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  Designing Distributed Systems -...

  Brendan Burns

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  Every distributed system strives for reliability, performance, and quality, but building such a system is hard. Establishing a set of design patterns enables software developers and system architects to use a common language to describe their systems and learn from the patterns and practices developed by others. 
   
   
   
  The popularity of containers and Kubernetes paves the way for core distributed system patterns and reusable containerized components. This practical guide presents a collection of repeatable, generic patterns to help guide the systems you build using common patterns and practices drawn from some of the highest performing distributed systems in use today. These common patterns make the systems you build far more approachable and efficient, even if you've never built a distributed system before. 
   
   
   
  Author Brendan Burns demonstrates how you can adapt existing software design patterns for designing and building reliable distributed applications. Systems engineers and application developers will learn how these long-established patterns provide a common language and framework for dramatically increasing the quality of your system. This fully updated second edition includes new chapters on AI inference, AI training, and building robust systems for the real world.

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  How to Start a Podcast: An...

  Elliot Shore

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  Everything you need to know about how to grow your own podcast today! 
  Have you been struggling to get your head wrapped around the podcasting world?  
  Do you feel you lack ideas of what to do, and has it been hard making a profit?  
  Are you finding writing for your podcast almost unbearable?  
  Do you want to have fun podcasting and get paid to do it?  
  It is time to get a new perspective on all things podcast-related. 
  In this book, you will:Understand how the podcasting world works.Learn how to develop the premise for a successful podcast.Discover how to choose the right niche and audience for you.Get insight into the business side of podcasting by learning how to start a brand.Learn all about the different equipment you may need according to your budget.Learn all you need to know about editing and post-production.Discover the best places to upload your podcast.Explore the many ways through which you can monetize your content.Master how to market your podcast.Master interviewing techniques for when you bring on guests. 
  As a content creator, your time, effort, and financial resources are too precious to be wasted on techniques that do not work. It’s time for you to take a step back and plan a new approach. This insightful book will walk you through the process of building a podcast, distributing it, and profiting from it. What are you waiting for?  
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  In Search of an Ecological...

  Ezio Cordella Costa

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  One of the differentiating factors of our present is the increased environmental awareness. However, this has not yet been converted into social, economic and law systems that reveal the multiple challenges that are imposed on us. The destructive impulse of the dominant ideologies in the twentieth century maintains the hegemony of their spaces, barely trying to adapt itself into a new reality that surpasses them.
  
  Meanwhile in 1972 we believed there was a marked environmental degradation, in 2022 we recognize that we are in the middle of the sixth mass extinction of the species, the earth temperature has already increased in more than one degree Celsius and a significant percent of the planet's sweet water is contaminated. If the Constitution that Chile is planning to write and set in force in the years to come, wants to capture the logic of our times, it is essential that it sets as something basic, the environmental conditions where the legal-political communities, constituted by the chileans communities, are going to develop.
  
  This book explores the details of the "Ecological Constitution" concept, that refers to the provisions that have to be contained in a Constitution in a transversal way and that, setting the environmental protection as a central axis of the social organization, attempts to harmonize the social and nature activities.
  
  The new Constitution of Chile won't change everything, but it can constitute a first fundamental base on that change. This book is an invitation to dream with that possibility and reflect on the different ways that the Constitution can take us in that direction. The systematic changes are urgent and we are in the position to begin with them.
  
  Ezio Costa Cordella

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  Deepwater Alchemy - Extractive...

  Lisa Yin Han

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  How underwater mediation has transformed deep-sea spaces into resource-rich frontiers 
   
   
   
  Green energy technologies such as windmills, solar panels, and electric vehicles may soon depend on material found at the seabed. How did a space once imagined to be empty and unfathomable come to be thought of as a treasure trove of resources? Lisa Yin Han traces how contemporary developments in underwater sensing and imaging materially and imaginatively transmogrify the ocean bottom into a resource frontier capable of sustaining a digitally connected global future. 
   
   
   
  Set against the backdrop of climate change, energy transition, and the expansion of industrial offshore extractions, Deepwater Alchemy looks at oceanic media and its representation of the seabed in terms of valuable resources. From high-tech simulations to laboratories and archives that collect and analyze sediments, Han explores the media technologies that survey, visualize, and condition the possibility for industrial resource extraction, introducing the concept of extractive mediation to describe the conflations between resource prospecting and undersea knowledge production. Moving away from anthropocentric frameworks, she argues that we must equalize access to deep ocean mediation and include the submerged perspectives of multispecies communities.

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  Gentle and Fierce - Essays

  Vanessa Berry

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  To be gentle is to resist the privileging of command above compassion. It is a quiet voice, a persistent whisper, calm and consoling. Ferocity is an armour, a forceful expression of resolve and protection. To be fierce is to know the intensity of the edges of feeling. It is the voice that calls out, intending to be heard.  
  Gentle and Fierce focuses on the world that humans share with animals. Having spent her life in city environments, Vanessa Berry’s experiences with animals have largely been through encounters in urban settings, representations in art and the media, and as decorative ornaments or kitsch. The essays in Gentle and Fierce suggest that these encounters provide meaningful connections, at a time when our shared world is threatened by environmental destruction. Berry responds with attentiveness and empathy to her subjects, which include a stuffed Kodiak bear, a Japanese island overrun by rabbits, a porcelain otter and Georges Perec’s cat. The essays are accompanied by Berry’s illustrations, which reflect her eye for detail and her background as an artist and zine maker. 
  Who better than Vanessa Berry, with her pointillist attention and sly humour to document the surprising ways that animals enrich, inform and shadow our human natures. Whether recollecting Frank a taxidermied Kodiak bear, noting the snails that turn letters to Sylvia Plath into lace, or zipping together a personal history with flies, Berry elevates and commemorates those lives that are entangled – too often invisibly – with our own. Ethically astute, formally clever and deftly political, Gentle and Fierce evokes the work of John Berger and Jenny Odell. An urgent and poignant reminder of what we have lost and might yet gain from the more-than-human world. – Mireille Juchau

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  Presenting with Impact Bundle 2...

  Max Nelson, Tracy Ingram

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  Presenting with Impact Bundle, 2 in 1 Bundle: How to Do Live Demos and Better PresentationsMaster the art of impactful presentations with the Presenting with Impact Bundle, featuring two essential audiobooks that will take your presentation skills to the next level. Whether you’re delivering a live demo or closing a sales deal, this bundle equips you with the tools, tips, and techniques to wow your audience and achieve success.📖 What’s included:How to Do Live DemosLearn the ins and outs of creating visually stunning and engaging live video demonstrations that effectively showcase your products and services. Boost your confidence and make your demos unforgettable!Better PresentationsUnlock the secrets to delivering successful sales presentations with practical strategies and winning techniques. Whether you’re pitching to clients or leading a team, this guide ensures you’ll deliver presentations that close the deal.🌟 If you’re ready to command attention, captivate audiences, and present with confidence, the Presenting with Impact Bundle is your ultimate resource for presentation success.

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