
Puppet: Mastering Infrastructure Automation
¥152.59
Start pulling the strings of your IT infrastructure effectively with Puppet – learn how to configure, customize and manage your systems more intelligently in an enterprise deployment. About This Book ? Step-by-step instructions to jump start your Puppet deployment and automate your IT configurations ? Design, implement, and deploy Puppet in your infrastructure and tackle everyday IT infrastructure challenges ? Gain expert understanding of Puppet's latest and most advanced features Who This Book Is For If you're an experienced IT professional and a new Puppet user, this course will provide you with all you need to know to go from installation to advanced automation. What You Will Learn ? Write and employ individual Puppet manifests ? Understand how Puppet implements system abstraction ? Use Puppet to manage network, cloud, and virtualization devices ? Manage and test the Puppet code workflow ? Tweak, hack, and adapt the Puppet extension points ? Use exported resources to orchestrate change between machines ? Debug a puppetserver using Java techniques In Detail Puppet is a configuration management tool that allows you to automate all your IT configurations, giving you control. It was written for and by system administrators to manage large numbers of systems efficiently and prevent configuration drifts. Puppet gives you control of what you do to each node, when you do it, and how you do it.This Learning Path will take you from the basics of Puppet to extending it and then mastering it. We will start off with a primer on Puppet, its installation and get a sneak peek under its hood. We will then move on to designing and deploying your Puppet architecture, learning best practices for writing reusable and maintainable code, and executing, testing, and deploying Puppet across your systems. Finally, we will deal with problems of scale and exceptions in your code, automate workflows, and support multiple developers working simultaneously.This course is based on the following books: 1. Puppet 4 Essentials - Second Edition 2. Extending Puppet - Second Edition 3. Mastering Puppet - Second Edition Style and approach This learning path follows a practical approach, starting from the basic commands to advanced aspects. Through a series of examples you will learn the most important skills essential to manage your IT infrastructure effectively.

Domain-Driven Design in PHP
¥90.46
Real examples written in PHP showcasing DDD Architectural Styles, Tactical Design, and Bounded Context Integration About This Book ? Focuses on practical code rather than theory ? Full of real-world examples that you can apply to your own projects ? Shows how to build PHP apps using DDD principles Who This Book Is For This book is for PHP developers who want to apply a DDD mindset to their code. You should have a good understanding of PHP and some knowledge of DDD. This book doesn’t dwell on the theory, but instead gives you the code that you need. What You Will Learn ? Correctly design all design elements of Domain-Driven Design with PHP ? Learn all tactical patterns to achieve a fully worked-out Domain-Driven Design ? Apply hexagonal architecture within your application ? Integrate bounded contexts in your applications ? Use REST and Messaging approaches In Detail Domain-Driven Design (DDD) has arrived in the PHP community, but for all the talk, there is very little real code. Without being in a training session and with no PHP real examples, learning DDD can be challenging. This book changes all that. It details how to implement tactical DDD patterns and gives full examples of topics such as integrating Bounded Contexts with REST, and DDD messaging strategies. In this book, the authors show you, with tons of details and examples, how to properly design Entities, Value Objects, Services, Domain Events, Aggregates, Factories, Repositories, Services, and Application Services with PHP. They show how to apply Hexagonal Architecture within your application whether you use an open source framework or your own. Style and approach This highly practical book shows developers how to apply domain-driven design principles to PHP. It is full of solid code examples to work through.

Mastering Java EE Development with WildFly
¥90.46
Your one stop solution to create highly scalable enterprise grade Java applications with WildFly. About This Book ? Master Java EE development with the latest WildFly 10 application server. ? Integrate with JSF and JMS and use efficient load balancing techniques to create real-time apps ? Integrate your backend JavaScript code seamlessly into Java applications Who This Book Is For If you are a Java developer with at least basic knowledge of Java EE, then this book is for you. No previous knowledge of WildFly is required. What You Will Learn ? Configure the development environment along with native and cloud installation of WildFly ? Write a DB schema and the relative entities and how to use the relationships between the entities ? Analyze with examples all the java annotations to manage the EJB and the configuration to get better performances ? Write different REST services through the EJB ? Implement Web sockets 1.0 and know why and when use the web sockets ? Work with Active MQ and write JMS clients to manage the authentication and authorization in the clients ? Configure the mail server through the wildfly console ? Learn how and when to use a new feature JAX-RS 2.0, which is the asynchronous call through REST ? Use the new JSF features of Wildfly 10 such as Mojarra 2.2, JSF 2.2, Richfaces 4.5 In Detail Packed with rich assets and APIs, Wildfly 10 allows you to create state-of-the-art Java applications. This book will help you take your understanding of Java EE to the next level by creating distributed Java applications using Wildfly. The book begins by showing how to get started with a native installation of WildFly and it ends with a cloud installation. After setting up the development environment, you will implement and work with different WildFly features, such as implementing JavaServer Pages. You will also learn how you can use clustering so that your apps can handle a high volume of data traffic. You will also work with enterprise JavaBeans, solve issues related to failover, and implement Java Message Service integration. Moving ahead, you will be working with Java Naming and Directory Interface, Java Transaction API, and use ActiveMQ for message relay and message querying. This book will also show you how you can use your existing backend JavaScript code in your application. By the end of the book, you’ll have gained the knowledge to implement the latest Wildfly features in your Java applications. Style and approach Each part of this book shows you how to use different features of WildFly 10 to create enterprise grade Java applications as easily as possible.

