Learn to implement DevOps using Docker & Kubernetes. About This Book ? Learning DevOps, container, and Kubernetes within one book. ? Leverage Kubernetes as a platform to deploy, scale, and run containers efficiently. ? A practical guide towards container management and orchestration Who This Book Is For This book is targeted for anyone, who wants to learn containerization and clustering in a practical way using Kubernetes. No prerequisite skills required, however, essential DevOps skill and public/private Cloud knowledge will accelerate the reading speed. If you’re advanced readers, you can also get a deeper understanding of all the tools and technique described in the book. What You Will Learn ? Learn fundamental and advanced DevOps skills and tools ? Get a comprehensive understanding for container ? Learn how to move your application to container world ? Learn how to manipulate your application by Kubernetes ? Learn how to work with Kubernetes in popular public cloud ? Improve time to market with Kubernetes and Continuous Delivery ? Learn how to monitor, log, and troubleshoot your application with Kubernetes In Detail Containerization is said to be the best way to implement DevOps. Google developed Kubernetes, which orchestrates containers efficiently and is considered the frontrunner in container orchestration. Kubernetes is an orchestrator that creates and manages your containers on clusters of servers. This book will guide you from simply deploying a container to administrate a Kubernetes cluster, and then you will learn how to do monitoring, logging, and continuous deployment in DevOps. The initial stages of the book will introduce the fundamental DevOps and the concept of containers. It will move on to how to containerize applications and deploy them into. The book will then introduce networks in Kubernetes. We then move on to advanced DevOps skills such as monitoring, logging, and continuous deployment in Kubernetes. It will proceed to introduce permission control for Kubernetes resources via attribute-based access control and role-based access control. The final stage of the book will cover deploying and managing your container clusters on the popular public cloud Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Platform. At the end of the book, other orchestration frameworks, such as Docker Swarm mode, Amazon ECS, and Apache Mesos will be discussed. Style and approach Readers will be taken through fundamental DevOps skills and Kubernetes concept and administration with detailed examples. It introduces comprehensive DevOps topics, including microservices, automation tools, containers, monitoring, logging, continuous delivery, and popular public cloud environments. At each step readers will learn how to leverage Kubernetes in their everyday lives and transform their original delivery pipeline for fast and efficient delivery.

Your one-step guide to understanding industrial cyber security, its control systems, and its operations. About This Book ? Learn about endpoint protection such as anti-malware implementation, updating, monitoring, and sanitizing user workloads and mobile devices ? Filled with practical examples to help you secure critical infrastructure systems efficiently ? A step-by-step guide that will teach you the techniques and methodologies of building robust infrastructure systems Who This Book Is For If you are a security professional and want to ensure a robust environment for critical infrastructure systems, this book is for you. IT professionals interested in getting into the cyber security domain or who are looking at gaining industrial cyber security certifications will also find this book useful. What You Will Learn ? Understand industrial cybersecurity, its control systems and operations ? Design security-oriented architectures, network segmentation, and security support services ? Configure event monitoring systems, anti-malware applications, and endpoint security ? Gain knowledge of ICS risks, threat detection, and access management ? Learn about patch management and life cycle management ? Secure your industrial control systems from design through retirement In Detail With industries expanding, cyber attacks have increased significantly. Understanding your control system’s vulnerabilities and learning techniques to defend critical infrastructure systems from cyber threats is increasingly important. With the help of real-world use cases, this book will teach you the methodologies and security measures necessary to protect critical infrastructure systems and will get you up to speed with identifying unique challenges.Industrial cybersecurity begins by introducing Industrial Control System (ICS) technology, including ICS architectures, communication media, and protocols. This is followed by a presentation on ICS (in) security. After presenting an ICS-related attack scenario, securing of the ICS is discussed, including topics such as network segmentation, defense-in-depth strategies, and protective solutions. Along with practical examples for protecting industrial control systems, this book details security assessments, risk management, and security program development. It also covers essential cybersecurity aspects, such as threat detection and access management. Topics related to endpoint hardening such as monitoring, updating, and anti-malware implementations are also discussed. Style and approach A step-by-step guide to implement Industrial Cyber Security effectively.

