A guide to product management exploring the best practices: identifying the impact-driven product, planning for success, setting up and measuring time-bound metrics, and developing a lean product roadmap. About This Book ? Identifying Impact-Driven Products ? Investing in Key Business Outcomes ? Value mapping to maintain a lean product backlog ? Utilizing time-bound product metrics ? Eliminating process waste Who This Book Is For If you are leading a team that is building a new product, then this book is for you. The book is targeted at product managers, functional leads in enterprises, business sponsors venturing into new product offerings, product development teams, and start-up founders. What You Will Learn ? How do you execute ideas that matter? ? How can you define the right success metrics? ? How can you plan for product success? ? How do you capture qualitative and quantitative insights about the product? ? How do you know whether your product aligns to desired business goals? ? What processes are slowing you down? In Detail Lean Product Management is about finding the smartest way to build an Impact Driven Product that can deliver value to customers and meet business outcomes when operating under internal and external constraints. Author, Mangalam Nandakumar, is a product management expert, with over 17 years of experience in the field. Businesses today are competing to innovate. Cost is no longer the constraint, execution is. It is essential for any business to harness whatever competitive advantage they can, and it is absolutely vital to deliver the best customer experience possible. The opportunities for creating impact are there, but product managers have to improvise on their strategy every day in order to capitalize on them. This is the Agile battleground, where you need to stay Lean and be able to respond to abstract feedback from an ever shifting market. This is where Lean Product Management will help you thrive. Lean Product Management is an essential guide for product managers, and to anyone embarking on a new product development. Mangalam Nandakumar will help you to align your product strategy with business outcomes and customer impact. She introduces the concept of investing in Key Business Outcomes as part of the product strategy in order to provide an objective metric about which product idea and strategy to pursue. You will learn how to create impactful end-to-end product experiences by engaging stakeholders and reacting to external feedback. Style and approach The first few chapters of Lean Product Management address how to arrive at a product road map. It guides you through the process of getting stakeholder buy-in, prioritizing Key Business Outcomes and identifying the Impact-Driven Product, and arriving at a Cost-Impact matrix through value mapping. The next few chapters address how to define time-bound success metrics. It guides you through the process of creating an end-to-end product experience, capturing qualitative and quantitative insights to track product performance and alignment to short and long term product strategy. The last set of chapters of the book address process bottlenecks that hold teams back from building products right and how to eliminate process waste.

Build web applications with MongoDB, ExpressJS, React, and Node About This Book ? Build applications with the MERN stack ? Work with each component of the MERN stack ? Become confident with MERN and ready for more! Who This Book Is For The book is for JavaScript developers who want to get stated with the MERN Stack. What You Will Learn ? Get started with the MERN stack ? Install Node.js and configure MongoDB ? Build RESTful APIs with Express.js and Mongoose ? Build real-time applications with Socket.IO ? Manage synchronous and asynchronous data flows with Redux ? Build web applications with React In Detail The MERN stack is a collection of great tools—MongoDB, Express.js, React, and Node—that provide a strong base for a developer to build easily maintainable web applications. With each of them a JavaScript or JavaScript-based technology, having a shared programming language means it takes less time to develop web applications. This book focuses on providing key tasks that can help you get started, learn, understand, and build full-stack web applications. It walks you through the process of installing all the requirements and project setup to build client-side React web applications, managing synchronous and asynchronous data flows with Redux, and building real-time web applications with Socket.IO, RESTful APIs, and other concepts. This book gives you practical and clear hands-on experience so you can begin building a full-stack MERN web application. Quick Start Guides are focused, shorter titles that provide a faster paced introduction to a technology. They are for people who don't need all the detail at this point in their learning curve. The presentation has been streamlined to concentrate on the things you really need to know. Style and approach This guide shows you how to use your JavaScript knowledge to build web applications that use the MERN stack in both client-side and in server-side environments.