Learning RxJava
¥80.65
Reactive Programming with Java and ReactiveX About This Book ? Explore the essential tools and operators RxJava provides, and know which situations to use them in ? Delve into Observables and Subscribers, the core components of RxJava used for building scalable and performant reactive applications ? Delve into the practical implementation of tools to effectively take on complex tasks such as concurrency and backpressure Who This Book Is For The primary audience for this book is developers with at least a fundamental mastery of Java. Some readers will likely be interested in RxJava to make programs more resilient, concurrent, and scalable. Others may be checking out reactive programming just to see what it is all about, and to judge whether it can solve any problems they may have. What You Will Learn ? Learn the features of RxJava 2 that bring about many significant changes, including new reactive types such as Flowable, Single, Maybe, and Completable ? Understand how reactive programming works and the mindset to "think reactively" ? Demystify the Observable and how it quickly expresses data and events as sequences ? Learn the various Rx operators that transform, filter, and combine data and event sequences ? Leverage multicasting to push data to multiple destinations, and cache and replay them ? Discover how concurrency and parallelization work in RxJava, and how it makes these traditionally complex tasks trivial to implement ? Apply RxJava and Retrolambda to the Android domain to create responsive Android apps with better user experiences ? Use RxJava with the Kotlin language to express RxJava more idiomatically with extension functions, data classes, and other Kotlin features In Detail RxJava is a library for composing asynchronous and event-based programs using Observable sequences for the JVM, allowing developers to build robust applications in less time. Learning RxJava addresses all the fundamentals of reactive programming to help readers write reactive code, as well as teach them an effective approach to designing and implementing reactive libraries and applications. Starting with a brief introduction to reactive programming concepts, there is an overview of Observables and Observers, the core components of RxJava, and how to combine different streams of data and events together. You will also learn simpler ways to achieve concurrency and remain highly performant, with no need for synchronization. Later on, we will leverage backpressure and other strategies to cope with rapidly-producing sources to prevent bottlenecks in your application. After covering custom operators, testing, and debugging, the book dives into hands-on examples using RxJava on Android as well as Kotlin. Style and approach This book will be different from other Rx books, taking an approach that comprehensively covers Rx concepts and practical applications.

Mastering Kali Linux for Web Penetration Testing
¥90.46
Master the art of exploiting advanced web penetration techniques with Kali Linux 2016.2 About This Book ? Make the most out of advanced web pen-testing techniques using Kali Linux 2016.2 ? Explore how Stored (a.k.a. Persistent) XSS attacks work and how to take advantage of them ? Learn to secure your application by performing advanced web based attacks. ? Bypass internet security to traverse from the web to a private network. Who This Book Is For This book targets IT pen testers, security consultants, and ethical hackers who want to expand their knowledge and gain expertise on advanced web penetration techniques. Prior knowledge of penetration testing would be beneficial. What You Will Learn ? Establish a fully-featured sandbox for test rehearsal and risk-free investigation of applications ? Enlist open-source information to get a head-start on enumerating account credentials, mapping potential dependencies, and discovering unintended backdoors and exposed information ? Map, scan, and spider web applications using nmap/zenmap, nikto, arachni, webscarab, w3af, and NetCat for more accurate characterization ? Proxy web transactions through tools such as Burp Suite, OWASP's ZAP tool, and Vega to uncover application weaknesses and manipulate responses ? Deploy SQL injection, cross-site *ing, Java vulnerabilities, and overflow attacks using Burp Suite, websploit, and SQLMap to test application robustness ? Evaluate and test identity, authentication, and authorization schemes and sniff out weak cryptography before the black hats do In Detail You will start by delving into some common web application architectures in use, both in private and public cloud instances. You will also learn about the most common frameworks for testing, such as OWASP OGT version 4, and how to use them to guide your efforts. In the next section, you will be introduced to web pentesting with core tools and you will also see how to make web applications more secure through rigorous penetration tests using advanced features in open source tools. The book will then show you how to better hone your web pentesting skills in safe environments that can ensure low-risk experimentation with the powerful tools and features in Kali Linux that go beyond a typical *-kiddie approach. After establishing how to test these powerful tools safely, you will understand how to better identify vulnerabilities, position and deploy exploits, compromise authentication and authorization, and test the resilience and exposure applications possess. By the end of this book, you will be well-versed with the web service architecture to identify and evade various protection mechanisms that are used on the Web today. You will leave this book with a greater mastery of essential test techniques needed to verify the secure design, development, and operation of your customers' web applications. Style and approach An advanced-level guide filled with real-world examples that will help you take your web application’s security to the next level by using Kali Linux 2016.2.

