Create and manage spatial data with PostGIS About This Book ? Import and export geographic data from the PostGIS database using the available tools ? Maintain, optimize, and fine-tune spatial data for long-term viability ? Utilize the parallel support functionality that was introduced in PostgreSQL 9.6 Who This Book Is For This book is for developers who need some quick solutions for PostGIS. Prior knowledge of PostgreSQL and spatial concepts would be an added advantage. What You Will Learn ? Import and export geographic data from the PostGIS database using the available tools ? Structure spatial data using the functionality provided by a combination of PostgreSQL and PostGIS ? Work with a set of PostGIS functions to perform basic and advanced vector analyses ? Connect PostGIS with Python ? Learn to use programming frameworks around PostGIS ? Maintain, optimize, and fine-tune spatial data for long-term viability ? Explore the 3D capabilities of PostGIS, including LiDAR point clouds and point clouds derived from Structure from Motion (SfM) techniques ? Distribute 3D models through the Web using the X3D standard ? Use PostGIS to develop powerful GIS web applications using Open Geospatial Consortium web standards ? Master PostGIS Raster In Detail PostGIS is a spatial database that integrates the advanced storage and analysis of vector and raster data, and is remarkably flexible and powerful. PostGIS provides support for geographic objects to the PostgreSQL object-relational database and is currently the most popular open source spatial databases. If you want to explore the complete range of PostGIS techniques and expose related extensions, then this book is for you. This book is a comprehensive guide to PostGIS tools and concepts which are required to manage, manipulate, and analyze spatial data in PostGIS. It covers key spatial data manipulation tasks, explaining not only how each task is performed, but also why. It provides practical guidance allowing you to safely take advantage of the advanced technology in PostGIS in order to simplify your spatial database administration tasks. Furthermore, you will learn to take advantage of basic and advanced vector, raster, and routing approaches along with the concepts of data maintenance, optimization, and performance, and will help you to integrate these into a large ecosystem of desktop and web tools. By the end, you will be armed with all the tools and instructions you need to both manage the spatial database system and make better decisions as your project's requirements evolve. Style and approach This comprehensive guide uses a problem-solving approach to help you acquire a solid understanding of PostGIS.

Transform and modernize your businesses and upgrade your enterprise management skills with Odoo 11, the most comprehensive management software About This Book ? Use project management along with analytics for better reporting ? Build an Odoo module and integrate it with other platforms with this practical guide ? Explore new design and mobile updates from the Odoo enterprise Who This Book Is For This book is for beginners, and will help you learn advanced-level features with Odoo such as creating your own custom modules. You do not need any prior knowledge of Odoo. What You Will Learn ? Configure a functioning customer relationship management system ? Set up a purchasing and receiving system ? Implement manufacturing operations and processes using real-world examples ? Discover the capabilities of Odoo's financial accounting and reporting features ? Integrate powerful human resource applications ? Utilize Odoo's project management application to organize tasks ? Customize Odoo without writing a line of code In Detail Odoo is an all-in-one management software that offers an array of business applications, forming a complete suite of enterprise management applications. Odoo 11 comes with advances on usability, speed, and design. Working with Odoo 11 starts with how to set up Odoo, both online and on your own server. You’ll then configure the basic company settings required to quickly get your first Odoo system up and running. Later, you’ll explore customer relationship management in Odoo and its importance in a modern business environment. You'll then dive into purchasing applications with Odoo, learn some of the primary functionalities of ERP systems for manufacturing operations, and use analytic accounting to provide better reporting. After that, you'll learn how to work with Odoo for mobile, and finally, you will walk through the recent Odoo 11 features with respect to the community and enterprise edition, giving you a complete understanding of what Odoo can do for your business. Style and approach A guide to learning the advanced features of Odoo 11, to enable customization of Odoo modules to suite ones' business needs.

Key concepts, sample applications, best practices, and troubleshooting tips to build highly scalable applications in AWS. About This Book ? Design highly available, cost efficient, fault tolerant, and scalable distributed systems ? A practical guide that will help you build, deploy, and manage applications with ease. ? Develop effective solutions with AWS SDK and Lambda Who This Book Is For This book targets developers who would like to build and manage web and mobile applications and services on the AWS platform. If you are an architect you will be able to take a deep dive and use examples that can be readily applied to real world scenarios. Some prior programming experience is assumed along with familiarity of cloud computing. What You Will Learn ? Learn how to get up and running with AWS Developer Tools. ? Integrate the four major phases in the Release Processes. Source, Build, Test and Production. ? Learn how to integrate Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, and Continuous Deployment in AWS. ? Make secure, scalable and fault tolerant applications. ? Understand different architectures and deploy complex architectures within minutes In Detail Continuous deployment and Agile methodology have enabled huge advances in modern applications. This book will enable the reader to make use of this rapidly evolving technology to build highly scalable applications within AWS using different architectures. You will begin with installation of AWS SDK and you will get hands-on experience on creating an application using AWS Management Console and AWS Command Line Interface (CLI). Next you will be integrating Applications with AWS services such as DynamoDB, Amazon Kinesis, AWS Lambda, Amazon SQS and Amazon SWF Following this you will get well versed with CI/CD workflow and work with four major phases in Release processes – Source, Build, Test and Production. Next you will learn to apply AWS developer tools in your Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD) WorkFlow. Later you will learn about User Authentication using Amazon Cognito and also how you can evaluate the best architecture as per your infrastructure costs. You will learn about Amazon EC2 service and deploy an app using Amazon EC2.You will also get well versed with container service which is Amazon EC2 Container Service (Amazon ECS) and you will learn to deploy an app using Amazon ECS. Along with EC2 and ECS, you will also deploying a practical real-world example of a CI/CD application with the Serverless Application Framework which is known as AWS Lambda. Finally you will learn how to build, develop and deploy the Application using AWS Developer tools like AWS CodeCommit, AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodeDeploy and AWS CodePipeline as per project needs. Also you can develop and deploy applications within minutes using AWS CodeStar from wizard. By the end of this book, the reader will effectively build, deploy, and manage applications on AWS along with scaling and securing applications with best practices and troubleshooting tips. Style and approach This book covers follows an approach where you will learn the key concepts followed by a real world example and some tips and tricks to make building and deploying easier

