Increase your productivity by implementing complex data structures and algorithms using JavaScript About This Book ? A step by step guide, which will provide you with a thorough discussion on the analysis and design of fundamental JavaScript data structures ? Get a better understanding of advanced concepts such as space and time complexity to optimize your code ? Focus more on solving the business problem and less on the technical challenges involved Who This Book Is For If you are a JavaScript developer looking for practical examples to implement data structures and algorithms in your web applications, then this book is for you. Familiarity with data structures and algorithms will be helpful to get the most out of this book. What You Will Learn ? Build custom Back buttons embedded within your application ? Build part of a basic JavaScript syntax parser and evaluator for an online IDE ? Build a custom activity user tracker for your application ? Generate accurate recommendations for credit card approval using Decision Trees ? Simplify complex problems using a graphs ? Increase the performance of an application using micro-optimizations In Detail Data structures and algorithms are the fundamental building blocks of computer programming. They are critical to any problem, provide a complete solution, and act like reusable code. Using appropriate data structures and having a good understanding of algorithm analysis are key in JavaScript to solving crises and ensuring your application is less prone to errors. Do you want to build applications that are high-performing and fast? Are you looking for complete solutions to implement complex data structures and algorithms in a practical way? If either of these questions rings a bell, then this book is for you! You'll start by building stacks and understanding performance and memory implications. You will learn how to pick the right type of queue for the application. You will then use sets, maps, trees, and graphs to simplify complex applications. You will learn to implement different types of sorting algorithm before gradually calculating and analyzing space and time complexity. Finally, you'll increase the performance of your application using micro optimizations and memory management. By the end of the book you will have gained the skills and expertise necessary to create and employ various data structures in a way that is demanded by your project or use case. Style and approach Step-by-step topics will help you get started with solutions for implementing classic data structures and algorithms. Learn by doing with hands-on code snippets that give you practical experience of the subject.

Learn to use IPython and Jupyter Notebook for your data analysis and visualization work. About This Book ? Leverage the Jupyter Notebook for interactive data science and visualization ? Become an expert in high-performance computing and visualization for data analysis and scientific modeling ? A comprehensive coverage of scientific computing through many hands-on, example-driven recipes with detailed, step-by-step explanations Who This Book Is For This book is intended for anyone interested in numerical computing and data science: students, researchers, teachers, engineers, analysts, and hobbyists. A basic knowledge of Python/NumPy is recommended. Some skills in mathematics will help you understand the theory behind the computational methods. What You Will Learn ? Master all features of the Jupyter Notebook ? Code better: write high-quality, readable, and well-tested programs; profile and optimize your code; and conduct reproducible interactive computing experiments ? Visualize data and create interactive plots in the Jupyter Notebook ? Write blazingly fast Python programs with NumPy, ctypes, Numba, Cython, OpenMP, GPU programming (CUDA), parallel IPython, Dask, and more ? Analyze data with Bayesian or frequentist statistics (Pandas, PyMC, and R), and learn from actual data through machine learning (scikit-learn) ? Gain valuable insights into signals, images, and sounds with SciPy, scikit-image, and OpenCV ? Simulate deterministic and stochastic dynamical systems in Python ? Familiarize yourself with math in Python using SymPy and Sage: algebra, analysis, logic, graphs, geometry, and probability theory In Detail Python is one of the leading open source platforms for data science and numerical computing. IPython and the associated Jupyter Notebook offer efficient interfaces to Python for data analysis and interactive visualization, and they constitute an ideal gateway to the platform. IPython Interactive Computing and Visualization Cookbook, Second Edition contains many ready-to-use, focused recipes for high-performance scientific computing and data analysis, from the latest IPython/Jupyter features to the most advanced tricks, to help you write better and faster code. You will apply these state-of-the-art methods to various real-world examples, illustrating topics in applied mathematics, scientific modeling, and machine learning. The first part of the book covers programming techniques: code quality and reproducibility, code optimization, high-performance computing through just-in-time compilation, parallel computing, and graphics card programming. The second part tackles data science, statistics, machine learning, signal and image processing, dynamical systems, and pure and applied mathematics. Style and approach IPython Interactive Computing and Visualization Cookbook, Second Edition is a practical, hands-on book that will teach you how to analyze and visualize all kinds of data in the Jupyter Notebook.

A comprehensive, easy-to-follow guide to creating complete Node apps and understanding how to build, deploy, and test your own apps. About This Book ? Entirely project-based and practical ? Explains the "Why" of Node.js features, not just the "how", providing you with a deep understanding and enabling you to easily apply concepts in your own applications ? Covers the full range of technologies around Node.js – NPM, version control with Git, and much more Who This Book Is For This book targets anyone looking to launch their own Node applications, switch careers, or freelance as a Node developer. You should have a basic understanding of JavaScript in order to follow this course. What You Will Learn ? Learn the fundamentals of Node ? Build apps that respond to user input ? Master working with servers ? Learn how to test and debug applications ? Deploy and update your apps in the real world ? Create responsive asynchronous web applications In Detail Learning Node.js Development is a practical, project-based book that provides you with all you need to get started as a Node.js developer. Node is a ubiquitous technology on the modern web, and an essential part of any web developers' toolkit. If you are looking to create real-world Node applications, or you want to switch careers or launch a side project to generate some extra income, then you're in the right place. This book has been written around a single goal—turning you into a professional Node developer capable of developing, testing, and deploying real-world production applications. Learning Node.js Development is built from the ground up around the latest version of Node.js (version 9.x.x). You'll be learning all the cutting-edge features available only in the latest software versions. This book cuts through the mass of information available around Node and delivers the essential skills that you need to become a Node developer. It takes you through creating complete apps and understanding how to build, deploy, and test your own Node apps. It maps out everything in a comprehensive, easy-to-follow package designed to get you up and running quickly. Style and approach This book is entirely project-based. From the very beginning you'll be programming every single app and completing various challenges designed to help test and reinforce what you've learned. There's no copying-and-pasting here. This book is about writing code and building projects.

