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

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

Explore the foundational components of VMware NSX About This Book ? Install, manage, monitor and configure your NSX deployment. ? Understand VMware NSX's components and discover best practices to help you manage VMware NSX ? A step by step guide that will help you elevate your skills in deploying NSX to your environment Who This Book Is For The book is intended for network and system administrators that have hands on experience with VMware vSphere suite of products and would like to learn more about software defined networking and implementation of NSX. The readers are also expected to have basic networking knowledge and aware of basic switching and routing fundamentals. What You Will Learn ? Understand software-defined networks ? Deploy and configure VXLAN-enabled logical switches ? Secure your environment using Distributed Firewall and Data Security ? Configure third-party services in NSX ? Manage, configure, and deploy edge gateway services ? Perform various Edge operations including configuring CA certificates ? Explore the different monitoring options to check their traffic flow In Detail VMware NSX is a platform for the software-defined data center. It allows complex networking topologies to be deployed programmatically in seconds. SDNs allow ease of deployment, management, and automation in deploying and maintaining new networks while reducing and in some cases completely eliminating the need to deploy traditional networks. The book allows you a thorough understanding of implementing Software defined networks using VMware’s NSX. You will come across the best practices for installing and configuring NSX to setup your environment. Then you will get a brief overview of the NSX Core Components NSX’s basic architecture. Once you are familiar with everything, you will get to know how to deploy various NSX features. Furthermore, you will understand how to manage and monitor NSX and its associated services and features. In addition to this, you will also explore the best practices for NSX deployments. By the end of the book, you will be able to deploy Vmware NSX in your own environment with ease. This book can come handy if you are preparing for VMware NSX certification. Style and approach This is an easy-to-follow guide with tested configuration steps to get you up and running quickly. This book covers the nitty-gritty of installing, configuring, managing, and monitoring VMware NSX.

Get up and running with the Pentaho Data Integration tool using this hands-on, easy-to-read guide About This Book ? Manipulate your data by exploring, transforming, validating, and integrating it using Pentaho Data Integration 8 CE ? A comprehensive guide exploring the features of Pentaho Data Integration 8 CE ? Connect to any database engine, explore the databases, and perform all kind of operations on relational databases Who This Book Is For This book is a must-have for software developers, business intelligence analysts, IT students, or anyone involved or interested in developing ETL solutions. If you plan on using Pentaho Data Integration for doing any data manipulation task, this book will help you as well. This book is also a good starting point for data warehouse designers, architects, or anyone who is responsible for data warehouse projects and needs to load data into them. What You Will Learn ? Explore the features and capabilities of Pentaho Data Integration 8 Community Edition ? Install and get started with PDI ? Learn the ins and outs of Spoon, the graphical designer tool ? Learn to get data from all kind of data sources, such as plain files, Excel spreadsheets, databases, and XML files ? Use Pentaho Data Integration to perform CRUD (create, read, update, and delete) operations on relationaldatabases ? Populate a data mart with Pentaho Data Integration ? Use Pentaho Data Integration to organize files and folders, run daily processes, deal with errors, and more In Detail Pentaho Data Integration(PDI) is an intuitive and graphical environment packed with drag-and-drop design and powerful Extract-Tranform-Load (ETL) capabilities. This book shows and explains the new interactive features of Spoon, the revamped look and feel, and the newest features of the tool including transformations and jobs Executors and the invaluable Metadata Injection capability. We begin with the installation of PDI software and then move on to cover all the key PDI concepts. Each of the chapter introduces new features, enabling you to gradually get practicing with the tool. First, you will learn to do all kind of data manipulation and work with simple plain files. Then, the book teaches you how you can work with relational databases inside PDI. Moreover, you will be given a primer on data warehouse concepts and you will learn how to load data in a data warehouse. During the course of this book, you will be familiarized with its intuitive, graphical and drag-and-drop design environment. By the end of this book, you will learn everything you need to know in order to meet your data manipulation requirements. Besides, your will be given best practices and advises for designing and deploying your projects. Style and approach Step by step guide filled with practical, real world scenarios and examples.