Network virtualization at your fingertips About This Book ? Over 70 practical recipes created by two VCIX-NV certified NSX experts ? Explore best practices to deploy, operate, and upgrade VMware NSX for vSphere ? Leverage NSX REST API using various tools from Python in VMware vRealize Orchestrator Who This Book Is For If you are a security and network administrator and looking to gain an intermediate level for network and security virtualization, then this book is for you. The reader should have a basic knowledge with VMware NSX. What You Will Learn ? Understand, install, and configure VMware NSX for vSphere solutions ? Configure logical switching, routing, and Edge Services Gateway in VMware NSX for vSphere ? Learn how to plan and upgrade VMware NSX for vSphere ? Learn how to use built-in monitoring tools such as Flow Monitoring, Traceflow, Application Rule Manager, and Endpoint Monitoring ? Learn how to leverage the NSX REST API for management and automation using various tools from Python to VMware vRealize Orchestrator In Detail This book begins with a brief introduction to VMware's NSX for vSphere Network Virtualization solutions and how to deploy and configure NSX components and features such as Logical Switching, Logical Routing, layer 2 bridging and the Edge Services Gateway. Moving on to security, the book shows you how to enable micro-segmentation through NSX Distributed Firewall and Identity Firewall and how to do service insertion via network and guest introspection. After covering all the feature configurations for single-site deployment, the focus then shifts to multi-site setups using Cross-vCenter NSX. Next, the book covers management, backing up and restoring, upgrading, and monitoring using built-in NSX features such as Flow Monitoring, Traceflow, Application Rule Manager, and Endpoint Monitoring. Towards the end, you will explore how to leverage VMware NSX REST API using various tools from Python to VMware vRealize Orchestrator. Style and approach The book follows a practical, recipe-based approach and teaches readers how to leverage VMware NSX and implement these recipes directly into their enterprise.

A beginner's guide to get you up and running with Cassandra, DynamoDB, HBase, InfluxDB, MongoDB, Neo4j, and Redis About This Book ? Covers the basics of 7 NoSQL databases and how they are used in the enterprises ? Quick introduction to MongoDB, DynamoDB, Redis, Cassandra, Neo4j, InfluxDB, and Hbase ? Includes effective techniques for database querying and management Who This Book Is For If you are a budding DBA or a developer who wants to get started with the fundamentals of NoSQL databases, this book is for you. Relational DBAs who want to get insights into the various offerings of popular NoSQL databases will also find this book to be very useful. What You Will Learn ? Understand how MongoDB provides high-performance, high-availability, and automatic scaling ? Interact with your Neo4j instances via database queries, Python scripts, and Java application code ? Get familiar with common querying and programming methods to interact with Redis ? Study the different types of problems Cassandra can solve ? Work with HBase components to support common operations such as creating tables and reading/writing data ? Discover data models and work with CRUD operations using DynamoDB ? Discover what makes InfluxDB a great choice for working with time-series data In Detail This is the golden age of open source NoSQL databases. With enterprises having to work with large amounts of unstructured data and moving away from expensive monolithic architecture, the adoption of NoSQL databases is rapidly increasing. Being familiar with the popular NoSQL databases and knowing how to use them is a must for budding DBAs and developers. This book introduces you to the different types of NoSQL databases and gets you started with seven of the most popular NoSQL databases used by enterprises today. We start off with a brief overview of what NoSQL databases are, followed by an explanation of why and when to use them. The book then covers the seven most popular databases in each of these categories: MongoDB, Amazon DynamoDB, Redis, HBase, Cassandra, InfluxDB, and Neo4j. The book doesn't go into too much detail about each database but teaches you enough to get started with them. By the end of this book, you will have a thorough understanding of the different NoSQL databases and their functionalities, empowering you to select and use the right database according to your needs. Style and approach This book is a quick-start guide with short and simple introductory content on the seven popular databases.

