Understand the benefits of DevOps and continuous delivery and see how they support the agile software development process About This Book ? Learn how DevOps can accelerate your entire software development life cycle ? Improve your organization's performance to ensure the smooth production of software and services ? Get hands-on experience in using efficient DevOps tools to better effect Who This Book Is For If you're a developer or system administrator looking to take on larger responsibilities and understand how the infrastructure that builds today's enterprises works, this is the book for you. This book will also help you greatly if you're an operations worker who would like to better support developers. You do not need any previous knowledge of DevOps to understand the concepts in this book. What You Will Learn ? Understand how all deployment systems fit together to form a larger system ? Set up and familiarize yourself with all the tools you need to be efficient with DevOps ? Design an application suitable for continuous deployment systems with DevOps in mind ? Store and manage your code effectively using Git, Gerrit, Gitlab, and more ? Configure a job to build a sample CRUD application ? Test your code using automated regression testing with Jenkins Selenium ? Deploy your code using tools such as Puppet, Ansible, Palletops, Chef, and Vagrant In Detail DevOps is a practical field that focuses on delivering business value as efficiently as possible. DevOps encompasses all code workflows from testing environments to production environments. It stresses cooperation between different roles, and how they can work together more closely, as the roots of the word imply—Development and Operations. Practical DevOps begins with a quick refresher on DevOps and continuous delivery and quickly moves on to show you how DevOps affects software architectures. You'll create a sample enterprise Java application that you’'ll continue to work with through the remaining chapters. Following this, you will explore various code storage and build server options. You will then learn how to test your code with a few tools and deploy your test successfully. In addition to this, you will also see how to monitor code for any anomalies and make sure that it runs as expected. Finally, you will discover how to handle logs and keep track of the issues that affect different processes. By the end of the book, you will be familiar with all the tools needed to deploy, integrate, and deliver efficiently with DevOps. Style and approach This book is primarily a technical guide to DevOps with practical examples suitable for people who like to learn by implementing concrete working code.

This book gives you the skills you need to use Python for penetration testing, with the help of detailed code examples. This book has been updated for Python 3.6.3 and Kali Linux 2018.1. About This Book ? Detect and avoid various attack types that put the privacy of a system at risk ? Leverage Python to build efficient code and eventually build a robust environment ? Learn about securing wireless applications and information gathering on a web server Who This Book Is For If you are a Python programmer, a security researcher, or an ethical hacker and are interested in penetration testing with the help of Python, then this book is for you. Even if you are new to the field of ethical hacking, this book can help you find the vulnerabilities in your system so that you are ready to tackle any kind of attack or intrusion. What You Will Learn ? The basics of network pentesting including network scanning and sniffing ? Wireless, wired attacks, and building traps for attack and torrent detection ? Web server footprinting and web application attacks, including the XSS and SQL injection attack ? Wireless frames and how to obtain information such as SSID, BSSID, and the channel number from a wireless frame using a Python script ? The importance of web server signatures, email gathering, and why knowing the server signature is the first step in hacking In Detail This book gives you the skills you need to use Python for penetration testing (pentesting), with the help of detailed code examples. We start by exploring the basics of networking with Python and then proceed to network hacking. Then, you will delve into exploring Python libraries to perform various types of pentesting and ethical hacking techniques. Next, we delve into hacking the application layer, where we start by gathering information from a website. We then move on to concepts related to website hacking—such as parameter tampering, DDoS, XSS, and SQL injection. By reading this book, you will learn different techniques and methodologies that will familiarize you with Python pentesting techniques, how to protect yourself, and how to create automated programs to find the admin console, SQL injection, and XSS attacks. Style and approach The book starts at a basic level and moves to a higher level of network and web security. The execution and performance of code are both taken into account.

