Deploy functions efficiently using different cloud-based serverless offerings Key Features *Understand the concept of Function-as-a-Service *Implement Serverless solutions using AWS Lambda, Azure Functions and Google Cloud Functions *Practical approach towards choosing the best tool for your serverless environment Book Description Serverless applications and architectures are gaining momentum and are increasingly being used by companies of all sizes. Serverless software takes care of many problems that developers face when running systems and servers, such as fault tolerance, centralized logging, horizontal scalability, and deployments. You will learn how to harness serverless technology to rapidly reduce production time and minimize your costs, while still having the freedom to customize your code, without hindering functionality. Upon finishing the book, you will have the knowledge and resources to build your own serverless application hosted in AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform, and will have experienced the benefits of event-driven technology for yourself. This hands-on guide dives into the basis of serverless architectures and how to build them using Node.js as a programming language, Visual Studio Code for code editing, and Postman for quickly and securely developing applications without the hassle of configuring and maintaining infrastructure on three public cloud platforms. What you will learn *Understand the benefts of serverless computing and know when to use it *Develop serverless applications on AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud *Get to grips with Function as a Service (FaaS) *Apply triggers to serverless functions *Build event-driven apps using serverless frameworks *Use the Node.js programming language to build serverless apps *Use code editors, such as Visual Studio Code, as development environments *Master the best development practices for creating scalable and practical solutions Who this book is for This book is targeted towards developers, system administrators or any stakeholder working in the Serverless environment and want to understand how functions work. Basic idea of serverless architecture can be an added advantage

A practical guide to administer, monitor and replicate your PostgreSQL 10 database About This Book ? Get to grips with the capabilities of PostgreSQL 10 to administer your database more efficiently ? Monitor, tune, secure and protect your database for optimal performance ? A step-by-step, recipe-based guide to help you tackle any problem in PostgreSQL 10 administration with ease Who This Book Is For This book is for database administrators, data architects, developers, or anyone with an interest in planning for, or running, live production databases using PostgreSQL. It is most suited to those looking for hands-on solutions to any problem associated with PostgreSQL administration. What You Will Learn ? Get to grips with the newly released PostgreSQL 10 features to improve database performance and reliability ? Manage open source PostgreSQL versions 10 on various platforms. ? Explore best practices for planning and designing live databases ? Select and implement robust backup and recovery techniques in PostgreSQL 10 ? Explore concise and clear guidance on replication and high availability ? Discover advanced technical tips for experienced users In Detail PostgreSQL is a powerful, open source database management system with an enviable reputation for high performance and stability. With many new features in its arsenal, PostgreSQL 10 allows users to scale up their PostgreSQL infrastructure. This book takes a step-by-step, recipe-based approach to effective PostgreSQL administration. Throughout this book, you will be introduced to these new features such as logical replication, native table partitioning, additional query parallelism, and much more. You will learn how to tackle a variety of problems that are basically the pain points for any database administrator - from creating tables to managing views, from improving performance to securing your database. More importantly, the book pays special attention to topics such as monitoring roles, backup, and recovery of your PostgreSQL 10 database, ensuring high availability, concurrency, and replication. By the end of this book, you will know everything you need to know to be the go-to PostgreSQL expert in your organization. Style and approach The book is a step by step guide with example-driven recipes, focused on the new features of the latest PostgreSQL version10. This book will serve as a specific guide to understand and leverage useful PostgreSQL functionalities to create better and more efficient databases.

Unleash the power of MERN stack by building diverse web applications using React, Node.js, Express, and MongoDB About This Book ? Create dynamic web applications with the MERN stack ? Leverage the power of React in building interactive and complex user interfaces ? Unlock the potential of Node, Express, and MongoDB to build modern full-stack applications Who This Book Is For Full-Stack React Web Development Projects is for JavaScript developers who have some experience with React, but no previous experience with full-stack development involving Node, Express, and MongoDB, and who want practical guidelines to start building different types of real-world web applications with this stack. What You Will Learn ? Set up your development environment and develop a MERN application ? Implement user authentication and authorization using JSON Web Tokens ? Build a social media application by extending the basic MERN application ? Create an online marketplace application with shopping cart and Stripe payments ? Develop a media streaming application using MongoDB GridFS ? Implement server-side rendering with data to improve SEO ? Set up and use React 360 to develop user interfaces with VR capabilities ? Learn industry best practices to make MERN stack applications reliable and scalable In Detail The benefits of using a full JavaScript stack for web development are undeniable, especially when robust and widely adopted technologies such as React, Node, and Express and are available. Combining the power of React with industry-tested, server-side technologies, such as Node, Express, and MongoDB, creates a diverse array of possibilities when developing real-world web applications. This book guides you through preparing the development environment for MERN stack-based web development, to creating a basic skeleton application and extending it to build four different web applications. These applications include a social media, an online marketplace, a media streaming, and a web-based game application with virtual reality features. While learning to set up the stack and developing a diverse range of applications with this book, you will grasp the inner workings of the MERN stack, extend its capabilities for complex features, and gain actionable knowledge of how to prepare MERN-based applications to meet the growing demands of real-world web applications. Style and approach This book provides practical guidelines on setting up and building MERN stack based applications, while providing further explanations on key concepts and implementations.

