If you're planning, building, or implementing a cloud strategy that supports digitalization for your financial services business, this invaluable guide clearly sets out the crucial factors and questions to consider first. With it, you'll learn how to avoid the costly and time-consuming pitfalls and disappointments of cloud adoption and take full advantage of the cloud operational model. You'll discover cloud tactics that unlock the benefits of digitalization and how to create a cloud strategy that has the flexibility to streamline operations, integrate channels, and encourage innovation in your firm. Packed with invaluable advice and real-world case studies, this book will show you how to: Select the right operational models for your needs Build resilience into your company's technologies Assess the trade-offs of third-party digital native services versus developing them in-house Ensure operability across cloud services providers Balance innovation and accountability Deal with digitalization issues of particular importance in finance, such as governance, security, and regulatory compliance And more

Most companies work hard to avoid costly failures, but in complex systems a better approach is to embrace and learn from them. Through chaos engineering, you can proactively hunt for evidence of system weaknesses before they trigger a crisis. This practical book shows software developers and system administrators how to plan and run successful chaos engineering experiments. System weaknesses go beyond your infrastructure, platforms, and applications to include policies, practices, playbooks, and people. Author Russ Miles explains why, when, and how to test systems, processes, and team responses using simulated failures on Game Days. You’ll also learn how to work toward continuous chaos through automation with features you can share across your team and organization. Learn to think like a chaos engineer Build a hypothesis backlog to determine what could go wrong in your system Develop your hypotheses into chaos engineering experiment Game Days Write, run, and learn from automated chaos experiments using the open source Chaos Toolkit Turn chaos experiments into tests to confirm that you’ve overcome the weaknesses you discovered Observe and control your automated chaos experiments while they are running

Each owns their life, the long-haul trucker, a savoir-faire real estate agent, the corrupt sheriff, a serial rapist, and the young wife left alone to sell her home. They are all "FSBOs," For Sale By Owners, attempting to sell themselves and others on what they want to believe.

As a serial rapist preys upon the vulnerable, news media and police fail to disclose that the rape victims are all For Sale By Owners. A female real estate agent is found dead. A male agent is missing. Behind the scenes forces are at play impacting the lives of both the innocent and the guilty. Red Haring, a long-haul trucker with a penchant for singing, song writing, and a dog-named Mercy, team up with savvy real estate agent, Brooklyn Best, in an attempt to unravel the mystery.

Shadowy worlds surrounding the moving business, government housing, drugs, prostitution, real estate, organized crime, and the trucking industry, are illuminated. Can a naive pregnant waitress, the young deputy, women abused, or an uneducated thief, fight the foes of darkness to learn the lessons of life? All, so involved in their own twisted lives, must make right choices or suffer the consequences.

Each owns their life, the long-haul trucker, a savoir-faire real estate agent, the corrupt sheriff, a serial rapist, and the young wife left alone to sell her home. They are all FSBOs, For Sale By Owners, attempting to sell themselves and others on what they want to believe. As a serial rapist preys upon the vulnerable, news media and police fail to disclose that the rape victims are all For Sale By Owners. A female real estate agent is found dead. A male agent is missing. Behind the scenes forces are at play impacting the lives of both the innocent and the guilty. Red Haring, a long-haul trucker with a penchant for singing, song writing, and a dog-named Mercy, team up with savvy real estate agent, Brooklyn Best, in an attempt to unravel the mystery. Shadowy worlds surrounding the moving business, government housing, drugs, prostitution, real estate, organized crime, and the trucking industry, are illuminated. Can a naive pregnant waitress, the young deputy, women abused, or an uneducated thief, fight the foes of darkness to learn the lessons of life? All, so involved in their own twisted lives, must make right choices or suffer the consequences.

Even the best developers have seen well-intentioned software projects fail - often because the customer kept changing requirements, and end users didn't know how to use the software you developed. Instead of surrendering to these common problems, let "Head First Software Development" guide you through the best practices of software development. Before you know it, those failed projects will be a thing of the past. With its unique visually rich format, this book pulls together the hard lessons learned by expert software developers over the years. You'll gain essential information about each step of the software development lifecycle - requirements, design, coding, testing, implementing, and maintenance - and understand why and how different development processes work. This book is for you if you are: tired of your customers assuming you're psychic. You'll learn not only how to get good requirements, but how to make sure you're always building the software that customers want (even when they're not sure themselves); wondering when the other 15 programmers you need to get your project done on time are going to show up. You'll learn how some very simple scheduling and prioritizing will revolutionize your success rate in developing software; confused about being rational, agile, or a tester. You'll learn not only about the various development methodologies out there, but how to choose a solution that's right for your project; and, confused because the way you ran your last project worked so well, but failed miserably this time around. You'll learn how to tackle each project individually, combine lessons you've learned on previous projects with cutting-edge development techniques, and end up with great software on every project. "Head First Software Development" is here to help you learn in a way that your brain likes...and you'll have a blast along the way. Why pick up hundreds of boring books on the philosophy of this approach or the formal techniques required for that one? Stick with "Head First Software Development", and your projects will succeed like never before. Go on, get started...you'll learn and have fun. We promise.

Spring Web Services (Spring-WS) is an integral part of the popular Spring Framework and its next major update, Spring Framework 3.x. According to SpringSource, "Spring Web Services is unique among Java web service frameworks due to its focus on contract-first web services."

The Definitive Guide to Spring Web Services is the first and official SpringSource guide to Spring-WS. With this book, users will learn how to put to use Spring-WS and Spring REST effectively in order to write and maintain viable web services. Write contract-first web services with Spring-WS.Develop REST web services with Spring REST support. Examine real-world examples and learn best practices to develop maintainable services. Explore Spring-SW from both the server side and the client side.
What you'll learn Understand the main purpose and motivations behind constructing and consuming a web service, and the benefits of Spring-WS compared to competing frameworks. Write and maintain contract-first web services using the various Spring-WS features, and configure and extend Spring-WS to meet your specific needs. Use message factories, endpoints and dispatching, fault handling, interceptors, transports, and more. Use Object XML Mapping (OXM) frameworks transparently through the most popular OXM frameworks to develop your web services. Write flexible web services and apply agile and best practices including testing and more. Uncover the new Spring REST and how it can be best leveraged toward your Spring-WS applications. Discover how Spring-WS lets you interoperate/integrate with .NET, OSGi, and more. Deploy on SpringSource dm Server and other deployment engines.
Who is this book for?

The book is primarily focussed on beginner and intermediate users; however, the later chapters will offer more than enough meat to entice pro users as well. Basic knowledge of Spring is assumed.