Implement successful private clouds with OpenStack About This Book ? Gain hands-on experience in designing a private cloud for all infrastructures ? Create a robust virtual environment for your organization ? Design, implement and deploy an OpenStack-based cloud based on the Queens release Who This Book Is For OpenStack for Architects is for Cloud architects who are responsible to design and implement a private cloud with OpenStack. System engineers and enterprise architects will also find this book useful. Basic understanding of core OpenStack services, as well as some working experience of concepts, is recommended. What You Will Learn ? Learn the overall structure of an OpenStack deployment ? Craft an OpenStack deployment process which fits within your organization ? Apply Agile Development methodologies to engineer and operate OpenStack clouds ? Build a product roadmap for Infrastructure as a Service based on OpenStack ? Make use of containers to increase the manageability and resiliency of applications running in and on OpenStack. ? Use enterprise security guidelines for your OpenStack deployment In Detail Over the past six years, hundreds of organizations have successfully implemented Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platforms based on OpenStack. The huge amount of investment from these organizations, including industry giants such as IBM and HP, as well as open source leaders, such as Red Hat, Canonical, and SUSE, has led analysts to label OpenStack as the most important open source technology since the Linux operating system. Due to its ambitious scope, OpenStack is a complex and fast-evolving open source project that requires a diverse skill set to design and implement it. OpenStack for Architects leads you through the major decision points that you'll face while architecting an OpenStack private cloud for your organization. This book will address the recent changes made in the latest OpenStack release i.e Queens, and will also deal with advanced concepts such as containerization, NVF, and security. At each point, the authors offer you advice based on the experience they've gained from designing and leading successful OpenStack projects in a wide range of industries. Each chapter also includes lab material that gives you a chance to install and configure the technologies used to build production-quality OpenStack clouds. Most importantly, the book focuses on ensuring that your OpenStack project meets the needs of your organization, which will guarantee a successful rollout. Style and approach This is practical, hands-on guide to implementing OpenStack clouds, where each topic is illustrated with real-world examples and then the technical points are proven in the lab. Conceptual chapters are written in discussion style to convey important concepts quickly and present decision points for choosing options.

A step-by-step guide to get you up and running with Azure Networking Services and help you build solutions that leverage effective design patterns About This Book ? Learn best practices for designing and implementing Azure Networking for Azure VMs ? Figure out the hidden secrets to designing a cost-effective environment ? Plan, design, and implement various connectivity scenarios in Azure Who This Book Is For This book is for developers, IT professionals, and database admins who have prior experience of working on Microsoft Azure and want to make the most out of Azure Networking Services. What You Will Learn ? Understand Azure networking and use the right networking service to fulfill your needs ? Design Azure Networks for Azure VMs according to best practices ? Span your environment with Azure networking solutions ? Learn to use Azure DNS ? Implement Azure Load Balancer for highly available environments ? Distribute user traffic across the world via the Azure Traffic Manager ? Control your application delivery with Azure Application Gateway In Detail Microsoft Azure networking is one of the most valuable and important offerings in Azure. No matter what solution you are building for the cloud, you'll find a compelling use for it. This book will get you up to speed quickly on Microsoft Azure Networking by teaching you how to use different networking services. By reading this book, you will develop a strong networking foundation for Azure virtual machines and for expanding your on-premise environment to Azure. Hands-On Networking with Azure starts with an introduction to Microsoft Azure networking and creating Azure Virtual Networks with subnets of different types within them. The book helps you understand the architecture of Azure networks. You will then learn the best practices for designing both Windows- and Linux-based Azure VM networks. You will also learn to expand your networks into Azure and how to use Azure DNS. Moreover, you will master best practices for dealing with Azure Load Balancer and the solutions they offer in different scenarios. Finally, we will demonstrate how the Azure Application Gateway works, offering various layer-7 load balancing capabilities for applications. By the end of this book, you will be able to architect your networking solutions for Azure. Style and approach This book provides in-depth insights into properly designing your environment and saving money on your running Azure Services. Using cutting-edge examples, you will learn to efficiently monitor, diagnose, and troubleshoot Azure Networking

