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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This book teaches you how to create empirical evidence in support of business and technology decisions. It¿s about not guessing when you should be measuring. Empirical testing is scientific testing that delivers measurable results. Begin with a hypothesis about the impact of a possible architecture or technology change. Then run the appropriate benchmarks to gather data and predict whether the change yoüre exploring will be beneficial, and by what order of magnitude. Stop guessing. Start measuring. Let Database Benchmarking and Stress Testing show the way.APress in Springer Science + Business Media, Heidelberger Platz 3, 14197 Berlin 260 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Create descriptors and see ideas and examples of how to use descriptors effectively. In this short book, yoüll explore descriptors in general, with a deep explanation of what descriptors are, how they work, and how they're used. Once you understand the simplicity of the descriptor protocol, the author delves into using and creating descriptors in practice, with plenty of tips, patterns, and real-world guidance. Because descriptors are inherently flexible, yoüll work with multiple examples illustrating how to best take advantage of them.APress in Springer Science + Business Media, Heidelberger Platz 3, 14197 Berlin 112 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The Internet of Things is causing major industry disruption, so companies need to plan and manage their ¿IoT journey¿ to maximize all business opportunities. In this book companies can learn how to successfully create, launch and manage Internet of Things services.APress in Springer Science + Business Media, Heidelberger Platz 3, 14197 Berlin 292 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Yoüll find interviews in this book with database administrators, database programmers, data architects, business intelligence professionals, and analytics professionals. Interviewees work across industry sectors ranging from healthcare and banking tofinance and transportation and beyond. Each chapter illuminates a successful professional at the top of their game, who shares what helped them get to the top, and what skills and attitudes combine to make them successful in their respective fields.APress in Springer Science + Business Media, Heidelberger Platz 3, 14197 Berlin 376 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Explore the Ethereum ecosystem step by step with extensive theory, labs, and live use cases. This book takes you through BlockChain concepts; decentralized applications; Ethereum¿s architecture; Solidity smart contract programming with examples; and testing, debugging, and deploying smart contracts on your local machine and on the cloud. Yoüll cover best practices for writing contracts with ample examples to allow you to write high-quality contracts with optimal usage of fuel. In later chapters, Ethereum for Architects and Developers covers use cases from different business areas, such as finance, travel, supply-chain, insurance, and land registry. Many of these sectors are explained with flowcharts, diagrams, and sample code that you can refer to and further enhance in live projects.APress in Springer Science + Business Media, Heidelberger Platz 3, 14197 Berlin 292 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Deploy a SharePoint farm in a repeatable, predictable, and reliable fashion using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) techniques to automate provisioning. Savvy IT pros will learn how to use DevOps practices and open source tools to greatly reduce costs, and streamline management operations for SharePoint farms deployed via Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, or on premise.DevOps for SharePoint will help you navigate the complex challenges of deploying and managing SharePoint Server farms. You will learn how to reduce time-consuming tasks and errors when generating development, testing, or production environments. And you will benefit from learning proven methods to apply Microsoft updates with minimal downtime and productivity loss. Whether you are a SharePoint architect, IT pro, or developer helping customers with the SharePoint platform, this book will teach you the most useful DevOps practices to tackle those issues and broaden your skill set.What Yoüll LearnUnderstand the basics of the most popular open source tools¿Vagrant, Packer, Terraform, and Ansible¿and how to use them in the context of deploying and scaling a SharePoint farmUse Vagrant to build SharePoint development environments in less than an hour, and add automated testingUse Packer to create a ¿golden image¿ with preconfigured settings, and then use it as the base image in your Terraform configuration for both AWS and Azure farmsUse Terraform to scale your SharePoint farm topologyUse Red Hat¿s Ansible Playbooks to perform configuration management on your farmUse Terraform to deploy immutable infrastructure environments using IaC (Infrastructure as Code)Use InSpec 2.0 to stay in compliance by testing your cloud infrastructureUse Ansible to apply Microsoft updates and patchesWho This Book Is ForIT pros and developers whoare looking to expand their knowledge and take a modern approach by using open source technologies to work with Microsoft products. Experience installing SharePoint, and a basic understanding of either Azure or AWS, is helpful.APress in Springer Science + Business Media, Heidelberger Platz 3, 14197 Berlin 256 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Know how to lead and establish business agility in your organization. Benefit from clear, actionable steps based on change management truths that have been long underutilized and have