Learn how to run new and old Windows applications in Docker containers. About This Book ? Package traditional .NET Frameworks apps and new .NET Core apps as Docker images, and run them in containers for increased efficiency, portability, and security ? Design and implement distributed applications that run across connected containers, using enterprise-grade open source software from public Docker images ? Build a full Continuous Deployment pipeline for a .NET Framework application, and deploy it to a highly-available Docker swarm running in the cloud Who This Book Is For If you want to modernize an old monolithic application without rewriting it, smooth the deployment to production, or move to DevOps or the cloud, then Docker is the enabler for you. This book gives you a solid grounding in Docker so you can confidently approach all of these scenarios. What You Will Learn ? Comprehend key Docker concepts: images, containers, registries, and swarms ? Run Docker on Windows 10, Windows Server 2016, and in the cloud ? Deploy and monitor distributed solutions across multiple Docker containers ? Run containers with high availability and fail-over with Docker Swarm ? Master security in-depth with the Docker platform, making your apps more secure ? Build a Continuous Deployment pipeline by running Jenkins in Docker ? Debug applications running in Docker containers using Visual Studio ? Plan the adoption of Docker in your own organization In Detail Docker is a platform for running server applications in lightweight units called containers. You can run Docker on Windows Server 2016 and Windows 10, and run your existing apps in containers to get significant improvements in efficiency, security, and portability. This book teaches you all you need to know about Docker on Windows, from 101 to deploying highly-available workloads in production. This book takes you on a Docker journey, starting with the key concepts and simple examples of how to run .NET Framework and .NET Core apps in Windows Docker containers. Then it moves on to more complex examples—using Docker to modernize the architecture and development of traditional ASP.NET and SQL Server apps. The examples show you how to break up monoliths into distributed apps and deploy them to a clustered environment in the cloud, using the exact same artifacts you use to run them locally. To help you move confidently to production, it then explains Docker security, and the management and support options. The book finishes with guidance on getting started with Docker in your own projects, together with some real-world case studies for Docker implementations, from small-scale on-premises apps to very large-scale apps running on Azure. Style and approach Using a step-by-step approach, this book shows you how to use Docker on Windows. It includes practical examples and real-world technical and business scenarios that will help you effectively implement Docker in your environment.There are over 50 examples of Dockerized applications, using C# .NET projects as the source and packaging them into Docker images.

An easy to digest practical guide to Metasploit covering all aspects of the framework from installation, configuration, and vulnerability hunting to advanced client side attacks and anti-forensics. About This Book ? Carry out penetration testing in highly-secured environments with Metasploit ? Learn to bypass different defenses to gain access into different systems. ? A step-by-step guide that will quickly enhance your penetration testing skills. Who This Book Is For If you are a penetration tester, ethical hacker, or security consultant who wants to quickly learn the Metasploit framework to carry out elementary penetration testing in highly secured environments then, this book is for you. What You Will Learn ? Get to know the absolute basics of the Metasploit framework so you have a strong foundation for advanced attacks ? Integrate and use various supporting tools to make Metasploit even more powerful and precise ? Set up the Metasploit environment along with your own virtual testing lab ? Use Metasploit for information gathering and enumeration before planning the blueprint for the attack on the target system ? Get your hands dirty by firing up Metasploit in your own virtual lab and hunt down real vulnerabilities ? Discover the clever features of the Metasploit framework for launching sophisticated and deceptive client-side attacks that bypass the perimeter security ? Leverage Metasploit capabilities to perform Web application security scanning In Detail This book will begin by introducing you to Metasploit and its functionality. Next, you will learn how to set up and configure Metasploit on various platforms to create a virtual test environment. You will also get your hands on various tools and components used by Metasploit. Further on in the book, you will learn how to find weaknesses in the target system and hunt for vulnerabilities using Metasploit and its supporting tools. Next, you'll get hands-on experience carrying out client-side attacks. Moving on, you'll learn about web application security scanning and bypassing anti-virus and clearing traces on the target system post compromise. This book will also keep you updated with the latest security techniques and methods that can be directly applied to scan, test, hack, and secure networks and systems with Metasploit. By the end of this book, you'll get the hang of bypassing different defenses, after which you'll learn how hackers use the network to gain access into different systems. Style and approach This tutorial is packed with step-by-step instructions that are useful for those getting started with Metasploit. This is an easy-to-read guide to learning Metasploit from scratch that explains simply and clearly all you need to know to use this essential IT power tool.