A complete guide on course development and delivery using Moodle 3.x About This Book ? Get the best out of the latest Moodle 3 framework to ensure successful learning ? Gain experience in creating different kinds of courses ? Create your first Moodle VR app using the Moodle VR toolset Who This Book Is For This book is for anyone who wants to get the best out of Moodle. As a beginner, this is a thorough guide for you to understand how the software works, with great ideas for getting off to a good start with your first course. Some experience of working with e-learning systems will be beneficial. Experienced Moodle users will find powerful insights into developing successful and educational courses. What You Will Learn ? Know what Moodle does and how it supports your teaching strategies ? Install Moodle on your computer and navigate your way around it ? Understand all of Moodle's learning features ? Monitor how learners interact with your site using site statistics ? Add multimedia content to your site ? Allow students to enroll themselves or invite other students to join a course In Detail Moodle is a learning platform or Course Management System (CMS) that is easy to install and use, but the real challenge is in developing a learning process that leverages its power and maps the learning objectives to content and assessments for an integrated and effective course. Moodle 3 E-Learning Course Development guides you through meeting that challenge in a practical way. This latest edition will show you how to add static learning material, assessments, and social features such as forum-based instructional strategy, a chat module, and forums to your courses so that students reach their learning potential. Whether you want to support traditional class teaching or lecturing, or provide complete online and distance e-learning courses, this book will prove to be a powerful resource throughout your use of Moodle. You’ll learn how to create and integrate third-party plugins and widgets in your Moodle app, implement site permissions and user accounts, and ensure the security of content and test papers. Further on, you’ll implement PHP scripts that will help you create customized UIs for your app. You’ll also understand how to create your first Moodle VR e-learning app using the latest VR learning experience that Moodle 3 has to offer. By the end of this book, you will have explored the decisions, design considerations, and thought processes that go into developing a successful course. Style and approach Packed with clear step-by-step instructions, plenty of screenshots, and thorough explanations, this book guides you through the many features and options that you have to choose from when using Moodle 3.

A fast-paced guide to putting your GeoServer-based application into fast, user-friendly, and secure production Key Features * Resolve bottlenecks, optimize data stores, and cluster server resources * Use identity management and authentication for a user-specific, secure web application * Go beyond traditional web hosting to explore the full range of hosting options in the cloud Book Description GeoServer is open source, server-side software written in Java that allows users to share and edit geospatial data. In this book, you'll start by learning how to develop a spatial analysis platform with web processing services. Then you'll see how to develop an algorithm by chaining together geospatial analysis processes, which you can share with anyone in the world. Next you'll delve into a very important technique to improve the speed of your map application—tile caching. Here, you'll understand how tile caching works, how to develop an effective tile cache-supported web service, and how to leverage tile caching in your OpenLayers web application. Further on, you'll explore important tweaks to produce a performant GeoServer-backed web mapping application. Moving on, you'll enable authentication on the frontend and backend to protect sensitive map data, and deliver sensitive data to your end user. Finally, you'll see how to put your web application into production in a secure and user-friendly way. You'll go beyond traditional web hosting to explore the full range of hosting options in the cloud, and maintain a reliable server instance. What you will learn * Develop a WPS-processing service to allow web-based geospatial data processing * Get to know important techniques to improve the speed of your web map application—tile caching, raster data optimization, and server clustering * Find out which GeoServer settings resolve bottlenecks * Develop an algorithm by chaining geospatial analysis processes together * Put your application into production with hosting, monitoring, and automated backup and recovery * Understand how to develop an effective tile cache-supported web service * Master techniques that ensure resilient server deployment Who this book is for This book is for anyone who wants to learn about advanced interfaces, security, and troubleshooting techniques in GeoServer. A basic understanding of GeoServer is required

