Jason Porter

When he is charged with determining whether or not the world needs saving, Raymond Champs, an illustrator of furniture assembly manuals, believes that everyone he knows is suffering from severe clinical depression and becomes obsessed with proving his theory. Original.

Why Are You So Sad?

"Jason Porter could find a place on the shelf beside Richard Brautigan, George Saunders, and David Sedaris. This is a quick, odd, wonderful book, one that pinned me back on my heels and made me laugh." –Colum McCann, author of Let the Great World Spin Have we all sunken into a species-wide bout of clinical depression? Porter’s uproarious, intelligent debut centers on Raymond Champs, an illustrator of assembly manuals for a home furnishings corporation, who is charged with a huge task: To determine whether or not the world needs saving. It comes to him in the midst of a losing battle with insomnia — everybody he knows, and maybe everybody on the planet, is suffering from severe clinical depression. He’s nearly certain something has gone wrong. A virus perhaps. It’s in the water, or it’s in the mosquitoes, or maybe in the ranch flavored snack foods. And what if we are all too sad and dispirited to do anything about it? Obsessed as he becomes, Raymond composes an anonymous survey to submit to his unsuspecting coworkers — “Are you who you want to be?”, “Do you believe in life after death?”, “Is today better than yesterday?” — because what Raymond needs is data. He needs to know if it can be proven. It’s a big responsibility. People might not believe him. People, like his wife and his boss, might think he is losing his mind. But only because they are also losing their minds. Or are they? Reminiscent of Gary Shteyngart, George Saunders, Douglas Coupland and Jennifer Egan, Porter’s debut is an acutely perceptive and sharply funny meditation on what makes people tick.

A Novel

Teresa Stephenson

Excel-Based Decisions in Managerial Accounting

Alex Soto Bueno

Optimized for Kubernetes, Quarkus is designed to help you create Java applications that are cloud first, container native, and serverless capable. With this cookbook, authors Alex Soto Bueno and Jason Porter from Red Hat provide detailed solutions for installing, interacting with, and using Quarkus in the development and production of microservices. The recipes in this book show midlevel to senior developers familiar with Java enterprise application development how to get started with Quarkus quickly. You’ll become familiar with how Quarkus works within the wider Java ecosystem and discover ways to adapt this framework to your particular needs. You’ll learn how to: Shorten the development cycle by enabling live reloading in dev mode Connect to and communicate with Kafka Develop with the reactive programming model Easily add fault tolerance to your services Build your application as a Kubernetes-ready container Ease development with OpenAPI and test a native Quarkus application

Quarkus Cookbook

Hope Queener

Julianna Lin

Karen Thorn

Abdul A. S. Awwal

Leading experts present the latest technology and applications inadaptive optics for vision science Featuring contributions from the foremost researchers in the field,Adaptive Optics for Vision Science is the first book devotedentirely to providing the fundamentals of adaptive optics alongwith its practical applications in vision science. The material forthis book stems from collaborations fostered by the Center forAdaptive Optics, a consortium of more than thirty universities,government laboratories, and corporations. Although the book is written primarily for researchers in visionscience and ophthalmology, the field of adaptive optics has strongroots in astronomy. Researchers in both fields share thistechnology and, for this reason, the book includes chapters by bothastronomers and vision scientists. Following the introduction, chapters are divided into the followingsections: * Wavefront Measurement and Correction * Retinal Imaging Applications * Vision Correction Applications * Design Examples Readers will discover the remarkable proliferation of newapplications of wavefront-related technologies developed for thehuman eye. For example, the book explores how wavefront sensorsoffer the promise of a new generation of vision correction methodsthat can deal with higher order aberrations beyond defocus andastigmatism, and how adaptive optics can produce images of theliving retina with unprecedented resolution. An appendix includes the Optical Society of America's Standards forReporting Optical Aberrations. A glossary of terms and a symboltable are also included. Adaptive Optics for Vision Science arms engineers, scientists,clinicians, and students with the basic concepts, engineeringtools, and techniques needed to master adaptive optics applicationsin vision science and ophthalmology. Moreover, readers willdiscover the latest thinking and findings from the leadinginnovators in the field.

Principles, Practices, Design, and Applications

Adaptive Optics for Vision Science

Andy Gumbrecht

Summary Testing Java Microservices teaches you to implement unit and integration tests for microservice systems running on the JVM. You'll work with a microservice environment built using Java EE, WildFly Swarm, and Docker. You'll learn how to increase your test coverage and productivity, and gain confidence that your system will work as you expect. Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications. About the Technology Microservice applications present special testing challenges. Even simple services need to handle unpredictable loads, and distributed message-based designs pose unique security and performance concerns. These challenges increase when you throw in asynchronous communication and containers. About the Book Testing Java Microservices teaches you to implement unit and integration tests for microservice systems running on the JVM. You'll work with a microservice environment built using Java EE, WildFly Swarm, and Docker. You'll advance from writing simple unit tests for individual services to more-advanced practices like chaos or integration tests. As you move towards a continuous-delivery pipeline, you'll also master live system testing using technologies like the Arquillian, Wiremock, and Mockito frameworks, along with techniques like contract testing and over-the-wire service virtualization. Master these microservice-specific practices and tools and you'll greatly increase your test coverage and productivity, and gain confidence that your system will work as you expect. What's Inside Test automation Integration testing microservice systems Testing container-centric systems Service virtualization About the Reader Written for Java developers familiar with Java EE, EE4J, Spring, or Spring Boot. About the Authors Alex Soto Bueno and Jason Porter are Arquillian team members. Andy Gumbrecht is an Apache TomEE developer and PMC. They all have extensive enterprise-testing experience. Table of Contents An introduction to microservices Application under test Unit-testing microservices Component-testing microservices Integration-testing microservices Contract tests End-to-end testing Docker and testing Service virtualization Continuous delivery in microservices

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