Learn how to confidently install, configure, secure, and fully utilize your ArcGIS Enterprise system. About This Book ? Install and configure the components of ArcGIS Enterprise to meet your organization's requirements ? Administer all aspects of ArcGIS Enterprise through user interfaces and APIs ? Optimize and Secure ArcGIS Enterprise to make it run efficiently and effectively Who This Book Is For This book will be geared toward senior GIS analysts, GIS managers, GIS administrators, DBAs, GIS architects, and GIS engineers that need to install, configure, and administer ArcGIS Enterprise 10.5.1. What You Will Learn ? Effectively install and configure ArcGIS Enterprise, including the Enterprise geodatabase, ArcGIS Server, and Portal for ArcGIS ? Incorporate different methodologies to manage and publish services ? Utilize the security methods available in ArcGIS Enterprise ? Use Python and Python libraries from Esri to automate administrative tasks ? Identify the common pitfalls and errors to get your system back up and running quickly from an outage In Detail ArcGIS Enterprise, the next evolution of the ArcGIS Server product line, is a full-featured mapping and analytics platform. It includes a powerful GIS web services server and a dedicated Web GIS infrastructure for organizing and sharing your work. You will learn how to first install ArcGIS Enterprise to then plan, design, and finally publish and consume GIS services. You will install and configure an Enterprise geodatabase and learn how to administer ArcGIS Server, Portal, and Data Store through user interfaces, the REST API, and Python *s. This book starts off by explaining how ArcGIS Enterprise 10.5.1 is different from earlier versions of ArcGIS Server and covers the installation of all the components required for ArcGIS Enterprise. We then move on to geodatabase administration and content publication, where you will learn how to use ArcGIS Server Manager to view the server logs, stop and start services, publish services, define users and roles for security, and perform other administrative tasks. You will also learn how to apply security mechanisms on ArcGIS Enterprise and safely expose services to the public in a secure manner. Finally, you’ll use the RESTful administrator API to automate server management tasks using the Python *ing language. You’ll learn all the best practices and troubleshooting methods to streamline the management of all the interconnected parts of ArcGIS Enterprise. Style and approach The book takes a pragmatic approach, starting with installation & configuration of ArcGIS Enterprise to finally building a robust GIS web infrastructure for your organization.

Develop your first interactive 2D and 3D platformer game by learning the fundamentals of C# About This Book ? This is a step-by-step guide to learn the fundamentals of C# 7 *ing to develop GameObjects and master the basics of the new UI system in Unity ? Build and develop your 2D game right from scratch while implementing the principles of object-oriented programming and coding in C# 7 ? Get to grips with the fundamentals of optimizing your game using the latest features of Unity 2017 Who This Book Is For The book is targeted at beginner level Unity developers with no programming experience. If you are a Unity developer and you wish to learn how to write C# *s and code by creating games, then this book is for you. What You Will Learn ? Learn C# 7 using new features like tuples, variables, and non-nullable reference types while building games ? Understand the fundamentals of variables, methods, and code syntax in C# ? Use loops and collections efficiently in Unity to reduce the amount of code ? Develop a game using the object-oriented programming principles ? Implement simple enemy characters into the game to learn point to point movement and Tree behaviors ? Avoid performance mistakes by implementing different optimization techniques ? Export 3D models and 3D animations and import them inside a Unity project ? With your new knowledge of coding, you will be able to look at Unity's Scripting Reference code examples with confidence In Detail With the latest version of Unity 2017 released, are you interested in developing creative and interactive games while learning C# alongside? Then this is the book that you are looking for. Its all about offering you a fun introduction to the world of game programming with C#. You’ll start with the basics to get started with C# 7 and its latest features. Then you’ll see how to use C# 7 and its latest functional programming capabilities to create amazing games with Unity 2017. You’ll create your first C# * for Unity, add objects into it, and learn how to create game elements with them. Then you’ll work with the latest functional programming features of C# and how to leverage them for great game *ing. Throughout the book, you’ll learn to use the new Unity 2017 2D tool set and create an interactive 2D game with it. You will make enemies appear to challenge your player, and go through some optimization techniques to ensure great game performance. At the end, your 2D game will be transformed into 3D, and you’ll be able to skill up to become a pro C# programmer with Unity 2017! Style and approach The book takes a practical, step-by-step approach where you learn C# coding while developing fun and interactive games.

