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"This is one of the best technical books I've ever read. The writing is so good, and it covers an incredible amount of knowledge. Hands down, this is the best reference material on using asyncio anywhere." - Kent R. Spillner Learn how to speed up slow Python code with concurrent programming and the cutting-edge asyncio library. Python is flexible, versatile, and easy to learn. It can also be very slow compared to lower-level languages. Python Concurrency with asyncio teaches you how to boost Python's performance by applying a variety of concurrency techniques. You'll learn how the complex-but-powerful asyncio library can achieve concurrency with just a single thread and use asyncio's APIs to run multiple web requests and database queries simultaneously. The book covers using asyncio with the entire Python concurrency landscape, including multiprocessing and multithreading. about the technologyThe time demands of running code synchronously quickly overload standard Python and slow your programs to a crawl. Python's Asynchronous I/O library asyncio was built to solve these performance problems by making it easy to divide and schedule computational tasks so they can be run independently. asyncio concurrently handles multiple operations without a drop in throughput or responsiveness, making your apps lightning fast and easier to scale. about the bookPython Concurrency with asyncio teaches you to write concurrent Python code that will boost the speed of your apps and APIs. The book demystifies asynchio's unique single-threaded concurrency model, giving you a behind-the-scenes understanding of the library and its new async/await syntax. Hard-to-grok concurrency topics are broken down into simple flowcharts so you can easily see how your coroutines and tasks are running. You'll learn to apply asyncio to solve common performance problems, such as batch database jobs, slow web servers, and scaling microservices. All examples you'll build are designed to be usable in the real world, including a clever command line SQL client that can run multiple slow queries at the same time. By the time you're done, you'll even be able to combine asyncio with traditional multiprocessing and multithreading techniques for huge improvements to performance. what's insideUse coroutines and tasks alongside async/await syntax to run code concurrentlyBuild web APIs and make concurrency web requests with aiohttpRun thousands of SQL queries concurrentlyCreate a map-reduce job that can process gigabytes of data concurrentlyUse threading with asyncio to mix blocking code with asyncio code about the readerFor intermediate Python programmers. No previous experience of concurrency required. about the authorMatthew Fowler has over 15 years of software engineering experience in roles from architect to engineering director. He has worked on Python codebases in the machine learning space, as well as led development of a Python-based ecommerce site with tens of millions of users.

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Build stylish, slick, and speedy-to-load user interfaces in React without writing custom classes. React Hooks are a new category of functions that help you to manage state, lifecycle and side effects within functional components. React Hooks in Action teaches you to use pre-built hooks like useState, useReducer and useEffect, and to build your own hooks. Your code will be more reusable, require less boilerplate, and you’ll instantly be a more effective React developer. About the technology React Hooks promise to make React programmers even more productive. Hooks are a collection of pre-built and custom functions that give you a simpler API for working with key React functionalities. Hooks cleanly encapsulate side effects, make it easier to reuse components between projects, and result in less code overall. These new features represent a fundamental evolution in how the React library functions, so even experienced React developers will want to get up to speed with Hooks. About the book React Hooks in Action shows you how to use Hooks to make your codebase simpler and more reusable, and your applications faster and more responsive. You’ll build a resource booking example application chapter by chapter, learning how to develop components with local, shared, and application states. You’ll discover different approaches to data fetching, including using Concurrent Mode and Suspense to improve user experience, and explore third party hooks in the evolving React ecosystem. What's inside Create a Redux store and interact with it via Hooks Use code-splitting to improve the responsiveness of your apps Build functional components that can update their own state Manage component side effects Use the React Suspense API to improve the user experience of page and data loading About the reader For front-end web developers experienced with React. About the author John Larsen is the author of Get Programming with JavaScript. He was a mathematics and computing teacher for 25 years. He has an MA in mathematics and an MSc in information technology, and an ongoing interest in educational research. A web developer since 2000, he uses JavaScript end-to-end for server-side and client-side programming.

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"Don't setup the build pipeline with clicks, read this bookinstead and thank me later!" - Michal Rutka Learn how to think about your development pipeline as amission-critical application, with techniques for implementing code-driven infrastructure and CI/CD systems using Jenkins, Docker, Terraform, andcloud-native services. In Pipeline as Code, you will master: · Building and deploying a Jenkins cluster from scratch · Writing pipeline as code for cloud native applications · Automating the deployment of Dockerized and Serverless applications · Containerizing applications with Docker and Kubernetes · Deploying Jenkins on AWS, GCP and Azure · Managing, securing and monitoring a Jenkins cluster in production · Key principles for a successful DevOps culture Pipeline as Code is a practical guide to automating your development pipeline in a cloud-native, service-driven world. You'll use the latest infrastructure-as-code tools like Packer and Terraform to develop reliable CI/CD pipelines for numerous cloud-native applications. Follow thisbook's insightful best practices, and you'll soon be delivering software that's quicker to market, faster to deploy, and with less last-minute production bugs. about the technology A good deployment pipeline is the backbone of successful DevOps. Using tools such as Jenkins, CI/CD can seamlessly manage the code of multiple developers, with early accuracy checks and error spotting thanks to automated testing. about the book Pipeline as Code teaches you to build your very first CI/CDpipeline with new automation technologies, modern cloud-hosted services, andclassic tools like Jenkins. It's filled with techniques that author and Jenkins contributor Mohamed Labouardy has developed maintaining thousands of production services. Each chapter includes relevant hands-on examples, including writing a CI/CD workflow for serverless AWS Lambda-based applications, and deploying a centralized logging platform based on the ELK stack. You'll explore cutting-edge methods of running Jenkins inside Kubernetes, and packaging Kubernetes applications within CI/CD pipelines. By the time you're done, you'llbe able to deploy a self-healing Jenkins cluster on cloud and take advantage ofyour new pipeline with essential DevOps practices. about the reader For developers familiar with Jenkins and Docker. Examples in Go. about the author Mohamed Labouardy is the CTO and co-founder of Crew.work, and aDevSecOps evangelist. He is the founder of Komiser.io, an author, open-source contributor, and regular conference speaker.

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A long journey is really a lot of little steps. The same is true when you’re learning Python, so you may as well have some fun along the way! Written in a light-hearted style with entertaining exercises that build powerful skills, Tiny Python Projects takes you from amateur to Pythonista as you create 19 bitesize programs. Tiny Python Projects teaches you the big ideas of Python programming through small puzzles, tasks, and games. Each chapter challenges you with a fun new Python program for you to write and run, including a Shakespearean insult generator, an unbreakable password creator, and various text encoders. As you practice core Python language features and coding skills, you’ll also explore the principles of test-driven development by running your programs against a suite of specially designed tests. Key Features · Write command-line Python programs · Process a variety of command-line arguments, options, and flags · Write and run tests for programs and functions · Manipulate Python data structures including strings, lists, tuples, and dictionaries For readers with beginning programming skills in Python or another language. About the technology Simple yet powerful, Python is one of the world’s most popular programming languages. You can use Python to write everything from simple utility programs to complex web applications and deep learning models. Ken Youens-Clark works at the University of Arizona as a senior scientific programmer. He has an MS in biosystems engineering, and has been programming for over 20 years.