The first stop for your security needs when using Go, covering host, network, and cloud security for ethical hackers and defense against intrusion About This Book ? First introduction to Security with Golang ? Adopting a Blue Team/Red Team approach ? Take advantage of speed and inherent safety of Golang ? Works as an introduction to security for Golang developers ? Works as a guide to Golang security packages for recent Golang beginners Who This Book Is For Security with Go is aimed at developers with basics in Go to the level that they can write their own *s and small programs without difficulty. Readers should be familiar with security concepts, and familiarity with Python security applications and libraries is an advantage, but not a necessity. What You Will Learn ? Learn the basic concepts and principles of secure programming ? Write secure Golang programs and applications ? Understand classic patterns of attack ? Write Golang *s to defend against network-level attacks ? Learn how to use Golang security packages ? Apply and explore cryptographic methods and packages ? Learn the art of defending against brute force attacks ? Secure web and cloud applications In Detail Go is becoming more and more popular as a language for security experts. Its wide use in server and cloud environments, its speed and ease of use, and its evident capabilities for data analysis, have made it a prime choice for developers who need to think about security. Security with Go is the first Golang security book, and it is useful for both blue team and red team applications. With this book, you will learn how to write secure software, monitor your systems, secure your data, attack systems, and extract information. Defensive topics include cryptography, forensics, packet capturing, and building secure web applications. Offensive topics include brute force, port scanning, packet injection, web scraping, social engineering, and post exploitation techniques. Style and approach John Leon has divided the book into two parts which present the team playing defense against anyone breaking into servers and the team playing (ethical!) offense to perform said attacks. All Go *s and programs are workable solutions that can be easily understood and expanded upon by anyone with a system administrator’s level view of networking and cloud-based systems. Golang developers will profit from a swift and incisive approach to security.

Learn to apply cloud-native patterns and practices to deliver responsive, resilient, elastic, and message-driven systems with confidence About This Book ? Understand the architectural patterns involved in cloud-native architectures ? Minimize risk by evolving your monolithic applications into distributed cloud-native systems ? Discover best practices for applying cloud-native patterns to your enterprise-level cloud applications Who This Book Is For This book is for developers who would like to progress into building cloud-native systems and are keen to learn the patterns involved. Basic knowledge of programming and cloud computing is required. What You Will Learn ? Enable massive scaling by turning your database inside out ? Unleash flexibility via event streaming ? Leverage polyglot persistence and cloud-native databases ? Embrace modern continuous delivery and testing techniques ? Minimize risk by evolving your monoliths to cloud-native ? Apply cloud-native patterns and solve major architectural problems in cloud environment In Detail Build systems that leverage the benefits of the cloud and applications faster than ever before with cloud-native development. This book focuses on architectural patterns for building highly scalable cloud-native systems. You will learn how the combination of cloud, reactive principles, devops, and automation enable teams to continuously deliver innovation with confidence. Begin by learning the core concepts that make these systems unique. You will explore foundational patterns that turn your database inside out to achieve massive scalability with cloud-native databases. You will also learn how to continuously deliver production code with confidence by shifting deployment and testing all the way to the left and implementing continuous observability in production. There's more—you will also learn how to strangle your monolith and design an evolving cloud-native system. By the end of the book, you will have the ability to create modern cloud-native systems. Style and approach This book follows a pragmatic approach to understand cloud-native design patterns and explains the functioning and design considerations to build modern cloud-native systems in depth.

Make the most of your infrastructure and serve pages faster than ever with Nginx. About This Book ? Discover possible interactions between Nginx and Apache to get the best of both worlds ? Learn to exploit the features offered by Nginx for your web applications ? Get your hands on the most updated version of Nginx (1.13.2) to support all your web administration requirements Who This Book Is For This book is a perfect match to web administrators who are interested in solutions to optimize their infrastructure. Whether you are looking into replacing your existing web server software or integrating a new tool to cooperate with applications that are already up and running, this book is your ideal resource. What You Will Learn ? Download and install Nginx on your system ? Prepare a basic configuration and test your initial setup ? Discover the core functionality of the HTTP module ? Make the most of first- and third-party Nginx modules ? Set up Nginx to work with PHP, Python, and other applications ? Learn how to set up Nginx to work with Apache ? Fully replace Apache with Nginx ? Optimize your architecture with threads or load balancing ? Identify errors in configuration and learn basic troubleshooting techniques ? Consult the exhaustive directive and module index for reference In Detail Nginx is a lightweight HTTP server designed for high-traffic websites, with network scalability as the primary objective. With the advent of high-speed internet access, short loading times and fast transfer rates have become a necessity. This book is a detailed guide to setting up Nginx in ways that correspond to actual production situations: as a standalone server, as a reverse proxy, interacting with applications via FastCGI, and more. In addition, this complete direct reference will be indispensable at all stages of the configuration and maintenance processes. This book mainly targets the most recent version of Nginx (1.13.2) and focuses on all the new additions and improvements, such as support for HTTP/2, improved dynamic modules, security enhancements, and support for multiple SSL certificates. This book is the perfect companion for both Nginx beginners and experienced administrators. For beginners, it will take you through the complete process of setting up this lightweight HTTP server on your system and configuring its various modules so that it does exactly what you need quickly and securely. For more experienced administrators, this book provides different approaches that can help you make the most of your current infrastructure. Nginx can be employed in many situations, whether you are looking to construct an entirely new web-serving architecture or simply want to integrate an efficient tool to optimize your site loading speeds. Style and approach This book aims to serve as a handy reference of all Nginx first-party modules and directives, allowing the reader to develop their own web configuration more efficiently.