Secure your Java applications by integrating the Spring Security framework in your code Key Features *Provide authentication, authorization and other security features for Java applications. *Learn how to secure microservices, cloud, and serverless applications easily *Understand the code behind the implementation of various security features Book Description Security is one of the most vital concerns for any organization. The complexity of an application is compounded when you need to integrate security with existing code, new technology, and other frameworks. This book will show you how to effectively write Java code that is robust and easy to maintain. Hands-On Spring Security 5 for Reactive Applications starts with the essential concepts of reactive programming, Spring Framework, and Spring Security. You will then learn about a variety of authentication mechanisms and how to integrate them easily with the Spring MVC application. You will also understand how to achieve authorization in a Spring WebFlux application using Spring Security.You will be able to explore the security confgurations required to achieve OAuth2 for securing REST APIs and integrate security in microservices and serverless applications. This book will guide you in integrating add-ons that will add value to any Spring Security module. By the end of the book, you will be proficient at integrating Spring Security in your Java applications What you will learn *Understand how Spring Framework and Reactive application programming are connected *Implement easy security confgurations with Spring Security expressions *Discover the relationship between OAuth2 and OpenID Connect *Secure microservices and serverless applications with Spring *Integrate add-ons, such as HDIV, Crypto Module, and CORS support *Apply Spring Security 5 features to enhance your Java reactive applications Who this book is for If you are a Java developer who wants to improve application security, then this book is for you. A basic understanding of Spring, Spring Security framework, and reactive applications is required to make the most of the book.

Learn every step you need for product design and development Key Features *Explore all the tools that you need to be a complete UX designer *Code the product designs you’ve created to become a full-stack designer *Build an amazing portfolio with real-world projects Book Description Designing user experience (UX) is one of the most important aspects of a project, as it has a direct effect on how customers think of your company. The process of designing a user experience is one of the most challenging yet rewarding aspects of product development. Hands-On UX Design for Developers will teach you how to create amazing user experiences for products from scratch. This book starts with helping you understand the importance of a good UX design and the role of a UX designer. It will take you through the different stages of designing a UX and the application of various principles of psychology in UX design. Next, you will learn how to conduct user research and market research, which is crucial to creating a great UX. You will also learn how to create user personas and use it for testing. This book will help you gain the ability to think like a UX designer and understand both sides of product development: design and coding. You will explore the latest tools, such as Sketch, Balsamiq, and Framer.js, to create wireframes and prototypes. The concluding chapters will take you through designing your UI, dealing with big data while designing a UX, and the fundamentals of frontend. Finally, you'll prepare your portfolio and become job ready in the UX arena. What you will learn *What UX is and what a UX designer does *Explore the UX Process and science of making products user-friendly *Create user interfaces and learn which tools to use *Understand how your design works in the real world *Create UI interaction, animation, wireframes, and prototypes *Design a product with users in mind *Develop a personal portfolio and be well-prepared to join the UX world Who this book is for Hands-On UX/UI Design for Developers is for web designers who have knowledge of basic UX design principles.

Understand the benefits of DevOps and continuous delivery and see how they support the agile software development process About This Book ? Learn how DevOps can accelerate your entire software development life cycle ? Improve your organization's performance to ensure the smooth production of software and services ? Get hands-on experience in using efficient DevOps tools to better effect Who This Book Is For If you're a developer or system administrator looking to take on larger responsibilities and understand how the infrastructure that builds today's enterprises works, this is the book for you. This book will also help you greatly if you're an operations worker who would like to better support developers. You do not need any previous knowledge of DevOps to understand the concepts in this book. What You Will Learn ? Understand how all deployment systems fit together to form a larger system ? Set up and familiarize yourself with all the tools you need to be efficient with DevOps ? Design an application suitable for continuous deployment systems with DevOps in mind ? Store and manage your code effectively using Git, Gerrit, Gitlab, and more ? Configure a job to build a sample CRUD application ? Test your code using automated regression testing with Jenkins Selenium ? Deploy your code using tools such as Puppet, Ansible, Palletops, Chef, and Vagrant In Detail DevOps is a practical field that focuses on delivering business value as efficiently as possible. DevOps encompasses all code workflows from testing environments to production environments. It stresses cooperation between different roles, and how they can work together more closely, as the roots of the word imply—Development and Operations. Practical DevOps begins with a quick refresher on DevOps and continuous delivery and quickly moves on to show you how DevOps affects software architectures. You'll create a sample enterprise Java application that you’'ll continue to work with through the remaining chapters. Following this, you will explore various code storage and build server options. You will then learn how to test your code with a few tools and deploy your test successfully. In addition to this, you will also see how to monitor code for any anomalies and make sure that it runs as expected. Finally, you will discover how to handle logs and keep track of the issues that affect different processes. By the end of the book, you will be familiar with all the tools needed to deploy, integrate, and deliver efficiently with DevOps. Style and approach This book is primarily a technical guide to DevOps with practical examples suitable for people who like to learn by implementing concrete working code.