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Thanks to the authors’ easy-to-digest style, you’ll effortlessly learn about types, object-oriented programming with classes and interfaces, and using TypeScript with JavaScript libraries. You’ll discover TypeScript’s excellent tooling as you explore code-quality improvement with TSLint, debugging with source maps, unit testing, and more. TypeScript is JavaScript with an important upgrade! By adding a strong type system to JavaScript, TypeScript can help you eliminate entire categories of runtime errors. In TypeScript Quickly, you’ll learn to build rock-solid apps through practical examples and hands-on projects under the expert instruction of experienced web developers Yakov Fain and Anton Moiseev. WILL SELL LIKE Angular Development with Typescript, Key features • Mastering TypeScript syntax • Object-oriented programming with classes and interfaces • Using TypeScript with JavaScript libraries • Multiple real-world code samples Audience Written for intermediate web developers comfortable with JavaScript ES5 and HTML. About the technology TypeScript is an extension of JavaScript that includes key language features such as optional static typing, compile-time error catching, and auto-complete. By specifying types and type annotations, your code becomes much easier to interpret, which improves productivity and team development. In particular, TypeScript makes complex applications like SPAs much easier to maintain and extend. Yakov Fain and Anton Moiseev are experienced web application developers. They authored two editions of Manning’s Angular Development with TypeScript among other technical books. Yakov is a Java champion and a prolific tech blogger at yakov.fain.com. Yakov Fain and Anton Moiseev are experienced web application developers. They authored two editions of Manning’s Angular Development with TypeScript among other technical books. Yakov is a Java champion and a prolific tech blogger at yakov.fain.com.

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With a growing ecosystem of tools and libraries available, and the flexibility to run on many platforms (web, desktop and mobile), JavaScript is a terrific all-round environment for all data wrangling needs! Data Wrangling with JavaScript teaches readers core data munging techniques in JavaScript, along with many libraries and tools that will make their data tasks even easier. Key Features · How to handle unusual data sets · Cleaning and preparing raw data · Visualizing your results Audience Written for developers with experience using JavaScript. No prior knowledge of data analytics is needed. Author Bio Ashley Davis is a software developer, entrepreneur, writer, and a stock trader. He is the creator of Data-Forge, a data transformation and analysis toolkit for JavaScript inspired by Pandas and Microsoft LINQ.

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Every other day we hear about new ways to put deep learning to good use: improved medical imaging, accurate credit card fraud detection, long range weather forecasting, and more. PyTorch puts these superpowers in your hands, providing a comfortable Python experience that gets you started quickly and then grows with you as you, and your deep learning skills, become more sophisticated. Deep Learning with PyTorch teaches you how to implement deep learning algorithms with Python and PyTorch. This book takes you into a fascinating case study: building an algorithm capable of detecting malignant lung tumors using CT scans. As the authors guide you through this real example, you'll discover just how effective and fun PyTorch can be. Key features • Using the PyTorch tensor API • Understanding automatic differentiation in PyTorch • Training deep neural networks • Monitoring training and visualizing results • Interoperability with NumPy Audience Written for developers with some knowledge of Python as well as basic linear algebra skills. Some understanding of deep learning will be helpful, however no experience with PyTorch or other deep learning frameworks is required. About the technology PyTorch is a machine learning framework with a strong focus on deep neural networks. Because it emphasizes GPU-based acceleration, PyTorch performs exceptionally well on readily-available hardware and scales easily to larger systems. Eli Stevens has worked in Silicon Valley for the past 15 years as a software engineer, and the past 7 years as Chief Technical Officer of a startup making medical device software. Luca Antiga is co-founder and CEO of an AI engineering company located in Bergamo, Italy, and a regular contributor to PyTorch.

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Kafka in Action is a practical, hands-on guide to building Kafka-based data pipelines. Filled with real-world use cases and scenarios, this book probes Kafka's most common use cases, ranging from simple logging through managing streaming data systems for message routing, analytics, and more. In systems that handle big data, streaming data, or fast data, it's important to get your data pipelines right. Apache Kafka is a wicked-fast distributed streaming platform that operates as more than just a persistent log or a flexible message queue. Key Features · Understanding Kafka's concepts · Implementing Kafka as a message queue · Setting up and executing basic ETL tasks · Recording and consuming streaming data · Working with Kafka producers and consumers from Java applications · Using Kafka as part of a large data project team · Performing Kafka developer and admin tasks Written for intermediate Java developers or data engineers. No prior knowledge of Kafka is required. About the technology Apache Kafka is a distributed streaming platform for logging and streaming data between services or applications. With Kafka, it's easy to build applications that can act on or react to data streams as they flow through your system. Operational data monitoring, large scale message processing, website activity tracking, log aggregation, and more are all possible with Kafka. Dylan Scott is a software developer with over ten years of experience in Java and Perl. His experience includes implementing Kafka as a messaging system for a large data migration, and he uses Kafka in his work in the insurance industry.

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DESCRIPTION Serverless architecture is about having more time to focus on code, and moving quickly. In these new architectures, traditional back-end servers are replaced with cloud functions acting as discrete singlepurpose services. With serverless compute technologies like AWS Lambda, developers can build entirely serverless platforms at scale. Serverless Architectures on AWS teaches how to build, secure and manage serverless architectures that can power the most demanding web and mobile apps. This book has many ready-made and real-world examples, code snippets, diagrams, and descriptions of architectures that can be readily applied. It describes a traditional application and its back end concerns and then shows how to solve these same problems with a serverless approach. By the end, readers will be able to reason about serverless systems and be able to compose their own systems by applying these ideas and examples. KEY FEATURES • Up-to-date with the most current platform trends • Real-world examples, code snippets, and diagrams• Learn to solve back end concerns with a serverless approach AUDIENCE This book is for all software developers interested in back end technologies. Experience with JavaScript (node.js) and AWS is useful but not required. ABOUT THE TECHNOLOGY Lambda is a compute service that executes code written in JavaScript (node.js), Python, or Java on AWS infrastructure. Source code is deployed to an isolated container that has its own allocation of memory, disk space, and CPU. Serverless architectures herald a new way of building scalable, powerful, cost-effective, and high-performing back end systems. They encourage a new way of creating applications through the use of a stateless compute service to execute code.

