Transform the ways you communicate, create, collaborate, and explore using Microsoft HoloLens About This Book ? Create immersive augmented reality apps for Microsoft HoloLens from scratch ? Leverage the powerful HoloLens sensors to interact with real-world motions and gestures and make your app life-like ? Explore the powerful Unity 5 SDK along with the Windows Unified platform to get the most out of your HoloLens app Who This Book Is For If you are a developer who wants to create augmented reality apps for the Microsoft HoloLens platform, then this is the book for you. Coding experience with C# is assumed. What You Will Learn ? Design an app for HoloLens that is feasible and attractive to use ? Add gestures and interact with them ? Create sounds in the app and place them in a 3D space ? Use voice generation and voice recognition to make your apps more lifelike ? Interact with the physical environment to place holograms on top of physical objects ? Compare HoloLens with the other products and know how to use its strengths ? Use assets from third parties to enrich our app In Detail HoloLens, Microsoft’s innovative augmented reality headset, overlaps holograms into a user’s vision of their environment. Your ideas are closer to becoming real when you can create and work with holograms in relation to the world around you. If you are dreaming beyond virtual worlds, beyond screens, beyond pixels, and want to take a big leap in the world of augmented reality, then this is the book you want. Starting off with brainstorming and the design process, you will take your first steps in creating your application for HoloLens. You will learn to add gestures and write an app that responds to verbal commands before gradually moving on creating sounds in the app and placing them in a 3D space. You will then communicate between devices in the boundaries of the UWP model. Style and approach This book takes a step-by-step, practical, tutorial-style approach where you will dive deep into HoloLens app development. You will work with the API and write your own complex *s that would interact with the powerful HoloLens sensors and with realistic examples, you will be able to create immersive 3D apps for HoloLens.

A practical approach to conquering the complexities of Microservices using the Python tooling ecosystem About This Book ? A very useful guide for Python developers who are shifting to the new microservices-based development ? A concise, up-to-date guide to building efficient and lightweight microservices in Python using Flask, Tox, and other tools ? Learn to use Docker containers, CoreOS, and Amazon Web Services to deploy your services Who This Book Is For This book is for developers who have basic knowledge of Python, the command line, and HTTP-based application principles, and those who want to learn how to build, test, scale, and manage Python 3 microservices. No prior experience of writing microservices in Python is assumed. What You Will Learn ? Explore what microservices are and how to design them ? Use Python 3, Flask, Tox, and other tools to build your services using best practices ? Learn how to use a TDD approach ? Discover how to document your microservices ? Configure and package your code in the best way ? Interact with other services ? Secure, monitor, and scale your services ? Deploy your services in Docker containers, CoreOS, and Amazon Web Services In Detail We often deploy our web applications into the cloud, and our code needs to interact with many third-party services. An efficient way to build applications to do this is through microservices architecture. But, in practice, it's hard to get this right due to the complexity of all the pieces interacting with each other. This book will teach you how to overcome these issues and craft applications that are built as small standard units, using all the proven best practices and avoiding the usual traps. It's a practical book: you’ll build everything using Python 3 and its amazing tooling ecosystem. You will understand the principles of TDD and apply them. You will use Flask, Tox, and other tools to build your services using best practices. You will learn how to secure connections between services, and how to * Nginx using Lua to build web application firewall features such as rate limiting. You will also familiarize yourself with Docker’s role in microservices, and use Docker containers, CoreOS, and Amazon Web Services to deploy your services. This book will take you on a journey, ending with the creation of a complete Python application based on microservices. By the end of the book, you will be well versed with the fundamentals of building, designing, testing, and deploying your Python microservices. Style and approach This book is an linear, easy-to-follow guide on how to best design, write, test, and deploy your microservices. It includes real-world examples that will help Python developers create their own Python microservice using the most efficient methods.

Unleash the data processing and analytics capability of Apache Spark with the language of choice: Java About This Book ? Perform big data processing with Spark—without having to learn Scala! ? Use the Spark Java API to implement efficient enterprise-grade applications for data processing and analytics ? Go beyond mainstream data processing by adding querying capability, Machine Learning, and graph processing using Spark Who This Book Is For If you are a Java developer interested in learning to use the popular Apache Spark framework, this book is the resource you need to get started. Apache Spark developers who are looking to build enterprise-grade applications in Java will also find this book very useful. What You Will Learn ? Process data using different file formats such as XML, JSON, CSV, and plain and delimited text, using the Spark core Library. ? Perform analytics on data from various data sources such as Kafka, and Flume using Spark Streaming Library ? Learn SQL schema creation and the analysis of structured data using various SQL functions including Windowing functions in the Spark SQL Library ? Explore Spark Mlib APIs while implementing Machine Learning techniques to solve real-world problems ? Get to know Spark GraphX so you understand various graph-based analytics that can be performed with Spark In Detail Apache Spark is the buzzword in the big data industry right now, especially with the increasing need for real-time streaming and data processing. While Spark is built on Scala, the Spark Java API exposes all the Spark features available in the Scala version for Java developers. This book will show you how you can implement various functionalities of the Apache Spark framework in Java, without stepping out of your comfort zone. The book starts with an introduction to the Apache Spark 2.x ecosystem, followed by explaining how to install and configure Spark, and refreshes the Java concepts that will be useful to you when consuming Apache Spark's APIs. You will explore RDD and its associated common Action and Transformation Java APIs, set up a production-like clustered environment, and work with Spark SQL. Moving on, you will perform near-real-time processing with Spark streaming, Machine Learning analytics with Spark MLlib, and graph processing with GraphX, all using various Java packages. By the end of the book, you will have a solid foundation in implementing components in the Spark framework in Java to build fast, real-time applications. Style and approach This practical guide teaches readers the fundamentals of the Apache Spark framework and how to implement components using the Java language. It is a unique blend of theory and practical examples, and is written in a way that will gradually build your knowledge of Apache Spark.

