A theoretical guide, this book provides detailed and structured explanations and visualizations of the Trividas Integration Architecture Blueprint, showing you the strategy to implement your own integration projects. It draws on real-world integrations at an architectural level, and explores both product-neutral and specific integration scenarios. If you are an IT architect or manager who is responsible for any aspect of operating integration solutions, and you want to learn how to implement integration architectures in practice with the help of the Trivadis Integration Architecture Blueprint, then this book is for you. A comprehensive understanding of SOA is required, though previous knowledge of the Trivadis Blueprint is not necessary. Less experienced specialists who have not yet dealt with integration will benefit greatly from this book by first gaining knowledge of concepts and terminology used in the context of integration architecture, while those already familiar with such expertise can move straight to discovering the base technologies associated with implementing solutions based on the Blueprint, and getting to grips with the Blueprint's structure itself. If you want to assess the solutions from different vendors and ultimately achieve comprehensive SOA integration results using the Trivadis Integration Architecture Blueprint, then this book is ideal for you.

With loads of screenshots and illustrations and easy step-by-step instructions, this book is ideal for beginners in the network monitoring business. This book is for anyone who wants to manage a network using Cacti. You don't have to be a Linux Guru to use this book.

Written in an engaging, easy-to-follow style, Learning Adobe Connect 9 is a practical guide that will help you master the use of this web conferencing platform and its most important features. This book is ideal for users who would like to start utilizing Adobe Connect for web meetings, e-learning, and webinars. Those who are looking to learn Connect and get up to speed with using all of its features would find this book extremely useful.

A fast-paced, example-based guide to learning how to administrate, monitor, and optimize Apache Solr."Administrating Solr" is for developers and Solr administrators who have a basic knowledge of Solr and who are looking for ways to keep their Solr server healthy and well maintained. A basic working knowledge of Apache Lucene is recommended, but this is not mandatory.

The book is written for PHP developers who wish to learn how to use MVC for application development, using CodeIgniter. No experience of CodeIgniter would be necessary, as this book is for beginning MVC development.This book is written for PHP developers who wish to learn how to use the CodeIgniterMVC framework for application development. No experience of CodeIgniteris necessary, as this book is for beginning MVC development.

This book contains complete step-by-step instructions and simple explanations about VSTO programming of entire Office applications. It covers the concepts of VSTO, VSTO architecture, its features, and versions using practical examples, to help beginners and intermediate developers develop real-world Office applications. Separate chapters cover programming InfoPath, Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint. This book is aimed at .NET developers, familiar with C#, who want to get to grips with programming Office 2007. The book will also be useful for those of you who already have experience with VBA and programming Office, but are ready to take the next step into the more powerful world of Office programming with VSTO.

This is an easy-to-follow yet comprehensive guide that follows a step-by-step approach to leverage the CloudBees services.If you are a Java developer and want to explore the world of the cloud, this book is ideal for you. This book will guide you through the process of developing and deploying an application on the cloud. Prior knowledge of Java is essential.