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DESCRIPTION Functional programming is a deep and potentially mind-bending discipline. Fortunately, Java developers don't have to master every aspect of FP to get a big boost in the performance, readability, and maintainability of their applications. By learning a few core FP principles, they can write code that's less prone to side effects and unwanted dependencies and which is much better suited to the parallel processing required by modern multi-core and distributed systems. Also, because units of functional code are designed to be modular and independent, FP reduces or eliminates many of the bugs development teams routinely face when managing a large codebase. Functional Programming in Java teaches Java developers how to incorporate the most powerful benefits of functional programming into new and existing Java code. Written to meet the needs of professional Java developers who want to introduce functional programming principles into new and legacy projects, this book uses examples, exercises, and illustrations to teach core FP principles such as referential transparency, immutability, persistence, and laziness. They’ll discover which of the new functionally-inspired features of Java 8 will help in applying FP principles to code—as well as which to avoid. In the end, they’ll be able to think functionally about coding tasks in Java and use FP to make their applications easier to understand, optimize, maintain, and scale. KEY FEATURES • Increases productivity • Easy to grasp examples and illustrations • Written for professional Java developers AUDIENCE Readers need to be comfortable with Java programming. No previous experience with functional programming is required. ABOUT THE TECHNOLOGY Functional programming is gaining momentum, mainly through adoption of new languages such as Scala, Clojure or Groovy, and through the new popularity of older languages such as Haskell or Erlang. And functional programming is coming to Java 8 with the addition of features such as lambda expressions, and Streams.

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DESCRIPTION　 Google built the Go language from the ground up to simplify the challenges of modern application development. Go is ideal for writing server-side components that route and process data and manage the event-driven nature of modern web applications. Go's instantly-familiar syntax and structure make it easy to build application components from scratch, and a full-featured standard library, along with a growing ecosystem of libraries and frameworks provide an abundance of pre-built functionality so developers can be super-productive quickly. Go Web Programming shows how to build web applications in Go using modern design principles. It provides numerous examples that introduce core concepts like processing requests and sending responses, template engines, and data persistence. It also dives into more advanced topics, such as concurrency, web application testing, and deployment both to barebones servers and PaaS providers. KEY FEATURES  Comprehensive and detailed tour of Go’s powerful features  Step-by step guide for end-to-end Web application development  Tip and tricks for avoiding common pitfalls AUDIENCE Written for Web developers with a working knowledge of the Go language. ABOUT THE TECHNOLOGY Go is a relatively new programming language created to be simple and efficient for writing backend systems. Specifically it is an excellent language for writing web applications. Since its release in 2009, Go has gained tremendous popularity as a programming language for writing *-as-a-Service (Infrastructure-as-a-Service, Platform-as-a-Service, etc.) systems. Go is currently used in production in many companies besides Google, including Dropbox, Square, GitHub, SendGrid, and many others.

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HIGHLIGHTDesign more elegant programs by mastering the Clojure programminglanguage and the philosophy behind it.DESCRIPTIONClojure is a dynamic programming language that targets the JavaVirtual Machine. The Joy of Clojure goes beyond the syntax, andshows how to write fluent, idiomatic Clojure code. Readers will learnto approach programming challenges from a Functional perspectiveand master the Lisp techniques that make Clojure so elegant andefficient.According to the authors, there's a right way to do things in Clojure.This book will help readers think about problems the Clojure way,and recognize when they simply need to change the way they program.Not just another book about programming philosophy, The Joy ofClojure tackles hard software areas like concurrency, interoperability,performance, and more.KEY POINTSF• Tells the

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HIGHLIGHT A fast-paced, hands-on tutorial that both teaches and entertains readers as they learn Flex 4 while building a complete application. DESCRIPTION Flex 4 is an open-source tool that allows developers to easily add life to web applications with dynamic user features, colorful transitions, and eye-catching animations. Flex also provides powerful data handling for industrial-strength applications. We think it should be just as much fun to learn Flex as it is to use it. And we know that fun learning gets better results. Hello! Flex 4 demonstrates how to get started without getting bogged down in technical detail or academic edge cases. In this book, User Friendly cartoon characters offer commentary and snide side comments, as the book moves quickly from Hello World into practical techniques. Each one is illustrated with a hands-on example. Along the way, readers will build a unique Flex application that mashes Yahoo Maps with Twitter to keep track of friends. KEY POINTS • Demonstrates a complete application built over the course of the book • Entertaining style with User Friendly graphics • Accessible to HTML or web developers without programming experience

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A concise introduction to Hibernate¹s many configuration and design options, this book distills Hibernate into digestible pieces with many code examples, practical usage scenarios, and coverage of the tools available to developers writing Hibernate applications. Using a crawl, walk, run teaching methodology, developers will learn what Hibernate is, what it can do, and how it can be used effectively. New Hibernate features are covered and the provided code examples are incrementally evolved as new concepts are introduced. The examples included would execute from Ant and run as JUnit test cases. An understanding of JUnit is not required and running the code as a series of test cases allows for the easily demonstrated functionality without resorting to a complicated web application. How Hibernate can work with other common development tools and frameworks like XDoclet, Struts, Webwork, Spring, and Tapestry is also discussed as well as writing mapping files and creating associations

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iBATIS in Action shows Java developers how to tackle the problem of data persistence using the elegant iBATIS framework. iBATIS helps developers solve the problem of connecting—or mapping—relational databases to object-oriented code. An extensive running example presents reusable iBATIS patterns and common solutions. The sample application shows where iBATIS fits in a typical web application as well as how iBATIS integrates with other popular frameworks like Struts. iBATIS in Action focuses on solving existing problems without introducing new ones. In addition to showing what iBATIS does, iBATIS in Action also shows how iBATIS solves problems. Readers explore the driving design philosophy behind iBATIS as presented by iBATIS creator Clinton Begin.

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How to create the next generation of cutting-edge web interfaces.Ajax exploded on the scene in the Spring of 2005 when a web site defined the term and Google released Google Maps and GMail, powerful examples of what Ajax can do. Ajax uses familiar web technologies - DHTML, CSS, DOM, and JavaScript - in radically different ways resulting in a much richer user experience. The key to success lies in knowing how to orchestrate them as a coherent whole, splitting off parts of what is normally done by the server and putting it into the browser for instantaneous response to user input. Ajax allows a new breed of web applications with the rich expressiveness of desktop applications.This book helps developers realize that promise - it explains the big picture and how to unlearn many old coding habits. It explains the design patterns and best practices to create a live interface for the user, not get in his way. It also discusses important Ajax issues: how to make good use of ne

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To create web designs that delight, entertain, and impress your users, you need to know CSS in depth!Getting good—really good—at CSS means learning everything that CSS is capable of. This totally revised new edition of CSS in Depth expands your CSS skills with the patterns, layouts, and methods you need to deliver truly beautiful front ends. In CSS in Depth, Second Edition you will learn how to:• Create a web page with layout methods • Develop essential website components, like dropdown menus and dialog boxes • Make your website fully responsive across devices • Organize your CSS for easy future maintenance • Implement designer mockups with attention to detail • Use animations to guide user focus • Avoid common CSS pitfalls The more you know about CSS, the more confident you’ll be at tackling any tricky website design! CSS in Depth has given thousand

