Fast track your development skills to build resourceful, open-source business applications with Odoo 11 About This Book ? Discover the latest technical capabilities in Odoo 11 while you build your own app ? Program business logic and manipulate data to implement specific business rules in your applications ? Implement automated tests to add modules and techniques and debug module business logic Who This Book Is For Odoo 11 Development Essentials caters to developers who are familiar with Python and MVC design and now want to build effective business applications using Odoo. What You Will Learn ? Install Odoo from source ? Manage Odoo server instances ? Create a new Odoo application from scratch covering the most frequently used elements ? Develop new models and use inheritance to extend/modify existing models ? Use ORM methods, both in the Odoo server and from external clients ? Create Kanban views using QWeb effectively ? Develop custom web and website CMS pages ? Use external API to integrate Odoo with external applications In Detail Odoo continues to gain worldwide momentum as the best platform for open source ERP installations. Now, with Odoo 11, you have access to an improved GUI, performance optimization, integrated in-app purchase features, and a fast-growing community to help transform and modernize your business. With this practical guide, you will cover all the new features that Odoo 11 has to offer to build and customize business applications, focusing on the publicly available community edition. We begin with setting up a development environment, and as you make your way through the chapters, you will learn to build feature-rich business applications. With the aim of jump-starting your Odoo proficiency level, from no specific knowledge to application development readiness, you will develop your first Odoo application. We then move on to topics such as models and views, and understand how to use server APIs to add business logic, helping to lay a solid foundation for advanced topics. The book concludes with Odoo interactions and how to use the Odoo API from other programs, all of which will enable you to efficiently integrate applications with other external systems. Style and Approach This fast-paced tutorial explains topics with the help of practical examples to help you understand each chapter efficiently.

Your one stop solution to implement a Cyber Defense Intelligence program in to your organisation. About This Book ? Intelligence processes and procedures for response mechanisms ? Master F3EAD to drive processes based on intelligence ? Threat modeling and intelligent frameworks ? Case studies and how to go about building intelligent teams Who This Book Is For This book targets incident managers, malware analysts, reverse engineers, digital forensics specialists, and intelligence analysts; experience in, or knowledge of, security operations, incident responses or investigations is desirable so you can make the most of the subjects presented. What You Will Learn ? Learn about the Observe-Orient-Decide-Act (OODA) loop and it's applicability to security ? Understand tactical view of Active defense concepts and their application in today's threat landscape ? Get acquainted with an operational view of the F3EAD process to drive decision making within an organization ? Create a Framework and Capability Maturity Model that integrates inputs and outputs from key functions in an information security organization ? Understand the idea of communicating with the Potential for Exploitability based on cyber intelligence In Detail Cyber intelligence is the missing link between your cyber defense operation teams, threat intelligence, and IT operations to provide your organization with a full spectrum of defensive capabilities. This book kicks off with the need for cyber intelligence and why it is required in terms of a defensive framework. Moving forward, the book provides a practical explanation of the F3EAD protocol with the help of examples. Furthermore, we learn how to go about threat models and intelligence products/frameworks and apply them to real-life scenarios. Based on the discussion with the prospective author I would also love to explore the induction of a tool to enhance the marketing feature and functionality of the book. By the end of this book, you will be able to boot up an intelligence program in your organization based on the operation and tactical/strategic spheres of Cyber defense intelligence. Style and approach A step-by-step practical guide that will help you master defensive frameworks to secure your system, and the F3EAD protocol to help you boot up an intelligence program in your organization.

This step-by-step guide will teach you to continuously improve your mobile application development process About This Book ? Efficiently deliver continuous integration and deployment within all the stages of your application's lifecycle ? Learn to implement mobile DevOps with Xamarin and Visual Studio ? Deliver high quality and performing mobile applications Who This Book Is For If you are a programmer and developer who wants to increase the efficiency and scalability of your mobile application with the implementation of DevOps, then this book is for you. You need basic experience of the application process development. What You Will Learn ? Become fluent with the basic components of Mobile Devops ? Find out how to use code repositories and install Git on an EC2 server and manage users and groups ? Set up an Android device for development and install Visual Studio and Xamarin on Windows ? Create an Android project and UI for applications ? Add permissions to Android Manifest ? Write tests with Xamarin. UI and test using test cloud to check it on multiple devices ? Monitor and optimize the application using the Android monitoring tool ? Debug the mobile application and improve its efficiency In Detail Today's world is all about perfection, and there are hundreds of applications that are released each day out of which only a few succeed. Making sure that the app looks, performs, and behaves as expected is one of the biggest challenge developers face today. The main goal of this book is to teach developers to implement DevOps to build, test, and deliver. This book will teach you to implement Mobile DevOps at every stage of your application's lifecycle with Visual Studio and Xamarin Mobile Lifecycle solutions. Later, it will also show you how to leverage Mobile Center's continuous integration and automated testing to develop a high-quality applications. Next, you’ll see how to mobilize your on-premises data to the cloud and increase your productivity with code reuse. Finally, you’ll discover how to find and fix bugs beforehand, improving the efficiency of your application while it is being developed. By the end of this book, you will be well-versed with Mobile DevOps techniques, delivering high quality and high performance mobile apps. Style and approach This clear, concise, and straightforward book will make you aware of mobile applications by showing you Devops fundamentals such as building, testing, and delivery. This book has been created to help you put new ideas into practice, and demonstrate precisely what's possible with mobile Devops.

