Scaling Down

by Judi Culbertson

Author	: Judi Culbertson
Publisher	: Rodale
Total Pages	: 243
Release	: 2005-03-02
Genre	: House & Home
ISBN	: 1594860939

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A timely guide for individuals moving from a larger to a smaller space or consolidating two (or more) people's possessions into a single abode offers practical strategies for paring down one's belongings to the best and most meaningful items, simplifying one's life, controlling clutter, and dealing with the emotional aspects of "streamlining." Original. 20,000 first printing.

Scaling Up Scaling Down

by Thomas J. Marchione

Author	: Thomas J. Marchione
Publisher	: Routledge
Total Pages	: 321
Release	: 2013-12-19
Genre	: Political Science
ISBN	: 1134390904

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The individual and institutional capacities required for the prevention and reduction of nutritional insecurity and hunger in lesser-developed countries as the twenty-first century approaches are identified in this book. Household nutritional "security" can be defined as the successful The essays in this book champion the idea of increasing, or scaling up, grass roots operations to provide nutritional security, while scaling down the efforts of national and international institutions. Scaling up involves strengthening local capacities to improve and expand upon current successful programs by building upon existing local culture and organizations. This, in turn, enables the programs to strengthen relationships with national governments, international bilateral/multilateral donors, as well as non-governmental organizations. Scaling down concerns the ways and means by which these various organizations encourage and complement the local development. Therefore, as local capacities are scaled up, the national/international control over decisions and functions is, ideally, scaled down. The volume also directly addresses the resultant complication: how to create programs that are both culturally specific and that will flourish well into the future.

Summary of Scaling Down – [Review Keypoints and Take-aways]

by PenZen Summaries

Author	: PenZen Summaries
Publisher	: by Mocktime Publication
Total Pages	: 14
Release	: 2022-11-27
Genre	: Study Aids
ISBN	:

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The summary of Scaling Down – Living Large in a Smaller Place presented here include a short review of the book at the start followed by quick overview of main points and a list of important take-aways at the end of the summary. The Summary of Scaling Down will help you understand the impulse to accumulate more things than you actually need, as well as why, once you've acquired those things, you don't want to let them go once you've gotten your hands on them. It offers helpful step-by-step instructions and information on effective strategies for learning to live with less and scaling back one's lifestyle. Scaling Down summary includes the key points and important takeaways from the book Scaling Down by Judi Culbertson, Marj Decker. Disclaimer: 1. This summary is meant to preview and not to substitute the original book. 2. We recommend, for in-depth study purchase the excellent original book. 3. In this summary key points are rewritten and recreated and no part/text is directly taken or copied from original book. 4. If original author/publisher wants us to remove this summary, please contact us at [email protected].

Scaling Google Cloud Platform

by Swapnil Dubey

Author	: Swapnil Dubey
Publisher	: BPB Publications
Total Pages	: 368
Release	: 2022-10-29
Genre	: Computers
ISBN	: 9355512848

