Implement real-world decentralized applications using Python, Vyper, Populus, and Ethereum Key Features * Stay up-to-date with everything you need to know about the blockchain ecosystem * Implement smart contracts, wallets, and decentralized applications(DApps) using Python libraries * Get deeper insights into storing content in a distributed storage platform Book Description Blockchain is seen as the main technological solution that works as a public ledger for all cryptocurrency transactions. This book serves as a practical guide to developing a full-fledged decentralized application with Python to interact with the various building blocks of blockchain applications. Hands-On Blockchain for Python Developers starts by demonstrating how blockchain technology and cryptocurrency hashing works. You will understand the fundamentals and benefits of smart contracts such as censorship resistance and transaction accuracy. As you steadily progress, you'll go on to build smart contracts using Vyper, which has a similar syntax to Python. This experience will further help you unravel the other benefits of smart contracts, including reliable storage and backup, and efficiency. You'll also use web3.py to interact with smart contracts and leverage the power of both the web3.py and Populus framework to build decentralized applications that offer security and seamless integration with cryptocurrencies. As you explore later chapters, you'll learn how to create your own token on top of Ethereum and build a cryptocurrency wallet graphical user interface (GUI) that can handle Ethereum and Ethereum Request for Comments (ERC-20) tokens using the PySide2 library. This will enable users to seamlessly store, send, and receive digital money. Toward the end, you'll implement InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) technology in your decentralized application to provide a peer-to-peer filesystem that can store and expose media. By the end of this book, you'll be well-versed in blockchain programming and be able to build end-to-end decentralized applications on a range of domains using Python. What you will learn * Understand blockchain technology and what makes it an immutable database * Use the features of web3.py API to interact with the smart contract * Create your own cryptocurrency and token in Ethereum using Vyper * Use IPFS features to store content on the decentralized storage platform * Implement a Twitter-like decentralized application with a desktop frontend * Build decentralized applications in the shape of console, web, and desktop applications Who this book is for If you are a Python developer who wants to enter the world of blockchain, Hands-On Blockchain for Python Developers is for you. The book will be your go-to guide to becoming well-versed with the blockchain ecosystem and building your own decentralized applications using Python and library support.

Get up to speed with creational, structural, behavioral and concurrent patterns in Delphi to write clear, concise and effective code Key Features * Delve into the core patterns and components of Delphi in order to master your application's design * Brush up on tricks, techniques, and best practices to solve common design and architectural challenges * Choose the right patterns to improve your program’s efficiency and productivity Book Description Design patterns have proven to be the go-to solution for many common programming scenarios. This book focuses on design patterns applied to the Delphi language. The book will provide you with insights into the language and its capabilities of a runtime library. You'll start by exploring a variety of design patterns and understanding them through real-world examples. This will entail a short explanation of the concept of design patterns and the original set of the 'Gang of Four' patterns, which will help you in structuring your designs efficiently. Next, you'll cover the most important 'anti-patterns' (essentially bad software development practices) to aid you in steering clear of problems during programming. You'll then learn about the eight most important patterns for each creational, structural, and behavioral type. After this, you'll be introduced to the concept of 'concurrency' patterns, which are design patterns specifically related to multithreading and parallel computation. These will enable you to develop and improve an interface between items and harmonize shared memories within threads. Toward the concluding chapters, you'll explore design patterns specific to program design and other categories of patterns that do not fall under the 'design' umbrella. By the end of this book, you'll be able to address common design problems encountered while developing applications and feel confident while building scalable projects. What you will learn * Gain insights into the concept of design patterns * Study modern programming techniques with Delphi * Keep up to date with the latest additions and program design techniques in Delphi * Get to grips with various modern multithreading approaches * Discover creational, structural, behavioral, and concurrent patterns * Determine how to break a design problem down into its component parts Who this book is for Hands-On Design Patterns with Delphi is aimed at beginner-level Delphi developers who want to build scalable and robust applications. Basic knowledge of Delphi is a must.

Grasp advanced PowerShell Core 6.0 functionalities to automate your environment Key Features * Keep up with changes introduced in PowerShell Core 6.0 * Easily maintain appropriate compatibility with older versions * Automate complex tasks, manipulate data, and secure your environment with PowerShell Core 6.0 Book Description PowerShell scripts offer a handy way to automate various chores, however working effectively with these scripts can be a difficult task. This comprehensive guide starts with the fundamentals before moving on to advanced-level topics to help you become a PowerShell Core 6.0 expert. The first module, PowerShell Core 6.0 Fundamentals, begins with the new features of PowerShell Core 6.0, installing it on Linux, and working with parameters, objects and .NET classes from within PowerShell Core 6.0. As you make your way through the chapters, you'll see how to efficiently manage large amounts of data and interact with other services using PowerShell Core 6.0. You'll be able to make the most of PowerShell Core 6.0's powerful automation feature, where you will have different methods available to parse data and manipulate regular expressions and Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI). After having explored automation, you will enter the extending PowerShell Core 6.0 module, covering asynchronous processing and desired state configuration. In the last module, you will learn to extend PowerShell Core 6.0 using advanced scripts and filters, and also debug issues along with working on error handling techniques. By the end of this book, you will be an expert in scripting with PowerShell Core 6.0. What you will learn * Optimize code through the use of functions, switches, and looping structures * Work with objects and operators to test and manipulate data * Parse and manipulate different data types * Create scripts and functions using PowerShell * Use jobs, events, and popular public modules which assist with implementing multithreading * Write .NET classes with ease within the PowerShell * Create and implement regular expressions in PowerShell scripts * Make use of advanced techniques to define and restrict the behavior of parameters Who this book is for If you are a system administrator who wants to become an expert in controlling and automating your Windows environment, then Mastering Windows PowerShell Scripting is for you. It is also ideal for those new to the PowerShell language.