Illustrate your data in a more interactive and interesting way using Tableau Public About This Book Learn the basics of creating visualizations with Tableau using this concise reference book Understand how to join and aggregate your data sources using Tableau It is a step by step guide that uses examples to help you understand the key concepts and feature of Tableau Public Who This Book Is For This book is targeted at investigative journalists and bloggers with an interest in making rich and interactive data visualizations. Intermediate Tableau Public users and organizations can also use this book as a reference guide and teaching aid. Members of the media team, such as data specialists, web developers, editors, producers, and managers can also benefit from an understanding of the structure and challenges of writing an interactive and interesting data visualization using Tableau Public. What You Will Learn Connect to various data sources and understand what data is appropriate for Tableau Public Understand chart types and when to use specific chart types with different types of data Join and aggregate data for use in Tableau Public data stories Discover features of Tableau Public, from basic to advanced Involve calculations in Tableau Public Build geographic maps to bring context to data Create dashboards from one or more separate data visualizations Create filters and actions to allow greater interactivity to Tableau Public visualizations and dashboards Publish and embed Tableau visualizations and dashboards in articles In Detail Tableau Public is a very useful tool in anyone's data reporting toolbox that allows authors to add an interactive data element to any article. It allows investigative journalists and bloggers to tell a “data story”, allowing others to explore your data visualization. The relative ease of Tableau Public visualization creation allows data stories to be developed rapidly. It allows readers to explore data associations in multiple-sourced public data, and uses state-of-the-art dashboard and chart graphics to immerse the users in an interactive experience. This book offers investigative journalists, bloggers, and other data story tellers a rich discussion of visualization creation topics, features, and functions. This book allows data story tellers to quickly gain confidence in understanding and expanding their visualization-creation knowledge, and allows them to quickly create interesting, interactive data visualizations to bring a richness and vibrancy to complex articles. The book takes you from basic concepts in visualization creation, like connecting to data sources, cleansing data, chart types, common functions, map creation, and publishing to the Web, to more advanced functions. It is a great overview and reference guide for beginner to intermediate Tableau Public data story tellers, and covers creation of Tableau Public visualizations of varying complexities. Style and approach This book is a crisp, systematic, and tutorial-styled guide to building interactive Tableau visualizations.

Build, scale, and deploy deep neural network models using the star libraries in Python About This Book ? Delve into advanced machine learning and deep learning use cases using Tensorflow and Keras ? Build, deploy, and scale end-to-end deep neural network models in a production environment ? Learn to deploy TensorFlow on mobile, and distributed TensorFlow on GPU, Clusters, and Kubernetes Who This Book Is For This book is for data scientists, machine learning engineers, artificial intelligence engineers, and for all TensorFlow users who wish to upgrade their TensorFlow knowledge and work on various machine learning and deep learning problems. If you are looking for an easy-to-follow guide that underlines the intricacies and complex use cases of machine learning, you will find this book extremely useful. Some basic understanding of TensorFlow is required to get the most out of the book. What You Will Learn ? Master advanced concepts of deep learning such as transfer learning, reinforcement learning, generative models and more, using TensorFlow and Keras ? Perform supervised (classification and regression) and unsupervised (clustering) learning to solve machine learning tasks ? Build end-to-end deep learning (CNN, RNN, and Autoencoders) models with TensorFlow ? Scale and deploy production models with distributed and high-performance computing on GPU and clusters ? Build TensorFlow models to work with multilayer perceptrons using Keras, TFLearn, and R ? Learn the functionalities of smart apps by building and deploying TensorFlow models on iOS and Android devices ? Supercharge TensorFlow with distributed training and deployment on Kubernetes and TensorFlow Clusters In Detail TensorFlow is the most popular numerical computation library built from the ground up for distributed, cloud, and mobile environments. TensorFlow represents the data as tensors and the computation as graphs. This book is a comprehensive guide that lets you explore the advanced features of TensorFlow 1.x. Gain insight into TensorFlow Core, Keras, TF Estimators, TFLearn, TF Slim, Pretty Tensor, and Sonnet. Leverage the power of TensorFlow and Keras to build deep learning models, using concepts such as transfer learning, generative adversarial networks, and deep reinforcement learning. Throughout the book, you will obtain hands-on experience with varied datasets, such as MNIST, CIFAR-10, PTB, text8, and COCO-Images. You will learn the advanced features of TensorFlow1.x, such as distributed TensorFlow with TF Clusters, deploy production models with TensorFlow Serving, and build and deploy TensorFlow models for mobile and embedded devices on Android and iOS platforms. You will see how to call TensorFlow and Keras API within the R statistical software, and learn the required techniques for debugging when the TensorFlow API-based code does not work as expected. The book helps you obtain in-depth knowledge of TensorFlow, making you the go-to person for solving artificial intelligence problems. By the end of this guide, you will have mastered the offerings of TensorFlow and Keras, and gained the skills you need to build smarter, faster, and efficient machine learning and deep learning systems. Style and approach Step-by-step comprehensive guide filled with advanced, real-world examples to help you master Tensorflow 1.x

