Ajay Kumar

Are you a developer transitioning into the role of software architect? Are you a developer who has aspirations of becoming software architect? Are you already a software architect but eager to learn more about your craft? In this book you will learn what the role of a software architect entails and why it is so crucial to your organization's success. You will learn about the skills and knowledge needed to be an effective software architect and about the duties performed during each phase of the project life cycle. Lastly you will learn one of the most important aspect of being a software architect: how to design and communicate a solution to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. This book is your roadmap to becoming a capable and successful software architect.

'And, she's from Jupiter' sketches three College-going girls, Anjali Mohanta, Aisha Fatima, and Amelia Sylvester, whose online profiles get tagged in weird posts. The tagging then continues with tags #YourTurnBabe, #NextYouMiss, #YouGettheSame These posts clue them in on a lot of things about their recent past. This Young Adult - Suspense Thriller fiction novel portrays the story of solving the mysterious hashtags, the reason behind the posts/hashtags.'And, she's from Jupiter' underlines the safety and security of teenage girls and women at the end of the story.

Docker and Kubernetes are changing the way you build, ship, and manage your applications. In this book Docker and Kubernetes Fundamentals, you will learn the fundamentals of Docker and Kubernetes. First, you will learn the basics of what a container is and how it enables cloud-native application designs. Next, you will explore the roles of Docker and Kubernetes, as well as the basics of how they work. Finally, you will discover how to prepare yourself and your organization to thrive in a container world. When you are finished with the book you will have everything you need to take your container journey to the next level.

Salient Features: - The book `Bronchoscopy in ICU' provides a state-of-the-art detailed descriptions of bronchoscopic procedures depicting a variety of bronchoscopy findings. - Introductory chapters provide idea of anatomy of tracheobronchial tree and bronchoscope accessories. - Subsequent chapters provide detailed instructions for performing procedures such as bronchial washing and lavage, handing of bronchoscope, bronchoscopy assisted by noninvasive ventilation, and bronchoscopy during mechanical ventilation. - Pediatric bronchoscopy in ICU is a highlighting feature of the book. - The book is a ready reckoner as it provides step-by-step descriptions and abundant illustrations. - The book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date content for intensivists, pulmonologists, anesthesiologists, surgeons and postgraduate students.

The phenomenal internationalization of taxation occurring in recent years has called for a second edition of this classic handbook. Even though a quarter of a century has passed, the farsighted first edition has remained in constant use worldwide and has even grown in importance. Now it has been thoroughly updated by the author, who has brought his piercing insight to bear on the current world of international tax law while retaining the book's practical format, structure of primary materials, and detailed commentary. Emphasizing the need for an international consciousness in relation to issues of taxation, Professor Qureshi focuses extensively on the problems associated with fiscal jurisdiction, international constraints in domestic taxation, double taxation, and tax evasion and avoidance. In particular the following are covered: treaty law with specific reference to taxation; fiscal aspects of international monetary, investment, and trade law; enforcement of international tax claims; exchange of information; assistance in recovery of tax claims; mechanisms for the resolution of international tax disputes; base erosion and profit shifting in the framework of public international law; and contribution of international institutions to fiscal capacity development. Assimilating in one source the basic materials in public international law germane to taxation - including cases, texts of international agreements, discourse in secondary sources, and incisive commentary, all updated to the present - this new edition of the most authoritative and important book in its field will be of immeasurable value to tax practitioners worldwide, national taxation authorities, international institutions, and the international tax community more generally.

This book will teach you how to create flexible modular frontends which are easier to maintain using micro frontends architecture. Micro frontends architecture is a way of avoiding the current industry trend of creating heavy monolith front-ends. These are monolith front-ends which are difficult to change and maintain because they have organically grown into intertwined large frontend applications. In this course, Micro Frontends Architecture, you will learn how to create flexible modular frontends which are easier to maintain using micro frontends architecture. First, you will learn what micro frontends architecture is and why there is a need for it. Next, you will discover the main design principles for micro frontends architecture. Finally, you will explore what technologies and techniques are available to implement micro frontends architecture. When you're finished with this course, you will have the knowledge of the micro frontends architectural style required to implement a modular, flexible frontend application thats easier to maintain and extend.

There are a lot of misconceptions around the CQRS pattern, especially when it comes to applying it in real-world software projects. In this book, CQRS, you will learn all about CQRS with event sourcing, database configuration for reads and writes, and more. First, you will learn exactly what CQRS is, the principles behind it, and the benefits it can provide for your project. Next, you will explore the common misconceptions and anti-patterns around CQRS. Finally, you will see a detailed, step-by-step implementation of this pattern in practice. The sample project you'll be working on is close to what you will find in the real world, and you will see each step on the way to CQRS in great detail. By the end of this book, you will have a foundational understanding of the CQRS pattern and how to implement it in your software projects.

Can employees emulate the rules that make business owners succeed? How do you navigate through twists and turns at your work place? Is your career sorted? Do you know the secrets you learn only when you earn? Peek into the life of Manas, a budding business graduate, who starts as an intern and navigates through the challenges on his way to the top of the ladder. The book, which draws from real-life incidents, reveals the secrets he needed to learn and unlearn to get there and the bunch of well-wishers who helped him on the way.