Build powerful cross-platform desktop applications with web technologies such as Node, NW.JS, Electron, and React About This Book ? Build different cross-platform HTML5 desktop applications right from planning, designing, and deployment to enhancement, testing, and delivery ? Forget the pain of cross-platform compatibility and build efficient apps that can be easily deployed on different platforms. ? Build simple to advanced HTML5 desktop apps, by integrating them with other popular frameworks and libraries such as Electron, Node.JS, Nw.js, React, Redux, and TypeScript Who This Book Is For This book has been written for developers interested in creating desktop applications with HTML5. The first part requires essential web-master skills (HTML, CSS, and JavaScript). The second demands minimal experience with React. And finally for the third it would be helpful to have a basic knowledge of React, Redux, and TypeScript. What You Will Learn ? Plan, design, and develop different cross-platform desktop apps ? Application architecture with React and local state ? Application architecture with React and Redux store ? Code design with TypeScript interfaces and specialized types ? CSS and component libraries such as Photonkit, Material UI, and React MDL ? HTML5 APIs such as desktop notifications, WebSockets, WebRTC, and others ? Desktop environment integration APIs of NW.js and Electron ? Package and distribute for NW.JS and Electron In Detail Building and maintaining cross-platform desktop applications with native languages isn’t a trivial task. Since it’s hard to simulate on a foreign platform, packaging and distribution can be quite platform-specific and testing cross-platform apps is pretty complicated.In such scenarios, web technologies such as HTML5 and JavaScript can be your lifesaver. HTML5 desktop applications can be distributed across different platforms (Window, MacOS, and Linux) without any modifications to the code. The book starts with a walk-through on building a simple file explorer from scratch powered by NW.JS. So you will practice the most exciting features of bleeding edge CSS and JavaScript. In addition you will learn to use the desktop environment integration API, source code protection, packaging, and auto-updating with NW.JS. As the second application you will build a chat-system example implemented with Electron and React. While developing the chat app, you will get Photonkit. Next, you will create a screen capturer with NW.JS, React, and Redux. Finally, you will examine an RSS-reader built with TypeScript, React, Redux, and Electron. Generic UI components will be reused from the React MDL library. By the end of the book, you will have built four desktop apps. You will have covered everything from planning, designing, and development to the enhancement, testing, and delivery of these apps. Style and approach Filled with real world examples, this book teaches you to build cross-platform desktop apps right from scratch using a step-by-step approach.

Build scalable, efficient, and highly available web apps using AWS About This Book ? Get an in-depth understanding of the serverless model ? Build a complete serverless web application end to end ? Learn how to use the Serverless Framework to improve your productivity Who This Book Is For If you’re looking to learn more about scalable and cost-efficient architectures, this book is for you. Basic knowledge of Node.js skills or familiarity with cloud services is required. For other topics, we cover the basics. What You Will Learn ? Get a grasp of the pros and cons of going serverless and its use cases ? Discover how you can use the building blocks of AWS to your advantage ? Set up the environment and create a basic app with the Serverless Framework ? Host static files on S3 and CloudFront with HTTPS support ? Build a sample application with a frontend using React as an SPA ? Develop the Node.js backend to handle requests and connect to a SimpleDB database ? Secure your applications with authentication and authorization ? Implement the publish-subscribe pattern to handle notifications in a serverless application ? Create tests, define the workflow for deployment, and monitor your app In Detail This book will equip you with the knowledge needed to build your own serverless apps by showing you how to set up different services while making your application scalable, highly available, and efficient. We begin by giving you an idea of what it means to go serverless, exploring the pros and cons of the serverless model and its use cases. Next, you will be introduced to the AWS services that will be used throughout the book, how to estimate costs, and how to set up and use the Serverless Framework. From here, you will start to build an entire serverless project of an online store, beginning with a React SPA frontend hosted on AWS followed by a serverless backend with API Gateway and Lambda functions. You will also learn to access data from a SimpleDB database, secure the application with authentication and authorization, and implement serverless notifications for browsers using AWS IoT. This book will describe how to monitor the performance, efficiency, and errors of your apps and conclude by teaching you how to test and deploy your applications. Style and approach This book takes a step-by-step approach on how to use the Serverless Framework and AWS services to build Serverless Applications. It will give you a hands-on feeling, allowing you to practice while reading. It provides a brief introduction of concepts while keeping the focus on the practical skills required to develop applications.

