Implement defensive techniques in your ecosystem successfully with Python Key Features * Identify and expose vulnerabilities in your infrastructure with Python * Learn custom exploit development . * Make robust and powerful cybersecurity tools with Python Book Description With the current technological and infrastructural shift, penetration testing is no longer a process-oriented activity. Modern-day penetration testing demands lots of automation and innovation; the only language that dominates all its peers is Python. Given the huge number of tools written in Python, and its popularity in the penetration testing space, this language has always been the first choice for penetration testers. Hands-On Penetration Testing with Python walks you through advanced Python programming constructs. Once you are familiar with the core concepts, you’ll explore the advanced uses of Python in the domain of penetration testing and optimization. You’ll then move on to understanding how Python, data science, and the cybersecurity ecosystem communicate with one another. In the concluding chapters, you’ll study exploit development, reverse engineering, and cybersecurity use cases that can be automated with Python. By the end of this book, you’ll have acquired adequate skills to leverage Python as a helpful tool to pentest and secure infrastructure, while also creating your own custom exploits. What you will learn * Get to grips with Custom vulnerability scanner development * Familiarize yourself with web application scanning automation and exploit development * Walk through day-to-day cybersecurity scenarios that can be automated with Python * Discover enterprise-or organization-specific use cases and threat-hunting automation * Understand reverse engineering, fuzzing, buffer overflows , key-logger development, and exploit development for buffer overflows. * Understand web scraping in Python and use it for processing web responses * Explore Security Operations Centre (SOC) use cases * Get to understand Data Science, Python, and cybersecurity all under one hood Who this book is for If you are a security consultant , developer or a cyber security enthusiast with little or no knowledge of Python and want in-depth insight into how the pen-testing ecosystem and python combine to create offensive tools , exploits , automate cyber security use-cases and much more then this book is for you. Hands-On Penetration Testing with Python guides you through the advanced uses of Python for cybersecurity and pen-testing, helping you to better understand security loopholes within your infrastructure .

Get ready for the Windows 10: 70-698 exam and configure Windows to manage data recovery Key Features * Implement Windows 10 operational and administrative tasks * Configure devices, remote management settings, advanced management tools, and device drivers * Comprehensive guide to help you work efficiently in Windows 10 Book Description The Installing and Configuring Windows 10: 70-698 Exam Guide is designed to confirm what you already know, while also updating your knowledge of Windows 10. With its easy-to-follow guidance, you will quickly learn the user interface and discover steps to work efficiently in Windows 10 to rule out delays and obstacles. This book begins by covering various ways of installing Windows 10, followed by instructions on post-installation tasks. You will learn about the deployment of Windows 10 in Enterprise and also see how to configure networking in Windows 10. You’ll understand how to leverage Disk Management and Windows PowerShell to configure disks, volumes, and file system options. As you progress through the chapters, you will be able to set up remote management in Windows 10 and learn more about Windows update usage, behavior, and settings. You will also gain insights that will help you monitor and manage data recovery and explore how to configure authentication, authorization, and advanced management tools in Windows 10. By the end of this book, you will be equipped with enough knowledge to take the 70-698 exam and explore different study methods to improve your chances of passing the exam with ease. What you will learn * Discover various ways of installing Windows 10 * Understand how to configure devices and device drivers * Configure and support IPv4 and IPv6 network settings * Troubleshoot storage and removable device issues * Get to grips with data access and usage * Explore the advanced management tools available in Windows 10 Who this book is for This book is for IT professionals who perform installation, configuration, general local management and maintenance of Windows 10 core services and are preparing to clear the Windows 10: 70-698 exam

Implement machine learning and deep learning methodologies to build smart, cognitive AI projects using Python Key Features * A go-to guide to help you master AI algorithms and concepts * 8 real-world projects tackling different challenges in healthcare, e-commerce, and surveillance * Use TensorFlow, Keras, and other Python libraries to implement smart AI applications Book Description This book will be a perfect companion if you want to build insightful projects from leading AI domains using Python. The book covers detailed implementation of projects from all the core disciplines of AI. We start by covering the basics of how to create smart systems using machine learning and deep learning techniques. You will assimilate various neural network architectures such as CNN, RNN, LSTM, to solve critical new world challenges. You will learn to train a model to detect diabetic retinopathy conditions in the human eye and create an intelligent system for performing a video-to-text translation. You will use the transfer learning technique in the healthcare domain and implement style transfer using GANs. Later you will learn to build AI-based recommendation systems, a mobile app for sentiment analysis and a powerful chatbot for carrying customer services. You will implement AI techniques in the cybersecurity domain to generate Captchas. Later you will train and build autonomous vehicles to self-drive using reinforcement learning. You will be using libraries from the Python ecosystem such as TensorFlow, Keras and more to bring the core aspects of machine learning, deep learning, and AI. By the end of this book, you will be skilled to build your own smart models for tackling any kind of AI problems without any hassle. What you will learn * Build an intelligent machine translation system using seq-2-seq neural translation machines * Create AI applications using GAN and deploy smart mobile apps using TensorFlow * Translate videos into text using CNN and RNN * Implement smart AI Chatbots, and integrate and extend them in several domains * Create smart reinforcement, learning-based applications using Q-Learning * Break and generate CAPTCHA using Deep Learning and Adversarial Learning Who this book is for This book is intended for data scientists, machine learning professionals, and deep learning practitioners who are ready to extend their knowledge and potential in AI. If you want to build real-life smart systems to play a crucial role in every complex domain, then this book is what you need. Knowledge of Python programming and a familiarity with basic machine learning and deep learning concepts are expected to help you get the most out of the book

