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

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

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

Learning the new system’s programming language for all Unix-type systems About This Book ? Learn how to write system's level code in Golang, similar to Unix/Linux systems code ? Ramp up in Go quickly ? Deep dive into Goroutines and Go concurrency to be able to take advantage of Go server-level constructs Who This Book Is For Intermediate Linux and general Unix programmers. Network programmers from beginners to advanced practitioners. C and C++ programmers interested in different approaches to concurrency and Linux systems programming. What You Will Learn ? Explore the Go language from the standpoint of a developer conversant with Unix, Linux, and so on ? Understand Goroutines, the lightweight threads used for systems and concurrent applications ? Learn how to translate Unix and Linux systems code in C to Golang code ? How to write fast and lightweight server code ? Dive into concurrency with Go ? Write low-level networking code In Detail Go is the new systems programming language for Linux and Unix systems. It is also the language in which some of the most prominent cloud-level systems have been written, such as Docker. Where C programmers used to rule, Go programmers are in demand to write highly optimized systems programming code. Created by some of the original designers of C and Unix, Go expands the systems programmers toolkit and adds a mature, clear programming language. Traditional system applications become easier to write since pointers are not relevant and garbage collection has taken away the most problematic area for low-level systems code: memory management. This book opens up the world of high-performance Unix system applications to the beginning Go programmer. It does not get stuck on single systems or even system types, but tries to expand the original teachings from Unix system level programming to all types of servers, the cloud, and the web. Style and approach This is the first book to introduce Linux and Unix systems programming in Go, a field for which Go has actually been developed in the first place.

Over 60 recipes to help you learn digital forensics and leverage Python *s to amplify your examinations About This Book ? Develop code that extracts vital information from everyday forensic acquisitions. ? Increase the quality and efficiency of your forensic analysis. ? Leverage the latest resources and capabilities available to the forensic community. Who This Book Is For If you are a digital forensics examiner, cyber security specialist, or analyst at heart, understand the basics of Python, and want to take it to the next level, this is the book for you. Along the way, you will be introduced to a number of libraries suitable for parsing forensic artifacts. Readers will be able to use and build upon the *s we develop to elevate their analysis. What You Will Learn ? Understand how Python can enhance digital forensics and investigations ? Learn to access the contents of, and process, forensic evidence containers ? Explore malware through automated static analysis ? Extract and review message contents from a variety of email formats ? Add depth and context to discovered IP addresses and domains through various Application Program Interfaces (APIs) ? Delve into mobile forensics and recover deleted messages from SQLite databases ? Index large logs into a platform to better query and visualize datasets In Detail Technology plays an increasingly large role in our daily lives and shows no sign of stopping. Now, more than ever, it is paramount that an investigator develops programming expertise to deal with increasingly large datasets. By leveraging the Python recipes explored throughout this book, we make the complex simple, quickly extracting relevant information from large datasets. You will explore, develop, and deploy Python code and libraries to provide meaningful results that can be immediately applied to your investigations. Throughout the Python Digital Forensics Cookbook, recipes include topics such as working with forensic evidence containers, parsing mobile and desktop operating system artifacts, extracting embedded metadata from documents and executables, and identifying indicators of compromise. You will also learn to integrate *s with Application Program Interfaces (APIs) such as VirusTotal and PassiveTotal, and tools such as Axiom, Cellebrite, and EnCase. By the end of the book, you will have a sound understanding of Python and how you can use it to process artifacts in your investigations. Style and approach Our succinct recipes take a no-frills approach to solving common challenges faced in investigations. The code in this book covers a wide range of artifacts and data sources. These examples will help improve the accuracy and efficiency of your analysis—no matter the situation.

