Bøker av Chris Jones

The overwhelming majority of a software systems lifespan is spent in use, not in design or implementation. So, why does conventional wisdom insist that software engineers focus primarily on the design and development of large-scale computing systems?In this collection of essays and articles, key members of Googles Site Reliability Team explain how and why their commitment to the entire lifecycle has enabled the company to successfully build, deploy, monitor, and maintain some of the largest software systems in the world. Youll learn the principles and practices that enable Google engineers to make systems more scalable, reliable, and efficientlessons directly applicable to your organization.This book is divided into four sections:IntroductionLearn what site reliability engineering is and why it differs from conventional IT industry practicesPrinciplesExamine the patterns, behaviors, and areas of concern that influence the work of a site reliability engineer (SRE)PracticesUnderstand the theory and practice of an SREs day-to-day work: building and operating large distributed computing systemsManagementExplore Google's best practices for training, communication, and meetings that your organization can use

In his short life, Liverpool-born Alexander Foote went from being a volunteer in the International Brigade in Spain to becoming an agent of Soviet military intelligence in Switzerland. Pretending to his friends that he was a dim-witted Englishman with private means, Foote became the key telegraphist of the so-called 'Red Three' network of radio stations, communicating top secret German intelligence to the USSR from under the noses of the Swiss authorities. The information from Foote's Morse key originated from sources in Germany and came to Foote via the enigmatic figure of Rudolph Rossler, known as Agent Lucy. Where he obtained the information from is a mystery that has never been solved. During the battles of Stalingrad and Kursk, Soviet generals came to depend on the information from Foote's transmitter and those of his comrades. On his release from a ten-month remand in a Swiss gaol on an espionage charge, Foote absconded to Paris in 1944 before being invited for debriefing in Moscow. When he arrived, he became aware that he was under suspicion of being a British spy and it took all his wit to talk his comrades in Soviet intelligence out of sending him to the gulag: a fate that waited for many of the others in his Swiss network. Disillusioned with life in the USSR, Foote approached British intelligence while he was on a Soviet mission in Berlin. He made them an offer: if they got him back to Britain he would tell them all he knew about Soviet intelligence, from the inside. This is his story.

MEAN LOU GREEN is a brand-new style of Blitzkrieg pulp fiction that will hook you with its reckless charm and pull you deep into the Wild West for outrageous adventures full of gunsmoke, whiskey, and cheap perfume. You've never experienced anything like MEAN LOU GREEN before. ⚡Lightning-speed flash fiction that reads like a Rock n' Roll album 30 super-short tales, 10 per volume, all about the same characters. Each tale takes 1-3 minutes to read but will get your heart racing and blood pumping. It's like spinning a Wild West roulette wheel... You never know what's coming in the next story. RIDE ALONG WITH LOU the "bounty hunter hunter" who does what he's got to in order to buy his next bottle of rye and is pushed endlessly west by a tragic quest to bring his dead son's silver dollar to the Pacific that he can never seem to complete. He handles Indians, other bounty hunters, an arch nemesis Grim Reynolds, too many beautiful women to keep track of, and enough rotgut to make him half blind. While he stomps and howls through the Old West, Lou: -fights a group of howlin' Injun Braves who are after his scalp-has a run-in with an old partner-in-crime Spitshine Sierra, a cold killer who's prettier'n a daffodil but vicious as a she-wolf-deals with a thievin' soiled dove who robs him blind and nude-ponders the deeper meaning of a half-full whiskey bottle-shoots himself-battles Grim Reynolds, the stone-faced maniac hellbent on making Lou pay for his past actions-has a traintop duel in a South Dakota blizzard-gets a bullet removed from his liver without a painkiller-poses as a town marshal-plays some brutally high-stakes poker-gets himself a mean Greener sawed-off shotgun-assaults the winter cabin hideout of the notorious Erie Watson gang with two young hombres by his side-faces off with the famous bounty hunter Shane Savage-hears the wildest song he's ever heard in a saloon... About him-plays a winner-takes-all-and-more game of Russian Roulette-tests out his left hook (more than once)-and more..."[Chris Jones is] keeping the spirit of Robert E. Howard alive" - Dan L. So grab a drink, light up a smoke, and dive into the Wild West rollercoaster that will leave you flushed, wide-eyed, and scrambling back for more. Praise for MEAN LOU GREEN: "Fast. Hard. Dirty. Rough. Exciting... You want something refreshing? Read this now."-Hugo Soberanes "Mean Lou Green possesses that Great and Elusive quality that seems all-but-forgotten in today's Fiction: FUN!Rather than wasting your time... Mean Lou Green never strays from its singular goal - FUN - Action and Intrigue expertly delivered with Fantastic writing that absolutely abhors wasted words; Both Descriptive and Concise, the captivating story demands page turning. Any fan of Fight and Fiction will thoroughly enjoy this Running Wander through Western Slaughter."-Ajax Telemon "In this book, you follow the adventures of cutthroat, gunpowder, whiskey-smelling, thick-skinned, and overall badass Lou Green. I got hooked. Author Chris Jones is clearly passionate about his characters, and the reader will feel that from the book cover, and all the way to the epilogue."-Hugo D. Lopes "It reads RAW butter smooth, very enjoyable. Having never read pulp, as someone new to this kind of writing, I actually fell in love with the short blood-pumping short stories. Character development is on point and interesting; it feels organic. My favorite story must be Lawman Lou - it had me hooked all the way and I was transported into that land for some minutes as long as I read it. Damn good short book in my honest opinion."-Stefan S.