Implementing the ArcGIS Pro technique to design accurate, user friendly maps and making appropriate cartographic decisions About This Book ? Build visually stunning and useful maps; ? Understand the cartographic workflows and the decisions you must take before creating the map; ? Learn to create appropriate map elements and layout designs ? Use the ArcGIS Online's Smart Mapping technique to create clear webmaps Who This Book Is For If you are a GIS analyst or a Map designer who would like to create and design a map with ArcGIS Pro then this book is for you. A basic GIS knowledge is assumed. What You Will Learn ? Using ArcGIS Pro to create visually stunning maps and make confident cartographic decisions ? Leverage precise layout grids that will organize and guide the placement of map elements ? Make appropriate decisions about color and symbols ? Critically evaluate and choose the perfect projection for your data ? Create clear webmaps that focus the reader’s attention using ArcGIS Online’s Smart Mapping capabilities In Detail ArcGIS Pro is a geographic information system for working with maps and geographic information. This book will help you create visually stunning maps that increase the legibility of the stories being mapped and introduce visual and design concepts into a traditionally scientific, data-driven process. The book begins by outlining the steps of gathering data from authoritative sources and lays out the workflow of creating a great map. Once the plan is in place you will learn how to organize the Contents Pane in ArcGIS Pro and identify the steps involved in streamlining the production process. Then you will learn Cartographic Design techniques using ArcGIS Pro's feature set to organize the page structure and create a custom set of color swatches. You will be then exposed to the techniques required to ensure your data is clear and legible no matter the size or scale of your map. The later chapters will help you understand the various projection systems, trade-offs between them, and the proper applications of them to make sure your maps are accurate and visually appealing. Finally, you will be introduced to the ArcGIS Online ecosystem and how ArcGIS Pro can utilize it within the application. You will learn Smart Mapping, a new feature of ArcGIS Online that will help you to make maps that are visually stunning and useful. By the end of this book, you will feel more confident in making appropriate cartographic decisions. Style and approach The book takes a pragmatic approach, showing various methods to create visually stunning maps.

Dive deeper into neural networks and get your models trained, optimized with this quick reference guide About This Book ? A quick reference to all important deep learning concepts and their implementations ? Essential tips, tricks, and hacks to train a variety of deep learning models such as CNNs, RNNs, LSTMs, and more ? Supplemented with essential mathematics and theory, every chapter provides best practices and safe choices for training and fine-tuning your models in Keras and Tensorflow. Who This Book Is For If you are a Data Scientist or a Machine Learning expert, then this book is a very useful read in training your advanced machine learning and deep learning models. You can also refer this book if you are stuck in-between the neural network modeling and need immediate assistance in getting accomplishing the task smoothly. Some prior knowledge of Python and tight hold on the basics of machine learning is required. What You Will Learn ? Solve regression and classification challenges with TensorFlow and Keras ? Learn to use Tensor Board for monitoring neural networks and its training ? Optimize hyperparameters and safe choices/best practices ? Build CNN's, RNN's, and LSTM's and using word embedding from scratch ? Build and train seq2seq models for machine translation and chat applications. ? Understanding Deep Q networks and how to use one to solve an autonomous agent problem. ? Explore Deep Q Network and address autonomous agent challenges. In Detail Deep learning has become an essential necessity to enter the world of artificial intelligence. With this book deep learning techniques will become more accessible, practical, and relevant to practicing data scientists. It moves deep learning from academia to the real world through practical examples. You will learn how Tensor Board is used to monitor the training of deep neural networks and solve binary classification problems using deep learning. Readers will then learn to optimize hyperparameters in their deep learning models. The book then takes the readers through the practical implementation of training CNN's, RNN's, and LSTM's with word embeddings and seq2seq models from scratch. Later the book explores advanced topics such as Deep Q Network to solve an autonomous agent problem and how to use two adversarial networks to generate artificial images that appear real. For implementation purposes, we look at popular Python-based deep learning frameworks such as Keras and Tensorflow, Each chapter provides best practices and safe choices to help readers make the right decision while training deep neural networks. By the end of this book, you will be able to solve real-world problems quickly with deep neural networks. Style and approach An easy-to-follow, step-by-step guide to help you get to grips with real-world applications of training deep neural networks.