Get to grips with modern software demands by learning the effective uses of Rust's powerful memory safety. About This Book ? Learn and improve the sequential performance characteristics of your software ? Understand the use of operating system processes in a high-scale concurrent system ? Learn of the various coordination methods available in the Standard library Who This Book Is For This book is aimed at software engineers with a basic understanding of Rust who want to exploit the parallel and concurrent nature of modern computing environments, safely. What You Will Learn ? Probe your programs for performance and accuracy issues ? Create your own threading and multi-processing environment in Rust ? Use coarse locks from Rust’s Standard library ? Solve common synchronization problems or avoid synchronization using atomic programming ? Build lock-free/wait-free structures in Rust and understand their implementations in the crates ecosystem ? Leverage Rust’s memory model and type system to build safety properties into your parallel programs ? Understand the new features of the Rust programming language to ease the writing of parallel programs In Detail Most programming languages can really complicate things, especially with regard to unsafe memory access. The burden on you, the programmer, lies across two domains: understanding the modern machine and your language's pain-points. This book will teach you to how to manage program performance on modern machines and build fast, memory-safe, and concurrent software in Rust. It starts with the fundamentals of Rust and discusses machine architecture concepts. You will be taken through ways to measure and improve the performance of Rust code systematically and how to write collections with confidence. You will learn about the Sync and Send traits applied to threads, and coordinate thread execution with locks, atomic primitives, data-parallelism, and more. The book will show you how to efficiently embed Rust in C++ code and explore the functionalities of various crates for multithreaded applications. It explores implementations in depth. You will know how a mutex works and build several yourself. You will master radically different approaches that exist in the ecosystem for structuring and managing high-scale systems. By the end of the book, you will feel comfortable with designing safe, consistent, parallel, and high-performance applications in Rust. Style and approach Readers will be taken through various ways to improve the performance of their Rust code.

Building Complete E-commerce/Shopping Cart Application About This Book ? Follow best practices and explore techniques such as clustering and caching to achieve a reactive, scalable web service ? Leverage the .NET Framework to quickly implement RESTful endpoints. ? Learn to implement a client library for a RESTful web service using ASP.NET Core. Who This Book Is For This book is intended for those who want to learn to build RESTful web services with the latest .NET Core Framework. To make best use of the code samples included in the book, you should have a basic knowledge of C# and .NET Core. What You Will Learn ? Add basic authentication to your RESTful API ? Create a Carts Controller and Orders Controller to manage and process Orders ? Intercept HTTP requests and responses by building your own middleware ? Test service calls using Postman and Advanced REST Client ? Secure your data/application using annotations In Detail REST is an architectural style that tackles the challenges of building scalable web services. In today's connected world, APIs have taken a central role on the web. APIs provide the fabric through which systems interact, and REST has become synonymous with APIs. The depth, breadth, and ease of use of ASP.NET Core makes it a breeze for developers to work with for building robust web APIs. This book takes you through the design of RESTful web services and leverages the ASP.NET Core framework to implement these services. This book begins by introducing you to the basics of the philosophy behind REST. You'll go through the steps of designing and implementing an enterprise-grade RESTful web service. This book takes a practical approach, that you can apply to your own circumstances. This book brings forth the power of the latest .NET Core release, working with MVC. Later, you will learn about the use of the framework to explore approaches to tackle resilience, security, and scalability concerns. You will explore the steps to improve the performance of your applications. You'll also learn techniques to deal with security in web APIs and discover how to implement unit and integration test strategies. By the end of the book, you will have a complete understanding of Building a client for RESTful web services, along with some scaling techniques. Style and approach This book is a step-by-step, hands-on guide to designing and building RESTful web services.