Administer, configure, and monitor Junos in your organization About This Book ? Get well acquainted with security and routing policies to identify the use of firewall filters. ? Learn to provide end-user authentication and protect each layer in an enterprise network. ? A recipe-based guide that will help you configure and monitor Junos OS and basic device operations. Who This Book Is For This book targets network engineers, developers, support personals, and administrators who are working on devices running Junos OS and are looking at automating their organisation's operations. Some understanding about Junos would be necessary What You Will Learn ? Start using NETCONF RPC standard and understand its usefulness in programming JUNOS ? Write SLAX *s to respond to events in the JUNOS environment ? Automate JUNOS with PyEZ ? Deal with events in the JUNOS environment, and writing response handlers to deal with them ? Make the most of automation technologies to help with maintenance and monitoring of JUNOS ? Use the Ansible framework to extend the automation functionality of Junos In Detail The JUNOS Automation Cookbook is a companion guide for the complex field of automating tasks on JUNOS devices. With a foundation in industry-standrd XML, JUNOS provides an ideal environment for programmatic interation, allowing you to build upon the capabilities provided by Juniper, with your own original code. You will begin by learning about, and setting up, the industry-standard NETCONF remote procedure call mechanisms on your device. After initial setup, you'll walk through SLAX - Juniper's foundation *ing language - for manipulating XML representations of JUNOS concepts and elements. You'll learn how to write your own SLAX *s to customise the operating environment, and also how to write proactive event handlers that deal with situations as they happen. You'll then delve into PyEZ - Juniper's bridging framework to make automation accessible to Python code - allowing you to build automation applications in the popular *ing language. You'll witness some examples of how to write applications that can monitor configuration changes, implement BGP security policies and implement ad-hoc routing protocols, for those really tricky situations. You'll also leaarn how asynchronous I/O frameworks like Node.js can be used to implement automation applications that present an acceptable web interface. Along with way, you'll explore how to make use of the latest RESTful APIs that JUNOS provides, how to visualize aspects of your JUNOS network, and how to integrate your automation capabilities with enterprise-wide orchestration systems like Ansible. By the end of the book, you'll be able to tackle JUNOS automation challenges with confidence and understanding, and without hassle. Style and Approach A guide that will cover all the automation tools along with steps on leveraging these tools

Incorporate the assembly language routines in your high level language applications About This Book ? Understand the Assembly programming concepts and the benefits of examining the AL codes generated from high level languages ? Learn to incorporate the assembly language routines in your high level language applications ? Understand how a CPU works when programming in high level languages Who This Book Is For This book is for developers who would like to learn about Assembly language. Prior programming knowledge of C and C++ is assumed. What You Will Learn ? Obtain deeper understanding of the underlying platform ? Understand binary arithmetic and logic operations ? Create elegant and efficient code in Assembly language ? Understand how to link Assembly code to outer world ? Obtain in-depth understanding of relevant internal mechanisms of Intel CPU ? Write stable, efficient and elegant patches for running processes In Detail The Assembly language is the lowest level human readable programming language on any platform. Knowing the way things are on the Assembly level will help developers design their code in a much more elegant and efficient way. It may be produced by compiling source code from a high-level programming language (such as C/C++) but can also be written from scratch. Assembly code can be converted to machine code using an assembler. The first section of the book starts with setting up the development environment on Windows and Linux, mentioning most common toolchains. The reader is led through the basic structure of CPU and memory, and is presented the most important Assembly instructions through examples for both Windows and Linux, 32 and 64 bits. Then the reader would understand how high level languages are translated into Assembly and then compiled into object code. Finally we will cover patching existing code, either legacy code without sources or a running code in same or remote process. Style and approach This book takes a step-by-step, detailed approach to Comprehensively learning Assembly Programming.

This book breaks down the C++ STL, teaching you how to extract its gems and apply them to your programming. About This Book ? Boost your productivity as a C++ developer with the latest features of C++17 ? Develop high-quality, fast, and portable applications with the varied features of the STL ? Migrate from older versions (C++11, C++14) to C++17 Who This Book Is For This book is for developers who would like to master the C++ STL and make full use of its components. Prior C++ knowledge is assumed. What You Will Learn ? Make your own iterator types, allocators, and thread pools. ? Master every standard container and every standard algorithm. ? Improve your code by replacing new/delete with smart pointers. ? Understand the difference between monomorphic algorithms, polymorphic algorithms, and generic algorithms. ? Learn the meaning and applications of vocabulary type, product type and sum type. In Detail Modern C++ has come a long way since 2011. The latest update, C++17, has just been ratified and several implementations are on the way. This book is your guide to the C++ standard library, including the very latest C++17 features. The book starts by exploring the C++ Standard Template Library in depth. You will learn the key differences between classical polymorphism and generic programming, the foundation of the STL. You will also learn how to use the various algorithms and containers in the STL to suit your programming needs. The next module delves into the tools of modern C++. Here you will learn about algebraic types such as std::optional, vocabulary types such as std::function, smart pointers, and synchronization primitives such as std::atomic and std::mutex. In the final module, you will learn about C++'s support for regular expressions and file I/O. By the end of the book you will be proficient in using the C++17 standard library to implement real programs, and you'll have gained a solid understanding of the library's own internals. Style and approach This book takes a concise but comprehensive approach to explaining and applying the C++ STL, one feature at a time.

