Explore Jira Software to manage your projects proficiently About This Book ? Plan and manage projects effortlessly with Jira Software by integrating it with other applications ? Improve your team's performance with Scrum and Kanban, together with agile methodology ? Easy-to-follow learning guide to install Jira Software and understand how it fits in with Atlassian Jira Who This Book Is For If you want to get started with Jira Software and learn how to run your Jira projects the agile way, then this is the perfect book for you. You will need to be familiar with the basics of Jira, both from an end user's and an administrator's perspective. Experience with workflows, custom fields, and other administrative functions of Jira will be useful. What You Will Learn ? Understand the basics and agile methodologies of Jira software ? Use Jira Software in a Scrum environment ? Manage and run Jira Software projects beyond the out of box Scrum and Kanban way ? Combine Scrum and Kanban and use other project management options beyond just agile ? Customize Jira Software’s various features and options as per your requirements ? Work with Jira Agile offline, and plan and forecast projects with agile portfolio ? Integrate Jira Agile with Confluence and Bitbucket In Detail Jira Software is an agile project management tool that supports any agile methodology, be it scrum, Kanban, or your own unique flavour. From agile boards to reports, you can plan, track, and manage all your agile software development projects from a single tool. Jira Software brings the power of agile methodology to Atlassian Jira. This second edition of JIRA Agile Essentials, will help you dive straight into the action, exploring critical agile terminologies and concepts in the context of Jira Software. You will learn how to plan, track, and release great software. This book will teach you how to install and run Jira Software and set it up to run with Scrum and Kanban. It will also teach you to use Jira Software your way and run projects beyond the out-of-box Scrum and Kanban way, including a hybrid approach of both the methodologies and other options that come with Jira Software. Later, you will learn how to integrate it with the tools you are already using and enhance Jira with add-ons such as Confluence. You will learn to stay connected with your team from anywhere to ensure great development. Jira Software has numerous deployment options in the cloud, on your own infrastructure, or at a massive scale. You will be introduced to Bitbucket, Atlassian’s distributed version control system, which integrates seamlessly with Jira, allowing your team to work within the two applications as one harmonious environment. With this practical guide, you will develop a great working knowledge of Jira Software and your project management will become much more efficient. Style and approach This practical book explains Jira Software with the help of detailed examples in a step-by- step manner.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Over 100 recipes for penetration testing using Metasploit and virtual machines About This Book ? Special focus on the latest operating systems, exploits, and penetration testing techniques ? Learn new anti-virus evasion techniques and use Metasploit to evade countermeasures ? Automate post exploitation with AutoRunScript ? Exploit Android devices, record audio and video, send and read SMS, read call logs, and much more ? Build and analyze Metasploit modules in Ruby ? Integrate Metasploit with other penetration testing tools Who This Book Is For If you are a Security professional or pentester and want to get into vulnerability exploitation and make the most of the Metasploit framework, then this book is for you. Some prior understanding of penetration testing and Metasploit is required. What You Will Learn ? Set up a complete penetration testing environment using Metasploit and virtual machines ? Master the world's leading penetration testing tool and use it in professional penetration testing ? Make the most of Metasploit with PostgreSQL, importing scan results, using workspaces, hosts, loot, notes, services, vulnerabilities, and exploit results ? Use Metasploit with the Penetration Testing Execution Standard methodology ? Use MSFvenom efficiently to generate payloads and backdoor files, and create shellcode ? Leverage Metasploit's advanced options, upgrade sessions, use proxies, use Meterpreter sleep control, and change timeouts to be stealthy In Detail Metasploit is the world's leading penetration testing tool and helps security and IT professionals find, exploit, and validate vulnerabilities. Metasploit allows penetration testing automation, password auditing, web application scanning, social engineering, post exploitation, evidence collection, and reporting. Metasploit's integration with InsightVM (or Nexpose), Nessus, OpenVas, and other vulnerability scanners provides a validation solution that simplifies vulnerability prioritization and remediation reporting. Teams can collaborate in Metasploit and present their findings in consolidated reports. In this book, you will go through great recipes that will allow you to start using Metasploit effectively. With an ever increasing level of complexity, and covering everything from the fundamentals to more advanced features in Metasploit, this book is not just for beginners but also for professionals keen to master this awesome tool. You will begin by building your lab environment, setting up Metasploit, and learning how to perform intelligence gathering, threat modeling, vulnerability analysis, exploitation, and post exploitation—all inside Metasploit. You will learn how to create and customize payloads to evade anti-virus software and bypass an organization's defenses, exploit server vulnerabilities, attack client systems, compromise mobile phones, automate post exploitation, install backdoors, run keyloggers, highjack webcams, port public exploits to the framework, create your own modules, and much more. Style and approach This book follows a cookbook style with recipes explaining penetration testing steps with Metasploit. Plenty plethora of code and commands are used to make your learning curve easy and quick.

