Developing Bots with Microsoft Bots Framework 
by Srikanth Machiraju, Ritesh Modi
Develop Intelligent Bots using Microsoft Bot framework (C# and Node.js), Visual Studio Enterprise & Code, MicrosoftAzure and Cognitive Services. This book shows you how to develop great Bots, publish to Azure and register with Bot portal so that customers canconnect and communicate using famous communication channels like Skype, Slack, Web and Facebook. You'll also learn how to build intelligence into B...
Price: $36.42 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2018
SAFe 4.5 Distilled, 2nd Edition 
by Richard Knaster, Dean Leffingwell
To succeed in today's adapt-or-die marketplace, businesses must be able to rapidly change the way they create and deliver value to their customers. Hundreds of the world's most successful companies - including Intel, Capital One, AstraZeneca, Cisco, and Philips - have turned to the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) to achieve agility at scale and maintain a competitive edge.SAFe 4.5 Distilled: Applying the Scal...
Price: $35.99 | Publisher: Addison-Wesley | Release: 2018
Front-End Reactive Architectures
by Luca Mezzalira
Learn how to use reactive architectures on the front-end. There are many technologies using a reactive approach on the back end, but this book teaches you how the reactive manifesto can be used to benefit your front-end programming as well.You will discover what reactive programming is, what the current front-end ecosystem looks like, and how to use a range of frameworks and libraries. You will also apply s...
Price: $16.31 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2018
Build Android-Based Smart Applications
by Chinmoy Mukherjee
Build smart applications using cutting-edge technologies such as rules engines, code automation frameworks, and natural language processing (NLP). This book provides step-by-step instructions on how to port nine rules engines (CLIPS, JRuleEngine, DTRules, Zilonis, TermWare, Roolie, OpenRules, JxBRE, and JEOPS) to the Android platform. You'll learn how to use each rules engine to build a smart application wi...
Price: $17.58 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2018
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: $31.51 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2018
by Aravind Shenoy, Anirudh Prabhu
Learn how to use lightweight CSS framework alternatives to build intuitive websites. This book presents five project examples that use Skeleton, Miligram, UI Kit, Material Design Lite and Susy. This no-nonsense introduction will help you understand the concept of designing interactive websites using these frameworks with ease. Each framework is demonstrated through a practical project in an easy-to-understa...
Price: $23.54 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2018
Pro Entity Framework Core 2 for ASP.NET Core MVC
by Adam Freeman
Model, map, and access data effectively with Entity Framework Core 2, the latest evolution of Microsoft's object-relational mapping framework that allows developers to access data using .NET objects, and the most common data access layer used in ASP.NET Core MVC 2 projects.Best-selling author Adam Freeman explains how to get the most from Entity Framework Core 2 in MVC projects. He begins by describing the ...
Price: $43.75 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2018
Modern Data Access with Entity Framework Core
by Holger Schwichtenberg
C# developers, here's your opportunity to learn the ins-and-outs of Entity Framework Core, Microsoft's recently redesigned object-relational mapper. Benefit from hands-on learning that will teach you how to tackle frustrating database challenges, such as workarounds to missing features in Entity Framework Core, and learn how to optimize the performance of your applications, head-on!Modern Data Access with E...
Price: $29.65 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2018
by Shamayel M. Farooqui
Transform your IT organization from one weighed down by set practices to one with a DevOps culture and a cloud-first strategy that is optimized by automation and other lean practices. In this engaging read, you will discover the opportunities, challenges, lessons, and rewards that CA Technologies encountered when making their agile and DevOps transformation.In Enterprise DevOps Framework author Shamayel Far...
Price: $27.99 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2018
by Manisha Biswas
Want to build your first AI bot but don't know where to start? This book provides a comprehensive look at all the major bot frameworks available. You'll learn the basics for each framework in one place and get a clear picture for which one is best for your needs.Beginning AI Bot Frameworks starts with an overview of bot development and then looks at Google Wit.ai and APi.ai functions, IBM Watson, AWS bots w...
Price: $26.80 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2018