One stop guide to implementing award-winning, and cutting-edge CNN architectures About This Book ? Fast-paced guide with use cases and real-world examples to get well versed with CNN techniques ? Implement CNN models on image classification, transfer learning, Object Detection, Instance Segmentation, GANs and more ? Implement powerful use-cases like image captioning, reinforcement learning for hard attention, and recurrent attention models Who This Book Is For This book is for data scientists, machine learning and deep learning practitioners, Cognitive and Artificial Intelligence enthusiasts who want to move one step further in building Convolutional Neural Networks. Get hands-on experience with extreme datasets and different CNN architectures to build efficient and smart ConvNet models. Basic knowledge of deep learning concepts and Python programming language is expected. What You Will Learn ? From CNN basic building blocks to advanced concepts understand practical areas they can be applied to ? Build an image classifier CNN model to understand how different components interact with each other, and then learn how to optimize it ? Learn different algorithms that can be applied to Object Detection, and Instance Segmentation ? Learn advanced concepts like attention mechanisms for CNN to improve prediction accuracy ? Understand transfer learning and implement award-winning CNN architectures like AlexNet, VGG, GoogLeNet, ResNet and more ? Understand the working of generative adversarial networks and how it can create new, unseen images In Detail Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) is revolutionizing several application domains such as visual recognition systems, self-driving cars, medical discoveries, innovative eCommerce and more.You will learn to create innovative solutions around image and video analytics to solve complex machine learning and computer vision related problems and implement real-life CNN models. This book starts with an overview of deep neural networkswith the example of image classification and walks you through building your first CNN for human face detector. We will learn to use concepts like transfer learning with CNN, and Auto-Encoders to build very powerful models, even when not much of supervised training data of labeled images is available. Later we build upon the learning achieved to build advanced vision related algorithms for object detection, instance segmentation, generative adversarial networks, image captioning, attention mechanisms for vision, and recurrent models for vision. By the end of this book, you should be ready to implement advanced, effective and efficient CNN models at your professional project or personal initiatives by working on complex image and video datasets. Style and approach An easy to follow concise and illustrative guide explaining the core concepts of ConvNets to help you understand, implement and deploy your CNN models quickly.

Mike Driscoll takes you on a journey talking to a hall-of-fame list of truly remarkable Python experts. You’ll be inspired every time by their passion for the Python language, as they share with you their experiences, contributions, and careers in Python. About This Book ? Hear from these key Python thinkers about the current status of Python, and where it's heading in the future ? Listen to their close thoughts on significant Python topics, such as Python's role in scientific computing, and machine learning ? Understand the direction of Python, and what needs to change for Python 4 Who This Book Is For Python programmers and students interested in the way that Python is used – past and present – with useful anecdotes. It will also be of interest to those looking to gain insights from top programmers. What You Will Learn ? How successful programmers think ? The history of Python ? Insights into the minds of the Python core team ? Trends in Python programming In Detail Each of these twenty Python Interviews can inspire and refresh your relationship with Python and the people who make Python what it is today. Let these interviews spark your own creativity, and discover how you also have the ability to make your mark on a thriving tech community. This book invites you to immerse in the Python landscape, and let these remarkable programmers show you how you too can connect and share with Python programmers around the world. Learn from their opinions, enjoy their stories, and use their tech tips. ? Brett Cannon - former director of the PSF, Python core developer, led the migration to Python 3. ? Steve Holden - tireless Python promoter and former chairman and director of the PSF. ? Carol Willing - former director of the PSF and Python core developer, Project Jupyter Steering Council member. ? Nick Coghlan - founding member of the PSF and Python core developer. ? Jessica McKellar - former director of the PSF and Python activist. ? Marc-André Lemburg - Python core developer and founding member of the PSF. ? Glyph Lefkowitz - founder of Twisted and fellow of the PSF. ? Doug Hellmann - fellow of the PSF, creator of the Python Module of the Week blog, Python community member since 1998. ? Massimo Di Pierro - fellow of the PSF, data scientist and the inventor of web2py. ? Alex Martelli - fellow of the PSF and co-author of Python in a Nutshell. ? Barry Warsaw - fellow of the PSF, Python core developer since 1995, and original member of PythonLabs. ? Tarek Ziadé - founder of Afpy and author of Expert Python Programming. ? Sebastian Raschka - data scientist and author of Python Machine Learning. ? Wesley Chun - fellow of the PSF and author of the Core Python Programming books. ? Steven Lott - Python blogger and author of Python for Secret Agents. ? Oliver Schoenborn - author of Pypubsub and wxPython mailing list contributor. ? Al Sweigart - bestselling author and creator of the Python modules Pyperclip and PyAutoGUI. ? Luciano Ramalho - fellow of the PSF and the author of Fluent Python. ? Mike Bayer - fellow of the PSF, creator of open source libraries including SQLAlchemy. ? Jake Vanderplas - data scientist and author of Python Data Science Handbook. Style and approach This is a book of one-to-one interviews with leading Python programmers and luminaries in the field.