Learn the fundamentals of vue.js by creating complex SPAs with Vuex, vue-router and more About This Book ? We bridge the gap between "learning" and "doing" by providing real-world examples that will improve your web development skills with Vue.js ? Explore the exciting features of Vue.js 2 through practical and interesting examples ? Explore modern development tools and learn how to utilize them by building applications with Vue.js Who This Book Is For This book is for developers who know the basics of JavaScript and are looking to learn Vue.js with real examples. You should understand the basics of JavaScript functions and variables and be comfortable with using CSS or a CSS framework for styling your projects. What You Will Learn ? Looping through data with Vue.js ? Searching and filtering data ? Using components to display data ? Getting a list of files using the dropbox API ? Navigating through a file tree and loading folders from a URL ? Caching with Vuex ? Pre-caching for faster navigation ? Introducing vue-router and loading components ? Using vue-router dynamic routes to load data ? Using vue-router and Vuex to create an ecommerce store In Detail Vue.js is a frontend web framework which makes it easy to do just about anything, from displaying data up to creating full-blown web apps, and has become a leading tool for web developers. This book puts Vue.js into a real-world context, guiding you through example projects that helps you build Vue.js applications from scratch. With this book, you will learn how to use Vue.js by creating three Single Page web applications. Throughout this book, we will cover the usage of Vue, for building web interfaces, Vuex, an official Vue plugin which makes caching and storing data easier, and Vue-router, a plugin for creating routes and URLs for your application. Starting with a JSON dataset, the first part of the book covers Vue objects and how to utilize each one. This will be covered by exploring different ways of displaying data from a JSON dataset. We will then move on to manipulating the data with filters and search and creating dynamic values. Next, you will see how easy it is to integrate remote data into an application by learning how to use the Dropbox API to display your Dropbox contents in an application In the final section, you will see how to build a product catalog and dynamic shopping cart using the Vue-router, giving you the building blocks of an e-commerce store. Style and approach This book takes you three projects, with step-by-step instructions to help you understand the concepts of Vue and put it into practice.

Gain practical insights by exploiting data in your business to build advanced predictive modeling applications About This Book ? A step-by-step guide to predictive modeling including lots of tips, tricks, and best practices ? Learn how to use popular predictive modeling algorithms such as Linear Regression, Decision Trees, Logistic Regression, and Clustering ? Master open source Python tools to build sophisticated predictive models Who This Book Is For This book is designed for business analysts, BI analysts, data scientists, or junior level data analysts who are ready to move on from a conceptual understanding of advanced analytics and become an expert in designing and building advanced analytics solutions using Python. If you are familiar with coding in Python (or some other programming/statistical/*ing language) but have never used or read about predictive analytics algorithms, this book will also help you. What You Will Learn ? Understand the statistical and mathematical concepts behind predictive analytics algorithms and implement them using Python libraries ? Get to know various methods for importing, cleaning, sub-setting, merging, joining, concatenating, exploring, grouping, and plotting data with pandas and NumPy ? Master the use of Python notebooks for exploratory data analysis and rapid prototyping ? Get to grips with applying regression, classification, clustering, and deep learning algorithms ? Discover advanced methods to analyze structured and unstructured data ? Visualize the performance of models and the insights they produce ? Ensure the robustness of your analytic applications by mastering the best practices of predictive analysis In Detail Social Media and the Internet of Things have resulted in an avalanche of data. Data is powerful but not in its raw form; it needs to be processed and modeled, and Python is one of the most robust tools out there to do so. It has an array of packages for predictive modeling and a suite of IDEs to choose from. Using the Python programming language, analysts can use these sophisticated methods to build scalable analytic applications. This book is your guide to getting started with predictive analytics using Python. You'll balance both statistical and mathematical concepts, and implement them in Python using libraries such as pandas, scikit-learn, and NumPy. Through case studies and code examples using popular open-source Python libraries, this book illustrates the complete development process for analytic applications. Covering a wide range of algorithms for classification, regression, clustering, as well as cutting-edge techniques such as deep learning, this book illustrates explains how these methods work. You will learn to choose the right approach for your problem and how to develop engaging visualizations to bring to life the insights of predictive modeling. Finally, you will learn best practices in predictive modeling, as well as the different applications of predictive modeling in the modern world. The course provides you with highly practical content from the following Packt books: 1. Learning Predictive Analytics with Python 2. Mastering Predictive Analytics with Python Style and approach This course aims to create a smooth learning path that will teach you how to effectively perform predictive analytics using Python. Through this comprehensive course, you’ll learn the basics of predictive analytics and progress to predictive modeling in the modern world.