Data management and analytics simplified with Teradata About This Book ? Take your understanding of Teradata to the next level and build efficient data warehousing applications for your organization ? Covers recipes on data handling, warehousing, advanced querying and the administrative tasks in Teradata. ? Contains practical solutions to tackle common (and not-so-common) problems you might encounter in your day to day activities Who This Book Is For This book is for Database administrator's and Teradata users who are looking for a practical, one-stop resource to solve all their problems while handling their Teradata solution. If you are looking to learn the basic as well as the advanced tasks involved in Teradata querying or administration, this book will be handy. Some knowledge of relational database concepts will be helpful to get the best out of this book. What You Will Learn ? Understand Teradata's competitive advantage over other RDBMSs. ? Use SQL to process data stored in Teradata tables. ? Leverage Teradata’s available application utilities and parallelism to play with large datasets ? Apply various performance tuning techniques to optimize the queries. ? Acquire deeper knowledge and understanding of the Teradata Architecture. ? Easy steps to load, archive, restore data and implement Teradata protection features ? Gain confidence in running a wide variety of Data analytics and develop applications for the Teradata environment In Detail Teradata is an enterprise software company that develops and sells its eponymous relational database management system (RDBMS), which is considered to be a leading data warehousing solutions and provides data management solutions for analytics. This book will help you get all the practical information you need for the creation and implementation of your data warehousing solution using Teradata. The book begins with recipes on quickly setting up a development environment so you can work with different types of data structuring and manipulation function. You will tackle all problems related to efficient querying, stored procedure searching, and navigation techniques. Additionally, you’ll master various administrative tasks such as user and security management, workload management, high availability, performance tuning, and monitoring. This book is designed to take you through the best practices of performing the real daily tasks of a Teradata DBA, and will help you tackle any problem you might encounter in the process. Style and approach This book is a rich collection of recipes that will come in handy when you are working with Teradata. It addresses your common and not-so-common pain points,and this is a book that you must have on the shelf.

Maximize your administration skills effectively and efficiently About This Book ? Implement cost-effective virtualization solutions for your organization with actionable recipes ? Explore the concepts of VMM with real-world use cases ? Use the latest features with VMM 2016 such as Cluster OS Rolling Upgrade, Guarded Fabric and Storage Spaces Direct Who This Book Is For If you are a solutions architect, technical consultant, administrator, or any other virtualization enthusiast who needs to use Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager in a real-world environment, then this is the book for you. What You Will Learn ? Plan and design a VMM architecture for real-world deployment ? Configure fabric resources, including compute, networking, and storage ? Create and manage Storage Spaces Direct clusters in VMM ? Configure Guarded Fabric with Shielded VMs ? Create and deploy virtual machine templates and multi-tier services ? Manage Hyper-V and VMware environments from VMM ? Enhance monitoring and management capabilities ? Upgrade to VMM 2016 from previous versions In Detail Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) 2016 is part of the System Center suite to configure and manage datacenters and offers a unified management experience on-premises and Azure cloud. This book will be your best companion for day-to-day virtualization needs within your organization, as it takes you through a series of recipes to simplify and plan a highly scalable and available virtual infrastructure. You will learn the deployment tips, techniques, and solutions designed to show users how to improve VMM 2016 in a real-world scenario. The chapters are divided in a way that will allow you to implement the VMM 2016 and additional solutions required to effectively manage and monitor your fabrics and clouds. We will cover the most important new features in VMM 2016 across networking, storage, and compute, including brand new Guarded Fabric, Shielded VMs and Storage Spaces Direct. The recipes in the book provide step-by-step instructions giving you the simplest way to dive into VMM fabric concepts, private cloud, and integration with external solutions such as VMware, Operations Manager, and the Windows Azure Pack. By the end of this book, you will be armed with the knowledge you require to start designing and implementing virtual infrastructures in VMM 2016. Style and approach This book follows a recipe-based approach similar to our previous two successful editions, covering the practical application of the major features in VMM 2016.