limited the success of agile expansion into your business. This book provides a pragmatic framework for leading your business toward shifting to an agile mindset.Achieving Business Agility offers strategies and concrete examples to engage business executives and will teach you how to effectively execute these strategies. Whether you are a delivery executive, a change advocate, a consultant, a business leader, or a newcomer to agile, you will learn clear actions from a practical, business-oriented perspective that is vital to effect change and bring agile into your business.The book is structured in three sections. The first provides you with a deep understanding of each of four strategies. The second section tells the story of a company that applied these strategies through the eyes of several key players. The last section helps you get started applying what you learned in your own company.What Yoüll LearnGet the attention of your executives by alerting them to a company problem that can impact them personally and create a sense of urgency to address itCollaborate with your executives in a way that gets them to open up and to see how their operating model is a contributing cause to the company problemDemonstrate how your executives can specifically benefit from a new agile business operating model and address the company problemCreate a reinforcement structure on a larger scale to establish agile as the new standard operating model in your organizationWho This Book Is ForManagers, business leaders, and consultants at/for large enterprises or small startups who want their company to better compete in today¿s fast-moving markets that present threats and opportunities at every turn. No agile expertise is required.APress in Springer Science + Business Media, Heidelberger Platz 3, 14197 Berlin 236 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Yoüll learn how even a short TLA+ spec can find critical bugs. Start by getting your feet wet with an example of TLA+ used in a bank transfer system, to see how it helps you design, test, and build a better application. Then, get some fundamentals of TLA+ operators, logic, functions, PlusCal, models, and concurrency. Along the way you will discover how to organize your blueprints and how to specify distributed systems and eventual consistency.APress in Springer Science + Business Media, Heidelberger Platz 3, 14197 Berlin 248 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Build machine learning (ML) solutions for Java development. This book shows you that when designing ML apps, data is the key driver and must be considered throughout all phases of the project life cycle. Practical Java Machine Learning helps you understand the importance of data and how to organize it for use within your ML project. You will be introduced to tools which can help you identify and manage your data including JSON, visualization, NoSQL databases, and cloud platforms including Google Cloud Platform and Amazon Web Services.APress in Springer Science + Business Media, Heidelberger Platz 3, 14197 Berlin 416 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Use DevOps principles with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to develop applications and services. This book builds chapter by chapter to a complete real-life scenario, explaining how to build, monitor, and maintain a complete application using DevOps in practice.APress in Springer Science + Business Media, Heidelberger Platz 3, 14197 Berlin 296 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Design an enterprise solution from scratch that allows the migration of a legacy application. Begin with the planning and design phase and be guided through all the stages of selecting the architecture framework that fits your enterprise.Join Microsoft MVP Josh Garverick as he addresses all major areas of design and implementation¿application, infrastructure, data, security, and deployment¿while leveraging the power and tools of Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) to bring DevOps to the forefront.With an emphasis on principles and best practices of enterprise design, you will discover how to recognize existing patterns within the legacy platform and to identify potential risks, bottlenecks, and candidates for automation.What Yoüll LearnAccurately and completely capture baseline information about a legacy systemLeverage enterprise patterns for constructing next-generation platforms in the cloudDesign, plan,and implement deployment pipelines to enable continuous deliveryIdentify and implement cloud-based platform components to reduce total cost of ownershipUnderstand testing and validation: iterative component authoring, monitoring, deployment, and performancePrice and perform capacity planning for cloud-based infrastructure and workloadsWho This Book Is ForEnterprise architects and IT professionals who are required to keep legacy applications relevant in today¿s cloud-first worldAPress in Springer Science + Business Media, Heidelberger Platz 3, 14197 Berlin 324 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Build, test, and tune financial, insurance or other market trading systems using C++ algorithms and statistics. Yoüve had an idea and have done some preliminary experiments, and it looks promising. Where do you go from here Well, this book discusses and dissects this case study approach.Seemingly good backtest performance isn't enough to justify trading real money. You need to perform rigorous statistical tests of the system's validity. Then, if basic tests confirm the quality of your idea, you need to tune your system, not just for best performance, but also for robust behavior in the face of inevitable market changes. Next, you need to quantify its expected future behavior, assessing how bad its real-life performance might