Master the fundamentals of programming in Swift 4 About This Book ? Covers theory and practice in equal parts ? Teaches you how to correctly structure and architect software using Swift ? Uses real-world examples to connect the theory to a professional setting ? Imparts expertise in the core Swift standard library Who This Book Is For If you are seeking fundamental Swift programming skills, in preparation for learning to develop native applications for iOS or macOS, this book is the best for you. You don’t need to have any prior Swift knowledge; however, object-oriented programming experience is desired. What You Will Learn ? Explore the fundamental Swift programming concepts, language structure, and the Swift programming syntax ? Learn how Swift compares to other computer languages and how to transform your thinking to leverage new concepts such as optionals and protocols ? Master how to use key language elements, such as strings and collections ? Grasp how Swift supports modern application development using advanced features, such as built-in Unicode support and higher-order functions. In Detail Take your first foray into programming for Apple devices with Swift. Swift is fundamentally different from Objective-C, as it is a protocol-oriented language. While you can still write normal object-oriented code in Swift, it requires a new way of thinking to take advantage of its powerful features and a solid understanding of the basics to become productive. This course helps you develop client-side and server-side applications, as well as web services using Swift. We'll begin with exploring the fundamental Swift programming concepts, language structure, and the Swift programming syntax. Then, we'll learn to create original custom operators with Swift operators, branching, and loops. Moving on, we'll learn how to run application codes and compile errors. Having made progress with it, we'll see how Swift compares to other computer languages and how to transform your thinking. Then, master the usage of key language elements, such as strings and collections. Finally, grasp how Swift supports modern application development using advanced features, such as built-in Unicode support and higher-order functions. This is an introductory course to the Swift programming language with Xcode.After completing this course, students will be well-prepared to begin developing native end-user applications for iOS or macOS, or to develop server-side (back-end) application and web services using Swift on Linux. Style and approach This is an introductory course to the Swift programming language with Xcode. The course does not expect you to have any previous Swift knowledge or experience. The course covers ample amount of exercises so that students learn the basics hands-on.

Learn to develop, test, and deploy your Spring Boot distributed application and explore various best practices. About This Book ? Build and deploy your microservices architecture in the cloud ? Build event-driven resilient systems using Hystrix and Turbine ? Explore API management tools such as KONG and API documentation tools such as Swagger Who This Book Is For The book is targeted at experienced Spring and Java developers who have a basic knowledge of working with Spring Boot. The reader should be familiar with Spring Boot basics, and aware of its benefits over traditional Spring Framework-based applications. What You Will Learn ? Build logically structured and highly maintainable Spring Boot applications ? Configure RESTful microservices using Spring Boot ? Make the application production and operation-friendly with Spring Actuator ? Build modern, high-performance distributed applications using cloud patterns ? Manage and deploy your Spring Boot application to the cloud (AWS) ? Monitor distributed applications using log aggregation and ELK In Detail Spring is one of the best frameworks on the market for developing web, enterprise, and cloud ready software. Spring Boot simplifies the building of complex software dramatically by reducing the amount of boilerplate code, and by providing production-ready features and a simple deployment model. This book will address the challenges related to power that come with Spring Boot's great configurability and flexibility. You will understand how Spring Boot configuration works under the hood, how to overwrite default configurations, and how to use advanced techniques to prepare Spring Boot applications to work in production. This book will also introduce readers to a relatively new topic in the Spring ecosystem – cloud native patterns, reactive programming, and applications. Get up to speed with microservices with Spring Boot and Spring Cloud. Each chapter aims to solve a specific problem or teach you a useful skillset. By the end of this book, you will be proficient in building and deploying your Spring Boot application. Style and approach The book takes a practical, example-driven approach to teaching you all the advanced features of Spring Boot 2.0

