James Turnbull – författare

Whether they're building a startup or scaling an established org, engineering leaders know the real job is keeping chaos under control. In a world of shifting priorities, scarce resources, and rapid change, leadership means embracing the unknown, managing moving targets, and creating clarity where there's none. Sometimes, you're building the plane as you're flying it--writing the roadmap as you go, designing processes in real time. Engineering Leadership: The Hard Parts cuts through the noise, offering a guide for tackling these gritty, real-world challenges. Current and future leaders, this is your toolkit. It's packed with principles, techniques, and mental models for thriving in uncertainty.Navigate the full scope: Step into engineering leadership's complex, multifaceted roleBuild high-impact teams: Master advanced techniques to grow and lead your technical talentAlign and execute: Connect strategy to business outcomes, scale effectively, and balance innovation with precisionLead with resilience: Adapt quickly and drive continuous improvementAccelerate your career: Develop your leadership edge and unlock new growthStay ahead. Lead with purpose.

Pro Puppet is an in-depth guide to installing, using, and developing the popular configuration management tool Puppet. The book is a comprehensive follow-up to the previous title Pulling Strings with Puppet. Puppet provides a way to automate everything from user management to server configuration. You'll learn how to create Puppet recipes, extend Puppet, and use Facter to gather configuration data from your servers. Puppet is a must-have tool for system administrators, and Pro Puppet will teach you how to maximize its capabilities and customize it for your environment. Install and configure Puppet to immediately start automating tasks and create reporting solutions Learn insider tricks and techniques to better manage your infrastructure Become a Puppet expert!

Pro Puppet, Second Edition, now updated for Puppet 3, is an in-depth guide to installing, using, and developing the popular configuration management tool Puppet.Puppet provides a way to automate everything from user management to server configuration.

The Medicine on the Move series provides fully-flexible access to subjects across the curriculum, in this case clinical pharmacology and prescribing practice, in a combination of print and mobile formats. The books are ideal for the busy medical student and junior doctor, irrespective of individual learning style and whether they are studying a subject for the first time or revisiting it during exam preparation, providing the right information whenever and wherever it is needed. Readers can choose from the book and the eBook to suit different situations, enabling them to benefit from learning medicine on the move.Print Versions of this book also include access to the ebook version.

This book aims to ease the entry of businesses to the world of zero-cost software running on Linux. It takes a layered, component-based approach to open source business systems, while training system administrators as the builders of business infrastructure.

Pro Nagios 2.0 explains how to install and administer Nagios, the web-based enterprise management tool that helps monitor Unix, Windows, network devices, infrastructure equipment, and applications.

is the process of protecting a system and its applications against unknown threats. And Hardening Linux will explain the main steps that any Network or Systems Administrator needs to take, to protect his computers that run on Linux. This book discusses security of mail servers, web servers, and file servers, as well as hardening IP tables and remote access functionality.

Pro Nagios 2.0 explains how to install and administer Nagios, the web-based enterprise management tool that helps monitor Unix, Windows, network devices, infrastructure equipment, and applications. You'll learn how to architect Nagios installations, deploy agents and plug-ins, and monitor a variety of assets, which include applications across a variety of platforms and operating systems. Nagios has the power to alert you to current and future incidents that could impact the availability, performance, and security of monitored assets.The books real-world configurations and supporting materials will enable you to deploy Nagios and integrate other tools (like MRTG and Snort) on a helpful step-by-step basis. Integrating Nagios with a variety of other tools can add more functionality to its internal monitoring and alerting capabilities. The book covers additional topics like security, redundancy and failover, and plug-in development. And it shows you how to create your own Nagios plug-ins, to monitor devices for which Nagios may not provide plug-ins.

Competent system administrators know their success hinges upon being able to perform often tedious tasks with rigor and punctuality. Such metrics are often achieved only by instituting a considerable degree of automation, something that has become even more crucial as IT environments continue to scale both in terms of size and complexity. One of the most powerful system administration tools to be released is Puppet, a solution capable of automating nearly every aspect of a system administrator's job, from user management, to software installation, to even configuring server services such as FTP and LDAP.Pulling Strings with Puppet: Configuration Management Made Easy is the first book to introduce the powerful Puppet system administration tool. Author James Turnbull will guide you through Puppet's key features, showing you how to install and configure the software, create automated Puppet tasks, known as recipes, and even create reporting solutions and extend Puppet further to your own needs. A bonus chapter is included covering the Facter library, which makes it a breeze to automate the retrieval of server configuration details such as IP and MAC addresses.

Both Czech and Hungarian trusts celebrate their 10th anniversary in 2024. These modern structures were introduced in response to the limitations of earlier succession-planning mechanisms and, together with other legal instruments, provided new tools for wealth management, estate planning and asset protection, which have reshaped the estate-planning environment.Trust Laws in the Czech Republic and Hungary explores the issues and challenges encountered when introducing common law trust concepts into civil law legal systems. It also reviews the legal and practical aspects of trusts in these two – quite different – jurisdictions, and the book is divided into two parts which deal separately with Czech and Hungarian solutions.Authored by well-known experts in this field, chapters cover the basics of the structures, providing a broad overview of key points including:the legal and regulatory formalities;trustees: their duties and responsibilities;beneficiaries;taxation; andthe practical uses of trusts for estate planning and asset protection.This title provides the only systematic review of Czech and Hungarian trust laws in English. It is an invaluable reference work to help lawyers and other private client advisers structure their clients' wealth. Additionally, professional trustees involved in the administration of Czech and Hungarian trusts, as well as accountants and tax advisers dealing with the tax treatment of trusts in the CEE region, will find this to be an indispensable guide.