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　 DESCRIPTION Data Science has become one of the hottest fields in technology. Firms worldwide are scrambling to find developers with data science skills to work on projects ranging from social media marketing to machine learning, but the prerequisite knowledge and experience for this career can seem bewildering. This book is designed to help anyone who wants to learn more about data science get started. Introducing Data Science teaches readers how to accomplish the fundamental tasks that occupy data scientists. They’ll use the Python language and common Python libraries as they experience firsthand the challenges of dealing with data at scale. They’ll discover how Python allows them to gain insights from huge data sets that need to be stored on multiple machines, or for data moving at such speed no single machine can handle it. After reading this book, readers will have a solid foundation to consider a career in data science. KEY SELLING POINTS Master big data with Python and become a data scientist How to use data science in a big data world Gain hands on experience with the most common Python data science libraries AUDIENCE This book assumes readers (software engineers, business intelligence reporters, database moderators, statisticians, web developers, anyone interested in Big Data) are comfortable reading code in Python or a similar language, such as C, Ruby, or JavaScript. No prior experience with data science is required. ABOUT THE TECHNOLOGY At its core, data science is a set of concepts and techniques for extracting meaning and clarity from enormous stored data sets or fast-moving data streams. Data scientists write programs to interpret these data. The Python programming language is a favorite tool of data scientists because it's easy to read and write, and it provides several high-value libraries that simplify core tasks like statistics, machine learning algorithms, and mathematics.

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Slinging excellent code is only part of what it takes to succeed as a software developer. You also need to know how to work effectively on a dev team. Code Well with Others is a best practices guide for succeeding on a software development team. Code Well with Others reveals how to optimize both your code and your career, including how to achieve a good work-life balance and write the kind of bug-free code delivered by pros. Build your understanding of testing techniques and tools, get in the habit of meaningfully commenting on code, and discover how proper refactoring can speed up how quickly you deliver features. About the TechnologyEveryone new to the software industry has had to navigate through vague job descriptions, gatekeeping colleagues, and the steep learning curve of coding as part of a team. This book shares twenty years of hard-won lessons, to show you what to expect in tech and how to overcome these common career challenges.

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Spring Boot in Practice covers dozens of handy Spring Boot development techniques, from basic functions to hidden features you probably didn't even know existed. Each recipe is built around a realworld problem, complete with a full solution and thoughtful discussion. You'll work your way from fundamentals to advanced functionalities as you take deep dives into auto-configuration, security implementation, and even support for reactive application development. Learn how to work with Spring Boot and Kotlin, handling connections for multiple platforms, and how Spring Boot can simplify building microservices and APIs. You're sure to keep this practical book on hand as a reference as you build your next Spring Boot apps. About the TechnologySpring is the most popular Java framework for building medium- to enterprise-scale applications. Spring Boot abstracts away complex configurations so you can stay focused on fulfilling business requirements. More than just a “must-learn” technology for anyone building Java-based web applications, Spring Boot has become a “must-master” framework.

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With a huge ecosystem of pre-built game assets, an enthusiastic community of fellow developers, and support for nearly every platform, Unity is a great choice to make your dream game a reality. Unity in Action, Second Edition teaches readers to write and deploy games with the Unity game development platform. Fully updated to include the latest changes to Unity, new best practices, and an entire chapter on building 2D platformers with Unity's expanded 2D toolkit, this book is essential for any aspiring game developer. Key features • Hands-on examples • Clear explanations • Excellent graphics Written for those who know how to program, in C# or a similar OO language. No previous Unity experience or game development knowledge is assumed. Unity is a professional-quality game engine used to create video games targeting a variety of platforms.

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Microservices are responsible for very tightly focused capabilities that are part of a more complex server-side software system. Microservices, when done well, are malleable, scalable, resilient, and allow a short lead time from start of implementation to deployment to production. When using microservices, the need for the technology to be lightweight and low ceremony grows, because creating new microservices needs to be quick and easy. OWIN is great for reuse of plumbing code and a lightweight web framework, like Nancy, is ideal. Microservices in .NET teaches readers how to build and deploy secure and operations-friendly microservices using Nancy. The book starts with an introduction to the microservices architectural style. Next, readers learn important practical aspects of developing microservices from simple core concepts to more sophisticated. Throughout the book, readers will see many code examples implementing it with lightweight .NET technologies—most prominently Nancy. By the end, they’ll be able to quickly and easily build reliable and operations-friendly microservices using Nancy, OWIN and other open technologies. Key Features: • Teaches practical aspects of developing microservices • Full of .NET code examples • Goes from simple core concepts through sophisticated ideas • Easily build reliable and operations-friendly microservices AUDIENCE This book is written for C# developers. No previous experience with microservices is required. ABOUT THE TECHNOLOGY Microservices are responsible for very tightly focused capabilities that are part of a more complex server-side software system. Microservices are malleable, scalable, resilient, and allow a short lead time from start of implementation to deployment to production.

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DESCRIPTION Docker is impossible to ignore. This lightweight container system is easier to deploy and more flexible than traditional VMs. Built for simplicity and speed, it radically reduces your reliance on manual system administration for tasks like configuring servers, creating disposable (and portable!) development environments, and predictably rolling out applications on unknown systems. While the idea behind Docker is simple, it can have a major impact on how software is developed and deployed. Docker in Practice is a hands-on guide to over 100 specific techniques that can be used to get the most out of Docker. Following a cookbook-style Problem/Solution/Discussion format, this practical handbook offers instantly-useful solutions for important areas like effortless server maintenance and configuration, deploying microservices, creating safe environments for experimentation, and much more. The book takes readers from Docker basics to must-have practices like integrating Docker with Continuous Integration process, automating complex container creation with Chef, and orchestration with Kubernetes. KEY SELLING POINTS Proven strategies for using Docker in dev and CI Covers common and explores two of the most important concepts Goes from development to production Walks through varied and often surprising use cases for Docker AUDIENCE Written for developers and devops engineers who have already started their Docker journey and want to use it effectively in a production setting. ABOUT THE TECHNOLOGY Docker is one of the fastest-adopted technologies in software, and when the likes of RedHat, Microsoft and VMWare all partner with a startup you know it’s going to be big. Docker is cheaper, easier, faster, and more powerful than VMs, and it will affect everyone involved in software sooner rather than later.