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Managing Real-world Production-grade Challenges at Scale KEY FEATURES ● Built for GCP professionals and Cloud enthusiasts with cloud-agnostic tactics. ● Exhaustive coverage of automatic, manual, and predictive scaling and specialized strategies. ● Every concept is pragmatized with real-time production scenarios derived from prominent technologists. DESCRIPTION ‘Scaling Google Cloud Platform’ equips developers with the know-how to get the most out of its services in storage, serverless computing, networking, infrastructure monitoring, and other IT tasks. This book explains the fundamentals of cloud scaling, including Cloud Elasticity, creating cloud workloads, and selecting the appropriate cloud scaling key performance indicators (KPIs). The book explains the sections of GCP resources that can be scaled, as well as their architecture and internals, and best practices for using these components in an operational setting in detail. The book also discusses scaling techniques such as predictive scaling, auto-scaling, and manual scaling. This book includes real-world examples illustrating how to scale many Google Cloud services, including the compute engine, GKE, VMWare Engine, Cloud Function, Cloud Run, App Engine, BigTable, Spanner, Composer, Dataproc, and Dataflow. At the end of the book, the author delves into the two most common architectures—Microservices and Bigdata to examine how you can perform reliability engineering for them on GCP. WHAT YOU WILL LEARN ● Learn workload migration strategy and execution, both within and between clouds. ● Explore methods of increasing Google Cloud capacity for running VMware Engine and containerized applications. ● Scaling up and down methods include manual, predictive, and automatic approaches. ● Increase the capacity of your Dataproc cluster to handle your big data computing needs. ● Learn Google Dataflow's scalability considerations for large-scale installations. ● Explore Google Composer 2 and scale up your Cloud Spanner instances. ● Learn to set up Cloud functions and Cloud run. ● Discuss general SRE procedures on microservices and big data. WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR This book is designed for Cloud professionals, software developers, architects, DevOps team, and engineering managers to explain scaling strategies for GCP services and assumes readers know GCP basics. TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Basics of Scaling Cloud Resources 2. KPI for Cloud Scalability 3. Cloud Elasticity 4. Challenges of Infrastructure Complexity and the Way Forward 5. Scaling Compute Engine 6. Scaling Kubernetes Engine 7. Scaling VMware Engine 8. Scaling App Engine 9. Scaling Google Cloud Function and Cloud Run 10. Configuring Bigtable for Scale 11. Configuring Cloud Spanner for Scale 12. Scaling Google Composer 2 13. Scaling Google Dataproc 14. Scaling Google Dataflow 15. Site Reliability Engineering 16. SRE Use Cases

Scaling Edges

by John Hagel

Author	: John Hagel
Publisher	:
Total Pages	: 70
Release	: 2014
Genre	: Organizational change
ISBN	: 9780990576723

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Bioreactors

by Carl-Fredrik Mandenius

Author	: Carl-Fredrik Mandenius
Publisher	: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages	: 520
Release	: 2016-02-16
Genre	: Science
ISBN	: 3527683372

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In this expert handbook both the topics and contributors are selected so as to provide an authoritative view of possible applications for this new technology. The result is an up-to-date survey of current challenges and opportunities in the design and operation of bioreactors for high-value products in the biomedical and chemical industries. Combining theory and practice, the authors explain such leading-edge technologies as single-use bioreactors, bioreactor simulators, and soft sensor monitoring, and discuss novel applications, such as stem cell production, process development, and multi-product reactors, using case studies from academia as well as from industry. A final section addresses the latest trends, including culture media design and systems biotechnology, which are expected to have an increasing impact on bioreactor design. With its focus on cutting-edge technologies and discussions of future developments, this handbook will remain an invaluable reference for many years to come.

Exam Ref 70-532 Developing Microsoft Azure Solutions

by Zoiner Tejada

Author	: Zoiner Tejada
Publisher	: Microsoft Press
Total Pages	: 433
Release	: 2015-02-20
Genre	: Computers
ISBN	: 0735697140

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Prepare for Microsoft Exam 70-532--and help demonstrate your real-world mastery of Microsoft Azure solution development. Designed for experienced developers ready to advance their status, Exam Ref focuses on the critical-thinking and decision-making acumen needed for success at the Microsoft Specialist level. Focus on the expertise measured by these objectives: Design and implement Websites Create and manage Virtual Machines Design and implement Cloud Services Design and implement a storage strategy Manage application and network services This Microsoft Exam Ref: Organizes its coverage by exam objectives Features strategic, what-if scenarios to challenge you Will be valuable for Microsoft Azure developers, solution architects, DevOps engineers, and QA engineers Assumes you have experience designing, programming, implementing, automating, and monitoring Microsoft Azure solutions and that you are proficient with tools, techniques, and approaches for building scalable, resilient solutions Developing Microsoft Azure Solutions About the Exam Exam 70-532 focuses on the skills and knowledge needed to develop Microsoft Azure solutions that include websites, virtual machines, cloud services, storage, application services, and network services. About Microsoft Certification Passing this exam earns you a Microsoft Specialist certification in Microsoft Azure, demonstrating your expertise with the Microsoft Azure enterprise-grade cloud platform. You can earn this certification by passing Exam 70-532, Developing Microsoft Azure Solutions; or Exam 70-533, Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions; or Exam 70-534, Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions. See full details at: microsoft.com/learning

