by Bob Ward
Get SQL Server up and running on the Linux operating system and containers. No database professional managing or developing SQL Server on Linux will want to be without this deep and authoritative guide by one of the most respected experts on SQL Server in the industry. Get an inside look at how SQL Server for Linux works through the eyes of an engineer on the team that made it possible.Microsoft SQL Server ...
Price: $30.90 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2018
Securing SQL Server, 2nd Edition 
by Peter A. Carter
Protect your data from attack by using SQL Server technologies to implement a defense-in-depth strategy for your database enterprise. This new edition covers threat analysis, common attacks and countermeasures, and provides an introduction to compliance that is useful for meeting regulatory requirements such as the GDPR. The multi-layered approach in this book helps ensure that a single breach does not lead...
Price: $29.47 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2018
by Marc Stickdorn, Markus Hormess, Adam Lawrence, Jakob Schneider
How can you establish a customer-centric culture in an organization? This is the first comprehensive book on how to actually do service design to improve the quality and the interaction between service providers and customers. You'll learn specific facilitation guidelines on how to run workshops, perform all of the main service design methods, implement concepts in reality, and embed service design suc...
Price: $32.34 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2018
Network Programmability and Automation
by Jason Edelman, Scott S. Lowe, Matt Oswalt
Like sysadmins before them, network engineers are finding that they cannot do their work manually anymore. As the field faces new protocols, technologies, delivery models, and a pressing need for businesses to be more agile and flexible, network automation is becoming essential. This practical guide shows network engineers how to use a range of technologies and tools - including Linux, Python, JSON, and XML...
Price: $22.56 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2018
by Melissa Perri
To stay competitive in today's market, organizations need to adopt a culture of customer-centric practices that focus on outcomes rather than outputs. Companies that live and die by outputs often fall into the "build trap," cranking out features to meet their schedule rather than the customer's needs.In this book, Melissa Perri explains how laying the foundation for great product managem...
Price: $20.74 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2018
Data Science on the Google Cloud Platform
by Valliappa Lakshmanan
Learn how easy it is to apply sophisticated statistical and machine learning methods to real-world problems when you build on top of the Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This hands-on guide shows developers entering the data science field how to implement an end-to-end data pipeline, using statistical and machine learning methods and tools on GCP. Through the course of the book, you'll work through a sampl...
Price: $42.33 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2018
Introduction to Machine Learning with R
by Scott Burger
Machine learning is an intimidating subject until you know the fundamentals. If you understand basic coding concepts, this introductory guide will help you gain a solid foundation in machine learning principles. Using the R programming language, you'll first start to learn with regression modelling and then move into more advanced topics such as neural networks and tree-based methods.Finally, you'...
Price: $41.65 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2018
by David Blank-Edelman
Organizations - big and small - have started to realize just how crucial system and application reliability is to their business. At the same time, they'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 l...
Price: $29.95 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2018
by Brendan Burns
In the race to compete in today's fast-moving markets, large enterprises are busy adopting new technologies for creating new products, processes, and business models. But one obstacle on the road to digital transformation is placing too much emphasis on technology, and not enough on the types of processes technology enables. What if different lines of business could build their own services and applica...
Price: $27.01 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2018
by Tyler Akidau, Slava Chernyak, Reuven Lax
Streaming data is a big deal in big data these days. As more and more businesses seek to tame the massive unbounded data sets that pervade our world, streaming systems have finally reached a level of maturity sufficient for mainstream adoption. With this practical guide, data engineers, data scientists, and developers will learn how to work with streaming data in a conceptual and platform-agnostic way.Expan...
Price: $52.52 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2018