Build cloud native applications in Python About This Book ? This is the only reliable resource that showcases the tools and techniques you need build robust and resilient cloud native applications in Python ? Learn how to architect your application on both, the AWS and Azure clouds for high availability ? Assess, monitor, and troubleshoot your applications in the cloud Who This Book Is For This book is ideal for developers with a basic knowledge of Python who want to learn to build, test, and scale their Python-based applications. No prior experience of writing microservices in Python is required. What You Will Learn ? Get to know “the way of the cloud”, including why developing good cloud software is fundamentally about mindset and discipline ? Know what microservices are and how to design them ? Create reactive applications in the cloud with third-party messaging providers ? Build massive-scale, user-friendly GUIs with React and Flux ? Secure cloud-based web applications: the do’s, don’ts, and options ? Plan cloud apps that support continuous delivery and deployment In Detail Businesses today are evolving so rapidly that having their own infrastructure to support their expansion is not feasible. As a result, they have been resorting to the elasticity of the cloud to provide a platform to build and deploy their highly scalable applications. This book will be the one stop for you to learn all about building cloud-native architectures in Python. It will begin by introducing you to cloud-native architecture and will help break it down for you. Then you’ll learn how to build microservices in Python using REST APIs in an event driven approach and you will build the web layer. Next, you’ll learn about Interacting data services and building Web views with React, after which we will take a detailed look at application security and performance. Then, you’ll also learn how to Dockerize your services. And finally, you’ll learn how to deploy the application on the AWS and Azure platforms. We will end the book by discussing some concepts and techniques around troubleshooting problems that might occur with your applications after you’ve deployed them. This book will teach you how to craft applications that are built as small standard units, using all the proven best practices and avoiding the usual traps. It's a practical book: we're going to build everything using Python 3 and its amazing tooling ecosystem. The book will take you on a journey, the destination of which, is the creation of a complete Python application based on microservices over the cloud platform Style and approach Filled with examples, this book takes a step-by-step approach to teach you each and every configuration you need to make your application highly available and fault tolerant.

Build strong foundation for entering the world of Machine Learning and data science with the help of this comprehensive guide About This Book ? Get started in the field of Machine Learning with the help of this solid, concept-rich, yet highly practical guide. ? Your one-stop solution for everything that matters in mastering the whats and whys of Machine Learning algorithms and their implementation. ? Get a solid foundation for your entry into Machine Learning by strengthening your roots (algorithms) with this comprehensive guide. Who This Book Is For This book is for IT professionals who want to enter the field of data science and are very new to Machine Learning. Familiarity with languages such as R and Python will be invaluable here. What You Will Learn ? Acquaint yourself with important elements of Machine Learning ? Understand the feature selection and feature engineering process ? Assess performance and error trade-offs for Linear Regression ? Build a data model and understand how it works by using different types of algorithm ? Learn to tune the parameters of Support Vector machines ? Implement clusters to a dataset ? Explore the concept of Natural Processing Language and Recommendation Systems ? Create a ML architecture from scratch. In Detail As the amount of data continues to grow at an almost incomprehensible rate, being able to understand and process data is becoming a key differentiator for competitive organizations. Machine learning applications are everywhere, from self-driving cars, spam detection, document search, and trading strategies, to speech recognition. This makes machine learning well-suited to the present-day era of Big Data and Data Science. The main challenge is how to transform data into actionable knowledge. In this book you will learn all the important Machine Learning algorithms that are commonly used in the field of data science. These algorithms can be used for supervised as well as unsupervised learning, reinforcement learning, and semi-supervised learning. A few famous algorithms that are covered in this book are Linear regression, Logistic Regression, SVM, Naive Bayes, K-Means, Random Forest, TensorFlow, and Feature engineering. In this book you will also learn how these algorithms work and their practical implementation to resolve your problems. This book will also introduce you to the Natural Processing Language and Recommendation systems, which help you run multiple algorithms simultaneously. On completion of the book you will have mastered selecting Machine Learning algorithms for clustering, classification, or regression based on for your problem. Style and approach An easy-to-follow, step-by-step guide that will help you get to grips with real -world applications of Algorithms for Machine Learning.

Break through the hype and learn how to extract actionable intelligence from the flood of IoT data About This Book ? Make better business decisions and acquire greater control of your IoT infrastructure ? Learn techniques to solve unique problems associated with IoT and examine and analyze data from your IoT devices ? Uncover the business potential generated by data from IoT devices and bring down business costs Who This Book Is For This book targets developers, IoT professionals, and those in the field of data science who are trying to solve business problems through IoT devices and would like to analyze IoT data. IoT enthusiasts, managers, and entrepreneurs who would like to make the most of IoT will find this equally useful. A prior knowledge of IoT would be helpful but is not necessary. Some prior programming experience would be useful What You Will Learn ? Overcome the challenges IoT data brings to analytics ? Understand the variety of transmission protocols for IoT along with their strengths and weaknesses ? Learn how data flows from the IoT device to the final data set ? Develop techniques to wring value from IoT data ? Apply geospatial analytics to IoT data ? Use machine learning as a predictive method on IoT data ? Implement best strategies to get the most from IoT analytics ? Master the economics of IoT analytics in order to optimize business value In Detail We start with the perplexing task of extracting value from huge amounts of barely intelligible data. The data takes a convoluted route just to be on the servers for analysis, but insights can emerge through visualization and statistical modeling techniques. You will learn to extract value from IoT big data using multiple analytic techniques. Next we review how IoT devices generate data and how the information travels over networks. You’ll get to know strategies to collect and store the data to optimize the potential for analytics, and strategies to handle data quality concerns. Cloud resources are a great match for IoT analytics, so Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and PTC ThingWorx are reviewed in detail next. Geospatial analytics is then introduced as a way to leverage location information. Combining IoT data with environmental data is also discussed as a way to enhance predictive capability. We’ll also review the economics of IoT analytics and you’ll discover ways to optimize business value. By the end of the book, you’ll know how to handle scale for both data storage and analytics, how Apache Spark can be leveraged to handle scalability, and how R and Python can be used for analytic modeling. Style and approach This book follows a step-by-step, practical approach to combine the power of analytics and IoT and help you get results quickly