Over 60 high-quality recipes covering debugging, security, performance, microservices, web frameworks, databases, deployment and more; rewritten for Node 4, 6, and 8. About This Book ? Security between Node.js and browser applications explained and applied in depth ? Cutting edge techniques and tools for measuring and improving performance ? Contemporary techniques to create developer-ergonomic, readily-scalable production systems Who This Book Is For If you have good knowledge of JavaScript and want to build fast, efficient, scalable client-server solutions, then this book is for you. Some experience with Node.js is assumed to get the most out of this book. If working from a beginner level Node Cookbook 2nd Edition is recommended as a primer for Node Cookbook 3rd Edition. What You Will Learn ? Rapidly become proficient at debugging Node.js programs ? Write and publish your own Node.js modules ? Become deeply acquainted with Node.js core API’s ? Use web frameworks such as Express, Hapi and Koa for accelerated web application development ? Apply Node.js streams for low-footprint infinite-capacity data processing ? Fast-track performance knowledge and optimization abilities ? Compare and contrast various persistence strategies, including database integrations with MongoDB, MySQL/MariaDB, Postgres, Redis, and LevelDB ? Grasp and apply critically essential security concepts ? Understand how to use Node with best-of-breed deployment technologies: Docker, Kubernetes and AWS In Detail The principles of asynchronous event-driven programming are perfect for today's web, where efficient real-time applications and scalability are at the forefront. Server-side JavaScript has been here since the 90s but Node got it right. This edition is a complete rewrite of the original, and is targeted against Node 4, 6, and 8. It shows you how to build fast, efficient, and scalable client-server solutions using the latest versions of Node. Beginning with adopting debugging tips and tricks of the trade and learning how to write your own modules, then covering the fundamentals of streams in Node.js, you will go on to discover I/O control, implementation of various web protocols, you’ll work up to integrating with cross-section of databases such as MongoDB, MySQL/MariaDB, Postgres, Redis, and LevelDB and building web application with Express, Hapi and Koa. You will then learn about security essentials in Node.js and the advanced optimization tools and techniques By the end of the book you should have acquired a level of proficiency that allows you to confidently build a full production-ready and scalable Node.js system. Style and approach This recipe-based practical guide presents each topic with step-by-step instructions on how you can create fast and efficient server side applications using the latest features and capabilities in Node 8 whilst also supporting usage with Node 4 and 6.

Learn to create plugins for WordPress 4.x to deliver custom projects or share with the community through detailed step-by-step recipes and code examples About This Book ? Learn how to change and extend WordPress to perform virtually any task ? Explore the plugin API through approachable examples and detailed explanations ? Mold WordPress to your project’s needs or transform it to benefit the entire community Who This Book Is For If you are a WordPress user, developer, or a site integrator with basic knowledge of PHP and an interest to create new plugins to address your personal needs, client needs, or share with the community, then this book is for you. What You Will Learn ? Discover how to register user callbacks with WordPress, forming the basis of plugin creation ? Explore the creation of administration pages and adding new content management sections through custom post types and custom database tables ? Improve your plugins by customizing the post and page editors, categories and user profiles, and creating visitor-facing forms ? Make your pages dynamic using Java*, AJAX and adding new widgets to the platform ? Learn how to add support for plugin translation and distribute your work to the WordPress community In Detail WordPress is a popular, powerful, and open Content Management System. Learning how to extend its capabilities allows you to unleash its full potential, whether you're an administrator trying to find the right extension, a developer with a great idea to enhance the platform for the community, or a website developer working to fulfill a client's needs. This book shows readers how to navigate WordPress' vast set of API functions to create high-quality plugins with easy-to-configure administration interfaces. With new recipes and materials updated for the latest versions of WordPress 4.x, this second edition teaches you how to create plugins of varying complexity ranging from a few lines of code to complex extensions that provide intricate new capabilities. You'll start by using the basic mechanisms provided in WordPress to create plugins and execute custom user code. You will then see how to design administration panels, enhance the post editor with custom fields, store custom data, and modify site behavior based on the value of custom fields. You'll safely incorporate dynamic elements on web pages using *ing languages, and build new widgets that users will be able to add to WordPress sidebars and widget areas. By the end of this book, you will be able to create WordPress plugins to perform any task you can imagine. Style and approach This cookbook will take you through the creation of your first simple plugin to adding entirely new sections and widgets in the administration interface, so you can learn how to change and extend WordPress to perform virtually any task. Each topic is illustrated through realistic examples showing how to solve common problems, followed by detailed explanations of all concepts used