actually be, and whether you can live with that. Finally, you need to find its theoretical performance limits so you know if its actual trades conform to this theoretical expectation, enabling you to dump the system if it does not liveup to expectations.This book does not contain any sure-fire, guaranteed-riches trading systems. Those are a dime a dozen. But if you have a trading system, this book will provide you with a set of tools that will help you evaluate the potential value of your system, tweak it to improve its profitability, and monitor its on-going performance to detect deterioration before it fails catastrophically. Any serious market trader would do well to employ the methods described in this book.What You Will LearnSee how the 'spaghetti-on-the-wall' approach to trading system development can be done legitimatelyDetect overfitting early in developmentEstimate the probability that your system's backtest results could have been due to just good luckRegularize a predictive model so it automatically selects an optimal subset of indicator candidatesRapidly find the global optimum for any type of parameterized trading systemAssess the ruggedness of your trading system against market changesEnhance the stationarity and information content of your proprietary indicatorsNest one layer of walkforward analysis inside another layer to account for selection bias in complex trading systemsCompute a lower bound on your system's mean future performanceBound expected periodic returns to detect on-going system deterioration before it becomes severeEstimate the probability of catastrophic drawdownWho This Book Is ForExperienced C++ programmers, developers, and software engineers. Prior experience with rigorous statistical procedures to evaluate and maximize the quality of systems is recommended as well.APress in Springer Science + Business Media, Heidelberger Platz 3, 14197 Berlin 332 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Jump right into the pro-level guts of the Raspberry Pi with complete schematics and detailed hardware explanations as your guide. You'll tinker with runlevels, reporting voltages and temperatures, and work on a variety of project examples that you can tune for your own project ideas.This book is fully updated for the latest Pi boards with three chapters dedicated to GPIO to help you master key aspects of the Raspberry Pi. You'll work with Linux driver information and explore the different Raspberry Pi models, including the Pi Zero, Pi Zero W, Pi 2, Pi3 B and Pi3 B+. You'll also review a variety of project examples that you can tune for your own project ideas. Other topics covered include the 1-Wire driver interface, how to configure a serial Linux console, and cross-compile code, including the Linux kernel.You'll find yourself turning to Advanced Raspberry Pi over and over again for both inspiration and reference. Whether you're an electronics professional, an entrepreneurial maker, or just looking for more detailed information on the Raspberry Pi, this is exactly the book for you.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 552 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Provide evidence-based answers that can be measured and relied upon by your business. Database administrators will be able to make sound architectural decisions in a fast-changing landscape of virtualized servers and container-based solutions based on the empirical method presented in this book for answering 'what if' questions about database performance.Today's database administrators face numerous questions such as:What if we consolidate databases using multitenant features What if we virtualize database servers as Docker containers What if we deploy the latest in NVMe flash disks to speed up IO access Do features such as compression, partitioning, and in-memory OLTP earn back their price What if we move our databases to the cloud As an administrator, do you know the answers or even how to test the assumptions Database Benchmarking and Stress Testing introduces you to database benchmarking using industry-standard test suites such as the TCP series of benchmarks, which are the same benchmarks that vendors rely upon. You'll learn to run these industry-standard benchmarks and collect results to use in answering questions about the performance impact of architectural changes, technology changes, and even down to the brand of database software. You'll learn to measure performance and predict the specific impact of changes to your environment. You'll know the limitations of the benchmarks and the crucial difference between benchmarking and workload capture/reply.This book teaches you how to create empirical evidence in support of business and technology decisions. It's about not guessing when you should be measuring. Empirical testing is scientific testing that delivers measurable results. Begin with a hypothesis about the impact of a possible architecture or technology change. Then run the appropriate benchmarks to gather data and predict whether the change you're exploring will be beneficial, and by what order of magnitude. Stop guessing. Start measuring. Let Database Benchmarking and Stress Testing show the way.What You'll LearnUnderstand the industry-standard database benchmarks, and when each is best usedPrepare for a database benchmarking effort so reliable results can be achievedPerform database benchmarking for consolidation, virtualization, and cloud projectsRecognize and avoid common mistakes in benchmarking database performanceMeasure and interpret results in a rational, concise manner for reliable comparisonsChoose and provide advice on benchmarking tools based on their pros and consWho This Book Is ForDatabase administrators and professionals responsible for advising on architectural decisions such as whether to use