Master Wireshark and discover how to analyze network packets and protocols effectively, along with engaging recipes to troubleshoot network problems About This Book ? Gain valuable insights into the network and application protocols, and the key fields in each protocol ? Use Wireshark’s powerful statistical tools to analyze your network and leverage its expert system to pinpoint network problems ? Master Wireshark and train it as your network sniffer Who This Book Is For This book is aimed at IT professionals who want to develop or enhance their packet analysis skills. A basic familiarity with common network and application services terms and technologies is assumed. What You Will Learn ? Discover how packet analysts view networks and the role of protocols at the packet level ? Capture and isolate all the right packets to perform a thorough analysis using Wireshark’s extensive capture and display filtering capabilities ? Decrypt encrypted wireless traffic ? Use Wireshark as a diagnostic tool and also for network security analysis to keep track of malware ? Find and resolve problems due to bandwidth, throughput, and packet loss ? Identify and locate faults in communication applications including HTTP, FTP, mail, and various other applications – Microsoft OS problems, databases, voice, and video over IP ? Identify and locate faults in detecting security failures and security breaches in the network In Detail This Learning Path starts off installing Wireshark, before gradually taking you through your first packet capture, identifying and filtering out just the packets of interest, and saving them to a new file for later analysis. You will then discover different ways to create and use capture and display filters. By halfway through the book, you'll be mastering Wireshark features, analyzing different layers of the network protocol, and looking for any anomalies.We then start Ethernet and LAN switching, through IP, and then move on to TCP/UDP with a focus on TCP performance problems. It also focuses on WLAN security. Then, we go through application behavior issues including HTTP, mail, DNS, and other common protocols. This book finishes with a look at network forensics and how to locate security problems that might harm the network.This course provides you with highly practical content explaining Metasploit from the following books: 1) Wireshark Essentials 2) Network Analysis Using Wireshark Cookbook 3) Mastering Wireshark Style and approach This step-by-step guide follows a practical approach, starting from the basic to the advanced aspects. Through a series of real-world examples, this learning path will focus on making it easy for you to become an expert at using Wireshark.

Master Wireshark and discover how to analyze network packets and protocols effectively, along with engaging recipes to troubleshoot network problems About This Book ? Gain valuable insights into the network and application protocols, and the key fields in each protocol ? Use Wireshark’s powerful statistical tools to analyze your network and leverage its expert system to pinpoint network problems ? Master Wireshark and train it as your network sniffer Who This Book Is For This book is aimed at IT professionals who want to develop or enhance their packet analysis skills. A basic familiarity with common network and application services terms and technologies is assumed. What You Will Learn ? Discover how packet analysts view networks and the role of protocols at the packet level ? Capture and isolate all the right packets to perform a thorough analysis using Wireshark’s extensive capture and display filtering capabilities ? Decrypt encrypted wireless traffic ? Use Wireshark as a diagnostic tool and also for network security analysis to keep track of malware ? Find and resolve problems due to bandwidth, throughput, and packet loss ? Identify and locate faults in communication applications including HTTP, FTP, mail, and various other applications – Microsoft OS problems, databases, voice, and video over IP ? Identify and locate faults in detecting security failures and security breaches in the network In Detail This Learning Path starts off installing Wireshark, before gradually taking you through your first packet capture, identifying and filtering out just the packets of interest, and saving them to a new file for later analysis. You will then discover different ways to create and use capture and display filters. By halfway through the book, you'll be mastering Wireshark features, analyzing different layers of the network protocol, and looking for any anomalies.We then start Ethernet and LAN switching, through IP, and then move on to TCP/UDP with a focus on TCP performance problems. It also focuses on WLAN security. Then, we go through application behavior issues including HTTP, mail, DNS, and other common protocols. This book finishes with a look at network forensics and how to locate security problems that might harm the network.This course provides you with highly practical content explaining Metasploit from the following books: 1) Wireshark Essentials 2) Network Analysis Using Wireshark Cookbook 3) Mastering Wireshark Style and approach This step-by-step guide follows a practical approach, starting from the basic to the advanced aspects. Through a series of real-world examples, this learning path will focus on making it easy for you to become an expert at using Wireshark.

Expand your boundaries by creating applications empowered with real-time data using RxJs without compromising performance About This Book ? Handle an infinite stream of incoming data using RxJs without going crazy ? Explore important RxJs operators that can help you improve your code readability ? Get acquainted with the different techniques and operators used to handle data traffic, which occurs when you receive data faster than you can process Who This Book Is For If you're a web developer with some basic JavaScript programming knowledge who wants to implement the reactive programming paradigm with JavaScript, then this book is for you. What You Will Learn ? Get to know the basics of functional reactive programming using RxJs ? Process a continuous flow of data with linear memory consumption ? Filter, group, and react to changes in your system ? Discover how to deal with data traffic ? Compose operators to create new operators and use them in multiple observables to avoid code repetition ? Explore transducers and see how they can improve your code readability ? Detect and recover from errors in observables using Retry and Catch operators ? Create your own reactive application: a real-time webchat In Detail If you’re struggling to handle a large amount of data and don’t know how to improve your code readability, then reactive programming is the right solution for you. It lets you describe how your code behaves when changes happen and makes it easier to deal with real-time data. This book will teach you what reactive programming is, and how you can use it to write better applications. The book starts with the basics of reactive programming, what Reactive Extensions is, and how can you use it in JavaScript along with some reactive code using Bacon. Next, you’ll discover what an Observable and an Observer are and when to use them.You'll also find out how you can query data through operators, and how to use schedulers to react to changes. Moving on, you’ll explore the RxJs API, be introduced to the problem of data traffic (backpressure), and see how you can mitigate it. You’ll also learn about other important operators that can help improve your code readability, and you’ll see how to use transducers to compose operators. At the end of the book, you’ll get hands-on experience of using RxJs, and will create a real-time web chat using RxJs on the client and server, providing you with the complete package to master RxJs. Style and approach This easy-to-follow guide is full of hands-on examples of reactive programming. Each topic is explained and placed in context, and for the more inquisitive there are more details of the concepts used, ending with an application using the concepts learned through the book.