Create next-generation Augmented Reality and Mixed Reality apps with the latest version of Google ARCore About This Book ? Harness the power of the Google’s new augmented reality (AR) platform ARCore to build cutting-edge Augmented reality apps ? Learn core concepts of Environmental Understanding, Immersive Computing, and Motion Tracking with ARCore ? Extend your application by combining ARCore with OpenGL, Machine Learning and more. Who This Book Is For This book is for web and mobile developers who have broad programming knowledge on Java or JavaScript or C# and want to develop Augmented Reality applications with Google ArCore. To follow this book no prior experience with AR development, 3D, or 3D math experience is needed. What You Will Learn ? Build and deploy your Augmented Reality app to the Android, Web, and Unity platforms ? Implement ARCore to identify and visualize objects as point clouds, planes, surfaces, and/or meshes ? Explore advanced concepts of environmental understanding using Google ARCore and OpenGL ES with Java ? Create light levels from ARCore and create a C# script to watch and propagate lighting changes in a scene ? Develop graphics shaders that react to changes in lighting and map the environment to place objects in Unity/C# ? Integrate motion tracking with the Web ARCore API and Google Street View to create a combined AR/VR experience In Detail Are you a mobile developer or web developer who wants to create immersive and cool Augmented Reality apps with the latest Google ARCore platform? If so, this book will help you jump right into developing with ARCore and will help you create a step by step AR app easily. This book will teach you how to implement the core features of ARCore starting from the fundamentals of 3D rendering to more advanced concepts such as lighting, shaders, Machine Learning, and others. We’ll begin with the basics of building a project on three platforms: web, Android, and Unity. Next, we’ll go through the ARCore concepts of motion tracking, environmental understanding, and light estimation. For each core concept, you’ll work on a practical project to use and extend the ARCore feature, from learning the basics of 3D rendering and lighting to exploring more advanced concepts. You’ll write custom shaders to light virtual objects in AR, then build a neural network to recognize the environment and explore even grander applications by using ARCore in mixed reality. At the end of the book, you’ll see how to implement motion tracking and environment learning, create animations and sounds, generate virtual characters, and simulate them on your screen. Style and approach Practical examples that will take you through the basics of ARcore and teach you how to build an app using it.

Over 100 recipes to analyze and troubleshoot network problems using Wireshark 2 About This Book ? Place Wireshark 2 in your network and configure it for effective network analysis ? Deep dive into the enhanced functionalities of Wireshark 2 and protect your network with ease ? A practical guide with exciting recipes on a widely used network protocol analyzer Who This Book Is For This book is for security professionals, network administrators, R&D, engineering and technical support, and communications managers who are using Wireshark for network analysis and troubleshooting. It requires a basic understanding of networking concepts, but does not require specific and detailed technical knowledge of protocols or vendor implementations. What You Will Learn ? Configure Wireshark 2 for effective network analysis and troubleshooting ? Set up various display and capture filters ? Understand networking layers, including IPv4 and IPv6 analysis ? Explore performance issues in TCP/IP ? Get to know about Wi-Fi testing and how to resolve problems related to wireless LANs ? Get information about network phenomena, events, and errors ? Locate faults in detecting security failures and breaches in networks In Detail This book contains practical recipes on troubleshooting a data communications network. This second version of the book focuses on Wireshark 2, which has already gained a lot of traction due to the enhanced features that it offers to users. The book expands on some of the subjects explored in the first version, including TCP performance, network security, Wireless LAN, and how to use Wireshark for cloud and virtual system monitoring. You will learn how to analyze end-to-end IPv4 and IPv6 connectivity failures for Unicast and Multicast traffic using Wireshark. It also includes Wireshark capture files so that you can practice what you’ve learned in the book. You will understand the normal operation of E-mail protocols and learn how to use Wireshark for basic analysis and troubleshooting. Using Wireshark, you will be able to resolve and troubleshoot common applications that are used in an enterprise network, like NetBIOS and SMB protocols. Finally, you will also be able to measure network parameters, check for network problems caused by them, and solve them effectively. By the end of this book, you’ll know how to analyze traffic, find patterns of various offending traffic, and secure your network from them. Style and approach This book consists of practical recipes on Wireshark 2 that target novices as well as intermediate Wireshark users. It goes deep into the technical issues, covers additional protocols, and many more real-live examples so that you are able to implement it in your daily life scenarios.