Master OpenFlow concepts to improve and make your projects efficient with the help of Software-Defined Networking. About This Book ? Master the required platforms and tools to build network applications with OpenFlow ? Get to grips with the updated OpenFlow and build robust SDN-based solutions ? An end-to-end thorough overview of open-source switches, controllers, and tools Who This Book Is For If you are a network/system administrator or a system engineer and would like to implement OpenFlow concepts and take Software-Defined Networking on your projects to the next level, then this book is for you. If you are aware of broad networking concepts, and are familiar with the day-to-day operation of computer networks, you will find this book very beneficial. What You Will Learn ? Explore Software-Defined Networking and activities around SDN/OpenFlow including OpenFlow messages ? Hardware and software implementations of OpenFlow switches and experiment with Mininet GUI ? Learn about the role of OpenFlow in cloud computing by configuring and setting up the Neutron and Floodlight OpenFlow controller plugins ? Simulate and test utilities, and familiarize yourself with OpenFlow soft switches, controllers, virtualization, and orchestration tools ? Enhance and build environments for Net App development by installing VM's and tools such as Mininet and Wireshark ? Learn about hardware and software switches and get a feel for active open-source projects around SDN and OpenFlow In Detail OpenFlow paves the way for an open, centrally programmable structure, thereby accelerating the effectiveness of Software-Defined Networking. Software-Defined Networking with OpenFlow, Second Edition takes you through the product cycle and gives you an in-depth de*ion of the components and options that are available at each stage. The aim of this book is to help you implement OpenFlow concepts and improve Software-Defined Networking on your projects. You will begin by learning about building blocks and OpenFlow messages such as controller-to-switch and symmetric and asynchronous messages. Next, this book will take you through OpenFlow controllers and their existing implementations followed by network application development. Key topics include the basic environment setup, the Neutron and Floodlight OpenFlow controller, XORPlus OF13SoftSwitch, enterprise and affordable switches such as the Zodiac FX and HP2920. By the end of this book, you will be able to implement OpenFlow concepts and improve Software-Defined Networking in your projects. Style and approach This book is an easy-to-follow and pragmatic guide networking. Each topic adopts a logical approach and provides hints to help you build and deliver SDN Solutions efficiently.

Learn to build interactive and efficient applications by leveraging 24 effective cognitive services APIs powered by Microsoft About This Book ? Explore the capabilities of 24 of the APIs released as part of the Cognitive Services platform ? Build intelligent apps that combine the power of computer vision, speech recognition, and language processing ? Give your apps human-like cognitive intelligence with this hands-on guide Who This Book Is For .NET developers who want to add AI capabilities to their applications will find this book useful. No knowledge of machine learning or AI is necessary to work through this book. What You Will Learn ? Identify a person through visual inspection and audio ? Reduce user effort by utilizing AI-like capabilities ? Understand how to analyze images and text in different ways ? Find out how to analyze images using Vision APIs ? Add video analysis to applications using Vision APIs ? Utilize Search to find anything you want ? Analyze text to extract information and explore text structure In Detail Microsoft has revamped its Project Oxford to launch the all new Cognitive Services platform-a set of 30 APIs to add speech, vision, language, and knowledge capabilities to apps. This book will introduce you to 24 of the APIs released as part of Cognitive Services platform and show you how to leverage their capabilities. More importantly, you'll see how the power of these APIs can be combined to build real-world apps that have cognitive capabilities. The book is split into three sections: computer vision, speech recognition and language processing, and knowledge and search. You will be taken through the vision APIs at first as this is very visual, and not too complex. The next part revolves around speech and language, which are somewhat connected. The last part is about adding real-world intelligence to apps by connecting them to Knowledge and Search APIs. By the end of this book, you will be in a position to understand what Microsoft Cognitive Service can offer and how to use the different APIs. Style and approach This book takes you through essential API capabilities and shows how to utilize them to suit the needs of your application.

Your one stop guide to making the most out of Azure Cloud About This Book ? Get familiar with the different design patterns available in Microsoft Azure ? Develop Azure cloud architecture and a pipeline management system ? Get to know the security best practices for your Azure deployment Who This Book Is For If you are Cloud Architects, DevOps Engineers, or developers who want to learn key architectural aspects of the Azure Cloud platform, then this book is for you. Prior basic knowledge of the Azure Cloud platform is good to have. What You Will Learn ? Familiarize yourself with the components of the Azure Cloud platform ? Understand the cloud design patterns ? Use enterprise security guidelines for your Azure deployment ? Design and implement Serverless solutions ? See Cloud architecture and the deployment pipeline ? Understand cost management for Azure solutions In Detail Over the years, Azure cloud services has grown quickly, and the number of organizations adopting Azure for their cloud services is also gradually increasing. Leading industry giants are finding that Azure fulfills their extensive cloud requirements. This book will guide you through all the important and tough decision-making aspects involved in architecturing a Azure public cloud for your organization. The book starts with an extensive introduction to all the categories of designs available with Azure. These design patterns focus on different aspects of cloud such as high availability, data management, and so on. Gradually, we move on to various aspects such as building your cloud structure and architecture. It will also include a brief de*ion about different types of services provided by Azure, such as Azure functions and Azure Analytics, which can prove beneficial for an organization. This book will cover each and every aspect and function required to develop a Azure cloud based on your organizational requirements. By the end of this book, you will be in a position to develop a full-fledged Azure cloud. Style and approach This hands-on guide to the Azure Cloud platform covers different architectural concepts and implementations necessary for any enterprise scale deployment.