Step by Step guide filled with real world practical examples. About This Book ? Get your first experience with data analysis with one of the most powerful types of analysis—time-series. ? Find patterns in your data and predict the future pattern based on historical data. ? Learn the statistics, theory, and implementation of Time-series methods using this example-rich guide Who This Book Is For This book is for anyone who wants to analyze data over time and/or frequency. A statistical background is necessary to quickly learn the analysis methods. What You Will Learn ? Understand the basic concepts of Time Series Analysis and appreciate its importance for the success of a data science project ? Develop an understanding of loading, exploring, and visualizing time-series data ? Explore auto-correlation and gain knowledge of statistical techniques to deal with non-stationarity time series ? Take advantage of exponential smoothing to tackle noise in time series data ? Learn how to use auto-regressive models to make predictions using time-series data ? Build predictive models on time series using techniques based on auto-regressive moving averages ? Discover recent advancements in deep learning to build accurate forecasting models for time series ? Gain familiarity with the basics of Python as a powerful yet simple to write programming language In Detail Time Series Analysis allows us to analyze data which is generated over a period of time and has sequential interdependencies between the observations. This book describes special mathematical tricks and techniques which are geared towards exploring the internal structures of time series data and generating powerful de*ive and predictive insights. Also, the book is full of real-life examples of time series and their analyses using cutting-edge solutions developed in Python. The book starts with de*ive analysis to create insightful visualizations of internal structures such as trend, seasonality and autocorrelation. Next, the statistical methods of dealing with autocorrelation and non-stationary time series are described. This is followed by exponential smoothing to produce meaningful insights from noisy time series data. At this point, we shift focus towards predictive analysis and introduce autoregressive models such as ARMA and ARIMA for time series forecasting. Later, powerful deep learning methods are presented, to develop accurate forecasting models for complex time series, and under the availability of little domain knowledge. All the topics are illustrated with real-life problem scenarios and their solutions by best-practice implementations in Python. The book concludes with the Appendix, with a brief discussion of programming and solving data science problems using Python. Style and approach This book takes the readers from the basic to advance level of Time series analysis in a very practical and real world use cases.

A practical guide to help you tackle different real-time data processing and analytics problems using the best tools for each scenario About This Book ? Learn about the various challenges in real-time data processing and use the right tools to overcome them ? This book covers popular tools and frameworks such as Spark, Flink, and Apache Storm to solve all your distributed processing problems ? A practical guide filled with examples, tips, and tricks to help you perform efficient Big Data processing in real-time Who This Book Is For If you are a Java developer who would like to be equipped with all the tools required to devise an end-to-end practical solution on real-time data streaming, then this book is for you. Basic knowledge of real-time processing would be helpful, and knowing the fundamentals of Maven, Shell, and Eclipse would be great. What You Will Learn ? Get an introduction to the established real-time stack ? Understand the key integration of all the components ? Get a thorough understanding of the basic building blocks for real-time solution designing ? Garnish the search and visualization aspects for your real-time solution ? Get conceptually and practically acquainted with real-time analytics ? Be well equipped to apply the knowledge and create your own solutions In Detail With the rise of Big Data, there is an increasing need to process large amounts of data continuously, with a shorter turnaround time. Real-time data processing involves continuous input, processing and output of data, with the condition that the time required for processing is as short as possible. This book covers the majority of the existing and evolving open source technology stack for real-time processing and analytics. You will get to know about all the real-time solution aspects, from the source to the presentation to persistence. Through this practical book, you’ll be equipped with a clear understanding of how to solve challenges on your own. We’ll cover topics such as how to set up components, basic executions, integrations, advanced use cases, alerts, and monitoring. You’ll be exposed to the popular tools used in real-time processing today such as Apache Spark, Apache Flink, and Storm. Finally, you will put your knowledge to practical use by implementing all of the techniques in the form of a practical, real-world use case. By the end of this book, you will have a solid understanding of all the aspects of real-time data processing and analytics, and will know how to deploy the solutions in production environments in the best possible manner. Style and Approach In this practical guide to real-time analytics, each chapter begins with a basic high-level concept of the topic, followed by a practical, hands-on implementation of each concept, where you can see the working and execution of it. The book is written in a DIY style, with plenty of practical use cases, well-explained code examples, and relevant screenshots and diagrams.