Leverage the power of Matplotlib to visualize and understand your data more effectively About This Book ? Perform effective data visualization with Matplotlib and get actionable insights from your data ? Design attractive graphs, charts, and 2D plots, and deploy them to the web ? Get the most out of Matplotlib in this practical guide with updated code and examples Who This Book Is For This book is essentially for anyone who wants to create intuitive data visualizations using the Matplotlib library. If you’re a data scientist or analyst and wish to create attractive visualizations using Python, you’ll find this book useful. Some knowledge of Python programming is all you need to get started. What You Will Learn ? Create 2D and 3D static plots such as bar charts, heat maps, and scatter plots ? Get acquainted with GTK+3, Qt5, and wxWidgets to understand the UI backend of Matplotlib ? Develop advanced static plots with third-party packages such as Pandas, GeoPandas, and Seaborn ? Create interactive plots with real-time updates ? Develop web-based, Matplotlib-powered graph visualizations with third-party packages such as Django ? Write data visualization code that is readily expandable on the cloud platform In Detail Python is a general-purpose programming language increasingly being used for data analysis and visualization. Matplotlib is a popular data visualization package in Python used to design effective plots and graphs. This is a practical, hands-on resource to help you visualize data with Python using the Matplotlib library. Matplotlib for Python Developers, Second Edition shows you how to create attractive graphs, charts, and plots using Matplotlib. You will also get a quick introduction to third-party packages, Seaborn, Pandas, Basemap, and Geopandas, and learn how to use them with Matplotlib. After that, you’ll embed and customize your plots in third-party tools such as GTK+3, Qt 5, and wxWidgets. You’ll also be able to tweak the look and feel of your visualization with the help of practical examples provided in this book. Further on, you’ll explore Matplotlib 2.1.x on the web, from a cloud-based platform using third-party packages such as Django. Finally, you will integrate interactive, real-time visualization techniques into your current workflow with the help of practical real-world examples. By the end of this book, you’ll be thoroughly comfortable with using the popular Python data visualization library Matplotlib 2.1.x and leveraging its power to build attractive, insightful, and powerful visualizations. Style and approach Step by step approach to learning the best of Matplotlib 2.1.x

Automate data and model pipelines for faster machine learning applications About This Book ? Build automated modules for different machine learning components ? Understand each component of a machine learning pipeline in depth ? Learn to use different open source AutoML and feature engineering platforms Who This Book Is For If you’re a budding data scientist, data analyst, or Machine Learning enthusiast and are new to the concept of automated machine learning, this book is ideal for you. You’ll also find this book useful if you’re an ML engineer or data professional interested in developing quick machine learning pipelines for your projects. Prior exposure to Python programming will help you get the best out of this book. What You Will Learn ? Understand the fundamentals of Automated Machine Learning systems ? Explore auto-sklearn and MLBox for AutoML tasks ? Automate your preprocessing methods along with feature transformation ? Enhance feature selection and generation using the Python stack ? Assemble individual components of ML into a complete AutoML framework ? Demystify hyperparameter tuning to optimize your ML models ? Dive into Machine Learning concepts such as neural networks and autoencoders ? Understand the information costs and trade-offs associated with AutoML In Detail AutoML is designed to automate parts of Machine Learning. Readily available AutoML tools are making data science practitioners’ work easy and are received well in the advanced analytics community. Automated Machine Learning covers the necessary foundation needed to create automated machine learning modules and helps you get up to speed with them in the most practical way possible. In this book, you’ll learn how to automate different tasks in the machine learning pipeline such as data preprocessing, feature selection, model training, model optimization, and much more. In addition to this, it demonstrates how you can use the available automation libraries, such as auto-sklearn and MLBox, and create and extend your own custom AutoML components for Machine Learning. By the end of this book, you will have a clearer understanding of the different aspects of automated Machine Learning, and you’ll be able to incorporate automation tasks using practical datasets. You can leverage your learning from this book to implement Machine Learning in your projects and get a step closer to winning various machine learning competitions. Style and approach Step by step approach to understand how to automate your machine learning tasks