Understand your users, gain strategic insights, and make your product development more efficient with user experience mapping About This Book ? Detailed guidance on the major types of User Experience Maps. ? Learn to gain strategic insights and improve communication with stakeholders . ? Get an idea on creating wireflows, mental model maps, ecosystem maps and solution maps Who This Book Is For This book is for Product Manager, Service Managers and Designers who are keen on learning the user experience mapping techniques. What You Will Learn ? Create and understand all common user experience map types. ? Use lab or remote user research to create maps and understand users better. ? Design behavioral change and represent it visually. ? Create 4D user experience maps, the “ultimate UX deliverable”. ? Capture many levels of interaction in a holistic view. ? Use experience mapping in an agile team, and learn how maps help in communicating within the team and with stakeholders. ? Become more user focused and help your organisation become user-centric. In Detail Do you want to create better products and innovative solutions? User Experience Maps will help you understand users, gain strategic insights and improve communication with stakeholders. Maps can also champion user-centricity within the organisation. Two advanced mapping techniques will be revealed for the first time in print, the behavioural change map and the 4D UX map. You will also explore user story maps, task models and journey maps. You will create wireflows, mental model maps, ecosystem maps and solution maps. In this book, the author will show you how to use insights from real users to create and improve your maps and your product. The book describes each major User Experience map type in detail. Starting with simple techniques based on sticky notes moving to more complex map types. In each chapter, you will solve a real-world problem with a map. The book contains detailed, beginner level tutorials on creating maps using different software products, including Adobe Illustrator, Balsamiq Mockups, Axure RP or Microsoft Word. Even if you don’t have access to any of those, each map type can also be drawn with pen and paper. Beyond creating maps, the book will also showcase communication techniques and workshop ideas. Although the book is not intended to be a comprehensive guide to modern user experience or product management, its novel ideas can help you create better solutions. You will also learn about the Kaizen-UX management framework, developed by the author, now used by many agencies and in-house UX teams in Europe and beyond. Buying this map will give you hundreds of hours worth of user experience knowledge, from one of the world’s leading UX consultants. It will change your users’ world for the better. If you are still not convinced, we have hidden some cat drawings in it, just in case. Style and approach An easy to understand guide, filled with real world use cases on how to plan, prioritize and visualize your project on customer experience

Learn the art of making Android games and turn your game development dreams into reality About This Book ? Leverage the latest features of Android N to create real-world 2D games ? Architect a 2D game from scratch and level up your Android game development skill ? Transition from developing simple 2D games to 3D games using basic Java code Who This Book Is For If you are a mobile developer who has basic Java programming knowledge, then this book is ideal for you. Previous Android development experience is not needed; however, basic mobile development knowledge is essential. What You Will Learn ? Understand the nuts and bolts of developing highly interactive and interesting games for Android N ? Link the interface to the code used in games through simple methods ? Interact with the images on the screen and also learn to animate them ? Set and save the game state and save high scores, hit points, and so on for your games ? Get a grasp of various collision techniques and implement the bounding box technique ? Convert your 2D games to 3D games using Android N ? Get an understanding of the process of UI creation using Android Studio In Detail In this book, we’ll start with installing Android studio and its components, and setting it up ready for Android N. We teach you how to take inputs from users, create images and interact with them, and work with sprites to create animations. You’ll then explore the various collision detection methods and use sprites to create an explosion. Moving on, you’ll go through the process of UI creation and see how to create buttons as well as display the score and other parameters on screen. By the end of the book, you will have a working example and an understanding of a 2D platform game like Super Mario and know how to convert your 2D games to 3D games. Style and approach This easy-to-understand guide follows a step-by-step approach to building games, and contains plenty of graphical examples for you to follow and grasp quickly, giving you the chance to implement the concepts practically.