Learn how to develop web applications that deploy cross-platform and are optimized for high performance using ASP.NET Core 2 About This Book ? Master high-level web app performance improvement techniques using ASP.NET Core 2.0 ? Find the right balance between premature optimization and inefficient code ? Design workflows that run asynchronously and are resilient to transient performance issues Who This Book Is For This book is aimed for readers who can build a web application and have some experience with ASP.NET or some other web application framework (such as Ruby on Rails or Django). They can be people who are happy learning details independently but who struggle to discover the topics that they should be researching. The reader should be interested in improving the performance of their web app and in learning about ASP.NET Core and modern C#. What You Will Learn ? Understand ASP.NET Core 2 and how it differs from its predecessor ? Address performance issues at the early stages of development ? Set up development environments on Windows, Mac, and Linux ? Measure, profile and find the most significant problems ? Identify the differences between development workstations and production infrastructures, and how these can exacerbate problems ? Boost the performance of your application but with an eye to how it affects complexity and maintenance ? Explore a few cutting-edge techniques such as advanced hashing and custom transports In Detail The ASP.NET Core 2 framework is used to develop high-performance and cross-platform web applications. It is built on .NET Core 2 and includes significantly more framework APIs than version 1. This book addresses high-level performance improvement techniques. It starts by showing you how to locate and measure problems and then shows you how to solve some of the most common ones. Next, it shows you how to get started with ASP.NET Core 2 on Windows, Mac, Linux, and with Docker containers. The book illustrates what problems can occur as latency increases when deploying to a cloud infrastructure. It also shows you how to optimize C# code and choose the best data structures for the job. It covers new features in C# 6 and 7, along with parallel programming and distributed architectures. By the end of this book, you will be fixing latency issues and optimizing performance problems, but you will also know how this affects the complexity and maintenance of your application. Finally, we will explore a few highly advanced techniques for further optimization. Style and approach A step-by-step practical guide filled with real-world use cases and examples

Become a full-fledged Qlik Sense Consultant with the help of this unique guide About This Book ? Become a successful Qlik consultant with the help of this insightful guide ? Build what is in line as well as exceeding your customer’s expectations from your Qlik Sense solutions using this highly practical guide ? Build result-driven optimized BI solutions using Qlik with the help of industry examples Who This Book Is For If you have basic familiarity with Qlik Sense and want to upgrade your skills to become a full-fledged Qlik Consultant, this book is for you. With this book, you will be able to create efficient business intelligence solutions that would fetch client satisfaction, and in turn, more projects. What You Will Learn ? Understand the importance and expectations of a consultant’s role ? Engage with the customer to understand the ir goals and future objectives ? Design the optimum architecture, using the best practices for the development and implementation of your projects ? Ensure successful adoption using real-life examples to make your learning complete ? Learn about the important stages of a Qlik project’s life cycle In Detail Qlik Sense is a leading platform for business intelligence (BI) solutions. Qlik Sense helps organizations in making informed decisions based on the data they have. This book will teach you how to effectively use Qlik for optimum customer satisfaction. You will undergo a metamorphosis from a developer to a consultant who is capable of building the most suitable BI solutions for your clients. The book will take you through several business cases – this will give you enough insight to understand the needs of the client clearly and build a BI solution that meets or exceeds their expectations. Starting from the pre-project activities, you will go to the actual execution of the project, the implementation, and even maintenance. This book will give you all the information you need - from the strategy to requirement gathering to implementing BI solutions using Qlik Sense. The book will empower you to take the right decisions in tricky and diffi cult situations while developing analytics and dashboards. Style and approach This book will be a hands-on guide that will teach you all the what-to-do’s, when-to-do’s, and how-to-do’s for becoming a successful Qlik Sense Consultant. With the help of various business scenarios, the book will cover real-world problems that you can relate to. Various solutions in the book will be backed up by the thought process of why are these solutions used and how you can implement them in your own business environment.