Become an expert Vue developer by understanding the design patterns and component architecture of Vue.js to write clean and maintainable code. About This Book ? Craft highly modular applications by exploring the design patterns and component architecture of Vue.js ? Enforce a Flux-like application architecture in your Vue.js applications with Vuex ? Easy-to-follow examples that can be used to create reusable code and extensible designs Who This Book Is For This book targets Vue Developers who care about framework design principles and utilize commonly found design patterns in developing web applications. What You Will Learn ? Understand the theory and patterns of Vue.js ? Build scalable and modular Vue.js applications ? Take advantage of Vuex for reactive state management. ? Create Single Page Applications with vue-router. ? Use Nuxt for FAST server side rendered Vue applications. ? Convert your application to a Progressive Web App (PWA) and add ServiceWorkers, offline support, and more ? Build your app with Vue.js by following up with best practices and explore the common anti-patterns to avoid In Detail The book starts by comparing Vue.js with other frameworks and setting up the development environment for your application, and gradually move on to writing and styling clean, maintainable, and reusable components that can be used across your application. Further on, you'll look at common UI patterns, Vue form submission, and various modifiers such as lazy binding, number typecasting, and string trimming to create better UIs. You will also explore best practices for integrating HTTP into Vue.js applications to create an application with dynamic data. Routing is a vitally important part of any SPA, so you will focus on the Vue router and explore routing a user between multiple pages. Next, you'll also explore state management with Vuex, write testable code for your application, and create performant, server-side rendered applications with Nuxt. Towards the end, we'll look at common antipatterns to avoid, to save you from a lot of trial and error and development headaches. By the end of this book, you'll be well on your way to becoming an expert Vue developer who can leverage design patterns to efficiently architect the design of your application and write clean and maintainable code. Style and approach This easy-to-follow practical guide will help you develop efficient Vue.js apps by following best practices and using common design patterns.

Automate the deployment of your environment with the power of the Docker toolchain About This Book ? Written and reviewed by expert Docker developers ? The book precisely covers all the essential topics such as building images and managing container swarms required in day to day use for Docker ? The book includes activities on the docker CLI and exercises such as writing Dockerfiles for Python which will allow you to reinforce the concepts covered Who This Book Is For The book is crafted for developers, system architects, junior and mid-level site reliability engineers interested in adapting a docker workflow. They are also required to have a basic knowledge of UNIX concepts such as ssh, ports and logs What You Will Learn ? Understand how to effectively design and build containers for different applications ? Setup an environment for testing, avoiding environment mismatch that is breaking production ? Setup and manage a multi-tier environment ? Run, debug, and experiment with applications in a container In Detail DevOps with Docker outlines the power of containerization and the influence this innovation has on development teams and general operations. We also get to understand what DevOps really is, the principles involved and how the process contributes to product health, by implementing a Docker workflow. We will learn to interpret Dockerfile syntax, build images and setup containers and images. In addition, we will deploy a Docker image to the Docker Hub.Docker is an open source containerization tool, that makes it easier to streamline product delivery. It helps reduce the time taken to get from a whiteboard sketch of the business to a money-back implementation. This fast-paced book is a perfect amalgamation of theory and hands-on exercises. The book will take you through the basics of Docker and DevOps and why and how they integrate. You will then understand what containers are, and how to create and manage them. Next, we will work on the docker-compose file and CLI. Then we will move to set up a network with the docker-compose tool. Gradually you will learn how to scale a delivery pipeline and multiple deployments with Docker. Lastly, you will grasp the concept of orchestration and learn to implement the delivery of containerized applications. Style and approach This is a fast-paced, practical hands-on book aimed at experienced developers and system architects. As you progress you’ll find helpful tips and tricks, as well as useful self-assessment material, exercises and activities to help benchmark your progress and reinforce what you’ve learned. The activities are devised to simulate the real-world conditions in order to equip you with the necessary skills to accelerate software deployment while still retaining security, portability and saving on costs.

Create real-time applications using Node.js 10, Docker, MySQL, MongoDB, and Socket.IO with this practical guide and go beyond the developer's laptop to cover live deployment, including HTTPS and hardened security. About This Book ? Learn server-side JavaScript coding through the most up-to-date book on Node.js ? Explore the latest JavaScript features, and EcmaScript modules ? Walk through different stages of developing robust applications using Node.js 10 Who This Book Is For This book is for anybody looking for an alternative to the "P" languages (Perl, PHP, and Python), or anyone looking for a new paradigm of server-side application development. You should have at least a rudimentary understanding of JavaScript and web application development. What You Will Learn ? Install and use Node.js 10 for both development and deployment ? Use the Express 4.16 application framework ? Work with REST service development using the Restify framework ? Use data storage engines such as MySQL, SQLITE3, and MongoDB ? Use User authentication methods with OAuth2 ? Perform Real-time communication with the front-end using Socket.IO ? Implement Docker microservices in development, testing and deployment ? Perform unit testing with Mocha 5.x, and functional testing with Puppeteer 1.1.x ? Work with HTTPS using Let’s Encrypt, and application security with Helmet In Detail Node.js is a server-side JavaScript platform using an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model allowing users to build fast and scalable data-intensive applications running in real time. This book gives you an excellent starting point, bringing you straight to the heart of developing web applications with Node.js. You will progress from a rudimentary knowledge of JavaScript and server-side development to being able to create, maintain, deploy and test your own Node.js application.You will understand the importance of transitioning to functions that return Promise objects, and the difference between fs, fs/promises and fs-extra. With this book you'll learn how to use the HTTP Server and Client objects, data storage with both SQL and MongoDB databases, real-time applications with Socket.IO, mobile-first theming with Bootstrap, microservice deployment with Docker, authenticating against third-party services using OAuth, and use some well known tools to beef up security of Express 4.16 applications. Style and approach Benefit from an easy, step-by-step approach that really works.