This book shows JavaScript developers how to build highly dependable JavaScript projects using the Immutable.js framework. About This Book ? Master the Immutable.js JavaScript framework ? Build predictable and dependable applications using immutability ? Control how data flows through your application ? Control the effects of data flow in your user interface using Node.js Who This Book Is For This book is for JavaScript developers, from intermediate level and beyond, who need to create dependable JavaScript projects, using the Immutable.js JavaScript framework. What You Will Learn ? Learn how Immutable.js can improve the dependability of your JavaScript code ? Discover how to create Immutable data, and work with persistent changes ? See how to combine and filter collections, and find items ? Learn how to work with sequences and side effects ? Sort collections, maps, and sets ? Get to know tricks to avoid processing chains ? Compare and move between lists, sets, and maps ? Work with Immutable patterns and Immutable architecture In Detail Immutable.js is a JavaScript library that will improve the robustness and dependability of your larger JavaScript projects. All aspects of the Immutable.js framework are covered in this book, and common JavaScript situations are examined in a hands-on way so that you gain practical experience using Immutable.js that you can apply across your own JavaScript projects. The key to building robust JavaScript applications using immutability is to control how data flows through your application, and how the side-effects of these flows are managed. Many problems that are difficult to pinpoint in large codebases stem from data that’s been mutated where it shouldn’t have been. With immutable data, you rule out an entire class of bugs. Mastering Immutable.js takes a practical, hands-on approach throughout, and shows you the ins and outs of the Immutable.js framework so that you can confidently build successful and dependable JavaScript projects. Style and Approach Adam Boduch covers all the key concepts and benefits of immutability, and then presents you with hands-on practical experience on implementing immutability in your JavaScript projects.

Over 50 recipes to create full-stack high-performance web applications using pure JavaScript and the MEAN stack. About This Book ? Architect a fully functional stand-alone web application, including the web server, database, and front-end web application ? Improve the performance and maintainability of your MEAN stack application with tips for configuration and optimization ? Highlights MEAN Stack best practices when working with your application Who This Book Is For If you are a JavaScript developer who wants to create high-performing, modern web applications with the MEAN stack, this is the book for you. Web developers familiar with some parts of the MEAN stack will find this a comprehensive guide to fleshing out the other technologies and skills they need to build all JavaScript web applications. Developers interested in transitioning from other web application stacks to an all-JavaScript environment will find a wealth of information about how to work in a MEAN stack environment. To get the most from this book, you should have a general understanding of web servers and web applications. You are expected to have a basic understanding of running JavaScript, both in a web browser and outside it, using Node.js and the NPM package manager. What You Will Learn ? Bootstrap a new MEAN stack web application using Node.js and Express ? Build a single-page application (SPA) with Angular and Angular-CLI ? Improve browser performance by optimizing your web application resources using Webpack ? Model complex JSON object relationships in MongoDB using Mongoose ? Debug all the layers of a MEAN stack application, including working with source maps ? Build Restful APIs using Express.js and JSON Web Token (JWT) for user authentication ? Use automated testing to improve the reliability and quality of your MEAN stack application In Detail The MEAN Stack is a framework for web application development using JavaScript-based technologies; MongoDB, Express, Angular, and Node.js. If you want to expand your understanding of using JavaScript to produce a fully functional standalone web application, including the web server, user interface, and database, then this book can help guide you through that transition. This book begins by configuring the frontend of the MEAN stack web application using the Angular JavaScript framework. We then implement common user interface enhancements before moving on to configuring the server layer of our MEAN stack web application using Express for our backend APIs. You will learn to configure the database layer of your MEAN stack web application using MongoDB and the Mongoose framework, including modeling relationships between documents. You will explore advanced topics such as optimizing your web application using WebPack as well as the use of automated testing with the Mocha and Chai frameworks. By the end of the book, you should have acquired a level of proficiency that allows you to confidently build a full production-ready and scalable MEAN stack application. Style and Approach This book is a guide of MEAN Stack specific solutions to common web application problems and includes in-depth guides for each layer of the application stack. Readers looking to upgrade their MEAN Stack web application will find recipes within to help them transition.