Design clever algorithms that discover hidden patterns and draw responses from unstructured, unlabeled data. Key Features * Build state-of-the-art algorithms that can solve your business' problems * Learn how to find hidden patterns in your data * Revise key concepts with hands-on exercises using real-world datasets Book Description Starting with the basics, Applied Unsupervised Learning with R explains clustering methods, distribution analysis, data encoders, and features of R that enable you to understand your data better and get answers to your most pressing business questions. This book begins with the most important and commonly used method for unsupervised learning - clustering - and explains the three main clustering algorithms - k-means, divisive, and agglomerative. Following this, you'll study market basket analysis, kernel density estimation, principal component analysis, and anomaly detection. You'll be introduced to these methods using code written in R, with further instructions on how to work with, edit, and improve R code. To help you gain a practical understanding, the book also features useful tips on applying these methods to real business problems, including market segmentation and fraud detection. By working through interesting activities, you'll explore data encoders and latent variable models. By the end of this book, you will have a better understanding of different anomaly detection methods, such as outlier detection, Mahalanobis distances, and contextual and collective anomaly detection. What you will learn * Implement clustering methods such as k-means, agglomerative, and divisive * Write code in R to analyze market segmentation and consumer behavior * Estimate distribution and probabilities of different outcomes * Implement dimension reduction using principal component analysis * Apply anomaly detection methods to identify fraud * Design algorithms with R and learn how to edit or improve code Who this book is for Applied Unsupervised Learning with R is designed for business professionals who want to learn about methods to understand their data better, and developers who have an interest in unsupervised learning. Although the book is for beginners, it will be beneficial to have some basic, beginner-level familiarity with R. This includes an understanding of how to open the R console, how to read data, and how to create a loop. To easily understand the concepts of this book, you should also know basic mathematical concepts, including exponents, square roots, means, and medians.