Explore various Generative Adversarial Network architectures using the Python ecosystem Key Features * Use different datasets to build advanced projects in the Generative Adversarial Network domain * Implement projects ranging from generating 3D shapes to a face aging application * Explore the power of GANs to contribute in open source research and projects Book Description Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have the potential to build next-generation models, as they can mimic any distribution of data. Major research and development work is being undertaken in this field since it is one of the rapidly growing areas of machine learning. This book will test unsupervised techniques for training neural networks as you build seven end-to-end projects in the GAN domain. Generative Adversarial Network Projects begins by covering the concepts, tools, and libraries that you will use to build efficient projects. You will also use a variety of datasets for the different projects covered in the book. The level of complexity of the operations required increases with every chapter, helping you get to grips with using GANs. You will cover popular approaches such as 3D-GAN, DCGAN, StackGAN, and CycleGAN, and you’ll gain an understanding of the architecture and functioning of generative models through their practical implementation. By the end of this book, you will be ready to build, train, and optimize your own end-to-end GAN models at work or in your own projects. What you will learn * Train a network on the 3D ShapeNet dataset to generate realistic shapes * Generate anime characters using the Keras implementation of DCGAN * Implement an SRGAN network to generate high-resolution images * Train Age-cGAN on Wiki-Cropped images to improve face verification * Use Conditional GANs for image-to-image translation * Understand the generator and discriminator implementations of StackGAN in Keras Who this book is for If you’re a data scientist, machine learning developer, deep learning practitioner, or AI enthusiast looking for a project guide to test your knowledge and expertise in building real-world GANs models, this book is for you.

A comprehensive guide in developing and deploying high performance microservices with Rust Key Features * Start your microservices journey and get a broader perspective on microservices development using RUST 2018, * Build, deploy, and test microservices using AWS * Explore advanced techniques for developing microservices such as actor model, Requests Routing, and threads Book Description Microservice architecture is sweeping the world as the de facto pattern for building web-based applications. Rust is a language particularly well-suited for building microservices. It is a new system programming language that offers a practical and safe alternative to C. This book describes web development using the Rust programming language and will get you up and running with modern web frameworks and crates with examples of RESTful microservices creation. You will deep dive into Reactive programming, and asynchronous programming, and split your web application into a set of concurrent actors. The book provides several HTTP-handling examples with manageable memory allocations. You will walk through stateless high-performance microservices, which are ideally suitable for computation or caching tasks, and look at stateful microservices, which are filled with persistent data and database interactions. As we move along, you will learn how to use Rust macros to describe business or protocol entities of our application and compile them into native structs, which will be performed at full speed with the help of the server's CPU. Finally, you will be taken through examples of how to test and debug microservices and pack them into a tiny monolithic binary or put them into a container and deploy them to modern cloud platforms such as AWS. What you will learn * Get acquainted with leveraging Rust web programming * Get to grips with various Rust crates, such as hyper, Tokio, and Actix * Explore RESTful microservices with Rust * Understand how to pack Rust code to a container using Docker * Familiarize yourself with Reactive microservices * Deploy your microservices to modern cloud platforms such as AWS Who this book is for This book is for developers who have basic knowledge of RUST, and want to learn how to build, test, scale, and manage RUST microservices. No prior experience of writing microservices in RUST is assumed.

Build safety-critical and memory-safe stand-alone and networked embedded systems Key Features * Know how C++ works and compares to other languages used for embedded development * Create advanced GUIs for embedded devices to design an attractive and functional UI * Integrate proven strategies into your design for optimum hardware performance Book Description C++ is a great choice for embedded development, most notably, because it does not add any bloat, extends maintainability, and offers many advantages over different programming languages. Hands-On Embedded Programming with C++17 will show you how C++ can be used to build robust and concurrent systems that leverage the available hardware resources. Starting with a primer on embedded programming and the latest features of C++17, the book takes you through various facets of good programming. You’ll learn how to use the concurrency, memory management, and functional programming features of C++ to build embedded systems. You will understand how to integrate your systems with external peripherals and efficient ways of working with drivers. This book will also guide you in testing and optimizing code for better performance and implementing useful design patterns. As an additional benefit, you will see how to work with Qt, the popular GUI library used for building embedded systems. By the end of the book, you will have gained the confidence to use C++ for embedded programming. What you will learn * Choose the correct type of embedded platform to use for a project * Develop drivers for OS-based embedded systems * Use concurrency and memory management with various microcontroller units (MCUs) * Debug and test cross-platform code with Linux * Implement an infotainment system using a Linux-based single board computer * Extend an existing embedded system with a Qt-based GUI * Communicate with the FPGA side of a hybrid FPGA/SoC system Who this book is for If you want to start developing effective embedded programs in C++, then this book is for you. Good knowledge of C++ language constructs is required to understand the topics covered in the book. No knowledge of embedded systems is assumed.

