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Solutions Architect's Handbook

Kick-start your career as a solutions architect by learning architecture design principles and strategies

by Saurabh Shrivastava, Neelanjali Srivastav ...

Third edition out now with coverage on Generative AI, clean architecture, edge computing, and moreKey FeaturesTurn business needs into end-to-end technical architectures with this practical guideAssess and overcome various challenges while updating or modernizing legacy applicationsFuture-proof your architecture with IoT, machine learning, and quantum computingBook DescriptionBecoming a solutions ... Read more

$64.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Third edition out now with coverage on Generative AI, clean architecture, edge computing, and moreKey FeaturesTurn business needs into end-to-end technical architectures with this practical guideAssess and overcome various challenges while updating or modernizing legacy applicationsFuture-proof your architecture with IoT, machine learning, and quantum computingBook DescriptionBecoming a solutions
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Programming Google App Engine

Build & Run Scalable Web Applications on Google's Infrastructure

by Dan Sanderson ...

Google App Engine makes it easy to create a web application that can serve millions of people as easily as serving hundreds, with minimal up-front investment. With Programming Google App Engine, Google engineer Dan Sanderson provides practical guidance for designing and developing your application on Google’s vast infrastructure, using App Engine’s scalable services and simple development model ... Read more

$28.79 USD

Google App Engine makes it easy to create a web application that can serve millions of people as easily as serving hundreds, with minimal up-front investment. With Programming Google App Engine, Google engineer Dan Sanderson provides practical guidance for designing and developing your application on Google’s vast infrastructure, using App Engine’s scalable services and simple development model
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Security in Distributed, Grid, Mobile, and Pervasive Computing

by Yang Xiao ...

This book addresses the increasing demand to guarantee privacy, integrity, and availability of resources in networks and distributed systems. It first reviews security issues and challenges in content distribution networks, describes key agreement protocols based on the Diffie-Hellman key exchange and key management protocols for complex distributed systems like the Internet, and discusses ... Read more

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This book addresses the increasing demand to guarantee privacy, integrity, and availability of resources in networks and distributed systems. It first reviews security issues and challenges in content distribution networks, describes key agreement protocols based on the Diffie-Hellman key exchange and key management protocols for complex distributed systems like the Internet, and discusses
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Linux Observability with BPF

Advanced Programming for Performance Analysis and Networking

by David Calavera, Lorenzo Fontana ...

Build your expertise in the BPF virtual machine in the Linux kernel with this practical guide for systems engineers. You’ll not only dive into the BPF program lifecycle but also learn to write applications that observe and modify the kernel’s behavior; inject code to monitor, trace, and securely observe events in the kernel; and more.Authors David Calavera and Lorenzo Fontana help you harness the ... Read more

$34.59 USD

Build your expertise in the BPF virtual machine in the Linux kernel with this practical guide for systems engineers. You’ll not only dive into the BPF program lifecycle but also learn to write applications that observe and modify the kernel’s behavior; inject code to monitor, trace, and securely observe events in the kernel; and more.Authors David Calavera and Lorenzo Fontana help you harness the
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Distributed Computing with Python

Harness the power of multiple computers using Python through this fast-paced informative guide

by Francesco Pierfederici ...

Harness the power of multiple computers using Python through this fast-paced informative guideKey Features\[\*\] You'll learn to write data processing programs in Python that are highly available, reliable, and fault tolerant\[\*\] Make use of Amazon Web Services along with Python to establish a powerful remote computation system\[\*\] Train Python to handle data-intensive and resource hungry ... Read more

$27.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Harness the power of multiple computers using Python through this fast-paced informative guideKey Features\[\*\] You'll learn to write data processing programs in Python that are highly available, reliable, and fault tolerant\[\*\] Make use of Amazon Web Services along with Python to establish a powerful remote computation system\[\*\] Train Python to handle data-intensive and resource hungry
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Cloud Native DevOps with Kubernetes

Building, Deploying, and Scaling Modern Applications in the Cloud

by Justin Domingus, John Arundel ...

Kubernetes has become the operating system of today's cloud native world, providing a reliable and scalable platform for running containerized workloads. In this friendly, pragmatic book, cloud experts Justin Domingus and John Arundel show you what Kubernetes can do-and what you can do with it.This updated second edition guides you through the growing Kubernetes ecosystem and provides practical ... Read more

$55.49 USD

Kubernetes has become the operating system of today's cloud native world, providing a reliable and scalable platform for running containerized workloads. In this friendly, pragmatic book, cloud experts Justin Domingus and John Arundel show you what Kubernetes can do-and what you can do with it.This updated second edition guides you through the growing Kubernetes ecosystem and provides practical
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Learn Ethereum

Build your own decentralized applications with Ethereum and smart contracts

by Xun (Brian) Wu, Zhihong Zou, Dongying Song ...