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DESCRIPTION To be competitive, an organization needs to reach modern standards of scalability and high availability. While Linux is an option, it’s painful to deal with the frequent operating system updates and complex configuration management. Docker, a popular container system, can reduce these manual system administration tasks. While plenty of Linux distributions support Docker, they do not handle large scale production. This is where CoreOS can help. CoreOS is an operating system designed from the ground up to facilitate container use at any scale. CoreOS in Action begins by introducing the core components, how services run in CoreOS, and the big picture of how the parts fits together. Next, readers learn how to fire up their own CoreOS cluster. Readers learn how to configure their local environment, the basics of CoreOS system administration, and follow an application deployment example. It covers how to take advantage of CoreOS's high availability and fault tolerance as well as how to plan application architecture. The book also covers operational planning for CoreOS, deployment options, and how to deal with mass storage. Readers will discover endto- end deployment of CoreOS in Amazon Web Services, and learn from real-world examples of application stacks. KEY FEATURES • User friendly book • Offers solid and practical information • Plenty of real-world examples • Fully explains how and why CoreOS operates AUDIENCE This book is for operations professionals, site reliability engineers, systems architects, or anyone who wants to learn to deploy CoreOS. ABOUT THE TECHNOLOGY CoreOS is an operating system designed from the ground up to facilitate container use at any scale. It is fault-tolerant, extremely lightweight, and highly performant. CoreOS is designed to solve a company’s scale, availability, and deployment workflow problems.

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　 For developers working with big data, it's not enough to have a theoretical understanding of Hadoop. They need to solve real challenges like analyzing real-time streams, moving data securely between storage systems, and managing large-scale clusters. The Hadoop ecosystem is constantly growing, and it's important they keep up with the new technologies and practices to stay productive and future-proof data systems. Hadoop in Practice, Second Edition provides over 100 tested, instantly-useful techniques that will help conquer big data, using Hadoop. This revised new edition covers changes and new features in the Hadoop core architecture, including MapReduce 2. Brand new chapters cover YARN, real-time use cases, and integrating Kafka, Storm, and Spark with Hadoop. There’s also a new and updated techniques for Flume, Sqoop, and Mahout, all of which have seen major new versions recently. In short, this is the most practical, up-to-date coverage of Hadoop available anywhere. 　 RETAIL SELLING POINTS Practical up-to-date coverage Over 100 practical, battle-tested Hadoop techniques Major updates to key technologies AUDIENCE Readers should be familiar with Hadoop and have experience programming in Java or another OOP language. ABOUT THE TECHNOLOGY Hadoop is an open source MapReduce platform designed to query and analyze data distributed across large clusters. Especially effective for big data systems, Hadoop powers mission-critical software at Apple, eBay, LinkedIn, Yahoo, and Facebook. It offers organizations efficient ways to store, manage, and analyze data.

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　 DESCRIPTION Technical debt is best understood as the work remaining before a job can be considered complete. It is one of the worst bottlenecks when it comes to creating value with software and the ability to deal with it is often the difference between a great business and closing the shop. The Mikado Method is a process which systematically eliminates technical debt. It gets its name from a simple game known as "pick-up sticks." Starting with a jumbled pile of sticks, the goal is to remove the Mikado, or Emperor, stick without disturbing the others. Players carefully remove sticks one at a time, leaving the rest of the heap intact, slowly exposing the Mikado. The game is a great metaphor for eliminating technical debt—carefully extracting each intertwined dependency until successfully resolving the central issue. The Mikado Method describes a pragmatic and straightforward method to plan and perform non-trivial technical improvements on an existing software system. Step by step, readers will identify the scope and nature of technical debt, map the key dependencies, and determine the safest way to approach the "Mikado"—the goal. A natural byproduct of this process is the Mikado Graph, a minimalistic, relevant, just-in-time roadmap and information radiator that reflects deep understanding of how the system works. 　 RETAIL SELLING POINTS Written by the creators of the Mikado Method Step-by-step guide with hands on examples Points out sources of technical debts AUDIENCE This book is for software developers with a basic understanding of Java or familiarity with a C-like language. No previous experience with the Mikado Method is necessary. ABOUT THE TECHNOLOGY The Mikado Method offers a way to improve software systems without breaking them or going through long periods of having a half functioning system.

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Easy-to-follow guide Real-world examples Complete coverage of HTML5 HTML5 is one of the hottest topics in the Web development community and itզs unlikely to change any time soon. Developers are keen on using a cross-platform method of development, and HTML5 fits the bill perfectly. Along with supporting technologies like CSS3, SVG, and JavaScript, it gives web developers powerful new features like local storage, better audio and video support, and standards-driven mobile application development. HTML5 in Action is a practical hands-on guide that provides a complete introduction to web development using HTML5. It provides thorough coverage of the various new features included in HTML5, from web forms and offline applications to 2D Canvas. The easy-to-follow examples ensure that readers can start using these features in their own applications on day one.

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DESCRIPTION Wanting mobile apps to run on iOS, Android, and Windows Phone doesn't mean having to write them in three different languages. Apache Cordova provides a common set of APIs to access native device functionality such as the file system, camera, and contacts from apps written in HTML, CSS and Javascript, along with a command line tool to produce the binaries required for multiple mobile platforms. Apache Cordova in Action simplifies the entire process of creating and launching hybrid mobile apps using Cordova or Phonegap. By following carefully selected examples, step by step tutorials, and crystal-clear explanations, readers will learn to build apps from the Cordova CLI and make use of device features like the camera and accelerometer. For those just learning to design mobile apps, the book discusses ways to build mobile friendly, professional-quality UI and UX. Finally, the book covers testing techniques and explains the PhoneGap Build service, along with how to submit applications to Google Play and the Apple App Store. KEY SELLING POINTS Step by step tutorials Crystal clear explanations Simplifies the entire process of app development AUDIENCE Readers need to be familiar with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. No prior experience with mobile app development is required. ABOUT THE TECHNOLOGY Cordova boasts a vibrant open source plugin ecosystem providing hooks into multiple device features and adding support for multiple different types of applications. Better still, when using Cordova with UI frameworks like jQuery Mobile, Ionic, or Sencha Touch, users can deploy their HTML based apps as native applications on any mobile device.

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It’s tedious and time-consuming to create OS-specific versions of every desktop application, especially with different set of tools for each platform. NW.js radically simplifies desktop development, providing a true cross-platform development stack built on HTML, CSS and JavaScript, Node.js modules, and the Chrome Blink engine. NW.js applications interact with the host operating system just like any other platform-native project, so developers have full access to all local files and resources. The performance is great, and best of all, it saves developers time because they only have to write one version of their application. Cross-Platform Desktop Applications guides readers step-by-step as they learn to develop NW.js desktop applications that run on Windows, OSX and Linux. They begin by getting the big picture of what NW.js can (and can’t) do. Readers test drive NW.js as they build their first desktop application. Next, they find out how to take advantage of OSspecific features like menus, system-tray apps, clipboards, and the file system. Along the way, this book teaches how to debug errors and diagnose performance bottlenecks with NW.js’s browser developer tools, package an application as a standalone executable for each OS, and even distribute it to various app stores. The book gives developers the inspiration and skills they need to code pro quality desktop applications using the web languages they already know. Key features: Step-by-step lessons Package and distribute application to a variety of app stores Develop pro quality desktop applications with web languages AUDIENCE Written for web designers and developers familiar with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. No desktop app development experience required. ABOUT THE TECHNOLOGY NW.js radically simplifies desktop development, providing a true crossplatform development stack built on HTML, CSS and JavaScript, Node.js modules, and the Chrome Blink engine.

