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description: a term used in data management to indicate the primary, authoritative source of a particular piece of data.

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Money in the Metaverse: Digital Assets, Online Identities, Spatial Computing and Why Virtual Worlds Mean Real Business

by David G. W. Birch and Victoria Richardson  · 28 Apr 2024  · 249pp  · 74,201 words

outcomes’ (Rubin 2023). Hedera’s contribution is to put ‘the balance sheet of the planet on the public ledger’ in order to establish a single source of truth that ‘facilitates cross-sectoral cooperation and decision-making processes that are cost-effective and rooted in real-world impact’. To deliver on this, Hedera created

Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist

by Liz Pelly  · 7 Jan 2025  · 293pp  · 104,461 words

that when a lot of people put something on a playlist called “upbeat,” Spotify’s engineers consider that upbeat; that signal is taken as the source of truth. A paper published by Spotify’s in-house research department expands on how those song-mood associations are calculated: it starts with the platform’s

Learning Ansible 2 - Second Edition

by Fabio Alessandro Locati  · 21 Nov 2016

multiple servers. We'll explore the following topics: • Ansible inventories • Ansible host/group variables • Ansible loops Working with inventory files An inventory file is the source of truth for Ansible (there is also an advanced concept called dynamic inventory, which we will cover later). It follows the Initialization (INI) format and tells Ansible

Pulling Strings With Puppet: Configuration Management Made Easy

by James Turnbull  · 1 Jan 2007

node configurations in a LDAP server. This externalization of data provides a number of advantages when managing our configuration information, especially in providing a single source of truth and a centralized repository for asset and configuration information. As discussed in Chapter 1, the Puppet client-server model is not yet fully scalable to

Large Scale Apps with Vue 3 and TypeScript

by Damiano Fusco  · 16 Aug 2020

State Management Pattern to keep views/state/actions separated and allow to manage state changes from a centralized place, the store, which becomes the single source of truth for our application state. As long as we follow Vuex recommended patterns and read or modify the state only through Vuex actions and mutations, our

Infonomics: How to Monetize, Manage, and Measure Information as an Asset for Competitive Advantage

by Douglas B. Laney  · 4 Sep 2017  · 374pp  · 94,508 words

overall philosophy of “data defense and data offense… building ‘data management in a box’ by attacking business cases module by module to create a single source of truth that ultimately pulls data from 3000 systems into one place.”1 Applied Asset Management for Information Vision After studying the library science domain, it’s

Rebooting India: Realizing a Billion Aspirations

by Nandan Nilekani  · 4 Feb 2016  · 332pp  · 100,601 words

be quickly noted, a process that can be made faster through automation. Once the data is available, political campaigns can use it as a single source of truth. The data can be accessed with a simple device like a smartphone or a tablet. As we will discuss in the next chapter, one of

Docker Deep Dive

by Nigel Poulton  · 10 May 2020

the appserver service. However, this is not the recommended method! e recommended method is the declarative method, whi uses the sta file as the ultimate source of truth. As su, all anges to the sta should be made to the sta file, and then the updated sta file should be used to redeploy

Docker: Up & Running: Shipping Reliable Containers in Production

by Sean P. Kane and Karl Matthias  · 15 Mar 2018  · 350pp  · 114,454 words

about how things will be tagged for all applications. This makes communication easier between teams and it makes tooling much simpler because there is one source of truth for build versions. In many examples on the internet and in this book, you will see people use the latest tag. This is useful when

Vue.js

by Callum Macrae  · 23 Feb 2018  · 296pp  · 41,381 words

is stored in our vuex store. It’s like one big object that we can access from anywhere in our application—it’s the single source of truth. Let’s take a simple store that contains only a number: import Vuex from 'vuex'; export default new Vuex.Store({ state: { messageCount: 10 } }); Now, in

