A slow-burn, romantic suspense novel from award-winning author CB Samet ... With a twelve million dollar debt, there's no escaping the mafia. When Jenna Masters embarks on a vacation to Antigua, she anticipates leaving behind her hectic job in the intensive care unit but doesn’t anticipate meeting an attractive stranger, Ryan Walsh, with a dark past. She turns down a romantic encounter, not wanting to invite danger into her life. When Jenna is later kidnapped, she discovers her own past has resurfaced to claim her and she turns to the one man she knows can help her—Ryan Walsh. Jenna and Ryan plummet into danger that threatens both of their lives. Can they free themselves from the wrath of a killer or will they find their lives cut short by those that seek to destroy them? **2018 Readers’ Favorite Awards Honorable Mention in Romantic Suspense** Master File is a full-length novel filled with action, adventure, and strong women. The romance is medium with heat with some explicit language. Each novel shares characters, but they are also their own stand-alone happily-ever-after. Praise for Masters File: "Masters File: The Riders File Book 2 by CB Samet is a fast-paced tale of crime and unexpected humor. The plot development of CB Samet’s novel is a combination of romance and suspense that lures the reader in, making it a one-sitting read." -- Readers' Favorite Reviewer (five stars) “A well written clean romance that has me captivated from start to finish .... A story filled with adventure, action, mystery, twists and emotional ups and down.” —Booksprout Reviewer “Well written and filled with drama and intrigue, this book will keep you on the edge of your seat trying to stay ahead of the action.” —Booksprout Reviewer

She's a computer hacker with an agenda. He's in the wrong place at the wrong time. An international criminal has targeted them both. Claire Maltisse, computer hacker extraordinaire, is accustomed to playing dangerous games … online. But her work as part of the Rider team thrusts her into the forefront of physical danger. When she’s targeted for extermination by the Titan private security team, she must forge unlikely allies and rely on her own savvy skills to bring down the enemy. But her life and her heart are on the line. Drake joined Titan security undercover to gain acting experience for upcoming Hollywood roles. Never did he imagine he’d find himself working for a deadly team of ex-military moving drugs, guns, and women. Determined to right his wrongs, he helps the Rider team and Claire devise a plan against the malicious Titan team. In his struggle to find his place among the battlefield, he finds he’s losing himself to the quirky computer genius, Claire. And maybe if he survives the clash of companies, it’ll be worth it. Maltisse File is a full-length novel filled with action, adventure, and strong women. The romance is medium with heat with some explicit language. Each novel shares characters, but they are also their own stand-alone happily-ever-after. As book 4, this novel does branch an overarching plot, and so may be best enjoyed after the first three novels. *** Praise for Maltisse File - Romantic Suspense Thriller “This book was AMAZING!!!" —Avid Reader “It’s the Geek Girl’s time to shine...Claire the hacker, the computer whiz, the gamer not only comes up with some 007 type crime fighting hacks, she gets the guy. Drake may not be ex-military or law enforcement but he sure looks the part. With his stuntman’s skills, some smart thinking on the fly and “actor” confidence hopefully he can make up for earlier errors .... The whole Rider SI team has to come together in their attempt to finally take down baddie Lucius Titan. Sometimes what we see them doing is not what’s going on, so we get some happy surprises. The plotting and planning is played out .... like watching a movie while you read ... fun and exciting and a cool ride, don’t miss it.” —Bookbub Reviewer (Gigi Reads)

The ultimate guide to managing, building, and deploying large-scale clusters with Apache Mesos About This Book Master the architecture of Mesos and intelligently distribute your task across clusters of machines Explore a wide range of tools and platforms that Mesos works with This real-world comprehensive and robust tutorial will help you become an expert Who This Book Is For The book aims to serve DevOps engineers and system administrators who are familiar with the basics of managing a Linux system and its tools What You Will Learn Understand the Mesos architecture Manually spin up a Mesos cluster on a distributed infrastructure Deploy a multi-node Mesos cluster using your favorite DevOps See the nuts and bolts of scheduling, service discovery, failure handling, security, monitoring, and debugging in an enterprise-grade, production cluster deployment Use Mesos to deploy big data frameworks, containerized applications, or even custom build your own applications effortlessly In Detail Apache Mesos is open source cluster management software that provides efficient resource isolations and resource sharing distributed applications or frameworks. This book will take you on a journey to enhance your knowledge from amateur to master level, showing you how to improve the efficiency, management, and development of Mesos clusters. The architecture is quite complex and this book will explore the difficulties and complexities of working with Mesos. We begin by introducing Mesos, explaining its architecture and functionality. Next, we provide a comprehensive overview of Mesos features and advanced topics such as high availability, fault tolerance, scaling, and efficiency. Furthermore, you will learn to set up multi-node Mesos clusters on private and public clouds. We will also introduce several Mesos-based scheduling and management frameworks or applications to enable the easy deployment, discovery, load balancing, and failure handling of long-running services. Next, you will find out how a Mesos cluster can be easily set up and monitored using the standard deployment and configuration management tools. This advanced guide will show you how to deploy important big data processing frameworks such as Hadoop, Spark, and Storm on Mesos and big data storage frameworks such as Cassandra, Elasticsearch, and Kafka. Style and approach This advanced guide provides a detailed step-by-step account of deploying a Mesos cluster. It will demystify the concepts behind Mesos.

