Eliminating “Us And Them”: Making IT and the Business One is for anyone who is interested in knowing the divide between IT and business. It is a must read for IT professionals and business persons in your company. This book has 25 chapters, they are: 1. Us and Them 2. When IT is “Us” and [...]
Mar 222011
If you are looking for a book that provides a roadmap and a program that shows you how to develop your unique talents and strengths—and those of the people you manage. Look no further, Now, Discover Your Strengths is for you. The book describes thirty-four unique strengths, they are: Achiever, Activator, Adaptability, Analytical, Arranger, Belief, [...]
The Art of Scalability: Scalable Web Architecture, Processes, and Organizations for the Modern Enterprise—A must read for technical and business persons in your company, if you are looking to scale your business, whether you are a startup or Fortune 500. Scalability is widely used term, often, refers to scaling a specific technology—for most technical people. [...]
The Art of Application Performance Testing: Help for Programmers and Quality Assurance (O’Reilly, 2009) is for any one interested in learning about application performance testing, especially for seasoned testers and project managers looking for guidance in approaching, carrying out and implementing an effective performance testing strategy. The book contains five chapters: Chapter 1, Why Performance [...]
C. J. Date is an expert, thinker and well known for his writings on relational database theory. An Introduction to Database Systems, currently on 8th edition, continues to be the definitive guide for those who want comprehensive and current guide on database systems. I have been following and reading Chris’s writings for the past few [...]
Relational Database Index Design and the Optimizers (Wiley, July 2005) is an excellent book on how indexes work in general in a relational database. The authors focused on principles and not any particular database vendor. The book focuses on two things; first, the database optimizer of the relational system that has to decide to decide [...]
Software Performance and Scalability: A Quantitative Approach (Wiley, May 2009) is for people involved in designing, developing, testing, implementing and managing enterprise applications. This book provides the necessary quantitative foundation, analytical and measurement aspects of performance and scalability - effective blend of studies and practical examples, which makes it thorough, it easier to read and informative. [...]
Data quality is an important element in data management; it is a larger topic by itself. If you are looking for a book on data quality, don’t look further. Get a copy of Data Quality: The Accuracy Dimension (Morgan Kaufmann; 1st Edition, 2003). This book is about data accuracy, divided into three parts – Part [...]