Write modern natural language processing applications using deep learning algorithms and TensorFlow About This Book ? Focuses on more efficient natural language processing using TensorFlow ? Covers NLP as a field in its own right to improve understanding for choosing TensorFlow tools and other deep learning approaches ? Provides choices for how to process and evaluate large unstructured text datasets ? Learn to apply the TensorFlow toolbox to specific tasks in the most interesting field in artificial intelligence Who This Book Is For This book is for Python developers with a strong interest in deep learning, who want to learn how to leverage TensorFlow to simplify NLP tasks. Fundamental Python skills are assumed, as well as some knowledge of machine learning and undergraduate-level calculus and linear algebra. No previous natural language processing experience required, although some background in NLP or computational linguistics will be helpful. What You Will Learn ? Core concepts of NLP and various approaches to natural language processing ? How to solve NLP tasks by applying TensorFlow functions to create neural networks ? Strategies to process large amounts of data into word representations that can be used by deep learning applications ? Techniques for performing sentence classification and language generation using CNNs and RNNs ? About employing state-of-the art advanced RNNs, like long short-term memory, to solve complex text generation tasks ? How to write automatic translation programs and implement an actual neural machine translator from scratch ? The trends and innovations that are paving the future in NLP In Detail Natural language processing (NLP) supplies the majority of data available to deep learning applications, while TensorFlow is the most important deep learning framework currently available. Natural Language Processing with TensorFlow brings TensorFlow and NLP together to give you invaluable tools to work with the immense volume of unstructured data in today’s data streams, and apply these tools to specific NLP tasks. Thushan Ganegedara starts by giving you a grounding in NLP and TensorFlow basics. You'll then learn how to use Word2vec, including advanced extensions, to create word embeddings that turn sequences of words into vectors accessible to deep learning algorithms. Chapters on classical deep learning algorithms, like convolutional neural networks (CNN) and recurrent neural networks (RNN), demonstrate important NLP tasks as sentence classification and language generation. You will learn how to apply high-performance RNN models, like long short-term memory (LSTM) cells, to NLP tasks. You will also explore neural machine translation and implement a neural machine translator. After reading this book, you will gain an understanding of NLP and you'll have the skills to apply TensorFlow in deep learning NLP applications, and how to perform specific NLP tasks. Style and approach The book provides an emphasis on both the theory and practice of natural language processing. It introduces the reader to existing TensorFlow functions and explains how to apply them while writing NLP algorithms. The popular Word2vec method is used to teach the essential process of learning word representations. The book focuses on how to apply classical deep learning to NLP, as well as exploring cutting edge and emerging approaches. Specific examples are used to make the concepts and techniques concrete.

Leverage the power of Microsoft Azure Data Factory v2 to build hybrid data solutions About This Book ? Combine the power of Azure Data Factory v2 and SQL Server Integration Services ? Design and enhance performance and scalability of a modern ETL hybrid solution ? Interact with the loaded data in data warehouse and data lake using Power BI Who This Book Is For This book is for you if you are a software professional who develops and implements ETL solutions using Microsoft SQL Server or Azure cloud. It will be an added advantage if you are a software engineer, DW/ETL architect, or ETL developer, and know how to create a new ETL implementation or enhance an existing one with ADF or SSIS. What You Will Learn ? Understand the key components of an ETL solution using Azure Data Factory and Integration Services ? Design the architecture of a modern ETL hybrid solution ? Implement ETL solutions for both on-premises and Azure data ? Improve the performance and scalability of your ETL solution ? Gain thorough knowledge of new capabilities and features added to Azure Data Factory and Integration Services In Detail ETL is one of the essential techniques in data processing. Given data is everywhere, ETL will always be the vital process to handle data from different sources. Hands-On Data Warehousing with Azure Data Factory starts with the basic concepts of data warehousing and ETL process. You will learn how Azure Data Factory and SSIS can be used to understand the key components of an ETL solution. You will go through different services offered by Azure that can be used by ADF and SSIS, such as Azure Data Lake Analytics, Machine Learning and Databrick’s Spark with the help of practical examples. You will explore how to design and implement ETL hybrid solutions using different integration services with a step-by-step approach. Once you get to grips with all this, you will use Power BI to interact with data coming from different sources in order to reveal valuable insights. By the end of this book, you will not only learn how to build your own ETL solutions but also address the key challenges that are faced while building them. Style and approach A step-by-step guide to develop data movement code using SSIS, Azure Data Factory, and database stored procedures for implementing intelligent BI solutions.