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According to Apple, there are currently 380,000 registered iOS developers and over a billion iOS devices in use worldwide. Swift, the language of iOS development, is the fastest growing programming language. iOS Development with Swift is a hands-on guide to creating apps for iPhone and iPad using the Swift language. It starts by giving a birdseye view of how an iOS application works and what it takes to build one. With the basics well in hand, the book takes readers through progressively more challenging examples as they learn how to design iOS apps, build good layouts, handle navigation, and interact with the device’s camera. Key Features: · Hands-on guide to creating apps · Teaches the very basics · Rich in examples Written for readers with experience using a language like Java, Python, or C#. No prior iOS development or Swift experience required. About the Technology: Swift is a modern language created by Apple. In 2015 Swift was rated the most loved programming language on Stack Overflow, and it is currently ranked 17 in the programming language rankings guide of January 2016.

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In the future, there are going to be millions of jobs with no one to fill them if more kids don't learn how to code. So why aren't more kids learning to program? Some think it's too hard, and others don't have parents who can help them because they don't know programming themselves. Learning to code with a tool like Scratch, an open source programming platform maintained by MIT, and having fun goals, like writing games, just might make a difference. That's where this book comes in. Hello, Scratch! is a how-to book that helps parents and kids work together to learn programming skills by creating new versions of old retro-style arcade games with Scratch. By building games, readers not only create fun finished products, but they'll learn important programming skills along the way. By the time readers are done, they'll be able to create their own games and understand the basics of computer programming and game design. Key Features: · Introduction to Scratch · Easy to follow examples · Step-by-step guide This book is for kids and their parents who want to learn to program while creating games. No programming experience needed! About the Technology: Scratch is a drag-and-drop programming language created by the college Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). What can you make with Scratch? The short answer is anything.

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DESCRIPTION Being able to make near-real-time decisions is becoming increasingly crucial. To succeed, we need machine learning systems that can turn massive amounts of data into valuable insights. But when you're just starting out in the data science field, how do you get started creating machine learning applications? The answer is TensorFlow, a new open source machine learning library from Google. The TensorFlow library can take your high level designs and turn them into the low level mathematical operations required by machine learning algorithms. Machine Learning with TensorFlow teaches readers about machine learning algorithms and how to implement solutions with TensorFlow. It starts with an overview of machine learning concepts and moves on to the essentials needed to begin using TensorFlow. Each chapter zooms into a prominent example of machine learning. Readers can cover them all to master the basics or skip around to cater to their needs. By the end of this book, readers will be able to solve classification, clustering, regression, and prediction problems in the real world. KEY FEATURES • Lots of diagrams, code examples, and exercises • Solves real-world problems with TensorFlow • Uses well-studied neural network architectures • Presents code that can be used for the readers’ own applications AUDIENCE This book is for programmers who have some experience with Python and linear algebra concepts like vectors and matrices. No experience with machine learning is necessary. ABOUT THE TECHNOLOGY Google open-sourced their machine learning framework called TensorFlow in late 2015 under the Apache 2.0 license. Before that, it was used proprietarily by Google in its speech recognition, Search, Photos, and Gmail, among other applications. TensorFlow is one the most popular machine learning libraries.

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DESCRIPTION The Oculus Rift is an exciting next generation VR headset developed by OculusVR. Whether it's in a game, an architectural walk-through, or a teaching simulation, the goal of any immersive virtual reality experience is to make users feel like they're in the middle of the action. With precise, high-quality optics and a flexible programmatic interface, the Rift provides real-life field of view and head tracking hardware for natural interaction that finally nails the feeling of being there. Oculus Rift in Action introduces the powerful Oculus Rift headset and shows how to integrate its many features into 3D games and other virtual reality experiences. First, it discusses the capabilities of the Rift hardware. Then, it provides interesting and instantly-relevant examples that walk readers through programming real applications using the Oculus SDK. Along the way, the book offers practical guidance on using the Rift's sensors to produce a natural, fluid, immersive 3D experience; readers will be ready to hit the ground running with the first VR killer app when the consumer Rift is released! RETAIL SELLING POINTS An in depth guide for creating immersive VR experiences Shows the right way to create compelling VR applications Plenty of useful examples with detailed instructions AUDIENCE Readers can use this book even if they don't yet own the Oculus Rift hardware. Some experience with C++ or another OO language is required for the programming examples. No previous knowledge of optics, display, or motion tracking is expected. ABOUT THE TECHNOLOGY The Oculus Rift is a VR headset with a field comparable to what you'd get if you surrounded yourself with an array of a dozen monitors. Combined with the wide field of view, it includes head-tracking hardware so that when you turn your head, the view automatically changes, creating a feeling of 'really being there'.

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Master Java persistence using the industry-leading tools Spring Data and Hibernate. In Java Persistence with Spring Data and Hibernate you will learn: Mapping persistent classes, value types, and inheritance Mapping collections and entity associations Processing transactions with Spring Data and Hibernate Creating fetch plans, strategies, and profiles Filtering data Building Spring Data REST projects Using Java persistence with non-relational databases Querying JPA with QueryDSL Testing Java persistence applications Java Persistence with Spring Data and Hibernate teaches you the ins-and-outs of Java persistence with hands-on examples using Spring Data, JPA and Hibernate. The book carefully analyzes the capabilities of the major Java persistence tools, and guides you through the most common use cases. You'll learn how to make and utilize mapping strategies, and efficiently test Java persistence applications. The practical techniques are demonstrated with both relational and non-relational databases. about the technology Persistence enables an application's data to exist for the long term, even after a program is stopped or terminated. Whether you're saving state from session to session or maintaining long-term records, Java persistence tools like Spring Data, JPA, and Hibernate help deliver the object relational mapping that connects code's objects with your database. about the book Java Persistence with Spring Data and Hibernate explores persistence with the most popular available tools. You'll benefit from detailed coverage of Spring Data JPA, Spring Data JDBC, Spring Data REST, JPA, and Hibernate, comparing and contrasting the alternatives so you can pick what's best for your code. Begin with a hands-on introduction to object-relational mapping (ORM), then dive into mapping strategies for linking up objects and your database. You'll learn about the different approach to transactions for both Hibernate and Spring Data, and even how to deliver Java persistence with non-relational databases. Finally, you'll explore testing strategies for persistent applications to keep your code clean and bug free.

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Secure your Azure applications the right way with the expert DevSecOps techniques you'll learn in this essential handbook. For software and security engineers building and securing Azure applications. In Azure Security you'll learn vital security skills, including how to: Configure Conditional Access policies to implement secure access Implement Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF) on Application Gateway and Azure Front Door Deploy Azure Firewall Premium to monitor network activities for malicious activity Enable Microsoft Defender for Cloud to continuously assess your workloads for misconfiguration Use Microsoft Sentinel to create analytics rules to detect threats and suspicious activity Set up Azure Policy to ensure that resource states and deployment is compliant with your business rules About the technology Attacks against cloud-based applications are increasingly common and sophisticated. It's vital for any developer or resource owner to understand how to properly configure their Azure cloud environments and establish reliable security best practices. The Azure platform comes with dozens of built-in security tools to help keep your systems safe. This book will teach you exactly how to set them up for maximum effectiveness.