The Voltage Effect

by John A. List

Author	: John A. List
Publisher	: Crown Currency
Total Pages	: 289
Release	: 2022-02-01
Genre	: Business & Economics
ISBN	: 0593239482

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A leading economist answers one of today’s trickiest questions: Why do some great ideas make it big while others fail to take off? “Brilliant, practical, and grounded in the very latest research, this is by far the best book I’ve ever read on the how and why of scaling.”—Angela Duckworth, CEO of Character Lab and New York Times bestselling author of Grit LONGLISTED FOR THE PORCHLIGHT BUSINESS BOOK AWARD “Scale” has become a favored buzzword in the startup world. But scale isn't just about accumulating more users or capturing more market share. It's about whether an idea that takes hold in a small group can do the same in a much larger one—whether you’re growing a small business, rolling out a diversity and inclusion program, or delivering billions of doses of a vaccine. Translating an idea into widespread impact, says University of Chicago economist John A. List, depends on one thing only: whether it can achieve “high voltage”—the ability to be replicated at scale. In The Voltage Effect, List explains that scalable ideas share a common set of attributes, while any number of attributes can doom an unscalable idea. Drawing on his original research, as well as fascinating examples from the realms of business, policymaking, education, and public health, he identifies five measurable vital signs that a scalable idea must possess, and offers proven strategies for avoiding voltage drops and engineering voltage gains. You’ll learn: • How celebrity chef Jamie Oliver expanded his restaurant empire by focusing on scalable “ingredients” (until it collapsed because talent doesn’t scale) • Why the failure to detect false positives early on caused the Reagan-era drug-prevention program to backfire at scale • How governments could deliver more services to more citizens if they focused on the last dollar spent • How one education center leveraged positive spillovers to narrow the achievement gap across the entire community • Why the right set of incentives, applied at scale, can boost voter turnout, increase clean energy use, encourage patients to consistently take their prescribed medication, and more. By understanding the science of scaling, we can drive change in our schools, workplaces, communities, and society at large. Because a better world can only be built at scale.

Homeostatic Control of Brain Function

by Detlev Boison

Author	: Detlev Boison
Publisher	: Oxford University Press
Total Pages	: 657
Release	: 2016
Genre	: Medical
ISBN	: 0199322295

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Homeostatic Control of Brain Function offers a broad view of brain health and diverse perspectives for potential treatments, targeting key areas such as mitochondria, the immune system, epigenetic changes, and regulatory molecules such as ions, neuropeptides, and neuromodulators. Loss of homeostasis becomes expressed as a diverse array of neurological disorders. Each disorder has multiple comorbidities - with some crossing over several conditions - and often disease-specific treatments remain elusive. When current pharmacological therapies result in ineffective and inadequate outcomes, therapies to restore and maintain homeostatic functions can help improve brain health, no matter the diagnosis. Employing homeostatic therapies may lead to future cures or treatments that address multiple comorbidities. In an age where brain diseases such as Alzheimer's or Parkinson's are ever present, the incorporation of homeostatic techniques could successfully promote better overall brain health. Key Features include · A focus on the homeostatic controls that significantly depend on the way one lives, eats, and drinks. · Highlights from emerging research in non-pharmaceutical therapies including botanical medications, meditation, diet, and exercise. · Incorporation of homeostatic therapies into existing basic and clinical research paradigms. · Extensive scientific basic and clinical research ranging from molecules to disorders. · Emerging practical information for improving homeostasis. · Examples of homeostatic therapies in preventing and delaying dysfunction. Both editors, Detlev Boison and Susan Masino, bring their unique expertise in homeostatic research to the overall scope of this work. This book is accessible to all with an interest in brain health; scientist, clinician, student, and lay reader alike.