Discover the skill-sets required to implement various approaches to Machine Learning with Python Key Features * Explore unsupervised learning with clustering, autoencoders, restricted Boltzmann machines, and more * Build your own neural network models using modern Python libraries * Practical examples show you how to implement different machine learning and deep learning techniques Book Description Unsupervised learning is about making use of raw, untagged data and applying learning algorithms to it to help a machine predict its outcome. With this book, you will explore the concept of unsupervised learning to cluster large sets of data and analyze them repeatedly until the desired outcome is found using Python. This book starts with the key differences between supervised, unsupervised, and semi-supervised learning. You will be introduced to the best-used libraries and frameworks from the Python ecosystem and address unsupervised learning in both the machine learning and deep learning domains. You will explore various algorithms, techniques that are used to implement unsupervised learning in real-world use cases. You will learn a variety of unsupervised learning approaches, including randomized optimization, clustering, feature selection and transformation, and information theory. You will get hands-on experience with how neural networks can be employed in unsupervised scenarios. You will also explore the steps involved in building and training a GAN in order to process images. By the end of this book, you will have learned the art of unsupervised learning for different real-world challenges. What you will learn * Use cluster algorithms to identify and optimize natural groups of data * Explore advanced non-linear and hierarchical clustering in action * Soft label assignments for fuzzy c-means and Gaussian mixture models * Detect anomalies through density estimation * Perform principal component analysis using neural network models * Create unsupervised models using GANs Who this book is for This book is intended for statisticians, data scientists, machine learning developers, and deep learning practitioners who want to build smart applications by implementing key building block unsupervised learning, and master all the new techniques and algorithms offered in machine learning and deep learning using real-world examples. Some prior knowledge of machine learning concepts and statistics is desirable.

Learn to apply cloud-native patterns and practices to deliver responsive, resilient, elastic, and message-driven systems with confidence About This Book ? Understand the architectural patterns involved in cloud-native architectures ? Minimize risk by evolving your monolithic applications into distributed cloud-native systems ? Discover best practices for applying cloud-native patterns to your enterprise-level cloud applications Who This Book Is For This book is for developers who would like to progress into building cloud-native systems and are keen to learn the patterns involved. Basic knowledge of programming and cloud computing is required. What You Will Learn ? Enable massive scaling by turning your database inside out ? Unleash flexibility via event streaming ? Leverage polyglot persistence and cloud-native databases ? Embrace modern continuous delivery and testing techniques ? Minimize risk by evolving your monoliths to cloud-native ? Apply cloud-native patterns and solve major architectural problems in cloud environment In Detail Build systems that leverage the benefits of the cloud and applications faster than ever before with cloud-native development. This book focuses on architectural patterns for building highly scalable cloud-native systems. You will learn how the combination of cloud, reactive principles, devops, and automation enable teams to continuously deliver innovation with confidence. Begin by learning the core concepts that make these systems unique. You will explore foundational patterns that turn your database inside out to achieve massive scalability with cloud-native databases. You will also learn how to continuously deliver production code with confidence by shifting deployment and testing all the way to the left and implementing continuous observability in production. There's more—you will also learn how to strangle your monolith and design an evolving cloud-native system. By the end of the book, you will have the ability to create modern cloud-native systems. Style and approach This book follows a pragmatic approach to understand cloud-native design patterns and explains the functioning and design considerations to build modern cloud-native systems in depth.