Use Unity 2017 to create fun and unbelievable AI entities in your games with A*, Fuzzy logic and NavMesh About This Book ? Explore the brand-new Unity 2017 features that makes implementing Artificial Intelligence in your game easier than ever ? Use fuzzy logic concepts in your AI decision-making to make your characters more engaging ? Build exciting and richer games by mastering advanced Artificial Intelligence concepts such as Neural Networks Who This Book Is For This book is intended for Unity developers with a basic understanding of C# and the Unity editor. Whether you're looking to build your first game or are looking to expand your knowledge as a game programmer, you will find plenty of exciting information and examples of game AI in terms of concepts and implementation. What You Will Learn ? Understand the basic terminology and concepts in game AI ? Explore advanced AI Concepts such as Neural Networks ? Implement a basic finite state machine using state machine behaviors in Unity 2017 ? Create sensory systems for your AI and couple it with a Finite State Machine ? Wok with Unity 2017's built-in NavMesh features in your game ? Build believable and highly-efficient artificial flocks and crowds ? Create a basic behavior tree to drive a character's actions In Detail Unity 2017 provides game and app developers with a variety of tools to implement Artificial Intelligence. Leveraging these tools via Unity's API or built-in features allows limitless possibilities when it comes to creating your game's worlds and characters. This third edition with Unity will help you break down Artificial Intelligence into simple concepts to give you a fundamental understanding of the topic to build upon. Using a variety of examples, the book then takes those concepts and walks you through actual implementations designed to highlight key concepts, and features related to game AI in Unity 5. Further on you will learn to distinguish the state machine pattern and implement one of your own. This is followed by learning how to implement a basic sensory system for your AI agent and coupling it with a Finite State Machine (FSM). Next you'll learn how to use Unity's built-in NavMesh feature and implement your own A* pathfinding system. You will then learn how to implement simple flocks and crowd's dynamics, key AI concepts. Moving on, you will learn how to implement a behavior tree through a game-focused example. Lastly, you'll combine fuzzy logic concepts with state machines and apply all the concepts in the book to build a simple tank game. Style and approach A self-explanatory practical guide with a series of tips and tricks on creating AI games with ease.