Your one-stop guide to using Python, creating your own hacking tools, and making the most out of resources available for this programming language About This Book ? Comprehensive information on building a web application penetration testing framework using Python ? Master web application penetration testing using the multi-paradigm programming language Python ? Detect vulnerabilities in a system or application by writing your own Python scripts Who This Book Is For This book is for ethical hackers; penetration testers; students preparing for OSCP, OSCE, GPEN, GXPN, and CEH; information security professionals; cybersecurity consultants; system and network security administrators; and programmers who are keen on learning all about penetration testing. What You Will Learn ? Code your own reverse shell (TCP and HTTP) ? Create your own anonymous shell by interacting with Twitter, Google Forms, and SourceForge ? Replicate Metasploit features and build an advanced shell ? Hack passwords using multiple techniques (API hooking, keyloggers, and clipboard hijacking) ? Exfiltrate data from your target ? Add encryption (AES, RSA, and XOR) to your shell to learn how cryptography is being abused by malware ? Discover privilege escalation on Windows with practical examples ? Countermeasures against most attacks In Detail Python is an easy-to-learn and cross-platform programming language that has unlimited third-party libraries. Plenty of open source hacking tools are written in Python, which can be easily integrated within your script. This book is packed with step-by-step instructions and working examples to make you a skilled penetration tester. It is divided into clear bite-sized chunks, so you can learn at your own pace and focus on the areas of most interest to you. This book will teach you how to code a reverse shell and build an anonymous shell. You will also learn how to hack passwords and perform a privilege escalation on Windows with practical examples. You will set up your own virtual hacking environment in VirtualBox, which will help you run multiple operating systems for your testing environment. By the end of this book, you will have learned how to code your own scripts and mastered ethical hacking from scratch. Style and approach This book follows a practical approach that takes a gradual learning curve, building up your knowledge about ethical hacking, right from scratch. The focus is less on theory and more on practical examples through a step-by-step approach.

Quickly learn and employ practical recipes for developing real-world, cross-platform applications using Delphi. Key Features *Get to grips with Delphi to build and deploy various cross-platform applications *Design and deploy real-world apps by implementing a single source codebase *Build robust and optimized GUI applications with ease Book Description Delphi is a cross-platform integrated development environment (IDE) that supports rapid application development on different platforms, saving you the pain of wandering amid GUI widget details or having to tackle inter-platform incompatibilities. Delphi Cookbook begins with the basics of Delphi and gets you acquainted with JSON format strings, XSLT transformations, Unicode encodings, and various types of streams. You’ll then move on to more advanced topics such as developing higher-order functions and using enumerators and run-time type information (RTTI). As you make your way through the chapters, you’ll understand Delphi RTL functions, use FireMonkey in a VCL application, and cover topics such as multithreading, using aparallel programming library and deploying Delphi on a server. You’ll take a look at the new feature of WebBroker Apache modules, join the mobile revolution with FireMonkey, and learn to build data-driven mobile user interfaces using the FireDAC database access framework. This book will also show you how to integrate your apps with Internet of Things (IoT). By the end of the book, you will have become proficient in Delphi by exploring its different aspects such as building cross-platforms and mobile applications, designing server-side programs, and integrating these programs with IoT. What you will learn * Develop visually stunning applications using FireMonkey *Deploy LiveBinding effectively with the right object-oriented programming (OOP) approach *Create RESTful web services that run on Linux or Windows *Build mobile apps that read data from a remote server efficiently *Call platform native API on Android and iOS for an unpublished API *Manage software customization by making better use of an extended RTTI *Integrate your application with IOT Who this book is for Delphi Cookbook is for intermediate developers with a basic knowledge of Delphi who want to discover and understand all the development possibilities offered by it.

Explore TensorFlow's capabilities to perform efficient deep learning on images Key Features *Discover image processing for machine vision *Build an effective image classification system using the power of CNNs *Leverage TensorFlow’s capabilities to perform efficient deep learning Book Description TensorFlow is Google’s popular offering for machine learning and deep learning, quickly becoming a favorite tool for performing fast, efficient, and accurate deep learning tasks. Hands-On Deep Learning for Images with TensorFlow shows you the practical implementations of real-world projects, teaching you how to leverage TensorFlow’s capabilities to perform efficient image processing using the power of deep learning. With the help of this book, you will get to grips with the different paradigms of performing deep learning such as deep neural nets and convolutional neural networks, followed by understanding how they can be implemented using TensorFlow. By the end of this book, you will have mastered all the concepts of deep learning and their implementation with TensorFlow and Keras. What you will learn *Build machine learning models particularly focused on the MNIST digits *Work with Docker and Keras to build an image classifier *Understand natural language models to process text and images *Prepare your dataset for machine learning *Create classical, convolutional, and deep neural networks *Create a RESTful image classification server Who this book is for Hands-On Deep Learning for Images with TensorFlow is for you if you are an application developer, data scientist, or machine learning practitioner looking to integrate machine learning into application software and master deep learning by implementing practical projects in TensorFlow. Knowledge of Python programming and basics of deep learning are required to get the best out of this book.