Make the most of your infrastructure and serve pages faster than ever with Nginx. About This Book ? Discover possible interactions between Nginx and Apache to get the best of both worlds ? Learn to exploit the features offered by Nginx for your web applications ? Get your hands on the most updated version of Nginx (1.13.2) to support all your web administration requirements Who This Book Is For This book is a perfect match to web administrators who are interested in solutions to optimize their infrastructure. Whether you are looking into replacing your existing web server software or integrating a new tool to cooperate with applications that are already up and running, this book is your ideal resource. What You Will Learn ? Download and install Nginx on your system ? Prepare a basic configuration and test your initial setup ? Discover the core functionality of the HTTP module ? Make the most of first- and third-party Nginx modules ? Set up Nginx to work with PHP, Python, and other applications ? Learn how to set up Nginx to work with Apache ? Fully replace Apache with Nginx ? Optimize your architecture with threads or load balancing ? Identify errors in configuration and learn basic troubleshooting techniques ? Consult the exhaustive directive and module index for reference In Detail Nginx is a lightweight HTTP server designed for high-traffic websites, with network scalability as the primary objective. With the advent of high-speed internet access, short loading times and fast transfer rates have become a necessity. This book is a detailed guide to setting up Nginx in ways that correspond to actual production situations: as a standalone server, as a reverse proxy, interacting with applications via FastCGI, and more. In addition, this complete direct reference will be indispensable at all stages of the configuration and maintenance processes. This book mainly targets the most recent version of Nginx (1.13.2) and focuses on all the new additions and improvements, such as support for HTTP/2, improved dynamic modules, security enhancements, and support for multiple SSL certificates. This book is the perfect companion for both Nginx beginners and experienced administrators. For beginners, it will take you through the complete process of setting up this lightweight HTTP server on your system and configuring its various modules so that it does exactly what you need quickly and securely. For more experienced administrators, this book provides different approaches that can help you make the most of your current infrastructure. Nginx can be employed in many situations, whether you are looking to construct an entirely new web-serving architecture or simply want to integrate an efficient tool to optimize your site loading speeds. Style and approach This book aims to serve as a handy reference of all Nginx first-party modules and directives, allowing the reader to develop their own web configuration more efficiently.

Data management and analytics simplified with Teradata About This Book ? Take your understanding of Teradata to the next level and build efficient data warehousing applications for your organization ? Covers recipes on data handling, warehousing, advanced querying and the administrative tasks in Teradata. ? Contains practical solutions to tackle common (and not-so-common) problems you might encounter in your day to day activities Who This Book Is For This book is for Database administrator's and Teradata users who are looking for a practical, one-stop resource to solve all their problems while handling their Teradata solution. If you are looking to learn the basic as well as the advanced tasks involved in Teradata querying or administration, this book will be handy. Some knowledge of relational database concepts will be helpful to get the best out of this book. What You Will Learn ? Understand Teradata's competitive advantage over other RDBMSs. ? Use SQL to process data stored in Teradata tables. ? Leverage Teradata’s available application utilities and parallelism to play with large datasets ? Apply various performance tuning techniques to optimize the queries. ? Acquire deeper knowledge and understanding of the Teradata Architecture. ? Easy steps to load, archive, restore data and implement Teradata protection features ? Gain confidence in running a wide variety of Data analytics and develop applications for the Teradata environment In Detail Teradata is an enterprise software company that develops and sells its eponymous relational database management system (RDBMS), which is considered to be a leading data warehousing solutions and provides data management solutions for analytics. This book will help you get all the practical information you need for the creation and implementation of your data warehousing solution using Teradata. The book begins with recipes on quickly setting up a development environment so you can work with different types of data structuring and manipulation function. You will tackle all problems related to efficient querying, stored procedure searching, and navigation techniques. Additionally, you’ll master various administrative tasks such as user and security management, workload management, high availability, performance tuning, and monitoring. This book is designed to take you through the best practices of performing the real daily tasks of a Teradata DBA, and will help you tackle any problem you might encounter in the process. Style and approach This book is a rich collection of recipes that will come in handy when you are working with Teradata. It addresses your common and not-so-common pain points,and this is a book that you must have on the shelf.

Build responsive, dynamic, and mobile-first applications on the web with Bootstrap 4 About This Book ? Master the art of creating highly intuitive and responsive web interfaces with Bootstrap 4 ? Combine the power of Bootstrap and popular front-end JavaScript frameworks such as Angular and React to build cutting-edge web apps ? Infuse your web pages with life and movement using Bootstrap jQuery plugins Who This Book Is For This book targets readers who wish to leverage Bootstrap 4 to create responsive web applications. Basic knowledge of web development concepts and web technologies such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript is required. What You Will Learn ? Create a professional Bootstrap-based website from scratch without using third-party templates ? Leverage Bootstrap's powerful grid system ? Style various types of content and learn how to build a page's layout from scratch by applying the power of Bootstrap 4 ? Take advantage of Bootstrap's form helper and contextual classes ? Improve your website's overall user experience with headers and footers ? Infuse your web pages using Bootstrap jQuery plugins and create your own Bootstrap plugins ? Learn what utility classes Bootstrap 4 has to offer, how they are implemented, and the best way to use them. ? Create more advanced web interfaces by leveraging the power of accordions, dropdowns, and list groups. ? Incorporate Bootstrap into an AngularJS or React application and use Bootstrap components as AngularJS directives In Detail Bootstrap 4 is a free CSS and JavaScript framework that allows developers to rapidly build responsive web interfaces. This book will help you use and adapt Bootstrap to produce enticing websites that fit your needs. You will build a customized Bootstrap website from scratch, using various approaches to customize the framework with increasing levels of skill. You will get to grips with Bootstrap's key features and quickly discover various ways in which Bootstrap can help you develop web interfaces. Then take a walk through the fundamental features, such as its grid system, global styles, helper classes, and responsive utilities. When you have mastered these, you will discover how to structure page layouts, utilize Bootstrap's various navigation components, use forms, and style different types of content. Among other things, you will also tour the anatomy of a Bootstrap plugin, create your own custom components, and extend Bootstrap using jQuery. You will also understand what utility classes Bootstrap 4 has to offer, and how you can use them effectively to speed up the development of your website. Finally, you will discover how to optimize your website and integrate it with third-party frameworks. By the end of this book, you will have a thorough knowledge of the framework's ins and outs, and will be able to build highly customizable and optimized web interfaces. Style and approach A comprehensive, step-by-step guide to mastering the ins and outs of the Bootstrap framework to produce highly customizable, optimized, and sleek web interfaces.