Help your organization join the DevOps revolution About This Book ? Helps you skill up your DevOps knowledge without a strong set of prerequisites ? Deliver continuously improved software by showcasing the most advanced tools and techniques ? Acquire a deeper insight into implementing DevOps in your organization and deliver results from day 1 Who This Book Is For This book is written for engineers and companies that want to learn the minimum set of required technologies and processes to be successful in the DevOps world. This book also targets system administrators, developers, and IT professionals who would like to employ DevOps techniques and best practices to manage IT infrastructures or would like to acquire the necessary skills needed to work in DevOps teams. What You Will Learn ? Master development best practices. ? Understand how the Agile Delivery Methodology helps you ensure accuracy and quality. ? Analyze branching strategies such as branch creation, merging, and synchronization. ? Learn to automate builds to deploy and deliver code faster and more often ? Explore testing frameworks and how to automate testing ? Learn to put specific metrics in place to measure ROI of DevOps and monitor logs and events in a system In Detail This book follows a unique approach to modern DevOps using cutting-edge tools and technologies such as Ansible, Kubernetes, and Google Cloud Platform. This book starts by explaining the organizational alignment that has to happen in every company that wants to implement DevOps in order to be effective, and the use of cloud datacenters in combination with the most advanced DevOps tools to get the best out of a small team of skilled engineers. It also delves into how to use Kubernetes to run your applications in Google Cloud Platform, minimizing the friction and hassle of maintaining a cluster but ensuring its high availability. By the end of this book, you will be able to realign teams in your company and create a Continuous Delivery pipeline with Kubernetes and Docker. With strong monitoring in place, you will also be able to react to adverse events in your system, minimizing downtime and improving the overall up-time and stability of your system. Style and approach This book takes a step-by-step practical approach to the implementation of DevOps. This book will teach you how to enable IT organizations to deliver faster and smarter through a unique approach using Code-Build-Test-Release-Configure-Monitor (CBTRCM).

Master the capabilities of PostgreSQL 9.6 to efficiently manage and maintain your database About This Book ? Your one-stop guide to mastering the advanced concepts in PostgreSQL with ease ? Master query optimization, replication, and high availability with PostgreSQL ? Extend the functionalities of PostgreSQL to suit your organizational needs with minimum effort Who This Book Is For If you are a PostgreSQL data architect or an administrator who wants to understand how to implement advanced functionalities and master complex administrative tasks with PostgreSQL, then this book is perfect for you. Prior experience of administrating a PostgreSQL database and a working knowledge of SQL is required to make the best use of this book. What You Will Learn ? Get to grips with the advanced features of PostgreSQL 9.6 and handle advanced SQL ? Make use of the indexing features in PostgreSQL and fine-tune the performance of your queries ? Work with the stored procedures and manage backup and recovery ? Master the replication and failover techniques ? Troubleshoot your PostgreSQL instance for solutions to the common and not-so-common problems ? Learn how to migrate your database from MySQL and Oracle to PostgreSQL without any hassle In Detail PostgreSQL is an open source database used for handling large datasets (Big Data) and as a JSON document database. It also has applications in the software and web domains. This book will enable you to build better PostgreSQL applications and administer databases more efficiently. We begin by explaining the advanced database design concepts in PostgreSQL 9.6, along with indexing and query optimization. You will also see how to work with event triggers and perform concurrent transactions and table partitioning, along with exploring SQL and server tuning. We will walk you through implementing advanced administrative tasks such as server maintenance and monitoring, replication, recovery and high availability, and much more. You will understand the common and not-so-common troubleshooting problems and how you can overcome them. By the end of this book, you will have an expert-level command of the advanced database functionalities and will be able to implement advanced administrative tasks with PostgreSQL. Style and Approach This book is a comprehensive guide covering all the concepts you need to master PostgreSQL. Packed with hands-on examples, tips and tricks, even the most advanced concepts are explained in a very easy-to-follow manner. Every chapter in the book does not only focus on how each task is performed, but also why.

Sharpen your DevOps knowledge with DevOps Bootcamp About This Book ? Improve your organization's performance to ensure smooth production of software and services. ? Learn how Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery practices can be utilized to cultivate the DevOps culture. ? A fast-paced guide filled with illustrations and best practices to help you consistently ship quality software. Who This Book Is For The book is aimed at IT Developers and Operations—administrators who want to quickly learn and implement the DevOps culture in their organization. What You Will Learn ? Static Code Analysis using SOnarqube ? Configure a Maven-based JEE Web Application ? Perform Continuous Integration using Jenkins and VSTS ? Install and configure Docker ? Converge a Chef node using a Chef workstation ? Accomplish Continuous Delivery in Microsoft Azure VM and Microsoft Azure App Services (Azure Web Apps) using Jenkins ? Perform Load Testing using Apache JMeter ? Build and Release Automation using Visual Studio Team Services ? Monitor Cloud-based resources In Detail DevOps Bootcamp delivers practical learning modules in manageable chunks. Each chunk is delivered in a day, and each day is a productive one. Each day builds your competency in DevOps. You will be able to take the task you learn every day and apply it to cultivate the DevOps culture. Each chapter presents core concepts and key takeaways about a topic in DevOps and provides a series of hands-on exercises. You will not only learn the importance of basic concepts or practices of DevOps but also how to use different tools to automate application lifecycle management. We will start off by building the foundation of the DevOps concepts. On day two, we will perform Continuous Integration using Jenkins and VSTS both by configuring Maven-based JEE Web Application?. We will also integrate Jenkins and Sonar qube for Static Code Analysis. Further, on day three, we will focus on Docker containers where we will install and configure Docker and also create a Tomcat Container to deploy our Java based web application. On day four, we will create and configure the environment for application deployment in AWS and Microsoft Azure Cloud for which we will use Infrastructure as a Service and Open Source Configuration Management tool Chef. For day five, our focus would be on Continuous Delivery. We will automate application deployment in Docker container using Jenkins Plugin, AWS EC2 using Script, AWS Elastic Beanstalk using Jenkins Plugin, Microsoft Azure VM using *, and Microsoft Azure App Services Using Jenkins. We will also configure Continuous Delivery using VSTS. We will then learn the concept of Automated Testing on day six using Apache JMeter and URL-based tests in VSTS. Further, on day seven, we will explore various ways to automate application lifecycle management using orchestration. We will see how Pipeline can be created in Jenkins and VSTS, so the moment Continuous? Integration is completed successfully, Continuous Delivery will start and application will be deployed. On the final day, our focus would be on Security access to Jenkins and Monitoring of CI resources, and cloud-based resources in AWS and Microsoft Azure Platform as a Service. Style and Approach This book is all about fast and intensive learning. This means we don’t waste time in helping readers get started. The new content is basically about filling in with highly-effective examples to build new things, solving problems in newer and unseen ways, and solving real-world examples.

