by Nick Pentreath
Apache Spark is a framework for distributed computing that is designed from the ground up to be optimized for low latency tasks and in-memory data storage. It is one of the few frameworks for parallel computing that combines speed, scalability, in-memory processing, and fault tolerance with ease of programming and a flexible, expressive, and powerful API design.This book guides you through the basics of Spa...
Price: $34.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2015
PostgreSQL for Data Architects 
by Jayadevan Maymala
PostgreSQL is an incredibly flexible and dependable open source relational database. Harnessing its power will make your applications more reliable and extensible without increasing costs. Using PostgreSQL's advanced features will save you work and increase performance, once you've discovered how to set it up.PostgreSQL for Data Architects will teach you everything you need to learn in order to ge...
Price: $49.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2015
by Dharmesh Kakadia
Apache Mesos is a cluster manager that provides efficient resource isolation and sharing across distributed applications, or frameworks. It allows developers to concurrently run the likes of Hadoop, Spark, Storm, and other applications on a dynamically shared pool of nodes. With Mesos, you have the power to manage a wide range of resources in a multi-tenant environment.Starting with the basics, this book wi...
Price: $39.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2015
by Simone Fiorini, Arun V Gopalakrishnan
This book provides a complete understanding of the jBPM technology stack. It starts with an introduction to the world of business process management systems, the problem domain addressed by jBPM, explores the main use cases that can be addressed by business process management systems, and illustrates the main design patterns. It takes you through the details of the architecture and available out-of-the-box ...
Price: $4.50 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2015
Learning Axure RP Interactive Prototypes
by John Henry Krahenbuhl
This book provides you with a rapid introduction to interactive prototyping. It starts with explaining the basics of Axure RP and quickly familiarizes you with pages, panes, and widgets. It then walks you through designing increasingly compelling experiences by enabling basic, intermediate, and advanced interactions with your own interactive prototype.You will also learn how to generate common interactions ...
Price: $43.48 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2015
by Achilleas Pipinellis
Whether you are an experienced developer or a novice, learning to work with Version Control Systems is a must in the software development world. Git is the most popular tool for that purpose and GitHub was built around it leveraging its powers by bringing it to the web.Starting with the basics of creating a repository you will then learn how to manage the issue tracker, the place where discussion about your...
Price: $29.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2015
by David Shaw
Nmap is an extremely powerful network port scanner used to identify hosts on a network. Nmap is free, flexible, powerful, and easy to implement, which makes it a very convenient utility.This book demonstrates how to run basic and advanced scans, optimizing them to perform well in a variety of environments. Starting with an overview of Nmap, the reader will be guided through installation on popular operating...
Price: $24.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2015
FREE EBOOK - Mastering iOS Game Development
by Miguel DeQuadros
iOS is an operating system for Apple manufactured phones and tablets. Mobile gaming is one of the fastest-growing industries, and compatibility with iOS is now becoming the norm for game developers. SpriteKit is part of the native SDK from Apple, and enables developers to make simple entry into game development without unnecessary overhead and a long learning process. SpriteKit also provides other functiona...
Price: $44.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2015
Building a Recommendation System with R
by Suresh K. Gorakala, Michele Usuelli
A recommendation system performs extensive data analysis in order to generate suggestions to its users about what might interest them. R has recently become one of the most popular programming languages for the data analysis. Its structure allows you to interactively explore the data and its modules contain the most cutting-edge techniques thanks to its wide international community. This distinctive feature...
Price: $29.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2015
Learning LibGDX Game Development, 2nd Edition
by Suryakumar Balakrishnan Nair, Andreas Oehlke
LibGDX is a multiplatform game development framework, and is one of the most popular frameworks for building games, providing a comprehensive set of development capabilities and features to use and incorporate into games.This book starts off by introducing you to LibGDX and how to use its project setup tool to build an application that can support multiple platforms, before gradually moving on to configurin...
Price: $42.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2015