Untangle your web scraping complexities and access web data with ease using Python *s About This Book ? Hands-on recipes for advancing your web scraping skills to expert level. ? One-Stop Solution Guide to address complex and challenging web scraping tasks using Python. ? Understand the web page structure and collect meaningful data from the website with ease Who This Book Is For This book is ideal for Python programmers, web administrators, security professionals or someone who wants to perform web analytics would find this book relevant and useful. Familiarity with Python and basic understanding of web scraping would be useful to take full advantage of this book. What You Will Learn ? Use a wide variety of tools to scrape any website and data—including BeautifulSoup, Scrapy, Selenium, and many more ? Master expression languages such as XPath, CSS, and regular expressions to extract web data ? Deal with scraping traps such as hidden form fields, throttling, pagination, and different status codes ? Build robust scraping pipelines with SQS and RabbitMQ ? Scrape assets such as images media and know what to do when Scraper fails to run ? Explore ETL techniques of build a customized crawler, parser, and convert structured and unstructured data from websites ? Deploy and run your scraper-as-aservice in AWS Elastic Container Service In Detail Python Web Scraping Cookbook is a solution-focused book that will teach you techniques to develop high-performance scrapers and deal with crawlers, sitemaps, forms automation, Ajax-based sites, caches, and more.You'll explore a number of real-world scenarios where every part of the development/product life cycle will be fully covered. You will not only develop the skills to design and develop reliable, performance data flows, but also deploy your codebase to an AWS. If you are involved in software engineering, product development, or data mining (or are interested in building data-driven products), you will find this book useful as each recipe has a clear purpose and objective. Right from extracting data from the websites to writing a sophisticated web crawler, the book's independent recipes will be a godsend on the job. This book covers Python libraries, requests, and BeautifulSoup. You will learn about crawling, web spidering, working with AJAX websites, paginated items, and more. You will also learn to tackle problems such as 403 errors, working with proxy, scraping images, LXML, and more. By the end of this book, you will be able to scrape websites more efficiently and to be able to deploy and operate your scraper in the cloud. Style and approach This book is a rich collection of recipes that will come in handy when you are scraping a website using Python. Addressing your common and not-so-common pain points while scraping website, this is a book that you must have on the shelf.

Get up and running with all the new features of ECMAScript and explore new ways of coding with JavaScript. About This Book ? Grasp the latest features of ECMAScript and the best way to use it in production code ? Learn newly added native APIs to JS Engine and perform tasks efficiently with a cleaner code base ? Understand the more complex sides of JavaScript such as the inheritance model, low-level memory management, multithreaded environments, and web workers Who This Book Is For This book is for web developers who have some basic programming knowledge and want to learn to write cleaner code with the power of ECMAScript. What You Will Learn ? Implement methods associated with objects as per the latest ECMAScript specification ? Make use of the latest features of ECMAScript ? Make use of many new APIs in HTML5 and modern JavaScript implementation ? Use SharedArrayBuffers for superfast concurrent and parallel programming ? Perform asynchronous programming with JavaScript ? Implement the best ways and practices to perform modular programming in JavaScript In Detail Learn ECMAScript explores implementation of the latest ECMAScript features to add to your developer toolbox, helping you to progress to an advanced level. Learn to add 1 to a variable andsafely access shared memory data within multiple threads to avoid race conditions. You’ll start the book by building on your existing knowledge of JavaScript, covering performing arithmetic operations, using arrow functions and dealing with closures. Next, you will grasp the most commonly used ECMAScript skills such as reflection, proxies, and classes. Furthermore, you’ll learn modularizing the JS code base, implementing JS on the web and how the modern HTML5 + JS APIs provide power to developers on the web. Finally, you will learn the deeper parts of the language, which include making JavaScript multithreaded with dedicated and shared web workers, memory management, shared memory, and atomics. It doesn’t end here; this book is 100% compatible with ES.Next. By the end of this book, you'll have fully mastered all the features of ECMAScript! Style and approach The level goes gradually from basic to advanced so that the reader can adapt at every point and level up their skills at the same time. The chapters are carefully arranged in a manner that makes every concept easy to learn and deploy right away in your code.

