MongoDB Applied Design Patterns 
by Rick Copeland
Whether you're building a social media site or an internal-use enterprise application, this hands-on guide shows you the connection between MongoDB and the business problems it's designed to solve. You'll learn how to apply MongoDB design patterns to several challenging domains, such as ecommerce, content management, and online gaming. Using Python and JavaScript code examples, you'll di...
Price: $29.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
iPad: The Missing Manual, 6th Edition
by J.D. Biersdorfer
Super-fast processors, streamlined Internet access, and free productivity and entertainment apps make Apple's new iPads the hottest tablets around. But to get the most from them, you need an owner's manual up to the task. That's where this bestselling guide comes in. You'll quickly learn how to import, create, and play back media; shop wirelessly; sync content across devices; keep in tou...
Price: $3.89 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
by Ian Robinson, Jim Webber, Emil Eifrem
Discover how graph databases can help you manage and query highly connected data. With this practical book, you'll learn how to design and implement a graph database that brings the power of graphs to bear on a broad range of problem domains. Whether you want to speed up your response to user queries or build a database that can adapt as your business evolves, this book shows you how to apply the schem...
Price: $5.79 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
by Cathy O'Neil, Rachel Schutt
Now that people are aware that data can make the difference in an election or a business model, data science as an occupation is gaining ground. But how can you get started working in a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary field that's so clouded in hype? This insightful book, based on Columbia University's Introduction to Data Science class, tells you what you need to know.In many of these chapter-lon...
Price: $5.57 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
Enterprise Data Workflows with Cascading
by Paco Nathan
There is an easier way to build Hadoop applications. With this hands-on book, you'll learn how to use Cascading, the open source abstraction framework for Hadoop that lets you easily create and manage powerful enterprise-grade data processing applications - without having to learn the intricacies of MapReduce.Working with sample apps based on Java and other JVM languages, you'll quickly learn Casc...
Price: $27.49 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
by Mike Barlow
Does Big Data represent an existential threat to CIOs? Yes, quite possibly. For the past three decades, corporate CIOs have served primarily as stewards and guardians of IT infrastructure. Big Data -- together with cloud, social and mobile computing -- throws the value of legacy IT infrastructure into question and undermines the traditional authority of CIOs over the systems they have championed. For corpor...
Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
by Pieter Hintjens
Even connecting a few programs across a few sockets is plain nasty when you start to handle real life situations. Trillions? The cost would be unimaginable. Connecting computers is so difficult that software and services to do this is a multi-billion dollar business. So today we're still connecting applications using raw UDP and TCP, proprietary protocols, HTTP, Websockets. It remains painful, slow, ha...
Price: $25.00 | Publisher: Self-publishing | Release: 2013
Functional Programming in Scala
by Paul Chiusano, Runar Bjarnason
Functional programming (FP) is a programming style emphasizing functions that return consistent and predictable results regardless of a program's state. As a result, functional code is easier to test and reuse, simpler to parallelize, and less prone to bugs. Scala is an emerging JVM language that offers strong support for FP. Its familiar syntax and transparent interoperability with existing Java libra...
Price: $9.97 | Publisher: Manning | Release: 2013
by Michael S. Mikowski, Josh C. Powell
If your website is a jumpy collection of linked pages, you are behind. Single page web applications are your next step: pushing UI rendering and business logic to the browser and communicating with the server only to synchronize data, they provide a smooth user experience, much like a native application. But, SPAs can be hard to develop, manage, and test.Single Page Web Applications shows how your team can ...
Price: $16.29 | Publisher: Manning | Release: 2013
by Warren Sande, Carter Sande
Learn to talk to your computer in its own language! Whether you want to create a game, start a business, or solve an important problem, the first step is learning to write your own programs. Programming is a fun challenge, and it's easy to get started!This updated and revised edition of Hello World! introduces the world of computer programming in a clear and engaging style. Written by Warren Sande and ...
Price: $8.00 | Publisher: Manning | Release: 2013