Feedback Control for Computer Systems 
by Philipp K. Janert
How can you take advantage of feedback control for enterprise programming? With this book, author Philipp K. Janert demonstrates how the same principles that govern cruise control in your car also apply to data center management and other enterprise systems. Through case studies and hands-on simulations, you'll learn methods to solve several control issues, including mechanisms to spin up more servers ...
Price: $33.66 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
by Khaled El Emam, Luk Arbuckle
With this practical book, you will learn proven methods for anonymizing health data to help your organization share meaningful datasets, without exposing patient identity. Leading experts Khaled El Emam and Luk Arbuckle walk you through a risk-based methodology, using case studies from their efforts to de-identify hundreds of datasets.Clinical data is valuable for research and other types of analytics, but ...
Price: $25.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
by Simon Monk
The world of Raspberry Pi is evolving quickly, with many new interface boards and software libraries becoming available all the time. In this cookbook, prolific hacker and author Simon Monk provides more than 200 practical recipes for running this tiny low-cost computer with Linux, programming it with Python, and hooking up sensors, motors, and other hardware - including Arduino.You'll also learn basic...
Price: $27.94 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
by Chris Wilson
Create beautiful, interactive images on the Web with RaphaelJS, the JavaScript library that lets you draw Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) right in the browser. With this concise guide, you'll quickly learn how to paint the screen with shapes and colors that you can turn into lively, animated graphics and visualizations.Author Chris Wilson (Time.com) shows you how to create Raphael objects and manipulate...
Price: $21.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
Programming iOS 6, 3rd Edition
by Matt Neuburg
Get a solid grounding in all the fundamentals of Cocoa Touch, and avoid problems during iPhone and iPad app development. With this revised and expanded edition, you'll dig into Cocoa and learn how to work effectively with Objective-C and Xcode. This book covers iOS 6 in a rigorous, orderly fashion - ideal whether you're approaching iOS for the first time or need a reference to bolster existing ski...
Price: $6.40 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
by Stephen Wendel
A new wave of products is helping people change their behavior and daily routines, whether it's exercising more (Jawbone Up), taking control of their finances (HelloWallet), or organizing their email (Mailbox). This practical guide shows you how to design these types of products for users seeking to take action and achieve specific goals.Stephen Wendel, HelloWallet's head researcher, takes you ste...
Price: $28.25 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
by Andrew Collette
Gain hands-on experience with HDF5 for storing scientific data in Python. This practical guide quickly gets you up to speed on the details, best practices, and pitfalls of using HDF5 to archive and share numerical datasets ranging in size from gigabytes to terabytes.Through real-world examples and practical exercises, you'll explore topics such as scientific datasets, hierarchically organized groups, u...
Price: $23.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
Introduction to Online Payments Risk Management
by Ohad Samet
If you've been tasked with building a team to handle risk management for online payments (RMP), this practical introduction provides a framework for choosing the technologies and personnel you need. Author and financial services executive Ohad Samet explains the components of payments risk management, and presents a coherent strategy and operational approach.You'll learn the answers to questions y...
Price: $16.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
by Jeff Sheltren, Narayan Newton, Nathaniel Catchpole
How can you help your Drupal website continue to perform at the highest level as it grows to meet demand? This comprehensive guide provides best practices, examples, and in-depth explanations for solving several performance and scalability issues. You'll learn how to apply coding and infrastructure techniques to Drupal internals, application performance, databases, web servers, and performance analysis...
Price: $19.27 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
by G. Ann Campbell, Patroklos P. Papapetrou, Olivier Gaudin
SonarQube is a powerful open source tool for continuous inspection, a process that makes code quality analysis and reporting an integral part of the development lifecycle. Its unique dashboards, rule-based defect analysis, and tight build integration result in improved code quality without disruption to developer workflow. It supports many languages, including Java, C, C++, C#, PHP, and JavaScript.SonarQube...
Price: $37.99 | Publisher: Manning | Release: 2013