Create Deep Learning and Reinforcement Learning apps for multiple platforms with TensorFlow About This Book ? Build TensorFlow-powered AI applications for mobile and embedded devices ? Learn modern AI topics such as computer vision, NLP, and deep reinforcement learning ? Get practical insights and exclusive working code not available in the TensorFlow documentation Who This Book Is For If you're an iOS/Android developer interested in building and retraining others' TensorFlow models and running them in your mobile apps, or if you're a TensorFlow developer and want to run your new and amazing TensorFlow models on mobile devices, this book is for you. You'll also benefit from this book if you're interested in TensorFlow Lite, Core ML, or TensorFlow on Raspberry Pi. What You Will Learn ? Classify images with transfer learning ? Detect objects and their locations ? Transform pictures with amazing art styles ? Understand simple speech commands ? Describe images in natural language ? Recognize drawing with Convolutional Neural Network and Long Short-Term Memory ? Predict stock price with Recurrent Neural Network in TensorFlow and Keras ? Generate and enhance images with generative adversarial networks ? Build AlphaZero-like mobile game app in TensorFlow and Keras ? Use TensorFlow Lite and Core ML on mobile ? Develop TensorFlow apps on Raspberry Pi that can move, see, listen, speak, and learn In Detail As a developer, you always need to keep an eye out and be ready for what will be trending soon, while also focusing on what's trending currently. So, what's better than learning about the integration of the best of both worlds, the present and the future? Artificial Intelligence (AI) is widely regarded as the next big thing after mobile, and Google's TensorFlow is the leading open source machine learning framework, the hottest branch of AI. This book covers more than 10 complete iOS, Android, and Raspberry Pi apps powered by TensorFlow and built from scratch, running all kinds of cool TensorFlow models offline on-device: from computer vision, speech and language processing to generative adversarial networks and AlphaZero-like deep reinforcement learning. You’ll learn how to use or retrain existing TensorFlow models, build your own models, and develop intelligent mobile apps running those TensorFlow models. You'll learn how to quickly build such apps with step-by-step tutorials and how to avoid many pitfalls in the process with lots of hard-earned troubleshooting tips. Style and approach This book takes a practical, project-based approach to teach specifics of mobile development with TensorFlow. Using a reader-friendly approach, this book will provide detailed instructions and also discuss the broader context covered within.

The easiest way to learn Lua programming Key Features *The easiest way to learn Lua coding *Use the Lua standard libraries and debug Lua code *Embed Lua as a scripting language using the Lua C API Book Description Lua is a small, powerful and extendable scripting/programming language that can be used for learning to program, and writing games and applications, or as an embedded scripting language. There are many popular commercial projects that allow you to modify or extend them through Lua scripting, and this book will get you ready for that. This book is the easiest way to learn Lua. It introduces you to the basics of Lua and helps you to understand the problems it solves. You will work with the basic language features, the libraries Lua provides, and powerful topics such as object-oriented programming. Every aspect of programming in Lua, variables, data types, functions, tables, arrays and objects, is covered in sufficient detail for you to get started. You will also find out about Lua's module system and how to interface with the operating system. After reading this book, you will be ready to use Lua as a programming language to write code that can interface with the operating system, automate tasks, make playable games, and much more. This book is a solid starting point for those who want to learn Lua in order to move onto other technologies such as Love2D or Roblox. A quick start guide is a focused, shorter title that provides a faster paced introduction to a technology. It is designed for people who don't need all the details at this point in their learning curve. This presentation has been streamlined to concentrate on the things you really need to know. What you will learn *Understand the basics of programming the Lua language *Understand how to use tables, the data structure that makes Lua so powerful *Understand object-oriented programming in Lua using metatables *Understand standard LUA libraries for math, file io, and more *Manipulate string data using Lua *Understand how to debug Lua applications quickly and effciently *Understand how to embed Lua into applications with the Lua C API Who this book is for This book is for developers who want to get up and running with Lua. This book is ideal for programmers who want to learn to embed Lua in their own applications, as well as for beginner programmers who have never coded before.

