This is a fascinating science-fiction about time travel. The story links a far past or distant future, advanced, scientific world of Eos with the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. The trouble starts when a young woman named Cheryl decides to marry without the permission of the Central Council. The scientists of the Council predict a disaster for Eos if this marriage goes forward. To prove their point to the doubtful Cheryl, they send a team of explorers into the distant past to search for clues to confirm the ancient Law of Reason.
This is a fascinating science-fiction about time travel. The story links a far past or distant future, advanced, scientific world of Eos with the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. The trouble starts when a young woman named Cheryl decides to marry without the permission of the Central Council. The scientists of the Council predict a disaster for Eos if this marriage goes forward. To prove their point to the doubtful Cheryl, they send a team of explorers into the distant past to search for clues to confirm the ancient Law of Reason.
The book Kafka Streams - Real-time Stream Processing helps you understand the stream processing in general and apply that skill to Kafka streams programming. This book is focusing mainly on the new generation of the Kafka Streams library available in the Apache Kafka 2.x. The primary focus of this book is on Kafka Streams. However, the book also touches on the other Apache Kafka capabilities and concepts that are necessary to grasp the Kafka Streams programming. Who should read this book? Kafka Streams: Real-time Stream Processing is written for software engineers willing to develop a stream processing application using Kafka Streams library. I am also writing this book for data architects and data engineers who are responsible for designing and building the organization’s data-centric infrastructure. Another group of people is the managers and architects who do not directly work with Kafka implementation, but they work with the people who implement Kafka Streams at the ground level. What should you already know? This book assumes that the reader is familiar with the basics of Java programming language. The source code and examples in this book are using Java 8, and I will be using Java 8 lambda syntax, so experience with lambda will be helpful. Kafka Streams is a library that runs on Kafka. Having a good fundamental knowledge of Kafka is essential to get the most out of Kafka Streams. I will touch base on the mandatory Kafka concepts for those who are new to Kafka. The book also assumes that you have some familiarity and experience in running and working on the Linux operating system.
Metzner relates his distillation of almost five decades of research, psychotherapy, shamanic, and yogic practices, as well as teaching experience, on the role of changing states of consciousness in psychological health and spiritual growth.
Pirates of the Caribbean meets times traveling heroes and godlike aliens. Sequel to Sunset of the Gods and Blood of Heroes. Special operations officer Jason Thanou of the Temporal Regulatory Authority must once again plunge into Old Earth's blood_drenched past to combat the plots of the Transhumanist underground to subvert that past and create a secret history leading up to the fulfillment of their mad dream of transforming humanity into a race of gods and monsters. Jason and his companions travel to the seventeenth century encounter the real pirates of the Caribbean¾including a beautiful she_pirate who turns out to be Transhumanist renegade. To Jason's horror, he also learns that the Teloi aliens who were the grim reality behind the pagan pantheons of antiquity¾aliens Jason believed he'd successfully destroyed¾are still active, and aiding the Transhumanists in founding an unspeakable cult. What's more, these are a different¾and far more dangerous¾breed of Teloi than before. Jason must somehow thwart the plans of the sinister allies while at the same time preventing reality itself from falling into chaos. In the end he finds himself venturing into space with a totally unexpected ally: Henry Morgan. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).
When five deep-time explorers find themselves stranded in the distant past of 2015, they're forced to adapt to a primitive world of iPhone 6s's and cars that can't even drive themselves. But when a rift in space-time starts spitting out dinosaurs, giant robots, and other strange phenomena, only the marooned "PastAways" can defend the twenty-first century from the terrors of the timestream! Collects issues #1-#6 of the Dark Horse original series, plus a short story from Dark Horse Presents all in full-color!
In the distant future, a team of skilled time travelers embarks on a mission to explore the mysteries of time. However, during an experiment gone awry, their time machine malfunctions, and they find themselves not in the era they intended but in a subterranean city called Teloz. Teloz is a multiverse nexus, a hub connecting various parallel worlds and timelines. Teloz, with its bioluminescent glow and diverse population of humans, aliens, and mythical creatures, resembles the enchanted landscapes of Middle Earth. The city is a harmonious blend of advanced technology and magical elements, hidden deep within the Earth.