Click your way to automating business processes with Salesforce Visual Workflow Key Features *Create and maintain complex business processes using Process builder *Discover how to debug and deploy Flow and Process Builder *Use new or existing Flows to work with Salesforce Lightning Experience Book Description Salesforce Management System is an information system used in CRM to automate business processes, such as sales and marketing. Process Builder is a visual tool created to automate business processes in Salesforce. It enables users with no coding expertise to build complex Salesforce workflows. The book starts with an introduction to Process Builder, focussing on the building blocks of creating Processes. Then you will learn about different applications of Process Builder for developing streamlined solutions. You will learn how to easily automate business processes and tackle complex business scenarios using Processes. The book explains the workings of the Process Builder so that you can create reusable processes. It also explains how you can migrate existing Workflow Rules to Process Builder. By the end of the book, you will have a clear understanding of how to use Flows and Process Builder to optimize code usage. What you will learn *Develop an application using point and click with the help of Process Builder *Bypass Processes for specific users *Understand the concepts of reusable processes *Handle complex business processes using Process Builder and keep them clean *Work with formulae in Process Builder to minimize the code required *Create a process with no criteria so as to minimize the amount of rework *Overcome Salesforce's known limitation in terms of referencing picklist values Who this book is for This book is for people who want to use Process Builder to automate their business requirements by clicking, not coding. A basic understanding of Salesforce is required, but not extensive programming knowledge.

Gain hands-on experience of installing OpenShift Origin 3.9 in a production configuration and managing applications using the platform you built Key Features *Gain hands-on experience of working with Kubernetes and Docker *Learn how to deploy and manage applications in OpenShift *Get a practical approach to managing applications on a cloud-based platform *Explore multi-site and HA architectures of OpenShift for production Book Description Docker containers transform application delivery technologies to make them faster and more reproducible, and to reduce the amount of time wasted on configuration. Managing Docker containers in the multi-node or multi-datacenter environment is a big challenge, which is why container management platforms are required. OpenShift is a new generation of container management platforms built on top of both Docker and Kubernetes. It brings additional functionality to the table, something that is lacking in Kubernetes. This new functionality significantly helps software development teams to bring software development processes to a whole new level. In this book, we’ll start by explaining the container architecture, Docker, and CRI-O overviews. Then, we'll look at container orchestration and Kubernetes. We’ll cover OpenShift installation, and its basic and advanced components. Moving on, we’ll deep dive into concepts such as deploying application OpenShift. You’ll learn how to set up an end-to-end delivery pipeline while working with applications in OpenShift as a developer or DevOps. Finally, you’ll discover how to properly design OpenShift in production environments. This book gives you hands-on experience of designing, building, and operating OpenShift Origin 3.9, as well as building new applications or migrating existing applications to OpenShift. What you will learn *Understand the core concepts behind containers and container orchestration tools *Understand Docker, Kubernetes, and OpenShift, and their relation to CRI-O *Install and work with Kubernetes and OpenShift *Understand how to work with persistent storage in OpenShift *Understand basic and advanced components of OpenShift, including security and networking *Manage deployment strategies and application’s migration in OpenShift *Understand and design OpenShift high availability Who this book is for The book is for system administrators, DevOps engineers, solutions architects, or any stakeholder who wants to understand the concept and business value of OpenShift.

