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The Ion Age The Khanate Return book pre order plus April Releases and Salute Week free postage and offers!

The Ion Age The Khanate Return book pre order plus April Releases and Salute Week free postage and offers! The Ion Age is delighted to make all of its miniature releases for April 2017 and to announce the Salute Week Promotion is now live as well as to make the pre-orders open for the next Patrol Angis book The Khanate Return. You can now pre-order your copy of the next Patrol Angis book The Khanate Return which will ship in early May as well as getting the new print run of the other books which will ship with it. Learn more about this new book from previous articles on our blog. Full details to follow or go HERE straight to the website main page for the whole show. From now until midnight GMT on the 24th of April 2017 we have FREE WORLDWIDE SHIPPING on all orders over 15.00GBP product value. All orders gain Reward Points and get the monthly free miniature worth 0.60GBP (unless purely digital download orders) and you can use your Reward Points for additional free items or discount duri...

Reliable releases and rollbacks CRE life lessons

Reliable releases and rollbacks CRE life lessons By Adrian Hilton, Customer Reliability Engineer Editor�s note : One of the most common causes of service outages is releasing a new version of the service binaries; no matter how good your testing and QA might be, some bugs only surface when the affected code is running in production. Over the years, Google Site Reliability Engineering has seen many outages caused by releases, and now assumes that every new release may contain one or more bugs. As software engineers, we all like to add new features to our services; but every release comes with the risk of something breaking. Even assuming that we are appropriately diligent in adding unit and functional tests to cover our changes, and undertaking load testing to determine if there are any material effects on system performance, live traffic has a way of surprising us. These are rarely pleasant surprises. The release of a new binary is a common source of outages. From the point of v...

PR HAL LEONARD RELEASES BATTLESTAR GALACTICA SONGBOOK

PR HAL LEONARD RELEASES BATTLESTAR GALACTICA SONGBOOK Cool New Piano Solo Folio Showcases Noted Composer Bear McCreary (MILWAUKEE) � Variety called composer Bear McCreary�s score for Battlestar Galactica � the award-winning series on the SyFy channel from 2004-2009 � �the most innovative music on TV today,� and NPR said it �fits the action so perfectly, it�s almost devastating: (it�s) a sci-fi score like no other.� Hal Leonard Corporation is proud to publish the first-ever songbook featuring the music from the series. McCreary himself was heavily involved in the creation of this special collection, personally translating his acclaimed, world music-infused orchestral score into fantastic piano solo arrangements. The intermediate to advanced-level songbook contains 19 selections in all, and as a bonus, also simplified versions of �Roslin and Adama� and �Wander My Friends.� There is a note from the Emmy-nominated McCreary, as well as a biography. The music from Battlestar Galactica has a ...