Work with the newest Oracle API Platform Cloud Service to interface with the increasingly complex array of services your clients want. About This Book ? Understand the architecture and functionality of the new Oracle API Cloud Service Platform ? Understand typical use cases for the new platform and how it can work for you ? Design your own APIs, then deploy and customize your APIs ? Implement Oauth 2.0 policy and custom policies ? Migrate from Oracle 12c solutions to the new Oracle API platform Who This Book Is For This book is for all Oracle developers who are working or plan to work with the Oracle API Platform Cloud Service. What You Will Learn ? Get an overview of the Oracle API Cloud Service Platform ? See typical use cases of the Oracle API Cloud Service Platform ? Design your own APIs using Apiary ? Build and run microservices ? Set up API gateways with the new API platform from Oracle ? Customize developer portals ? Configuration management ? Implement Oauth 2.0 policies ? Implement custom policies ? Get a policy SDK overview ? Transition from Oracle API Management 12c to the new Oracle API platform In Detail Implementing Oracle API Platform Cloud Service moves from theory to practice using the newest Oracle API management platform. This critical new platform for Oracle developers allows you to interface the complex array of services your clients expect in the modern world. First, you'll learn about Oracle’s new platform and get an overview of it, then you'll see a use case showing the functionality and use of this new platform for Oracle customers. Next, you’ll see the power of Apiary and begin designing your own APIs. From there, you’ll build and run microservices and set up the Oracle API gateways. Moving on, you’ll discover how to customize the developer portal and publish your own APIs. You’ll spend time looking at configuration management on the new platform, and implementing the Oauth 2.0 policy, as well as custom policies. The latest finance modules from Oracle will be examined, with some of the third party alternatives in sight as well. This broad-scoped book completes your journey with a clear examination of how to transition APIs from Oracle API Management 12c to the new Oracle API Platform, so that you can step into the future confidently. Style and approach This book provides comprehensive coverage of all aspects of Oracle API development using the new Oracle API Platform Cloud Service. All aspects of the new Oracle API Platform Cloud Service are considered and your practical, working Oracle situations are examined to give you have hands-on experience using the new API platform from Oracle.

Manage vRealize operations manager 6.6 effectively using this comprehensive guide. About This Book ? Get complete control of capacity management in your virtual environment ? Display the most appropriate performance metrics and assemble your own dashboard ? Analyze and process data from different sources into a single repository ? Optimize vRealize Automation workload placement Who This Book Is For If you are an administrator of a virtual environment and have used vRealize Operations before but want to gain a professional understanding by easily implementing complex tasks with it, then this book is for you. What You Will Learn ? Discover advanced vRealize Operations concepts and design your processes effectively for the underlying architecture ? Plan and install a new version or upgrade from a previous one ? Apply proven capacity management theories and techniques in practical, real-world environments ? Manipulate data and metrics to display them in the most effective way possible ? Create custom views and dashboards fit for any use case ? Explore how policies have evolved in vRealize Operations 6.6 and how to apply them in the most effective manner In Detail In the modern IT world, the criticality of managing the health, efficiency, and compliance of virtualized environments is more important than ever. With vRealize Operations Manager 6.6, you can make a difference to your business by being reactive rather than proactive. Mastering vRealize Operations Manager helps you streamline your processes and customize the environment to suit your needs. You will gain visibility across all devices in the network and retain full control. With easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions and support images, you will quickly master the ability to manipulate your data and display it in a way that best suits you and your business or technical requirements. This book not only covers designing, installing, and upgrading vRealize Operations 6.6, but also gives you a deep understanding of its building blocks: badges, alerts, super metrics, views, dashboards, management packs, and plugins. With the new vRealize Operations 6.6 troubleshooting capabilities, capacity planning, intelligent workload placement, and additional monitoring capabilities, this book is aimed at ensuring you get the knowledge to manage your virtualized environment as effectively as possible. Style and approach A step-by-step practical approach guide that help you learn new features of vRealize operations manager 6.6.

