* (The inverse of this will be a horizontal transformation.)
   */
  public static LinearTransformation vertical(double x) {
    checkArgument(isFinite(x));
    return new VerticalLinearTransformation(x);
  }

  /**
   * Builds an instance representing a horizontal transformation with a constant value of {@code y}.

via command arguments for the hostnames and the drives via an ellipses syntax such as `minio server http://host{1...4}/disk{1...4}` this requirement added an additional burden to have sequential hostnames for us to make sure that we can provide horizontal distribution, however we have come across situations where sometimes this is not feasible and there are no easier alternatives without modifying /etc/hosts on the host system as root user.  Many times in airgapped deployments this is not allowed...

   * the XML specification.
   *
   * <p>This escaper does not escape non-ASCII characters to their numeric character references
   * (NCR). However, horizontal tab {@code '\t'}, line feed {@code '\n'} and carriage return {@code
   * '\r'} are escaped to a corresponding NCR {@code "&#x9;"}, {@code "&#xA;"}, and {@code "&#xD;"}

    double y = 1.2;
    LinearTransformation transformation = LinearTransformation.horizontal(y);
    assertHorizontalLinearTransformation(transformation, y);
  }

  public void testHorizontal_infiniteY() {
    assertThrows(
        IllegalArgumentException.class,
        () -> LinearTransformation.horizontal(Double.POSITIVE_INFINITY));
  }

  public void testHorizontal_nanY() {

    double y = 1.2;
    LinearTransformation transformation = LinearTransformation.horizontal(y);
    assertHorizontalLinearTransformation(transformation, y);
  }

  public void testHorizontal_infiniteY() {
    assertThrows(
        IllegalArgumentException.class,
        () -> LinearTransformation.horizontal(Double.POSITIVE_INFINITY));
  }

  public void testHorizontal_nanY() {

of applications deployed as micro services, that scale well. It is not about just retrofitting monolithic applications onto modern container based compute environment. A cloud-native application is portable and resilient by design, and can scale horizontally by simply replicating. Modern orchestration platforms like Kubernetes, DC/OS make replicating and managing containers in huge clusters easier than ever.

While containers provide isolated application execution environment, orchestration...