Bøger af Roland Kuhn

As Volume 2 of "Apocalypse North" begins, the wily Bloc Québécois Prime Minister of Canada, Gilles Luthier, has his back to the wall. Federal drones darken the prairie sky, but they are doing little to slow the eastward advance of troops loyal to the Lord Protector of the Greater Alberta States, former Prime Minister Stebbin Harpoon. In Toronto, Harpoon's ally, Mayor Rob Ford, undergoes a religious conversion and imposes a brutal Caliphate on his citizens. Can Gilles Luthier win the civil war and hold Canada together? Can he trust the Public Service of Canada, now that Lord Protector Harpoon's cyber-hackers have deleted its members' pensions? Will the narrator, a cross-dressing computer geek, defect to the other side? Will the narrator's son survive his risky liaison with Moira Magdalen Kelly, the green-eyed temptress and spy? Why does Vice-Chairman Chiang of the Communist Party of China have a blue left eye? Volume 2 of "Apocalypse North" brings this tale to a darkly comic conclusion.

In Volume 1 of Roland Kuhn's darkly comic novel "Apocalypse North," a young man in a small Ontario town ponders the perplexities of his life as a first-year university student. Should he date the poetic Keiko, the athletic Meg, the temperamental actress Daphne - or all of them? Can he prevent his eccentric father, dressed as a woman, from visiting his campus? Why is Professor Svensen, the icily beautiful Swedish genius, behaving so oddly, and can he pass her Economics course? Storm clouds are gathering over Canada. Soon, the university campus where he flirted, and occasionally attended class, will be a battlefield in a brutal civil war. He himself will become a hardened saboteur operating behind enemy lines. Seen through the eyes of an obese, cross-dressing computer geek, this story of intrigue, love, and treachery is unlike any Canadian novel you've ever read. Volume 2 will bring the story to a thrilling and disturbing conclusion.

A shadowy organization known as the Accountability Institute is recruiting people with fatal diseases to take out the rich, powerful members of the elite who live beyond the reach of the law. After killing a man on live TV with the help of the AI, Mathew Freeman learns that there's been a mistake: He's not actually dying. Now a wanted criminal in excellent health, Mat must flee his pursuers, unravel the secrets of the conspiracy that recruited him, and find his place in the dizzying destruction of modern America's moral landscape.

SummaryReactive Design Patterns is a clearly written guide for building message-driven distributed systems that are resilient, responsive, and elastic. In this book you''ll find patterns for messaging, flow control, resource management, and concurrency, along with practical issues like test-friendly designs. All patterns include concrete examples using Scala and Akka. Foreword by Jonas Bonér. Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.About the TechnologyModern web applications serve potentially vast numbers of users - and they need to keep working as servers fail and new ones come online, users overwhelm limited resources, and information is distributed globally. A Reactive application adjusts to partial failures and varying loads, remaining responsive in an ever-changing distributed environment. The secret is message-driven architecture - and design patterns to organize it.About the BookReactive Design Patterns presents the principles, patterns, and best practices of Reactive application design. You''ll learn how to keep one slow component from bogging down others with the Circuit Breaker pattern, how to shepherd a many-staged transaction to completion with the Saga pattern, how to divide datasets by Sharding, and more. You''ll even see how to keep your source code readable and the system testable despite many potential interactions and points of failure. What''s InsideThe definitive guide to the Reactive ManifestoPatterns for flow control, delimited consistency, fault tolerance, and much moreHard-won lessons about what doesn''t workArchitectures that scale under tremendous loadAbout the ReaderMost examples use Scala, Java, and Akka. Readers should be familiar with distributed systems.About the AuthorDr. Roland Kuhn led the Akka team at Lightbend and coauthored the Reactive Manifesto. Brian Hanafee and Jamie Allen are experienced distributed systems architects. Table of ContentsPART 1 - INTRODUCTIONWhy Reactive? A walk-through of the Reactive Manifesto Tools of the trade PART 2 - THE PHILOSOPHY IN A NUTSHELLMessage passing Location transparency Divide and conquer Principled failure handling Delimited consistency Nondeterminism by need Message flow PART 3 - PATTERNS Testing reactive applications Fault tolerance and recovery patterns Replication patterns Resource-management patterns Message flow patterns Flow control patterns State management and persistence patterns