Build responsive, dynamic, and mobile-first applications on the web with Bootstrap 4 About This Book ? Master the art of creating highly intuitive and responsive web interfaces with Bootstrap 4 ? Combine the power of Bootstrap and popular front-end JavaScript frameworks such as Angular and React to build cutting-edge web apps ? Infuse your web pages with life and movement using Bootstrap jQuery plugins Who This Book Is For This book targets readers who wish to leverage Bootstrap 4 to create responsive web applications. Basic knowledge of web development concepts and web technologies such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript is required. What You Will Learn ? Create a professional Bootstrap-based website from scratch without using third-party templates ? Leverage Bootstrap's powerful grid system ? Style various types of content and learn how to build a page's layout from scratch by applying the power of Bootstrap 4 ? Take advantage of Bootstrap's form helper and contextual classes ? Improve your website's overall user experience with headers and footers ? Infuse your web pages using Bootstrap jQuery plugins and create your own Bootstrap plugins ? Learn what utility classes Bootstrap 4 has to offer, how they are implemented, and the best way to use them. ? Create more advanced web interfaces by leveraging the power of accordions, dropdowns, and list groups. ? Incorporate Bootstrap into an AngularJS or React application and use Bootstrap components as AngularJS directives In Detail Bootstrap 4 is a free CSS and JavaScript framework that allows developers to rapidly build responsive web interfaces. This book will help you use and adapt Bootstrap to produce enticing websites that fit your needs. You will build a customized Bootstrap website from scratch, using various approaches to customize the framework with increasing levels of skill. You will get to grips with Bootstrap's key features and quickly discover various ways in which Bootstrap can help you develop web interfaces. Then take a walk through the fundamental features, such as its grid system, global styles, helper classes, and responsive utilities. When you have mastered these, you will discover how to structure page layouts, utilize Bootstrap's various navigation components, use forms, and style different types of content. Among other things, you will also tour the anatomy of a Bootstrap plugin, create your own custom components, and extend Bootstrap using jQuery. You will also understand what utility classes Bootstrap 4 has to offer, and how you can use them effectively to speed up the development of your website. Finally, you will discover how to optimize your website and integrate it with third-party frameworks. By the end of this book, you will have a thorough knowledge of the framework's ins and outs, and will be able to build highly customizable and optimized web interfaces. Style and approach A comprehensive, step-by-step guide to mastering the ins and outs of the Bootstrap framework to produce highly customizable, optimized, and sleek web interfaces.

Accelerate your enterprise search engine and bring relevancy in your search analytics About This Book ? A practical guide in building expertise with Indexing, Faceting, Clustering and Pagination ? Master the management and administration of Enterprise Search Applications and services seamlessly ? Handle multiple data inputs such as JSON, xml, pdf, doc, xls,ppt, csv and much more. Who This Book Is For The book would rightly appeal to developers, software engineers, data engineers and database architects who are building or seeking to build enterprise-wide effective search engines for business intelligence. Prior experience of Apache Solr or Java programming is must to take the best of this book. What You Will Learn ? Design schema using schema API to access data in the database ? Advance querying and fine-tuning techniques for better performance ? Get to grips with indexing using Client API ? Set up a fault tolerant and highly available server with newer distributed capabilities, SolrCloud ? Explore Apache Tika to upload data with Solr Cell ? Understand different data operations that can be done while indexing ? Master advanced querying through Velocity Search UI, faceting and Query Re-ranking, pagination and spatial search ? Learn to use JavaScript, Python, SolrJ and Ruby for interacting with Solr In Detail Apache Solr is the only standalone enterprise search server with a REST-like application interface. providing highly scalable, distributed search and index replication for many of the world's largest internet sites. To begin with, you would be introduced to how you perform full text search, multiple filter search, perform dynamic clustering and so on helping you to brush up the basics of Apache Solr. You will also explore the new features and advanced options released in Apache Solr 7.x which will get you numerous performance aspects and making data investigation simpler, easier and powerful. You will learn to build complex queries, extensive filters and how are they compiled in your system to bring relevance in your search tools. You will learn to carry out Solr scoring, elements affecting the document score and how you can optimize or tune the score for the application at hand. You will learn to extract features of documents, writing complex queries in re-ranking the documents. You will also learn advanced options helping you to know what content is indexed and how the extracted content is indexed. Throughout the book, you would go through complex problems with solutions along with varied approaches to tackle your business needs. By the end of this book, you will gain advanced proficiency to build out-of-box smart search solutions for your enterprise demands. Style and approach An advance guide which will take you through complex problems with solutions along with varied approaches to tackle your business needs by using Apache solr 7.x