Explore the Rust Standard library and compose algorithms with minimal dependency on external libraries About This Book ? Develop high-quality, fast, and portable applications by leveraging the power of Rust's Standard library. ? Practical recipes that will help you work with the Standard library to boost your productivity as a Rust developer. ? Learn about most relevant external crates to be used along with the Standard library. Who This Book Is For This book is for developers who would like to explore the power of Rust and learn to use the STL for various functionalities. A basic Rust programming knowledge is assumed. What You Will Learn ? How to use the basic modules of the library: strings, command line access, and more. ? Implement collections and folding of collections using vectors, Deque, linked lists, and more. ? Handle various file types , compressing and decompressing data. ? Search for files with glob patterns. ? Implement parsing through various formats such as CSV, TOML, and JSON. ? Utilize drop trait , the Rust version of destructor. ? Resource locking with Bilocks. In Detail Mozilla’s Rust is gaining much attention with amazing features and a powerful library. This book will take you through varied recipes to teach you how to leverage the Standard library to implement efficient solutions. The book begins with a brief look at the basic modules of the Standard library and collections. From here, the recipes will cover packages that support file/directory handling and interaction through parsing. You will learn about packages related to advanced data structures, error handling, and networking. You will also learn to work with futures and experimental nightly features. The book also covers the most relevant external crates in Rust. By the end of the book, you will be proficient at using the Rust Standard library. Style and approach This recipe-based practical guide presents each topic with step-by-step instructions on how you can create fast and efficient applications utilizing Rust's Standard library packages.

Design, create and manage robust Power BI solutions to gain meaningful business insights About This Book ? Master all the dashboarding and reporting features of Microsoft Power BI ? Combine data from multiple sources, create stunning visualizations and publish your reports across multiple platforms ? A comprehensive guide with real-world use cases and examples demonstrating how you can get the best out of Microsoft Power BI Who This Book Is For Business Intelligence professionals and existing Power BI users looking to master Power BI for all their data visualization and dashboarding needs will find this book to be useful. While understanding of the basic BI concepts is required, some exposure to Microsoft Power BI will be helpful. What You Will Learn ? Build efficient data retrieval and transformation processes with the Power Query M Language ? Design scalable, user-friendly DirectQuery and Import Data Models ? Develop visually rich, immersive, and interactive reports and dashboards ? Maintain version control and stage deployments across development, test, and production environments ? Manage and monitor the Power BI Service and the On-premises data gateway ? Develop a fully on-premise solution with the Power BI Report Server ? Scale up a Power BI solution via Power BI Premium capacity and migration to Azure Analysis Services or SQL Server Analysis Services In Detail This book is intended for business intelligence professionals responsible for the design and development of Power BI content as well as managers, architects and administrators who oversee Power BI projects and deployments. The chapters flow from the planning of a Power BI project through the development and distribution of content to the administration of Power BI for an organization. BI developers will learn how to create sustainable and impactful Power BI datasets, reports, and dashboards. This includes connecting to data sources, shaping and enhancing source data, and developing an analytical data model. Additionally, top report and dashboard design practices are described using features such as Bookmarks and the Power KPI visual. BI managers will learn how Power BI’s tools work together such as with the On-premises data gateway and how content can be staged and securely distributed via Apps. Additionally, both the Power BI Report Server and Power BI Premium are reviewed. By the end of this book, you will be confident in creating effective charts, tables, reports or dashboards for any kind of data using the tools and techniques in Microsoft PowerBI. Style and approach This book consists of real-world examples on Power BI that target novices as well as intermediate Power BI users. It goes deep into the technical issues, covers additional protocols, and many more real-live examples.

Create clean code with Dependency Injection principles About This Book ? Use DI to make your code loosely coupled to manage and test your applications easily on Spring 5 and Google Guice ? Learn the best practices and methodologies to implement DI ? Write more maintainable Java code by decoupling your objects from their implementations Who This Book Is For This book is for Java developers who would like to implement DI in their application. Prior knowledge of the Spring and Guice frameworks and Java programming is assumed. What You Will Learn ? Understand the benefits of DI and fo from a tightly coupled design to a cleaner design organized around dependencies ? See Java 9’s new features and modular framework ? Set up Guice and Spring in an application so that it can be used for DI ? Write integration tests for DI applications ? Use scopes to handle complex application scenarios ? Integrate any third-party library in your DI-enabled application ? Implement Aspect-Oriented Programming to handle common cross-cutting concerns such as logging, authentication, and transactions ? Understand IoC patterns and anti-patterns in DI In Detail Dependency Injection (DI) is a design pattern that allows us to remove the hard-coded dependencies and make our application loosely coupled, extendable, and maintainable. We can implement DI to move the dependency resolution from compile-time to runtime. This book will be your one stop guide to write loosely coupled code using the latest features of Java 9 with frameworks such as Spring 5 and Google Guice. We begin by explaining what DI is and teaching you about IoC containers. Then you’ll learn about object compositions and their role in DI. You’ll find out how to build a modular application and learn how to use DI to focus your efforts on the business logic unique to your application and let the framework handle the infrastructure work to put it all together. Moving on, you’ll gain knowledge of Java 9’s new features and modular framework and how DI works in Java 9. Next, we’ll explore Spring and Guice, the popular frameworks for DI. You’ll see how to define injection keys and configure them at the framework-specific level. After that, you’ll find out about the different types of scopes available in both popular frameworks. You’ll see how to manage dependency of cross-cutting concerns while writing applications through aspect-oriented programming. Towards the end, you’ll learn to integrate any third-party library in your DI-enabled application and explore common pitfalls and recommendations to build a solid application with the help of best practices, patterns, and anti-patterns in DI. Style and approach This book will take an easy-to-understand, step-by-step approach providing hands-on examples at every stage.