Take advantage of Kotlin's concurrency primitives to write efficient multithreaded applications Key Features *Learn Kotlin’s unique approach to multithreading *Work through practical examples that will help you write concurrent non-blocking code *Improve the overall execution speed in multiprocessor and multicore systems Book Description The primary requirements of modern-day applications are scalability, speed, and making the most use of hardware. Kotlin meets these requirements with its immense support for concurrency. Many concurrent primitives of Kotlin, such as channels and suspending functions, are designed to be non-blocking and efficient. This allows for new approaches to concurrency and creates unique challenges for the design and implementation of concurrent code. Learning Concurrency in Kotlin addresses those challenges with real-life examples and exercises that take advantage of Kotlin's primitives. Beginning with an introduction to Kotlin's coroutines, you will learn how to write concurrent code and understand the fundamental concepts needed to be able to write multithreaded software in Kotlin. You'll explore how to communicate between and synchronize your threads and coroutines to write asynchronous applications that are collaborative. You'll also learn how to handle errors and exceptions, as well as how to leverage multi-core processing. In addition to this, you’ll delve into how coroutines work internally, allowing you to see the bigger picture. Throughout the book you'll build an Android application – an RSS reader – designed and implemented according to the different topics covered in the book What you will learn *Understand Kotlin’s approach to concurrency *Implement sequential and asynchronous suspending functions *Create suspending data sources that are resumed on demand *Explore the best practices for error handling *Use channels to communicate between coroutines *Uncover how coroutines work under the hood Who this book is for If you’re a Kotlin or Android developer interested in learning how to program concurrently to enhance the performance of your applications, this is the book for you.

Bring your data to life with Power BI Key Features *Get to grips with the fundamentals of Microsoft Power BI and its Business Intelligence capabilities *Build accurate analytical models, reports and dashboards? *Get faster and more intuitive insights from your data using Microsoft Power BI Book Description Microsoft Power BI is a cloud-based service that helps you easily visualize and share insights using your organization's data.This book will get you started with business intelligence using the Power BI toolset, covering essential concepts such as installation,designing effective data models, as well as building basic dashboards and visualizations to make your data come to life You will learn how to get your data the way you want – connecting to data sources sources and how to clean your data with the Power BI Query Editor. You will next learn how to properly design your data model to make your data easier to work with.. You will next learn how to properly design your data model to navigate table relationships and build DAX formulas to make your data easier to work with. Visualizing your data is another key element of this book, and you will learn how to follow proper data visualization styles and enhanced digital storytelling techniques. By the end of this book, you will understand how to administer your organization's Power BI environment so deployment can be made seamless, data refreshes can run properly, and security can be fully implemented What you will learn *Connect to data sources using both import and DirectQuery options *Use the Query Editor to apply data transformations and data cleansing processes, including learning how to write M and R scripts *Design optimized data models by designing relationships and DAX calculations *Leverage built-in and custom visuals to design effective reports *Use the Power BI Desktop and Power BI Service to implement Row Level Security on your model *Administer a Power BI cloud tenant for your organization *Deploy your Power BI Desktop files into the Power BI Report Server Who this book is for This book is for aspiring Business Intelligence professionals who want to get up and running with Microsoft Power BI. If you have a basic understanding of BI concepts and want to learn how to apply them using Microsoft Power BI, this book is for you.

Quickly learn and employ practical recipes for developing real-world, cross-platform applications using Delphi. Key Features *Get to grips with Delphi to build and deploy various cross-platform applications *Design and deploy real-world apps by implementing a single source codebase *Build robust and optimized GUI applications with ease Book Description Delphi is a cross-platform integrated development environment (IDE) that supports rapid application development on different platforms, saving you the pain of wandering amid GUI widget details or having to tackle inter-platform incompatibilities. Delphi Cookbook begins with the basics of Delphi and gets you acquainted with JSON format strings, XSLT transformations, Unicode encodings, and various types of streams. You’ll then move on to more advanced topics such as developing higher-order functions and using enumerators and run-time type information (RTTI). As you make your way through the chapters, you’ll understand Delphi RTL functions, use FireMonkey in a VCL application, and cover topics such as multithreading, using aparallel programming library and deploying Delphi on a server. You’ll take a look at the new feature of WebBroker Apache modules, join the mobile revolution with FireMonkey, and learn to build data-driven mobile user interfaces using the FireDAC database access framework. This book will also show you how to integrate your apps with Internet of Things (IoT). By the end of the book, you will have become proficient in Delphi by exploring its different aspects such as building cross-platforms and mobile applications, designing server-side programs, and integrating these programs with IoT. What you will learn * Develop visually stunning applications using FireMonkey *Deploy LiveBinding effectively with the right object-oriented programming (OOP) approach *Create RESTful web services that run on Linux or Windows *Build mobile apps that read data from a remote server efficiently *Call platform native API on Android and iOS for an unpublished API *Manage software customization by making better use of an extended RTTI *Integrate your application with IOT Who this book is for Delphi Cookbook is for intermediate developers with a basic knowledge of Delphi who want to discover and understand all the development possibilities offered by it.