cloud-based services, whether to consolidate and containerize, and who must make recommendations on storage or any other technology that impacts database performance 260 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Enjoy reading interviews with more than two dozen data professionals to see a picture of what it's like to work in the industry managing and analyzing data, helping you to know what it takes to move from your current expertise into one of the fastest growing areas of technology today. Data is the hottest word of the century, and data professionals are in high demand. You may already be a data professional such as a database administrator or business intelligence analyst. Or you may be one of the many people who want to work as a data professional, and are curious how to get there. Either way, this collection helps you understand how data professionals work, what makes them successful, and what they do to keep up.You'll find interviews in this book with database administrators, database programmers, data architects, business intelligence professionals, and analytics professionals. Interviewees work across industry sectors ranging from healthcare and banking to finance and transportation and beyond. Each chapter illuminates a successful professional at the top of their game, who shares what helped them get to the top, and what skills and attitudes combine to make them successful in their respective fields. Interviewees in the book include: Mindy Curnutt, Julie Smith, Kenneth Fisher, Andy Leonard, Jes Borland, Kevin Feasel, Ginger Grant, Vicky Harp, Kendra Little, Jason Brimhall, Tim Costello, Andy Mallon, Steph Locke, Jonathan Stewart, Joseph Sack, John Q. Martin, John Morehouse, Kathi Kellenberger, Argenis Fernandez, Kirsten Benzel, Tracy Boggiano, Dave Walden, Matt Gordon, Jimmy May, Drew Furgiuele, Marlon Ribunal, and Joseph Fleming. All of them have been successful in their careers, and share their perspectives on working and succeeding in the field as data and database professionals. What You'll Learn Stand out as an outstanding professional in your area of data work by developing the right set of skills and attitudes that lead to successAvoid common mistakes and pitfalls, and recover from operational failures and bad technology decisionsUnderstand current trends and best practices, and stay out in front as the field evolvesBreak into working with data through database administration, business intelligence, or any of the other career paths represented in this bookManage stress and develop a healthy work-life balance no matter which career path you decide uponChoose a suitable path for yourself from among the different career paths in working with data Who This Book Is For Database administrators and developers, database and business intelligence architects, consultants, and analytic professionals, as well as those intent on moving into one of those career paths. Aspiring data professionals and those in related technical fields who want to make a move toward managing or analyzing data on a full-time basis will find the book useful. Existing data professionals who want to be outstanding and successful at what they do will also appreciate the book's advice and guidance. 376 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The Internet of Things is causing major industry disruption, so companies need to plan and manage their 'IoT journey' to maximize all business opportunities. In this book companies can learn how to successfully create, launch and manage Internet of Things services.It takes the reader through the process of specifying, implementing, and deploying IoT services; detailing how to scale and manage an IoT business. It introduces the fundamentals of IoT services, explaining IoT service building blocks and the key factors to be considered in the design of IoT services.Moving into the IoT field requires speed. This book provides a fast track approach to IoT; summarizing the global experiences of the author, detailing the discussions, mistakes, successes, learnings and conclusions.Building an Internet of Things Serviceenables readers to accelerate their own on-boarding in their IoT journey.What You'll LearnCreate new IoT ServicesReview the basic IoTconcepts and business implications you need to know as you embark on your IoT journeySolve the major challenges presented by the IoTdisruption.Accelerate your own on-boarding in their IoT journey.Who This Book Is ForThe primary audience is made up of business executives and IoT startups. The secondary audience is students studying IoT in universities and those interested in understanding the fundamentals of an IoT business. No technical background is required. 292 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Create descriptors and see ideas and examples of how to use descriptors effectively. In this short book, you'll explore descriptors in general, with a deep explanation of what descriptors are, how they work, and how they're used. Once you understand the simplicity of the descriptor protocol, the author delves into using and creating descriptors in practice, with plenty of tips, patterns, and real-world guidance. Because descriptors are inherently flexible, you'll work with multiple examples illustrating how to best take advantage of them.This second edition includes additions throughout, including new material covering the set_name_() descriptors, new and improved flowcharts to explain the inner workings of descriptors, and a completely new chapter to address instance-level attributes, the easiest way to create descriptors correctly the first time.Although brief, Python Descriptors is a comprehensive guide to creating Python descriptors, including a pip install-able library called descriptor_tools, which was written alongside this book and is an open source library on GitHub. After reading this book, you will have a solid understanding of how descriptors work and the techniques to avoid the big gotchas associated with working with them.What You Will LearnDiscover descriptor protocolsMaster attribute access and how it applies to descriptorsBuild your own descriptorsUse descriptors to store attributesCreate read-only descriptorsExplore the descriptor classesApply the other uses of descriptorsWho This Book Is ForExperienced Python coders, programmers, and developers. 