This book contains more than 25 hands-on recipes that will equip you to build a PKI and roll out remote access capabilities via Microsoft DirectAccess and VPN. This book also contains tips and tricks for increasing the security footprint of your Windows Server infrastructure. About This Book ? Identify and mitigate security risks in your Windows Server 2016 infrastructure ? Learn how to build a PKI and use it to issue certificates within your network ? In-depth information for setting up Microsoft DirectAccess Who This Book Is For If you are a Windows Server administrator interested in learning the key security and networking functions available in Windows Server 2016, keep this book close at hand. If you are a server administrator setting up certificate services for the first time you will also benefit from the step-by-step instructions on implementation of a PKI. What You Will Learn ? Implement solid networking and security practices into your Windows Server environment ? Design your own PKI and start issuing certificates today ? Connect your remote laptops back to the corporate network using Microsoft's own remote access technologies, including DirectAccess ? Learn to use commands that will help you with monitoring network traffic. ? Build and explore your first Server Core instance today! In Detail Windows Server 2016 is an operating system designed to run on today's highly performant servers, both on-premise and in the cloud. It supports enterprise-level data storage, communications, management, and applications. This book builds off a basic knowledge of the Windows Server operating system, and assists administrators with taking the security of their systems one step further. You will learn tips for configuring proper networking, especially on multi-homed systems, and tricks for locking down access to your servers. Then you will move onto one of the hottest security topics of the year – certificates. You will learn how to build your own PKI, or how to better administer one that you already have. You will publish templates, issue certificates, and even configure autoenrollment in your network. When we say "networking" we don't only mean inside the LAN. To deal safely with mobile devices, you will learn about the capabilities of Windows Server 2016 for connecting these assets securely back into the corporate network, with information about DirectAccess and VPN. The material in the book has been selected from the content of Packt's Windows Server 2016 Cookbook by Jordan Krause to provide a specific focus on these key Windows Server tasks. Style and approach This book is a quick recipe-based guide on Windows Server 2016. The book starts with an introduction to securing servers and properly configuring network settings, then moves on to establishing certificate services using Windows Server 2016. Finally we explore the connection of remote laptops to the corporate network using DirectAccess and VPN.

Exploit design, deployment, and management of large-scale containers About This Book ? Explore the latest features available in Kubernetes 1.10 ? Ensure that your clusters are always available, scalable, and up to date ? Master the skills of designing and deploying large clusters on various cloud platforms Who This Book Is For Mastering Kubernetes is for you if you are a system administrator or a developer who has an intermediate understanding of Kubernetes and wish to master its advanced features. Basic knowledge of networking would also be helpful. In all, this advanced-level book provides a smooth pathway to mastering Kubernetes. What You Will Learn ? Architect a robust Kubernetes cluster for long-time operation ? Discover the advantages of running Kubernetes on GCE, AWS, Azure, and bare metal ? Understand the identity model of Kubernetes, along with the options for cluster federation ? Monitor and troubleshoot Kubernetes clusters and run a highly available Kubernetes ? Create and configure custom Kubernetes resources and use third-party resources in your automation workflows ? Enjoy the art of running complex stateful applications in your container environment ? Deliver applications as standard packages In Detail Kubernetes is an open source system that is used to automate the deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. If you are running more containers or want automated management of your containers, you need Kubernetes at your disposal. To put things into perspective, Mastering Kubernetes walks you through the advanced management of Kubernetes clusters. To start with, you will learn the fundamentals of both Kubernetes architecture and Kubernetes design in detail. You will discover how to run complex stateful microservices on Kubernetes including advanced features such as horizontal pod autoscaling, rolling updates, resource quotas, and persistent storage backend. Using real-world use cases, you will explore the options for network configuration, and understand how to set up, operate, and troubleshoot various Kubernetes networking plugins. In addition to this, you will get to grips with custom resource development and utilization in automation and maintenance workflows. To scale up your knowledge of Kubernetes, you will encounter some additional concepts based on the Kubernetes 1.10 release, such as Promethus, Role-based access control, API aggregation, and more. By the end of this book, you’ll know everything you need to graduate from intermediate to advanced level of understanding Kubernetes. Style and approach Delving into the design of the Kubernetes platform, the reader will be exposed to Kubernetes advanced features and best practices. This advanced-level book will provide a pathway to mastering Kubernetes.