Over 100 recipes for penetration testing using Metasploit and virtual machines About This Book ? Special focus on the latest operating systems, exploits, and penetration testing techniques ? Learn new anti-virus evasion techniques and use Metasploit to evade countermeasures ? Automate post exploitation with AutoRunScript ? Exploit Android devices, record audio and video, send and read SMS, read call logs, and much more ? Build and analyze Metasploit modules in Ruby ? Integrate Metasploit with other penetration testing tools Who This Book Is For If you are a Security professional or pentester and want to get into vulnerability exploitation and make the most of the Metasploit framework, then this book is for you. Some prior understanding of penetration testing and Metasploit is required. What You Will Learn ? Set up a complete penetration testing environment using Metasploit and virtual machines ? Master the world's leading penetration testing tool and use it in professional penetration testing ? Make the most of Metasploit with PostgreSQL, importing scan results, using workspaces, hosts, loot, notes, services, vulnerabilities, and exploit results ? Use Metasploit with the Penetration Testing Execution Standard methodology ? Use MSFvenom efficiently to generate payloads and backdoor files, and create shellcode ? Leverage Metasploit's advanced options, upgrade sessions, use proxies, use Meterpreter sleep control, and change timeouts to be stealthy In Detail Metasploit is the world's leading penetration testing tool and helps security and IT professionals find, exploit, and validate vulnerabilities. Metasploit allows penetration testing automation, password auditing, web application scanning, social engineering, post exploitation, evidence collection, and reporting. Metasploit's integration with InsightVM (or Nexpose), Nessus, OpenVas, and other vulnerability scanners provides a validation solution that simplifies vulnerability prioritization and remediation reporting. Teams can collaborate in Metasploit and present their findings in consolidated reports. In this book, you will go through great recipes that will allow you to start using Metasploit effectively. With an ever increasing level of complexity, and covering everything from the fundamentals to more advanced features in Metasploit, this book is not just for beginners but also for professionals keen to master this awesome tool. You will begin by building your lab environment, setting up Metasploit, and learning how to perform intelligence gathering, threat modeling, vulnerability analysis, exploitation, and post exploitation—all inside Metasploit. You will learn how to create and customize payloads to evade anti-virus software and bypass an organization's defenses, exploit server vulnerabilities, attack client systems, compromise mobile phones, automate post exploitation, install backdoors, run keyloggers, highjack webcams, port public exploits to the framework, create your own modules, and much more. Style and approach This book follows a cookbook style with recipes explaining penetration testing steps with Metasploit. Plenty plethora of code and commands are used to make your learning curve easy and quick.

Learn to write servers and network clients using Rust’s low-level socket classes with this guide About This Book ? Build a solid foundation in Rust while also mastering important network programming details ? Leverage the power of a number of available libraries to perform network operations in Rust ? Develop a fully functional web server to gain the skills you need, fast Who This Book Is For This book is for software developers who want to write networking software with Rust. A basic familiarity with networking concepts is assumed. Beginner-level knowledge of Rust will help but is not necessary. What You Will Learn ? Appreciate why networking is important in implementing distributed systems ? Write a non-asynchronous echo server over TCP that talks to a client over a network ? Parse JSON and binary data using parser combinators such as nom ? Write an HTTP client that talks to the server using reqwest ? Modify an existing Rust HTTTP server and add SSL to it ? Master asynchronous programming support in Rust ? Use external packages in a Rust project In Detail Rust is low-level enough to provide fine-grained control over memory while providing safety through compile-time validation. This makes it uniquely suitable for writing low-level networking applications. This book is divided into three main parts that will take you on an exciting journey of building a fully functional web server. The book starts with a solid introduction to Rust and essential networking concepts. This will lay a foundation for, and set the tone of, the entire book. In the second part, we will take an in-depth look at using Rust for networking software. From client-server networking using sockets to IPv4/v6, DNS, TCP, UDP, you will also learn about serializing and deserializing data using serde. The book shows how to communicate with REST servers over HTTP. The final part of the book discusses asynchronous network programming using the Tokio stack. Given the importance of security for modern systems, you will see how Rust supports common primitives such as TLS and public-key cryptography. After reading this book, you will be more than confident enough to use Rust to build effective networking software Style and approach This book will get you started with building networking software in Rust by taking you through all the essential concepts.