Learn from an expert on how use self-adapting and self-healing systems within Docker. About This Book ? Viktor Farcic shows you all aspects in the creation of self-adapting and self-healing systems in both a practical and hands-on approach. ? Learn how to choose a successful solution for metrics storage and query, including InfluxDB, Nagios and Sensu, Prometheus and Graphite. ? Discover how to integrate Docker Flow Monitor with Docker Flow Proxy. ? How to apply Docker self-healing and self-adaptive to both services and infrastructure. Who This Book Is For This book is for professionals experienced with Docker looking to create both self-adapting and self-healing systems using the software. What You Will Learn ? Let Viktor Farcic show you all aspects in the creation of self-adapting and self-healing systems in both a practical and hands-on approach. ? Learn how to choose a successful solution for metrics storage and query, including InfluxDB, Nagios and Sensu, Prometheus and Graphite. ? Understand how to integrate Docker Flow Monitor with Docker Flow Proxy. ? The creation of cluster-wide alerts by creating alerts based on metrics. ? How to apply self-healing and self-adaptive to both services and infrastructure. In Detail Building on The DevOps 2.0 Toolkit and The DevOps 2.1 Toolkit: Docker Swarm, Viktor Farcic brings his latest exploration of the Docker technology as he records his journey to explore two new programs, self-adaptive and self-healing systems within Docker. The DevOps 2.2 Toolkit: Self-Sufficient Docker Clusters is the latest book in Viktor Farcic’s series that helps you build a full DevOps Toolkit. This book in the series looks at Docker, the tool designed to make it easier in the creation and running of applications using containers. In this latest entry, Viktor combines theory with a hands-on approach to guide you through the process of creating self-adaptive and self-healing systems. Within this book, Viktor will cover a wide-range of emerging topics, including what exactly self-adaptive and self-healing systems are, how to choose a solution for metrics storage and query, the creation of cluster-wide alerts and what a successful self-sufficient system blueprint looks like. Work with Viktor and dive into the creation of self-adaptive and self-healing systems within Docker. Style and approach Readers join Viktor Farcic as he continues his exploration of Docker and begins to explore new opportunities with the platform.

Harness the power of React Native to build 4 real-world apps About This Book ? Build quirky and fun projects from scratch and become efficient with React Native ? Learn to build professional Android and iOS applications using your existing JavaScript knowledge ? Use isomorphic principles to build mobile apps that offer a native user experience ? Embedded with assessments that will help you revise the concepts you have learned in this course Who This Book Is For This book is for developers who want to build amazing cross-platform apps with React Native. What You Will Learn ? Structure React Native projects to ease maintenance and extensibility ? Optimize a project to speed up development ? Use external modules to speed up the development and maintenance of your projects ? Explore the different UI and code patterns to be used for iOS and Android ? Get to know the best practices when building apps in React Native In Detail React Native helps web and mobile developers to build cross-platform apps that perform at the same level as any other natively developed app. The range of apps that can be built using this library is huge. From e-commerce to games, React Native is a good fit for any mobile project due to its flexibility and extendable nature. This project-based book consists of four standalone projects. Each project will help you gain a sound understanding of the framework and build mobile apps with native user experience. Starting with a simple standalone car booking app, you will progressively move on to building advanced apps by adding connectivity with external APIs, using native features, such as the camera or microphone, in the mobile device, integrating with state management libraries such as Redux or MobX, or leveraging React Native’s performance by building a full-featured game. This book is ideal for developers who want to build amazing cross-platform apps with React Native. This book is embedded with useful assessments that will help you revise the concepts you have learned in this book. Style and approach This project-based book consists of four projects. Each project is a standalone project that covers the core techniques and concepts of React Native. Note: This book is a blend of text and quizzes, all packaged up keeping your journey in mind. It includes content from the following Packt products: ? React Native Blueprints by Emilio Rodriguez Martinez