Understand the ServiceNow *ing and build an efficient customized ServiceNow instance About This Book ? Customize your ServiceNow instance according to your organization’s needs ? Learn to work with inbuilt JavaScript APIs in ServiceNow ? Take your ServiceNow experience to the next level by learning to * Who This Book Is For This book is targeted toward ServiceNow administrators or anyone willing to learn inbuilt JavaScript APIs used to * and customize ServiceNow instances. Prior experience with ServiceNow is required. What You Will Learn ? Customize your ServiceNow instance according to your organization's needs ? Explore the ServiceNow-exposed JavaScript APIs and libraries ? Discover the method for using ServiceNow *ing functions ? Take your ServiceNow experience to the next level by understanding advanced *ing ? Learn to build, test, and debug custom applications ? Use your customized instance efficiently with the help of best practices In Detail Industry giants like RedHat and NetApp have adopted ServiceNow for their operational needs, and it is evolving as the number one platform choice for IT Service management. ServiceNow provides their clients with an add-on when it comes to baseline instances, where *ing can be used to customize and improve the performance of instances. It also provides inbuilt JavaScript API for *ing and improving your JavaScript instance. This book will initially cover the basics of ServiceNow *ing and the appropriate time to * in a ServiceNow environment. Then, we dig deeper into client-side and server-side *ing using JavaScipt API. We will also cover advance concepts like on-demand functions, * actions, and best practices. Mastering ServiceNow Scripting acts as an end-to-end guide for writing, testing, and debugging *s of ServiceNow. We cover update sets for moving customizations between ServiceNow instances, jelly *s for making custom pages, and best practices for all types of * in ServiceNow. By the end of this book, you will have hands-on experience in *ing ServiceNow using inbuilt JavaScript API. Style and approach The book will take a practical approach delving into different aspects of ServiceNow *ing to help you become a *ing master.

Develop and run efficient R *s and predictive models for SQL Server 2017 About This Book ? Learn how you can combine the power of R and SQL Server 2017 to build efficient, cost-effective data science solutions ? Leverage the capabilities of R Services to perform advanced analytics—from data exploration to predictive modeling ? A quick primer with practical examples to help you get up- and- running with SQL Server 2017 Machine Learning Services with R, as part of database solutions with continuous integration / continuous delivery. Who This Book Is For This book is for data analysts, data scientists, and database administrators with some or no experience in R but who are eager to easily deliver practical data science solutions in their day-to-day work (or future projects) using SQL Server. What You Will Learn ? Get an overview of SQL Server 2017 Machine Learning Services with R ? Manage SQL Server Machine Learning Services from installation to configuration and maintenance ? Handle and operationalize R code ? Explore RevoScaleR R algorithms and create predictive models ? Deploy, manage, and monitor database solutions with R ? Extend R with SQL Server 2017 features ? Explore the power of R for database administrators In Detail R Services was one of the most anticipated features in SQL Server 2016, improved significantly and rebranded as SQL Server 2017 Machine Learning Services. Prior to SQL Server 2016, many developers and data scientists were already using R to connect to SQL Server in siloed environments that left a lot to be desired, in order to do additional data analysis, superseding SSAS Data Mining or additional CLR programming functions. With R integrated within SQL Server 2017, these developers and data scientists can now benefit from its integrated, effective, efficient, and more streamlined analytics environment. This book gives you foundational knowledge and insights to help you understand SQL Server 2017 Machine Learning Services with R. First and foremost, the book provides practical examples on how to implement, use, and understand SQL Server and R integration in corporate environments, and also provides explanations and underlying motivations. It covers installing Machine Learning Services;maintaining, deploying, and managing code;and monitoring your services. Delving more deeply into predictive modeling and the RevoScaleR package, this book also provides insights into operationalizing code and exploring and visualizing data. To complete the journey, this book covers the new features in SQL Server 2017 and how they are compatible with R, amplifying their combined power. Style and approach This fast-paced guide will help data scientists and DBAs implement all new data science projects using SQL Server 2017 Machine Learning Services.