Become an expert Vue developer by understanding the design patterns and component architecture of Vue.js to write clean and maintainable code. About This Book ? Craft highly modular applications by exploring the design patterns and component architecture of Vue.js ? Enforce a Flux-like application architecture in your Vue.js applications with Vuex ? Easy-to-follow examples that can be used to create reusable code and extensible designs Who This Book Is For This book targets Vue Developers who care about framework design principles and utilize commonly found design patterns in developing web applications. What You Will Learn ? Understand the theory and patterns of Vue.js ? Build scalable and modular Vue.js applications ? Take advantage of Vuex for reactive state management. ? Create Single Page Applications with vue-router. ? Use Nuxt for FAST server side rendered Vue applications. ? Convert your application to a Progressive Web App (PWA) and add ServiceWorkers, offline support, and more ? Build your app with Vue.js by following up with best practices and explore the common anti-patterns to avoid In Detail The book starts by comparing Vue.js with other frameworks and setting up the development environment for your application, and gradually move on to writing and styling clean, maintainable, and reusable components that can be used across your application. Further on, you'll look at common UI patterns, Vue form submission, and various modifiers such as lazy binding, number typecasting, and string trimming to create better UIs. You will also explore best practices for integrating HTTP into Vue.js applications to create an application with dynamic data. Routing is a vitally important part of any SPA, so you will focus on the Vue router and explore routing a user between multiple pages. Next, you'll also explore state management with Vuex, write testable code for your application, and create performant, server-side rendered applications with Nuxt. Towards the end, we'll look at common antipatterns to avoid, to save you from a lot of trial and error and development headaches. By the end of this book, you'll be well on your way to becoming an expert Vue developer who can leverage design patterns to efficiently architect the design of your application and write clean and maintainable code. Style and approach This easy-to-follow practical guide will help you develop efficient Vue.js apps by following best practices and using common design patterns.

Learn how to use Unity 2018 by creating your very own 3D game while developing your essential skills About This Book ? Learn to create immersive 3D games and Virtual Reality experiences with Unity 2018 ? Build custom scripts to make your game characters interactive ? Explore and implement AritificiaI Intelligence techniques to bring your game to life Who This Book Is For If you are an aspiring game developer interested in learning Unity 2018 and becoming familiar with its core features, then this book is for you. No prior knowledge of Unity is required. What You Will Learn ? Set up your Unity development environment and navigate its tools ? Import and use custom assets and asset packages to add characters to your game ? Build a 3D game world with a custom terrain, water, sky, mountains, and trees ? Animate game characters, using animation controllers, and scripting ? Apply audio and particle effects to the game ? Create intuitive game menus and interface elements ? Customize your game with sound effects, shadows, lighting effects, and rendering options ? Debug code and provide smooth error handling In Detail The Unity game engine has revolutionized the gaming industry with its complete set of intuitive tools and rapid workflows, which can be used to create interactive 3D content. With Unity, you can scaffold your way from the basics and make make stunning interactive games. This book will guide you through the entire process of creating a 3D game, from downloading the Unity game engine to publishing your game. It not only gives you a strong foundation, but puts you on the path to game development. Beginning with an overview of the Unity engine and its interface, you will walk through the process of creating a game environment and learn how to use built-in assets, as well as assets created with third-party 3D modeling tools such as Blender. Moving on, you will create custom scripts to control non-player character behaviors and gameplay. You will master exciting concepts such as Heads-Up-Displays, mini-maps, game navigation, sound effects, and lighting effects. Next, you’ll learn how to create your first VR experience, right from setting up the project to image effects. You'll be familiarized with all the tools that Unity has to offer to create your own immersive VR experiences. Each section is a stepping stone toward the completion of the final game. By the end of the book, you'll have learned advanced topics such as cross-platform considerations which enable your games to run on multiple platforms. Style and approach A step-by-step guide giving you the perfect start to developing 3D games with Unity 2018

Discover the world of Full Stack Development with real-world examples. About This Book ? Leverage the full power of the JHipster platform to build complex web applications ? Create microservices from scratch and convert JHipster monolith apps into microservices ? Build and deploy applications locally, in Docker and on various cloud platforms. Who This Book Is For This book will appeal to developers who would like to build modern web applications quickly. A basic knowledge of the Spring ecosystem would be an added advantage. What You Will Learn ? Build business logic by creating and developing entity models us the JHipster Domain Language ? Customize web applications with Angular, Bootstrap and Spring ? Tests and Continuous Integration with Jenkins ? Utilize the JHipster microservice stack, which includes Netflix Eureka, Spring Cloud config, HashiCorp Consul, and so on. ? Understand advanced microservice concepts such as API rout, load balancing, rate limit, circuit break, centralized configuration server, JWT authentication, and more ? Run microservices locally using Docker and Kubernetes (in production) In Detail JHipster is a development platform to generate, develop, and deploy Spring Boot and Angular/React applications and Spring microservices. It provides you with a variety of tools that will help you quickly build modern web applications. This book will be your guide to building full stack applications with Spring and Angular using the JHipster tool set. You will begin by understanding what JHipster is and the various tools and technologies associated with it. You will learn the essentials of a full stack developer before getting hands-on and building a monolithic web application with JHipster. From here you will learn the JHipster Domain Language with entity modeling and entity creation using JDL and JDL studio. Moving on, you will be introduced to client side technologies such as Angular and Bootstrap and will delve into technologies such as Spring Security, Spring MVC, and Spring Data. You will learn to build and package apps for production with various deployment options such as Heroku and more. During the course of the book, you will be introduced to microservice server-side technologies and how to break your monolithic application with a database of your choice. Next, the book takes you through cloud deployment with microservices on Docker and Kubernetes. Going forward, you will learn to build your client side with React and master JHipster best practices. By the end of the book, you will be able to leverage the power of the best tools available to build modern web applications. Style and approach This comprehensive guide builds a complex production-ready Spring Boot + Angular web application using JHipster platform