112 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Deploy a SharePoint farm in a repeatable, predictable, and reliable fashion using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) techniques to automate provisioning. Savvy IT pros will learn how to use DevOps practices and open source tools to greatly reduce costs, and streamline management operations for SharePoint farms deployed via Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, or on premise. DevOps for SharePointwill help you navigate the complex challenges of deploying and managing SharePoint Server farms. You will learn how to reduce time-consuming tasks and errors when generating development, testing, or production environments. And you will benefit from learning proven methods to apply Microsoft updates with minimal downtime and productivity loss. Whether you are a SharePoint architect, IT pro, or developer helping customers with the SharePoint platform, this book will teach you the most useful DevOps practices to tackle those issues and broaden your skill set.What You'll LearnUnderstand the basics of the most popular open source tools-Vagrant, Packer, Terraform, and Ansible-and how to use them in the context of deploying and scaling a SharePoint farmUse Vagrant to build SharePoint development environments in less than an hour, and add automated testingUse Packer to create a 'golden image' with preconfigured settings, and then use it as the base image in your Terraform configuration for both AWS and Azure farmsUse Terraform to scale your SharePoint farm topologyUse Red Hat's Ansible Playbooks to perform configuration management on your farmUse Terraform to deploy immutable infrastructure environments using IaC (Infrastructure as Code)Use InSpec 2.0 to stay in compliance by testing your cloud infrastructureUse Ansible to apply Microsoft updates and patches Who This Book Is ForIT pros and developers who are looking to expand their knowledge and take a modern approach by using open source technologies to work with Microsoft products. Experience installing SharePoint, and a basic understanding of either Azure or AWS, is helpful. 256 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Explore the Ethereum ecosystem step by step with extensive theory, labs, and live use cases. This book takes you through BlockChain concepts; decentralized applications; Ethereum's architecture; Solidity smart contract programming with examples; and testing, debugging, and deploying smart contracts on your local machine and on the cloud. You'll cover best practices for writing contracts with ample examples to allow you to write high-quality contracts with optimal usage of fuel. In later chapters, Ethereum for Architects and Developers covers use cases from different business areas, such as finance, travel, supply-chain, insurance, and land registry. Many of these sectors are explained with flowcharts, diagrams, and sample code that you can refer to and further enhance in live projects.By the end of the book, you will have enough information to use Ethereum to create value for your business processes and build foolproof data storage for smoother execution of business.What You Will LearnDiscover key BlockChain conceptsMaster the architecture, building blocks, and ecosystem of EthereumDevelop smart contracts from scratchDebug, test, and deploy to testTake advantage of Ethereum in your business areaWho This Book Is ForBlockChain developers and architects wanting to develop decentralized Ethereum applications or learn its architecture. 292 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Learn how to manage and integrate the technology of 3D printers in the classroom, library, and lab. With this book, the authors give practical, lessons-learned advice about the nuts and bolts of what happens when you mix 3D printers, teachers, students, and the general public in environments ranging from K-12 and university classrooms to libraries, museums, and after-school community programs.Take your existing programs to the next level withMastering 3D Printing in the Classroom, Library, and Lab. Organized in a way that is readable and easy to understand, this book is your guide to the many technology options available now in both software and hardware, as well as a compendium of practical use cases and a discussion of how to create experiences that will align with curriculum standards.You'll examine the whole range of working with a 3D printer, from purchase decision to curriculum design. Finally this book points you forward to the digital-fabrication future current students will face, discussing how key skills can be taught as cost-effectively as possible.What You'll LearnDiscover what is really involved with using a 3D printer in a classroom, library, lab, or public spaceReview use cases of 3D printers designed to enhance student learning and to make practical parts, from elementary school through university research labLook at career-planning directions in the emerging digital fabrication arenaWork with updated tools, hardware, and software for 3D printingWho This Book Is ForEducators of all levels, both formal (classroom) and informal (after-school programs, libraries, museums). 