Learn Perl 6 effortlessly to solve everyday problems About This Book ? Filled with practical examples, this comprehensive guide explores all aspects of Perl 6. ? Leverage the power of Perl 6 concurrency to develop responsive and high-performant software. ? Delves into various programming paradigms (such as Object Oriented, functional, and reactive) that can be adopted by Perl 6 developers to write effective code. Who This Book Is For This book is for developers who would like to learn the Perl programming language. A basic knowledge of programming is assumed. What You Will Learn ? Learn the background from which Perl 6 appeared and how it developed. ? How to use Rakudo to run your programs. ? Various Perl 6 built-in types and details about their behavior ? Understand how scalar variables, hash variables, and arrays work ? Create meta operators and hyper operators ? How classes work and how to build software based on the Object Oriented Paradigm ? How Perl 6 provides support for concurrency, functional programming, and reactive programming. In Detail Perl is a family of high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming languages consisting of Perl 5 and Perl 6. Perl 6 helps developers write concise and declarative code that is easy to maintain. This book is an end-to-end guide that will help non-Perl developers get to grips with the language and use it to solve real-world problems. Beginning with a brief introduction to Perl 6, the first module in the book will teach you how to write and execute basic programs. The second module delves into language constructs, where you will learn about the built-in data types, variables, operators, modules, subroutines, and so on available in Perl 6. Here the book also delves deeply into data manipulation (for example, strings and text files) and you will learn how to create safe and correct Perl 6 modules. You will learn to create software in Perl by following the Object Oriented Paradigm. The final module explains in detail the incredible concurrency support provided by Perl 6. Here you will also learn about regexes, functional programming, and reactive programming in Perl 6. By the end of the book, with the help of a number of examples that you can follow and immediately run, modify, and use in practice, you will be fully conversant with the benefits of Perl 6. Style and approach This book will take you through essential Perl 6 concepts so you can implement them immediately

Your one-stop guide to becoming a Machine Learning expert. About This Book ? Learn to develop efficient and intelligent applications by leveraging the power of Machine Learning ? A highly practical guide explaining the concepts of problem solving in the easiest possible manner ? Implement Machine Learning in the most practical way Who This Book Is For This book will appeal to any developer who wants to know what Machine Learning is and is keen to use Machine Learning to make their day-to-day apps fast, high performing, and accurate. Any developer who wants to enter the field of Machine Learning can effectively use this book as an entry point. What You Will Learn ? Learn the math and mechanics of Machine Learning via a developer-friendly approach ? Get to grips with widely used Machine Learning algorithms/techniques and how to use them to solve real problems ? Get a feel for advanced concepts, using popular programming frameworks. ? Prepare yourself and other developers for working in the new ubiquitous field of Machine Learning ? Get an overview of the most well known and powerful tools, to solve computing problems using Machine Learning. ? Get an intuitive and down-to-earth introduction to current Machine Learning areas, and apply these concepts on interesting and cutting-edge problems. In Detail Most of us have heard about the term Machine Learning, but surprisingly the question frequently asked by developers across the globe is, “How do I get started in Machine Learning?”. One reason could be attributed to the vastness of the subject area because people often get overwhelmed by the abstractness of ML and terms such as regression, supervised learning, probability density function, and so on. This book is a systematic guide teaching you how to implement various Machine Learning techniques and their day-to-day application and development. You will start with the very basics of data and mathematical models in easy-to-follow language that you are familiar with; you will feel at home while implementing the examples. The book will introduce you to various libraries and frameworks used in the world of Machine Learning, and then, without wasting any time, you will get to the point and implement Regression, Clustering, classification, Neural networks, and more with fun examples. As you get to grips with the techniques, you’ll learn to implement those concepts to solve real-world scenarios for ML applications such as image analysis, Natural Language processing, and anomaly detections of time series data. By the end of the book, you will have learned various ML techniques to develop more efficient and intelligent applications. Style and approach This book gives you a glimpse of Machine Learning Models and the application of models at scale using clustering, classification, regression and reinforcement learning with fun examples. Hands-on examples will be presented to understand the power of problem solving with Machine Learning and Advanced architectures, software installation, and configuration.