Learn how to implement Reactive Programming paradigms with Kotlin, and apply them to web programming with Spring Framework 5.0 and in Android Application Development. About This Book ? Learn how to solve blocking user experience with Reactive Programming and get deep insights into RxKotlin ? Integrate Reactive Kotlin with Spring and build fantastic Android Apps with RxKotlin and RxAndroid ? Build reactive architectures that reduce complexity throughout the development process and make your apps(web and Android) scalable Who This Book Is For This book is for Kotlin developers who would like to build fault-tolerant, scalable, and distributed systems. A basic knowledge of Kotlin is required, but no prior knowledge of reactive programming. What You Will Learn ? Learn about reactive programming paradigms and how reactive programming can improve your existing projects ? Gain in-depth knowledge in RxKotlin 2.0 and the ReactiveX Framework ? Use RxKotlin with Android ? Create your own custom operators in RxKotlin ? Use Spring Framework 5.0 with Kotlin ? Use the reactor-kotlin extension ? Build Rest APIs with Spring,Hibernate, and RxKotlin ? Use testSubscriber to test RxKotlin applications ? Use backpressure management and Flowables In Detail In today’s app-driven era, when programs are asynchronous, and responsiveness is so vital, reactive programming can help you write code that’s more reliable, easier to scale, and better-performing. Reactive programming is revolutionary. With this practical book, Kotlin developers will first learn how to view problems in the reactive way, and then build programs that leverage the best features of this exciting new programming paradigm. You will begin with the general concepts of Reactive programming and then gradually move on to working with asynchronous data streams. You will dive into advanced techniques such as manipulating time in data-flow, customizing operators and provider and how to Use the concurrency model to control asynchronicity of code and process event handlers effectively. You will then be introduced to functional reactive programming and will learn to apply FRP in practical use cases in Kotlin. This book will also take you one step forward by introducing you to spring 5 and spring boot 2 using Kotlin. By the end of the book, you will be able to build real-world applications with reactive user interfaces as well as you’ll learn to implement reactive programming paradigms in Android. Style and Approach Loaded with numerous code examples and real-life projects, this book helps you delve into Reactive Programming with Kotlin, and apply it to real-world Spring-web and Android projects, thus making all your apps reactive.

Tackle the most sophisticated problems associated with scientific computing and data manipulation using SciPy About This Book ? Covers a wide range of data science tasks using SciPy, NumPy, pandas, and matplotlib ? Effective recipes on advanced scientific computations, statistics, data wrangling, data visualization, and more ? A must-have book if you're looking to solve your data-related problems using SciPy, on-the-go Who This Book Is For Python developers, aspiring data scientists, and analysts who want to get started with scientific computing using Python will find this book an indispensable resource. If you want to learn how to manipulate and visualize your data using the SciPy Stack, this book will also help you. A basic understanding of Python programming is all you need to get started. What You Will Learn ? Get a solid foundation in scientific computing using Python ? Master common tasks related to SciPy and associated libraries such as NumPy, pandas, and matplotlib ? Perform mathematical operations such as linear algebra and work with the statistical and probability functions in SciPy ? Master advanced computing such as Discrete Fourier Transform and K-means with the SciPy Stack ? Implement data wrangling tasks efficiently using pandas ? Visualize your data through various graphs and charts using matplotlib In Detail With the SciPy Stack, you get the power to effectively process, manipulate, and visualize your data using the popular Python language. Utilizing SciPy correctly can sometimes be a very tricky proposition. This book provides the right techniques so you can use SciPy to perform different data science tasks with ease. This book includes hands-on recipes for using the different components of the SciPy Stack such as NumPy, SciPy, matplotlib, and pandas, among others. You will use these libraries to solve real-world problems in linear algebra, numerical analysis, data visualization, and much more. The recipes included in the book will ensure you get a practical understanding not only of how a particular feature in SciPy Stack works, but also of its application to real-world problems. The independent nature of the recipes also ensure that you can pick up any one and learn about a particular feature of SciPy without reading through the other recipes, thus making the book a very handy and useful guide. Style and approach This book consists of hands-on recipes where you’ll deal with real-world problems. You’ll execute a series of tasks as you walk through scientific computing challenges using SciPy. Your one-stop solution for common and not-so-common pain points, this is a book that you must have on the shelf.

Build and run intelligent applications by leveraging key Java machine learning libraries About This Book ? Develop a sound strategy to solve predictive modelling problems using the most popular machine learning Java libraries. ? Explore a broad variety of data processing, machine learning, and natural language processing through diagrams, source code, and real-world applications ? This step-by-step guide will help you solve real-world problems and links neural network theory to their application Who This Book Is For This course is intended for data scientists and Java developers who want to dive into the exciting world of deep learning. It will get you up and running quickly and provide you with the skills you need to successfully create, customize, and deploy machine learning applications in real life. What You Will Learn ? Get a practical deep dive into machine learning and deep learning algorithms ? Explore neural networks using some of the most popular Deep Learning frameworks ? Dive into Deep Belief Nets and Stacked Denoising Autoencoders algorithms ? Apply machine learning to fraud, anomaly, and outlier detection ? Experiment with deep learning concepts, algorithms, and the toolbox for deep learning ? Select and split data sets into training, test, and validation, and explore validation strategies ? Apply the code generated in practical examples, including weather forecasting and pattern recognition In Detail Machine learning applications are everywhere, from self-driving cars, spam detection, document search, and trading strategies, to speech recognitionStarting with an introduction to basic machine learning algorithms, this course takes you further into this vital world of stunning predictive insights and remarkable machine intelligence. This course helps you solve challenging problems in image processing, speech recognition, language modeling. You will discover how to detect anomalies and fraud, and ways to perform activity recognition, image recognition, and text. You will also work with examples such as weather forecasting, disease diagnosis, customer profiling, generalization, extreme machine learning and more. By the end of this course, you will have all the knowledge you need to perform deep learning on your system with varying complexity levels, to apply them to your daily work. The course provides you with highly practical content explaining deep learning with Java, from the following Packt books: 1. Java Deep Learning Essentials 2. Machine Learning in Java 3. Neural Network Programming with Java, Second Edition Style and approach This course aims to create a smooth learning path that will teach you how to effectively use deep learning with Java with other de facto components to get the most out of it. Through this comprehensive course, you’ll learn the basics of predictive modelling and progress to solve real-world problems and links neural network theory to their application