Learn how to combine Bootstrap with Vue.js to build responsive web applications. About This Book ? Build applications with a good architecture and clean UI with Vue.js and Bootstrap ? Understand Bootstrap components and learn to integrate them with the Vue.js structure ? Build, deploy, and test your code with various utility tools provided by Vue.js Who This Book Is For This book is for JavaScript programmers who are new to web frameworks and want to start learning it by developing interactive and responsive web applications. What You Will Learn ? Create and build web applications using Vue.js, Webpack, and Nuxt.js ? Combine Bootstrap components with Vue.js' power to enrich your web applications with reusable elements ? Connect the Vuex state management architecture to the Firebase cloud backend to persist and manage application data ? Explore the new grid system of Bootstrap 4 along with the far simpler directives in Vue.js ? Test Vue applications using Jest ? Authenticate your application using Bootstrap's forms, Vue.js' reactivity, and Firebase's authentication API ? Deploy your application using Firebase, which provides Backend as a Service In Detail In this book, we will build a full stack web application right from scratch up to its deployment. We will start by building a small introduction application and then proceed to the creation of a fully functional, dynamic responsive web application called ProFitOro. In this application, we will build a Pomodoro timer combined with office workouts. Besides the Pomodoro timer and ProFitOro workouts will enable authentication and collaborative content management. We will explore topics such as Vue reactive data binding, reusable components, routing, and Vuex store along with its state, actions, mutations, and getters. We will create Vue applications using both webpack and Nuxt.js templates while exploring cool hot Nuxt.js features such as code splitting and server-side rendering. We will use Jest to test this application, and we will even revive some trigonometry from our secondary school! While developing the app, you will go through the new grid system of Bootstrap 4 along with Vue.js’ directives. We will connect Vuex store to the Firebase real-time database, data storage, and authentication APIs and use this data later inside the application’s reactive components. Finally, we will quickly deploy our application using the Firebase hosting mechanism. Style and Approach Step-by-step tutorial

Become a pro with the latest Android SDK and create state of the art applications for Android. About This Book ? Dive deep into Android development with practical hands on examples to help you in each stage. ? Develop smart professional grade apps for the latest Android N version and become a pro android developer. ? Unclog your development highway by utilising the industry standard best practices techniques. Who This Book Is For This book is for mobile developers having some expertise in building android apps and who wish to now take a leap into building complex app such as Zomato, using latest Android N power of Google. What You Will Learn ? Building UI/UX following best industry practices ? Development of Zomato Clone ? Measure and improve app performance ? Improving app using test mechanisms ? Bringing the app live on the play store In Detail Android O brings a number of important changes for the users as well as the developers. If you want to create smart android applications which are fast, lightweight and also highly efficient then this is the book that will solve all your problems. You will create a complex enterprise grade app in this book. You will get a quick refresher of the latest android SDK and how to configure your development environment. Then you will move onto creating app layouts, component and module building, creating smart and efficient UIs. The most important part of a modern day app is how real time they are. With this book, you will create a smooth back-end for your app, ensure dynamic and real time communication between different app layers. As we move on, you will learn to leverage the different Android APIs and create an efficient SQLite data layer for your apps. You will implement effective testing techniques to make your app reliable and robust and finally you will learn to deploy it efficiently. The multiple stages of android development will also be simplified by giving you an industry standard set of best practices. Style and approach This book will have a dedicated practical tutorial style approach with focus on professional & enterprise grade android app development. The examples in each chapter will be modular and will also help you to create a complete fully fueatured android app by the end of the book.

Harness the power and simplicity of Informatica PowerCenter 10.x to build and manage efficient data management solutions About This Book ? Master PowerCenter 10.x components to create, execute, monitor, and schedule ETL processes with a practical approach. ? An ideal guide to building the necessary skills and competencies to become an expert Informatica PowerCenter developer. ? A comprehensive guide to fetching/transforming and loading huge volumes of data in a very effective way, with reduced resource consumption Who This Book Is For If you wish to deploy Informatica in enterprise environments and build a career in data warehousing, then this book is for you. Whether you are a software developer/analytic professional and are new to Informatica or an experienced user, you will learn all the features of Informatica 10.x. A basic knowledge of programming and data warehouse concepts is essential. What You Will Learn ? Install or upgrade the components of the Informatica PowerCenter tool ? Work on various aspects of administrative skills and on the various developer Informatica PowerCenter screens such as Designer, Workflow Manager, Workflow Monitor, and Repository Manager. ? Get practical hands-on experience of various sections of Informatica PowerCenter, such as navigator, toolbar, workspace, control panel, and so on ? Leverage basic and advanced utilities, such as the debugger, target load plan, and incremental aggregation to process data ? Implement data warehousing concepts such as schemas and SCDs using Informatica ? Migrate various components, such as sources and targets, to another region using the Designer and Repository Manager screens ? Enhance code performance using tips such as pushdown optimization and partitioning In Detail Informatica PowerCenter is an industry-leading ETL tool, known for its accelerated data extraction, transformation, and data management strategies. This book will be your quick guide to exploring Informatica PowerCenter’s powerful features such as working on sources, targets, transformations, performance optimization, scheduling, deploying for processing, and managing your data at speed. First, you’ll learn how to install and configure tools. You will learn to implement various data warehouse and ETL concepts, and use PowerCenter 10.x components to build mappings, tasks, workflows, and so on. You will come across features such as transformations, SCD, XML processing, partitioning, constraint-based loading, Incremental aggregation, and many more. Moreover, you’ll also learn to deliver powerful visualizations for data profiling using the advanced monitoring dashboard functionality offered by the new version. Using data transformation technique, performance tuning, and the many new advanced features, this book will help you understand and process data for training or production purposes. The step-by-step approach and adoption of real-time scenarios will guide you through effectively accessing all core functionalities offered by Informatica PowerCenter version 10.x. Style and approach You'll get hand-on with sources, targets, transformations, performance optimization, scheduling, deploying for processing, and managing your data, and learn everything you need to become a proficient Informatica PowerCenter developer.