310 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Know how to lead and establish business agility in your organization. Benefit from clear, actionable steps based on change management truths that have been long underutilized and have limited the success of agile expansion into your business. This book provides a pragmatic framework for leading your business toward shifting to an agile mindset. Achieving Business Agilityoffers strategies and concrete examples to engage business executives and will teach you how to effectively execute these strategies. Whether you are a delivery executive, a change advocate, a consultant, a business leader, or a newcomer to agile, you will learn clear actions from a practical, business-oriented perspective that is vital to effect change and bring agile into your business.The book is structured in three sections. The first provides you with a deep understanding of each of four strategies. The second section tells the story of a company that applied these strategies through the eyes of several key players. The last section helps you get started applying what you learned in your own company.What You'll LearnGet the attention of your executives by alerting them to a company problem that can impact them personally and create a sense of urgency to address itCollaborate with your executives in a way that gets them to open up and to see how their operating model is a contributing cause to the company problemDemonstrate how your executives can specifically benefit from a new agile business operating model and address the company problemCreate a reinforcement structure on a larger scale to establish agile as the new standard operating model in your organizationWho This Book Is ForManagers, business leaders, and consultants at/for large enterprises or small startups who want their company to better compete in today's fast-moving markets that present threats and opportunities at every turn. No agile expertise is required. 236 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Learn how to design complex, correct programs and fix problems before writing a single line of code. This book is a practical, comprehensive resource on TLA+ programming with rich, complex examples. Practical TLA+ shows you how to use TLA+ to specify a complex system and test the design itself for bugs.You'll learn how even a short TLA+ spec can find critical bugs. Start by getting your feet wet with an example of TLA+ used in a bank transfer system, to see how it helps you design, test, and build a better application. Then, get some fundamentals of TLA+ operators, logic, functions, PlusCal, models, and concurrency. Along the way you will discover how to organize your blueprints and how to specify distributed systems and eventual consistency.Finally, you'll put what you learn into practice with some working case study applications, applying TLA+ to a wide variety of practical problems: from algorithm performance and data structures to business code and MapReduce. After reading and using this book, you'll have what you need to get started with TLA+ and how to use it in your mission-critical applications.What You'll LearnRead and write TLA+ specsCheck specs for broken invariants, race conditions, and liveness bugsDesign concurrency and distributed systemsLearn how TLA+ can help you with your day-to-day production workWho This Book Is ForThose with programming experience who are new to design and to TLA+. 248 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Build machine learning (ML) solutions for Java development. This book shows you that when designing ML apps, data is the key driver and must be considered throughout all phases of the project life cycle. Practical Java Machine Learning helps you understand the importance of data and how to organize it for use within your ML project. You will be introduced to tools which can help you identify and manage your data including JSON, visualization, NoSQL databases, and cloud platforms including Google Cloud Platform and Amazon Web Services.Practical Java Machine Learning includes multiple projects, with particular focus on the Android mobile platform and features such as sensors, camera, and connectivity, each of which produce data that can power unique machine learning solutions. You will learn to build a variety of applications that demonstrate the capabilities of the Google Cloud Platform machine learning API, including data visualization for Java; document classification using the Weka ML environment; audio file classification for Android using ML with spectrogram voice data; and machine learning using device sensor data.After reading this book, you will come away with case study examples and projects that you can take away as templates for re-use and exploration for your own machine learning programming projects with Java.What You Will LearnIdentify, organize, and architect the data required for ML projectsDeploy ML solutions in conjunction with cloud providers such as Google and AmazonDetermine which algorithm is the most appropriate for a specific ML problemImplement Java ML solutions on Android mobile devicesCreate Java ML solutions to work with sensor dataBuild Java streaming based solutionsWho This Book Is ForExperienced Java developers who have not implemented machine learning techniques before. 