A friendly, framework-agnostic tutorial that will help you grok how streaming systems work—and how to build your own! In Grokking Streaming Systems you will learn how to: Implement and troubleshoot streaming systems Design streaming systems for complex functionalities Assess parallelization requirements Spot networking bottlenecks and resolve back pressure Group data for high-performance systems Handle delayed events in real-time systems Grokking Streaming Systems is a simple guide to the complex concepts behind streaming systems. This friendly and framework-agnostic tutorial teaches you how to handle real-time events, and even design and build your own streaming job that’s a perfect fit for your needs. Each new idea is carefully explained with diagrams, clear examples, and fun dialogue between perplexed personalities! About the technology Streaming systems minimize the time between receiving and processing event data, so they can deliver responses in real time. For applications in finance, security, and IoT where milliseconds matter, streaming systems are a requirement. And streaming is hot! Skills on platforms like Spark, Heron, and Kafka are in high demand. About the book Grokking Streaming Systems introduces real-time event streaming applications in clear, reader-friendly language. This engaging book illuminates core concepts like data parallelization, event windows, and backpressure without getting bogged down in framework-specific details. As you go, you’ll build your own simple streaming tool from the ground up to make sure all the ideas and techniques stick. The helpful and entertaining illustrations make streaming systems come alive as you tackle relevant examples like real-time credit card fraud detection and monitoring IoT services. What's inside Implement and troubleshoot streaming systems Design streaming systems for complex functionalities Spot networking bottlenecks and resolve backpressure Group data for high-performance systems About the reader No prior experience with streaming systems is assumed. Examples in Java. About the author Josh Fischer and Ning Wang are Apache Committers, and part of the committee for the Apache Heron distributed stream processing engine. Table of Contents PART 1 GETTING STARTED WITH STREAMING 1 Welcome to Grokking Streaming Systems 2 Hello, streaming systems! 3 Parallelization and data grouping 4 Stream graph 5 Delivery semantics 6 Streaming systems review and a glimpse ahead PART 2 STEPPING UP 7 Windowed computations 8 Join operations 9 Backpressure 10 Stateful computation 11 Wrap-up: Advanced concepts in streaming systems
"A powerful coming-of-age story of self-discovery and overcoming fear.”—Kirkus Reviews, starred review Ato hasn’t visited his grandmother’s house since he was seven. He’s heard the rumors that she’s a witch, and his mother has told him he must never sit on the old couch on her porch. Now here he is, on that exact couch, with a strange-looking drink his grandmother has given him, wondering if the rumors are true. What’s more, there’s a freshly dug hole in her yard that Ato suspects may be a grave meant for him. Meanwhile at school, Ato and his friends have entered a competition to win entry to Nnoma, the island bird sanctuary that Ato’s father helped created. But something is poisoning the community garden where their project is housed, and Ato sets out to track down the culprit. In doing so, he brings his estranged mother and grandmother back together, and begins healing the wounds left on the family by his father’s death years before. And that hole in the yard? It is a grave, but not for the purpose Ato feared, and its use brings a tender, celebratory ending to this deeply felt and universal story of healing and love from one of Ghana’s most admired children’s book authors.
Summary Kafka Streams in Action teaches you everything you need to know to implement stream processing on data flowing into your Kafka platform, allowing you to focus on getting more from your data without sacrificing time or effort. Foreword by Neha Narkhede, Cocreator of Apache Kafka Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications. About the Technology Not all stream-based applications require a dedicated processing cluster. The lightweight Kafka Streams library provides exactly the power and simplicity you need for message handling in microservices and real-time event processing. With the Kafka Streams API, you filter and transform data streams with just Kafka and your application. About the Book Kafka Streams in Action teaches you to implement stream processing within the Kafka platform. In this easy-to-follow book, you'll explore real-world examples to collect, transform, and aggregate data, work with multiple processors, and handle real-time events. You'll even dive into streaming SQL with KSQL! Practical to the very end, it finishes with testing and operational aspects, such as monitoring and debugging. What's inside Using the KStreams API Filtering, transforming, and splitting data Working with the Processor API Integrating with external systems About the Reader Assumes some experience with distributed systems. No knowledge of Kafka or streaming applications required. About the Author Bill Bejeck is a Kafka Streams contributor and Confluent engineer with over 15 years of software development experience. Table of Contents PART 1 - GETTING STARTED WITH KAFKA STREAMS Welcome to Kafka Streams Kafka quicklyPART 2 - KAFKA STREAMS DEVELOPMENT Developing Kafka Streams Streams and state The KTable API The Processor APIPART 3 - ADMINISTERING KAFKA STREAMS Monitoring and performance Testing a Kafka Streams applicationPART 4 - ADVANCED CONCEPTS WITH KAFKA STREAMS Advanced applications with Kafka StreamsAPPENDIXES Appendix A - Additional configuration information Appendix B - Exactly once semantics