Leverage the power of machine learning and Swift programming to build intelligent iOS applications with ease About This Book ? Implement effective machine learning solutions for your iOS applications ? Use Swift and Core ML to build and deploy popular machine learning models ? Develop neural networks for natural language processing and computer vision Who This Book Is For iOS developers who wish to create smarter iOS applications using the power of machine learning will find this book to be useful. This book will also benefit data science professionals who are interested in performing machine learning on mobile devices. Familiarity with Swift programming is all you need to get started with this book. What You Will Learn ? Learn rapid model prototyping with Python and Swift ? Deploy pre-trained models to iOS using Core ML ? Find hidden patterns in the data using unsupervised learning ? Get a deeper understanding of the clustering techniques ? Learn modern compact architectures of neural networks for iOS devices ? Train neural networks for image processing and natural language processing In Detail Machine learning as a field promises to bring increased intelligence to the software by helping us learn and analyse information efficiently and discover certain patterns that humans cannot. This book will be your guide as you embark on an exciting journey in machine learning using the popular Swift language. We’ll start with machine learning basics in the first part of the book to develop a lasting intuition about fundamental machine learning concepts. We explore various supervised and unsupervised statistical learning techniques and how to implement them in Swift, while the third section walks you through deep learning techniques with the help of typical real-world cases. In the last section, we will dive into some hard core topics such as model compression, GPU acceleration and provide some recommendations to avoid common mistakes during machine learning application development. By the end of the book, you'll be able to develop intelligent applications written in Swift that can learn for themselves. Style and approach A comprehensive guide that teaches how to implement machine learning apps for iOS from scratch

Design, build and test RESTful web services with the Django framework and Python About This Book ? Create efficient real-world RESTful web services with the latest Django framework ? Authenticate, secure, and integrate third-party packages efficiently in your Web Services ? Leverage the power of Python for faster Web Service development Who This Book Is For This book is for Python developers who want to create RESTful web services with Django; you need to have a basic working knowledge of Django but no previous experience with RESTful web services is required. What You Will Learn ? The best way to build a RESTful Web Service or API with Django and the Django REST Framework ? Develop complex RESTful APIs from scratch with Django and the Django REST Framework ? Work with either SQL or NoSQL data sources ? Design RESTful Web Services based on application requirements ? Use third-party packages and extensions to perform common tasks ? Create automated tests for RESTful web services ? Debug, test, and profile RESTful web services with Django and the Django REST Framework In Detail Django is a Python web framework that makes the web development process very easy. It reduces the amount of trivial code, which simplifies the creation of web applications and results in faster development. It is very powerful and a great choice for creating RESTful web services. If you are a Python developer and want to efficiently create RESTful web services with Django for your apps, then this is the right book for you. The book starts off by showing you how to install and configure the environment, required software, and tools to create RESTful web services with Django and the Django REST framework. We then move on to working with advanced serialization and migrations to interact with SQLite and non-SQL data sources. We will use the features included in the Django REST framework to improve our simple web service. Further, we will create API views to process diverse HTTP requests on objects, go through relationships and hyperlinked API management, and then discover the necessary steps to include security and permissions related to data models and APIs. We will also apply throttling rules and run tests to check that versioning works as expected. Next we will run automated tests to improve code coverage. By the end of the book, you will be able to build RESTful web services with Django." Style and approach The book takes a straightforward approach, giving you the techniques and best use cases to build great web services with Django and Python

A perfect guide to speed up the predicting power of machine learning algorithms About This Book ? Design, discover, and create dynamic, efficient features for your machine learning application ? Understand your data in-depth and derive astonishing data insights with the help of this Guide ? Grasp powerful feature-engineering techniques and build machine learning systems Who This Book Is For If you are a data science professional or a machine learning engineer looking to strengthen your predictive analytics model, then this book is a perfect guide for you. Some basic understanding of the machine learning concepts and Python *ing would be enough to get started with this book. What You Will Learn ? Identify and leverage different feature types ? Clean features in data to improve predictive power ? Understand why and how to perform feature selection, and model error analysis ? Leverage domain knowledge to construct new features ? Deliver features based on mathematical insights ? Use machine-learning algorithms to construct features ? Master feature engineering and optimization ? Harness feature engineering for real world applications through a structured case study In Detail Feature engineering is the most important step in creating powerful machine learning systems. This book will take you through the entire feature-engineering journey to make your machine learning much more systematic and effective. You will start with understanding your data—often the success of your ML models depends on how you leverage different feature types, such as continuous, categorical, and more, You will learn when to include a feature, when to omit it, and why, all by understanding error analysis and the acceptability of your models. You will learn to convert a problem statement into useful new features. You will learn to deliver features driven by business needs as well as mathematical insights. You'll also learn how to use machine learning on your machines, automatically learning amazing features for your data. By the end of the book, you will become proficient in Feature Selection, Feature Learning, and Feature Optimization. Style and approach This step-by-step guide with use cases, examples, and illustrations will help you master the concepts of feature engineering. Along with explaining the fundamentals, the book will also introduce you to slightly advanced concepts later on and will help you implement these techniques in the real world.