Learn the basics of Geographic Information Systems by solving real-world problems with powerful open source tools About This Book ? This easy-to-follow guide allows you to manage and analyze geographic data with ease using open source tools ? Publish your geographical data online ? Learn the basics of geoinformatics in a practical way by solving problems Who This Book Is For The book is for IT professionals who have little or no knowledge of GIS. It’s also useful for those who are new to the GIS field who don’t want to spend a lot of money buying licenses of commercial tools and training. What You Will Learn ? Collect GIS data for your needs ? Store the data in a PostGIS database ? Exploit the data using the power of the GIS queries ? Analyze the data with basic and more advanced GIS tools ? Publish your data and share it with others ? Build a web map with your published data In Detail The most commonly used GIS tools automate tasks that were historically done manually—compiling new maps by overlaying one on top of the other or physically cutting maps into pieces representing specific study areas, changing their projection, and getting meaningful results from the various layers by applying mathematical functions and operations. This book is an easy-to-follow guide to use the most matured open source GIS tools for these tasks. We’ll start by setting up the environment for the tools we use in the book. Then you will learn how to work with QGIS in order to generate useful spatial data. You will get to know the basics of queries, data management, and geoprocessing. After that, you will start to practice your knowledge on real-world examples. We will solve various types of geospatial analyses with various methods. We will start with basic GIS problems by imitating the work of an enthusiastic real estate agent, and continue with more advanced, but typical tasks by solving a decision problem. Finally, you will find out how to publish your data (and results) on the web. We will publish our data with QGIS Server and GeoServer, and create a basic web map with the API of the lightweight Leaflet web mapping library. Style and approach The book guides you step by step through each of the core concepts of the GIS toolkit, building an overall picture of its capabilities. This guide approaches the topic systematically, allowing you to build upon what you learned in previous chapters. By the end of this book, you’ll have an understanding of the aspects of building a GIS system and will be able to take that knowledge with you to whatever project calls for it.

Deploy, manage, and scale virtual instances using Kernel-based Virtual Machines About This Book ? Build, manage and scale virtual machines with practical step-by-step examples ? Leverage the libvirt user-space tools and libraries to manage the life-cycle of KVM instances ? Deploy and scale applications inside KVM virtual machines with OpenStack Who This Book Is For If you are a system administrator working KVM virtualization, this book will help you grow on your expertise of working with the infrastructure to manage things in a better way. You should have a knowledge of working with Linux based systems. What You Will Learn ? Deploy different workloads in isolation with KVM virtualization and better utilize the available compute resources ? Explore the benefits of running applications with KVM and learn to prevent the “bad-neighbor” effect ? Leveraging various networking technologies in the context of virtualization with Open vSwitch and the Linux bridge. ? Create KVM instances using Python and inspect running KVM instances ? Understand Kernel Tuning for enhanced KVM performance and better memory utilization In Detail Virtualization technologies such as KVM allow for better control over the available server resources, by deploying multiple virtual instances on the same physical host, or clusters of compute resources. With KVM it is possible to run various workloads in isolation with the hypervisor layer providing better tenant isolation and higher degree of security. This book will provide a deep dive into deploying KVM virtual machines using qemu and libvirt and will demonstrate practical examples on how to run, scale, monitor, migrate and backup such instances. You will also discover real production ready recipes on deploying KVM instances with OpenStack and how to programatically manage the life cycle of KVM virtual machines using Python. You will learn numerous tips and techniques which will help you deploy & plan the KVM infrastructure. Next, you will be introduced to the working of libvirt libraries and the iPython development environment. Finally, you will be able to tune your Linux kernel for high throughput and better performance. By the end of this book, you will gain all the knowledge needed to be an expert in working with the KVM virtualization infrastructure. Style and approach This book takes a complete practical approach with many step-by-step example recipes on how to use KVM in production. The book assumes certain level of expertise with Linux systems and virtualization in general. Some knowledge of Python programming is encouraged, to fully take advantage of the code recipes.

Your one stop guide to making the most out of Bash programming About This Book ? From roots to leaves, learn how to program in Bash and automate daily tasks, pouring some spice in your *s ? Daemonize a * and make a real service of it, ensuring it’s available at any time to process user-fed data or commands ? This book provides functional examples that show you practical applications of commands Who This Book Is For If you're a power user or system administrator involved in writing Bash *s to automate tasks, then this book is for you. This book is also ideal for advanced users who are engaged in complex daily tasks. What You Will Learn ? Understand Bash right from the basics and progress to an advanced level ? Customise your environment and automate system routine tasks ? Write structured *s and create a command-line interface for your *s ? Understand arrays, menus, and functions ? Securely execute remote commands using ssh ? Write Nagios plugins to automate your infrastructure checks ? Interact with web services, and a Slack notification * ? Find out how to execute subshells and take advantage of parallelism ? Explore inter-process communication and write your own daemon In Detail System administration is an everyday effort that involves a lot of tedious tasks, and devious pits. Knowing your environment is the key to unleashing the most powerful solution that will make your life easy as an administrator, and show you the path to new heights. Bash is your Swiss army knife to set up your working or home environment as you want, when you want. This book will enable you to customize your system step by step, making your own real, virtual, home out of it. The journey will take you swiftly through the basis of the shell programming in Bash to more interesting and challenging tasks. You will be introduced to one of the most famous open source monitoring systems—Nagios, and write complex programs with it in any languages. You’ll see how to perform checks on your sites and applications. Moving on, you’ll discover how to write your own daemons so you can create your services and take advantage of inter-process communication to let your *s talk to each other. So, despite these being everyday tasks, you’ll have a lot of fun on the way. By the end of the book, you will have gained advanced knowledge of Bash that will help you automate routine tasks and manage your systems. Style and approach This book presents step-by-step instructions and expert advice on working with Bash and writing *s. Starting from the basics, this book serves as a reference manual where you can find handy solutions and advice to make your *s flexible and powerful.