Solve real world problems using Regex in Java. About This Book ? Discover regular expressions and how they work ? Implement regular expressions with Java to your code base ? Learn to use regular expressions in emails, URLs, paths, and IP addresses Who This Book Is For This book is for Java developers who would like to understand and use regular expressions. A basic knowledge of Java is assumed. What You Will Learn ? Understand the semantics, rules, and core concepts of writing Java code involving regular expressions ? Learn about the java.util.Regex package using the Pattern class, Matcher class, code snippets, and more ? Match and capture text in regex and use back-references to the captured groups ? Explore Regex using Java String methods and regex capabilities in the Java Scanner API ? Use zero-width assertions and lookarounds in regex ? Test and optimize a poorly performing regex and various other performance tips In Detail Regular expressions are a powerful tool in the programmer's toolbox and allow pattern matching. They are also used for manipulating text and data. This book will provide you with the know-how (and practical examples) to solve real-world problems using regex in Java. You will begin by discovering what regular expressions are and how they work with Java. This easy-to-follow guide is a great place from which to familiarize yourself with the core concepts of regular expressions and to master its implementation with the features of Java 9. You will learn how to match, extract, and transform text by matching specific words, characters, and patterns. You will learn when and where to apply the methods for finding patterns in digits, letters, Unicode characters, and string literals. Going forward, you will learn to use zero-length assertions and lookarounds, parsing the source code, and processing the log files. Finally, you will master tips, tricks, and best practices in regex with Java. Style and approach This book will take readers through this learning journey using simple, easy-to-understand, step-by-step instructions and hands-on examples at every stage.

Over 30 recipes to automate your mission-critical tasks using the new and powerful Microsoft System Center 2016 Orchestrator About This Book ? Create powerful runbooks for the entire System Center 2016 product line ? Explore System Center 2016 Orchestrator to manage and automate your datacenter ? A recipe-based guide to using SCO efficiently Who This Book Is For If you are a system administrator and want to simplify the process of automating system administration tasks using System Center Orchestrator 2016 then this book is for you. A basic knowledge of SCO is expected What You Will Learn ? Create Runbooks for IT Service Management processes ? Design and create Runbooks for System Center Confguration Manager and Virtual Machine Manager ? Set up System Center Orchestrator, making it highly available ? Create branching, looping, and child Runbooks to completely master System Center 2016 Orchestrator ? Implement a security model for your System Center Orchestrator deployment and to execute Runbooks ? Manage and automate your Datacenter with powerful Runbooks ? Automate your System Center environment In Detail With Microsoft System Center 2016 Orchestrator Cookbook, you will start by learning how to efficiently install and secure System Center Orchestrator. You will then learn how you can create configuration files for SCO 2016. After initial installation and configuration, you will soon be planning and creating functional and fault-tolerant System Center runbooks to automate daily tasks and routine operations. Next you will delve into runbooks; you will learn how to create powerful and advanced runbooks such as Building your Runbook without a Dead End. You will also learn to create simple and advanced runbooks for your daily tasks. Towards the end of the book, you will learn to use SCO for other interesting tasks and also learn to maintain and perform SCO health checks. By the end of the book, you will be able to automate your administrative tasks successfully with SCO. Style and approach This book is written in a practical, cookbook style with numerous chapters and recipes focusing on creating runbooks to automate mission-critical and everyday administration tasks.

Build a variety of real-world applications by taking advantage of the newest features of Java 9 About This Book ? See some of the new features of Java 9 and be introduced to parts of the Java SDK ? This book provides a set of diverse, interesting projects that range in complexity from fairly simple to advanced and cover HTTP 2.0 ? Take advantage of Java's new modularity features to write real-world applications that solve a variety of problems Who This Book Is For This book is for Java developers who are already familiar with the language. Familiarity with more advanced topics, such as network programming and threads, would be helpful, but is not assumed. What You Will Learn ? Learn how to package Java applications as modules by using the Java Platform Module System ? Implement process management in Java by using the all-new process handling API ? Integrate your applications with third-party services in the cloud ? Interact with mail servers using JavaMail to build an application that filters spam messages ? Learn to use JavaFX to build rich GUI based applications, which are an essential element of application development ? Write microservices in Java using platform libraries and third-party frameworks ? Integrate a Java application with MongoDB to build a cloud-based note taking application In Detail Java is a powerful language that has applications in a wide variety of fields. From playing games on your computer to performing banking transactions, Java is at the heart of everything. The book starts by unveiling the new features of Java 9 and quickly walks you through the building blocks that form the basis of writing applications. There are 10 comprehensive projects in the book that will showcase the various features of Java 9. You will learn to build an email filter that separates spam messages from all your inboxes, a social media aggregator app that will help you efficiently track various feeds, and a microservice for a client/server note application, to name a few. The book covers various libraries and frameworks in these projects, and also introduces a few more frameworks that complement and extend the Java SDK. Through the course of building applications, this book will not only help you get to grips with the various features of Java 9, but will also teach you how to design and prototype professional-grade applications with performance and security considerations. Style and approach This is a learn-as-you-build practical guide to building full-fledged applications using Java 9. With a project-based approach, we’ll improve your Java skills. You will experience a variety of solutions to problems with Java.