Go Cookbook
¥80.65
Bridge the gap between basic understanding of Go and use of its advanced features About This Book ? Discover a number of recipes and approaches to develop modern back-end applications ? Put to use the best practices to combine the recipes for sophisticated parallel tools ? This book is based on Go 1.8, which is the latest version Who This Book Is For This book is for web developers, programmers, and enterprise developers. Basic knowledge of the Go language is assumed. Experience with back-end application development is not necessary, but may help understand the motivation behind some of the recipes. What You Will Learn ? Test your application using advanced testing methodologies ? Develop an awareness of application structures, interface design, and tooling ? Create strategies for third-party packages, dependencies, and vendoring ? Get to know tricks on treating data such as collections ? Handle errors and cleanly pass them along to calling functions ? Wrap dependencies in interfaces for ease of portability and testing ? Explore reactive programming design patterns in Go In Detail Go (a.k.a. Golang) is a statically-typed programming language first developed at Google. It is derived from C with additional features such as garbage collection, type safety, dynamic-typing capabilities, additional built-in types, and a large standard library. This book takes off where basic tutorials on the language leave off. You can immediately put into practice some of the more advanced concepts and libraries offered by the language while avoiding some of the common mistakes for new Go developers. The book covers basic type and error handling. It explores applications that interact with users, such as websites, command-line tools, or via the file system. It demonstrates how to handle advanced topics such as parallelism, distributed systems, and performance tuning. Lastly, it finishes with reactive and serverless programming in Go. Style and approach This guide is a handy reference for developers to quickly look up Go development patterns. It is a companion to other resources and a reference that will be useful long after reading it through the first time. Each recipe includes working, simple, and tested code that can be used as a reference or foundation for your own applications.

Learning Salesforce Einstein
¥99.18
Incorporate the power of Einstein in your Salesforce application About This Book ? Make better predictions of your business processes using prediction and predictive modeling ? Build your own custom models by leveraging PredictionIO on the Heroku platform ? Integrate Einstein into various cloud services to predict sales, marketing leads, insights into news feeds, and more Who This Book Is For This book is for developers, data scientists, and Salesforce-experienced consultants who want to explore Salesforce Einstein and its current offerings. It assumes some prior experience with the Salesforce platform. What You Will Learn ? Get introduced to AI and its role in CRM and cloud applications ? Understand how Einstein works for the sales, service, marketing, community, and commerce clouds ? Gain a deep understanding of how to use Einstein for the analytics cloud ? Build predictive apps on Heroku using PredictionIO, and work with Einstein Predictive Vision Services ? Incorporate Einstein in the IoT cloud ? Test the accuracy of Einstein through Salesforce reporting and Wave analytics In Detail Dreamforce 16 brought forth the latest addition to the Salesforce platform: an AI tool named Einstein. Einstein promises to provide users of all Salesforce applications with a powerful platform to help them gain deep insights into the data they work on. This book will introduce you to Einstein and help you integrate it into your respective business applications based on the Salesforce platform. We start off with an introduction to AI, then move on to look at how AI can make your CRM and apps smarter. Next, we discuss various out-of-the-box components added to sales, service, marketing, and community clouds from salesforce to add Artificial Intelligence capabilities. Further on, we teach you how to use Heroku, PredictionIO, and the force.com platform, along with Einstein, to build smarter apps. The core chapters focus on developer content and introduce PredictionIO and Salesforce Einstein Vision Services. We explore Einstein Predictive Vision Services, along with analytics cloud, the Einstein Data Discovery product, and IOT core concepts. Throughout the book, we also focus on how Einstein can be integrated into CRM and various clouds such as sales, services, marketing, and communities. By the end of the book, you will be able to embrace and leverage the power of Einstein, incorporating its functions to gain more knowledge. Salesforce developers will be introduced to the world of AI, while data scientists will gain insights into Salesforce’s various cloud offerings and how they can use Einstein’s capabilities and enhance applications. Style and approach This book takes a straightforward approach to explain Salesforce Einstein and all of its potential applications. Filled with examples, the book presents the facts along with seasoned advice and real-world use cases to ensure you have all the resources you need to incorporate the power of Einstein in your work.

Learn Arduino Prototyping in 10 days
¥63.21
The ultimate power-packed crash course in building Arduino-based projects in just 10 days! About This Book ? A carefully designed 10-day crash course, covering major project/device types, with 20+ unique hands-on examples ? Get easy-to-understand explanations of basic electronics fundamentals and commonly used C sketch functions ? This step-by-step guide with 90+ diagrams and 50+ important tips will help you become completely self-reliant and confident Who This Book Is For This book is a beginner’s crash course for professionals, hobbyists, and students who are tech savvy, have a basic level of C programming knowledge, and basic familiarity with electronics, be it for embedded systems or the Internet of Things. What You Will Learn ? Write Arduino sketches and understand the fundamentals of building prototype circuits using basic electronic components, such as resistors, transistors, and diodes ? Build simple, compound, and standalone devices with auxiliary storage (SD card), a DC battery, and AC power supplies ? Deal with basic sensors and interface sensor modules by using sensor datasheets ? Discover the fundamental techniques of prototyping with actuators ? Build remote-controlled devices with infrared (IR), radio frequency (RF), and telephony with GSM ? Learn IoT edge device prototyping (using ESP8266) and IoT cloud configuration In Detail This book is a quick, 10-day crash course that will help you become well acquainted with the Arduino platform. The primary focus is to empower you to use the Arduino platform by applying basic fundamental principles. You will be able to apply these principles to build almost any type of physical device. The projects you will work through in this book are self-contained micro-controller projects, interfacing with single peripheral devices (such as sensors), building compound devices (multiple devices in a single setup), prototyping standalone devices (powered from independent power sources), working with actuators (such as DC motors), interfacing with an AC-powered device, wireless devices (with Infrared, Radio Frequency and GSM techniques), and finally implementing the Internet of Things (using the ESP8266 series Wi-Fi chip with an IoT cloud platform). The first half of the book focuses on fundamental techniques and building basic types of device, and the final few chapters will show you how to prototype wireless devices. By the end of this book, you will have become acquainted with the fundamental principles in a pragmatic and scientific manner. You will also be confident enough to take up new device prototyping challenges. Style and approach This step-by- step guide will serve as a quick, 10-day crash course to help you become well acquainted with the Arduino platform.