Over 50 recipes to drive IoT innovation with Microsoft Azure About This Book ? Build secure and scalable IoT solutions with Azure IoT platform ? Learn techniques to build end to end IoT solutions leveraging the Azure IoT platform ? Filled with practical recipes to help you increase connectivity and automation across IoT devices Who This Book Is For If you are an application developer and want to build robust and secure IoT solution for your organization using Azure IoT, then this book is for you. What You Will Learn ? Build IoT Solutions using Azure IoT & Services ? Learn device configuration and communication protocols ? Understand IoT Suite and Pre-configured solutions ? Manage Secure Device communications ? Understand Device management, alerts ? Introduction with IoT Analytics, reference IoT Architectures ? Reference Architectures from Industry ? Pre-Configured IoT Suite solutions In Detail Microsoft’s end-to-end IoT platform is the most complete IoT offering, empowering enterprises to build and realize value from IoT solutions efficiently. It is important to develop robust and reliable solutions for your organization to leverage IoT services. This book focuses on how to start building custom solutions using the IoT hub or the preconfigured solution of Azure IoT suite. As a developer, you will be taught how to connect multiple devices to the Azure IoT hub, develop, manage the IoT hub service and integrate the hub with cloud. We will be covering REST APIs along with HTTP, MQTT and AMQP protocols. It also helps you learn Pre-Configured IoT Suite solution. Moving ahead we will be covering topics like:-Process device-to-cloud messages and cloud-to-device messages using .Net-Direct methods and device management-Query Language, Azure IoT SDK for .Net-Creating and managing, Securing IoT hub, IoT Suite and many more. We will be using windows 10 IoT core, Visual Studio, universal Windows platform. At the end, we will take you through IoT analytics and provide a demo of connecting real device with Azure IoT. Style and approach A set of exciting recipes of using Microsoft Azure IoT more effectively.

Build cost-effective and highly scalable Serverless applications using AWS Lambda. About This Book ? Leverage AWS Lambda to significantly lower your infrastructure costs and deploy out massively scalable, event-driven systems and applications ? Learn how to design and build Lambda functions using real-world examples and implementation scenarios ? Explore the Serverless ecosystem with a variety of toolsets and AWS services including DynamoDB, API Gateway, and much more! Who This Book Is For If you are a Cloud administrator and/or developer who wishes to explore, learn, and leverage AWS Lambda to design, build, and deploy Serverless applications in the cloud, then this is the book for you! The book assumes you have some prior knowledge and hands-on experience with AWS core services such as EC2, IAM, S3, along with the knowledge to work with any popular programming language such as Node.Js, Java, C#, and so on. What You Will Learn ? Understand the hype, significance, and business benefits of Serverless computing and applications ? Plunge into the Serverless world of AWS Lambda and master its core components and how it works ? Find out how to effectively and efficiently design, develop, and test Lambda functions using Node.js, along with some keen coding insights and best practices ? Explore best practices to effectively monitor and troubleshoot Serverless applications using AWS CloudWatch and other third-party services in the form of Datadog and Loggly ? Quickly design and develop Serverless applications by leveraging AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, and API Gateway using the Serverless Application Framework (SAF) and other AWS services such as Step Functions ? Explore a rich variety of real-world Serverless use cases with Lambda and see how you can apply it to your environments In Detail AWS is recognized as one of the biggest market leaders for cloud computing and why not? It has evolved a lot since the time it started out by providing just basic services such as EC2 and S3 and today; they go all the way from IoT to Machine Learning, Image recognition, Chatbot Frameworks, and much more! One of those recent services that is also gaining a lot of traction is AWS Lambda! Although seemingly simple and easy to use, Lambda is a highly effective and scalable compute service that provides developers with a powerful platform to design and develop Serverless event-driven systems and applications. The book begins with a high-level introduction into the world of Serverless computing and its advantages and use cases, followed by a deep dive into AWS Lambda! You’ll learn what services AWS Lambda provides to developers; how to design, write, and test Lambda functions; as well as monitor and troubleshoot them. The book is designed and accompanied with a vast variety of real-world examples, use cases, and code samples that will enable you to get started on your Serverless applications quickly. By the end of the book, you will have gained all the skills required to work with AWS Lambda services! Style and approach This step-by-step guide will help you build Serverless applications and run Serverless workloads using the AWS Lambda service. You’ll be able to get started with it in a matter of minutes with easy-to-follow code snippets and examples.