Augment your IoT skills with the help of engaging and enlightening tutorials designed for Raspberry Pi 3 About This Book ? Design and implement state-of-the-art solutions for the Internet of Things ? Build complex projects using motions detectors, controllers, sensors, and Raspberry Pi 3 ? A hands-on guide that provides interoperable solutions for sensors, actuators, and controllers Who This Book Is For If you're a developer or electronic engineer and are curious about the Internet of Things, this is the book for you. With only a rudimentary understanding of electronics and Raspberry Pi 3, and some programming experience using managed code, such as C# or Java, you will be taught to develop state-of-the-art solutions for the Internet of Things. What You Will Learn ? Create your own project, run and debug it ? Master different communication patterns using the MQTT, HTTP, CoAP, LWM2M and XMPP protocols ? Build trust-based as hoc networks for open, secure and interoperable communication ? Explore the IoT Service Platform ? Manage the entire product life cycle of devices ? Understand and set up the security and privacy features required for your system ? Master interoperability, and how it is solved in the realms of HTTP,CoAP, LWM2M and XMPP In Detail The Internet of Things (IoT) is the fastest growing technology market. Industries are embracing IoT technologies to improve operational expenses, product life, and people's well-being. Mastering Internet of Things starts by presenting IoT fundamentals and the smart city. You will learn the important technologies and protocols that are used for the Internet of Things, their features, corresponding security implications, and practical examples on how to use them. This book focuses on creating applications and services for the Internet of Things. Further, you will learn to create applications and services for the Internet of Things. You will be discover various interesting projects and understand how to publish sensor data, control devices, and react to asynchronous events using the XMPP protocol. The book also introduces chat, to interact with your devices. You will learn how to automate your tasks by using Internet of Things Service Platforms as the base for an application. You will understand the subject of privacy, requirements they should be familiar with, and how to avoid violating any of the important new regulations being introduced. At the end of the book, you will have mastered creating open, interoperable and secure networks of things, protecting the privacy and integrity of your users and their information. Style and approach This mastering-level guide will immerse you in the advanced functionalities of IoT, along with extending them, and finishes up with security and privacy techniques.

Find bottlenecks, identify the proper algorithm to use, optimize performance, and create really efficient Rust applications About This Book ? Understand common performance pitfalls and improve the performance of your applications. ? Get to grips with parallel programming and multithreading with Rust. ? Learn metaprogramming in Rust. Who This Book Is For This book is for Rust developers keen to improve the speed of their code or simply to take their skills to the next level. What You Will Learn ? Master tips and tricks to make your code faster. ? Learn how to identify bottlenecks in your Rust applications ? Discover how to profile your Rust software. ? Understand the type system to create compile-time optimizations. ? Master the borrow checker . ? Learn metaprogramming in Rust to avoid boilerplate code. ? Discover multithreading and work stealing in Rust. ? Understand asynchronous programming in Rust. In Detail At times, it is difficult to get the best performance out of Rust. This book teaches you to optimize the speed of your Rust code to the level of languages such as C/C++. You'll understand and fix common pitfalls, learn how to improve your productivity by using metaprogramming, and speed up your code by concurrently executing parts of it safely and easily. You will master the features of the language which will make you stand out and use them to really improve the efficiency of your algorithms The book begins with a gentle introduction to help you identify bottlenecks when programming in Rust. We highlight common performance pitfalls, along with strategies to detect and resolve these issues early. We move on to mastering Rust's type system, which will enable us to create impressive optimizations in both performance and safety at compile time. You will then learn how to effectively manage memory in Rust, mastering the borrow checker. We move on to measuring performance and you will see how this affects the way you write code. Moving ahead, you will perform metaprogramming in Rust to boost the performance of your code and your productivity. You will finally learn parallel programming in Rust, which enables efficient and faster execution by using multithreading and asynchronous programming. Style and approach You'll embark on a learning journey that will teach about you deep-core concepts in the Rust language. Learning those concepts—such as understanding the borrow checker—will make you competent to write more efficient Rust code. To learn those core concepts, you'll perform practical work and see for yourself how specific patterns improve the performance of your code.