Explore the blockchain-based decentralized platform and understand how Ethereum works with Dapps examplesKey FeaturesExplore the Ethereum ecosystem and understand the latest research on the platformBuild decentralized apps (Dapps) using smart contracts and Ethereum with the help of practical examplesLearn to make your decentralized applications fast and highly secureBook DescriptionEthereum is a ... Read more

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Explore the blockchain-based decentralized platform and understand how Ethereum works with Dapps examplesKey FeaturesExplore the Ethereum ecosystem and understand the latest research on the platformBuild decentralized apps (Dapps) using smart contracts and Ethereum with the help of practical examplesLearn to make your decentralized applications fast and highly secureBook DescriptionEthereum is a
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Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) Exam Guide

Validate your knowledge of Kubernetes and implement it in a real-life production environment

by Melony Qin, Brendan Burns, Mark Whitby, Alessandro Vozza ...

Develop a deep understanding of Kubernetes and the cloud native ecosystem, and pass the CKA exam with confidence with this end-to-end study guide Key Features • Get to grips with the core concepts of Kubernetes API primitives • Deploy, configure, manage, and troubleshoot Kubernetes clusters • Cement your credibility in the job market by becoming a Certified Kubernetes Administrator Book ... Read more

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Develop a deep understanding of Kubernetes and the cloud native ecosystem, and pass the CKA exam with confidence with this end-to-end study guide Key Features • Get to grips with the core concepts of Kubernetes API primitives • Deploy, configure, manage, and troubleshoot Kubernetes clusters • Cement your credibility in the job market by becoming a Certified Kubernetes Administrator Book
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Ultimate WebAssembly for High-Performance Apps

by Srinivas Shanmugam ...

Unleash near-native performance for modern web and cloud applications Key Features ● Build high-performance apps using WebAssembly across web, server, and edge. ● Master Rust, C/C++, Node.js, and WASI for real-world Wasm workflows. ● Deploy secure, scalable WebAssembly solutions for cloud, IoT, and AI systems. Book Description WebAssembly is transforming how high-performance applications are built ... Read more

$24.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Unleash near-native performance for modern web and cloud applications Key Features ● Build high-performance apps using WebAssembly across web, server, and edge. ● Master Rust, C/C++, Node.js, and WASI for real-world Wasm workflows. ● Deploy secure, scalable WebAssembly solutions for cloud, IoT, and AI systems. Book Description WebAssembly is transforming how high-performance applications are built
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AWS for Solutions Architects

The definitive guide to AWS Solutions Architecture for migrating to, building, scaling, and succeeding in the cloud

by Saurabh Shrivastava, Neelanjali Srivastav, Alberto Artasanchez, Imtiaz Sayed ...

This is an outdated edition, and we have a new third edition live covering real-world patterns, GenAI strategies, cost optimization techniques, and certification-aligned best practices.Key FeaturesComprehensive guide to automating, networking, migrating, and adopting cloud technologies using AWSExtensive insights into AWS technologies, including AI/ML, IoT, big data, blockchain, and quantum ... Read more

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This is an outdated edition, and we have a new third edition live covering real-world patterns, GenAI strategies, cost optimization techniques, and certification-aligned best practices.Key FeaturesComprehensive guide to automating, networking, migrating, and adopting cloud technologies using AWSExtensive insights into AWS technologies, including AI/ML, IoT, big data, blockchain, and quantum
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The Enterprise Cloud

Best Practices for Transforming Legacy IT

by James Bond ...

Despite the buzz surrounding the cloud computing, only a small percentage of organizations have actually deployed this new style of IT—so far. If you're planning your long-term cloud strategy, this practical book provides insider knowledge and actionable real-world lessons regarding planning, design, operations, security, and application transformation. This book teaches business and technology ... Read more

$26.69 USD

Despite the buzz surrounding the cloud computing, only a small percentage of organizations have actually deployed this new style of IT—so far. If you're planning your long-term cloud strategy, this practical book provides insider knowledge and actionable real-world lessons regarding planning, design, operations, security, and application transformation. This book teaches business and technology
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Hands-On Design Patterns and Best Practices with Julia

Proven solutions to common problems in software design for Julia 1.x

by Tom Kwong ...