Learn how to build high-performing enterprise applications using Java EE powered by Angular at the frontend About This Book ? Leverage Java EE 8 features to build robust back end for your enterprise applications ? Use Angular to build a single page frontend and combine it with the Java EE backend ? Practical guide filled with ample real-world examples Who This Book Is For This book is for Java EE developers who would like to build modern enterprise web applications using Angular. No prior knowledge of Angular is expected. What You Will Learn ? Write CDI-based code in Java EE 8 applications ? Build an understanding of Microservices and what they mean in Java EE context ? Use Docker to build and run a microservice application ? Use configuration options to work effectively with JSON documents ? Understand asynchronous task handling and writing REST API clients ? Explore the fundamentals of TypeScript, which sets the foundation for working on Angular projects ? Use Angular CLI to add and manage new features ? Use JSON Web tokens to secure Angular applications against malicious attacks In Detail The demand for modern and high performing web enterprise applications is growing rapidly. No more is a basic HTML front-end enough to meet customer demands. This book will be your one stop guide to build outstanding enterprise web applications with Java EE and Angular. It will teach you how to harness the power of Java EE to build sturdy back ends while applying Angular on the front end. Your journey to building excellent web enterprise applications starts here! The book starts with a brief introduction to the fundamentals of Java EE and all the new APIs offered in the latest release. Armed with the knowledge of Java EE 8, you will go over what it’s like to build an end to end application, configure database connection for JPA, and build scalable microservice using RESTful APIs running in docker containers. Taking advantage of Payara Micro capabilities, you will build an Issue Management System, which will have various features exposed as services using Java EE backend. With a detailed coverage of Angular fundamentals, the book will expand the Issue Management System by building a modern single page application frontend. Moving forward you will learn to fit both the pieces together i.e. the frontend Angular application with the backend java EE microservices. As each unit in a microservice promotes high cohesion, you will learn different ways in which independent units can be tested efficiently. Finishing off with concepts on securing your enterprise applications, this book is a hands on guide to building Modern Web Applications. Style and approach This is a step-by-step tutorial that explains to building modern web enterprise applications.

Design and administer fast, reliable enterprise messaging systems with Apache Kafka About This Book ? Build efficient real-time streaming applications in Apache Kafka to process data streams of data ? Master the core Kafka APIs to set up Apache Kafka clusters and start writing message producers and consumers ? A comprehensive guide to help you get a solid grasp of the Apache Kafka concepts in Apache Kafka with pracitcalpractical examples Who This Book Is For If you want to learn how to use Apache Kafka and the different tools in the Kafka ecosystem in the easiest possible manner, this book is for you. Some programming experience with Java is required to get the most out of this book What You Will Learn ? Learn the basics of Apache Kafka from scratch ? Use the basic building blocks of a streaming application ? Design effective streaming applications with Kafka using Spark, Storm &, and Heron ? Understand the importance of a low -latency , high- throughput, and fault-tolerant messaging system ? Make effective capacity planning while deploying your Kafka Application ? Understand and implement the best security practices In Detail Apache Kafka is a popular distributed streaming platform that acts as a messaging queue or an enterprise messaging system. It lets you publish and subscribe to a stream of records, and process them in a fault-tolerant way as they occur. This book is a comprehensive guide to designing and architecting enterprise-grade streaming applications using Apache Kafka and other big data tools. It includes best practices for building such applications, and tackles some common challenges such as how to use Kafka efficiently and handle high data volumes with ease. This book first takes you through understanding the type messaging system and then provides a thorough introduction to Apache Kafka and its internal details. The second part of the book takes you through designing streaming application using various frameworks and tools such as Apache Spark, Apache Storm, and more. Once you grasp the basics, we will take you through more advanced concepts in Apache Kafka such as capacity planning and security. By the end of this book, you will have all the information you need to be comfortable with using Apache Kafka, and to design efficient streaming data applications with it. Style and approach A step-by –step, comprehensive guide filled with practical and real- world examples