Practical Data Science Cookbook - Second Edition
¥80.65
Over 85 recipes to help you complete real-world data science projects in R and Python About This Book ? Tackle every step in the data science pipeline and use it to acquire, clean, analyze, and visualize your data ? Get beyond the theory and implement real-world projects in data science using R and Python ? Easy-to-follow recipes will help you understand and implement the numerical computing concepts Who This Book Is For If you are an aspiring data scientist who wants to learn data science and numerical programming concepts through hands-on, real-world project examples, this is the book for you. Whether you are brand new to data science or you are a seasoned expert, you will benefit from learning about the structure of real-world data science projects and the programming examples in R and Python. What You Will Learn ? Learn and understand the installation procedure and environment required for R and Python on various platforms ? Prepare data for analysis by implement various data science concepts such as acquisition, cleaning and munging through R and Python ? Build a predictive model and an exploratory model ? Analyze the results of your model and create reports on the acquired data ? Build various tree-based methods and Build random forest In Detail As increasing amounts of data are generated each year, the need to analyze and create value out of it is more important than ever. Companies that know what to do with their data and how to do it well will have a competitive advantage over companies that don’t. Because of this, there will be an increasing demand for people that possess both the analytical and technical abilities to extract valuable insights from data and create valuable solutions that put those insights to use. Starting with the basics, this book covers how to set up your numerical programming environment, introduces you to the data science pipeline, and guides you through several data projects in a step-by-step format. By sequentially working through the steps in each chapter, you will quickly familiarize yourself with the process and learn how to apply it to a variety of situations with examples using the two most popular programming languages for data analysis—R and Python. Style and approach This step-by-step guide to data science is full of hands-on examples of real-world data science tasks. Each recipe focuses on a particular task involved in the data science pipeline, ranging from readying the dataset to analytics and visualization

Mastering Embedded Linux Programming - Second Edition
¥90.46
Master the techniques needed to build great, efficient embedded devices on Linux About This Book ? Discover how to build and configure reliable embedded Linux devices ? This book has been updated to include Linux 4.9 and Yocto Project 2.2 (Morty) ? This comprehensive guide covers the remote update of devices in the field and power management Who This Book Is For If you are an engineer who wishes to understand and use Linux in embedded devices, this book is for you. It is also for Linux developers and system programmers who are familiar with embedded systems and want to learn and program the best in class devices. It is appropriate for students studying embedded techniques, for developers implementing embedded Linux devices, and engineers supporting existing Linux devices. What You Will Learn ? Evaluate the Board Support Packages offered by most manufacturers of a system on chip or embedded module ? Use Buildroot and the Yocto Project to create embedded Linux systems quickly and efficiently ? Update IoT devices in the field without compromising security ? Reduce the power budget of devices to make batteries last longer ? Interact with the hardware without having to write kernel device drivers ? Debug devices remotely using GDB, and see how to measure the performance of the systems using powerful tools such as perk, ftrace, and valgrind ? Find out how to configure Linux as a real-time operating system In Detail Embedded Linux runs many of the devices we use every day, from smart TVs to WiFi routers, test equipment to industrial controllers - all of them have Linux at their heart. Linux is a core technology in the implementation of the inter-connected world of the Internet of Things. The comprehensive guide shows you the technologies and techniques required to build Linux into embedded systems. You will begin by learning about the fundamental elements that underpin all embedded Linux projects: the toolchain, the bootloader, the kernel, and the root filesystem. You’ll see how to create each of these elements from scratch, and how to automate the process using Buildroot and the Yocto Project. Moving on, you’ll find out how to implement an effective storage strategy for flash memory chips, and how to install updates to the device remotely once it is deployed. You’ll also get to know the key aspects of writing code for embedded Linux, such as how to access hardware from applications, the implications of writing multi-threaded code, and techniques to manage memory in an efficient way. The final chapters show you how to debug your code, both in applications and in the Linux kernel, and how to profile the system so that you can look out for performance bottlenecks. By the end of the book, you will have a complete overview of the steps required to create a successful embedded Linux system. Style and approach This book is an easy-to-follow and pragmatic guide with in-depth analysis of the implementation of embedded devices. It follows the life cycle of a project from inception through to completion, at each stage giving both the theory that underlies the topic and practical step-by-step walkthroughs of an example implementation.