Unleash the power of PrimeNG components to design compelling user interface for your Angular applications About This Book ? Detailed insights into PrimeNG concepts, components and features with examples to help you make excellent User Interfaces for Angular web apps. ? Get familiar with themes, layouts and customization in real world applications. ? Develop Angular applications rapidly using advance tools and standards with best practices. Who This Book Is For This book is for everybody who would like to learn or create modern Angular based single page applications using PrimeNG component library. This book is a good choice for beginners to advanced users who are serious to learn modern Angular applications. The prerequisites for this book are some basic knowledge on the Angular 2+ version with TypeScript and CSS skills. What You Will Learn ? Setup PrimeNG projects with SystemJS, Webpack, and Angular CLI. ? Use theming concepts and layouts with grid systems and Bootstrap. ? Work with enhanced input, select, button and panel components. ? Apply countless DataTable features: sorting, filtering, grouping, and templating. ? Meet data iteration components: DataList, DataGrid, Tree, and so on. ? Build endless menu variations: SlideMenu, TieredMenu, MegaMenu, and so on. ? Visualize your data representations with PrimeNG charts and GMap components. ? Adopt best practices such as state management with @ngrx/store. ? Write unit and end-to-end tests with Jasmine, Karma, and Protractor. In Detail PrimeNG is a leading UI component library for Angular applications with 80+ rich UI components. PrimeNG was a huge success in the Angular world and very quickly. It is a rapidly evolving library that is aligned with the last Angular release. In comparison with competitors, PrimeNG was created with enterprise applications in mind. This book provides a head-start to help readers develop real–world, single-page applications using the popular development stack. This book consists of 10 chapters and starts with a short introduction to single-page applications. TypeScript and Angular fundamentals are important first steps for subsequent PrimeNG topics. Later we discuss how to set up and configure a PrimeNG application in different ways as a kick-start. Once the environment is ready then it is time to learn PrimeNG development, starting from theming concepts and responsive layouts. Readers will learn enhanced input, select, button components followed by the various panels, data iteration, overlays, messages and menu components. The validation of form elements will be covered too. An extra chapter demonstrates how to create map and chart components for real-world applications. Apart from built-in UI components and their features, the readers will learn how to customize components to meet their requirements. Miscellaneous use cases are discussed in a separate chapter, including: file uploading, drag and drop, blocking page pieces during AJAX calls, CRUD sample implementations, and more. This chapter goes beyond common topics, implements a custom component, and discusses a popular state management with @ngrx/store. The final chapter describes unit and end-to-end testing. To make sure Angular and PrimeNG development are flawless, we explain full-fledged testing frameworks with systematic examples. Tips for speeding up unit testing and debugging Angular applications end this book. The book is also focused on how to avoid some common pitfalls, and shows best practices with tips and tricks for efficient Angular and PrimeNG development. At the end of this book, the readers will know the ins and outs of how to use PrimeNG in Angular applications and will be ready to create real- world Angular applications using rich PrimeNG components. Style and approach Step-by-step practical approach

Get proficient in building beautiful and appealing mobile interfaces (UI) with this complete mobile user experience (UX) design guide. About This Book ? Quickly explore innovative design solutions based on the real needs of your users. ? Create low and high fidelity prototypes using some of the best tools. ? Master a pragmatic design process to create successful products. ? Plan an app design from scratch to final test, with real users. Who This Book Is For This book is for designers, developers and product managers interested in creating successful apps. Readers will be provided with a process to produce, test and improve designs based on best practices. What You Will Learn ? Plan an app design from scratch to final test, with real users. ? Learn from leading companies and find working patterns. ? Apply best UX design practices to your design process. ? Create low and high fidelity prototypes using some of the best tools. ? Follow a step by step examples for Tumult Hype and Framer Studio. ? Test your designs with real users, early in the process. ? Integrate the UX Designer profile into a working team. In Detail User experience (UX) design provides techniques to analyze the real needs of your users and respond to them with products that are delightful to use. This requires you to think differently compared to traditional development processes, but also to act differently. In this book, you will be introduced to a pragmatic approach to exploring and creating mobile app solutions, reducing risks and saving time during their construction. This book will show you a working process to quickly iterate product ideas with low and high fidelity prototypes, based on professional tools from different software brands. You will be able to quickly test your ideas early in the process with the most adequate prototyping approach. You will understand the pros and cons of each approach, when you should use each of them, and what you can learn in each step of the testing process. You will also explore basic testing approaches and some more advanced techniques to connect and learn from your users. Each chapter will focus on one of the general steps needed to design a successful product according to the organization goals and the user needs. To achieve this, the book will provide detailed hands-on pragmatic techniques to design innovative and easy to use products. You will learn how to test your ideas in the early steps of the design process, picking up the best ideas that truly work with your users, rethinking those that need further refinement, and discarding those that don’t work properly in tests made with real users. By the end of the book, you will learn how to start exploring and testing your design ideas, regardless the size of the design budget. Style and approach A quick and simple guide to design and test a mobile application from the UX design point of view

