FREE EBOOK - Exploring Cloud Computing 
by Michael Wittig, Andreas Wittig
Cloud Computing is enabling many trends in IT today: microservices, pay-as-you-go pricing, and serverless architectures, to name three. The biggest player in the market's Amazon, who offers the most mature cloud systems through their Amazon Web Services (AWS). Other companies are gaining traction as well: Google invests into their Google Cloud Platform, and Microsoft entered the game with Azure.Explori...
Publisher: Manning | Release: 2017
FREE EBOOK - Docker for Developers
by Rafael Gomes
This book introduces the use of Docker focusing on best usage practices, based on the 12factor methodology. This preliminary version of the book focuses on the basic knowledge of Docker. It starts by briefly explaining the infrastructure of the solution, through its architecture, installation, basic commands, understanding and construction of images and containers, use of advanced commands, even manipulatio...
Publisher: Leanpub | Release: 2017
FREE EBOOK - The Unix Workbench
by Sean Kross
Learning the command line can be a difficult and intimidating task, but this book is designed to be your lighthouse in the modern computational storm. Unix is a 40 year old operating system that powers the internet, your phone, and the latest scientific research. This book aims to be a gateway to the world of computer programming, providing you with a set of tools that will allow you to scale your ideas. Ev...
Publisher: Leanpub | Release: 2017
FREE EBOOK - Introduction to Windows Containers
by John McCabe, Michael Friis
With the introduction of container support in Windows Server 2016, we open a world of opportunities that takes traditional monolithic applications on a journey to modernize them for better agility. Containers are a stepping stone that can help IT organizations understand what key items in modern IT environments, such as DevOps, Agile, Scrum, Infrastructure as Code, Continuous Integration, and Continuous Dep...
Publisher: Microsoft Press | Release: 2017
Sams Teach Yourself ASP.NET Core in 24 Hours 
by Jeffrey T. Fritz
In just 24 sessions of one hour or less, Sams Teach Yourself ASP.NET Core in 24 Hours, will help you build professional-quality, cloud-based, web-connected solutions with ASP.NET Core. This book's straightforward, step-by-step approach guides you from the basics to advanced techniques, using practical examples to help you make the most of Microsoft's radically revamped ASP.NET Core framework. ASP....
Price: $11.39 | Publisher: SAMS Publishing | Release: 2017
Sams Teach Yourself TCP/IP in 24 Hours, 6th Edition
by Joe Casad
Sams Teach Yourself TCP/IP in 24 Hours, 6th Edition is a practical guide to the simple yet illusive protocol system that powers the Internet. A step-by-step approach reveals how the protocols of the TCP/IP stack really work and explores the rich array of services available on the Internet today. You'll learn about configuring and managing real-world networks, and you'll gain the deep understanding...
Price: $9.78 | Publisher: SAMS Publishing | Release: 2017
Sams Teach Yourself Hadoop in 24 Hours
by Jeffrey Aven
Apache Hadoop is the technology at the heart of the Big Data revolution, and Hadoop skills are in enormous demand. Now, in just 24 lessons of one hour or less, you can learn all the skills and techniques you'll need to deploy each key component of a Hadoop platform in your local environment or in the cloud, building a fully functional Hadoop cluster and using it with real programs and datasets. Each sh...
Price: $31.99 | Publisher: SAMS Publishing | Release: 2017
AWS for Developers For Dummies
by John Paul Mueller
Modern businesses rely on Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) - a setup in which someone else foots the bill to create application environments - and developers are expected to know how to write both platform-specific and IaaS-supported applications. If you're a developer who writes desktop and web applications but have little-to-no experience with cloud development, this book is an essential tool in ge...
Price: $19.38 | Publisher: Wiley | Release: 2017
Machine Learning for Decision Makers
by Patanjali Kashyap
Take a deep dive into the concepts of machine learning as they apply to contemporary business and management. You will learn how machine learning techniques are used to solve fundamental and complex problems in society and industry. Machine Learning for Decision Makers serves as an excellent resource for establishing the relationship of machine learning with IoT, big data, and cognitive and cloud computing ...
Price: $29.99 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2017
by Brendan Burns, Kelsey Hightower, Joe Beda
Legend has it that Google deploys over two billion application containers a week. How's that possible? Google revealed the secret through a project called Kubernetes, an open source cluster orchestrator (based on its internal Borg system) that radically simplifies the task of building, deploying, and maintaining scalable distributed systems in the cloud. This practical guide shows you how Kubernetes an...
Price: $15.97 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2017