Leverage the power of Elixir programming language to solve practical problems associated with scalability, concurrency, fault tolerance, and high availability. Key Features *Enhance your Elixir programming skills using its powerful tools and abstractions *Discover how to develop a full-fledged file server *Understand how to use Phoenix to create a web interface for your application. Book Description Running concurrent, fault-tolerant applications that scale is a very demanding responsibility. After learning the abstractions that Elixir gives us, developers are able to build such applications with inconceivable low effort. There is a big gap between playing around with Elixir and running it in production, serving live requests. This book will help you fll this gap by going into detail on several aspects of how Elixir works and showing concrete examples of how to apply the concepts learned to a fully fledged application. In this book, you will learn how to build a rock-solid application, beginning by using Mix to create a new project. Then you will learn how the use of Erlang's OTP, along with the Elixir abstractions that run on top of it (such as GenServer and GenStage), that allow you to build applications that are easy to parallelize and distribute. You will also master supervisors (and supervision trees), and comprehend how they are the basis for building fault-tolerant applications. Then you will use Phoenix to create a web interface for your application. Upon fnishing implementation, you will learn how to take your application to the cloud, using Kubernetes to automatically deploy, scale, and manage it. Last, but not least, you will keep your peace of mind by learning how to thoroughly test and then monitor your application. What you will learn *Use Elixir tools, including IEx and Mix *Find out how an Elixir project is structured and how to create umbrella applications *Discover the power of supervision trees, the basis for fault-tolerance *Create a Domain-Specifc Language (DSL) that abstracts complexity *Create a blazing-fast web interface for your application with Phoenix *Set up an automatic deployment process for the cloud *Monitor your application and be warned if anything unexpected happens Who this book is for Mastering Elixir is for you if you have experience in Elixir programming and want to take it to the next level. This Elixir book shows you how to build, deploy, and maintain robust applications, allowing you to go from tinkering with Elixir on side projects to using it in a live environment. However, no prior knowledge of Elixir is required to enjoy the complex topics covered in the book.

Get to grips with Kibana and its advanced functions to create interactive visualizations and dashboards Key Features *Explore visualizations and perform histograms, stats, and map analytics *Unleash X-Pack and Timelion, and learn alerting, monitoring, and reporting features *Manage dashboards with Beats and create machine learning jobs for faster analytics Book Description Kibana is one of the popular tools among data enthusiasts for slicing and dicing large datasets and uncovering Business Intelligence (BI) with the help of its rich and powerful visualizations. To begin with, Mastering Kibana 6.x quickly introduces you to the features of Kibana 6.x, before teaching you how to create smart dashboards in no time. You will explore metric analytics and graph exploration, followed by understanding how to quickly customize Kibana dashboards. In addition to this, you will learn advanced analytics such as maps, hits, and list analytics. All this will help you enhance your skills in running and comparing multiple queries and filters, influencing your data visualization skills at scale. With Kibana’s Timelion feature, you can analyze time series data with histograms and stats analytics. By the end of this book, you will have created a speedy machine learning job using X-Pack capabilities. What you will learn *Create unique dashboards with various intuitive data visualizations *Visualize Timelion expressions with added histograms and stats analytics *Integrate X-Pack with your Elastic Stack in simple steps *Extract data from Elasticsearch for advanced analysis and anomaly detection using dashboards *Build dashboards from web applications for application logs *Create monitoring and alerting dashboards using Beats Who this book is for Mastering Kibana 6.x is for you if you are a big data engineer, DevOps engineer, or data scientist aspiring to go beyond data visualization at scale and gain maximum insights from their large datasets. Basic knowledge of Elasticstack will be an added advantage, although not mandatory.

Build and deploy powerful neural network models using the latest Java deep learning libraries About This Book ? Understand DL with Java by implementing real-world projects ? Master implementations of various ANN models and build your own DL systems ? Develop applications using NLP, image classification, RL, and GPU processing Who This Book Is For If you are a data scientist, machine learning professional, or deep learning practitioner keen to expand your knowledge by delving into the practical aspects of deep learning with Java, then this book is what you need! Get ready to build advanced deep learning models to carry out complex numerical computations. Some basic understanding of machine learning concepts and a working knowledge of Java are required. What You Will Learn ? Master deep learning and neural network architectures ? Build real-life applications covering image classification, object detection, online trading, transfer learning, and multimedia analytics using DL4J and open-source APIs ? Train ML agents to learn from data using deep reinforcement learning ? Use factorization machines for advanced movie recommendations ? Train DL models on distributed GPUs for faster deep learning with Spark and DL4J ? Ease your learning experience through 69 FAQs In Detail Java is one of the most widely used programming languages. With the rise of deep learning, it has become a popular choice of tool among data scientists and machine learning experts. Java Deep Learning Projects starts with an overview of deep learning concepts and then delves into advanced projects. You will see how to build several projects using different deep neural network architectures such as multilayer perceptrons, Deep Belief Networks, CNN, LSTM, and Factorization Machines. You will get acquainted with popular deep and machine learning libraries for Java such as Deeplearning4j, Spark ML, and RankSys and you’ll be able to use their features to build and deploy projects on distributed computing environments. You will then explore advanced domains such as transfer learning and deep reinforcement learning using the Java ecosystem, covering various real-world domains such as healthcare, NLP, image classification, and multimedia analytics with an easy-to-follow approach. Expert reviews and tips will follow every project to give you insights and hacks. By the end of this book, you will have stepped up your expertise when it comes to deep learning in Java, taking it beyond theory and be able to build your own advanced deep learning systems. Style and approach A unique, learn-as-you-do approach, as the reader builds on his understanding of deep learning with Java progressively with each project. This book is designed in such a way that implementing each project will empower you with a unique skill set, and enable you to implement the next project more confidently.

