distributed systemsUnderstand how Spring Boot's architecture and approach increase developer productivity and application portabilityDeploy Spring Boot applications for production workloads rapidly and reliablyMonitor application and system health for optimal performance and reliabilityDebug, test, and secure cloud-based applications painlessly

ASP.NET is an open-source web framework for building modern web apps and services. This comprehensive guide will help you to explore the new capabilities of ASP.NET Core 3 and develop modern, cross-platform, business-oriented web applications that serve the client needs in the age of emerging .NET framework.

This book includes over 100 actionable recipes to supercharge Ansible and automate network devices from different vendors and build networking solutions across cloud providers like AWS, GCP, and Azure. You will be able to effectively manage your network infrastructure in various environments using Ansible - be it a datacenter, or a service ...

Your "get-started" guide to the world of macOS Big SurWherever you like to Mac--at home in front of your trusty iMac or over a coffee with your portable MacBook Air--macOS provides you with the seamless, efficient, and reliable user experience that makes these devices so famously a pleasure to use. macOS Big Sur For Dummies is here to heighten the experience for new users and upgraders alike by providing the very latest on the ways macOS Big Sur can enhance how you work and play.Written in a no-jargon style by Bob LeVitus--the Houston Chronicle's much-loved "Dr. Mac" since 1996--this guide starts with the basics, like getting set up, and explains more advanced uses, like making music and movies, exploring the expanding universe of apps and giving tips on how to save time and enhance productivity along the way. With this book, you'll learn to* Set up and connect your Mac* Get friendly with Siri* Enhance your world with apps* Work better and fasterUse the comprehensive capabilities of macOS Big Sur to do anything and everything you would like to do--and do it even better. For beginners and experts alike, macOS Big Sur For Dummies is the best way to step into the magical world of getting things done with Mac.

Retrospectives are indispensable for continuous learning and improvement in Lean, Agile, DevOps, and other contexts, but most of us have suffered through at least one retrospective that was a waste of time, or worse. Now, leading agile coach Aino Vonge Corry identifies 24 reasons that retrospectives fail and shows how to overcome each of them. Using the familiar patterns approach, Retrospectives Antipatterns introduces antipatterns related to structure, planning, people, distributed teams, and more. Corry shares traps shes encountered and mistakes shes made over more than a decade of leading retrospectives and then presents proven solutions. With her insights and guidance, you can run enjoyable retrospectives that deliver concrete improvements and real value--or at the very least recognise when you are making the same mistake as the author! Create a common language, actionable solutions, and proven plans for solving the retrospective problems youll encounter most often Recognise symptoms, assess tradeoffs, and refactor your current situation into something better Plan more effectively: decide who should attend and facilitate, when to schedule your retrospective, and how much time to set aside Handle people problems: deal with negativity, silence, distrust, disillusionment, loudmouths, and cultural differences Facilitate better virtual retrospectives, with tips for online retrospectives included in each antipattern