Design and develop high-performance, reusable, and maintainable applications using traditional and modern Julia patterns with this comprehensive guideKey FeaturesExplore useful design patterns along with object-oriented programming in Julia 1.0Implement macros and metaprogramming techniques to make your code faster, concise, and efficientDevelop the skills necessary to implement design patterns ... Read more

$27.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Design and develop high-performance, reusable, and maintainable applications using traditional and modern Julia patterns with this comprehensive guideKey FeaturesExplore useful design patterns along with object-oriented programming in Julia 1.0Implement macros and metaprogramming techniques to make your code faster, concise, and efficientDevelop the skills necessary to implement design patterns
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Infrastructure as Code

Designing and Delivering Dynamic Systems for the Cloud Age

by Kief Morris ...

The past decade has seen cloud and infrastructure as code move out of shadow IT and startups and into the mainstream. Many organizations rushed to adopt new technologies as part of their transformation into digital businesses, creating a sprawl of unmaintainable infrastructure codebases. Now, there is a need to consolidate cloud-based systems into mature foundations for sustainable growth.With ... Read more

$48.99 USD

The past decade has seen cloud and infrastructure as code move out of shadow IT and startups and into the mainstream. Many organizations rushed to adopt new technologies as part of their transformation into digital businesses, creating a sprawl of unmaintainable infrastructure codebases. Now, there is a need to consolidate cloud-based systems into mature foundations for sustainable growth.With
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Distributed Tracing in Practice

Instrumenting, Analyzing, and Debugging Microservices

by Austin Parker, Daniel Spoonhower, Jonathan Mace, Ben Sigelman, Rebecca Isaacs ...

Since most applications today are distributed in some fashion, monitoring their health and performance requires a new approach. Enter distributed tracing, a method of profiling and monitoring distributed applications—particularly those that use microservice architectures. There’s just one problem: distributed tracing can be hard. But it doesn’t have to be.With this guide, you’ll learn what ... Read more

$48.99 USD

Since most applications today are distributed in some fashion, monitoring their health and performance requires a new approach. Enter distributed tracing, a method of profiling and monitoring distributed applications—particularly those that use microservice architectures. There’s just one problem: distributed tracing can be hard. But it doesn’t have to be.With this guide, you’ll learn what
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Concurrency

The Works of Leslie Lamport

Edited by Dahlia Malkhi ...

Series series ACM Books
This book is a celebration of Leslie Lamport's work on concurrency, interwoven in four-and-a-half decades of an evolving industry: from the introduction of the first personal computer to an era when parallel and distributed multiprocessors are abundant.His works lay formal foundations for concurrent computations executed by interconnected computers. Some of the algorithms have become standard ... Read more

$57.59 USD

This book is a celebration of Leslie Lamport's work on concurrency, interwoven in four-and-a-half decades of an evolving industry: from the introduction of the first personal computer to an era when parallel and distributed multiprocessors are abundant.His works lay formal foundations for concurrent computations executed by interconnected computers. Some of the algorithms have become standard
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CUDA Programming

A Developer's Guide to Parallel Computing with GPUs

by Shane Cook ...

If you need to learn CUDA but don't have experience with parallel computing, CUDA Programming: A Developer's Introduction offers a detailed guide to CUDA with a grounding in parallel fundamentals. It starts by introducing CUDA and bringing you up to speed on GPU parallelism and hardware, then delving into CUDA installation. Chapters on core concepts including threads, blocks, grids, and memory ... Read more

$44.99 USD

If you need to learn CUDA but don't have experience with parallel computing, CUDA Programming: A Developer's Introduction offers a detailed guide to CUDA with a grounding in parallel fundamentals. It starts by introducing CUDA and bringing you up to speed on GPU parallelism and hardware, then delving into CUDA installation. Chapters on core concepts including threads, blocks, grids, and memory
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Cassandra: The Definitive Guide, (Revised) Third Edition

Distributed Data at Web Scale

by Jeff Carpenter, Eben Hewitt ...

Imagine what you could do if scalability wasn't a problem. With this hands-on guide, you'll learn how the Cassandra database management system handles hundreds of terabytes of data while remaining highly available across multiple data centers. This revised third edition--updated for Cassandra 4.0 and new developments in the Cassandra ecosystem, including deployments in Kubernetes with K8ssandra- ... Read more

$48.99 USD

Imagine what you could do if scalability wasn't a problem. With this hands-on guide, you'll learn how the Cassandra database management system handles hundreds of terabytes of data while remaining highly available across multiple data centers. This revised third edition--updated for Cassandra 4.0 and new developments in the Cassandra ecosystem, including deployments in Kubernetes with K8ssandra-
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Software Supply Chain Security

Securing the End-to-End Supply Chain for Software, Firmware, and Hardware

by Cassie Crossley ...