An effective guide to designing, building, and deploying enterprise Java microservices with Eclipse MicroProfile Key Features * Create cloud-native microservices with ease using this detailed guide * Avoid vendor lock-in when implementing microservices using Eclipse MicroProfile * Discover why MicroProfile is a great specification for building microservices in multi-cloud environments Book Description Eclipse MicroProfile has gained momentum in the industry as a multi-vendor, interoperable, community-driven specification. It is a major disruptor that allows organizations with large investments in enterprise Java to move to microservices without spending a lot on retraining their workforce. This book is based on MicroProfile 2.2, however, it will guide you in running your applications in MicroProfile 3.0. You'll start by understanding why microservices are important in the digital economy and how MicroProfile addresses the need for enterprise Java microservices. You'll learn about the subprojects that make up a MicroProfile, its value proposition to organizations and developers, and its processes and governance. As you advance, the book takes you through the capabilities and code examples of MicroProfile’s subprojects - Config, Fault Tolerance, Health Check, JWT Propagation, Metrics, and OpenTracing. Finally, you’ll be guided in developing a conference application using Eclipse MicroProfile, and explore possible scenarios of what’s next in MicroProfile with Jakarta EE. By the end of this book, you'll have gained a clear understanding of Eclipse MicroProfile and its role in enterprise Java microservices. What you will learn * Understand why microservices are important in the digital economy * Analyze how MicroProfile addresses the need for enterprise Java microservices * Test and secure your applications with Eclipse MicroProfile * Get to grips with various MicroProfile capabilities such as OpenAPI and Typesafe REST Client * Explore reactive programming with MicroProfile Stream and Messaging candidate APIs * Discover and implement coding best practices using MicroProfile Who this book is for If you’re a Java developer who wants to create enterprise microservices, this book is for you. Familiarity with Java EE and the concept of microservices will help you get the most out of this book.

Understand the constructs of the Python programming language and use them to build data science projects Key Features * Learn the basics of developing applications with Python and deploy your first data application * Take your first steps in Python programming by understanding and using data structures, variables, and loops * Delve into Jupyter, NumPy, Pandas, SciPy, and sklearn to explore the data science ecosystem in Python Book Description Python is the most widely used programming language for building data science applications. Complete with step-by-step instructions, this book contains easy-to-follow tutorials to help you learn Python and develop real-world data science projects. The “secret sauce” of the book is its curated list of topics and solutions, put together using a range of real-world projects, covering initial data collection, data analysis, and production. This Python book starts by taking you through the basics of programming, right from variables and data types to classes and functions. You’ll learn how to write idiomatic code and test and debug it, and discover how you can create packages or use the range of built-in ones. You’ll also be introduced to the extensive ecosystem of Python data science packages, including NumPy, Pandas, scikit-learn, Altair, and Datashader. Furthermore, you’ll be able to perform data analysis, train models, and interpret and communicate the results. Finally, you’ll get to grips with structuring and scheduling scripts using Luigi and sharing your machine learning models with the world as a microservice. By the end of the book, you’ll have learned not only how to implement Python in data science projects, but also how to maintain and design them to meet high programming standards. What you will learn * Code in Python using Jupyter and VS Code * Explore the basics of coding – loops, variables, functions, and classes * Deploy continuous integration with Git, Bash, and DVC * Get to grips with Pandas, NumPy, and scikit-learn * Perform data visualization with Matplotlib, Altair, and Datashader * Create a package out of your code using poetry and test it with PyTest * Make your machine learning model accessible to anyone with the web API Who this book is for If you want to learn Python or data science in a fun and engaging way, this book is for you. You’ll also find this book useful if you’re a high school student, researcher, analyst, or anyone with little or no coding experience with an interest in the subject and courage to learn, fail, and learn from failing. A basic understanding of how computers work will be useful.