Discover the next level of network defense with the Metasploit framework About This Book ? Gain the skills to carry out penetration testing in complex and highly-secured environments ? Become a master using the Metasploit framework, develop exploits, and generate modules for a variety of real-world scenarios ? Get this completely updated edition with new useful methods and techniques to make your network robust and resilient Who This Book Is For This book is a hands-on guide to penetration testing using Metasploit and covers its complete development. It shows a number of techniques and methodologies that will help you master the Metasploit framework and explore approaches to carrying out advanced penetration testing in highly secured environments. What You Will Learn ? Develop advanced and sophisticated auxiliary modules ? Port exploits from PERL, Python, and many more programming languages ? Test services such as databases, SCADA, and many more ? Attack the client side with highly advanced techniques ? Test mobile and tablet devices with Metasploit ? Bypass modern protections such as an AntiVirus and IDS with Metasploit ? Simulate attacks on web servers and systems with Armitage GUI ? Script attacks in Armitage using CORTANA scripting In Detail We start by reminding you about the basic functionalities of Metasploit and its use in the most traditional ways. You’ll get to know about the basics of programming Metasploit modules as a refresher and then dive into carrying out exploitation as well building and porting exploits of various kinds in Metasploit. In the next section, you’ll develop the ability to perform testing on various services such as databases, Cloud environment, IoT, mobile, tablets, and similar more services. After this training, we jump into real-world sophisticated scenarios where performing penetration tests are a challenge. With real-life case studies, we take you on a journey through client-side attacks using Metasploit and various scripts built on the Metasploit framework. By the end of the book, you will be trained specifically on time-saving techniques using Metasploit. Style and approach This is a step-by-step guide that provides great Metasploit framework methodologies. All the key concepts are explained details with the help of examples and demonstrations that will help you understand everything you need to know about Metasploit.

Automate the deployment of your environment with the power of the Docker toolchain About This Book ? Written and reviewed by expert Docker developers ? The book precisely covers all the essential topics such as building images and managing container swarms required in day to day use for Docker ? The book includes activities on the docker CLI and exercises such as writing Dockerfiles for Python which will allow you to reinforce the concepts covered Who This Book Is For The book is crafted for developers, system architects, junior and mid-level site reliability engineers interested in adapting a docker workflow. They are also required to have a basic knowledge of UNIX concepts such as ssh, ports and logs What You Will Learn ? Understand how to effectively design and build containers for different applications ? Setup an environment for testing, avoiding environment mismatch that is breaking production ? Setup and manage a multi-tier environment ? Run, debug, and experiment with applications in a container In Detail DevOps with Docker outlines the power of containerization and the influence this innovation has on development teams and general operations. We also get to understand what DevOps really is, the principles involved and how the process contributes to product health, by implementing a Docker workflow. We will learn to interpret Dockerfile syntax, build images and setup containers and images. In addition, we will deploy a Docker image to the Docker Hub.Docker is an open source containerization tool, that makes it easier to streamline product delivery. It helps reduce the time taken to get from a whiteboard sketch of the business to a money-back implementation. This fast-paced book is a perfect amalgamation of theory and hands-on exercises. The book will take you through the basics of Docker and DevOps and why and how they integrate. You will then understand what containers are, and how to create and manage them. Next, we will work on the docker-compose file and CLI. Then we will move to set up a network with the docker-compose tool. Gradually you will learn how to scale a delivery pipeline and multiple deployments with Docker. Lastly, you will grasp the concept of orchestration and learn to implement the delivery of containerized applications. Style and approach This is a fast-paced, practical hands-on book aimed at experienced developers and system architects. As you progress you’ll find helpful tips and tricks, as well as useful self-assessment material, exercises and activities to help benchmark your progress and reinforce what you’ve learned. The activities are devised to simulate the real-world conditions in order to equip you with the necessary skills to accelerate software deployment while still retaining security, portability and saving on costs.

Leverage the analytical power of SAS to perform financial analysis efficiently About This Book ? Leverage the power of SAS to analyze financial data with ease ? Find hidden patterns in your data, predict future trends, and optimize risk management ? Learn why leading banks and financial institutions rely on SAS for financial analysis Who This Book Is For Financial data analysts and data scientists who want to use SAS to process and analyze financial data and find hidden patterns and trends from it will find this book useful. Prior exposure to SAS will be helpful but is not mandatory. Some basic understanding of the financial concepts is required. What You Will Learn ? Understand time series data and its relevance in the financial industry ? Build a time series forecasting model in SAS using advanced modeling theories ? Develop models in SAS and infer using regression and Markov chains ? Forecast in?ation by building an econometric model in SAS for your financial planning ? Manage customer loyalty by creating a survival model in SAS using various groupings ? Understand similarity analysis and clustering in SAS using time series data In Detail SAS is a groundbreaking tool for advanced predictive and statistical analytics used by top banks and financial corporations to establish insights from their financial data. SAS for Finance offers you the opportunity to leverage the power of SAS analytics in redefining your data. Packed with real-world examples from leading financial institutions, the author discusses statistical models using time series data to resolve business issues. This book shows you how to exploit the capabilities of this high-powered package to create clean, accurate financial models. You can easily assess the pros and cons of models to suit your unique business needs. By the end of this book, you will be able to leverage the true power of SAS to design and develop accurate analytical models to gain deeper insights into your financial data. Style and approach A comprehensive guide filled with use-cases will ensure that you have a very good conceptual and practical understanding of using SAS in the finance domain.