Learn steps and tasks to help a NetSuite administrator perform both his daily and monthly tasks efficiently. Advance his expertise to become NetSuite leader without having to spend time and money on corporate trainings. About This Book ? Understand the business considerations and implementation of the NetSuite ERP ? Gain a deep knowledge of enterprise security, data management, process automation, and analytics ? Learn techniques to sail through system maintenance while ensuring accuracy and to practically troubleshoot issues Who This Book Is For This book is for administrators, consultants, and Project Managers who would like to improve their skills in the areas of configuration and system management. Basic experience implementing NetSuite is assumed. What You Will Learn ? Provide executives with meaningful insights into the business ? A Framework to streamline the implementation of new and existing features ? Leverage built-in tools to optimize your efficiency and effectiveness ? Test configuration to check the implementation of role-specific permissions ? Understand how to optimize the amount of data to be shared with users ? Import data like new leads and employ current data like pricing updates ? Perform on-going maintenance and troubleshoot issues In Detail NetSuite ERP is a complete, scalable cloud ERP solution targeted at fast-growing, mid-sized businesses and large enterprises. It's the smartly executed combination of financial management operations and built-in business intelligence, which enables companies to make data-driven and well-informed decisions. This book will help administrators become expert enough to be seen as the NetSuite leader at their company and to be able to advise department heads on specific processes, and strategic decisions. We start with an overview of ERP and NetSuite ERP, before going on to explain the built-in features to show the breadth of NetSuite ERP's product and its ease of use. We then discuss business aspects, focusing on the most important processes in NetSuite. Then you'll understand the implementation aspects that are generic enough to cover all the features. The focus then shifts to specific skills that you will need to administer for any system, such as roles, permissions, customization, and data imports. Moving on, you'll learn how to centralize the creation of search templates and give users the tools to pivot the data and expose it to the user in useful ways, such as on the dashboard. The book ends with checklists providing actionable steps that you as an administrator can take to do your job and support the application through new releases and troubleshooting problems. Style and approach A slow and steady introduction of topics from reports through searches with aim to enable the administrator to gain a holistic view of the NetSuite product.

Work with Python and powerful open source tools such as Gensim and spaCy to perform modern text analysis, natural language processing, and computational linguistics algorithms. About This Book ? Discover the open source Python text analysis ecosystem, using spaCy, Gensim, scikit-learn, and Keras ? Hands-on text analysis with Python, featuring natural language processing and computational linguistics algorithms ? Learn deep learning techniques for text analysis Who This Book Is For This book is for you if you want to dive in, hands-first, into the interesting world of text analysis and NLP, and you're ready to work with the rich Python ecosystem of tools and datasets waiting for you! What You Will Learn ? Why text analysis is important in our modern age ? Understand NLP terminology and get to know the Python tools and datasets ? Learn how to pre-process and clean textual data ? Convert textual data into vector space representations ? Using spaCy to process text ? Train your own NLP models for computational linguistics ? Use statistical learning and Topic Modeling algorithms for text, using Gensim and scikit-learn ? Employ deep learning techniques for text analysis using Keras In Detail Modern text analysis is now very accessible using Python and open source tools, so discover how you can now perform modern text analysis in this era of textual data. This book shows you how to use natural language processing, and computational linguistics algorithms, to make inferences and gain insights about data you have. These algorithms are based on statistical machine learning and artificial intelligence techniques. The tools to work with these algorithms are available to you right now - with Python, and tools like Gensim and spaCy. You'll start by learning about data cleaning, and then how to perform computational linguistics from first concepts. You're then ready to explore the more sophisticated areas of statistical NLP and deep learning using Python, with realistic language and text samples. You'll learn to tag, parse, and model text using the best tools. You'll gain hands-on knowledge of the best frameworks to use, and you'll know when to choose a tool like Gensim for topic models, and when to work with Keras for deep learning. This book balances theory and practical hands-on examples, so you can learn about and conduct your own natural language processing projects and computational linguistics. You'll discover the rich ecosystem of Python tools you have available to conduct NLP - and enter the interesting world of modern text analysis. Style and approach The book teaches NLP from the angle of a practitioner as well as that of a student. This is a tad unusual, but given the enormous speed at which new algorithms and approaches travel from scientific beginnings to industrial implementation, first principles can be clarified with the help of entirely practical examples.