416 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Use DevOps principles with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to develop applications and services. This book builds chapter by chapter to a complete real-life scenario, explaining how to build, monitor, and maintain a complete application using DevOps in practice.Starting with core DevOps concepts, continuous integration, and continuous delivery, you'll cover common tools including Jenkins, Docker, and Kubernetes in the context of a real microservices application to deploy in the cloud. You will also create a monitor for your cloud and see how to use its data to prevent errors and improve the stability of the system. By the end of Pro DevOps with Google Cloud Platform, you will be able to deploy, maintain, and monitor a real application with GCP.What You Will LearnBuild and deploy applications and services using DevOps on Google Cloud PlatformMaintain a complete continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) pipelineUse containerization with Docker and KubernetesCarry out CD with GCP and JenkinsCreate microservices with Jenkins, Docker, and KubernetesMonitor your newly deployed application and its deployment and performanceSet up security and manage your network with GCPWho This Book Is ForDevelopers and software architects who want to implement DevOps in practice. Some prior programming experience is recommended as well as a basic knowledge of a Linux command-line environment. 296 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Discover the true value of Developer Relations as you learn to build and maintain positive relationships with your developer community. Use the principles laid out in this book to walk through your company goals and discover how you can formulate a plan tailored to your specific needs.First you will understand the value of a technical community: why you need to foster a community and how to do it. Then you will learn how to be involved in community building on a daily basis: finding the right audience, walking the tightrope between representing the company and building a personal brand, in-person events, and more.Featuring interviews with Developer Relations professionals from many successful companies including Red Hat, Google, Chef, Docker, Mozilla, SparkPost, Heroku, Twilio, CoreOS, and more, and with a foreword by Jono Bacon, The Business Value of Developer Relations is the perfect book for anyone who is working in the tech industry and wants to understand where DevRel is now and how to get involved. Don't get left behind - join the community today. What You'll Learn Define community and sell community to your company Find, build, and engage with the community Determine how and when to hire community managersBuild your own personal brandWho This Book Is For Any business leaders/owners/stakeholders in the tech industry, tech evangelists, community managers or developer advocates. 264 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Design an enterprise solution from scratch that allows the migration of a legacy application. Begin with the planning and design phase and be guided through all the stages of selecting the architecture framework that fits your enterprise.Join Microsoft MVP Josh Garverick as he addresses all major areas of design and implementation-application, infrastructure, data, security, and deployment-while leveraging the power and tools of Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) to bring DevOps to the forefront. With an emphasis on principles and best practices of enterprise design, you will discover how to recognize existing patterns within the legacy platform and to identify potential risks, bottlenecks, and candidates for automation. What You'll LearnAccurately and completely capture baseline information about a legacy systemLeverage enterprise patterns for constructing next-generation platforms in the cloudDesign, plan, and implement deployment pipelines to enable continuous deliveryIdentify and implement cloud-based platform components to reduce total cost of ownershipUnderstand testing and validation: iterative component authoring, monitoring, deployment, and performancePrice and perform capacity planning for cloud-based infrastructure and workloads Who This Book Is For Enterprise architects and IT professionals who are required to keep legacy applications relevant in today's cloud-first world 324 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Teaches you all about e-commerce and how to create your own online shop using WordPress and WooCommerce. Regardless of a business's size, e-commerce helps level the playing field, increases a business's exposure, allows companies to reach customers globally, and streamlines the fulfillment process. In the past, e-commerce websites were expensive, technically difficult, and time-consuming to create but not anymore.WordPress and WooCommerce together are a complete e-commerce solution that can be used to sell both physical and digital products online. You'll learn how to install WordPress and how to plan your e-commerce solution with WooCommerce as well as install, create, secure, test, and market a sample online store. Save time and money by planning your own e-commerce strategy without paying expensive consultants. Increase your brand and products' or services' exposure to your target customers, and increase sales by offering target customers the ability to purchase products online as well as reach potential customers globally.What You'll LearnPlan an effective ecommerce strategyChoose a payment merchant and which products or services to sell onlineSecure your store and add products, descriptions, categories, images, and pricesMaintain and expand your online store with WooCommerce extensionsWho This Book Is ForIdeal for entrepreneurs and small business owners who know their products (physical or digital), but lack the technical background and skills to setup an online store to sell their products and services. 