Leverage ASP.Net Web API to build professional web services and create powerful applications. About This Book ? Get a comprehensive analysis of the latest specification of ASP.NET Core and all the changes to the underlying platform that you need to know to make the most of the web API ? See an advanced coverage of ASP.NET Core Web API to create robust models for your data, create controllers, and handle routing and security ? This book is packed with key theoretical and practical concepts that can be instantly applied to build professional applications using API with Angular 4, Ionic, and React Who This Book Is For This book is for .Net developers who wants to Master ASP.NET Core (Web API) and have played around with previous ASP.NET Web API a little, but don’t have in-depth knowledge of it. You need to know Visual Studio and C#, and have some HTML, CSS, and JavaScript knowledge. What You Will Learn ? Acquire conceptual and hands-on knowledge of ASP.NET Core (MVC & Web API) ? Learn about HTTP methods, the structure of HTTP content, internet media types, and how servers respond to HTTP requests and their associated HTTP codes ? Explore middleware, filters, routing, and unit testing ? Optimize Web API implementations ? Develop a secure Web API interface ? Deploy Web API projects to various platforms ? Consume your web API in front end application based on Angular 4, Bootstrap, and Ionic ? Implement and explore the current trends in service architecture In Detail Microsoft has unified their main web development platforms. This unification will help develop web applications using various pieces of the ASP.NET platform that can be deployed on both Windows and LINUX. With ASP.NET Core (Web API), it will become easier than ever to build secure HTTP services that can be used from any client. Mastering ASP.NET Web API starts with the building blocks of the ASP.NET Core, then gradually moves on to implementing various HTTP routing strategies in the Web API. We then focus on the key components of building applications that employ the Web API, such as Kestrel, Middleware, Filters, Logging, Security, and Entity Framework.Readers will be introduced to take the TDD approach to write test cases along with the new Visual Studio 2017 live unit testing feature. They will also be introduced to integrate with the database using ORMs. Finally, we explore how the Web API can be consumed in a browser as well as by mobile applications by utilizing Angular 4, Ionic and ReactJS. By the end of this book, you will be able to apply best practices to develop complex Web API, consume them in frontend applications and deploy these applications to a modern hosting infrastructure. Style and approach Using a hands-on approach, we cover both the conceptual as well as the technical aspects of the ASP.NET Core (Web API) framework.

Practically and deeply understand concurrency in Python to write efficient programs About This Book ? Build highly efficient, robust, and concurrent applications ? Work through practical examples that will help you address the challenges of writing concurrent code ? Improve the overall speed of execution in multiprocessor and multicore systems and keep them highly available Who This Book Is For This book is for Python developers who would like to get started with concurrent programming. Readers are expected to have a working knowledge of the Python language, as this book will build on these fundamentals concepts. What You Will Learn ? Explore the concept of threading and multiprocessing in Python ? Understand concurrency with threads ? Manage exceptions in child threads ? Handle the hardest part in a concurrent system — shared resources ? Build concurrent systems with Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP) ? Maintain all concurrent systems and master them ? Apply reactive programming to build concurrent systems ? Use GPU to solve specific problems In Detail Python is a very high level, general purpose language that is utilized heavily in fields such as data science and research, as well as being one of the top choices for general purpose programming for programmers around the world. It features a wide number of powerful, high and low-level libraries and frameworks that complement its delightful syntax and enable Python programmers to create. This book introduces some of the most popular libraries and frameworks and goes in-depth into how you can leverage these libraries for your own high-concurrent, highly-performant Python programs. We'll cover the fundamental concepts of concurrency needed to be able to write your own concurrent and parallel software systems in Python. The book will guide you down the path to mastering Python concurrency, giving you all the necessary hardware and theoretical knowledge. We'll cover concepts such as debugging and exception handling as well as some of the most popular libraries and frameworks that allow you to create event-driven and reactive systems. By the end of the book, you'll have learned the techniques to write incredibly efficient concurrent systems that follow best practices. Style and approach This easy-to-follow guide teaches you new practices and techniques to optimize your code, and then moves toward more advanced ways to effectively write efficient Python code. Small and simple practical examples will help you test the concepts yourself, and you will be able to easily adapt them for any application.

