title: Pro Puppet (Expert's Voice in Open Source)
author:  James Turnbull 
description: James Turnbull is the author of five technical books about open source software and a longtime member of the open source community. James authored the first and second books about Puppet, and works for Puppet Labs, running client services. James speaks regularly at conferences including OSCON, Linux.conf.au, FOSDEM, OpenSourceBridge, DevOpsDays and a number of others. He is a past president of Linux Australia, has run Linux.conf.au and serves on the program committee of Linux.conf.au and OSCON. James is Australian but currently lives in Portland, Oregon. His interests include cooking, wine, political theory, photojournalism, philosophy, and most recently the Portland Timbers association football team.
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  # Prediction
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Tony BATTON
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  #### Twenty-First Century Thrillers
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # Prediction
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  _\- A stolen top-secret nuclear reactor_
  
  
  _\- A young lawyer falsely accused of murder_
  
  
  _\- A government project_ _to build a quantum supercomputer_
  
  
  _\- A secretive consultancy that can fix any problem_
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  _All connected by invisible strings._
  
  
  _But who are the puppets and who is the puppeteer?_
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Prediction - First Edition v1.1
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  First published in August 2019 by
  
  
  Twenty-First Century Thrillers
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Copyright © Tony Batton, 2019
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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