Get to grips with the most popular Python packages that make data analysis possible About This Book ? Explore the tools you need to become a data analyst ? Discover practical examples to help you grasp data processing concepts ? Walk through hierarchical indexing and grouping for data analysis Who This Book Is For Hands-On Data Analysis with NumPy and Pandas is for you if you are a Python developer and want to take your first steps into the world of data analysis. No previous experience of data analysis is required to enjoy this book. What You Will Learn ? Understand how to install and manage Anaconda ? Read, sort, and map data using NumPy and pandas ? Find out how to create and slice data arrays using NumPy ? Discover how to subset your DataFrames using pandas ? Handle missing data in a pandas DataFrame ? Explore hierarchical indexing and plotting with pandas In Detail Python, a multi-paradigm programming language, has become the language of choice for data scientists for visualization, data analysis, and machine learning. Hands-On Data Analysis with NumPy and Pandas starts by guiding you in setting up the right environment for data analysis with Python, along with helping you install the correct Python distribution. In addition to this, you will work with the Jupyter notebook and set up a database. Once you have covered Jupyter, you will dig deep into Python’s NumPy package, a powerful extension with advanced mathematical functions. You will then move on to creating NumPy arrays and employing different array methods and functions. You will explore Python’s pandas extension which will help you get to grips with data mining and learn to subset your data. Last but not the least you will grasp how to manage your datasets by sorting and ranking them. By the end of this book, you will have learned to index and group your data for sophisticated data analysis and manipulation. Style and approach A step-by-step approach, taking you through the different concepts and features of Data Analysis using Python libraries and tools.

Learn all the fundamentals of PHP with a book that blends theory with practice to build up the skills you need for modern web development. Key Features *Brush up on basic PHP 7 syntax and work with variables, data types, arrays, and loops *Master advanced concepts like building your own frameworks and creating your own applications *Apply your newly learned PHP skills to a variety of real-life business scenarios Book Description PHP is the preferred server-side scripting language for tech giants such as Facebook, Wikipedia, and Tumblr despite full-stack JavaScript gaining popularity with upcoming developers. This is because PHP performs better when dealing with heavy computations on the back end. In this book, you’ll learn everything you need to get up and running with the latest version of PHP, including package management with tools such as composer, secure database operations, and a whole host of other best practices that will help you stay a step ahead of traditional programmers. What you will learn *Understand the fundamentals of PHP and work with classes and inheritance *Learn about database operations and package management with composer *Tackle common security concerns and pitfalls using authentication and validation *Build effective PHP applications and frameworks for your business needs Who this book is for If you’re already familiar with another programming language and want to learn about the fundamentals of PHP programming, you’ll find the flow of this book to be an ideal fit. Having a prior understanding of HTML, MySQL, CSS, and JavaScript will be beneficial, but is not mandatory.

Learn to design and develop safe and reliable embedded systems About This Book ? Identify and overcome challenges in embedded environments ? Understand the steps required to increase the security of IoT solutions ? Build safety-critical and memory-safe parallel and distributed embedded systems Who This Book Is For If you’re a software developer or designer wanting to learn about embedded programming, this is the book for you. You’ll also find this book useful if you’re a less experienced embedded programmer willing to expand your knowledge. What You Will Learn ? Participate in the design and definition phase of an embedded product ? Get to grips with writing code for ARM Cortex-M microcontrollers ? Build an embedded development lab and optimize the workflow ? Write memory-safe code ? Understand the architecture behind the communication interfaces ? Understand the design and development patterns for connected and distributed devices in the IoT ? Master multitask parallel execution patterns and real-time operating systems In Detail Embedded systems are self-contained devices with a dedicated purpose. We come across a variety of fields of applications for embedded systems in industries such as automotive, telecommunications, healthcare and consumer electronics, just to name a few. Embedded Systems Architecture begins with a bird's eye view of embedded development and how it differs from the other systems that you may be familiar with. You will first be guided to set up an optimal development environment, then move on to software tools and methodologies to improve the work flow. You will explore the boot-up mechanisms and the memory management strategies typical of a real-time embedded system. Through the analysis of the programming interface of the reference microcontroller, you'll look at the implementation of the features and the device drivers. Next, you'll learn about the techniques used to reduce power consumption. Then you will be introduced to the technologies, protocols and security aspects related to integrating the system into IoT solutions. By the end of the book, you will have explored various aspects of embedded architecture, including task synchronization in a multi-threading environment, and the safety models adopted by modern real-time operating systems. Style and approach Software developers and designers with experience in different fields, and who want to learn about embedded programming, will benefit from this book. Junior and less experienced embedded programmers willing to expand their knowledge in the field will also find it useful.