Over 60 recipes to install, configure, and manage your IIS 10.0 About This Book ? Provide a secure, easy-to-manage extensible platform for hosting your websites ? Leverage IIS 10.0 in order to deploy web site in seconds ? Integrate Windows and Nano Server 2016 and automate it with PowerShell ? Recipes to Manage and monitor your IIS 10.0 Who This Book Is For If you are an administrator or web developer with a basic (or no) knowledge of Microsoft IIS and want to set up your own web server, then this is the book for you. What You Will Learn ? Integrate IIS 10.0 on Windows server 2016 ? Host multiple websites and Wildcard Host on IIS 10.0 ? Deploy and administrate IIS 10.0 on Nano Server. ? IIS administration with Powershell. ? Manage and troubleshoot IIS 10.0 In Detail This book will start with customizing your IIS 10 to various platforms/OS and tune it according to your business requirements. Moving on, we will focus on the functionalities of core fundamentals and perform practical scenarios in order to maximize the use of a reliable web server. Going further we will be covering topics like IIS 10 architecture, IIS modules,hosting web server platforms, virtual directories along with web site deployment, ports, enhanced security. We will also cover new features of IIS 10 like integration with Windows Server 2016 and Nano Server, HTTP/2, PowerShell 5 cmdlets etc . Towards the end, we will cover troubleshooting & diagnostic techniques of IIS 10. By the end of this book you will be well versed with maximizing the reliability of your webserver and will have immense knowledge in using IIS 10 effectively Style and approach A set of exciting recipes on using Microsoft IIS 10.0 effectively..

Develop cloud native applications with microservices using Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, and Spring Cloud Data Flow About This Book ? Explore the new features and components in Spring ? Evolve towards micro services and cloud native applications ? Gain powerful insights into advanced concepts of Spring and Spring Boot to develop applications more effectively ? Understand the basics of Kotlin and use it to develop a quick service with Spring Boot Who This Book Is For This book is for an experienced Java developer who knows the basics of Spring, and wants to learn how to use Spring Boot to build applications and deploy them to the cloud. What You Will Learn ? Explore the new features in Spring Framework 5.0 ? Build microservices with Spring Boot ? Get to know the advanced features of Spring Boot in order to effectively develop and monitor applications ? Use Spring Cloud to deploy and manage applications on the Cloud ? Understand Spring Data and Spring Cloud Data Flow ? Understand the basics of reactive programming ? Get to know the best practices when developing applications with the Spring Framework ? Create a new project using Kotlin and implement a couple of basic services with unit and integration testing In Detail Spring 5.0 is due to arrive with a myriad of new and exciting features that will change the way we’ve used the framework so far. This book will show you this evolution—from solving the problems of testable applications to building distributed applications on the cloud. The book begins with an insight into the new features in Spring 5.0 and shows you how to build an application using Spring MVC. You will realize how application architectures have evolved from monoliths to those built around microservices. You will then get a thorough understanding of how to build and extend microservices using Spring Boot. You will also understand how to build and deploy Cloud-Native microservices with Spring Cloud. The advanced features of Spring Boot will be illustrated through powerful examples. We will be introduced to a JVM language that’s quickly gaining popularity - Kotlin. Also, we will discuss how to set up a Kotlin project in Eclipse. By the end of the book, you will be equipped with the knowledge and best practices required to develop microservices with the Spring Framework. Style and Approach This book follows an end-to-end tutorial approach with lots of examples and sample applications, covering the major building blocks of the Spring framework.