Build robust microservice-based applications that are distributed, fault tolerant, and always available About This Book ? Learn to build message-driven services for effective communication ? Design microservices API using Reactive programming design patterns ? Deploy, scale and monitor microservices for consistent high performance Who This Book Is For This book is for JavaScript developers seeking to utilize their Node.js and Typescript skills to build microservices and move away from the monolithic architecture. Prior knowledge of TypeScript and Node.js is assumed. What You Will Learn ? Get acquainted with the fundamentals behind microservices. ? Explore the behavioral changes needed for moving from monolithic to microservices. ? Dive into reactive programming, Typescript and Node.js to learn its fundamentals in microservices ? Understand and design a service gateway and service registry for your microservices. ? Maintain the state of microservice and handle dependencies. ? Perfect your microservice with unit testing and Integration testing ? Develop a microservice, secure it, deploy it, and then scale it In Detail In the last few years or so, microservices have achieved the rock star status and right now are one of the most tangible solutions in enterprises to make quick, effective, and scalable applications. The apparent rise of Typescript and long evolution from ES5 to ES6 has seen lots of big companies move to ES6 stack. If you want to learn how to leverage the power of microservices to build robust architecture using reactive programming and Typescript in Node.js, then this book is for you. Typescript Microservices is an end-to-end guide that shows you the implementation of microservices from scratch; right from starting the project to hardening and securing your services. We will begin with a brief introduction to microservices before learning to break your monolith applications into microservices. From here, you will learn reactive programming patterns and how to build APIs for microservices. The next set of topics will take you through the microservice architecture with TypeScript and communication between services. Further, you will learn to test and deploy your TypeScript microservices using the latest tools and implement continuous integration. Finally, you will learn to secure and harden your microservice. By the end of the book, you will be able to build production-ready, scalable, and maintainable microservices using Node.js and Typescript. Style and approach This book will be a step by step easy to follow guide with focused examples for building microservices with Typescript.

Build web applications with MongoDB, ExpressJS, React, and Node About This Book ? Build applications with the MERN stack ? Work with each component of the MERN stack ? Become confident with MERN and ready for more! Who This Book Is For The book is for JavaScript developers who want to get stated with the MERN Stack. What You Will Learn ? Get started with the MERN stack ? Install Node.js and configure MongoDB ? Build RESTful APIs with Express.js and Mongoose ? Build real-time applications with Socket.IO ? Manage synchronous and asynchronous data flows with Redux ? Build web applications with React In Detail The MERN stack is a collection of great tools—MongoDB, Express.js, React, and Node—that provide a strong base for a developer to build easily maintainable web applications. With each of them a JavaScript or JavaScript-based technology, having a shared programming language means it takes less time to develop web applications. This book focuses on providing key tasks that can help you get started, learn, understand, and build full-stack web applications. It walks you through the process of installing all the requirements and project setup to build client-side React web applications, managing synchronous and asynchronous data flows with Redux, and building real-time web applications with Socket.IO, RESTful APIs, and other concepts. This book gives you practical and clear hands-on experience so you can begin building a full-stack MERN web application. Quick Start Guides are focused, shorter titles that provide a faster paced introduction to a technology. They are for people who don't need all the detail at this point in their learning curve. The presentation has been streamlined to concentrate on the things you really need to know. Style and approach This guide shows you how to use your JavaScript knowledge to build web applications that use the MERN stack in both client-side and in server-side environments.

A step-by-step guide to get you up and running with Azure Networking Services and help you build solutions that leverage effective design patterns About This Book ? Learn best practices for designing and implementing Azure Networking for Azure VMs ? Figure out the hidden secrets to designing a cost-effective environment ? Plan, design, and implement various connectivity scenarios in Azure Who This Book Is For This book is for developers, IT professionals, and database admins who have prior experience of working on Microsoft Azure and want to make the most out of Azure Networking Services. What You Will Learn ? Understand Azure networking and use the right networking service to fulfill your needs ? Design Azure Networks for Azure VMs according to best practices ? Span your environment with Azure networking solutions ? Learn to use Azure DNS ? Implement Azure Load Balancer for highly available environments ? Distribute user traffic across the world via the Azure Traffic Manager ? Control your application delivery with Azure Application Gateway In Detail Microsoft Azure networking is one of the most valuable and important offerings in Azure. No matter what solution you are building for the cloud, you'll find a compelling use for it. This book will get you up to speed quickly on Microsoft Azure Networking by teaching you how to use different networking services. By reading this book, you will develop a strong networking foundation for Azure virtual machines and for expanding your on-premise environment to Azure. Hands-On Networking with Azure starts with an introduction to Microsoft Azure networking and creating Azure Virtual Networks with subnets of different types within them. The book helps you understand the architecture of Azure networks. You will then learn the best practices for designing both Windows- and Linux-based Azure VM networks. You will also learn to expand your networks into Azure and how to use Azure DNS. Moreover, you will master best practices for dealing with Azure Load Balancer and the solutions they offer in different scenarios. Finally, we will demonstrate how the Azure Application Gateway works, offering various layer-7 load balancing capabilities for applications. By the end of this book, you will be able to architect your networking solutions for Azure. Style and approach This book provides in-depth insights into properly designing your environment and saving money on your running Azure Services. Using cutting-edge examples, you will learn to efficiently monitor, diagnose, and troubleshoot Azure Networking