A fun way to create interesting and cool apps for your Wearable device using Android programming. About This Book ? Create real-time Android Wear apps from scratch and become a pro Android Wear Developer ? Learn to create apps specially dedicated to the Android Wear platform ? Design custom Wear UIs and create interactive Watch faces Who This Book Is For The book is for Android developers with a good understanding of programming and developing applications on Android, but they need not have any experience of creating Wear apps. What You Will Learn ? Design and build Wear apps. ? Learn how to use offline storage in Wear apps. ? Understand sensors and how to work with them ? Work with standalone applications of the wear 2.0 API. ? Create a map application for Android Wear devices ? Write a watch face and understand more about Wear 2.0 ? Work with firebase realtime database and firebase functions ? Create a chatting application that has wear companion app In Detail Android Wear Projects is your opportunity to step into the exciting new world of Android Wear app development. This book will help you to master the skills in Android Wear programming and give you a complete insight on wear app development. You will create five different Android Wear apps just like the most popular Android Wear apps. You will create a To-do list, a city maps app, a Wear messenger, Wear fitness tracker and Watch face. While you create these apps you will learn to create custom notifications, receive voice inputs in notifications, add pages to notifications and stack notifications. You will see how to create custom wear app layouts, the custom UIs specially designed for Wear. You will learn to handle and manage data and syncing data with other devices, create interactive Watch faces and also ensure the safety and security of your Wear apps by testing and securing your apps before you deploy them on the app store. Style and approach This book will take a project based tutorial style approach where every chapter will create a separate android Wear app and highlight different features of android Wear apps.

Scale gracefully and maintain outstanding performance with your AWS-based infrastructure using DevOps principles About This Book ? Implement DevOps principles to take full advantage of the AWS stack and services ? Take expert look at solving problems faced by real developers and operation teams and learn to overcome them ? Learn from expert insights of the author who has worked with Silicon Valley’s most high-profile companies Who This Book Is For This book is for developers, DevOps engineers and teams who want to build and use AWS for their software infrastructure. Basic computer science knowledge is required for this book. What You Will Learn ? Find out what it means to practice DevOps and what its principles are ? Build repeatable infrastructures using templates and configuration management ? Deploy multiple times a day by implementing continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines ? Use the latest technologies, including containers and serverless computing, to scale your infrastructure ? Collect metrics and logs and implement an alerting strategy ? Make your system robust and secure In Detail The DevOps movement has transformed the way modern tech companies work. AWS which has been on the forefront of the Cloud computing revolution has also been a key contributor of this DevOps movement creating a huge range of managed services that help you implement the DevOps principles. In this book, you’ll see how the most successful tech start-ups launch and scale their services on AWS and how you can too. Written by a lead member of Mediums DevOps team, this book explains how to treat infrastructure as code, meaning you can bring resources online and offline as necessary with the code as easily as you control your software. You will also build a continuous integration and continuous deployment pipeline to keep your app up to date. You’ll find out how to scale your applications to offer maximum performance to users anywhere in the world, even when traffic spikes with the latest technologies, such as containers and serverless computing. You will also take a deep dive into monitoring and alerting to make sure your users have the best experience when using your service. Finally, you’ll get to grips with ensuring the security of your platform and data. Style and approach This is a practical, hands-on, comprehensive guide to AWS, helping readers understand AWS in a step by step manner.

Learn how to use the Akka framework to build effective applications in Scala About This Book ? Covers a discussion on Lagom—the newest launched Akka framework that is built to create complex microservices easily ? The recipe approach of the book allows the reader to know important and independent concepts of Scala and Akka in a seamless manner ? Provides a comprehensive understanding of the Akka actor model and implementing it to create reactive web applications Who This Book Is For If you are a Scala developer who wants to build scalable and concurrent applications, then this book is for you. Basic knowledge of Akka will help you take advantage of this book. What You Will Learn ? Control an actor using the ContolAware mailbox ? Test a fault-tolerant application using the Akka test kit ? Create a parallel application using futures and agents ? Package and deploy Akka application inside Docker ? Deploy remote actors programmatically on different nodes ? Integrate Streams with Akka actors ? Install Lagom and create a Lagom project In Detail Akka is an open source toolkit that simplifies the construction of distributed and concurrent applications on the JVM. This book will teach you how to develop reactive applications in Scala using the Akka framework. This book will show you how to build concurrent, scalable, and reactive applications in Akka. You will see how to create high performance applications, extend applications, build microservices with Lagom, and more. We will explore Akka's actor model and show you how to incorporate concurrency into your applications. The book puts a special emphasis on performance improvement and how to make an application available for users. We also make a special mention of message routing and construction. By the end of this book, you will be able to create a high-performing Scala application using the Akka framework. Style and approach This highly practical recipe-based approach will allow you to build scalable, robust, and reactive applications using the Akka framework.