Master the complexities of Bash shell scripting and unlock the power of shell for your enterprise About This Book ? Identify high-level steps such as verifying user input ? Using the command line and conditional statements in creating/executing simple shell scripts ? Create and edit dynamic shell scripts to manage complex and repetitive tasks ? Leverage the command-line to bypass GUI and automate common tasks Who This Book Is For If you are a Linux administrator or a system administrator and are interested in automating tasks in your daily lives, saving time and effort, this book is for you. Basic shell scripting and command-line experience will be required. Familiarity with the tasks you need to automate will be helpful. What You Will Learn ? Make, execute, and debug your first Bash script ? Create interactive scripts that prompt for user input ? Foster menu structures for operators with little command-line experience ? Develop scripts that dynamically edit web configuration files to produce a new virtual host ? Write scripts that use AWK to search and reports on log files ? Draft effective scripts using functions as building blocks, reducing maintenance and build time ? Make informed choices by comparing different script languages such as Python with BASH In Detail In this book, you’ll discover everything you need to know to master shell scripting and make informed choices about the elements you employ. Grab your favorite editor and start writing your best Bash scripts step by step. Get to grips with the fundamentals of creating and running a script in normal mode, and in debug mode. Learn about various conditional statements' code snippets, and realize the power of repetition and loops in your shell script. You will also learn to write complex shell scripts. This book will also deep dive into file system administration, directories, and system administration like networking, process management, user authentications, and package installation and regular expressions. Towards the end of the book, you will learn how to use Python as a BASH Scripting alternative. By the end of this book, you will know shell scripts at the snap of your fingers and will be able to automate and communicate with your system with keyboard expressions. Style and approach The book will capture your attention and keep you engaged with the simplicity and clarity of each explanation. Every step is accompanied by screenshots so you can cross-check the results before moving on.

Manage on-premises and cloud IT assets from one console About This Book ? Empower yourself with practical recipes to collect and analyze operational insights on Windows and Linux servers in your on premises datacenters and in any public cloud environments such as Azure and AWS. ? Build capabilities through practical tasks and techniques to collect and analyze machine data ? Address business challenges and discover means to accommodate workloads and instances in a low cost manner Who This Book Is For This book is written for the IT professional and general reader who is interested in technology themes such as DevOps, Big Data Analytics, and digital transformation concepts. Azure and other cloud platform administrators, cloud professionals, and technology analysts who would like to solve everyday problems quickly and efficiently with hybrid management tools available in the Microsoft product ecosystem will derive much value from this book. Prior experience with OMS 2012 would be helpful. What You Will Learn ? Understand the important architectural considerations and strategies for OMS ? Use advanced search query commands and strategies to derive insights from indexed data ? Make use of alerting in OMS such as alert actions, and available options for the entire lifecycle of the alert ? Discover some practical tips for monitoring Azure container service containers and clusters using OMS ? Review and use the backup options available through the Azure backup service, as well as data recovery options available through Azure Site Recovery (ASR) ? Understand how to advance important DevOps concepts within your IT organization ? Learn how to manage configurations and automate process In Detail Microsoft Operations Management Suite Cookbook begins with an overview of how to hit the ground running with OMS insights and analytics. Next, you will learn to search and analyze data to retrieve actionable insights, review alert generation from the analyzed data, and use basic and advanced Log search queries in Azure Log Analytics. Following this, you will explore some other management solutions that provide functionality related to workload assessment, application dependency mapping, automation and configuration management, and security and compliance. You will also become well versed with the data protection and recovery functionalities of OMS Protection and Recovery, and learn how to use Azure Automation components and features in OMS. Finally you will learn how to evaluate key considerations for using the Security and Audit solution, and working with Security and Compliance in OMS. By the end of the book, you will be able to configure and utilize solution offerings in OMS, understand OMS workflows, how to unlock insights, integrate capabilities into new or existing workflows, manage configurations, and automate tasks and processes. Style and approach This is a recipe based guide where early chapters introduce the main concepts and key capabilities, and the later chapters delve into more advance concepts.

Develop and manage applications on the AWS and OpenStack platforms with this comprehensive learning guide. About This Book ? A step-by-step guide to help you develop applications on the hybrid cloud platform. ? Acquire an in-depth understanding of the OpenStack and AWS cloud platforms. ? Extensive source code examples for OpenStack and AWS applications. ? Easily troubleshoot OpenStack and AWS issues. ? Understand the best practices and security measures for the hybrid cloud platform. Who This Book Is For If you are an IT professional, developer, or a DevOps engineer looking to develop and manage your applications on the hybrid cloud platform, then this book is for you. Some prior knowledge of the public and private cloud will enhance your skills. Developers looking to build applications using AWS or OpenStack services will also benefit from this book. What You Will Learn ? Understand the hybrid cloud platform ? Explore the AWS and OpenStack cloud platforms in depth ? Develop AWS applications with source code examples ? Develop OpenStack applications with source code examples ? Troubleshoot OpenStack and AWS ? Learn hybrid cloud best practices ? Understand security measures on the hybrid cloud In Detail This book introduces you to the hybrid cloud platform, and focuses on the AWS public cloud and OpenStack private cloud platforms. It provides a deep dive into the AWS and OpenStack cloud platform services that are essential for developing hybrid cloud applications. You will learn to develop applications on AWS and OpenStack platforms with ease by leveraging various cloud services and taking advantage of PaaS. The book provides you with the ability to leverage the flexibility of choosing a cloud platform for migrating your existing resources to the cloud, as well as developing hybrid cloud applications that can migrate virtual machine instances from AWS to OpenStack and vice versa. You will also be able to build and test cloud applications without worrying about the system that your development environment supports. The book also provides an in-depth understanding of the best practices that are followed across the industry for developing cloud applications, as well as for adapting the hybrid cloud platform. Lastly, it also sheds light on various troubleshooting techniques for OpenStack and AWS cloud platform services that are consumed by hybrid cloud applications. By the end of this book, you will have a deep understanding of the hybrid cloud platform and will be able to develop robust, efficient, modular, scalable, and ?exible cloud applications. Style and approach This book follows a practical approach to become familiar with the AWS and OpenStack platform from a developer's perspective.