Secure public and private cloud workloads with this comprehensive learning guide. About This Book ? Take your cloud security functions to the next level by automation ? Learn to automate your security functions on AWS and OpenStack ? Practical approach towards securing your workloads efficiently Who This Book Is For This book is targeted at DevOps Engineers, Security professionals, or any stakeholders responsible for securing cloud workloads. Prior experience with AWS or OpenStack will be an advantage. What You Will Learn ? Define security for public and private cloud services ? Address the security concerns of your cloud ? Understand Identity and Access Management ? Get acquainted with cloud storage and network security ? Improve and optimize public and private cloud security ? Automate cloud security ? Understand the security compliance requirements of your cloud In Detail Security issues are still a major concern for all IT organizations. For many enterprises, the move to cloud computing has raised concerns for security, but when applications are architected with focus on security, cloud platforms can be made just as secure as on-premises platforms. Cloud instances can be kept secure by employing security automation that helps make your data meet your organization's security policy. This book starts with the basics of why cloud security is important and how automation can be the most effective way of controlling cloud security. You will then delve deeper into the AWS cloud environment and its security services by dealing with security functions such as Identity and Access Management and will also learn how these services can be automated. Moving forward, you will come across aspects such as cloud storage and data security, automating cloud deployments, and so on. Then, you'll work with OpenStack security modules and learn how private cloud security functions can be automated for better time- and cost-effectiveness. Toward the end of the book, you will gain an understanding of the security compliance requirements for your Cloud. By the end of this book, you will have hands-on experience of automating your cloud security and governance. Style and approach This book follows a step-by-step, practical approach to help automate and secure your cloud account structure in an Amazon Web Services (AWS) and OpenStack environment.

Fast track your development skills to build resourceful, open-source business applications with Odoo 11 About This Book ? Discover the latest technical capabilities in Odoo 11 while you build your own app ? Program business logic and manipulate data to implement specific business rules in your applications ? Implement automated tests to add modules and techniques and debug module business logic Who This Book Is For Odoo 11 Development Essentials caters to developers who are familiar with Python and MVC design and now want to build effective business applications using Odoo. What You Will Learn ? Install Odoo from source ? Manage Odoo server instances ? Create a new Odoo application from scratch covering the most frequently used elements ? Develop new models and use inheritance to extend/modify existing models ? Use ORM methods, both in the Odoo server and from external clients ? Create Kanban views using QWeb effectively ? Develop custom web and website CMS pages ? Use external API to integrate Odoo with external applications In Detail Odoo continues to gain worldwide momentum as the best platform for open source ERP installations. Now, with Odoo 11, you have access to an improved GUI, performance optimization, integrated in-app purchase features, and a fast-growing community to help transform and modernize your business. With this practical guide, you will cover all the new features that Odoo 11 has to offer to build and customize business applications, focusing on the publicly available community edition. We begin with setting up a development environment, and as you make your way through the chapters, you will learn to build feature-rich business applications. With the aim of jump-starting your Odoo proficiency level, from no specific knowledge to application development readiness, you will develop your first Odoo application. We then move on to topics such as models and views, and understand how to use server APIs to add business logic, helping to lay a solid foundation for advanced topics. The book concludes with Odoo interactions and how to use the Odoo API from other programs, all of which will enable you to efficiently integrate applications with other external systems. Style and Approach This fast-paced tutorial explains topics with the help of practical examples to help you understand each chapter efficiently.

Your one stop solution to implement a Cyber Defense Intelligence program in to your organisation. About This Book ? Intelligence processes and procedures for response mechanisms ? Master F3EAD to drive processes based on intelligence ? Threat modeling and intelligent frameworks ? Case studies and how to go about building intelligent teams Who This Book Is For This book targets incident managers, malware analysts, reverse engineers, digital forensics specialists, and intelligence analysts; experience in, or knowledge of, security operations, incident responses or investigations is desirable so you can make the most of the subjects presented. What You Will Learn ? Learn about the Observe-Orient-Decide-Act (OODA) loop and it's applicability to security ? Understand tactical view of Active defense concepts and their application in today's threat landscape ? Get acquainted with an operational view of the F3EAD process to drive decision making within an organization ? Create a Framework and Capability Maturity Model that integrates inputs and outputs from key functions in an information security organization ? Understand the idea of communicating with the Potential for Exploitability based on cyber intelligence In Detail Cyber intelligence is the missing link between your cyber defense operation teams, threat intelligence, and IT operations to provide your organization with a full spectrum of defensive capabilities. This book kicks off with the need for cyber intelligence and why it is required in terms of a defensive framework. Moving forward, the book provides a practical explanation of the F3EAD protocol with the help of examples. Furthermore, we learn how to go about threat models and intelligence products/frameworks and apply them to real-life scenarios. Based on the discussion with the prospective author I would also love to explore the induction of a tool to enhance the marketing feature and functionality of the book. By the end of this book, you will be able to boot up an intelligence program in your organization based on the operation and tactical/strategic spheres of Cyber defense intelligence. Style and approach A step-by-step practical guide that will help you master defensive frameworks to secure your system, and the F3EAD protocol to help you boot up an intelligence program in your organization.