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Learn the hands-on skills you need to ace the Kubernetes exam and boost your career by becoming a Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA). For readers who know the basics of containers and Linux admin. No Kubernetes experience is required. Acing the Certified Kubernetes Administrator Exam will provide you with content and practical exercises according to the unique CKA test environment. This practical book takes you hands-on with all the exam objectives, including deploying containerised applications to Kubernetes, accessing an application from an ingress resource, backup and restoring. You will learn how to: Administer an application running on Kubernetes Troubleshoot errors inside a Kubernetes cluster Authenticate users and machines to the Kubernetes API Create persistent storage in Kubernetes Add additional functionality to an existing Kubernetes cluster Plus! Essential exam tips and exercises help you work out your mental muscle memory. Acing the Certified Kubernetes Administrator Exam is your fast track to becoming a Certified Kubernetes Administrator! Your expert exam tutor is Chad Crowell, whose courses have helped thousands of developers to understand Kubernetes and earn the coveted CKA certification. About the technology The Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) exam proves your skills as a Kubernetes administrator and is a serious test of your competency. There are no multiple-choice questions or essays: the whole test is conducted from the command line, with you performing solutions directly in the terminal. Administered by the Linux Foundation, the certification is recognised by employers worldwide as a proof of your ability to configure and manage production-grade Kubernetes clusters.

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Build your first robots with Python and some cheap, basic components. This entertaining book guides you step by step! In Build Your Own Robot you''ll learn how to: Use cameras to capture photos and let your robot see Track faces using computer vision and OpenCV Control DC motors to drive your robot around Create a web-based app to control your robot over a network Write code for joysticks Read QR codes with your robot to find and identify objects About the technology There''s nothing quite like watching your code come alive in the real world. Robotics is a fun, fascinating discipline that lets you do just that. In this guide, you''ll build some fun robotic toys that will teach you serious robotics engineering skills like computer vision, networking, and computation.

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Dodge the common mistakes that even senior developers make, take full advantage of static analysis tools, and deliver robust and error-free Java code.Whenever you make a mistake writing Java, it''s almost guaranteed that someone else has made it before! In 100 Java Mistakes and How To Avoid Them you''ll learn about the common and the not-so-common antipatterns, errors, and tricky bits that trip up almost every Java developer.Inside 100 Java Mistakes and How To Avoid Them you will learn how to: Write better Java programs Recognize common mistakes during programming Create fewer bugs and save time for debugging and testing Get help from static analyzers during programming Configure static analysis tools to reduce the number of false reports Extend static analysis tools with custom plugins Each Java mistake in this handy guide comes with an illustrative c

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Create bulletproof, high-performance web apps and servers with Rust. In Rust Web Development you will learn: Handling the borrow checker in an asynchronous environment Creating web APIs and using JSON in Rust Graceful error handling Testing, tracing, logging, and debugging Deploying Rust applications Efficient database access Rust Web Development is a hands-on guide to building server-based web applications with Rust. If you've built web servers using Java, C#, or PHP, you'll instantly fall in love with the performance and development experience Rust delivers. This book shows you how to work efficiently using pure Rust, along with important Rust libraries such as tokio for async runtimes, warp for web servers and APIs, and reqwest to run external HTTP requests. about the technology Web development languages and libraries can be resource hungry, with poor safety for maintaining vital web services. Rust services perform better and guarantee better safety. Plus, Rust's awesome compiler gives you an amazing developer experience. You'll get the speed of low-level programming languages like C along with the ease-of-use you'd expect from high-level languages Python or Ruby, with a super strong compiler that automatically prevents common mistakes such as null pointers. about the book In Rust Web Development, you'll learn to build server-side web applications using the Rust language and its key libraries. If you know the basics of Rust, you'll quickly pick up some pro tips for setting up your projects and organizing your code. This book gets you hands-on fast, with numerous small and large examples. You'll get up to speed with how Rust streamlines backend development, implements authentication flows, and even makes it easier for your APIs to interact. As you go, you'll build a complete Q&A web service and iterate on your code chapter-by-chapter, just like a real development project. RETAIL SELLING POINTS • Handling the borrow checker in an asynchronous environment • Creating web APIs and using JSON in Rust • Graceful error handling • Testing, tracing, logging, and debugging • Deploying Rust applications • Efficient database access AUDIENCE For experienced web developers familiar with Java, Node, or Go, and the absolute basics of Rust

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"Do you want to learn how to creat your own virtual agent? If so, have I got the book for you!" - Thomas Joseph Heiman Design, develop, and deploy human-like AI solutions that chat with your customers, solve their problems, and streamline your support services. Creating Virtual Assistants: Chatbots that work teaches you to create the kind of AI-enabled chatbots that are revolutionizing the customer service industry. You'll learn to build effective conversational AI that can automate common inquiries and easily address your customers' most common problems. In Creating Virtual Assistants, you will learn how to: Pick the right virtual assistant type and channel for your needsWrite dialog with intentional tone and specificityTrain a virtual assistant classifier from the ground upCreate question-and-direct-response assistantsDesign and optimize a process flow for web and voiceTest your assistant's accuracy and plan out improvements This engaging and entertaining book delivers the essential technical and creative skills for designing successful virtual assistants, from coding process flows and training machine learning, to improving your written dialog. about the technologyVirtual assistants multiply the effectiveness of customer-facing communication. Great chatbots automate common tasks like gathering information, responding to questions, and improving product selections so human staff can work on more challenging problems. These powerful tools range from event classifiers that can act on an email message to conversational assistants that actually talk to your users! about the bookCreating Virtual Assistants is a hands-on guide to building custom virtual assistants for a wide variety of use cases. You'll dive right into developing an assistant capable of identifying top user requests and making a suitable response for each request type. Once you've got the basics, you'll master a multi-step process flow that can be easily adapted for both text and voice assistants. You'll learn how to hone your assistant by writing better dialog, training and improving its underlying machine learning, and spotting issues like abandonment and underperformance. By the time you're done, you'll be ready to deploy anything from a simple chatbot to a complex call center tool. about the readerFor software developers. Examples in Watson Assistant and in Python. about the authorAndrew R. Freed is a Master Inventor and Senior Technical Staff Member at IBM. He's the co-host of the AI Zen podcast. Andrew has extensive experience deploying high-volume virtual assistants and has been working in AI solutions since 2012.

