Story of a hard-boiled old logging operator, his sons, and his attractive and restless young second wife. Charlie Dow belongs to the tough, colorful old days of honky-tonks and windjammers in Port Townsend and Puget Sound.

Event Streams in Action teaches you techniques for aggregating, storing, and processing event streams using the unified log processing pattern. In this hands-on guide, you'll discover important application designs like the lambda architecture, stream aggregation, and event reprocessing. You'll also explore scaling, resiliency, advanced stream patterns, and much more! By the time you're finished, you'll be designing large-scale data-driven applications...

"DTrace is a comprehensive dynamic tracing framework. It provides a powerful infrastructure to enable administrators, developers, and service personnel to concisely answer arbitrary questions about the behavior applications at runtime. DTrace can be used to observe applications written in Java, C, C++ PHP Ruby, Python, and much more."--Product description page (viewed Oct. 19, 2010).

In a logging town on the lawless Pacific coast of Washington State at the turn of the twentieth century, Jacob Ellstrom is armed with his medical kit and accompanied by his wife, Nell. But Jacob is not a doctor, and a botched delivery exposes his ruse, driving him onto the streets in a plunge towards alcoholism. Alone, Nell scrambles to keep herself and their young son, Duncan, safe in this dangerous world, but years later a string of calamitous events...

Event mining encompasses techniques for automatically and efficiently extracting valuable knowledge from historical event/log data. The field, therefore, plays an important role in data-driven system management. Event Mining: Algorithms and Applications presents state-of-the-art event mining approaches and applications with a focus on computing sys.