What does it take for industries to achieve a level of World Class Maintenance? This book is written to answer that question. While many maintenance people in industries are struggling with the day-to-day pressures of doing maintenance as breakdowns are widespread, seem to be uncontrolled, and spreads like wildfire which ends up in soaring the cost of doing maintenance. If your industry is in this condition, then you are not alone and there is a way out.There are 12 Disciplines in World Class Maintenance which the author grouped into three categories which include the Basic Discipline, The Maintenance Strategies, and The Advance Discipline. Each of these disciplines is explained in detail. Some of the interesting highlights of this book include;¿ Why Are Most Industries Reactive?¿ Can Equipment Failures Be Eliminated?¿ The Need for a World-Class Maintenance Management¿ Basic, Intermediate, and Advance Disciplines¿ How to Make Training Work for your industry¿ Selecting the Right KPIs for maintenance¿ Why OEE Is Not a Perfect Measurement¿ An Inconvenient Truth about Preventive Maintenance¿ Survey on Top Problems in Preventive Maintenance¿ Why Autonomous Maintenance Is Important¿ RCM vs. TPM (which is the Best lb. for lb.) Improvement Strategy¿ Integrating RCM into the TPM Process¿ Why TPM is Hard to Implement¿ My TPM Experience - A Successful Failure¿ Why Many Root Cause Initiatives Fail?¿ The Lifeblood of Root Cause Failure Analysis¿ Where Do We End Our Probe in Root Cause Analysis?¿ What Will It take for the Maintenance to Get There?¿ What Does It Take to Change People? And many more.This book is written for every maintenance leader and manager out there who want to improve the way they maintain their equipment and assets reliability to maximize their operations efficiently and effectively where the bottom line is to reduce the cost of doing maintenance. Achieving a World-Class Maintenance level will not happen overnight, a week, or a month since this is a long time strategy. Reading this book will provide the reader a better understanding and perspective on reaching that level that every industry seeks.The author shares life, pressure, and day-to-day struggles of maintenance people in industries in seeking better ways to manage and maintain their equipment and assets. This book contains real-life stories, struggles, and actual experiences of the author as he shares his passion and experience living with the day-to-day struggles of doing maintenance.The book is easy to absorb as it is structured into three parts: the Basics, the Strategies, and the Advance Disciplines. The Twelve Disciplines are grouped accordingly into these three parts. This book's message is straightforward since there is no better way to start any maintenance strategy than by going back to the basic discipline which is often ignored. Big problems, unplanned breakdowns, and catastrophic failures are just an accumulation of small problems that have always been ignored and mostly neglected. The author strongly emphasizes the importance operators play in addressing these basic equipment conditions and why these people are very important in any reliability and maintenance strategy. Found out why.

Examining the potential benefits and risks of using artificial intelligence to advance global sustainability.Drones with night vision are tracking elephant and rhino poachers in African wildlife parks and sanctuaries; smart submersibles are saving coral from carnivorous starfish on Australia''s Great Barrier Reef; recycled cell phones alert Brazilian forest rangers to the sound of illegal logging. The tools of artificial intelligence are being increasingly deployed in the battle for global sustainability. And yet, warns Peter Dauvergne, we should be cautious in declaring AI the planet''s savior. In AI in the Wild, Dauvergne avoids the AI industry-powered hype and offers a critical view, exploring both the potential benefits and risks of using artificial intelligence to advance global sustainability.Dauvergne finds that corporations and states often use AI in ways that are antithetical to sustainability. The competition to profit from AI is entrenching technocratic management, revving up resource extraction, and turbocharging consumption, as consumers buy new smart devices (and discard their old, less-smart ones). Smart technology is helping farmers grow crops more efficiently, but also empowering the agrifood industry. Moreover, states are weaponizing AI to control citizens, suppress dissent, and aim cyberattacks at rival states. Is there a way to harness the power of AI for environmental and social good? Dauvergne argues for precaution and humility as guiding principles in the deployment of AI.

Professional Coaching for Agilists is for all agile practitioners who want to add Professional Coaching to their toolkits. Leading Agile coaches Damon Poole and Gillian Lee address all aspects of professional agile coaching, from coaching agreements through accountability. Their methodology-independent guidance can help you succeed as a coach in any environment, at all levels: individual, team, and organizational.