Building Microservices

by Sam Newman  · 25 Dec 2014  · 540pp  · 103,101 words

Docker: Up & Running: Shipping Reliable Containers in Production

by Sean Kane and Karl Matthias  · 14 May 2023  · 433pp  · 130,334 words

Programming TypeScript

by Boris Cherny  · 16 Apr 2019  · 629pp  · 83,362 words

Learning Vue.js 2: Learn How to Build Amazing and Complex Reactive Web Applications Easily With Vue.js

by Olga Filipova  · 13 Dec 2016  · 292pp  · 66,588 words

Double Entry: How the Merchants of Venice Shaped the Modern World - and How Their Invention Could Make or Break the Planet

by Jane Gleeson-White  · 14 May 2011  · 274pp  · 66,721 words

The AI-First Company

by Ash Fontana  · 4 May 2021  · 296pp  · 66,815 words

Shipping Greatness

by Chris Vander Mey  · 23 Aug 2012  · 231pp  · 71,248 words

The Art of Monitoring

by James Turnbull  · 1 Dec 2014  · 514pp  · 111,012 words

A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet

by Raj Patel and Jason W. Moore  · 16 Oct 2017  · 335pp  · 89,924 words

Building Secure and Reliable Systems: Best Practices for Designing, Implementing, and Maintaining Systems

by Heather Adkins, Betsy Beyer, Paul Blankinship, Ana Oprea, Piotr Lewandowski and Adam Stubblefield  · 29 Mar 2020  · 1,380pp  · 190,710 words

The Nature of Software Development: Keep It Simple, Make It Valuable, Build It Piece by Piece

by Ron Jeffries  · 14 Aug 2015  · 444pp  · 118,393 words

Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software

by Scott Rosenberg  · 2 Jan 2006  · 394pp  · 118,929 words

Designing Social Interfaces

by Christian Crumlish and Erin Malone  · 30 Sep 2009  · 518pp  · 49,555 words

Thinking in Pictures: And Other Reports From My Life With Autism

by Temple Grandin  · 10 Jan 2006  · 291pp  · 92,406 words

Marx: A Very Short Introduction

by Peter Singer  · 15 Mar 2000  · 109pp  · 29,486 words

The Irrational Economist: Making Decisions in a Dangerous World

by Erwann Michel-Kerjan and Paul Slovic  · 5 Jan 2010  · 411pp  · 108,119 words

Zero to Sold: How to Start, Run, and Sell a Bootstrapped Business

by Arvid Kahl  · 24 Jun 2020  · 461pp  · 106,027 words

Becoming Data Literate: Building a great business, culture and leadership through data and analytics

by David Reed  · 31 Aug 2021  · 168pp  · 49,067 words

Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems

by Martin Kleppmann  · 16 Mar 2017  · 1,237pp  · 227,370 words

McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality

by Ronald Purser  · 8 Jul 2019  · 242pp  · 67,233 words

The Pursuit of Power: Europe, 1815-1914

by Richard J. Evans  · 31 Aug 2016  · 976pp  · 329,519 words

Modern Monopolies: What It Takes to Dominate the 21st Century Economy

by Alex Moazed and Nicholas L. Johnson  · 30 May 2016  · 324pp  · 89,875 words

Applied Artificial Intelligence: A Handbook for Business Leaders

by Mariya Yao, Adelyn Zhou and Marlene Jia  · 1 Jun 2018  · 161pp  · 39,526 words

Seeking SRE: Conversations About Running Production Systems at Scale

by David N. Blank-Edelman  · 16 Sep 2018

Who Owns This Sentence?: A History of Copyrights and Wrongs

by David Bellos and Alexandre Montagu  · 23 Jan 2024  · 305pp  · 101,093 words

Animal Spirits: The American Pursuit of Vitality From Camp Meeting to Wall Street

by Jackson Lears

Risk: A User's Guide

by Stanley McChrystal and Anna Butrico  · 4 Oct 2021  · 489pp  · 106,008 words

Monolith to Microservices: Evolutionary Patterns to Transform Your Monolith

by Sam Newman  · 14 Nov 2019  · 355pp  · 81,788 words

Coming of Age in the Milky Way

by Timothy Ferris  · 30 Jun 1988  · 661pp  · 169,298 words

Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems

by Martin Kleppmann  · 17 Apr 2017

How to Do Nothing

by Jenny Odell  · 8 Apr 2019  · 243pp  · 76,686 words

Why We're Polarized

by Ezra Klein  · 28 Jan 2020  · 412pp  · 96,251 words

A Generation of Sociopaths: How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America

by Bruce Cannon Gibney  · 7 Mar 2017  · 526pp  · 160,601 words

Brave New Work: Are You Ready to Reinvent Your Organization?