Explore TensorFlow's capabilities to perform efficient deep learning on images Key Features *Discover image processing for machine vision *Build an effective image classification system using the power of CNNs *Leverage TensorFlow’s capabilities to perform efficient deep learning Book Description TensorFlow is Google’s popular offering for machine learning and deep learning, quickly becoming a favorite tool for performing fast, efficient, and accurate deep learning tasks. Hands-On Deep Learning for Images with TensorFlow shows you the practical implementations of real-world projects, teaching you how to leverage TensorFlow’s capabilities to perform efficient image processing using the power of deep learning. With the help of this book, you will get to grips with the different paradigms of performing deep learning such as deep neural nets and convolutional neural networks, followed by understanding how they can be implemented using TensorFlow. By the end of this book, you will have mastered all the concepts of deep learning and their implementation with TensorFlow and Keras. What you will learn *Build machine learning models particularly focused on the MNIST digits *Work with Docker and Keras to build an image classifier *Understand natural language models to process text and images *Prepare your dataset for machine learning *Create classical, convolutional, and deep neural networks *Create a RESTful image classification server Who this book is for Hands-On Deep Learning for Images with TensorFlow is for you if you are an application developer, data scientist, or machine learning practitioner looking to integrate machine learning into application software and master deep learning by implementing practical projects in TensorFlow. Knowledge of Python programming and basics of deep learning are required to get the best out of this book.

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An in-depth guide to exploring the design, architecture, and techniques behind building sophisticated, scalable, and maintainable single-page applications in JavaScriptAbout This Book·Build large-scale, feature-complete SPAs by leveraging widely used tools and techniques.·Gain a solid understanding of architecture and SPA design to build applications using the library or framework of your choice.·Explore the various facets of SPA development to build web apps that are fast, scalable, and easy to test.Who This Book Is ForThis book is ideal for JavaScript developers who want to build complex single-page applications in JavaScript. Some basic understanding of SPA concepts will be helpful but not essential.What You Will Learn·Organize your development environment using the command line with NPM, Bower, and Grunt.·Choose an accurate design pattern for your app·Understand modular JavaScript programming and Node.js·Interact with a REST API using JavaScript and AJAX with practical examples·Build a single page application using the MEAN stack·Connect your app across popular social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn·Test your app, both on the server side and in views·Prepare your app for the real world and deploy it to HerokuIn DetailSingle-page web applications—or SPAs, as they are commonly referred to—are quickly becoming the de facto standard for web app development. The fact that a major part of the app runs inside a single web page makes it very interesting and appealing. Also, the accelerated growth of browser capabilities is pushing us closer to the day when all apps will run entirely in the browser.This book will take your JavaScript development skills to the next level by teaching you to create a single-page application within a full-stack JavaScript environment. Using only JavaScript, you can go from being a front-end developer to a full-stack application developer with relative ease.You will learn to cross the boundary from front-end development to server-side development through the use of JavaScript on both ends. Use your existing knowledge of JavaScript by learning to manage a JSON document data store with MongoDB, writing a JavaScript powered REST API with Node.js and Express, and designing a front-end powered by AngularJS.This book will teach you to leverage the MEAN stack to do everything from document database design, routing REST web API requests, data-binding within views, and adding authentication and security to building a full-fledged, complex, single-page web application.In addition to building a full-stack JavaScript app, you will learn to test it with JavaScript-powered testing tools such as Mocha, Karma, and Jasmine. Finally, you will learn about deployment and scaling so that you can launch your own apps into the real world.Style and approachFollowing a structured approach, this book helps readers gain expertise in SPA development. Its thorough coverage of SPA architecture and design, along with practical use cases, provides readers with a clear path to building applications with the library of their choice. For readers who are afraid to take the plunge straightaway, the book also offers step-by-step guidance on developing a complex web app.