Learn how to model and train advanced neural networks to implement a variety of Computer Vision tasks About This Book ? Train different kinds of deep learning model from scratch to solve specific problems in Computer Vision ? Combine the power of Python, Keras, and TensorFlow to build deep learning models for object detection, image classification, similarity learning, image captioning, and more ? Includes tips on optimizing and improving the performance of your models under various constraints Who This Book Is For This book is targeted at data scientists and Computer Vision practitioners who wish to apply the concepts of Deep Learning to overcome any problem related to Computer Vision. A basic knowledge of programming in Python—and some understanding of machine learning concepts—is required to get the best out of this book. What You Will Learn ? Set up an environment for deep learning with Python, TensorFlow, and Keras ? Define and train a model for image and video classification ? Use features from a pre-trained Convolutional Neural Network model for image retrieval ? Understand and implement object detection using the real-world Pedestrian Detection scenario ? Learn about various problems in image captioning and how to overcome them by training images and text together ? Implement similarity matching and train a model for face recognition ? Understand the concept of generative models and use them for image generation ? Deploy your deep learning models and optimize them for high performance In Detail Deep learning has shown its power in several application areas of Artificial Intelligence, especially in Computer Vision. Computer Vision is the science of understanding and manipulating images, and finds enormous applications in the areas of robotics, automation, and so on. This book will also show you, with practical examples, how to develop Computer Vision applications by leveraging the power of deep learning. In this book, you will learn different techniques related to object classification, object detection, image segmentation, captioning, image generation, face analysis, and more. You will also explore their applications using popular Python libraries such as TensorFlow and Keras. This book will help you master state-of-the-art, deep learning algorithms and their implementation. Style and approach This book will teach advanced techniques for Computer Vision, applying the deep learning model in reference to various datasets.

Your one step guide to learn all about AWS networking. About This Book ? Master your networking skills on Public Cloud. ? Gain hands-on experience of using Amazon VPC, Elastic Load Balancing, Direct Connect and other AWS products. ? Implement troubleshooting skills and best practices for security on AWS network. Who This Book Is For This book is targeted towards cloud architects, cloud solution providers, or any stakeholders dealing with networking on AWS Cloud. A prior idea of Amazon Web Services will be an added advantage. What You Will Learn ? Overview of all networking services available in AWS. ? Gain Work with load balance application across different regions. ? Learn auto scale instance based on the increase and decrease of the traffic. ? Deploy application in highly available and fault tolerant manner. ? Configure Route 53 for a web application. ? Troubleshooting tips and best practices at the end In Detail Amazon Web Services (AWS) dominates the public cloud market by a huge margin and it continues to be the first choice for many organizations. Networking has been an area of focus for all the leading cloud service providers. AWS has a suite of network-related products that help to perform network-related task in AWS. This book initially covers the basics of networking in AWS. Then we use AWS VPC to create an isolated virtual cloud for performing network-related tasks. We then provide an overview of AWS Direct Connect after taking a deep dive into scalability and load balancing using Auto scaling feature, Elastic Load Balancing, and Amazon Route S3. Toward the end of the book, we cover some troubleshooting tips and security best practices for your network. By the end of this book, you will have hands-on experience of working with network tasks on AWS. Style and approach A step by step practical guide that helps you use all networking services available in AWS effectively.

Use Python and NLTK (Natural Language Toolkit) to build out your own text classifiers and solve common NLP problems. Key Features * Assimilate key NLP concepts and terminologies * Explore popular NLP tools and techniques * Gain practical experience using NLP in application code Book Description If NLP hasn't been your forte, Natural Language Processing Fundamentals will make sure you set off to a steady start. This comprehensive guide will show you how to effectively use Python libraries and NLP concepts to solve various problems. You'll be introduced to natural language processing and its applications through examples and exercises. This will be followed by an introduction to the initial stages of solving a problem, which includes problem definition, getting text data, and preparing it for modeling. With exposure to concepts like advanced natural language processing algorithms and visualization techniques, you'll learn how to create applications that can extract information from unstructured data and present it as impactful visuals. Although you will continue to learn NLP-based techniques, the focus will gradually shift to developing useful applications. In these sections, you'll understand how to apply NLP techniques to answer questions as can be used in chatbots. By the end of this book, you'll be able to accomplish a varied range of assignments ranging from identifying the most suitable type of NLP task for solving a problem to using a tool like spacy or gensim for performing sentiment analysis. The book will easily equip you with the knowledge you need to build applications that interpret human language. What you will learn * Obtain, verify, and clean data before transforming it into a correct format for use * Perform data analysis and machine learning tasks using Python * Understand the basics of computational linguistics * Build models for general natural language processing tasks * Evaluate the performance of a model with the right metrics * Visualize, quantify, and perform exploratory analysis from any text data Who this book is for Natural Language Processing Fundamentals is designed for novice and mid-level data scientists and machine learning developers who want to gather and analyze text data to build an NLP-powered product. It'll help you to have prior experience of coding in Python using data types, writing functions, and importing libraries. Some experience with linguistics and probability is useful but not necessary.