Become a master at managing enterprise identity infrastructure by leveraging Active Directory About This Book ? Manage your Active Directory services for Windows Server 2016 effectively ? Automate administrative tasks in Active Directory using PowerShell ? Manage your organization's network with ease Who This Book Is For If you are an Active Directory administrator, system administrator, or network professional who has basic knowledge of Active Directory and are looking to gain expertise in this topic, this is the book for you. What You Will Learn ? Explore the new features in Active Directory Domain Service 2016 ? Automate AD tasks with PowerShell ? Get to know the advanced functionalities of the schema ? Learn about Flexible Single Master Operation (FSMO) roles and their placement ? Install and migrate Active directory from older versions to Active Directory 2016 ? Manage Active Directory objects using different tools and techniques ? Manage users, groups, and devices effectively ? Design your OU structure in the best way ? Audit and monitor Active Directory ? Integrate Azure with Active Directory for a hybrid setup In Detail Active Directory is a centralized and standardized system that automates networked management of user data, security, and distributed resources and enables interoperation with other directories. If you are aware of Active Directory basics and want to gain expertise in it, this book is perfect for you. We will quickly go through the architecture and fundamentals of Active Directory and then dive deep into the core components, such as forests, domains, sites, trust relationships, OU, objects, attributes, DNS, and replication. We will then move on to AD schemas, global catalogs, LDAP, RODC, RMS, certificate authorities, group policies, and security best practices, which will help you gain a better understanding of objects and components and how they can be used effectively. We will also cover AD Domain Services and Federation Services for Windows Server 2016 and all their new features. Last but not least, you will learn how to manage your identity infrastructure for a hybrid-cloud setup. All this will help you design, plan, deploy, manage operations on, and troubleshoot your enterprise identity infrastructure in a secure, effective manner. Furthermore, I will guide you through automating administrative tasks using PowerShell cmdlets. Toward the end of the book, we will cover best practices and troubleshooting techniques that can be used to improve security and performance in an identity infrastructure. Style and approach This step-by-step guide will help you master the core functionalities of Active Directory services using Microsoft Server 2016 and PowerShell, with real-world best practices at the end.

Leverage the power of Type* 2.0 using real-world examples About This Book ? Begin with the fundamentals of TypeScript and learn how to write better JavaScript code ? Build three amazing applications throughout the book ? Leverage the power of tools such as Angular 2 and NativeScript to build for the web as well as for mobile Who This Book Is For Web developers who would like to learn how to use TypeScript to build amazing applications will benefit from this book. What You Will Learn ? Design your first project in Visual Studio ? Learn about the different data types in TypeScript ? Create web applications in an object-oriented fashion using TypeScript ? Build a Trello application using TypeScript's complex features. ? Explore the tools available in a web application ecosystem to write unit test cases ? Deploy web applications to cloud and assign resources to the application In Detail The TypeScript language, compiler, and open source development toolset brings JavaScript development up to the enterprise level. It allows you to use ES5, ES6, and ES7 JavaScript language features today, including classes, interfaces, generics, modules, and more. Its simple typing syntax enables building large, robust applications using object-oriented techniques and industry-standard design principles. This book aims at teaching you how to get up and running with TypeScript development in the most practical way possible. Taking you through two exciting projects built from scratch, you will learn the basics of TypeScript, before progressing to functions, generics, promises, and callbacks. Then, you’ll get to implement object-oriented programming as well as optimize your applications with effective memory management. You’ll also learn to test and secure your applications, before deploying them. Starting with a basic SPA built using Angular, you will progress on to building, maybe, a Chat application or a cool application. You’ll also learn how to use NativeScript to build a cool mobile application. Each of these applications with be explained in detail, allowing you to grasp the concepts fast. By the end of this book, you will have not only built two amazing projects but you will also have the skills necessary to take your development to the next level. Style and approach Example-based approach to get you quickly started with Type*