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Kickstart a career in cyber security by learning how to adapt your existing technical and non-technical skills with Cyber Defenders' CareerGuide. Cyber Defenders' Career Guide unlocks your pathway to becoming a great security practitioner. You'll learn how toreliably enter the security field and quickly grow into your new career, following clear, practical advice that's based on research and interviews with hundreds of hiring managers. Author Alyssa Miller has spent over adecade in cyber security leadership and talent development, and she shares her unique perspective in this revealing industry guide. By some estimates, there are over 4 million unfilled jobs in cybersecurity. This important field is growing fast, with a huge demand for skilled recruits. But where do you start? How can you know you're ready? This book isyour invaluable guide to starting and navigating a rewarding security career.

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Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning is a practical guide to keeping ML data anonymous and secure. You'll learn the core principles behind different privacy preservation technologies, and how to put theory into practice for your own machine learning. Complex privacy-enhancing technologies are demystified through real world use cases forfacial recognition, cloud data storage, and more. Alongside skills for technical implementation, you'll learn about current and future machine learning privacy challenges and how to adapt technologies to your specific needs. By the time you're done, you'll be able to create machine learning systems that preserve user privacy without sacrificing data quality and model performance. Large-scale scandals such as the Facebook Cambridge Analytic a data breach have made many users wary of sharing sensitive and personal information. Demand has surged among machine learning engineers for privacy-preserving techniques that can keep users private details secure without adversely affecting the performance of models.

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Building and training deep learning models from scratch is costly, time-consuming, and requires massive amounts of data. To address this concern, cutting-edge transfer learning techniques enable you to start with pretrained models you can tweak to meet your exact needs. In Transfer Learning for Natural Language Processing, DARPA researcher Paul Azunre takes you hands-on with customizing these open source resources for your own NLP architectures. You’ll learn how to use transfer learning to deliver state-of-the-art results even when working with limited label data, all while saving on training time and computational costs. about the technologyTransfer learning enables machine learning models to be initialized with existing prior knowledge. Initially pioneered in computer vision, transfer learning techniques have been revolutionising Natural Language Processing with big reductions in the training time and computation power needed for a model to start delivering results. Emerging pretrained language models such as ELMo and BERT have opened up new possibilities for NLP developers working in machine translation, semantic analysis, business analytics, and natural language generation. about the book Transfer Learning for Natural Language Processing is a practical primer to transfer learning techniques capable of delivering huge improvements to your NLP models. Written by DARPA researcher Paul Azunre, this practical book gets you up to speed with the relevant ML concepts before diving into the cutting-edge advances that are defining the future of NLP. You’ll learn how to adapt existing state-of-the art models into real-world applications, including building a spam email classifier, a movie review sentiment analyzer, an automated fact checker, a question-answering system and a translation system for low-resource languages. what's inside Fine tuning pretrained models with new domain data Picking the right model to reduce resource usage Transfer learning for neural network architectures Foundations for exploring NLP academic literature about the readerFor machine learning engineers and data scientists with some experience in NLP. about the author Paul Azunre holds a PhD in Computer Science from MIT and has served as a Principal Investigator on several DARPA research programs. He founded Algorine Inc., a Research Lab dedicated to advancing AI/ML and identifying scenarios where they can have a significant social impact. Paul also co-founded Ghana NLP, an open source initiative focused using NLP and Transfer Learning with Ghanaian and other low-resource languages. He frequently contributes to major peer-reviewed international research journals and serves as a program committee member at top conferences in the field.

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Most businesses are far more interested in accurate forecasting and fraud detection using their existing structured datasets than identifying cats in YouTube videos. Powerful deep learning techniques can efficiently extract insight from the kind of structured data collected by most businesses and organisations. Deep learning offers the potential to identify complex patterns and relationships hidden in data of all sorts. Deep Learning with Structured Data shows you how to apply powerful deep learning analysis techniques to the kind of structured, tabular data you'll find in the relational databases that real-world businesses depend on. Filled with practical, relevant applications, this book teaches you how deep learning can augment your existing machine learning and business intelligence systems. • The benefits and drawbacks of deep learning • Organizing data for your deep learning model • The deep learning stack • Measuring performance of your models For readers with an intermediate knowledge of Python, Jupyter notebooks, and machine learning.

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Azure Data Engineering teaches you how to design a reliable, performant, and cost-effective data infrastructure in Azure by progressively building a complete working analytics system. Readers should be comfortable with RDBMS systems like SQL Server and scripting using a language like PowerShell, Bash, or Python. Book examples use PowerShell and C#. The Microsoft Azure cloud is an ideal platform for data-intensive applications. Designed for productivity, Azure provides pre-built services that make collection, storage, and analysis much easier to implement and manage. The Microsoft Azure cloud platform can host virtually any sort of computing task, from simple web applications to full-scale enterprise systems. With many pre-built services for everything from data storage to advanced machine learning, Azure offers all the building blocks for scalable big data analysis systems including ingestion, processing, querying, and migration. • Azure cloud services architecture • Building a data warehouse in Azure • How to choose the right Azure technology for your task • Calculating fixed and variable costs • Hot and cold path analytics Richard Nuckolls is a senior developer building a big data analytics and reporting system in Azure. During his nearly 20 years of experience, he’s done server and database administration, desktop and web development, and more recently has led teams in building a production content management system in Azure.

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Description Vue.js is one of the fastest growing and most popular open-source JavaScript frameworks around. Vue's meteoric success is found in its simplicity and short learning curve, but few resources are available to teach you how to test a Vue application effectively and efficiently. Testing Vue.js Applications is a comprehensive guide to testing Vue components, methods, events, and output. Author Edd Yerburgh, creator of the Vue testing utility avoriaz, teaches readers how to set up effective testing practices. Key features · Creating and testing Vue mixins · Building and testing component output, method, and events · Running unit tests, snapshot tests, and end to end tests in Jest Audience Written for developers with an intermediate knowledge of JavaScript, HTML, and CSS and a basic understanding of Vue.js. Some experience with ES6 is helpful, but not required. About the technology Vue is a powerful web framework that changes the way you build web UI. To test applications built with Vue, you need to master a new set of tools and techniques designed to work with Vue's unique reactive design and the flexible collection of components that make up the Vue stack. Edd Yerburgh is an experienced JavaScript developer and Vue core contributor. He is the main author of the official Vue test library and a prominent figure in the Vue testing community.

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Description Aurelia is a web framework that makes it much easier to create single page web applications. Aurelia was written with ES6, so modern JavaScript design principles are baked in from the ground level. Aurelia in Action teaches readers how to build fantastic single page applications with the Aurelia framework. By the end of the book, readers will be able to tune, secure, and deploy their finished SPAs, giving them everything they need to create modern web apps for a modern world. Key features · Step-by-step instructions · Hands-on examples · Clear introduction Audience Written for developers comfortable with JavaScript and MVC-style web development. Some experience with ES6 is helpful, but not required. About the technology Adopting a Rails-like convention-over-configuration mindset, Aurelia makes it a snap to start even complex projects, because the most common design principles and best practices are implemented in new projects by default. Author biography Sean Hunter is a software developer in Melbourne, Australia with 9 years of web development experience.

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