Become an expert in implementing advanced, network-related tasks with Python. About This Book ? Build the skills to perform all networking tasks using Python with ease ? Use Python for network device automation, DevOps, and software-defined networking ? Get practical guidance to networking with Python Who This Book Is For If you are a network engineer or a programmer who wants to use Python for networking, then this book is for you. A basic familiarity with networking-related concepts such as TCP/IP and a familiarity with Python programming will be useful. What You Will Learn ? Review all the fundamentals of Python and the TCP/IP suite ? Use Python to execute commands when the device does not support the API or programmatic interaction with the device ? Implement automation techniques by integrating Python with Cisco, Juniper, and Arista eAPI ? Integrate Ansible using Python to control Cisco, Juniper, and Arista networks ? Achieve network security with Python ? Build Flask-based web-service APIs with Python ? Construct a Python-based migration plan from a legacy to scalable SDN-based network. In Detail This book begins with a review of the TCP/ IP protocol suite and a refresher of the core elements of the Python language. Next, you will start using Python and supported libraries to automate network tasks from the current major network vendors. We will look at automating traditional network devices based on the command-line interface, as well as newer devices with API support, with hands-on labs. We will then learn the concepts and practical use cases of the Ansible framework in order to achieve your network goals. We will then move on to using Python for DevOps, starting with using open source tools to test, secure, and analyze your network. Then, we will focus on network monitoring and visualization. We will learn how to retrieve network information using a polling mechanism, ?ow-based monitoring, and visualizing the data programmatically. Next, we will learn how to use the Python framework to build your own customized network web services. In the last module, you will use Python for SDN, where you will use a Python-based controller with OpenFlow in a hands-on lab to learn its concepts and applications. We will compare and contrast OpenFlow, OpenStack, OpenDaylight, and NFV. Finally, you will use everything you’ve learned in the book to construct a migration plan to go from a legacy to a scalable SDN-based network. Style and approach An easy-to-follow guide packed with hands-on examples of using Python for network device automation, DevOps, and SDN.

Architect enterprise-grade, Microservice-based solutions using Microsoft Azure Service Fabric. About This Book ? Explore architectural patterns for building modern day Microservice-based systems ? Learn about Microsoft Service Fabric as a platform to host distributed Microservices ? Discover multiple options for hosting Microservices on heterogeneous, cross-platform environments ? Learn to configure Azure Service Fabric clusters for enterprise-grade service deployments Who This Book Is For The book is aimed at IT architects, system administrators, and DevOps engineers who have a basic knowledge of the Microsoft Azure platform and are working on, or are curious about, the concepts of Microservices and Microservice architecture. What You Will Learn ? Understand the basics of Microservices and how Microsoft Azure fits into the equation ? Master Azure Service Fabric architecture and services ? Explore Azure Service Fabric application programming models ? Comprehensive study of various architecture patterns for building enterprise-grade Microservices ? Manage and deploy Microservices on Azure Service Fabric ? An insight into the future of Microservices with containers and serverless computing In Detail Microsoft Azure is rapidly evolving and is widely used as a platform on which you can build Microservices that can be deployed on-premise and on-cloud heterogeneous environments through Microsoft Azure Service Fabric. This book will help you understand the concepts of Microservice application architecture and build highly maintainable and scalable enterprise-grade applications using the various services in Microsoft Azure Service Fabric. We will begin by understanding the intricacies of the Microservices architecture and its advantages over the monolithic architecture and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) principles. We will present various scenarios where Microservices should be used and walk you through the architectures of Microservice-based applications. Next, you will take an in-depth look at Microsoft Azure Service Fabric, which is the best–in-class platform for building Microservices. You will explore how to develop and deploy sample applications on Microsoft Azure Service Fabric to gain a thorough understanding of it. Building Microservice-based application is complicated. Therefore, we will take you through several design patterns that solve the various challenges associated with realizing the Microservices architecture in enterprise applications. Each pattern will be clearly illustrated with examples that you can keep referring to when designing applications. Finally, you will be introduced to advanced topics such as Serverless computing and DevOps using Service Fabric, to help you undertake your next venture with confidence. Style and approach This book introduces its readers to the concept of Microservices and Microsoft Azure Service Fabric as a distributed platform to host enterprise-grade Microservices. It then addresses common architectural challenges associated with the Microservice architecture, using proven architectural patterns.

Over 90 recipes that leverage the powerful features of the Standard Library in C++17 About This Book ? Learn the latest features of C++ and how to write better code by using the Standard Library (STL). Reduce the development time for your applications. ? Understand the scope and power of STL features to deal with real-world problems. ? Compose your own algorithms without forfeiting the simplicity and elegance of the STL way. Who This Book Is For This book is for intermediate-to-advanced C++ programmers who want to get the most out of the Standard Template Library of the newest version of C++: C++ 17. What You Will Learn ? Learn about the new core language features and the problems they were intended to solve ? Understand the inner workings and requirements of iterators by implementing them ? Explore algorithms, functional programming style, and lambda expressions ? Leverage the rich, portable, fast, and well-tested set of well-designed algorithms provided in the STL ? Work with strings the STL way instead of handcrafting C-style code ? Understand standard support classes for concurrency and synchronization, and how to put them to work ? Use the filesystem library addition available with the C++17 STL In Detail C++ has come a long way and is in use in every area of the industry. Fast, efficient, and flexible, it is used to solve many problems. The upcoming version of C++ will see programmers change the way they code. If you want to grasp the practical usefulness of the C++17 STL in order to write smarter, fully portable code, then this book is for you. Beginning with new language features, this book will help you understand the language’s mechanics and library features, and offers insight into how they work. Unlike other books, ours takes an implementation-specific, problem-solution approach that will help you quickly overcome hurdles. You will learn the core STL concepts, such as containers, algorithms, utility classes, lambda expressions, iterators, and more, while working on practical real-world recipes. These recipes will help you get the most from the STL and show you how to program in a better way. By the end of the book, you will be up to date with the latest C++17 features and save time and effort while solving tasks elegantly using the STL. Style and approach This recipe-based guide will show you how to make the best use of C++ together with the STL to squeeze more out of the standard language