Deliver end-to-end real-time distributed data processing solutions by leveraging the power of Elastic Stack 6.0 About This Book ? Get to grips with the new features introduced in Elastic Stack 6.0 ? Get valuable insights from your data by working with the different components of the Elastic stack such as Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, X-Pack, and Beats ? Includes handy tips and techniques to build, deploy and manage your Elastic applications efficiently on-premise or on the cloud Who This Book Is For This book is for data professionals who want to get amazing insights and business metrics from their data sources. If you want to get a fundamental understanding of the Elastic Stack for distributed, real-time processing of data, this book will help you. A fundamental knowledge of JSON would be useful, but is not mandatory. No previous experience with the Elastic Stack is required. What You Will Learn ? Familiarize yourself with the different components of the Elastic Stack ? Get to know the new functionalities introduced in Elastic Stack 6.0 ? Effectively build your data pipeline to get data from terabytes or petabytes of data into Elasticsearch and Logstash for searching and logging ? Use Kibana to visualize data and tell data stories in real-time ? Secure, monitor, and use the alerting and reporting capabilities of Elastic Stack ? Take your Elastic application to an on-premise or cloud-based production environment In Detail The Elastic Stack is a powerful combination of tools for distributed search, analytics, logging, and visualization of data from medium to massive data sets. The newly released Elastic Stack 6.0 brings new features and capabilities that empower users to find unique, actionable insights through these techniques. This book will give you a fundamental understanding of what the stack is all about, and how to use it efficiently to build powerful real-time data processing applications. After a quick overview of the newly introduced features in Elastic Stack 6.0, you’ll learn how to set up the stack by installing the tools, and see their basic configurations. Then it shows you how to use Elasticsearch for distributed searching and analytics, along with Logstash for logging, and Kibana for data visualization. It also demonstrates the creation of custom plugins using Kibana and Beats. You’ll find out about Elastic X-Pack, a useful extension for effective security and monitoring. We also provide useful tips on how to use the Elastic Cloud and deploy the Elastic Stack in production environments. On completing this book, you’ll have a solid foundational knowledge of the basic Elastic Stack functionalities. You’ll also have a good understanding of the role of each component in the stack to solve different data processing problems. Style and approach This step-by-step guide will show you the Elastic Stack, covering all the components through interactive and easy-to-follow examples. It also includes handy tips.

Simplify real-time data processing by leveraging the power of Apache Kafka 1.0 About This Book ? Use Kafka 1.0 features such as Confluent platforms and Kafka streams to build efficient streaming data applications to handle and process your data ? Integrate Kafka with other Big Data tools such as Apache Hadoop, Apache Spark, and more ? Hands-on recipes to help you design, operate, maintain, and secure your Apache Kafka cluster with ease Who This Book Is For This book is for developers and Kafka administrators who are looking for quick, practical solutions to problems encountered while operating, managing or monitoring Apache Kafka. If you are a developer, some knowledge of Scala or Java will help, while for administrators, some working knowledge of Kafka will be useful. What You Will Learn ? Install and configure Apache Kafka 1.0 to get optimal performance ? Create and configure Kafka Producers and Consumers ? Operate your Kafka clusters efficiently by implementing the mirroring technique ? Work with the new Confluent platform and Kafka streams, and achieve high availability with Kafka ? Monitor Kafka using tools such as Graphite and Ganglia ? Integrate Kafka with third-party tools such as Elasticsearch, Logstash, Apache Hadoop, Apache Spark, and more In Detail Apache Kafka provides a unified, high-throughput, low-latency platform to handle real-time data feeds. This book will show you how to use Kafka efficiently, and contains practical solutions to the common problems that developers and administrators usually face while working with it. This practical guide contains easy-to-follow recipes to help you set up, configure, and use Apache Kafka in the best possible manner. You will use Apache Kafka Consumers and Producers to build effective real-time streaming applications. The book covers the recently released Kafka version 1.0, the Confluent Platform and Kafka Streams. The programming aspect covered in the book will teach you how to perform important tasks such as message validation, enrichment and composition.Recipes focusing on optimizing the performance of your Kafka cluster, and integrate Kafka with a variety of third-party tools such as Apache Hadoop, Apache Spark, and Elasticsearch will help ease your day to day collaboration with Kafka greatly. Finally, we cover tasks related to monitoring and securing your Apache Kafka cluster using tools such as Ganglia and Graphite. If you're looking to become the go-to person in your organization when it comes to working with Apache Kafka, this book is the only resource you need to have. Style and approach Following a cookbook recipe-based approach, we’ll teach you how to solve everyday difficulties and struggles you encounter using Kafka through hands-on examples.