Explore the blockchain-based decentralized platform and understand how Ethereum works with Dapps examples Key Features * Explore the Ethereum ecosystem and understand the latest research on the platform * Build decentralized apps (Dapps) using smart contracts and Ethereum with the help of practical examples * Learn to make your decentralized applications fast and highly secure Book Description Ethereum is a blockchain-based, decentralized computing platform that allows running smart contracts. This book provides a basic overview of how Ethereum works, its ecosystem, mining process, and the consensus mechanism. It also demonstrates a step-by-step approach for building decentralized applications. This book begins with the very basics of Blockchain technology. Then it dives deep into the Ethereum architecture, framework and tools in its ecosystem. It also provides you an overview of ongoing research on Ethereum, for example, Layer 1 and 2 scaling solution, Stablecoin, ICO/STO/IEO, etc. Next, it explains Solidity language in detail, and provides step-by-step instructions for designing, developing, testing, deploying, and monitoring decentralized applications. In addition, you’ll learn how to use Truffle, Remix, Infura, Metamask, and many other Ethereum technologies. It’ll also help you develop your own cryptocurrency by creating ERC20, and ERC721 smart contracts from scratch. Finally, we explain private blockchains, and you learn how to interact with smart contracts through wallets. What you will learn * Understand the concepts of blockchain and cryptocurrency * Master Ethereum development tools such as Truffle, Remix IDE and Infura * Delve into smart contract development * Develop DApps frontend using Node.js, React.js, and Web3js API * Learn Etherscan and other tools to secure and monitor smart contracts * Develop and debug smart contracts by working with Remix * Apply Truffle suite to compile, migrate, and unit test smart contracts * Explore smart contracts such as ERC20 token and decentralized digital market Who this book is for This book is for all developers and architects who want to explore Ethereum blockchain fundamentals and get started with building real-world decentralized applications. Knowledge of an object-oriented programming language such as JavaScript will be useful but not mandatory.

A fast paced guide for JavaScript developers for writing safe, fast, and reusable code by leveraging ResaonML's strong static type system Key Features *Reduce code errors with the power of type systems *Employ static typechecking and genericity to promote code reuse and consistency *Understand functional programming which is the foundation of type-driven development Book Description Type-driven development is an approach that uses a static type system to achieve results including safety and efficiency. Types are used to express relationships and other assumptions directly in the code, and these assumptions are enforced by the compiler before the code is run. Learn Type-Driven Development covers how to use these type systems to check the logical consistency of your code. This book begins with the basic idea behind type-driven development. You’ll learn about values (or terms) and how they contrast with types. As you progress through the chapters, you’ll cover how to combine types and values inside modules and build structured types out of simpler ones. You’ll then understand how to express choices or alternatives directly in the type system using variants, polymorphic variants, and generalized algebraic data types. You’ll also get to grips with sum types, build sophisticated data types from generics, and explore functions that express change in the types of values. In the concluding chapters, you’ll cover advanced techniques for code reuse, such as parametric polymorphism and subtyping. By end of this book, you will have learned how to iterate through a type-driven process of solving coding problems using static types, together with dynamic behavior, to obtain more safety and speed. What you will learn *Use static types to capture information, making programs safer and faster *Learn ReasonML from experienced type-driven developers *Enhance safety by simply using basic types *Understand the most important type-driven concepts with simple examples *Explore a design space using static typing and find the best way to express your system rules *Use static types and dynamic runtime in harmony to write even safer and faster code Who this book is for If you’re a programmer working with dynamically typed languages and are looking for ways to mitigate production runtime errors, Learn Type-Driven Development is for you. You’ll also find this book helpful if you’re a programmer working with statically typed languages looking for increased safety and improved performance.