Mastering Active Directory
¥107.90
Become a master at managing enterprise identity infrastructure by leveraging Active Directory About This Book ? Manage your Active Directory services for Windows Server 2016 effectively ? Automate administrative tasks in Active Directory using PowerShell ? Manage your organization's network with ease Who This Book Is For If you are an Active Directory administrator, system administrator, or network professional who has basic knowledge of Active Directory and are looking to gain expertise in this topic, this is the book for you. What You Will Learn ? Explore the new features in Active Directory Domain Service 2016 ? Automate AD tasks with PowerShell ? Get to know the advanced functionalities of the schema ? Learn about Flexible Single Master Operation (FSMO) roles and their placement ? Install and migrate Active directory from older versions to Active Directory 2016 ? Manage Active Directory objects using different tools and techniques ? Manage users, groups, and devices effectively ? Design your OU structure in the best way ? Audit and monitor Active Directory ? Integrate Azure with Active Directory for a hybrid setup In Detail Active Directory is a centralized and standardized system that automates networked management of user data, security, and distributed resources and enables interoperation with other directories. If you are aware of Active Directory basics and want to gain expertise in it, this book is perfect for you. We will quickly go through the architecture and fundamentals of Active Directory and then dive deep into the core components, such as forests, domains, sites, trust relationships, OU, objects, attributes, DNS, and replication. We will then move on to AD schemas, global catalogs, LDAP, RODC, RMS, certificate authorities, group policies, and security best practices, which will help you gain a better understanding of objects and components and how they can be used effectively. We will also cover AD Domain Services and Federation Services for Windows Server 2016 and all their new features. Last but not least, you will learn how to manage your identity infrastructure for a hybrid-cloud setup. All this will help you design, plan, deploy, manage operations on, and troubleshoot your enterprise identity infrastructure in a secure, effective manner. Furthermore, I will guide you through automating administrative tasks using PowerShell cmdlets. Toward the end of the book, we will cover best practices and troubleshooting techniques that can be used to improve security and performance in an identity infrastructure. Style and approach This step-by-step guide will help you master the core functionalities of Active Directory services using Microsoft Server 2016 and PowerShell, with real-world best practices at the end.

QlikView for Developers
¥116.62
Drive value and insight by developing business critical applications with QlikView 12 About This Book ? Develop your own scalable and maintainable QlikView applications ? Learn time-saving techniques for making your QlikView development more efficient ? A one-stop guide to developing BI applications with QlikView Who This Book Is For This book is for anyone interested in working with QlikView or who has attended QlikView Developer training. The book caters for all QlikView developers, beginners and experts alike, and anyone who wants to improve their QlikView skills. What You Will Learn ? Understand important changes made in QlikView 12 ? Learn the techniques and best practices to transform data in QlikView via *s ? Load data from disparate sources to build an associative Data Model ? Build robust data models and overcome common modeling challenges ? Designing data visualization objects to present performance measures with charts and tables ? Learn to use dimensions and expressions in QlikView objects ? Utilize QlikView's built-in aggregation functions to achieve complex calculations ? Create Point In Time reporting and achieving complex calculations using Set Analysis ? Create a consistent and interactive user interface ? Ensure your QlikView applications and data are protected ? Optimize the QlikView Data Model ? Constructing a data architecture that supports scalable QlikView deployments ? Learn time-saving techniques for making your QlikView development more efficient In Detail QlikView is one of the most flexible and powerful Business Intelligence platforms around. If you want to build data into your organization, build it around QlikView. Don't get caught in the gap between data and knowledge – find out how QlikView can help you unlock insights and data potential with ease. Whether you're new to QlikView or want to get up to speed with the features and functionality of QlikView, this book starts at a basic level and delves more deeply to demonstrate how to make QlikView work for you, and make it meet the needs of your organization. Using a real-world use-case to highlight the extensive impact of effective business analytics, this book might well be your silver bullet for success. A superb hands-on guide to get you started by exploring the fundamentals of QlikView before learning how to successfully implement it, technically and strategically. You'll learn valuable tips, tricks, and insightful information on loading different types of data into QlikView, and how to model it effectively. You will also learn how to write useful *s for QlikView to handle potentially complex data transformations in a way that is simple and elegant. From ensuring consistency and clarity in your data models, to techniques for managing expressions using variables, this book makes sure that your QlikView projects are organized in a way that's most productive for you and key stakeholders. Style and approach This book will help you learn QlikView Development from a basic to a practitioner level using a step-by-step approach. It is smartly built around a practical case study – HighCloud Airlines – to help you gain an in-depth understanding of how to build applications for Business Intelligence using QlikView.

Distributed Computing in Java 9
¥80.65
Explore the power of distributed computing to write concurrent, scalable applications in Java About This Book ? Make the best of Java 9 features to write succinct code ? Handle large amounts of data using HPC ? Make use of AWS and Google App Engine along with Java to establish a powerful remote computation system Who This Book Is For This book is for basic to intermediate level Java developers who is aware of object-oriented programming and Java basic concepts. What You Will Learn ? Understand the basic concepts of parallel and distributed computing/programming ? Achieve performance improvement using parallel processing, multithreading, concurrency, memory sharing, and hpc cluster computing ? Get an in-depth understanding of Enterprise Messaging concepts with Java Messaging Service and Web Services in the context of Enterprise Integration Patterns ? Work with Distributed Database technologies ? Understand how to develop and deploy a distributed application on different cloud platforms including Amazon Web Service and Docker CaaS Concepts ? Explore big data technologies ? Effectively test and debug distributed systems ? Gain thorough knowledge of security standards for distributed applications including two-way Secure Socket Layer In Detail Distributed computing is the concept with which a bigger computation process is accomplished by splitting it into multiple smaller logical activities and performed by diverse systems, resulting in maximized performance in lower infrastructure investment. This book will teach you how to improve the performance of traditional applications through the usage of parallelism and optimized resource utilization in Java 9. After a brief introduction to the fundamentals of distributed and parallel computing, the book moves on to explain different ways of communicating with remote systems/objects in a distributed architecture. You will learn about asynchronous messaging with enterprise integration and related patterns, and how to handle large amount of data using HPC and implement distributed computing for databases. Moving on, it explains how to deploy distributed applications on different cloud platforms and self-contained application development. You will also learn about big data technologies and understand how they contribute to distributed computing. The book concludes with the detailed coverage of testing, debugging, troubleshooting, and security aspects of distributed applications so the programs you build are robust, efficient, and secure. Style and approach This is a step-by-step practical guide with real-world examples.