Trillions of lines of code help us in our lives, companies, and organizations. But just a single software cybersecurity vulnerability can stop entire companies from doing business and cause billions of dollars in revenue loss and business recovery. Securing the creation and deployment of software, also known as software supply chain security, goes well beyond the software development process.This ... Read more

$34.59 USD

Trillions of lines of code help us in our lives, companies, and organizations. But just a single software cybersecurity vulnerability can stop entire companies from doing business and cause billions of dollars in revenue loss and business recovery. Securing the creation and deployment of software, also known as software supply chain security, goes well beyond the software development process.This
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Continuous Deployment

Enable Faster Feedback, Safer Releases, and More Reliable Software

by Valentina Servile ...

Methods of delivering software are constantly evolving in order to increase speed to market without sacrificing reliability and stability. Mastering development end to end, from version control to production, and building production-ready code is now more important than ever. Continuous deployment takes it one step further. This method for delivering software automates the final step to production ... Read more

$41.09 USD

Methods of delivering software are constantly evolving in order to increase speed to market without sacrificing reliability and stability. Mastering development end to end, from version control to production, and building production-ready code is now more important than ever. Continuous deployment takes it one step further. This method for delivering software automates the final step to production
... Read more
Solutions Architect's Handbook

Kick-start your solutions architect career by learning architecture design principles and strategies

by Saurabh Shrivastava, Neelanjali Srivastav ...

From fundamentals and design patterns to the different strategies for creating secure and reliable architectures in AWS cloud, learn everything you need to become a successful solutions architectKey FeaturesCreate solutions and transform business requirements into technical architecture with this practical guideUnderstand various challenges that you might come across while refactoring or ... Read more

$41.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

From fundamentals and design patterns to the different strategies for creating secure and reliable architectures in AWS cloud, learn everything you need to become a successful solutions architectKey FeaturesCreate solutions and transform business requirements into technical architecture with this practical guideUnderstand various challenges that you might come across while refactoring or
... Read more
Virtualization: A Manager's Guide

Big Picture of the Who, What, and Where of Virtualization

by Dan Kusnetzky ...

What exactly is virtualization? As this concise book explains, virtualization is a smorgasbord of technologies that offer organizations many advantages, whether you're managing extremely large stores of rapidly changing data, scaling out an application, or harnessing huge amounts of computational power. With this guide, you get an overview of the five main types of virtualization technology, along ... Read more

$10.69 USD

What exactly is virtualization? As this concise book explains, virtualization is a smorgasbord of technologies that offer organizations many advantages, whether you're managing extremely large stores of rapidly changing data, scaling out an application, or harnessing huge amounts of computational power. With this guide, you get an overview of the five main types of virtualization technology, along
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Seeking SRE

Conversations About Running Production Systems at Scale

by David N. Blank-Edelman ...

Organizations big and small have started to realize just how crucial system and application reliability is to their business. Theyâ??ve also learned just how difficult it is to maintain that reliability while iterating at the speed demanded by the marketplace. Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is a proven approach to this challenge.SRE is a large and rich topic to discuss. Google led the way with ... Read more

$36.79 USD

Organizations big and small have started to realize just how crucial system and application reliability is to their business. Theyâ??ve also learned just how difficult it is to maintain that reliability while iterating at the speed demanded by the marketplace. Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is a proven approach to this challenge.SRE is a large and rich topic to discuss. Google led the way with
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Building Applications on Mesos

Leveraging Resilient, Scalable, and Distributed Systems

by David Greenberg ...

How can Apache Mesos make a difference in your organization? With this practical guide, you’ll learn how this cluster manager directs your datacenter’s resources, and provides real time APIs for interacting with (and developing for) the entire cluster. You’ll learn how to use Mesos as a deployment system, like Ansible or Chef, and as an execution platform for building and hosting higher-level ... Read more

$21.59 USD

How can Apache Mesos make a difference in your organization? With this practical guide, you’ll learn how this cluster manager directs your datacenter’s resources, and provides real time APIs for interacting with (and developing for) the entire cluster. You’ll learn how to use Mesos as a deployment system, like Ansible or Chef, and as an execution platform for building and hosting higher-level
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Hybrid Cloud Apps with OpenShift and Kubernetes

by Michael Elder, Jake Kitchener, Dr. Brad Topol ...

Selling your CTO on the merits of OpenShift and Kubernetes is only the beginning. To operate and scale OpenShift, you also need to know how to manage and expose resources to application teams and continuously deliver changes to the applications running in these environments. With this practical book, new and experienced developers and operators will learn specific techniques for operationalizing ... Read more

$41.09 USD

Selling your CTO on the merits of OpenShift and Kubernetes is only the beginning. To operate and scale OpenShift, you also need to know how to manage and expose resources to application teams and continuously deliver changes to the applications running in these environments. With this practical book, new and experienced developers and operators will learn specific techniques for operationalizing
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