Learn the importance of architectural and design patterns in producing and sustaining next-generation IT and business-critical applications with this guide. About This Book ? Use patterns to tackle communication, integration, application structure, and more ? Implement modern design patterns such as microservices to build resilient and highly available applications ? Choose between the MVP, MVC, and MVVM patterns depending on the application being built Who This Book Is For This book will empower and enrich IT architects (such as enterprise architects, software product architects, and solution and system architects), technical consultants, evangelists, and experts. What You Will Learn ? Understand how several architectural and design patterns work to systematically develop multitier web, mobile, embedded, and cloud applications ? Learn object-oriented and component-based software engineering principles and patterns ? Explore the frameworks corresponding to various architectural patterns ? Implement domain-driven, test-driven, and behavior-driven methodologies ? Deploy key platforms and tools effectively to enable EA design and solutioning ? Implement various patterns designed for the cloud paradigm In Detail Enterprise Architecture (EA) is typically an aggregate of the business, application, data, and infrastructure architectures of any forward-looking enterprise. Due to constant changes and rising complexities in the business and technology landscapes, producing sophisticated architectures is on the rise. Architectural patterns are gaining a lot of attention these days. The book is divided in three modules. You'll learn about the patterns associated with object-oriented, component-based, client-server, and cloud architectures. The second module covers Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) patterns and how they are architected using various tools and patterns. You will come across patterns for Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Event-Driven Architecture (EDA), Resource-Oriented Architecture (ROA), big data analytics architecture, and Microservices Architecture (MSA). The final module talks about advanced topics such as Docker containers, high performance, and reliable application architectures. The key takeaways include understanding what architectures are, why they're used, and how and where architecture, design, and integration patterns are being leveraged to build better and bigger systems. Style and Approach This book adopts a hands-on approach with real-world examples and use cases.

Perform Interactive Data Analysis with Smarter Visualizations and Support your Enterprise-wide Analytical Needs About This Book ? Get a practical demonstration of discovering data for sales, human resources, and more using Qlik Sense ? Create dynamic dashboards for business intelligence and predictive analytics ? Create and collaborate comprehensive analytical solutions using Rattle and Qlik Sense Who This Book Is For This course is for anyone who wishes to understand and utilize the various new approaches to business intelligence actively in their business practice. Knowing the basics of business intelligence concepts would be helpful when picking up this course, but is not mandatory. What You Will Learn ? Build simple visualization models with Rattle and Qlik Sense Desktop ? Get to grips with the life cycle and new visualization functions of a Qlik Sense application ? Discover simple ways to examine data and get it ready for analysis ? Visualize your data with Qlik Sense's engaging and informative graphs ? Build efficient and responsive Associative Models ? Optimize Qlik Sense for sales, human resources, and demographic data discovery ? Explore various tips and tricks of navigation for the Qlik Sense? front end ? Develop creative extensions for your Qlik Sense? dashboard In Detail Qlik Sense is powerful and creative visual analytics software that allows users to discover data, explore it, and dig out meaningful insights in order to make a profit and make decisions for your business. This course begins by introducing you to the features and functions of the most modern edition of Qlik Sense so you get to grips with the application. The course will teach you how to administer the data architecture in Qlik Sense, enabling you to customize your own Qlik Sense application for your business intelligence needs. It also contains numerous recipes to help you overcome challenging situations while creating fully featured desktop applications in Qlik Sense. It explains how to combine Rattle and Qlik Sense Desktop to apply predictive analytics to your data to develop real-world interactive data applications. The course includes premium content from three of our most popular books: ? Learning Qlik Sense: The Official Guide Second Edition ? Qlik Sense Cookbook ? Predictive Analytics using Rattle and Qlik Sense On completion of this course, you will be self-sufficient in improving your data analysis and will know how to apply predictive analytics to your datasets. Through this course, you will be able to create predictive models and data applications, allowing you to explore your data insights much deeper. Style and approach The course will follow a practical approach with rich set of examples through which it will demonstrate its concepts, features and its implementation. The course will also feature numerous solutions which will cover entire spectrum of BI use cases.

Explore the necessary concepts of REST API development by building few real world services from scratch. About This Book ? Follow best practices and explore techniques such as clustering and caching to achieve a reactive, scalable web service ? Leverage the Buffalo Framework to quickly implement RESTful endpoints ? Learn to implement a client library for a RESTful web service using Go Who This Book Is For This book is intended for those who want to learn to build RESTful web services with a framework like Buffalo. To make best use of the code samples included in the book, you should have a basic knowledge of Go programming. What You Will Learn ? Create HTTP handler and introspect the Gorilla Mux router ? OAuth 2 implementation with Go ? Build RESTFul API with go-restful, Revel.Go and Buffalo Go ? Create REST API with MongoDB and Go ? Build a working client library and unit test for REST API ? Debug, test, and profile RESTful APIs with each of the frameworks ? Optimize and scale REST API using microservices In Detail REST is an architectural style that tackles the challenges of building scalable web services and 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 Go, makes it a breeze for developers to work with it to build robust Web APIs. This book takes you through the design of RESTful web services and leverages a framework like Buffalo Go to implement these services. The book starts with a brief introduction to REST API development and how it transformed the modern web. You will learn how to handle routing and authentication of web services along with working with middleware for internal service. The book explains how to use Go frameworks to build RESTful web services and work with MongoDB to create REST API. You will learn how to integrate Postgres SQL and JSON with a Go web service and build a client library in Go for consuming REST API. You will learn how to scale APIs using the microservice architecture and deploy the REST APIs using Nginx as a proxy server. Finally you will learn how to metricize a REST API using an API Gateway. By the end of the book you will be proficient in building RESTful APIs in Go. Style and approach This book is a step-by-step, hands-on guide to designing and building RESTful web services.