Expert Delphi
¥90.46
Become a developer superhero and build stunning cross-platform apps with Delphi About This Book ? A one-stop guide on Delphi to help you build cross-platform apps ? This book covers important concepts such as the FireMonkey library, shows you how to interact with the Internet of Things, and enables you to integrate with Cloud services ? The code is explained in detail with observations on how to create native apps for Ios and Android with a single code base Who This Book Is For If you want to create stunning applications for mobile, desktop, the cloud, and the Internet of Things, then this book is for you. This book is for developers who would like to build native cross-platform apps with a single codebase for iOS and Android. A basic knowledge of Delphi is assumed, although we do cover a primer on the language. What You Will Learn ? Understand the basics of Delphi and the FireMonkey application platform as well as the specifics of Android and iOS platforms ? Complete complex apps quickly with access to platform features and APIs using a single, easy-to-maintain code base ? Work with local data sources, including embedded SQL databases, REST servers, and Backend-as-a-Service providers ? Take full advantage of mobile hardware capabilities by working with sensors and Internet of Things gadgets and devices ? Integrate with cloud services and data using REST APIs and scalable multi-tier frameworks for outstanding multi-user and social experience ? Architect and deploy powerful mobile back-end services and get super-productive by leveraging Delphi IDE agile functionality ? Get to know the best practices for writing a high-quality, reliable, and maintainable codebase in the Delphi Object Pascal language In Detail Delphi is the most powerful Object Pascal IDE and component library for cross-platform native app development. It enables building natively compiled, blazingly fast apps for all major platforms including Android, iOS, Windows, Mac, and Linux. If you want to build server-side applications, create web services, and have clear GUIs for your project, then this book is for you. The book begins with a basic primer on Delphi helping you get accustomed to the IDE and the Object Pascal language and will then quickly move on to advanced-level concepts. Through this book, we’ll help you understand the architecture of applications and will teach you the important concepts of the FireMonkey library, show you how to build server-side services, and enable you to interact with the Internet of Things. Towards the end, you will learn to integrate your app with various web services and deploy them. By the end of the book, you will be able to build powerful, cross-platform, native apps for iOS and Android with a single code base. Style and approach This book will help you build cross-platform mobile apps with Delphi using a step-by-step approach.

Learning Angular for .NET Developers
¥71.93
Build efficient web apps and deliver great results by integrating Angular and the .NET framework About This Book ? Become a more productive developer and learn to use frameworks that implement good development practices ? Achieve advanced autocompletion, navigation, and refactoring in Angular using Type* ? Follow a gradual introduction to the concepts with a lot of examples and explore the evolution of a production-ready application Who This Book Is For If you are a .NET developer who now wants to efficiently build single-page applications using the new features that Angular 4 has to offer, then this book is for you. Familiarity of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript is assumed to get the most from this book. What You Will Learn ? Create a standalone Angular application to prototype user interfaces ? Validate complex forms with Angular version 4 and use Bootstrap to style them ? Build RESTful web services that work well with single-page applications ? Use Gulp and Bower in Visual Studio to run tasks and manage JavaScript packages ? Implement automatic validation for web service requests to reduce your boilerplate code ? Use web services with Angular version 4 to offload and secure your application logic ? Test your Angular version 4 and web service code to improve the quality of your software deliverables In Detail Are you are looking for a better, more efficient, and more powerful way of building front-end web applications? Well, look no further, you have come to the right place! This book comprehensively integrates Angular version 4 into your tool belt, then runs you through all the new options you now have on hand for your web apps without bogging you down. The frameworks, tools, and libraries mentioned here will make your work productive and minimize the friction usually associated with building server-side web applications. Starting off with building blocks of Angular version 4, we gradually move into integrating TypeScript and ES6. You will get confident in building single page applications and using Angular for prototyping components. You will then move on to building web services and full-stack web application using ASP.NET WebAPI. Finally, you will learn the development process focused on rapid delivery and testability for all application layers. Style and approach This book covers everything there is to know about getting well-acquainted with Angular 4 and .NET 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.

Frank Kane's Taming Big Data with Apache Spark and Python
¥71.93
Frank Kane’s hands-on Spark training course, based on his bestselling Taming Big Data with Apache Spark and Python video, now available in a book. Understand and analyze large data sets using Spark on a single system or on a cluster. About This Book ? Understand how Spark can be distributed across computing clusters ? Develop and run Spark jobs efficiently using Python ? A hands-on tutorial by Frank Kane with over 15 real-world examples teaching you Big Data processing with Spark Who This Book Is For If you are a data scientist or data analyst who wants to learn Big Data processing using Apache Spark and Python, this book is for you. If you have some programming experience in Python, and want to learn how to process large amounts of data using Apache Spark, Frank Kane’s Taming Big Data with Apache Spark and Python will also help you. What You Will Learn ? Find out how you can identify Big Data problems as Spark problems ? Install and run Apache Spark on your computer or on a cluster ? Analyze large data sets across many CPUs using Spark’s Resilient Distributed Datasets ? Implement machine learning on Spark using the MLlib library ? Process continuous streams of data in real time using the Spark streaming module ? Perform complex network analysis using Spark’s GraphX library ? Use Amazon's Elastic MapReduce service to run your Spark jobs on a cluster In Detail Frank Kane’s Taming Big Data with Apache Spark and Python is your companion to learning Apache Spark in a hands-on manner. Frank will start you off by teaching you how to set up Spark on a single system or on a cluster, and you’ll soon move on to analyzing large data sets using Spark RDD, and developing and running effective Spark jobs quickly using Python. Apache Spark has emerged as the next big thing in the Big Data domain – quickly rising from an ascending technology to an established superstar in just a matter of years. Spark allows you to quickly extract actionable insights from large amounts of data, on a real-time basis, making it an essential tool in many modern businesses. Frank has packed this book with over 15 interactive, fun-filled examples relevant to the real world, and he will empower you to understand the Spark ecosystem and implement production-grade real-time Spark projects with ease. Style and approach Frank Kane’s Taming Big Data with Apache Spark and Python is a hands-on tutorial with over 15 real-world examples carefully explained by Frank in a step-by-step manner. The examples vary in complexity, and you can move through them at your own pace.