Explore the high-in demand core DevOps strategies with powerful DevOps tools such as Ansible, Jenkins, and Chef About This Book ? Get acquainted with methodologies and tools of the DevOps framework ? Perform continuous integration, delivery, deployment, and monitoring using DevOps tools ? Explore popular tools such as Git, Jenkins, Maven, Gerrit, Nexus, Selenium, and so on ? Embedded with assessments that will help you revise the concepts you have learned in this book Who This Book Is For This book is for engineers, architects, and developers, who wish to learn the core strategies of DevOps. What You Will Learn ? Get familiar with life cycle models, maturity states, progression and best practices of DevOps frameworks ? Learn to set up Jenkins and integrate it with Git ? Know how to build jobs and perform testing with Jenkins ? Implement infrastructure automation (Infrastructure as Code) with tools such as Chef and Ansible ? Understand continuous monitoring process with tools such as Splunk and Nagios ? Learn how Splunk improves the code quality In Detail DevOps is the most widely used software engineering culture and practice that aim sat software development and operation. Continuous integration is a cornerstone technique of DevOps that merges software code updates from developers into a shared central mainline. This book takes a practical approach and covers the tools and strategies of DevOps. It starts with familiarizing you with DevOps framework and then shows how toper form continuous delivery, integration, and deployment with DevOps. You will explore DevOps process maturity frameworks and progression models with checklist templates for each phase of DevOps. You will also be familiar with agile terminology, methodology, and the benefits accrued by an organization by adopting it. You will also get acquainted with popular tools such as Git, Jenkins ,Maven, Gerrit, Nexus, Selenium, and so on.You will learn configuration, automation, and the implementation of infrastructure automation (Infrastructure as Code) with tools such as Chef and Ansible. This book is ideal for engineers, architects, and developers, who wish to learn the core strategies of DevOps. Style and approach This book takes a practical approach and covers the tools and strategies of DevOps. It starts with familiarizing you with DevOps framework and then shows how to perform continuous delivery, integration, and deployment with DevOps. Note: This book is a blend of text and quizzes, all packaged up keeping your journey in mind. It includes content from the following Packt product: ? Hands-on DevOps by Sricharan Vadapalli

Recipe-based approach to tackle the most common problems in Computer Vision by leveraging the functionality of OpenCV using Python APIs About This Book ? Build computer vision applications with OpenCV functionality via Python API ? Get to grips with image processing, multiple view geometry, and machine learning ? Learn to use deep learning models for image classification, object detection, and face recognition Who This Book Is For This book is for developers who have a basic knowledge of Python. If you are aware of the basics of OpenCV and are ready to build computer vision systems that are smarter, faster, more complex, and more practical than the competition, then this book is for you. What You Will Learn ? Get familiar with low-level image processing methods ? See the common linear algebra tools needed in computer vision ? Work with different camera models and epipolar geometry ? Find out how to detect interesting points in images and compare them ? Binarize images and mask out regions of interest ? Detect objects and track them in videos In Detail OpenCV 3 is a native cross-platform library for computer vision, machine learning, and image processing. OpenCV's convenient high-level APIs hide very powerful internals designed for computational efficiency that can take advantage of multicore and GPU processing. This book will help you tackle increasingly challenging computer vision problems by providing a number of recipes that you can use to improve your applications. In this book, you will learn how to process an image by manipulating pixels and analyze an image using histograms. Then, we'll show you how to apply image filters to enhance image content and exploit the image geometry in order to relay different views of a pictured scene. We’ll explore techniques to achieve camera calibration and perform a multiple-view analysis. Later, you’ll work on reconstructing a 3D scene from images, converting low-level pixel information to high-level concepts for applications such as object detection and recognition. You’ll also discover how to process video from files or cameras and how to detect and track moving objects. Finally, you'll get acquainted with recent approaches in deep learning and neural networks. By the end of the book, you’ll be able to apply your skills in OpenCV to create computer vision applications in various domains. Style and approach This book helps you learn the core concepts of OpenCV faster by taking a recipe-based approach where you can try out different code snippets to understand a concept.