You're already a smart person, you don't need a 1000+ page book to get you started on the web's fastest growing programming platform. Instead, Learn Python in One Hour delivers on the promise of code literacy while saving your most precious commodity - time itself. Volkman's innovative programming-by-example approach means you focus on usage, not mindless detail. Based on the author's sold-out live seminars, you'll see Python's flexible coding technique in action as we refactor from script to procedural to object-oriented during actual problem solving. In a seven-lesson progression, you'll be exposed to this and more: Basic file input and output operations Exception handling with try/except Using functions to compute and return multiple values Basic elements of a class definition and how to call methods Lists, dictionaries, sets, and other collections Iteration through collections, files, sorted sets Converting lists to strings and vice-versa Six most common Python pitfalls Take the One Hour challenge and see if you too can pick up 90% of syntax and semantics in less time than you probably spend commuting each day.About the Author Victor R. Volkman graduated cum laude from Michigan Technological University with a BS in Computer Science in 1986. Since then, he has written for numerous publications, including The C Gazette, C++ Users Journal, Windows Developers Journal, and many others. He has taught college-level programming courses at Washtenaw Community College and has served on its Computer Information Science (CIS) Faculty Advisory Board for more than a decade. Volkman says Python helped him "rediscover the joy of programming again." www.volkman.org From Modern Software Press

Your quick, no-nonsense guide to building real-world apps with Angular 2About This Book·The first and best overview of Angular 2 on the market—this guide gathers together everything there is to know about Angular 2 and groups it into intuitive sections.·This book is your detailed map of every feature and its use cases.·The author has done all the hard work of fitting everything Angular 2 means for developers together for you, making this book the quickest way to learn Angular 2 from scratch.Who This Book Is ForThis book is targeted at web developers who want to build the next generation of state-of-the-art mobile and desktop web applications with Angular 2. This book does not require you to have prior exposure to either Angular 1.x or 2, although comprehensive knowledge of JavaScript is assumed. It's great for newcomers to Angular who learn best through clear explanations and definitions of concepts.What You Will Learn·Set up your working environment in order to have all the tools you need to start building Angular 2 components with minimum effort·Get up to speed with TypeScript, a powerful typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to plain JavaScript·Take full control of how your data is rendered and updated upon data changes·Build powerful web applications based on structured component hierarchies that emit and listen to events and data changes throughout the elements tree·Explore how to consume external APIs and data services and allow data editing by harnessing the power of web forms made with Angular 2·Deliver seamless web navigation experiences with application routing and state handling common features with ease·Discover how to bulletproof your applications by introducing smart unit testing techniques and debugging toolsIn DetailAngular 2 was conceived as a complete rewrite in order to fulfill the expectations of modern developers who demand blazing fast performance and responsiveness from their web applications.This book will help you learn the basics of how to design and build Angular 2 components right from the beginning, providing full coverage of the TypeScript syntax required to follow the examples included. From that point on, we will build upon our first components, interconnect them, and give shape to larger web applications. We will then move to implementing routing in Angular 2, analyzing how to handle application states, and navigating from one component to another in depth. After this, the book features full coverage of web forms and user input validation, later leveraging all of this information to go through the basics of implementing user authentication in Angular 2 and providing a bird's eye view of the different strategies at hand to secure pages and areas of your website. Animating components and DOM elements with Angular 2 is also covered in this book. The final part of this book provides broad insights into how to unit test components and other modules such as services, directives, routes or pipes.Style and approachThis book covers everything there is to know about getting well-acquainted with Angular without bogging you down. Everything is neatly laid out under clear headings for quick consultation, offering you the information required to understand a concept immediately, with short relevant examples of each feature.

“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”-?Charles Darwin As the industry is moving towards maximum digitization there is a consensus that DevOps practices help you deliver software faster, more reliable, and with fewer errors. DevOps is set of practices and cultural values that have been proven to help organizations of all sizes improve their software release cycles, software quality, security, and ability to get rapid feedback on product development. This book is aimed at Consultant, Project Manager and people from techno-commercial profiles who would be explaining the benefits of DevOps to the client, internal leadership or project teams. As the crux of DevOps methodology lies in the cultural transformation of the organization, people who are stakeholders in shaping this change must understand the overall alignment of business goals with this methodology. You would get to explore: ·What is DevOps·Relationship between Agile, Scrum, Kanban and DevOps·DevOps Adoption:? Organizational cultural Change·DevOps Ecosystem·Emerging Trends·DevOps success stories In the Bonus Booklet you will find out: ·DevOps Job Market overview·Insights into DevOps job application·People to follow on twitter “Grab your copy today along with Bonus DevOps Booklet”