by Aaron Dignan  · 1 Feb 2019  · 309pp  · 81,975 words

Decoding the World: A Roadmap for the Questioner

by Po Bronson  · 14 Jul 2020  · 320pp  · 95,629 words

The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community

by David C. Korten  · 1 Jan 2001

WikiLeaks and the Age of Transparency

by Micah L. Sifry  · 19 Feb 2011  · 212pp  · 49,544 words

The Voice of Reason: Essays in Objectivist Thought

by Ayn Rand, Leonard Peikoff and Peter Schwartz  · 1 Jan 1989  · 411pp  · 136,413 words

Live Work Work Work Die: A Journey Into the Savage Heart of Silicon Valley

by Corey Pein  · 23 Apr 2018  · 282pp  · 81,873 words

The Techno-Human Condition

by Braden R. Allenby and Daniel R. Sarewitz  · 15 Feb 2011

Architecting Modern Data Platforms: A Guide to Enterprise Hadoop at Scale

by Jan Kunigk, Ian Buss, Paul Wilkinson and Lars George  · 8 Jan 2019  · 1,409pp  · 205,237 words

A History of the Bible: The Story of the World's Most Influential Book

by John Barton  · 3 Jun 2019  · 904pp  · 246,845 words

In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters With Addiction

by Gabor Mate and Peter A. Levine  · 5 Jan 2010  · 504pp  · 147,660 words

The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World

by Iain McGilchrist  · 8 Oct 2012

Radiant Rest

by Tracee Stanley  · 9 Mar 2021

Discovering the Inner Mother: A Guide to Healing the Mother Wound and Claiming Your Personal Power

by Bethany Webster  · 5 Jan 2021  · 311pp  · 88,103 words

Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley

by Antonio Garcia Martinez  · 27 Jun 2016  · 559pp  · 155,372 words

A History of Western Philosophy

by Aaron Finkel  · 21 Mar 1945  · 1,402pp  · 369,528 words

Intertwingled: Information Changes Everything

by Peter Morville  · 14 May 2014  · 165pp  · 50,798 words

Woke, Inc: Inside Corporate America's Social Justice Scam

by Vivek Ramaswamy  · 16 Aug 2021  · 344pp  · 104,522 words

How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World: A Handbook for Personal Liberty

by Harry Browne  · 1 Jan 1973  · 312pp  · 114,586 words

Reset

by Ronald J. Deibert  · 14 Aug 2020

Breaking Twitter: Elon Musk and the Most Controversial Corporate Takeover in History

by Ben Mezrich  · 6 Nov 2023  · 279pp  · 85,453 words

Dangerous Ideas: A Brief History of Censorship in the West, From the Ancients to Fake News

by Eric Berkowitz  · 3 May 2021  · 412pp  · 115,048 words

Bernie Madoff, the Wizard of Lies: Inside the Infamous $65 Billion Swindle

by Diana B. Henriques  · 1 Aug 2011  · 598pp  · 169,194 words

Evidence-Based Technical Analysis: Applying the Scientific Method and Statistical Inference to Trading Signals

by David Aronson  · 1 Nov 2006

The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge

by Vernor Vinge  · 30 Sep 2001  · 659pp  · 203,574 words

Merchants of the Right: Gun Sellers and the Crisis of American Democracy

by Jennifer Carlson  · 2 May 2023  · 279pp  · 100,877 words

Sandy Hook: An American Tragedy and the Battle for Truth

by Elizabeth Williamson  · 8 Mar 2022  · 574pp  · 148,233 words

Doctored: The Disillusionment of an American Physician

by Sandeep Jauhar  · 18 Aug 2014  · 320pp  · 97,509 words