Use Qt 5 to design and build functional, appealing, and user-friendly graphical user interfaces (GUIs) for your applications. Key Features * Learn to use Qt 5 to design and customize the look and feel of your application * Improve the visual quality of an application by using graphics rendering and animation * Understand the balance of presentation and web content that will make an application appealing yet functional Book Description With the growing need to develop GUIs for multiple targets and multiple screens, improving the visual quality of your application becomes important so that it stands out from your competitors. With its cross-platform ability and the latest UI paradigms, Qt makes it possible to build intuitive, interactive, and user-friendly user interfaces for your applications. Qt5 C++ GUI Programming Cookbook, Second Edition teaches you how to develop functional and appealing user interfaces using the latest version of QT5 and C++.?This book will help you learn a variety of topics such as GUI customization and animation, graphics rendering, implementing Google Maps, and more. You will also be taken through advanced concepts like asynchronous programming, event handling using signals and slots, network programming, various aspects of optimizing your application. By the end of the book, you will be confident to design and customize GUI applications that meet your clients' expectations and have an understanding of best practice solutions for common problems. What you will learn * Animate GUI elements using Qt5's built-in animation system * Draw shapes and 2D images using Qt5's powerful rendering system * Implement an industry-standard OpenGL library in your project * Build a mobile app that supports touch events and exports it onto devices * Parse and extract data from an XML file and present it on your GUI * Interact with web content by calling JavaScript functions from C++ * Access MySQL and SQLite databases to retrieve data and display it on your GUI Who this book is for This intermediate-level book is designed for those who want to develop software using Qt 5. If you want to improve the visual quality and content presentation of your software application, this book is for you. Prior experience of C++ programming is required.

Use self-driven data centers to reduce management complexity by deploying Infrastructure as Code to gain value from investments. Key Features * Add smart capabilities in VMware Workspace ONE to deliver customer insights and improve overall security * Optimize your HPC and big data infrastructure with the help of machine learning * Automate your VMware data center operations with machine learning Book Description This book presents an introductory perspective on how machine learning plays an important role in a VMware environment. It offers a basic understanding of how to leverage machine learning primitives, along with a deeper look into integration with the VMware tools used for automation today. This book begins by highlighting how VMware addresses business issues related to its workforce, customers, and partners with emerging technologies such as machine learning to create new, intelligence-driven, end user experiences. You will learn how to apply machine learning techniques incorporated in VMware solutions for data center operations. You will go through management toolsets with a focus on machine learning techniques. At the end of the book, you will learn how the new vSphere Scale-Out edition can be used to ensure that HPC, big data performance, and other requirements can be met (either through development or by fine-tuning guidelines) with mainstream products. What you will learn * Orchestrate on-demand deployments based on defined policies * Automate away common problems and make life easier by reducing errors * Deliver services to end users rather than to virtual machines * Reduce rework in a multi-layered scalable manner in any cloud * Explore the centralized life cycle management of hybrid clouds * Use common code so you can run it across any cloud Who this book is for This book is intended for those planning, designing, and implementing the virtualization/cloud components of the Software-Defined Data Center foundational infrastructure. It helps users to put intelligence in their automation tasks to get self driving data center. It is assumed that the reader has knowledge of, and some familiarity with, virtualization concepts and related topics, including storage, security, and networking.