A practical book on real-world NGINX deployments to get you up and running quickly. About This Book ? Be the first to immerse yourself in the NGINX 1.9x web server and explore the plethora of advanced features. ? Master the skills of load balancing TCP-based applications and implementing HTTP/2. ? A recipe-based approach book that provides you with up-to-date information on NGINX, allowing you to implement specific use cases immediately. Who This Book Is For This book is aimed at smaller-to-medium developers, who are just getting started with NGINX. It assumes they already understand the basics of how a web server works and how basic networking works. What You Will Learn ? Practical, real-world examples and recipes on how to use NGINX ? Common CMS deployments such as WordPress, Joomla and more ? NGINX configurations for frameworks such as Ruby on Rails, Django and more ? Detailed SSL recipes, including HTTP/2 ? Real world rewrite examples ? Basic web and TCP load balancing configuration ? Bandwidth management and connection limiting ? Detailed NGINX deployment scen+BO377arios with Docker ? Performance tuning and monitoring of your NGINX deployments ? OpenResty deployment guides ? Advanced deployments with NGINX Plus features In Detail NGINX Cookbook covers the basics of configuring NGINX as a web server for use with common web frameworks such as WordPress and Ruby on Rails, through to utilization as a reverse proxy. Designed as a go-to reference guide, this book will give you practical answers based on real-world deployments to get you up and running quickly. Recipes have also been provided for multiple SSL configurations, different logging scenarios, practical rewrites, and multiple load balancing scenarios. Advanced topics include covering bandwidth management, Docker container usage, performance tuning, OpenResty, and the NGINX Plus commercial features. By the time you've read this book, you will be able to adapt and use a wide variety of NGINX implementations to solve any problems you have. Style and approach With practical, real-world examples and recipes on how to use NGINX, this go-to book will remain valid for many years. Included are detailed recipes that solve very specific and sometimes complicated user scenarios with NGINX. Readers will think "Ah, so that's how you do it!" after reading a chapter/sub-chapter. Each scenario in the book is thoroughly tested and validated, especially, when it comes to direct cut and paste code scenarios, where possible, we made test code available so that the reader can instantly see the system in action

Take your C++ coding to the next level by leveraging the latest features and advanced techniques to building high performing, reliable applications. About This Book ? Get acquainted with the latest features in C++ 17 ? Take advantage of the myriad of features and possibilities that C++ offers to build real-world applications ? Write clear and expressive code in C++, and get insights into how to keep your code error-free Who This Book Is For This book is for experienced C++ developers. If you are a novice C++ developer, then it’s highly recommended that you get a solid understanding of the C++ language before reading this book What You Will Learn ? Write modular C++ applications in terms of the existing and newly introduced features ? Identify code-smells, clean up, and refactor legacy C++ applications ? Leverage the possibilities provided by Cucumber and Google Test/Mock to automate test cases ? Test frameworks with C++ ? Get acquainted with the new C++17 features ? Develop GUI applications in C++ ? Build portable cross-platform applications using standard C++ features In Detail C++ has come a long way and has now been adopted in several contexts. Its key strengths are its software infrastructure and resource-constrained applications. The C++ 17 release will change the way developers write code, and this book will help you master your developing skills with C++. With real-world, practical examples explaining each concept, the book will begin by introducing you to the latest features in C++ 17. It encourages clean code practices in C++ in general, and demonstrates the GUI app-development options in C++. You’ll get tips on avoiding memory leaks using smart-pointers. Next, you’ll see how multi-threaded programming can help you achieve concurrency in your applications. Moving on, you’ll get an in-depth understanding of the C++ Standard Template Library. We show you the concepts of implementing TDD and BDD in your C++ programs, and explore template-based generic programming, giving you the expertise to build powerful applications. Finally, we’ll round up with debugging techniques and best practices.By the end of the book, you’ll have an in-depth understanding of the language and its various facets. Style and approach This straightforward guide will help you level up your skills in C++ programming, be it for enterprise software or for low-latency applications like games. Filled with real-world, practical examples, this book will take you gradually up the steep learning curve that is C++.