86 recipes on how to build fast, scalable, and powerful web services and applications with Go About This Book ? Become proficient in RESTful web services ? Build scalable, high-performant web applications in Go ? Get acquainted with Go frameworks for web development Who This Book Is For This book is for Go developers interested in learning how to use Go to build powerful web applications. A background in web development is expected. What You Will Learn ? Create a simple HTTP and TCP web server and understand how it works ? Explore record in a MySQL and MongoDB database ? Write and consume RESTful web service in Go ? Invent microservices in Go using Micro – a microservice toolkit ? Create and Deploy the Beego application with Nginx ? Deploy Go web application and Docker containers on an AWS EC2 instance In Detail Go is an open source programming language that is designed to scale and support concurrency at the language level. This gives you the liberty to write large concurrent web applications with ease. From creating web application to deploying them on Amazon Cloud Services, this book will be your one-stop guide to learn web development in Go. The Go Web Development Cookbook teaches you how to create REST services, write microservices, and deploy Go Docker containers. Whether you are new to programming or a professional developer, this book will help get you up to speed with web development in Go. We will focus on writing modular code in Go; in-depth informative examples build the base, one step at a time. You will learn how to create a server, work with static files, SQL, NoSQL databases, and Beego. You will also learn how to create and secure REST services, and create and deploy Go web application and Go Docker containers on Amazon Cloud Services. By the end of the book, you will be able to apply the skills you've gained in Go to create and explore web applications in any domain. Style and approach This book helps you learn core Go concepts faster by taking a recipe-based approach.

Learn how to build, test, secure, deploy, and efficiently consume services across distributed systems. About This Book ? Explore the wealth of options provided by Spring Cloud for wiring service dependencies in microservice systems. ? Create microservices utilizing Spring Cloud's Netflix OSS ? Architect your cloud-native data using Spring Cloud. Who This Book Is For This book appeals to developers keen to take advantage of Spring cloud, an open source library which helps developers quickly build distributed systems. Knowledge of Java and Spring Framework will be helpful, but no prior exposure to Spring Cloud is required. What You Will Learn ? Abstract Spring Cloud's feature set ? Create microservices utilizing Spring Cloud's Netflix OSS ? Create synchronous API microservices based on a message-driven architecture. ? Explore advanced topics such as distributed tracing, security, and contract testing. ? Manage and deploy applications on the production environment In Detail Developing, deploying, and operating cloud applications should be as easy as local applications. This should be the governing principle behind any cloud platform, library, or tool. Spring Cloud–an open-source library–makes it easy to develop JVM applications for the cloud. In this book, you will be introduced to Spring Cloud and will master its features from the application developer's point of view. This book begins by introducing you to microservices for Spring and the available feature set in Spring Cloud. You will learn to configure the Spring Cloud server and run the Eureka server to enable service registration and discovery. Then you will learn about techniques related to load balancing and circuit breaking and utilize all features of the Feign client. The book now delves into advanced topics where you will learn to implement distributed tracing solutions for Spring Cloud and build message-driven microservice architectures. Before running an application on Docker container s, you will master testing and securing techniques with Spring Cloud. Style and approach This comprehensive guide covers the advanced features of Spring Cloud and communicates them through a practical approach to explore the underlying concepts of how, when, and why to use them.

Create visually appealing and feature-rich applications by using Qt 5 and the C++ language About This Book ? Explore Qt 5’s powerful features to easily design your GUI application ? Leverage Qt 5 to build attractive cross-platform applications ? Work with Qt modules for multimedia, networking, and location, to customize your Qt applications Who This Book Is For This book will appeal to developers and programmers who would like to build GUI-based applications. Basic knowledge of C++ is necessary and the basics of Qt would be helpful. What You Will Learn ? Implement tools provided by Qt 5 to design a beautiful GUI ? Understand different types of graphs and charts supported by Qt 5 ? Create a web browser using the Qt 5 WebEngine module and web view widget ? Connect to the MySQL database and display data obtained from it onto the Qt 5 GUI ? Incorporate the Qt 5 multimedia and networking module in your application ? Develop Google Map-like applications using Qt 5’s location module ? Discover cross-platform development by exporting the Qt 5 application to different platforms ? Uncover the secrets behind debugging Qt 5 and C++ applications In Detail Qt 5, the latest version of Qt, enables you to develop applications with complex user interfaces for multiple targets. It provides you with faster and smarter ways to create modern UIs and applications for multiple platforms. This book will teach you to design and build graphical user interfaces that are functional, appealing, and user-friendly. In the initial part of the book, you will learn what Qt 5 is and what you can do with it. You will explore the Qt Designer, discover the different types of widgets generally used in Qt 5, and then connect your application to the database to perform dynamic operations. Next, you will be introduced to Qt 5 chart which allows you to easily render different types of graphs and charts and incorporate List View Widgets in your application. You will also work with various Qt modules, like QtLocation, QtWebEngine, and the networking module through the course of the book. Finally, we will focus on cross-platform development with QT 5 that enables you to code once and run it everywhere, including mobile platforms. By the end of this book, you will have successfully learned about high-end GUI applications and will be capable of building many more powerful, cross-platform applications. Style and approach This is a comprehensive guide that explores the essential Qt features and implement them in building real-world cross-platform GUI applications