Expand your boundaries by creating applications empowered with real-time data using RxJs without compromising performance About This Book ? Handle an infinite stream of incoming data using RxJs without going crazy ? Explore important RxJs operators that can help you improve your code readability ? Get acquainted with the different techniques and operators used to handle data traffic, which occurs when you receive data faster than you can process Who This Book Is For If you're a web developer with some basic JavaScript programming knowledge who wants to implement the reactive programming paradigm with JavaScript, then this book is for you. What You Will Learn ? Get to know the basics of functional reactive programming using RxJs ? Process a continuous flow of data with linear memory consumption ? Filter, group, and react to changes in your system ? Discover how to deal with data traffic ? Compose operators to create new operators and use them in multiple observables to avoid code repetition ? Explore transducers and see how they can improve your code readability ? Detect and recover from errors in observables using Retry and Catch operators ? Create your own reactive application: a real-time webchat In Detail If you’re struggling to handle a large amount of data and don’t know how to improve your code readability, then reactive programming is the right solution for you. It lets you describe how your code behaves when changes happen and makes it easier to deal with real-time data. This book will teach you what reactive programming is, and how you can use it to write better applications. The book starts with the basics of reactive programming, what Reactive Extensions is, and how can you use it in JavaScript along with some reactive code using Bacon. Next, you’ll discover what an Observable and an Observer are and when to use them.You'll also find out how you can query data through operators, and how to use schedulers to react to changes. Moving on, you’ll explore the RxJs API, be introduced to the problem of data traffic (backpressure), and see how you can mitigate it. You’ll also learn about other important operators that can help improve your code readability, and you’ll see how to use transducers to compose operators. At the end of the book, you’ll get hands-on experience of using RxJs, and will create a real-time web chat using RxJs on the client and server, providing you with the complete package to master RxJs. Style and approach This easy-to-follow guide is full of hands-on examples of reactive programming. Each topic is explained and placed in context, and for the more inquisitive there are more details of the concepts used, ending with an application using the concepts learned through the book.

Understand your users, gain strategic insights, and make your product development more efficient with user experience mapping About This Book ? Detailed guidance on the major types of User Experience Maps. ? Learn to gain strategic insights and improve communication with stakeholders . ? Get an idea on creating wireflows, mental model maps, ecosystem maps and solution maps Who This Book Is For This book is for Product Manager, Service Managers and Designers who are keen on learning the user experience mapping techniques. What You Will Learn ? Create and understand all common user experience map types. ? Use lab or remote user research to create maps and understand users better. ? Design behavioral change and represent it visually. ? Create 4D user experience maps, the “ultimate UX deliverable”. ? Capture many levels of interaction in a holistic view. ? Use experience mapping in an agile team, and learn how maps help in communicating within the team and with stakeholders. ? Become more user focused and help your organisation become user-centric. In Detail Do you want to create better products and innovative solutions? User Experience Maps will help you understand users, gain strategic insights and improve communication with stakeholders. Maps can also champion user-centricity within the organisation. Two advanced mapping techniques will be revealed for the first time in print, the behavioural change map and the 4D UX map. You will also explore user story maps, task models and journey maps. You will create wireflows, mental model maps, ecosystem maps and solution maps. In this book, the author will show you how to use insights from real users to create and improve your maps and your product. The book describes each major User Experience map type in detail. Starting with simple techniques based on sticky notes moving to more complex map types. In each chapter, you will solve a real-world problem with a map. The book contains detailed, beginner level tutorials on creating maps using different software products, including Adobe Illustrator, Balsamiq Mockups, Axure RP or Microsoft Word. Even if you don’t have access to any of those, each map type can also be drawn with pen and paper. Beyond creating maps, the book will also showcase communication techniques and workshop ideas. Although the book is not intended to be a comprehensive guide to modern user experience or product management, its novel ideas can help you create better solutions. You will also learn about the Kaizen-UX management framework, developed by the author, now used by many agencies and in-house UX teams in Europe and beyond. Buying this map will give you hundreds of hours worth of user experience knowledge, from one of the world’s leading UX consultants. It will change your users’ world for the better. If you are still not convinced, we have hidden some cat drawings in it, just in case. Style and approach An easy to understand guide, filled with real world use cases on how to plan, prioritize and visualize your project on customer experience