Add a touch of data analytics to your healthcare systems and get insightful outcomes Key Features *Perform healthcare analytics with Python and SQL *Build predictive models on real healthcare data with pandas and scikit-learn *Use analytics to improve healthcare performance Book Description In recent years, machine learning technologies and analytics have been widely utilized across the healthcare sector. Healthcare Analytics Made Simple bridges the gap between practising doctors and data scientists. It equips the data scientists’ work with healthcare data and allows them to gain better insight from this data in order to improve healthcare outcomes. This book is a complete overview of machine learning for healthcare analytics, briefly describing the current healthcare landscape, machine learning algorithms, and Python and SQL programming languages. The step-by-step instructions teach you how to obtain real healthcare data and perform descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics using popular Python packages such as pandas and scikit-learn. The latest research results in disease detection and healthcare image analysis are reviewed. By the end of this book, you will understand how to use Python for healthcare data analysis, how to import, collect, clean, and refine data from electronic health record (EHR) surveys, and how to make predictive models with this data through real-world algorithms and code examples. What you will learn *Gain valuable insight into healthcare incentives, finances, and legislation *Discover the connection between machine learning and healthcare processes *Use SQL and Python to analyze data *Measure healthcare quality and provider performance *Identify features and attributes to build successful healthcare models *Build predictive models using real-world healthcare data *Become an expert in predictive modeling with structured clinical data *See what lies ahead for healthcare analytics Who this book is for Healthcare Analytics Made Simple is for you if you are a developer who has a working knowledge of Python or a related programming language, although you are new to healthcare or predictive modeling with healthcare data. Clinicians interested in analytics and healthcare computing will also benefit from this book. This book can also serve as a textbook for students enrolled in an introductory course on machine learning for healthcare.

Get up and running with AWS automation using CloudFormation Key Features *Explore the fundamentals of AWS CloudFormation *Get acquainted with concepts such as CloudFormation templates and mappings *Learn to implement Infrastructure as a Code (IaC) on AWS Book Description As the Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure is gradually moving towards cloud, managing cloud-related tasks efficiently continues to be a challenge for system administrators. CloudFormation is a language developed for managing infrastructure-related services efficiently on AWS and its features help secure the AWS resource deployment process. Learn CloudFormation serves as a fundamental guide to kick-start your journey on CloudFormation. We will introduce you to the basic concepts on IaC and the AWS services required for implementing automation and infrastructure management. Then, we deep dive into concepts such as CloudFormation mapping, conditions, limit, and output and EC2. In the concluding chapters, you will manage the entire AWS infrastructure using CloudFormation templates. By the end of this book, you will get up and running with IaC with CloudFormation. What you will learn *Understand AWS CloudFormation *Develop AWS CloudFormation templates *Deploy AWS CloudFormation for AWS resources *Build your first AWS CloudFormation project *Explore AWS Security features *Deploy testing and production stages using CloudFormation Who this book is for Learn CloudFormation is for cloud engineers, system administrators, cloud architects, or any stakeholders working in the field of cloud development or cloud administration. Basic knowledge of AWS is necessary.

This book gives you the skills you need to use Python for penetration testing, with the help of detailed code examples. This book has been updated for Python 3.6.3 and Kali Linux 2018.1. About This Book ? Detect and avoid various attack types that put the privacy of a system at risk ? Leverage Python to build efficient code and eventually build a robust environment ? Learn about securing wireless applications and information gathering on a web server Who This Book Is For If you are a Python programmer, a security researcher, or an ethical hacker and are interested in penetration testing with the help of Python, then this book is for you. Even if you are new to the field of ethical hacking, this book can help you find the vulnerabilities in your system so that you are ready to tackle any kind of attack or intrusion. What You Will Learn ? The basics of network pentesting including network scanning and sniffing ? Wireless, wired attacks, and building traps for attack and torrent detection ? Web server footprinting and web application attacks, including the XSS and SQL injection attack ? Wireless frames and how to obtain information such as SSID, BSSID, and the channel number from a wireless frame using a Python script ? The importance of web server signatures, email gathering, and why knowing the server signature is the first step in hacking In Detail This book gives you the skills you need to use Python for penetration testing (pentesting), with the help of detailed code examples. We start by exploring the basics of networking with Python and then proceed to network hacking. Then, you will delve into exploring Python libraries to perform various types of pentesting and ethical hacking techniques. Next, we delve into hacking the application layer, where we start by gathering information from a website. We then move on to concepts related to website hacking—such as parameter tampering, DDoS, XSS, and SQL injection. By reading this book, you will learn different techniques and methodologies that will familiarize you with Python pentesting techniques, how to protect yourself, and how to create automated programs to find the admin console, SQL injection, and XSS attacks. Style and approach The book starts at a basic level and moves to a higher level of network and web security. The execution and performance of code are both taken into account.