Beginning Entity Framework Core 2.0 
by Derek J. Rouleau
Use the valuable Entity Framework Core 2.0 tool in ASP.NET and the .NET Framework to eliminate the tedium around accessing databases and the data they contain.Entity Framework Core 2.0 greatly simplifies access to relational databases such as SQL Server that are commonly deployed in corporate settings. By eliminating tedious data access code that developers are otherwise forced to use, Entity Framework Core...
Price: $39.99 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2018
Developing Conversational Interfaces for iOS
by Martin Mitrevski
Learn how to incorporate your own conversational interfaces into iOS applications. This book will help you work comfortably multiple frameworks, including Apple's Speech and SiriKit frameworks; Google's API.AI conversational interfaces platform; and Facebook's Wit.ai. You'll explore the basics of natural language processing on iOS and see how to develop sentiment analysis with Apple'...
Price: $19.32 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2018
Practical App Development with Aurelia
by Matthew Duffield
Explore all the aspects of the Aurelia framework, including routing, templating, data binding, custom elements, event aggregation, HTTP services, features, plugins, etc. You'll see how to tie all the pieces together and walk away with an understanding of how to build applications, end to end.Practical App Development with Aurelia teaches you to write a line of business applications using simple, clean ...
Price: $28.34 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2018
by Serge Kruk
Discover the art and science of solving artificial intelligence problems with Python using optimization modeling. This book covers the practical creation and analysis of mathematical algebraic models such as linear continuous models, non-obviously linear continuous models, and pure linear integer models. Rather than focus on theory, Practical Python AI Projects, the product of the author's decades of i...
Price: $22.69 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2018
by Bikramaditya Singhal, Gautam Dhameja, Priyansu Sekhar Panda
Understand the nuts and bolts of Blockchain, its different flavors with simple use cases, and cryptographic fundamentals. You will also learn some design considerations that can help you build custom solutions.Beginning Blockchain is a beginner's guide to understanding the core concepts of Blockchain from a technical perspective. By learning the design constructs of different types of Blockchain, you w...
Price: $26.63 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2018
Advanced Data Analytics Using Python
by Sayan Mukhopadhyay
Gain a broad foundation of advanced data analytics concepts and discover the recent revolution in databases such as Neo4j, Elasticsearch, and MongoDB. This book discusses how to implement ETL techniques including topical crawling, which is applied in domains such as high-frequency algorithmic trading and goal-oriented dialog systems. You'll also see examples of machine learning concepts such as semi-su...
Price: $29.01 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2018
by Stefan Wintermeyer
Learn to build Rails-based web applications using all the latest features offered in Rails 5.2. Author Stefan Wintermeyer begins by teaching the basics of Ruby 2.5 before proceeding through all aspects of Rails, utilizing clean, succinct examples - rather than a single large application.This book covers topics including Active Storage, Credentials, Active Record, Scaffolding, REST, Routing, Bundler, Forms, ...
Price: $33.43 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2018
The Data-Driven Project Manager
by Mario Vanhoucke
Discover solutions to common obstacles faced by project managers. Written as a business novel, the book is highly interactive, allowing readers to participate and consider options at each stage of a project. The book is based on years of experience, both through the author's research projects as well as his teaching lectures at business schools.The book tells the story of Emily Reed and her colleagues ...
Price: $20.96 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2018
by Subhashini Chellappan, Dharanitharan Ganesan
Work with Apache Spark using Scala to deploy and set up single-node, multi-node, and high-availability clusters. This book discusses various components of Spark such as Spark Core, DataFrames, Datasets and SQL, Spark Streaming, Spark MLib, and R on Spark with the help of practical code snippets for each topic. Practical Apache Spark also covers the integration of Apache Spark with Kafka with examples. You&#...
Price: $31.66 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2018
Practical Microsoft Azure IaaS
by Shijimol Ambi Karthikeyan
Adopt Azure IaaS and migrate your on-premise infrastructure partially or fully to Azure. This book provides practical solutions by following Microsoft's design and best practice guidelines for building highly available, scalable, and secure solution stacks using Microsoft Azure IaaS.The author starts by giving an overview of Azure IaaS and its components: you'll see the new aspects of Azure Resour...
Price: $28.52 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2018