The march of the internet into retail is relentless. Online is where customers spend their time and, increasingly, their money. The internet is also changing. The rise of mobile is giving web access to millions more developing nation consumers, while simultaneously resetting the expectations of customers in highly developed markets. No retailer, anywhere in the world, can afford to be without a response to these fundamental changes in the way their customers are shopping. This is a handbook for planning, implementing, operating and enhancing that response. Packed with statistics, case-studies and examples, The Multichannel Retail Handbook is above all a practical guide. It provides useable tools and decision-frameworks. It offers actionable advice and recommendations. It takes the retailer to from "why-what-how" through to "when".

Have you ever met someone who claims to be great at everything? A huge boaster of their own talents? You surely have. Well in the town of Hoppity Thicket, meet Bessie: a lady so confident in herself, she''ll volunteer for anything and everything.This loveable rogue just wants to help. The only problem is ... she doesn''t help. In fact, she only manages to make things worse. A whole lot worse! Follow Bessie on a day like no other, which sees her tackle no end of challenges. Supported by the most beautiful illustrations, this riveting story will have your family super excited to discover what messes Bessie''s antics will get her into next. Written in perfect rhyme and using words that will develop and stretch young minds, Bessie will make a fabulous addition to any bookshelf.The second book in our monster series - the Monstrous World of Hoppity Thicket. The recommended age group is 3-9.

In a world increasingly ruled by numbers and algorithms, award-winning journalist Chris Jones makes a compelling case for a more personal approach to analytical thinking?.

This low-budget filmmaker's "bible" has been totally revamped for the American market. The two authors have interviewed hundreds of film industry insiders. The book has 3 main sections: "Anatomy of a Movie", "Case Studies", and "The Toolkit".

Harley is a basset hound. And being a basset hound brings certain challenges! Then one day, something incredible happens! With the help of a strange, moustache wearing man on the talking box machine, Harley is able to be the dog she''d always dreamt of being. She could do all the things she saw other dogs do - carry huge sticks, catch balls in mid-air ... she was top-dog.  However, being someone she''s not, wasn''t all she''d imagined it would be. Because others liked her just the way she was...This magical book written in perfect rhyme and beautifully illustrated, will help young children feel comfortable being themselves. Any child that loves dogs and animals will look forward to reading it, again and again. The story is based on the author''s real life basset hound - who of course is called Harley! Even Lucy the chihuahua, who terrorises Harley on a daily basis, is a real-life character in their local park. 

Offering a textbook that studies economic activity in financial markets, this title focuses on how consumers determine future consumption and on the role of financial securities. It includes: an examination of the role of finance in the economy using basic economic principles, eventually progressing to introductory graduate analysis.

Strange Likeness examines how Old English was rediscovered by twentieth-century poets, and the uses to which they put that discovery in their own writing. Poets discussed include Ezra Pound, W. H. Auden, Edwin Morgan, and Seamus Heaney, whose translation of Beowulf is for the first time fully contextualized within the rest of his work.

A forward-looking appraisal of the welfare state, which examines such issues as poverty in Britain, demonisation of the poor in areas of social policy and other related topics.

Written in an easily understood manner with the practitioner in mind, Watershed Health Monitoring balances the need for a detailed treatment of watershed health monitoring with the need for a concise, easy to use reference. It is the first book to recognize the multidisciplinary nature of successful monitoring programs-programs that go far beyond science. The focus of the text is a clear description of an innovative "Closed Loop" model that specifies four key aspects of successful monitoring programs: political linkages and support, sound scientific assessment techniques, a community education and awareness component; and a sustainable cost-recovery framework achieved through partnership.

A powerful claim for the virtues of a more thoughtful and collegiate approach to the academy today.This book offers a response to the culture of metrics, mass digitisation, and accountability (as opposed to responsibility, or citizenship) that has developed in higher education world wide, as exemplified by the UK's Research Excellence Framework exercise (REF), and the increasing bureaucracy that limits the time available for teaching, research, and even conversation and collaboration. Ironically, these are problems that will be solved only by academicsfinding the time to talk and to work together. The essays collected here both critique the culture of speed in the neoliberal university and provide examples of what can be achieved by slowing down, by reclaiming research and research priorities, and by working collaboratively across the disciplines to improve conditions. They are informed both by recent research in medieval studies and by the problematic culture of twenty-first century higher education. The contributions offer very personal approaches to the academic culture of the present moment. Some tackle issues of academic freedom head-on; others more obliquely; but they all have been written as declarations of theacademic freedom that comes with slow thinking, slow reading, slow writing and slow looking and the demonstrations of its benefits. CATHERINE E. KARKOV is Professor and Chair of Art History at the University of Leeds. Contributors: Lara Eggleton, Karen Jolly, Chris Jones, James Paz, Andrew Prescott, Heather Pulliam

The march of the internet into retail is relentless. Online is where customers spend their time and, increasingly, their money. The internet is also changing. The rise of mobile is giving web access to millions more developing nation consumers, while simultaneously resetting the expectations of customers in highly developed markets. No retailer, anywhere in the world, can afford to be without a response to these fundamental changes in the way their customers are shopping. This is a handbook for planning, implementing, operating and enhancing that response. Packed with statistics, case-studies and examples, The Multichannel Retail Handbook is above all a practical guide. It provides useable tools and decision-frameworks. It offers actionable advice and recommendations. It takes the retailer to from "why-what-how" through to "when". The 2016 Edition has been fully revised and updated to reflect the changes that have taken place in this rapid-moving sector since the original edition was published.

The first known Chicago Tribune theater review appeared on March 25, 1853. This book showcases early reviews of actors and shows that would go on to achieve phenomenal success, including a tryout of A Raisin in the Sun with newcomer Sidney Poitier and the first major review of The Producers.