In depth informative guide to implement and use AWS security services effectively. About This Book ? Learn to secure your network, infrastructure, data and applications in AWS cloud ? Log, monitor and audit your AWS resources for continuous security and continuous compliance in AWS cloud ? Use AWS managed security services to automate security. Focus on increasing your business rather than being diverged onto security risks and issues with AWS security. ? Delve deep into various aspects such as the security model, compliance, access management and much more to build and maintain a secure environment. Who This Book Is For This book is for all IT professionals, system administrators and security analysts, solution architects and Chief Information Security Officers who are responsible for securing workloads in AWS for their organizations. It is helpful for all Solutions Architects who want to design and implement secure architecture on AWS by the following security by design principle. This book is helpful for personnel in Auditors and Project Management role to understand how they can audit AWS workloads and how they can manage security in AWS respectively. If you are learning AWS or championing AWS adoption in your organization, you should read this book to build security in all your workloads. You will benefit from knowing about security footprint of all major AWS services for multiple domains, use cases, and scenarios. What You Will Learn ? Learn about AWS Identity Management and Access control ? Gain knowledge to create and secure your private network in AWS ? Understand and secure your infrastructure in AWS ? Understand monitoring, logging and auditing in AWS ? Ensure Data Security in AWS ? Learn to secure your applications in AWS ? Explore AWS Security best practices In Detail Mastering AWS Security starts with a deep dive into the fundamentals of the shared security responsibility model. This book tells you how you can enable continuous security, continuous auditing, and continuous compliance by automating your security in AWS with the tools, services, and features it provides. Moving on, you will learn about access control in AWS for all resources. You will also learn about the security of your network, servers, data and applications in the AWS cloud using native AWS security services. By the end of this book, you will understand the complete AWS Security landscape, covering all aspects of end - to -end software and hardware security along with logging, auditing, and compliance of your entire IT environment in the AWS cloud. Lastly, the book will wrap up with AWS best practices for security. Style and approach The book will take a practical approach delving into different aspects of AWS security to help you become a master of it. It will focus on using native AWS security features and managed AWS services to help you achieve continuous security and continuous compliance.

A comprehensive, hands-on guide on unit testing framework for Java programming language About This Book ? In-depth coverage of Jupiter, the new programming and extension model provided by JUnit 5 ? Integration of JUnit 5 with other frameworks such as Mockito, Spring, Selenium, Cucumber, and Docker ? Best practices for writing meaningful Jupiter test cases Who This Book Is For This book is for Java software engineers and testers. If you are a Java developer who is keen on improving the quality of your code and building world class applications then this book is for you. Prior experience of the concepts of automated testing will be helpful. What You Will Learn ? The importance of software testing and its impact on software quality ? The options available for testing Java applications ? The architecture, features and extension model of JUnit 5 ? Writing test cases using the Jupiter programming model ? How to use the latest and advanced features of JUnit 5 ? Integrating JUnit 5 with existing third-party frameworks ? Best practices for writing meaningful JUnit 5 test cases ? Managing software testing activities in a living software project In Detail When building an application it is of utmost importance to have clean code, a productive environment and efficient systems in place. Having automated unit testing in place helps developers to achieve these goals. The JUnit testing framework is a popular choice among Java developers and has recently released a major version update with JUnit 5. This book shows you how to make use of the power of JUnit 5 to write better software. The book begins with an introduction to software quality and software testing. After that, you will see an in-depth analysis of all the features of Jupiter, the new programming and extension model provided by JUnit 5. You will learn how to integrate JUnit 5 with other frameworks such as Mockito, Spring, Selenium, Cucumber, and Docker. After the technical features of JUnit 5, the final part of this book will train you for the daily work of a software tester. You will learn best practices for writing meaningful tests. Finally, you will learn how software testing fits into the overall software development process, and sits alongside continuous integration, defect tracking, and test reporting. Style and approach The book offers definitive and comprehensive coverage of all the Unit testing concepts with JUnit and its features using several real world examples so that readers can put their learning to practice almost immediately. This book is structured in three parts: 1. Software testing foundations (software quality and Java testing) 2. JUnit 5 in depth (programming and extension model of JUnit 5) 3. Software testing in practice (how to write and manage JUnit 5 tests)

An advanced C# beginners guide to some of the tougher parts of the C# language! About This Book ? Learn C#, Visual Studio, and object-oriented programming ? Get practical examples of advanced C# language features so that you can easily master them yourself ? Use the C# programming language to work generics and lambda expressions ? Program C# and SQL Server 2014 ? Get ready for your first MVC applications Who This Book Is For This book is for anyone who is interested in learning how to program the more advanced aspects of the C# language. Previous programming knowledge of C# is required, at least to the level of basic object-oriented programming. Readers can benefit from first reading Tom Owsiak’s companion book, Beginning C# 7 Hands-On – The Core Language, as a preparation for the more advanced elements and techniques presented in this book. What You Will Learn ? Learn C# advanced language elements and techniques ? Discover advanced C# techniques with hands-on working examples ? Build on your knowledge of OOP by using C# generics and lambda expressions ? Work with C# and LINQ custom data types ? Program C# and SQL Server 2017 to manage and query data ? Create your first full MVC application In Detail Beginning C# 7 Hands-On – Advanced Language Features assumes that you’ve mastered the basic elements of the C# language and that you're now ready to learn the more advanced C# language and syntax, line by line, in a working Visual Studio environment. You'll learn how to code advanced C# language topics including generics, lambda expressions, and anonymous methods. You'll learn to use query syntax to construct queries and deploy queries that perform aggregation functions. Work with C# and SQL Server 2014 to perform complex joins and stored procedures. Explore advanced file access methods, and see how to serialize and deserialize objects – all by writing working lines of code that you can run within Visual Studio. This book is designed for beginner C# developers who have mastered the basics now, and anyone who needs a fast reference to using advanced C# language features in practical coding examples. You'll also take a look at C# through web programming with web forms. By the time you’ve finished this book, you’ll know all the critical advanced elements of the C# language and how to program everything from C# generics to XML, LINQ, and your first full MVC web applications. These are the advanced building blocks that you can then combine to exploit the full power of the C# programming language, line by line. Style and approach A comprehensive book that blends theory with just the right amount of practical code implementations, to help you get up and running with the C# programming language and its advanced features. You’ll also get to work with other tools and technologies that complement C# programming. Each core part of the C# language is coded as you learn, and code output is tested every time to verify the syntax is working as expected, so it’s easy for you to learn directly from the working code examples. Advanced-level features of C# will be used to code and work through examples.

