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...

Leverage the power of Ansible to gain complete control over your systems and automate deployments along with implementing configuration changesKey FeaturesOrchestrate major cloud platforms such as OpenStack, AWS, and AzureUse Ansible to automate network devicesAutomate your containerized workload with Docker, Podman, or KubernetesPurchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBookBook DescriptionAnsible em...

For financial services professionals, understanding the paradigm shift represented by Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) is essential for staying ahead of the curve. What are DAOs, and how do they differ from traditional firms? How do DAOs use blockchain technology to enable decentralized governance and decision-making? With many DAO types emerging, how can finance professionals decipher and evaluate them based on their characteristics?Decentralized Autonomous Organizati...

How the global financial services sector has been transformed by artificial intelligence, data science, and blockchain.Artificial intelligence, big data, blockchain, and other new technologies have upended the global financial services sector, creating opportunities for entrepreneurs and corporate innovators. Venture capitalists have helped to fund this disruption, pouring nearly $500 billion into fintech over the last five years. This book offers global perspectiv...

You Will Learn C!Zed Shaw has crafted the perfect course for the beginning C programmer eager to advance their skills in any language. Follow it and you will learn the many skills early and junior programmers need to succeed–just like the hundreds of thousands of programmers Zed has taught to date! You bring discipline, commitment, persistence, and experience with any programming language; the author supplies everything else.In Learn C the Hard ...

Cryptocurrency market has been growing fast since its emergence in recent years. Moreover, digital finance has forged the convergence of profit motives with social objectives creating a class of large FinTech companies. In addition, the underlying technology innovation may be applied to a wide range of industries, not limited to financial sector. Yet, few researches have been done to study these phenomena. Hence, it is the task of this book to shed light on the introduction and trends in F...

Financial technology—or fintech—is gaining in popularity globally as a way of making financial services more efficient and accessible. In rapidly developing China, fintech is taking off, catering to markets that state-owned banks and an undersized financial sector do not serve amid a backdrop of growing consumption and a large, tech-savvy millennial generation. It is becoming increasingly likely that some of China’s fintech firms will change the way the world does business.In C...

Designed for busy IT professionals, this innovative guide will take you from the basics to PowerShell proficiency through 25 tutorials you can do in your lunch break.In Learn PowerShell in a Month of Lunches, Fourth Edition you will learn:Discoverability with the Help systemBackground jobs and automation techniquesSimple scripting to automate repetitive tasksManaging cloud services from major cloud providersExtending Pow...

Our book explains the movement to establish online trust through the decentralization of value, identity, and data ownership. This movement is part of ‘Web 3.0’, the idea that individuals rather than institutions will control and benefit from online social and economic activities. Blockchain technologies are the digital infrastructure for Web 3.0. While there are many books on blockchains, crypto, and digital assets, we focus on blockchain applications for Web 3.0. Our target audience is s...

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...

Handbook of Blockchain, Digital Finance, and Inclusion, Volume 2: ChinaTech, Mobile Security, and Distributed Ledger emphasizes technological developments that introduce the future of finance. Descriptions of recent innovations lay the foundations for explorations of feasible solutions for banks and startups to grow. The combination of studies on blockchain technologies and applications, regional financial inclusion movements, advances in Chinese finance, and security issues delivers a gra...

What do Web3, Crypto, and Blockchain really mean for business today?Like the dot-com bust before it, the crypto moment of the early 2020s seemed to rise and fall in a manic instant. Billionaires were minted one week and jail time was handed out the next. But in the aftermath, the promise of the technology remains. Blockchain and crypto aren't for speculators anymore—they're the basis of the rising decentralized internet called Web3 that could rewrite the past decad...