Build modern day application by implementing Material Design principles in React applications using Material-UI. Key Features * Grasp the needs React components for UI elements * Master the style and theme of the tools to go along with these components * Get to grips with all the React best practices to build a modern application Book Description Material-UI is a component library for rendering UI elements, using modern best practices from React and Material Design. This book will show you how you can create impressive and captivating modern day web apps by implementing Material Design considerations. The primary objective of this book is to help you use several Material-UI components to build larger UI functionality. We will also focus on React best practices in conjunction with Material-UI components – using state, context, and other new React 16.8 features properly. This book will start with layout and navigation and then dive into presenting the information with Material-UI components. It will then talk about the different components for user interactions. By the end of this book, you will know how to improve the look and feel of your applications using Material-UI components. What you will learn * Learn to build the overall structure and navigation for your Material-UI app * Learn to present simple and complex information in a variety of ways * Build interactive and intuitive controls * Design portable themes and styles for all of your Material-UI apps * Group content into sections using tabs and expansion panels * Learn how to design a general page layout with Material-UI grids * Use lists for complex data, and cards for detailed information Who this book is for They are JavaScript developers who have some basic knowledge of React and would want to implement Material Design principles in React applications using Material-UI. The reader wants to build a user interface using React components but doesn’t want to invent their own style or UX framework.

Explore new and more sophisticated tools that reduce your marketing analytics efforts and give you precise results Key Features * Study new techniques for marketing analytics * Explore uses of machine learning to power your marketing analyses * Work through each stage of data analytics with the help of multiple examples and exercises Book Description Data Science for Marketing Analytics covers every stage of data analytics, from working with a raw dataset to segmenting a population and modeling different parts of the population based on the segments. The book starts by teaching you how to use Python libraries, such as pandas and Matplotlib, to read data from Python, manipulate it, and create plots, using both categorical and continuous variables. Then, you'll learn how to segment a population into groups and use different clustering techniques to evaluate customer segmentation. As you make your way through the chapters, you'll explore ways to evaluate and select the best segmentation approach, and go on to create a linear regression model on customer value data to predict lifetime value. In the concluding chapters, you'll gain an understanding of regression techniques and tools for evaluating regression models, and explore ways to predict customer choice using classification algorithms. Finally, you'll apply these techniques to create a churn model for modeling customer product choices. By the end of this book, you will be able to build your own marketing reporting and interactive dashboard solutions. What you will learn * Analyze and visualize data in Python using pandas and Matplotlib * Study clustering techniques, such as hierarchical and k-means clustering * Create customer segments based on manipulated data * Predict customer lifetime value using linear regression * Use classification algorithms to understand customer choice * Optimize classification algorithms to extract maximal information Who this book is for Data Science for Marketing Analytics is designed for developers and marketing analysts looking to use new, more sophisticated tools in their marketing analytics efforts. It'll help if you have prior experience of coding in Python and knowledge of high school level mathematics. Some experience with databases, Excel, statistics, or Tableau is useful but not necessary.

Enhance your programming skills to build exciting robotic projects Key Features * Build an intelligent robot that can detect and avoid obstacles and respond to voice commands * Detect and track objects and faces using OpenCV * Control your robot with a GUI button designed using Qt5 Book Description C++ is one of the most popular legacy programming languages for robotics, and a combination of C++ and robotics hardware is used in many leading industries. This book will bridge the gap between Raspberry Pi and C/C++ programming and enable you to develop applications for Raspberry Pi. To follow along with the projects covered in the book, you can implement C programs in Raspberry Pi with the wiringPi library. With this book, you’ll develop a fully functional car robot and write programs to move it in different directions. You’ll then create an obstacle - avoiding robot using an ultrasonic sensor. Furthermore, you’ll find out how to control the robot wirelessly using your PC/Mac. This book will also help you work with object detection and tracking using OpenCV, and guide you through exploring face detection techniques. Finally, you will create an Android app and control the robot wirelessly with an Android smartphone. By the end of this book, you will have gained experience in developing a robot using Raspberry Pi and C/C++ programming. What you will learn * Install software in Raspberry Pi compatible with C++ programming * Program the Raspberry Pi in C++ to run a motor * Control RPi-powered robot wirelessly with your laptop or PC * Program an RPi camera using OpenCV Control a Raspberry Pi robot with voice commands * Implement face and object detection with Raspberry Pi Who this book is for This book is for developers, programmers, and robotics enthusiasts interested in leveraging C++ to build exciting robotics applications. Prior knowledge of C++ is necessary to understand the projects covered in this book.