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

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

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

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

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

Run Ansible playbooks to launch complex multi-tier applications hosted in public clouds About This Book ? Build your learning curve using Ansible ? Automate cloud, network, and security infrastructures with ease ? Gain hands-on exposure on Ansible Who This Book Is For Learn Ansible is perfect for system administrators and developers who want to take their current workflows and transform them into repeatable playbooks using Ansible. No prior knowledge of Ansible is required. What You Will Learn ? Write your own playbooks to configure servers running CentOS, Ubuntu, and Windows ? Identify repeatable tasks and write playbooks to automate them ? Define a highly available public cloud infrastructure in code, making it easy to distribute your infrastructure configuration ? Deploy and configure Ansible Tower and Ansible AWX ? Learn to use community contributed roles ? Use Ansible in your day-to-day role and projects In Detail Ansible has grown from a small, open source orchestration tool to a full-blown orchestration and configuration management tool owned by Red Hat. Its powerful core modules cover a wide range of infrastructures, including on-premises systems and public clouds, operating systems, devices, and services—meaning it can be used to manage pretty much your entire end-to-end environment. Trends and surveys say that Ansible is the first choice of tool among system administrators as it is so easy to use. This end-to-end, practical guide will take you on a learning curve from beginner to pro. You'll start by installing and configuring the Ansible to perform various automation tasks. Then, we'll dive deep into the various facets of infrastructure, such as cloud, compute and network infrastructure along with security. By the end of this book, you'll have an end-to-end understanding of Ansible and how you can apply it to your own environments. Style and approach A hands-on approach to give you practical experience of writing playbooks and roles and executing them. At the end of each chapter, you’ll find test questions to test your knowledge on Ansible.

Understand malware analysis and its practical implementation About This Book ? Explore the key concepts of malware analysis and memory forensics using real-world examples ? Learn the art of detecting, analyzing, and investigating malware threats ? Understand adversary tactics and techniques Who This Book Is For This book is for incident responders, cyber-security investigators, system administrators, malware analyst, forensic practitioners, student, or curious security professionals interested in learning malware analysis and memory forensics. Knowledge of programming languages such as C and Python is helpful but is not mandatory. If you have written few lines of code and have a basic understanding of programming concepts, you’ll be able to get most out of this book. What You Will Learn ? Create a safe and isolated lab environment for malware analysis ? Extract the metadata associated with malware ? Determine malware's interaction with the system ? Perform code analysis using IDA Pro and x64dbg ? Reverse-engineer various malware functionalities ? Reverse engineer and decode common encoding/encryption algorithms ? Perform different code injection and hooking techniques ? Investigate and hunt malware using memory forensics In Detail Malware analysis and memory forensics are powerful analysis and investigation techniques used in reverse engineering, digital forensics, and incident response. With adversaries becoming sophisticated and carrying out advanced malware attacks on critical infrastructures, data centers, and private and public organizations, detecting, responding to, and investigating such intrusions is critical to information security professionals. Malware analysis and memory forensics have become must-have skills to fight advanced malware, targeted attacks, and security breaches. This book teaches you the concepts, techniques, and tools to understand the behavior and characteristics of malware through malware analysis. It also teaches you techniques to investigate and hunt malware using memory forensics. This book introduces you to the basics of malware analysis, and then gradually progresses into the more advanced concepts of code analysis and memory forensics. It uses real-world malware samples, infected memory images, and visual diagrams to help you gain a better understanding of the subject and to equip you with the skills required to analyze, investigate, and respond to malware-related incidents. Style and approach The book takes the reader through all the concepts, techniques and tools to understand the behavior and characteristics of malware by using malware analysis and it also teaches the techniques to investigate and hunt malware using memory forensics.