Hadoop: The Definitive Guide helps you harness the power of your data. Ideal for processing large datasets, the Apache Hadoop framework is an open source implementation of the MapReduce algorithm on which Google built its empire. This comprehensive resource demonstrates how to use Hadoop to build reliable, scalable, distributed systems: programmers will find details for analyzing large datasets, and administrators will learn how to set up and run Hadoop clusters. Complete with case studies that illustrate how Hadoop solves specific problems, this book helps you: Use the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) for storing large datasets, and run distributed computations over those datasets using MapReduce Become familiar with Hadoop's data and I/O building blocks for compression, data integrity, serialization, and persistence Discover common pitfalls and advanced features for writing real-world MapReduce programs Design, build, and administer a dedicated Hadoop cluster, or run Hadoop in the cloud Use Pig, a high-level query language for large-scale data processing Take advantage of HBase, Hadoop's database for structured and semi-structured data Learn ZooKeeper, a toolkit of coordination primitives for building distributed systems If you have lots of data -- whether it's gigabytes or petabytes -- Hadoop is the perfect solution. Hadoop: The Definitive Guide is the most thorough book available on the subject. "Now you have the opportunity to learn about Hadoop from a master-not only of the technology, but also of common sense and plain talk."-- Doug Cutting, Hadoop Founder, Yahoo!

She’s a thief who doesn’t form attachments. He’s a kindhearted optimist caught unwittingly in an art forgery scandal. In the pulse-pounding world of high-stakes theft, meet Sophia, a woman whose skills as a thief have made her notorious. Swift, cunning, and with a touch of danger, she's always managed to stay one step ahead of the law. But when her latest heist leads her to a chance encounter with Garret Rucker, his heart of gold makes her question her loner lifestyle even if the danger outweighs the risk. Garret is a man who lives for helping others, working tirelessly in the operating room to save lives. Handsome and compassionate, he's the kind of man who draws Sophia in with an irresistible magnetism. She doesn’t have time for complications, but he’s in the crosshairs of a dangerous adversary and won’t survive without her help. As Sofia and Garret's paths intertwine, their chemistry ignites, and they find themselves entangled in a web of intrigue and peril. With both their lives in grave danger, Sofia must decide whether to follow her instincts to protect the man she's falling for, even if it means exposing her own secrets. In a heart-stopping race against time, they must navigate through a labyrinth of deception, betrayal, and unexpected alliances. In this romantic suspense thriller, Sofia and Garret will be tested in ways they never imagined, and the line between right and wrong will blur as they fight to survive. As the danger escalates, so does their desire for one another, forging a connection that could spell either salvation or doom.

Effective communication is vital to science, engineering and business management. This book gives clear, practical advice illustrated with real-life examples on how to select, organize and present information in reports, papers and other documents.

Contents: overview of the complaint process; legal authority & commission procedures; 1996 statistics; summary of action taken in 1996; voluntary disability retirement; commission organization, staff & budget. Appendix (governing provisions, selected judicial opinions affecting the commission, chart on formal proceedings instituted before March 1, 1995, 5-year summary of commission activity, complaint form).

Smartphone users have come to expect high-quality apps. This has increased the importance of software testing in mobile software development. Unfortunately, testing apps—particularly the GUI—can be very time-consuming. Exercising every user interface element and verifying transitions between different views of the app under test quickly becomes problematic. For example, execution of iOS GUI test suites using Apple’s UI Automation framework can take an hour or more if the app’s interface is complicated. The longer it takes to run a test, the less frequently the test can be run, which in turn reduces software quality. This book describes how to accelerate the testing process for iOS apps using HadoopUnit, a distributed test execution environment that leverages the parallelism inherent in the Hadoop platform. HadoopUnit was previously used to run unit and system tests in the cloud. It has been modified to perform GUI testing of iOS apps on a small-scale cluster—a modest computing infrastructure available to almost every developer. Experimental results have shown that distributed test execution with HadoopUnit can significantly outperform the test execution on a single machine, even if the size of the cluster used for the execution is as small as two nodes. This means that the approach described in this book could be adopted without a huge investment in IT resources. HadoopUnit is a cost-effective solution for reducing lengthy test execution times of system-level GUI testing of iOS apps.

Sharp File. She's captivated by past civilizations. He's doing his duty protecting her. Do lost Incan ruins hold the key to romance… or are the two of them about to be buried? Sizani File. She's an Interpol agent with an agenda. He's protecting a family through an international incident. Can they set aside their differences, and pride, to face a deadly adversary? Enjoy this collection from award-winning author CB Samet. This set contains two full-length novels filled with action, adventure, and strong women. The romance is medium with heat with some explicit language. Each novel shares characters, but they are also their own happily-ever-after. "[Sharp File's] plot line weaves and twists. The adventure is fun and sensual. This is a great read." Gigi's Reads (Five Stars) "I love this author's strong women and Dia is a female 007 personified…. Angst rules the romance in this action packed thriller [Sizani File]. Rider faces one trial after another as the baddies double up on them ramping up the suspense and excitement for a fun fast paced read." Bookbub Reviewer (Five Stars)