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

This step-by-step guide demonstrates how to build simple-to-advanced applications through examples in R using modern tools. About This Book ? Get a firm hold on the fundamentals of R through practical hands-on examples ? Get started with good R programming fundamentals for data science ? Exploit the different libraries of R to build interesting applications in R Who This Book Is For This books is for aspiring data science professionals or statisticians who would like to learn about the R programming language in a practical manner. Basic programming knowledge is assumed. What You Will Learn ? Discover techniques to leverage R’s features, and work with packages ? Perform a de*ive analysis and work with statistical models using R ? Work efficiently with objects without using loops ? Create diverse visualizations to gain better understanding of the data ? Understand ways to produce good visualizations and create reports for the results ? Read and write data from relational databases and REST APIs, both packaged and unpackaged ? Improve performance by writing better code, delegating that code to a more efficient programming language, or making it parallel In Detail R is a high-level statistical language and is widely used among statisticians and data miners to develop analytical applications. Often, data analysis people with great analytical skills lack solid programming knowledge and are unfamiliar with the correct ways to use R. Based on the version 3.4, this book will help you develop strong fundamentals when working with R by taking you through a series of full representative examples, giving you a holistic view of R. We begin with the basic installation and configuration of the R environment. As you progress through the exercises, you'll become thoroughly acquainted with R's features and its packages. With this book, you will learn about the basic concepts of R programming, work efficiently with graphs, create publication-ready and interactive 3D graphs, and gain a better understanding of the data at hand. The detailed step-by-step instructions will enable you to get a clean set of data, produce good visualizations, and create reports for the results. It also teaches you various methods to perform code profiling and performance enhancement with good programming practices, delegation, and parallelization. By the end of this book, you will know how to efficiently work with data, create quality visualizations and reports, and develop code that is modular, expressive, and maintainable. Style and Approach This is an easy-to-understand guide filled with real-world examples, giving you a holistic view of R and practical, hands-on experience.

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

Architect your .NET applications by breaking them into really small pieces - microservices -using this practical, example-based guide. About This Book ? Start your microservices journey and get a broader perspective on microservices development using C# 7.0 with .NET Core 2.0 ? Build, deploy, and test microservices using ASP.Net Core, ASP.NET Core API, and Microsoft Azure Cloud ? Get the basics of reactive microservices Who This Book Is For This book is for .NET Core developers who want to learn and understand the microservices architecture and implement it in their .NET Core applications. It’s ideal for developers who are completely new to microservices or just have a theoretical understanding of this architectural approach and want to gain a practical perspective in order to better manage application complexities. What You Will Learn ? Get acquainted with Microsoft Azure Service Fabric ? Compare microservices with monolithic applications and SOA ? Learn Docker and Azure API management ? Define a service interface and implement APIs using ASP.NET Core 2.0 ? Integrate services using a synchronous approach via RESTful APIs with ASP.NET Core 2.0 ? Implement microservices security using Azure Active Directory, OpenID Connect, and OAuth 2.0 ? Understand the operation and scaling of microservices in .NET Core 2.0 ? Understand the key features of reactive microservices and implement them using reactive extensions In Detail The microservices architectural style promotes the development of complex applications as a suite of small services based on business capabilities. This book will help you identify the appropriate service boundaries within your business. We'll start by looking at what microservices are and their main characteristics. Moving forward, you will be introduced to real-life application scenarios; after assessing the current issues, we will begin the journey of transforming this application by splitting it into a suite of microservices using C# 7.0 with .NET Core 2.0. You will identify service boundaries, split the application into multiple microservices, and define service contracts. You will find out how to configure, deploy, and monitor microservices, and configure scaling to allow the application to quickly adapt to increased demand in the future. With an introduction to reactive microservices, you’ll strategically gain further value to keep your code base simple, focusing on what is more important rather than on messy asynchronous calls. Style and approach This guide serves as a stepping stone that helps .NET Core developers in their microservices architecture. This book provides just enough theory to understand the concepts and apply the examples.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Build and train scalable neural network models on various platforms by leveraging the power of Caffe2 Key Features * Migrate models trained with other deep learning frameworks on Caffe2 * Integrate Caffe2 with Android or iOS and implement deep learning models for mobile devices * Leverage the distributed capabilities of Caffe2 to build models that scale easily Book Description Caffe2 is a popular deep learning library used for fast and scalable training and inference of deep learning models on various platforms. This book introduces you to the Caffe2 framework and shows how you can leverage its power to build, train, and deploy efficient neural network models at scale. It will cover the topics of installing Caffe2, composing networks using its operators, training models, and deploying models to different architectures. It will also show how to import models from Caffe and from other frameworks using the ONNX interchange format. It covers the topic of deep learning accelerators such as CPU and GPU and shows how to deploy Caffe2 models for inference on accelerators using inference engines. Caffe2 is built for deployment to a diverse set of hardware, using containers on the cloud and resource constrained hardware such as Raspberry Pi, which will be demonstrated. By the end of this book, you will be able to not only compose and train popular neural network models with Caffe2, but also be able to deploy them on accelerators, to the cloud and on resource constrained platforms such as mobile and embedded hardware. What you will learn * Build and install Caffe2 * Compose neural networks * Train neural network on CPU or GPU * Import a neural network from Caffe * Import deep learning models from other frameworks * Deploy models on CPU or GPU accelerators using inference engines * Deploy models at the edge and in the cloud Who this book is for Data scientists and machine learning engineers who wish to create fast and scalable deep learning models in Caffe2 will find this book to be very useful. Some understanding of the basic machine learning concepts and prior exposure to programming languages like C++ and Python will be useful.