Say goodbye to unproductive Linux habits and switch to the express lane About This Book ? Improve your terminal and command-line productivity by using powerful tools ? Sharpen your existing command-line skills and achieve complex tasks faster ? Save time and money by creating customized commands that automate day-to-day tasks Who This Book Is For This book is for system administrators and developers who know the basics of Linux and want to brush up and sharpen their skills. Prior experience with Linux shell is required. What You Will Learn ? Optimize the power of Guake by integrating it with ClipIt ? Deep dive into the workings of the console editor—Vim ? Explore the advanced concepts and best practices of shell *ing ? Edit large amounts of data quickly using Sed ? Use pipes and subshells to create customized commands ? Get to know how you can speed up the software development and make the terminal a handy companion In Detail Websites, online services, databases, and pretty much every other computer that offers public services runs on Linux. From small servers to clusters, Linux is anywhere and everywhere. With such a broad usage, the demand for Linux specialists is ever growing. For the engineers out there, this means being able to develop, interconnect, and maintain Linux environments. This book will help you increase your terminal productivity by using Terminator, Guake and other tools. It will start by installing Ubuntu and will explore tools and techniques that will help you to achieve more work with less effort. Next, it will then focus on Terminator, the ultimate terminal, and vim, one of the most intelligent console editors. Futhermore, the readers will see how they can increase their command line productivity by using sed, find, tmux, network, autoenv. The readers will also see how they can edit files without leaving the terminal and use the screen space efficiently and copy-paste like a pro. Towards the end, we focus on network settings, Git hacks, and creating portable environments for development and production using Docker. Through this book, you will improve your terminal productivity by seeing how to use different tools. Style and Approach This book takes a step-by-step approach using examples that show you how to automate tasks using terminal commands. You’ll work through easy-to-follow instructions so you learn to use the various Linux commands and tools such as Terminator, Guake, and others.

Learn in easy stages how to rapidly build leading-edge web applications from scratch. About This Book ? Develop powerful web applications rapidly with WordPress ? Explore the significant features and improvements introduced in WordPress 4.7 by learning the numerous tips and techniques in this book. ? Unleash the power of REST API endpoints to make your interaction with websites new and innovative. Who This Book Is For This book is targeted at WordPress developers and designers who want to develop quality web applications within a limited time frame and maximize their profits. A prior knowledge of basic web development and design is assumed. What You Will Learn ? Develop extendable plugins with the use of WordPress features in core modules ? Develop pluggable modules to extend the core features of WordPress as independent modules ? Manage permissions for a wide range of content types in web applications based on different user types ? Follow WordPress coding standards to develop reusable and maintainable code ? Build and customize themes beyond conventional web layouts ? Explore the power of core database tables and understand the limitations when designing database tables for large applications ? Integrate open source modules into WordPress applications to keep up with the latest open source technologies ? Customize the WordPress admin section and themes to create the look and feel of a typical web application In Detail WordPress is one of the most rapidly expanding markets on the Web. Learning how to build complex and scalable web applications will give you the ability and knowledge to step into the future of WordPress. WordPress 4.7 introduces some exciting new improvements and several bug fixes, which further improve the entire development process.This book is a practical, scenario-based guide to expanding the power of the WordPress core modules to develop modular and maintainable real-world applications from scratch. This book consistently emphasizes adapting WordPress features into web applications. It will walk you through the advanced usages of existing features such as access controlling; database handling; custom post types; pluggable plugins; content restrictions; routing; translation; caching; and many more, while you build the backend of a forum management application. This book begins by explaining how to plan the development of a web application using WordPress' core features. Once the core features are explained, you will learn how to build an application by extending them through custom plugin development. Finally, you will explore advanced non-functional features and application integration. After reading this book, you will have the ability to develop powerful web applications rapidly within limited time frames. Style and approach An extensive, practical guide that explains how to adapt WordPress features, both conventional and trending, for web applications.

Build exciting AR applications on mobile and wearable devices with Unity 3D, Vuforia, ARToolKit, Microsoft Mixed Reality HoloLens, Apple ARKit, and Google ARCore About This Book ? Create unique AR applications from scratch, from beginning to end, with step-by-step tutorials ? Use Unity 3D to efficiently create AR apps for Android, iOS, and Windows platforms ? Use Vuforia, ARTookKit, Windows Mixed Reality, and Apple ARKit to build AR projects for a variety of markets ? Learn best practices in AR user experience, software design patterns, and 3D graphics Who This Book Is For The ideal target audience for this book is developers who have some experience in mobile development, either Android or iOS. Some broad web development experience would also be beneficial. What You Will Learn ? Build Augmented Reality applications through a step-by-step, tutorial-style project approach ? Use the Unity 3D game engine with the Vuforia AR platform, open source ARToolKit, Microsoft's Mixed Reality Toolkit, Apple ARKit, and Google ARCore, via the C# programming language ? Implement practical demo applications of AR including education, games, business marketing, and industrial training ? Employ a variety of AR recognition modes, including target images, markers, objects, and spatial mapping ? Target a variety of AR devices including phones, tablets, and wearable smartglasses, for Android, iOS, and Windows HoloLens ? Develop expertise with Unity 3D graphics, UIs, physics, and event systems ? Explore and utilize AR best practices and software design patterns In Detail Augmented Reality brings with it a set of challenges that are unseen and unheard of for traditional web and mobile developers. This book is your gateway to Augmented Reality development—not a theoretical showpiece for your bookshelf, but a handbook you will keep by your desk while coding and architecting your first AR app and for years to come. The book opens with an introduction to Augmented Reality, including markets, technologies, and development tools. You will begin by setting up your development machine for Android, iOS, and Windows development, learning the basics of using Unity and the Vuforia AR platform as well as the open source ARToolKit and Microsoft Mixed Reality Toolkit. You will also receive an introduction to Apple's ARKit and Google's ARCore! You will then focus on building AR applications, exploring a variety of recognition targeting methods. You will go through multiple complete projects illustrating key market sectors including business marketing, education, industrial training, and gaming. By the end of the book, you will have gained the necessary knowledge to make quality content appropriate for a range of AR devices, platforms, and intended uses. Style and approach This book adopts a practical, step-by-step, tutorial-style approach. The design principles and methodology will be explained by creating different modules of the AR app.

