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Exploring Microservices

In the last few years, microservice-based architecture has become one of the hottest innovations in software and web development. By breaking down your applications into smaller microservices that work together, you can experience a more efficient workflow, enable easier communication between team members, and create a robust, scalable ap...

Exploring .NET Core with Microservices, ASP.NET Core, and Entity Framework Core

Windows developers have always enjoyed the productivity boost you get with the .NET platform, tools like Entity Framework and ASP.NET, and the amazingly-powerful C# language. Now, .NET Core extends those same benefits to Linux-based systems, offering a true cross-platform solution for enterprise application development. The .NET Core tool...

Visualising Facebook

Since the growth of social media, human communication has become much more visual. This book presents a scholarly analysis of the images people post on a regular basis to Facebook. By including hundreds of examples, readers can see for themselves the differences between postings from a village north of London, and those from a small town ...

Docker for Developers

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 constructio...

The Little Redis Book

The book is many years old, but still relevant. Redis has evolved a lot, but most of that has been in the form of internal improvements, new advanced features (like lua scripting) and awesome new data types. The best way to learn Redis is still to start by understanding the fundamentals presented in this book....

Crypto 101

Crypto 101 is an introductory course on cryptography, freely available for programmers of all ages and skill levels.Learn how to exploit common cryptographic flaws, armed with nothing but a little time and your favorite programming language.Forge administrator cookies, recover passwords, and even backdoor your own random number generator....

The Little Go Book

The Little Go Book is a free introduction to Google's Go programming language. It's aimed at developers who might not be quite comfortable with the idea of pointers and static typing. It's longer than the other Little books, but hopefully still captures that little feeling....

Just Enough Linux

If you've toyed with Linux and never really caught on to what's happening or have used a graphical interface without really touching the command line this book is for you.The idea is to get you started on the process of using some of the commands available in Linux so that you: Feel comfortable running commands; You understand a...

The Unix Workbench

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, providi...

RubyFu

This book is a great collection of ideas, tricks, and skills that could be useful for Hackers. It's a unique extraction reference, summarizes a lot of research and experience in order to achieve your w00t in the shortest and smartest way. Rubyfu is where you'll find plug-n-hack code. Rubyfu is a book to use not only to read, it&...

Go Web Development Succinctly

Go is a modern programming language built to deal with modern programming challenges, such as concurrency and compilation. Designed specifically with the web in mind, Go is an excellent language for writing web applications, specifically for web services. In his second book on Go, Mark Lewin will take you through serving, routing, connect...

Just Enough R

If your job involves working with data in any manner, you cannot afford to ignore the R revolution! If your domain is called data analysis, analytics, informatics, data science, reporting, business intelligence, data management, big data, or visualization, you just have to learn R as this programming language is a game-changing sledgehamm...

High-Performance Caching with Nginx and Nginx Plus

You can cache static assets - more than half the payload needed to respond to many web requests - and even application?generated web pages (whether partial or complete). And you can use cache clusters and microcaching to increase the caching capability of your web applications while simplifying implementation and reducing operational comp...

PHP Succinctly

Known for its straightforward simplicity, PHP is an open source, general-purpose scripting language oriented for web development. In PHP Succinctly, author Jose Roberto Olivas Mendoza guides newcomers through PHP's basics, which includes deployment, programming themes such as variables, decision making, arrays, functions, and databas...

Go Succinctly

The Go programming language is relatively small and concise, but its depth makes it an ideal option for solving modern-day development problems. In Go Succinctly, author Mark Lewin guides readers through the basics of Go, and he provides documentation and resources that allow users to dive into the language and learn it for themselves. By...

Laravel Collections Unraveled

In "Laravel Collections Unraveled" we are going to see just what is so amazing about this class by digging down under the hood to understand the full range of functions availalble, and create practical examples of each of them that we can use right away. In the process, we're going to perhaps improve our basic PHP skills a ...

Introduction to Windows Containers

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, Scr...

Asynchronous Programming Succinctly

Unresponsive or sluggish applications can give the impression of a broken or low-quality app. Using asynchronous programming methods, apps can be made to function well even when performing other tasks. In Asynchronous Programming Succinctly, Dirk Strauss shows readers how to use Microsoft Visual Studio to create apps that function well ev...

Resilient Web Design

Resilient Web Design, you might think that this is a handbook for designing robust websites. This is not a handbook. It's more like a history book.But in the world of web design, we are mostly preoccupied with the here and now. When we think beyond our presentmoment, it is usually to contemplate the future - to imaginethe devices, fe...

WPF Debugging and Performance Succinctly

WPF allows you to build modern desktop applications for Windows, and part of building an application is debugging code and optimizing performance. In Alessandro Del Sole's WPF Debugging and Performance Succinctly, you will learn how to debug a WPF application by leveraging all the powerful tools in Visual Studio, including the most r...