SummaryReactive Web Applications teaches web developers how to benefit from the reactive application architecture and presents hands-on examples using the Play framework.About the TechnologyReactive applications build on top of components that communicate asynchronously as they react to user and system events. As a result, they become scalable, responsive, and fault-tolerant. Java and Scala developers can use the Play Frame...

What separates the traditional enterprise from the likes of Amazon, Netflix, and Etsy? Those companies have refined the art of cloud native development to maintain their competitive edge and stay well ahead of the competition. This practical guide shows Java/JVM developers how to build better software, faster, using Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, and Cloud Foundry.Many organizations have already waded into cloud computing, test-driven development, microservices, and continuous integrat...

Security Smarts for the Self-Guided IT Professional“Get to know the hackers—or plan on getting hacked. Sullivan and Liu have created a savvy, essentials-based approach to web app security packed with immediately applicable tools for any information security practitioner sharpening his or her tools or just starting out.”—Ryan McGeehan, Security Manager, Facebook, Inc.Secure web applications from today's most devious hackers. Web Application Security: A Beginner's Guide...

At a time when nearly every vertical, regardless of domain, seems to need software running in the cloud to make money, microservices provide the agility and drastically reduced time to market you require. This hands-on guide shows you how to create, test, compile, and deploy microservices, using the ASP.NET Core free and open-source framework. Along the way, you’ll pick up good, practical habits for building powerful and robust services.Building microservices isn’t about learning a...

Transform Your Ideas into High-Quality Python Code!Zed Shaw has perfected the world’s best system for becoming a truly effective Python 3.x developer. Follow it and you will succeed—just like the tens of millions of programmers he’s already taught. You bring the discipline, commitment, and persistence; the author supplies everything else.In Learn Python 3 the Hard Way, Zed Shaw taught you the basics of Programming with Python 3. Now, in

How can you realize MySQL's full power? With High Performance MySQL, you'll learn advanced techniques for everything from setting service-level objectives to designing schemas, indexes, and queries to tuning your server, operating system, and hardware to achieve your platform's full potential. This guide also teaches database administrators safe and practical ways to scale applications through replication, load balancing, high availability, and failover.Updated to reflect ...

"This book is an indispensable resource." - Greg Wright, Kainos Software Ltd.Radically improve your testing practice and software quality with new testing styles, good patterns, and reliable automation.Key FeaturesA practical and results-driven approach to unit testingRefine your existing unit tests by implementing modern best practicesLearn the four pillars of a good unit testSafely aut...

Real examples written in PHP showcasing DDD Architectural Styles, Tactical Design, and Bounded Context IntegrationAbout This BookFocuses on practical code rather than theoryFull of real-world examples that you can apply to your own projectsShows how to build PHP apps using DDD principlesWho This Book Is ForThis book is for PHP developers who want to apply a DDD mindset to their code. You should have a goo...

This book is your concise guide to Ansible, the simple way to automate apps and IT infrastructure. In less than 250 pages, this book takes you from knowing nothing about configuration management to understanding how to use Ansible in a professional setting.You will learn how to create an Ansible playbook to automatically set up an environment, ready to install an open source project. You’ll extract common tasks into roles that you can reuse across all your projects, and build your ...

Leverage the power of Ansible to gain complete control over your systems and automate application deploymentKey FeaturesUse Ansible 2.9 to automate and control your infrastructureDelve into advanced functionality such as plugins and custom modules in AnsibleAutomate and orchestrate major cloud platforms such as OpenStack, AWS, and Azure using AnsibleBook DescriptionAnsible enables you to automate software provisioning, config...

When it comes to big data processing, we can no longer ignore concurrency or try to add it in after the fact. Fortunately, the solution is not a new paradigm of development, but rather an old one. With this hands-on guide, Java and Scala developers will learn how to embrace concurrent and distributed applications with the open source Akka toolkit. You’ll learn how to put the actor model and its associated patterns to immediate and practical use.Throughout the book, you’ll deal with...

Master the ins and outs of advanced operations with Ansible Key Features\[\*\] Learn how to extend Ansible with custom modules, plugins, and inventory sources\[\*\] Utilize advanced Ansible features to orchestrate rolling updates with little to no service disruptions\[\*\] An up-to-date book that brings to light the newly added features in Ansible 2.xBook DescriptionThis book provides you with the knowledge you need to unders...