Explore Implementation of core kernel subsystems About This Book ? Master the design, components, and structures of core kernel subsystems ? Explore kernel programming interfaces and related algorithms under the hood ? Completely updated material for the 4.12.10 kernel Who This Book Is For If you are a kernel programmer with a knowledge of kernel APIs and are looking to build a comprehensive understanding, and eager to explore the implementation, of kernel subsystems, this book is for you. It sets out to unravel the underlying details of kernel APIs and data structures, piercing through the complex kernel layers and gives you the edge you need to take your skills to the next level. What You Will Learn ? Comprehend processes and fles—the core abstraction mechanisms of the Linux kernel that promote effective simplification and dynamism ? Decipher process scheduling and understand effective capacity utilization under general and real-time dispositions ? Simplify and learn more about process communication techniques through signals and IPC mechanisms ? Capture the rudiments of memory by grasping the key concepts and principles of physical and virtual memory management ? Take a sharp and precise look at all the key aspects of interrupt management and the clock subsystem ? Understand concurrent execution on SMP platforms through kernel synchronization and locking techniques In Detail Mastering Linux Kernel Development looks at the Linux kernel, its internal arrangement and design, and various core subsystems, helping you to gain significant understanding of this open source marvel. You will look at how the Linux kernel, which possesses a kind of collective intelligence thanks to its scores of contributors, remains so elegant owing to its great design. This book also looks at all the key kernel code, core data structures, functions, and macros, giving you a comprehensive foundation of the implementation details of the kernel’s core services and mechanisms. You will also look at the Linux kernel as well-designed software, which gives us insights into software design in general that are easily scalable yet fundamentally strong and safe. By the end of this book, you will have considerable understanding of and appreciation for the Linux kernel. Style and approach Each chapter begins with the basic conceptual know-how for a subsystem and extends into the details of its implementation. We use appropriate code excerpts of critical routines and data structures for subsystems.

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

Sharpen your DevOps knowledge with DevOps Bootcamp About This Book ? Improve your organization's performance to ensure smooth production of software and services. ? Learn how Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery practices can be utilized to cultivate the DevOps culture. ? A fast-paced guide filled with illustrations and best practices to help you consistently ship quality software. Who This Book Is For The book is aimed at IT Developers and Operations—administrators who want to quickly learn and implement the DevOps culture in their organization. What You Will Learn ? Static Code Analysis using SOnarqube ? Configure a Maven-based JEE Web Application ? Perform Continuous Integration using Jenkins and VSTS ? Install and configure Docker ? Converge a Chef node using a Chef workstation ? Accomplish Continuous Delivery in Microsoft Azure VM and Microsoft Azure App Services (Azure Web Apps) using Jenkins ? Perform Load Testing using Apache JMeter ? Build and Release Automation using Visual Studio Team Services ? Monitor Cloud-based resources In Detail DevOps Bootcamp delivers practical learning modules in manageable chunks. Each chunk is delivered in a day, and each day is a productive one. Each day builds your competency in DevOps. You will be able to take the task you learn every day and apply it to cultivate the DevOps culture. Each chapter presents core concepts and key takeaways about a topic in DevOps and provides a series of hands-on exercises. You will not only learn the importance of basic concepts or practices of DevOps but also how to use different tools to automate application lifecycle management. We will start off by building the foundation of the DevOps concepts. On day two, we will perform Continuous Integration using Jenkins and VSTS both by configuring Maven-based JEE Web Application?. We will also integrate Jenkins and Sonar qube for Static Code Analysis. Further, on day three, we will focus on Docker containers where we will install and configure Docker and also create a Tomcat Container to deploy our Java based web application. On day four, we will create and configure the environment for application deployment in AWS and Microsoft Azure Cloud for which we will use Infrastructure as a Service and Open Source Configuration Management tool Chef. For day five, our focus would be on Continuous Delivery. We will automate application deployment in Docker container using Jenkins Plugin, AWS EC2 using Script, AWS Elastic Beanstalk using Jenkins Plugin, Microsoft Azure VM using *, and Microsoft Azure App Services Using Jenkins. We will also configure Continuous Delivery using VSTS. We will then learn the concept of Automated Testing on day six using Apache JMeter and URL-based tests in VSTS. Further, on day seven, we will explore various ways to automate application lifecycle management using orchestration. We will see how Pipeline can be created in Jenkins and VSTS, so the moment Continuous? Integration is completed successfully, Continuous Delivery will start and application will be deployed. On the final day, our focus would be on Security access to Jenkins and Monitoring of CI resources, and cloud-based resources in AWS and Microsoft Azure Platform as a Service. Style and Approach This book is all about fast and intensive learning. This means we don’t waste time in helping readers get started. The new content is basically about filling in with highly-effective examples to build new things, solving problems in newer and unseen ways, and solving real-world examples.