Enterprise Architecture Principles And Best Practices - April 2024

Big Data: Principles and best practices of scalable realtime data systems

SummaryBig Data teaches you to build big data systems using an architecture that takes advantage of clustered hardware along with new tools designed specifically to capture and analyze web-scale data. It describes a scalable, easy-to-understand approach to big data systems that can be built and run by a small team. Following a realistic example, this book guides readers through the theory of big data systems, how to implement them in practice, and how to deploy and operate them once they're built.Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Pub... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1617290343
• ASIN: 1617290343
• ISBN: 1617290343
• Brand: Manning Publications
• Manufacturer: Manning Publications

A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy

One of the great fears many of us face is that despite all our effort and striving, we will discover at the end that we have wasted our life. In A Guide to the Good Life, William B. Irvine plumbs the wisdom of Stoic philosophy, one of the most popular and successful schools of thought in ancient Rome, and shows how its insight and advice are still remarkably applicable to modern lives.In A Guide to the Good Life, Irvine offers a refreshing presentation of Stoicism, showing how this ancient philosophy can still direct us toward a better life. Using the psychological insights and the practical t... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0195374614
• UPC: 884430031588
• ASIN: 0195374614
• ISBN: 0195374614
• Brand: Irvine, William B.
• Manufacturer: Oxford University Press

Interior Design Master Class: 100 Lessons from America's Finest Designers on the Art of Decoration

With one hundred essays from one hundred interior designers, spanning stylistic genres from classic to modern, on subjects as varied as "Collecting," "White," "Portals," and "Layering", this book highlights the knowledge, experience, expertise, insight, and work of established design legends, as well as members of the new guard, spanning over four decades of work. Unique in the quality of its contributors, this book will be a landmark publication in the field, helpful and inspirational for the home decorator, as well as students of design and design professionals. Poised to become the essentia... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0847848906
• ASIN: 0847848906
• ISBN: 0847848906
• Brand: Rizzoli International Publications
• Manufacturer: Rizzoli

Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things

• ASIN: 0865475873
• ASIN: 0865475873
• ISBN: 0865475873
• Brand: North Point Press
• Manufacturer: North Point Press

Perspective Made Easy (Dover Art Instruction)

Perspective, the author tells us, is easy; yet surprisingly few artists are aware of the simple rules that make it so. This easy-to-follow book — the first devoted entirely to clarifying the laws of perspective — remedies the situation. In it, the author uses over 250 simple line drawings to illustrate the concepts involved.Beginning with clear, concise, immediately applicable discussions of the horizon, vanishing point, and the crucial relationship of eye level to perspective drawing, you'll learn how to place figures and objects in a drawing, depict interiors, create shade and shadows,... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0486404730
• UPC: 800759404735
• ASIN: 0486404730
• ISBN: 9780486404738
• Brand: Dover Publications
• Manufacturer: Dover Publications

5-Minute Sketching -- Architecture: Super-quick Techniques for Amazing Drawings

Sketching has become very popular. In more than 60 cities around the world, from New Jersey, San Diego, and Montreal to as far as Moscow and Australia, "sketch crawls" find artists drawing what they see. A new social network has emerged where these sketch artists meet for group crawls and upload and share their work online. Like coloring, sketching taps into a desire to be creative in the bygone way of pencil and paper. 5-Minute Sketching -- Architecture can help artists of all abilities -- but especially novices -- to understand and reproduce real-life perspective in their drawings. The rul... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1770857575
• ASIN: 1770857575
• ISBN: 1770857575
• Manufacturer: Firefly Books

The Interior Design Reference & Specification Book updated & revised: Everything Interior Designers Need to Know Every Day

The Interior Design Reference & Specification Book collects the information essential to planning and executing interior projects of all shapes and sizes, and distills it in a format that is as easy to use as it is to carry. In this new, revised edition, you'll also find interviews with top practitioners drawn across the field of interior design. Some of the topics this excellent reference will explore with you include:-Fundamentals: Provides a step-by-step overview of an interior project, describing the scope of professional services, the project schedule, and the design and presentation t... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1631593803
• ASIN: 1631593803
• ISBN: 9781631593802
• Manufacturer: Rockport Publishers

Painting Abstracts: Ideas, Projects and Techniques

Clear, challenging and inspiring, this book contains instructions for 65 abstract paintings that you can get to work on straightaway, with no previous experience. All the basic information relating to picture elements, composition, theme and design is provided at the start of the book, together with an exploration of the meaning of abstract painting, and its importance as a means of self-expression and creativity. Rather than providing step-by-step instructions, each of the exercises consists of information on method, materials, technique, composition, imagery and structure which will direct y... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1844483363
• ASIN: 1844483363
• ISBN: 1844483363
• Brand: SEARCH PRESS/PENGUIN RAND
• Manufacturer: Search Press

The Simple Secret to Better Painting: How to Immediately Improve Your Work with the One Rule of Composition

Create art that's more attractive, interesting and eye-catching!Even if your perspective is accurate, your subject realistic and colors vibrant, a weak composition - predictable, repetitious or monotonous - means a weak painting.The Simple Secret to Better Painting ensures that your compositions work every time. It's an insightful artistic philosophy that boils down the many technical principles of composition into a single master rule that's easy to remember and apply: Never make any two intervals the same.You can make every painting more interesting, dynamic and technically sound by varying ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1581802560
• UPC: 035313320972
• ASIN: 1581802560
• ISBN: 1581802560
• Manufacturer: F&W