This important text/reference presents the first dedicated review of techniques for contactless 3D fingerprint identification, including novel and previously unpublished research. The text provides a systematic introduction to 3D fingerprint identification, covering the latest advancements in contactless 2D and 3D sensing technologies, and detailed discussions on each key aspect in the development of an effective 3D fingerprint identification system. Topics and features: introduces the key concepts and trends in the acquisition and identification of fingerprint images, and a range of 3D fingerprint imaging techniques; proposes a low-cost method for online 3D fingerprint image acquisition, and an efficient 3D fingerprint imaging approach using coloured photometric stereo; describes pre-processing operations on point cloud 3D fingerprint data, and explains the specialized operations for reconstructing 3D fingerprints from live finger scans; examines the representation of minutiae in 3D space, providing details on recovering these features from point cloud data, and on matching such 3D minutiae templates; reviews various 3D fingerprint matching methods, including binary surface code-based approaches and a tetrahedron-based matching approach; discusses the uniqueness of 3D fingerprints, evaluating the benefits of employing 3D fingerprint identification over conventional 2D fingerprint techniques. This unique work is a must-read for all researchers seeking to make further advances in this area, towards the exciting opportunities afforded by contactless 3D fingerprint identification for improving the hygiene, user convenience, and matching accuracy of fingerprint biometric technologies.

We will see the patterns, how things can go wrong, and how to deal with the situation. This book is divided into below mentioned modules. Introducing the Executor Pattern, Futures and CallablesUsing Locks and Semaphores for the Producer / Consumer PatternControlling Concurrent Applications Using Barriers and LatchesUnderstanding Compare and Swap (CASing) and Atomic VariablesLeveraging Concurrent Collections to Simplify Application DesignIf you follow me, at the end of this book, you will have a good idea of the ExecutorService Patterns and callables, and futures, what is interruptible or timed out lock acquisition, what are logs, semaphores, barriers, and latches, and what is CASing, and atomic variables. And at last, we will see the concurrent collections, copy and write release, concurrent hashmaps, and concurrent skip lists. But before you move on, you would like to be familiar with the Java language and the collection API. You also need some knowledge of concurrency and be able to write basic lambda expressions. Yes, this is an ambitious ride, but don't be afraid. Just let me guide you through all this, and you will see that from the other side, concurrencies, in fact, not that scary.

This important text/reference presents the first dedicated review of techniques for contactless 3D fingerprint identification, including novel and previously unpublished research. The text provides a systematic introduction to 3D fingerprint identification, covering the latest advancements in contactless 2D and 3D sensing technologies, and detailed discussions on each key aspect in the development of an effective 3D fingerprint identification system. Topics and features: introduces the key concepts and trends in the acquisition and identification of fingerprint images, and a range of 3D fingerprint imaging techniques; proposes a low-cost method for online 3D fingerprint image acquisition, and an efficient 3D fingerprint imaging approach using coloured photometric stereo; describes pre-processing operations on point cloud 3D fingerprint data, and explains the specialized operations for reconstructing 3D fingerprints from live finger scans; examines the representation of minutiae in 3D space, providing details on recovering these features from point cloud data, and on matching such 3D minutiae templates; reviews various 3D fingerprint matching methods, including binary surface code-based approaches and a tetrahedron-based matching approach; discusses the uniqueness of 3D fingerprints, evaluating the benefits of employing 3D fingerprint identification over conventional 2D fingerprint techniques. This unique work is a must-read for all researchers seeking to make further advances in this area, towards the exciting opportunities afforded by contactless 3D fingerprint identification for improving the hygiene, user convenience, and matching accuracy of fingerprint biometric technologies.

This book will explain how to apply domain-driven design concepts in a project with Spring Boot 2.0.6 and how to combine them with practices, such as unit testing (test driven development), relational databases and object relational mappers like JPA(Java Persistence API). We will see step by step how to grow an application from the very beginning to a full-fledged solution with DDD principles. Finally there will be two projects, one (static web project using jQuery & HTML) for user interface and another (Spring Boot + REST + JPA project) for API, logic and persistence. You will see the full process of building a software project using concepts such as entities, value objects, aggregates, repositories, bounded contexts, and domain events. In the way I will explain why we make one decision over another. You will learn what DDD concepts are applicable in which particular case and why it is so. We will see, how to apply the domain-driven design principles in a real world application. Book Outline and Prerequisites: IntroductionStarting with the First Bounded ContextIntroducing UI and Persistence LayersExtending the Bounded Context with AggregatesIntroducing RepositoriesIntroducing the Second Bounded ContextWorking with Domain EventsLooking Forward to Further EnhancementsBook Summary: Full application from scratchDomain modelingDDD concepts in practiceSpring BootDatabase and ORMUnit testingMVC

Emerging Paradigms in Urban Mobility: Planning, Finance and Implementation explains the types of new urban mobility planning paradigms that are emerging throughout the world, along with their potential to transform the transportation landscape. As half of the world’s 7 billion people now live in cities, thus causing severe road congestion, increased air pollution, energy insecurity and sustainability problems in cities and the planet itself, this book presents new paradigms that are emerging to address these problems, along with other topics of note, including economic efficiency, health, the well-being of cities and their residents, urban mobility transformations, and the role of social media. In addition, the book looks at Integrated Corridor Management and how it improves the people-moving performance of multi-modal transport systems in high demand urban corridors and how countries balance the mobility benefits of motorcycles with the environmental and safety threats they pose.

The cultivation of vegetables is most suitable in India like ours with preponderance of small land holdings, varied climatic conditions and surplus family labour. However, the level of profitability of the vegetable crops depends upon farm management decisions taken by vegetable growers. To study socio-economic profile, farm management decisions and problems faced by the growers in vegetable production, the research problem entitled 'A study of farm management decisions of vegetable growers in Haryana' was undertaken covering three districts (Gurgaon, Kurukshetra and Mahendergarh), six villages and 90 vegetable growers.