Learning pandas - Second Edition
¥90.46
Get to grips with pandas—a versatile and high-performance Python library for data manipulation, analysis, and discovery About This Book ? Get comfortable using pandas and Python as an effective data exploration and analysis tool ? Explore pandas through a framework of data analysis, with an explanation of how pandas is well suited for the various stages in a data analysis process ? A comprehensive guide to pandas with many of clear and practical examples to help you get up and using pandas Who This Book Is For This book is ideal for data scientists, data analysts, Python programmers who want to plunge into data analysis using pandas, and anyone with a curiosity about analyzing data. Some knowledge of statistics and programming will be helpful to get the most out of this book but not strictly required. Prior exposure to pandas is also not required. What You Will Learn ? Understand how data analysts and scientists think about of the processes of gathering and understanding data ? Learn how pandas can be used to support the end-to-end process of data analysis ? Use pandas Series and DataFrame objects to represent single and multivariate data ? Slicing and dicing data with pandas, as well as combining, grouping, and aggregating data from multiple sources ? How to access data from external sources such as files, databases, and web services ? Represent and manipulate time-series data and the many of the intricacies involved with this type of data ? How to visualize statistical information ? How to use pandas to solve several common data representation and analysis problems within finance In Detail You will learn how to use pandas to perform data analysis in Python. You will start with an overview of data analysis and iteratively progress from modeling data, to accessing data from remote sources, performing numeric and statistical analysis, through indexing and performing aggregate analysis, and finally to visualizing statistical data and applying pandas to finance. With the knowledge you gain from this book, you will quickly learn pandas and how it can empower you in the exciting world of data manipulation, analysis and science. Style and approach ? Step-by-step instruction on using pandas within an end-to-end framework of performing data analysis ? Practical demonstration of using Python and pandas using interactive and incremental examples

Modern C++ Programming Cookbook
¥90.46
Over 100 recipes to help you overcome your difficulties with C++ programming and gain a deeper understanding of the working of modern C++ About This Book ? Explore the most important language and library features of C++17, including containers, algorithms, regular expressions, threads, and more, ? Get going with unit testing frameworks Boost.Test, Google Test and Catch, ? Extend your C++ knowledge and take your development skills to new heights by making your applications fast, robust, and scalable. Who This Book Is For If you want to overcome difficult phases of development with C++ and leverage its features using modern programming practices, then this book is for you. The book is designed for both experienced C++ programmers as well as people with strong knowledge of OOP concepts. What You Will Learn ? Get to know about the new core language features and the problems they were intended to solve ? Understand the standard support for threading and concurrency and know how to put them on work for daily basic tasks ? Leverage C++’s features to get increased robustness and performance ? Explore the widely-used testing frameworks for C++ and implement various useful patterns and idioms ? Work with various types of strings and look at the various aspects of compilation ? Explore functions and callable objects with a focus on modern features ? Leverage the standard library and work with containers, algorithms, and iterators ? Use regular expressions for find and replace string operations ? Take advantage of the new filesystem library to work with files and directories ? Use the new utility additions to the standard library to solve common problems developers encounter including string_view, any , optional and variant types In Detail C++ is one of the most widely used programming languages. Fast, efficient, and flexible, it is used to solve many problems. The latest versions of C++ have seen programmers change the way they code, giving up on the old-fashioned C-style programming and adopting modern C++ instead. Beginning with the modern language features, each recipe addresses a specific problem, with a discussion that explains the solution and offers insight into how it works. You will learn major concepts about the core programming language as well as common tasks faced while building a wide variety of software. You will learn about concepts such as concurrency, performance, meta-programming, lambda expressions, regular expressions, testing, and many more in the form of recipes. These recipes will ensure you can make your applications robust and fast. By the end of the book, you will understand the newer aspects of C++11/14/17 and will be able to overcome tasks that are time-consuming or would break your stride while developing. Style and approach This book follows a recipe-based approach, with examples that will empower you to implement the core programming language features and explore the newer aspects of C++.