Implementing the ArcGIS Pro technique to design accurate, user friendly maps and making appropriate cartographic decisions About This Book ? Build visually stunning and useful maps; ? Understand the cartographic workflows and the decisions you must take before creating the map; ? Learn to create appropriate map elements and layout designs ? Use the ArcGIS Online's Smart Mapping technique to create clear webmaps Who This Book Is For If you are a GIS analyst or a Map designer who would like to create and design a map with ArcGIS Pro then this book is for you. A basic GIS knowledge is assumed. What You Will Learn ? Using ArcGIS Pro to create visually stunning maps and make confident cartographic decisions ? Leverage precise layout grids that will organize and guide the placement of map elements ? Make appropriate decisions about color and symbols ? Critically evaluate and choose the perfect projection for your data ? Create clear webmaps that focus the reader’s attention using ArcGIS Online’s Smart Mapping capabilities In Detail ArcGIS Pro is a geographic information system for working with maps and geographic information. This book will help you create visually stunning maps that increase the legibility of the stories being mapped and introduce visual and design concepts into a traditionally scientific, data-driven process. The book begins by outlining the steps of gathering data from authoritative sources and lays out the workflow of creating a great map. Once the plan is in place you will learn how to organize the Contents Pane in ArcGIS Pro and identify the steps involved in streamlining the production process. Then you will learn Cartographic Design techniques using ArcGIS Pro's feature set to organize the page structure and create a custom set of color swatches. You will be then exposed to the techniques required to ensure your data is clear and legible no matter the size or scale of your map. The later chapters will help you understand the various projection systems, trade-offs between them, and the proper applications of them to make sure your maps are accurate and visually appealing. Finally, you will be introduced to the ArcGIS Online ecosystem and how ArcGIS Pro can utilize it within the application. You will learn Smart Mapping, a new feature of ArcGIS Online that will help you to make maps that are visually stunning and useful. By the end of this book, you will feel more confident in making appropriate cartographic decisions. Style and approach The book takes a pragmatic approach, showing various methods to create visually stunning maps.

Become an expert Vue developer by understanding the design patterns and component architecture of Vue.js to write clean and maintainable code. About This Book ? Craft highly modular applications by exploring the design patterns and component architecture of Vue.js ? Enforce a Flux-like application architecture in your Vue.js applications with Vuex ? Easy-to-follow examples that can be used to create reusable code and extensible designs Who This Book Is For This book targets Vue Developers who care about framework design principles and utilize commonly found design patterns in developing web applications. What You Will Learn ? Understand the theory and patterns of Vue.js ? Build scalable and modular Vue.js applications ? Take advantage of Vuex for reactive state management. ? Create Single Page Applications with vue-router. ? Use Nuxt for FAST server side rendered Vue applications. ? Convert your application to a Progressive Web App (PWA) and add ServiceWorkers, offline support, and more ? Build your app with Vue.js by following up with best practices and explore the common anti-patterns to avoid In Detail The book starts by comparing Vue.js with other frameworks and setting up the development environment for your application, and gradually move on to writing and styling clean, maintainable, and reusable components that can be used across your application. Further on, you'll look at common UI patterns, Vue form submission, and various modifiers such as lazy binding, number typecasting, and string trimming to create better UIs. You will also explore best practices for integrating HTTP into Vue.js applications to create an application with dynamic data. Routing is a vitally important part of any SPA, so you will focus on the Vue router and explore routing a user between multiple pages. Next, you'll also explore state management with Vuex, write testable code for your application, and create performant, server-side rendered applications with Nuxt. Towards the end, we'll look at common antipatterns to avoid, to save you from a lot of trial and error and development headaches. By the end of this book, you'll be well on your way to becoming an expert Vue developer who can leverage design patterns to efficiently architect the design of your application and write clean and maintainable code. Style and approach This easy-to-follow practical guide will help you develop efficient Vue.js apps by following best practices and using common design patterns.