Integrate an end-to-end logistic chain using IBM Blockchain and IoT platforms Key Features *Explore practical implementation of ledger technology in the IoT architecture *Study security best practices for your smart devices *Understand Blockchain implementation for end-to-end IoT solutions Book Description Blockchain has been the hot topic of late thanks to cryptocurrencies. To make matters more interesting, the financial market is looking for ways to reduce operational costs and generate new business models, and this is where blockchain solutions come into the picture. In addition to this, with Internet of Things (IoT) trending and Arduino, Raspberry Pi, and other devices flooding the market, you can now create cheap devices even at home. Hands-On IoT Solutions with Blockchain starts with an overview of IoT concepts in the current business scenario. It then helps you develop your own device on the IBM Watson IoT platform and create your fi rst IoT solution using Watson and Intel Edison.Once you are familiar with IoT, you will learn about Blockchain technology and its use cases. You will also work with the Hyperledger framework and develop your own Blockchain network. As you progress through the chapters, you'll work with problem statements and learn how to design your solution architecture so that you can create your own integrated Blockchain and IoT solution. The next set of chapters will explain how to implement end-to-end Blockchain solutions with IoT using the IBM Cloud platform. By the end of this book, you will have mastered the convergence of IoT and Blockchain technology and exploited the best practices and drivers to develop a bulletproof integrated solution. What you will learn *Understand the key roles of IoT in the current market *Study the different aspects of IBM Watson IoT platform *Create devices, gateways, and applications connected to the platform *Explore the fundamentals of Blockchain *Define good use cases for Blockchain *Discover the Hyperledger Fabric and Composer frameworks *Develop an IBM Watson IoT application using a Intel Edison *Integrate IoT with the Blockchain platform Who this book is for Hands-On IoT Solutions with Blockchain is for you if you are an Internet of Things (IoT) analyst, architect, engineer, or any stakeholder responsible for security mechanisms on an IoT infrastructure. This book is also for IT professionals who want to start developing solutions using Blockchain and IoT on the IBM Cloud platform. Basic understanding of IoT will assist you in understanding key concepts covered in the book.

Master shell basics and Unix tools and discover easy commands to perform complex tasks with speed Key Features *Learn why the Bash shell is widely used on Linux and iOS *Explore advanced shell concepts, such as pipes and redirection *Understand how to use Unix command-line tools as building blocks for different tasks Book Description The most basic interface to a computer—the command line—remains the most flexible and powerful way of processing data and performing and automating various day-to-day tasks. Command Line Fundamentals begins by exploring the basics, and then focuses on the most common tool, the Bash shell (which is standard on all Linux and iOS systems). As you make your way through the book, you'll explore the traditional Unix command-line programs as implemented by the GNU project. You'll also learn to use redirection and pipelines to assemble these programs to solve complex problems. By the end of this book, you'll have explored the basics of shell scripting, allowing you to easily and quickly automate tasks. What you will learn *Use the Bash shell to run commands *Utilize basic Unix utilities such as cat, tr, sort, and uniq *Explore shell wildcards to manage groups of files *Apply useful keyboard shortcuts in shell *Employ redirection and pipes to process data *Write both basic and advanced shell scripts to automate tasks Who this book is for Command Line Fundamentals is for programmers who use GUIs but want to understand how to use the command line to complete tasks faster.

Learn how to use RxClojure to deal with stateful computations Key Features * Leverage the features of Functional Reactive Programming using Clojure * Create dataflow-based systems that are the building blocks of Reactive Programming * Use different Functional Reactive Programming frameworks, techniques, and patterns to solve real-world problems Book Description Reactive Programming is central to many concurrent systems, and can help make the process of developing highly concurrent, event-driven, and asynchronous applications simpler and less error-prone. This book will allow you to explore Reactive Programming in Clojure 1.9 and help you get to grips with some of its new features such as transducers, reader conditionals, additional string functions, direct linking, and socket servers. Hands-On Reactive Programming with Clojure starts by introducing you to Functional Reactive Programming (FRP) and its formulations, as well as showing you how it inspired Compositional Event Systems (CES). It then guides you in understanding Reactive Programming as well as learning how to develop your ability to work with time-varying values thanks to examples of reactive applications implemented in different frameworks. You'll also gain insight into some interesting Reactive design patterns such as the simple component, circuit breaker, request-response, and multiple-master replication. Finally, the book introduces microservices-based architecture in Clojure and closes with examples of unit testing frameworks. By the end of the book, you will have gained all the knowledge you need to create applications using different Reactive Programming approaches. What you will learn * Understand how to think in terms of time-varying values and event streams * Create, compose, and transform observable sequences using Reactive extensions * Build a CES framework from scratch using core.async as its foundation * Develop a simple ClojureScript game using Reagi * Integrate Om and RxJS in a web application * Implement a reactive API in Amazon Web Services (AWS) * Discover helpful approaches to backpressure and error handling * Get to grips with futures and their applications Who this book is for If you’re interested in using Reactive Programming to build asynchronous and concurrent applications, this is the book for you. Basic knowledge of Clojure programming is necessary to understand the concepts covered in this book.