200 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Jump right into the pro-level guts of the Raspberry Pi with complete schematics and detailed hardware explanations as your guide. You'll tinker with runlevels, reporting voltages and temperatures, and work on a variety of project examples that you can tune for your own project ideas.This book is fully updated for the latest Pi boards with three chapters dedicated to GPIO to help you master key aspects of the Raspberry Pi. You'll work with Linux driver information and explore the different Raspberry Pi models, including the Pi Zero, Pi Zero W, Pi 2, Pi3 B and Pi3 B+. You'll also review a variety of project examples that you can tune for your own project ideas. Other topics covered include the 1-Wire driver interface, how to configure a serial Linux console, and cross-compile code, including the Linux kernel.You'll find yourself turning to Advanced Raspberry Pi over and over again for both inspiration and reference. Whether you're an electronics professional, an entrepreneurial maker, or just looking for more detailed information on the Raspberry Pi, this is exactly the book for you.What You'll LearnMaster I2C and SPI communications from Raspbian Linux in CProgram USB peripherals, such as a 5-inch LCD panel with touch control and the Pi cameraStudy GPIO hardware, the sysfs driver interface and direct access from C programsUse and program the UART serial device.Who This Book Is ForAdvanced Raspberry Pi users who have experience doing basic projects and want to take their projects further. 552 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Build, test, and tune financial, insurance or other market trading systems using C++ algorithms and statistics. You've had an idea and have done some preliminary experiments, and it looks promising. Where do you go from here Well, this book discusses and dissects this case study approach.Seemingly good backtest performance isn't enough to justify trading real money. You need to perform rigorous statistical tests of the system's validity. Then, if basic tests confirm the quality of your idea, you need to tune your system, not just for best performance, but also for robust behavior in the face of inevitable market changes. Next, you need to quantify its expected future behavior, assessing how bad its real-life performance might actually be, and whether you can live with that. Finally, you need to find its theoretical performance limits so you know if its actual trades conform to this theoretical expectation, enabling you to dump the system if it does not liveup to expectations.This book does not contain any sure-fire, guaranteed-riches trading systems. Those are a dime a dozen. But if you have a trading system, this book will provide you with a set of tools that will help you evaluate the potential value of your system, tweak it to improve its profitability, and monitor its on-going performance to detect deterioration before it fails catastrophically.Any serious market trader would do well to employ the methods described in this book.What You Will LearnSee how the 'spaghetti-on-the-wall' approach to trading system development can be done legitimatelyDetect overfitting early in developmentEstimate the probability that your system's backtest results could have been due to just good luckRegularize a predictive model so it automatically selects an optimal subset of indicator candidatesRapidly find the global optimum for any type of parameterized trading systemAssess the ruggedness of your trading system against market changesEnhance the stationarity and information content of your proprietary indicatorsNest one layer of walkforward analysis inside another layer to account for selection bias in complex trading systemsCompute a lower bound on your system's mean future performanceBound expected periodic returns to detect on-going system deterioration before it becomes severeEstimate the probability of catastrophic drawdown Who This Book Is ForExperienced C++ programmers, developers, and software engineers. Prior experience with rigorous statistical procedures to evaluate and maximize the quality of systems is recommended as well. 332 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Master SQL Server's Concurrency Model so you can implement high-throughput systems that deliver transactional consistency to your application customers. This book explains how to troubleshoot and address blocking problems and deadlocks, and write code and design database schemas to minimize concurrency issues in the systems you develop.SQL Server's Concurrency Model is one of the least understood parts of the SQL Server Database Engine. Almost every SQL Server system experiences hard-to-explain concurrency and blocking issues, and it can be extremely confusing to solve those issues without a base of knowledge in the internals of the Engine. While confusing from the outside, the SQL Server Concurrency Model is based on several well-defined principles that are covered in this book.Understanding the internals surrounding SQL Server's Concurrency Model helps you build high-throughput systems in multi-user environments. This book guides you through the Concurrency Model and elaborates how SQL Server supports transactional consistency in the databases. The book covers all versions of SQL Server, including Microsoft Azure SQL Database, and it includes coverage of new technologies such as In-Memory OLTP and Columnstore Indexes.What You'll LearnKnow how transaction isolation levels affect locking behavior and concurrencyTroubleshoot and address blocking issues and deadlocksProvide required data consistency while minimizing concurrency issuesDesign efficient transaction strategies that lead to scalable codeReduce concurrency problems through good schema designUnderstand concurrency models for In-Memory OLTP and Columnstore IndexesReduce blocking during index maintenance, batch data load, and similar tasksWho This Book Is ForSQL Server developers, database administrators, and application architects who are developing highly-concurrent applications. The book is for anyone interested in the technical aspects of creating and troubleshooting high-throughput systems that respond swiftly to user requests. 340 pp. Englisch.