Start building your very own mobile apps with this comprehensive introduction to Swift and object-oriented programming About This Book ? A complete beginner's guide to Swift programming language ? Understand core Swift programming concepts and techniques for creating popular iOS apps ? Start your journey toward building mobile app development with this practical guide Who This Book Is For This book is for beginners who are new to Swift or may have some preliminary knowledge of Objective-C. If you are interested in learning and mastering Swift in Apple’s ecosystem, namely mobile development, then this book is for you. What You Will Learn ? Become a pro at iOS development by creating simple-to-complex iOS mobile applications ? Master Playgrounds, a unique and intuitive approach to teaching Xcode ? Tackle the basics, including variables, if clauses, functions, loops and structures, classes, and inheritance ? Model real-world objects in Swift and have an in-depth understanding of the data structures used, along with OOP concepts and protocols ? Use CocoaPods, an open source Swift package manager to ease your everyday developer requirements ? Develop a wide range of apps, from a simple weather app to an Instagram-like social app ? Get ahead in the industry by learning how to use third-party libraries efficiently in your apps In Detail Swift Language is now more powerful than ever; it has introduced new ways to solve old problems and has gone on to become one of the fastest growing popular languages. It is now a de-facto choice for iOS developers and it powers most of the newly released and popular apps. This practical guide will help you to begin your journey with Swift programming through learning how to build iOS apps. You will learn all about basic variables, if clauses, functions, loops, and other core concepts; then structures, classes, and inheritance will be discussed. Next, you’ll dive into developing a weather app that consumes data from the internet and presents information to the user. The final project is more complex, involving creating an Instagram like app that integrates different external libraries. The app also uses CocoaPods as its package dependency manager, to give you a cutting-edge tool to add to your skillset. By the end of the book, you will have learned how to model real-world apps in Swift. Style and approach This book has a very practical and hands-on approach towards teaching the user the new and advanced features of Swift.

Leverage Splunk's operational intelligence capabilities to unlock new hidden business insights and drive success About This Book ? Tackle any problems related to searching and analyzing your data with Splunk ? Get the latest information and business insights on Splunk 7.x ? Explore the all new machine learning toolkit in Splunk 7.x Who This Book Is For This book is intended for data professionals who are looking to leverage the Splunk Enterprise platform as a valuable operational intelligence tool. The recipes provided in this book will appeal to individuals from all facets of business, IT, security, product, marketing, and many more! Even the existing users of Splunk who want to upgrade and get up and running with Splunk 7.x will find this book to be of great value. What You Will Learn ? Learn how to use Splunk to gather, analyze, and report on data ? Create dashboards and visualizations that make data meaningful ? Build an intelligent application with extensive functionalities ? Enrich operational data with lookups and workflows ? Model and accelerate data and perform pivot-based reporting ? Apply ML algorithms for forecasting and anomaly detection ? Summarize data for long term trending, reporting, and analysis ? Integrate advanced JavaScript charts and leverage Splunk's API In Detail Splunk makes it easy for you to take control of your data, and with Splunk Operational Cookbook, you can be confident that you are taking advantage of the Big Data revolution and driving your business with the cutting edge of operational intelligence and business analytics. With more than 70 recipes that demonstrate all of Splunk’s features, not only will you find quick solutions to common problems, but you’ll also learn a wide range of strategies and uncover new ideas that will make you rethink what operational intelligence means to you and your organization. You’ll discover recipes on data processing, searching and reporting, dashboards, and visualizations to make data shareable, communicable, and most importantly meaningful. You’ll also find step-by-step demonstrations that walk you through building an operational intelligence application containing vital features essential to understanding data and to help you successfully integrate a data-driven way of thinking in your organization. Throughout the book, you’ll dive deeper into Splunk, explore data models and pivots to extend your intelligence capabilities, and perform advanced searching with machine learning to explore your data in even more sophisticated ways. Splunk is changing the business landscape, so make sure you’re taking advantage of it. Style and approach With more than 70 recipes that demonstrate all of Splunk’s features, not only will you find quick solutions to common problems, but you’ll also learn a wide range of strategies and uncover new ideas that will make you rethink what operational intelligence means to you and your organization.

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