Create classic data structures and algorithms such as depth-first search and breadth-first search, learn recursion, as well as create and use a heap data structure using JavaScript About This Book ? Implement common data structures and the associated algorithms along with the context in which they are used ? Master existing JavaScript data structures such as arrays, sets, and maps, and learn how to implement new ones such as stacks, linked lists, trees, and graphs in ES 8 ? Develop abstract data types to make JavaScript a more flexible and powerful programming language Who This Book Is For If you’re a JavaScript developer who wants to dive deep into JavaScript and write complex programs using JavaScript data structures and algorithms, this book is for you. What You Will Learn ? Declare, initialize, add, and remove items from arrays, stacks, and queues ? Create and use linked lists, doubly linked lists, and circular linked lists ? Store unique elements with hash tables, dictionaries, and sets ? Explore the use of binary trees and binary search trees ? Sort data structures using algorithms such as bubble sort, selection sort, insertion sort, merge sort, and quick sort ? Search elements in data structures using sequential sort and binary search In Detail A data structure is a particular way of organizing data in a computer to utilize resources efficiently. Data structures and algorithms are the base of every solution to any programming problem. With this book, you will learn to write complex and powerful code using the latest ES 2017 features. Learning JavaScript Data Structures and Algorithms begins by covering the basics of JavaScript and introduces you to ECMAScript 2017, before gradually moving on to the most important data structures such as arrays, queues, stacks, and linked lists. You will gain in-depth knowledge of how hash tables and set data structures function as well as how trees and hash maps can be used to search files in an HD or represent a database. This book serves as a route to take you deeper into JavaScript. You’ll also get a greater understanding of why and how graphs, one of the most complex data structures, are largely used in GPS navigation systems in social networks. Toward the end of the book, you’ll discover how all the theories presented in this book can be applied to solve real-world problems while working on your own computer networks and Facebook searches. Style and approach Easy to follow guide which will cover the most used data structures and sorting/searching algorithms known in the computer science world along with examples to help the readers understand each chapter thoroughly.

Learn to build a high-performance functional prototype of a voting web application from scratch using Elixir and Phoenix About This Book ? Build a strong foundation in Functional-Programming techniques while learning to build compelling web applications ? Understand the Elixir Concurrency and parallelization model to build high-performing blazingly fast applications ? Learn to test, debug and deploy your web applications using Phoenix framework Who This Book Is For This book is for people with a basic knowledge of Elixir, who want to start building web applications. Prior experience with web technologies is assumed. What You Will Learn ? Learn Phoenix Framework fundamentals and v1.3's new application structure ? Build real-time applications with channels and presence ? Utilize GenServers and other OTP fundamentals to keep an application stable ? Track users as they sign in and out of chat with Phoenix’s built-in presence functionality ? Write your own database interaction code that is safe, bug-free, and easy to work with ? Explore testing and debugging methodologies to understand a real software development lifecycle for a Phoenix application ? Deploy and run your Phoenix application in production In Detail Phoenix is a modern web development framework that is used to build API’s and web applications. It is built on Elixir and runs on Erlang VM which makes it much faster than other options. With Elixir and Phoenix, you build your application the right way, ready to scale and ready for the increasing demands of real-time web applications. This book covers the basics of the Phoenix web framework, showing you how to build a community voting application, and is divided into three parts. In the first part, you will be introduced to Phoenix and Elixir and understand the core terminologies that are used to describe them. You will also learn to build controller pages, store and retrieve data, add users to your app pages and protect your database. In the second section you will be able to reinforce your knowledge of architecting real time applications in phoenix and not only debug these applications but also diagnose issues in them. In the third and final section you will have the complete understanding of deploying and running the phoenix application and should be comfortable to make your first application release By the end of this book, you'll have a strong grasp of all of the core fundamentals of the Phoenix framework, and will have built a full production-ready web application from scratch. Style and approach Covers the basics of the Phoenix web framework by building a complete real-time application and showing the new structure changes introduced in Phoenix v1.3