Design and implement professional level programs by exploring modern data structures and algorithms in Rust. Key Features * Use data structures such as arrays, stacks, trees, lists and graphs with real-world examples * Learn the functional and reactive implementations of the traditional data structures * Explore illustrations to present data structures and algorithms, as well as their analysis, in a clear, visual manner. Book Description Rust has come a long way and is now utilized in several contexts. Its key strengths are its software infrastructure and resource-constrained applications, including desktop applications, servers, and performance-critical applications, not forgetting its importance in systems' programming. This book will be your guide as it takes you through implementing classic data structures and algorithms in Rust, helping you to get up and running as a confident Rust programmer. The book begins with an introduction to Rust data structures and algorithms, while also covering essential language constructs. You will learn how to store data using linked lists, arrays, stacks, and queues. You will also learn how to implement sorting and searching algorithms. You will learn how to attain high performance by implementing algorithms to string data types and implement hash structures in algorithm design. The book will examine algorithm analysis, including Brute Force algorithms, Greedy algorithms, Divide and Conquer algorithms, Dynamic Programming, and Backtracking. By the end of the book, you will have learned how to build components that are easy to understand, debug, and use in different applications. What you will learn * Design and implement complex data structures in Rust * Analyze, implement, and improve searching and sorting algorithms in Rust * Create and use well-tested and reusable components with Rust * Understand the basics of multithreaded programming and advanced algorithm design * Become familiar with application profiling based on benchmarking and testing * Explore the borrowing complexity of implementing algorithms Who this book is for This book is for developers seeking to use Rust solutions in a practical/professional setting; who wants to learn essential Data Structures and Algorithms in Rust. It is for developers with basic Rust language knowledge, some experience in other programming languages is required.

Leverage Elastic Stack’s machine learning features to gain valuable insight from your data Key Features * Combine machine learning with the analytic capabilities of Elastic Stack * Analyze large volumes of search data and gain actionable insight from them * Use external analytical tools with your Elastic Stack to improve its performance Book Description Machine Learning with the Elastic Stack is a comprehensive overview of the embedded commercial features of anomaly detection and forecasting. The book starts with installing and setting up Elastic Stack. You will perform time series analysis on varied kinds of data, such as log files, network flows, application metrics, and financial data. As you progress through the chapters, you will deploy machine learning within the Elastic Stack for logging, security, and metrics. In the concluding chapters, you will see how machine learning jobs can be automatically distributed and managed across the Elasticsearch cluster and made resilient to failure. By the end of this book, you will understand the performance aspects of incorporating machine learning within the Elastic ecosystem and create anomaly detection jobs and view results from Kibana directly. What you will learn * Install the Elastic Stack to use machine learning features * Understand how Elastic machine learning is used to detect a variety of anomaly types * Apply effective anomaly detection to IT operations and security analytics * Leverage the output of Elastic machine learning in custom views, dashboards, and proactive alerting * Combine your created jobs to correlate anomalies of different layers of infrastructure * Learn various tips and tricks to get the most out of Elastic machine learning Who this book is for If you are a data professional eager to gain insight on Elasticsearch data without having to rely on a machine learning specialist or custom development, Machine Learning with the Elastic Stack is for you. Those looking to integrate machine learning within their search and analytics applications will also find this book very useful. Prior experience with the Elastic Stack is needed to get the most out of this book.

An in-depth and comprehensive take on WordPress, covering everything about the platform such as WordPress posts, pages, themes, plugins, and more. Key Features * Get up to date with the latest WordPress 5.0 (Bebo) and all its new features * Beginner-friendly layout and advice you can apply from day one with loads of screenshots and examples * Enrich your development experience with the new block-based editor Gutenberg Book Description Back in the day, when you wanted to launch a new website, you either had to learn web programming yourself or hire a professional who would take care of the whole process for you. Nowadays, with WordPress, anyone can build an optimized site with the least amount of effort possible and then make it available to the world in no time. Here, in the seventh edition of the book, we are going to show you how to build great looking and functional websites using WordPress. The new version of WordPress – 5.0 – comes with a few important changes, and we tell you all about how to use them effectively. From crafting content pages using the block editor, and customizing the design of your site, through to making sure it's secure, we go through it all. The book starts by introducing WordPress and teaching you how to set it up. You are then shown how to create a blog site, start writing content, and even use plugins and themes to customize the design of the site and add some unique elements to set it apart. If you want to get more in-depth, we also show you how to get started creating your own themes and plugins. Finally, we teach you how to use WordPress for building non-blog websites. By the end of the book, you will be sufficiently skilled to design high-quality websites and will be fully familiar with the ins and outs of WordPress. What you will learn * Learn to adapt your plugin with the Gutenberg editor * Create content that is optimized for publication on the web * Craft great looking pages and posts with the use of block editor * Structure your web pages in an accessible and clear way * Install and work with plugins and themes * Customize the design of your website * Upload multimedia content, such as images, audio, and video easily and effectively * Develop your own WordPress plugins and themes * Use WordPress to build websites that serve purposes other than blogs Who this book is for The ideal target audience for this book would be PHP developers who have some basic knowledge of working with WordPress and who want to get a comprehensive practical understanding of working with WordPress and create production-ready websites with it.