Mastering Non-Functional Requirements
¥71.93
This book covers the most critical 24 NFRs that are applicable to IT applications and systems. About This Book ? Explains three stages of nonfunctional requirements, that is, analysis, architecture, and assessment ? In-depth knowledge of NFR framework and taxonomy that provides guidance around the modelling phase for the NFRs ? Coverage of 24 critical and pivotal NFRs, including the analysis, architecture, and assessment. Who This Book Is For The primary audience for this title are the gamut of roles starting from IT consultant to chief architects who are responsible to deliver strategic, tactical, and operational engagements for fortune 100 customers worldwide. Nonfunctional requirements are the key to any software / IT program. They cannot be overlooked or ignored. The book provides a comprehensive approach from analysis, architecture, and measurement of nonfunctional requirements. The book includes considerations for bespoke (Java, .Net, and COTS applications). These are applicable to IT applications from various domains. The book outlines the methodology for capturing the NFRs and also describes a framework that can be leveraged by analysts and architects for tackling NFRs for various engagements. The audience for this book include business analysts, enterprise architects, business architects, solution architects, technical architects/designers, domain/security/integration architects, software developers, support engineers and test engineers, technical project managers, project leads/technical leads/technical project managers, and students from the computer science/IT stream What You Will Learn ? Learn techniques related to the analysis, architecture, and monitoring of NFRs ? Understand the various tools, techniques, and processes in order to improve the overall quality of the desired outcomes ? Embrace the best practices of architecting, metrics, and success factors for NFRs ? Identify the common pitfalls to be avoided and the patterns to leverage ? Understand taxonomy and framework for NFRs ? Learn the design guidelines for architecting applications and systems relating to NFRs ? Abstract different methodologies to analyze and gather NFRs In Detail Non-functional Requirements are key to any software/IT program and cannot be overlooked or ignored. This book provides a comprehensive approach to the analysis, architecture, and measurement of NFRs. It includes considerations for bespoke Java, .NET, and COTS applications that are applicable to IT applications/systems in different domains. The book outlines the methodology for capturing the NFRs and also describes a framework that can be leveraged by analysts and architects for tackling NFRs for various engagements. This book starts off by explaining the various KPIs, taxonomies, and methods for identifying NFRs. Learn the design guidelines for architecting applications and systems relating to NFRs and design principles to achieve the desired outcome. We will then move on to various key tiers/layers and patterns pertaining to the business, database, and integrating tiers. After this, we will dive deep into the topics pertaining to techniques related to monitoring and measurement of NFRs, such as sizing, analytical modeling, and quality assurance. Lastly, we end the book by describing some pivotal NFRs and checklists for the software quality attributes related to the business, application, data, and infrastructure domains. Style and approach The book takes a pragmatic approach, describing various techniques related to the analysis of NFRs, the architecture of NFRs, and assessment of NFRs.

Implementing Azure Solutions
¥90.46
A practical guide that enhances your skills in implementing Azure solutions for your organization About This Book ? Confidently configure, deploy, and manage cloud services and virtual machines ? Implement a highly-secured environment and respond to threats with increased visibility ? This comprehensive guide is packed with exciting practical scenarios that enable you to implement Azure solutions with ease Who This Book Is For This book is for IT architects, system and network admins, and DevOps engineers who are aware of Azure solutions and want to implement them for their organization. What You Will Learn ? Implement virtual networks, network gateways, Site-to-Site VPN, ExpressRoute, routing, and network devices ? Understand the working of different storage accounts in Azure ? Plan, deploy, and secure virtual machines ? Deploy and manage Azure Containers ? Get familiar with some common Azure usage scenarios In Detail Microsoft Azure has numerous effective solutions that shape the future of any business. However, the major challenge that architects and administrators face are implementing these solutions appropriately. Our book focuses on various implementation scenarios that will help overcome the challenge of implementing Azure’s solutions in a very efficient manner and will also help you to prepare for Microsoft Architect exam. You will not only learn how to secure a newly deployed Azure Active Directory but also get to know how Azure Active Directory Synchronization could be implemented. To maintain an isolated and secure environment so that you can run your virtual machines and applications, you will implement Azure networking services. Also to manage, access, and secure your confidential data, you will implement storage solutions. Toward the end, you will explore tips and tricks to secure your environment. By the end, you will be able to implement Azure solutions such as networking, storage, and cloud effectively. Style and approach This step-by-step guide focuses on implementing various Azure solutions for your organization. The motive is to provide a comprehensive exposure and ensure they can implement these solutions with ease.

Learn Python in 7 Days
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Learn efficient Python coding within 7 days About This Book ? Make the best of Python features ? Learn the tinge of Python in 7 days ? Learn complex concepts using the most simple examples Who This Book Is For The book is aimed at aspiring developers and absolute novice who want to get started with the world of programming. We assume no knowledge of Python for this book. What You Will Learn ? Use if else statement with loops and how to break, skip the loop ? Get acquainted with python types and its operators ? Create modules and packages ? Learn slicing, indexing and string methods ? Explore advanced concepts like collections, class and objects ? Learn dictionary operation and methods ? Discover the scope and function of variables with arguments and return value In Detail Python is a great language to get started in the world of programming and application development. This book will help you to take your skills to the next level having a good knowledge of the fundamentals of Python. We begin with the absolute foundation, covering the basic syntax, type variables and operators. We'll then move on to concepts like statements, arrays, operators, string processing and I/O handling. You’ll be able to learn how to operate tuples and understand the functions and methods of lists. We’ll help you develop a deep understanding of list and tuples and learn python dictionary. As you progress through the book, you’ll learn about function parameters and how to use control statements with the loop. You’ll further learn how to create modules and packages, storing of data as well as handling errors. We later dive into advanced level concepts such as Python collections and how to use class, methods, objects in python. By the end of this book, you will be able to take your skills to the next level having a good knowledge of the fundamentals of Python. Style and approach Fast paced guide to get you up-to-speed with the language. Every chapter is followed by an exercise that focuses on building something with the language. The codes of the exercises can be found on the Packt website