Master Game UI system by creating captivating user interface components with Unity 5 through Unity 2018 and C#. Learn about UI texts, images, world space UI, mobile-specific UI and much more. About This Book ? Develop a game UI with both technical and aesthetic considerations ? Use all the UI elements provided by Unity's UI system ? Step-by-step examples of creating user interface components in the top game genres Who This Book Is For This book is for anyone keen to improve their games via a great user interface with Unity's UI system. If you're looking for a book that explains how to develop specific user interfaces or that thoroughly explains how each of the individual Unity components work, this book is for you. What You Will Learn ? Design principles and patterns for laying out elements in your UI ? Techniques that allow your UI to scale appropriately in different resolutions ? How to use automatic layouts to streamline your UI building process ? Properties of the Event System and how to appropriately hook events to your UI elements ? Access the components and properties of UI elements via code ? Implement all of Unity's built-in UI elements as well as those provided by TextMeshPro ? Develop key UI components that are popularly used in multiple game genres ? Add visual flare to user interfaces with the use of animation and particle effects ? Create a UI that displays in the Screen Space as well as World Space In Detail A functional UI is an important component for player interaction in every type of video game. Along with imparting crucial statistical information to the player, the UI is also the window through which the player engages with the world established by the game. Unity's tools give you the opportunity to create complex and attractive UIs to make your game stand out. This book helps you realize the full potential of Unity's powerful tools to create the best UI for your games by walking you through the creation of myriad user interface components. Learn how to create visually engaging heads-up-displays, pause menus, health bars, circular progress bars, animated menus, and more. This book not only teaches how to lay out visual elements, but also how to program these features and implement them across multiple games of varying genres. While working through the examples provided, you will learn how to develop a UI that scales to multiple screen resolutions, so your game can be released on multiple platforms with minimal changes. Style and approach The book walks you through the process of creating many different user interface components, by describing each UI component and property thoroughly and then providing step-by-step examples of its implementation. You will not only learn how to lay out visual elements, but you will also learn how to program for these features and hook them in to your game. The examples provided in the book can be reused for many other products.

Unleash Google's Cloud Platform to build, train and optimize machine learning models About This Book ? Get well versed in GCP pre-existing services to build your own smart models ? A comprehensive guide covering aspects from data processing, analyzing to building and training ML models ? A practical approach to produce your trained ML models and port them to your mobile for easy access Who This Book Is For This book is for data scientists, machine learning developers and AI developers who want to learn Google Cloud Platform services to build machine learning applications. Since the interaction with the Google ML platform is mostly done via the command line, the reader is supposed to have some familiarity with the bash shell and Python scripting. Some understanding of machine learning and data science concepts will be handy What You Will Learn ? Use Google Cloud Platform to build data-based applications for dashboards, web, and mobile ? Create, train and optimize deep learning models for various data science problems on big data ? Learn how to leverage BigQuery to explore big datasets ? Use Google’s pre-trained TensorFlow models for NLP, image, video and much more ? Create models and architectures for Time series, Reinforcement Learning, and generative models ? Create, evaluate, and optimize TensorFlow and Keras models for a wide range of applications In Detail Google Cloud Machine Learning Engine combines the services of Google Cloud Platform with the power and flexibility of TensorFlow. With this book, you will not only learn to build and train different complexities of machine learning models at scale but also host them in the cloud to make predictions. This book is focused on making the most of the Google Machine Learning Platform for large datasets and complex problems. You will learn from scratch how to create powerful machine learning based applications for a wide variety of problems by leveraging different data services from the Google Cloud Platform. Applications include NLP, Speech to text, Reinforcement learning, Time series, recommender systems, image classification, video content inference and many other. We will implement a wide variety of deep learning use cases and also make extensive use of data related services comprising the Google Cloud Platform ecosystem such as Firebase, Storage APIs, Datalab and so forth. This will enable you to integrate Machine Learning and data processing features into your web and mobile applications. By the end of this book, you will know the main difficulties that you may encounter and get appropriate strategies to overcome these difficulties and build efficient systems. Style and approach An easy-to-follow step by step guide which will help you get to the grips with real-world applications of Google Cloud Machine Learning.

Get familiar with the building blocks of IoT solutions using off–the-shelf IoT platforms. About This Book ? Work with various trending IoT platforms such as AWS IoT, Azure IoT, Google IoT, IBM Watson IoT, and Kaa IoT ? Gain hands-on knowledge working with Cloud-based IoT platforms, IoT Analytics, and so on. ? A practical guide that will help you build IoT strategies for your organization Who This Book Is For This book is targeted at IoT architects and engineers, or any stakeholders working with IoT solutions in an organization. This book will also help decision makers and professionals from small- and medium-sized enterprises build an IoT strategy for their venture. What You Will Learn ? Connect a Temperature and Humidity sensor and see how these two can be managed from various platforms ? Explore the core components of AWS IoT such as AWS Kinesis and AWS IoTRules Engine ? Build a simple analysis dashboard using Azure IoT and Power BI ? Understand the fundamentals of Google IoT and use Google core APIs to build your own dashboard ? Get started and work with the IBM Watson IoT platform ? Integrate Cassandra and Zeppelin with Kaa IoT dashboard ? Review some Machine Learning and AI and get to know more about their implementation in the IoT domain. In Detail There is a lot of work that is being done in the IoT domain and according to Forbes the global IoT market will grow from $157B in 2016 to $457B by 2020. This is an amazing market both in terms technology advancement as well as money. In this book, we will be covering five popular IoT platforms, namely, AWS IoT, Microsoft Azure IoT, Google IoT Core, IBM Watson IoT, and Kaa IoT middleware. You are going to build solutions that will use a Raspberry Pi 3, a DHT11 Temperature and humidity sensor, and a dashboard to visualize the sensor data in real-time. Furthermore, you will also explore various components of each of the platforms that are needed to achieve the desired solution. Besides building solutions, you will look at how Machine Learning and IoT go hand in hand and later design a simple predictive web service based on this concept. By the end of this book, you will be in a position to implement an IoT strategy best-fit for your organization Style and approach An informative guide that will help you design and implement an IoT Strategy best-fit for your organization