Deliver great business value by adopting the virtualization platform VMware vSphere 6.5, from the design to the deployment About This Book ? This new edition is based on vSphere 6.5 and has described new features in different areas, including management, security, scalability, availability and so on. ? Design, deploy and manage VMware datacenters ? Implement monitoring and security of VMware workloads with ease. Who This Book Is For If you are an administrator, infrastructure engineer, IT architect, or an IT consultant and analyst who has basic knowledge of VMware vSphere and now wants to master it, then this book is for you. What You Will Learn ? Get a deep understanding of vSphere 6.5 functionalities ? Design and plan a virtualization environment based on vSphere 6.5 ? Manage and administer a vSphere 6.5 environment and resources ? Get tips for the VCP6-DCV and VCIX6-DCV exams (along with use of the vSphere 6 documentation) ? Implement different migration techniques to move your workload across different environments. ? Save your configuration, data and workload from your virtual infrastructure. In Detail VMware vSphere 6.5 provides a powerful, flexible and secure foundation for next-generation applications which helps you create an effective digital transformation. This book will be based on VMware vSphere 6.5 which empowers you to virtualize any complex application with ease. You’ll begin by getting an overview of all the products, solutions and features of the vSphere 6.5 suite, comparing the evolutions with the previous releases. Next ,you’ll design and plan a virtualization infrastructure to drive planning and performance analysis. Following this , you will be proceeding with workflow and installation of components. New network trends are also covered which will help you in optimally designing the vSphere environment. You will also learn the practices and procedures involved in configuring and managing virtual machines in a vSphere infrastructure. With vSphere 6.5, you’ll make use of significantly more powerful capabilities for patching, upgrading, and managing the configuration of the virtual environment. Next we’ll focus on specific availability and resiliency solutions in vSphere. Towards the end of the book you will get information on how to save your configuration, data and workload from your virtual infrastructure. By the end of the book you’ll learn about VMware vSphere 6.5 right from design to deployment and management. Style and Approach This book acts as a reference guide providing real-world scenarios and a possible baseline for each virtualization project based on VMware vSphere.

Drive value and insight by developing business critical applications with QlikView 12 About This Book ? Develop your own scalable and maintainable QlikView applications ? Learn time-saving techniques for making your QlikView development more efficient ? A one-stop guide to developing BI applications with QlikView Who This Book Is For This book is for anyone interested in working with QlikView or who has attended QlikView Developer training. The book caters for all QlikView developers, beginners and experts alike, and anyone who wants to improve their QlikView skills. What You Will Learn ? Understand important changes made in QlikView 12 ? Learn the techniques and best practices to transform data in QlikView via *s ? Load data from disparate sources to build an associative Data Model ? Build robust data models and overcome common modeling challenges ? Designing data visualization objects to present performance measures with charts and tables ? Learn to use dimensions and expressions in QlikView objects ? Utilize QlikView's built-in aggregation functions to achieve complex calculations ? Create Point In Time reporting and achieving complex calculations using Set Analysis ? Create a consistent and interactive user interface ? Ensure your QlikView applications and data are protected ? Optimize the QlikView Data Model ? Constructing a data architecture that supports scalable QlikView deployments ? Learn time-saving techniques for making your QlikView development more efficient In Detail QlikView is one of the most flexible and powerful Business Intelligence platforms around. If you want to build data into your organization, build it around QlikView. Don't get caught in the gap between data and knowledge – find out how QlikView can help you unlock insights and data potential with ease. Whether you're new to QlikView or want to get up to speed with the features and functionality of QlikView, this book starts at a basic level and delves more deeply to demonstrate how to make QlikView work for you, and make it meet the needs of your organization. Using a real-world use-case to highlight the extensive impact of effective business analytics, this book might well be your silver bullet for success. A superb hands-on guide to get you started by exploring the fundamentals of QlikView before learning how to successfully implement it, technically and strategically. You'll learn valuable tips, tricks, and insightful information on loading different types of data into QlikView, and how to model it effectively. You will also learn how to write useful *s for QlikView to handle potentially complex data transformations in a way that is simple and elegant. From ensuring consistency and clarity in your data models, to techniques for managing expressions using variables, this book makes sure that your QlikView projects are organized in a way that's most productive for you and key stakeholders. Style and approach This book will help you learn QlikView Development from a basic to a practitioner level using a step-by-step approach. It is smartly built around a practical case study – HighCloud Airlines – to help you gain an in-depth understanding of how to build applications for Business Intelligence using QlikView.