Bring the power of Microsoft Azure Hybrid Cloud technology to your datacenter. About This Book ? Build and deploy software-defined infrastructures and deliver Azure-based IaaS and Paas services in your datacenter ? Use Azure Stack to leverage your current infrastructure with Microsoft Hybrid Cloud and get the best of both worlds ? Unlock greater levels of performance and flexibility and save your organization money, time, and resources Who This Book Is For The book is for administrators and architects who are planning to implement or administer a hybrid cloud infrastructure using Microsoft Cloud Technology. This book is ideal for those who are looking forward to implement and run a hybrid cloud infrastructure with PaaS, SaaS and IaaS services. What You Will Learn ? Gain a clear understanding of Azure Stack design ? Set up storage, network and compute services in Azure Stack ? Implement and run a hybrid cloud infrastructure with PaaS, SaaS, and IaaS services ? Get an overview of the automation options in Azure Stack ? Integrate Azure public services such as multi-factor authentication and Azure AD with Azure Stack ? Learn about the services available in the future In Detail Azure Stack is all about creating fewer gaps between on-premise and public cloud application deployment. Azure Stack is the next logical evolution of Microsoft Cloud Services to create a true Hybrid Cloud-ready application. This book provides an introduction to Microsoft Azure Stack and the Cloud First Approach. Starting with an introduction to Microsoft Azure Stack Architecture, the book will help you plan and deploy your Microsoft Azure Stack. Next, you will learn about the Network and Storage option in Microsoft Azure Stack and you'll create your own private cloud solution. Finally, you will understand how to integrate Public Cloud Services with Microsoft Azure Stack and extend it using the 3rd Party Resource Provider. After reading the book, you will have a good understanding of an end-to-end process for designing, implementing, offering, and supporting cloud solutions for enterprises or service providers. Style and approach This book is a practical guide to help you unlock a hybrid cloud stack using Azure Stack. Using a straight forward and easy to implement approach, this book guides you through the basic planning for a hybrid cloud stack, describes the infrastructure technologies Azure Stack is based on, and explains how to deploy and administer an Azure Stack-based infrastructure.

Extract patterns and knowledge from your data in easy way using MATLAB About This Book ? Get your first steps into machine learning with the help of this easy-to-follow guide ? Learn regression, clustering, classification, predictive analytics, artificial neural networks and more with MATLAB ? Understand how your data works and identify hidden layers in the data with the power of machine learning. Who This Book Is For This book is for data analysts, data scientists, students, or anyone who is looking to get started with machine learning and want to build efficient data processing and predicting applications. A mathematical and statistical background will really help in following this book well. What You Will Learn ? Learn the introductory concepts of machine learning. ? Discover different ways to transform data using SAS XPORT, import and export tools, ? Explore the different types of regression techniques such as simple & multiple linear regression, ordinary least squares estimation, correlations and how to apply them to your data. ? Discover the basics of classification methods and how to implement Naive Bayes algorithm and Decision Trees in the Matlab environment. ? Uncover how to use clustering methods like hierarchical clustering to grouping data using the similarity measures. ? Know how to perform data fitting, pattern recognition, and clustering analysis with the help of MATLAB Neural Network Toolbox. ? Learn feature selection and extraction for dimensionality reduction leading to improved performance. In Detail MATLAB is the language of choice for many researchers and mathematics experts for machine learning. This book will help you build a foundation in machine learning using MATLAB for beginners. You’ll start by getting your system ready with t he MATLAB environment for machine learning and you’ll see how to easily interact with the Matlab workspace. We’ll then move on to data cleansing, mining and analyzing various data types in machine learning and you’ll see how to display data values on a plot. Next, you’ll get to know about the different types of regression techniques and how to apply them to your data using the MATLAB functions. You’ll understand the basic concepts of neural networks and perform data fitting, pattern recognition, and clustering analysis. Finally, you’ll explore feature selection and extraction techniques for dimensionality reduction for performance improvement. At the end of the book, you will learn to put it all together into real-world cases covering major machine learning algorithms and be comfortable in performing machine learning with MATLAB. Style and approach The book takes a very comprehensive approach to enhance your understanding of machine learning using MATLAB. Sufficient real-world examples and use cases are included in the book to help you grasp the concepts quickly and apply them easily in your day-to-day work.