Learn to distribute network traffic, optimize application delivery, and defend network-level threats. Key Features * Quickly get up and running with Azure networking solutions * Level-up your cloud networking skills by planning, implementing, configuring, and securing your infrastructure network with Azure * Leverage Azure networking services to provide applications highly available and fault tolerant environment Book Description Microsoft provides organizations with an effective way of managing their network with Azure's networking services. No matter the size of your organization, Azure provides a way to highly reliable performance and secure connectivity with its networking services. The book starts with an introduction to the Azure networking like creating Azure virtual networks, designing address spaces and subnets. Then you will learn to create and manage network security groups, application security groups, and IP addresses in Azure. Gradually, we move on to various aspects like S2S, P2S, and Vnet2Vnet connections, DNS and routing, load balancers and traffic manager. This book will cover every aspect and function required to deliver practical recipes to help readers learn from basic cloud networking practices to planning, implementing, and securing their infrastructure network with Azure. Readers will not only be able to upscale their current environment but will also learn to monitor, diagnose, and ensure secure connectivity. After learning to deliver a robust environment readers will also gain meaningful insights from recipes on best practices. By the end of this book, readers will gain hands-on experience in providing cost-effective solutions that benefit organizations. What you will learn * Learn to create Azure networking services * Understand how to create and work on hybrid connections * Configure and manage Azure network services * Learn ways to design high availability network solutions in Azure * Discover how to monitor and troubleshoot Azure network resources * Learn different methods of connecting local networks to Azure virtual networks Who this book is for This book is targeted towards cloud architects, cloud solution providers, or any stakeholders dealing with networking on the Azure cloud. Some prior understanding of Microsoft Azure will be a plus point.

Discover powerful ways to effectively solve real-world machine learning problems using key libraries including scikit-learn, TensorFlow, and PyTorch Key Features * Learn and implement machine learning algorithms in a variety of real-life scenarios * Cover a range of tasks catering to supervised, unsupervised and reinforcement learning techniques * Find easy-to-follow code solutions for tackling common and not-so-common challenges Book Description This eagerly anticipated second edition of the popular Python Machine Learning Cookbook will enable you to adopt a fresh approach to dealing with real-world machine learning and deep learning tasks. With the help of over 100 recipes, you will learn to build powerful machine learning applications using modern libraries from the Python ecosystem. The book will also guide you on how to implement various machine learning algorithms for classification, clustering, and recommendation engines, using a recipe-based approach. With emphasis on practical solutions, dedicated sections in the book will help you to apply supervised and unsupervised learning techniques to real-world problems. Toward the concluding chapters, you will get to grips with recipes that teach you advanced techniques including reinforcement learning, deep neural networks, and automated machine learning. By the end of this book, you will be equipped with the skills you need to apply machine learning techniques and leverage the full capabilities of the Python ecosystem through real-world examples. What you will learn * Use predictive modeling and apply it to real-world problems * Explore data visualization techniques to interact with your data * Learn how to build a recommendation engine * Understand how to interact with text data and build models to analyze it * Work with speech data and recognize spoken words using Hidden Markov Models * Get well versed with reinforcement learning, automated ML, and transfer learning * Work with image data and build systems for image recognition and biometric face recognition * Use deep neural networks to build an optical character recognition system Who this book is for This book is for data scientists, machine learning developers, deep learning enthusiasts and Python programmers who want to solve real-world challenges using machine-learning techniques and algorithms. If you are facing challenges at work and want ready-to-use code solutions to cover key tasks in machine learning and the deep learning domain, then this book is what you need. Familiarity with Python programming and machine learning concepts will be useful.