Master the capabilities of Qlik Sense to design and deploy solutions that address all the Business Intelligence needs of your organization About This Book ? Create compelling dashboards and visualizations with your data by leveraging Qlik Sense's self-service model ? Perform data loading and model efficient solutions with faster performance and better governance ? Master Qlik Sense’s APIs and develop powerful mashups and fantastic extensions for visualizations and other components that run across all platforms Who This Book Is For This book is for Business Intelligence professionals and Data Analysts who want to become experts in using Qlik Sense. If you have extensively used QlikView in the past and are looking to transition to Qlik Sense, this book will also help you. A fundamental understanding of how Qlik Sense works and its features is all you need to get started with this book. What You Will Learn ? Understand the importance of self-service analytics and the IKEA-effect ? Explore all the available data modeling techniques and create efficient and optimized data models ? Master security rules and translate permission requirements into security rule logic ? Familiarize yourself with different types of Master Key Item(MKI) and know how and when to use MKI. ? Script and write sophisticated ETL code within Qlik Sense to facilitate all data modeling and data loading techniques ? Get an extensive overview of which APIs are available in Qlik Sense and how to take advantage of a technology with an API ? Develop basic mashup HTML pages and deploy successful mashup projects In Detail Qlik Sense is a powerful, self-servicing Business Intelligence tool for data discovery, analytics and visualization. It allows you to create personalized Business Intelligence solutions from raw data and get actionable insights from it. This book is your one-stop guide to mastering Qlik Sense, catering to all your organizational BI needs. You'll see how you can seamlessly navigate through tons of data from multiple sources and take advantage of the various APIs available in Qlik and its components for guided analytics. You'll also learn how to embed visualizations into your existing BI solutions and extend the capabilities of Qlik Sense to create new visualizations and dashboards that work across all platforms. We also cover other advanced concepts such as porting your Qlik View applications to Qlik Sense,and working with Qlik Cloud. Finally, you'll implement enterprise-wide security and access control for resources and data sources through practical examples. With the knowledge gained from this book, you'll have become the go-to expert in your organization when it comes to designing BI solutions using Qlik Sense. Style and approach This book provides in-depth knowledge on complex visualization processes. This guide will take you straight to complex implementation techniques. While covering the concepts, the use cases will help you understand how they work and how to utilize them.

Click your way to automating business processes with Salesforce Visual Workflow Key Features *Create and maintain complex business processes using Process builder *Discover how to debug and deploy Flow and Process Builder *Use new or existing Flows to work with Salesforce Lightning Experience Book Description Salesforce Management System is an information system used in CRM to automate business processes, such as sales and marketing. Process Builder is a visual tool created to automate business processes in Salesforce. It enables users with no coding expertise to build complex Salesforce workflows. The book starts with an introduction to Process Builder, focussing on the building blocks of creating Processes. Then you will learn about different applications of Process Builder for developing streamlined solutions. You will learn how to easily automate business processes and tackle complex business scenarios using Processes. The book explains the workings of the Process Builder so that you can create reusable processes. It also explains how you can migrate existing Workflow Rules to Process Builder. By the end of the book, you will have a clear understanding of how to use Flows and Process Builder to optimize code usage. What you will learn *Develop an application using point and click with the help of Process Builder *Bypass Processes for specific users *Understand the concepts of reusable processes *Handle complex business processes using Process Builder and keep them clean *Work with formulae in Process Builder to minimize the code required *Create a process with no criteria so as to minimize the amount of rework *Overcome Salesforce's known limitation in terms of referencing picklist values Who this book is for This book is for people who want to use Process Builder to automate their business requirements by clicking, not coding. A basic understanding of Salesforce is required, but not extensive programming knowledge.

Write custom plugins for Puppet, including facts, providers, and functions About This Book ? Grasp recipes that work with centralized and decentralized deployments ? Explore language differences and enhancements anticipated in Puppet version 5.x ? Gain expert understanding of Puppet's latest and most advanced features Who This Book Is For Puppet 5 Cookbook is for anyone who builds and administers servers, especially in a web operations context. You’ll need some experience of Linux systems administration, including familiarity with the command line, filesystem, and text editing. No prior programming experience is required. What You Will Learn ? Discover the latest and most advanced features of Puppet ? Bootstrap your Puppet installation using powerful tools like Rake ? Master techniques to deal with centralized and decentralized Puppet deployments ? Use exported resources and forge modules to set up Puppet modules ? Create efficient manifests to streamline your deployments ? Automate Puppet master deployment using Git hooks and PuppetDB ? Make Puppet reliable, performant, and scalable In Detail Puppet is a configuration management system that automates all your IT configurations, giving you control of managing each node.Puppet 5 Cookbook will take you through Puppet's latest and most advanced features, including Docker containers, Hiera, and AWS Cloud Orchestration. Updated with the latest advancements and best practices, this book delves into various aspects of writing good Puppet code, which includes using Puppet community style, checking your manifests with puppet-lint, and learning community best practices with an emphasis on real-world implementation. You will learn to set up, install, and create your first manifests with Puppet version control, and also understand various sysadmin tasks, including managing config files, using Augeas, and generating files from snippets and templates. As the book progresses, you’ll explore virtual resources and use Puppet's resource scheduling and auditing features. In the concluding chapters, you’ll walk through managing applications and writing your own resource types, providers, and external node classifiers. By the end of this book, you will have learned to report, log, and debug your system. Style and approach A recipe-based guide filled with quick step-by-step instructions that are immediately applicable