Unlock deeper insights into visualization in form of 2D and 3D graphs using Matplotlib 2.x About This Book ? Create and customize live graphs, by adding style, color, font to make appealing graphs. ? A complete guide with insightful use cases and examples to perform data visualizations with Matplotlib's extensive toolkits. ? Create timestamp data visualizations on 2D and 3D graphs in form of plots, histogram, bar charts, scatterplots and more. Who This Book Is For This book is for anyone interested in data visualization, to get insights from big data with Python and Matplotlib 2.x. With this book you will be able to extend your knowledge and learn how to use python code in order to visualize your data with Matplotlib. Basic knowledge of Python is expected. What You Will Learn ? Familiarize with the latest features in Matplotlib 2.x ? Create data visualizations on 2D and 3D charts in the form of bar charts, bubble charts, heat maps, histograms, scatter plots, stacked area charts, swarm plots and many more. ? Make clear and appealing figures for scientific publications. ? Create interactive charts and animation. ? Extend the functionalities of Matplotlib with third-party packages, such as Basemap, GeoPandas, Mplot3d, Pandas, Scikit-learn, and Seaborn. ? Design intuitive infographics for effective storytelling. In Detail Big data analytics are driving innovations in scientific research, digital marketing, policy-making and much more. Matplotlib offers simple but powerful plotting interface, versatile plot types and robust customization. Matplotlib 2.x By Example illustrates the methods and applications of various plot types through real world examples. It begins by giving readers the basic know-how on how to create and customize plots by Matplotlib. It further covers how to plot different types of economic data in the form of 2D and 3D graphs, which give insights from a deluge of data from public repositories, such as Quandl Finance. You will learn to visualize geographical data on maps and implement interactive charts. By the end of this book, you will become well versed with Matplotlib in your day-to-day work to perform advanced data visualization. This book will guide you to prepare high quality figures for manu*s and presentations. You will learn to create intuitive info-graphics and reshaping your message crisply understandable. Style and approach Step by step comprehensive guide filled with real world examples.

Learn NativeScript to build native mobile applications with Angular, TypeScript, JavaScript About This Book ? Power packed hands-on guide to help you become pro-efficient with NativeScript ? Harness the power of your web development skills with JavaScript and Angular to build cross-platform mobile apps ? Create highly maintainable and feature-rich apps with TypeScript and NativeScript APIs Who This Book Is For This book assumes you have a general understanding of TypeScript, have heard of NativeScript and know what it's about, and are familiar with Angular (2.0). You don't need to be an expert in any of these technologies, but having some sense of them before reading is recommended this book, which is ideal for intermediate to advanced users. What You Will Learn ? Bootstrap a NativeScript for Angular app ? Best practices for project organization ? Style your app with CSS/SASS ? Use Angular together with NativeScript to create cross-platform mobile apps ? Take advantage of powerful Angular features, such as Dependency Injection, Components, Directives, Pipes, and NgModules right within your NativeScript apps ?Gain insight into great project organization and best practices ?Use Objective C/Swift and Java APIs directly from TypeScript ?Use rich framework features and third-party plugins ?Style your app with CSS/SASS ?Integrate @ngrx/store + @ngrx/effects to help with state management ?Test your app with Karma and Appium In Detail NativeScript is an open source framework that is built by Progress in order to build truly native mobile apps with TypeScript, JavaScript or just Angular which is an open source framework built by Google that offers declarative templates, dependency injection, and fully featured modules to build rich applications. Angular’s versatile view handling architecture allows your views to be rendered as highly performant UI components native to iOS and Android mobile platforms. This decoupling of the view rendering layer in Angular combined with the power of native APIs with NativeScript have together created the powerful and exciting technology stack of NativeScript for Angular. This book focuses on the key concepts that you will need to know to build a NativeScript for Angular mobile app for iOS and Android. We’ll build a fun multitrack recording studio app, touching on powerful key concepts from both technologies that you may need to know when you start building an app of your own. The structure of the book takes the reader from a void to a deployed app on both the App Store and Google Play, serving as a reference guide and valuable tips/tricks handbook. By the end of this book, you’ll know majority of key concepts needed to build a successful NativeScript for Angular app. Style and approach This step-by-step advanced tutorial focuses on the key concepts you need to know to build a NativeScript for Angular mobile app for iOS and Android.