Feng Shui that Makes Sense - Easy Ways to Create a Home that FEELS as Good as it Looks

You don't need to be a professional designer or a feng shui expert in order to have a beautiful, comfortable home. Feng Shui That Makes Sense takes you step-by-step through the process of using feng shui principles to create a home that will please your eye, relax your body, inspire your mind, and lift your spirit. After reading this book, you will be able to: - Easily create a home of beauty, harmony, and comfort - Learn basic feng shui principles that work every time in every space - Improve the look and feel of any room in your home - Discover the origins of popular feng shui myths and misu... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1936401568
• ASIN: 1936401568
• ISBN: 1936401568
• Brand: Two Harbors Press
• Manufacturer: Two Harbors Press

Luminous Emptiness: Understanding the Tibetan Book of the Dead

• ASIN: 1570629250
• ASIN: 1570629250
• ISBN: 1570629250
• Brand: Shambhala
• Manufacturer: Shambhala

The Barefoot Architect

A former UN worker and prominent architect, Johan van Lengen has seen firsthand the desperate need for a "greener" approach to housing in impoverished tropical climates. This comprehensive book clearly explains every aspect of this endeavor, including design (siting, orientation, climate consideration), materials (sisal, cactus, bamboo, earth), and implementation. The author emphasizes throughout the book what is inexpensive and sustainable. Included are sections discussing urban planning, small-scale energy production, cleaning and storing drinking water, and dealing with septic waste, and a... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0936070420
• ASIN: 0936070420
• ISBN: 0936070420
• Brand: imusti
• Manufacturer: Shelter Publications, Inc.

Interconnection Networks (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design)

The performance of most digital systems today is limited by their communication or interconnection, not by their logic or memory. As designers strive to make more efficient use of scarce interconnection bandwidth, interconnection networks are emerging as a nearly universal solution to the system-level communication problems for modern digital systems. Interconnection networks have become pervasive in their traditional application as processor-memory and processor-processor interconnect. Point-to-point interconnection networks have replaced buses in an ever widening range of applications that i... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1558608524
• ASIN: 1558608524
• ISBN: 1558608524
• Brand: Brand: Morgan Kaufmann
• Manufacturer: Morgan Kaufmann

Cities as Sustainable Ecosystems: Principles and Practices

Modern city dwellers are largely detached from the environmental effects of their daily lives. The sources of the water they drink, the food they eat, and the energy they consume are all but invisible, often coming from other continents, and their waste ends up in places beyond their city boundaries.  Cities as Sustainable Ecosystems shows how cities and their residents can begin to reintegrate into their bioregional environment, and how cities themselves can be planned with nature’s organizing principles in mind. Taking cues from living systems for sustainability strategies, Newman and Jen... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1597261882
• ASIN: 1597261882
• ISBN: 1597261882
• Brand: Brand: Island Press
• Manufacturer: Island Press

Historic Preservation: An Introduction to Its History, Principles, and Practice

"[T]he best published overview of historic preservation... I use it as a course text." --Lauren Sickels-Taves, architectural conservator, Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village Historic Preservation provides a thorough overview of the theory, technique, and procedure for preserving our architectural heritage. The perfect introduction for architecture students, local officials, community leaders, and the interested layperson, it covers preservation philosophy, the history of the movement, the role of national, state, and local government, the designation and documentation of historic structures... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0393730395
• ASIN: 0393730395
• ISBN: 0393730395
• Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

Big Data : Principles and Best Practices of Scalable Realtime Data Systems

Teaches readers how to build big data systems using Lambda Architecture, an architecture designed specifically to capture and analyze web-scale

• UPC: 21851283
• Rating: 5.0

SEO Principles 2015: The Best Practice Guide for Individuals and Small Business Owners on a Time Crunch - eBook

SEO Principles 2015 is a hands on guide for individuals and small businesses that dont have the time to learn all the ins and outs of search engine optimization. This guide will take you through

• UPC: 761812917

Landscape Architecture Documentation Standards : Principles, Guidelines, and Best Practices

Landscape Architecture Documentation Standards: Principles, Guidelines and Best

• UPC: 11595569

Investor Relations : Principles and International Best Practices in Financial Communications

This practical guide on the theory and practice of Investor Relations combines the art and science of marketing, financial analysis, and financial communications in a single source. It offers expert advice and helpful tips to

• UPC: 23465351

Principles of Financial Modelling : Model Design and Best Practices Using Excel and VBA

9781118904015

• UPC: 653686612

The Sustainable Sites Handbook : A Complete Guide to the Principles, Strategies, and Best Practices for Sustainable Landscapes

"This official reference guide to the Sustainable Sites Initiative Rating System contains information on principles, strategies, technologies, tools, and best practices for sustainable site design applicable to any type of designed landscape, with or without

• UPC: 16217354

Effective Coding with VHDL : Principles and Best Practice

A guide to applying software design principles and coding practices to VHDL to improve the readability, maintainability, and quality of VHDL

• UPC: 49012920

Operator's Guide to Rotating Equipment : An Introduction to Rotating Equipment Construction, Operating Principles, Troubleshooting, and Best Practices

Every operator who is responsible for monitoring critical rotating equipment will greatly benefit from this handy reference book. The goal of this book is to present proven techniques that will enable rookie and veteran operators

• UPC: 53102642

Land Use and Land Cover Semantics : Principles, Best Practices, and Prospects

9781482237399

• UPC: 44515761

New Principles of Best Practice in Clinical Audit

New Principles of Best Practice in Clinical

• UPC: 15208990