For the beginning developer or those looking to bring their games to the Roblox platform, look no further than Roblox Game Development in 24 Hours: The Official Roblox Guide. In just 24 lessons of one hour or less, youll deepen your understanding of virtually every facet of Roblox game development. Each short and easy lesson builds upon everything thats come before, helping you take full advantage of this remarkable platform. By the time youre finished, youll be a true Roblox game development expert. Step-by-step instructions walk you through common questions, issues, and tasksQ&As, Quizzes, and Exercises build and test your knowledgeDid You Know? tips offer insider advice and shortcutsWatch Out! alerts help you avoid pitfallsRoblox Game Development in 24 Hours covers all this and much more:The Roblox engine, Studio dev tools, Lua programming language, and development lifecyclePhysics, rendering, terrain, lighting, atmosphere, effects, and soundImporting assets, models, meshparts, and texturesStructuring your gameCoding game mechanics, animations, camera movement, and GUIsNetworking and mobile developmentMonetization: consumables, one-time purchases, premium versions, attracting players, and advertising

If you're looking to make a career move from programmer to AI specialist, this is the ideal place to start. Based on Laurence Moroney's extremely successful AI courses, this introductory book provides a hands-on, code-first approach to help you build confidence while you learn key topics.You'll understand how to implement the most common scenarios in machine learning, such as computer vision, natural language processing (NLP), and sequence modeling for web, mobile, cloud, and embedded runtimes. Most books on machine learning begin with a daunting amount of advanced math. This guide is built on practical lessons that let you work directly with the code.You'll learn:How to build models with TensorFlow using skills that employers desireThe basics of machine learning by working with code samplesHow to implement computer vision, including feature detection in imagesHow to use NLP to tokenize and sequence words and sentencesMethods for embedding models in Android and iOSHow to serve models over the web and in the cloud with TensorFlow Serving

Collaborate with colleagues in real timeThrough Google's single sign-in suite of products, students, employees, and businesses can work seamlessly in G Suite's cloud-based office productivity apps: Gmail, Calendar, Docs and Sheets, Drive, Hangouts, Meet, and more. G Suite offers many benefits including security, reliability, and compatibility with other products. Three simple pricing plans are available to meet the usage and storage needs of large and small groups of collaborators.

This book brings together the insights and practical experience of some of the most experienced Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) technical experts, detailing the trend of DPDK, data packet processing, hardware acceleration, packet processing and virtualization.

A must-have resource for anyone looking to establish, implement and maintain an ISMS.Ideal for information security managers, auditors, consultants and organisations preparing for ISO 27001 certification, this book will help readers understand the requirements of an ISMS (information security management system) based on ISO 27001. Similarly, for anyone involved in internal or external audits, the book includes the definitive requirements that auditors must address when certifying organisations to ISO 27001.The book covers:Implementation guidance -what needs to beconsidered to fuli lthe requirements of thecontrols from ISO/IEC27001, Annex A. This guidance is aligned with ISO/IEC27002, which gives advice on implementing the controls;Auditing guidance -whatshouldbechecked, and how,whenexaminingthe ISO/IEC27001controls to ensure that the implementation coversthe ISMS control requirements.The implementation guidance gives clear descriptions covering what needs to be considered to achieve compliance against the requirements, with examples given throughout. The auditing guidance covers what evidence an auditor should look for in order to satisfy themselves that the requirement has been met. Useful for internal auditors and consultants, the auditing guidance will also be useful for information security managers and lead implementers as a means of confirming that their implementation and evidence to support it will be sufficient to pass an audit.This guide is intended to be used by those involved in:Designing, implementing and/or maintaining an ISMS;Preparing for ISMS audits and assessments; orUndertaking both internal and third-party ISMS audits and assessmentsAbout the authorBridget Kenyon (CISSP) is global CISO for Thales eSecurity. Her experience in information security started in 2000 with a role in network vulnerabilities at DERA, following which she has been a PCI Qualified Security Assessor, information security officer for Warwick University and head of information security for UCL, and has held a variety of roles in consultancy and academia.Bridget has been contributing to international standards since 2006, when she first joined BSI Panel 1, coordinating development of information security management system standards; she is currently editor for ISO/IEC 27014. Bridget has also co-authored three textbooks on information security. She strongly believes that "e;information security is fundamental to reliable business operations, not a nice-to-have"e;. In 2018, she was named one of the top 25 women in tech by UK publication PCR.