Use the power of BLE to create exciting IoT applications About This Book ? Build hands-on IoT projects using Bluetooth Low Energy and learn about Bluetooth 5 and its features. ? Build a health tracking system, and indoor navigation and warehouse weather monitoring projects using smart devices. ? Build on a theoretical foundation and create a practice-based understanding of Bluetooth Low Energy. Who This Book Is For If you're an application developer, a hardware enthusiast, or just curious about the Internet of Things and how to convert it into hands-on projects, then this book is for you. Having some knowledge of writing mobile applications will be advantageous. What You Will Learn ? Learn about the architecture and IoT uses of BLE, and in which domains it is being used the most ? Set up and learn about various development platforms (Android, iOS, Firebase, Raspberry Pi, Beacons, and GitHub) ? Create an Explorer App (Android/iOS) to diagnose a Fitness Tracker ? Design a Beacon with the Raspberry Pi and write an app to detect the Beacon ? Write a mobile app to periodically poll the BLE tracking sensor ? Compose an app to read data periodically from temperature and humidity sensors ? Explore more applications of BLE with IoT ? Design projects for both Android and iOS mobile platforms In Detail Bluetooth Low Energy, or Bluetooth Smart, is Wireless Personal Area networking aimed at smart devices and IoT applications. BLE has been increasingly adopted by application developers and IoT enthusiasts to establish connections between smart devices. This book initially covers all the required aspects of BLE, before you start working on IoT projects. In the initial stages of the book, you will learn about the basic aspects of Bluetooth Low Energy—such as discovering devices, services, and characteristics—that will be helpful for advanced-level projects. This book will guide you through building hands-on projects using BLE and IoT. These projects include tracking health data, using a mobile App, and making this data available for health practitioners; Indoor navigation; creating beacons using the Raspberry Pi; and warehouse weather Monitoring. This book also covers aspects of Bluetooth 5 (the latest release) and its effect on each of these projects. By the end of this book, you will have hands-on experience of using Bluetooth Low Energy to integrate with smart devices and IoT projects. Style and approach A practical guide that will help you promote yourself into an expert by building and exploring practical applications of Bluetooth Low Energy.

Get to grips with HoloLens development as you create mixed reality apps from scratch About This Book ? Create awesome Augmented Reality (AR) apps for the Microsoft HoloLens platform ? Unleash the power of Unity SDK for HoloLens to create next generation AR apps ? Explore the exciting world of gesture control, visual mapping, voice command for apps, and many more cutting edge possibilities with HoloLens Who This Book Is For This book is for developers who have some experience with programming in any of the major languages such as C#, C++, and so on. You do need any knowledge of Augmented Reality development. What You Will Learn ? Extend the computing experience beyond the flat glass screen by placing and embedding virtual objects holograms) into the physical world ? Interact with the holograms using gaze, gestures, and voice ? Enhance the experience with spatial sound ? Allow multiple users to naturally collaborate with each other ? Integrate voice commands into your own HoloLens projects ? Experiment with techniques to better understand the real world ? Implement a user interface in Mixed Reality ? Blend the virtual and physical world by making the holograms interact and react to the physical environment In Detail Are you a developer who is fascinated with Microsoft HoloLens and its capabilities? Do you want to learn the intricacies of working with the HoloLens SDK and create your own apps? If so, this is the book for you. This book introduces and demystifies the HoloLens platform and introduces new ways you can interact with computers (Mixed Reality). It will teach you the important concepts, get you excited about the possibilities, and give you the tools to continue exploring and experimenting. You will go through the journey of creating four independent examples throughout the book, two using DirectX and two using Unity. You will learn to implement spatial mapping and gesture control, incorporate spatial sound, and work with different types of input and gaze. You will also learn to use the Unity 5 SDK for HoloLens and create apps with it. Collectively, the apps explore the major concepts of HoloLens, but each app is independent, giving you the flexibility to choose where to start (and end). Style and approach This book takes an example-based approach where you’ll build AR apps with increasing difficulty. You will learn more about HoloLens platform as well as AR app development in general.