Microsoft Conversational AI Platform for Developers 
by Stephan Bisser
Build a chatbot using the Microsoft Conversational AI platform. This book will teach you, step by step, how to save time and money by including chatbots in your enterprise's strategy. You will learn how to be proficient at every phase of development, from collaboration on a chatbot in an end-to-end scenario, to the first mock-up phase, and on through to the deployment and evaluation phases.Microsoft built a...
Price: $35.13 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2021
by JP Silva
The growing pains of a startup's initial year in business require a keen awareness of uncertainties and a willingness to adapt in order to survive. Today's new founders greatly benefit from taking a behind-the-scenes look at successful companies such as Etsy, HotelTonight, Fiverr, and more in regards to how they overcame the challenges of their first year. Startups in Action is your curated source for criti...
Price: $26.35 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2020
Deep Reinforcement Learning in Action 
by Alexander Zai, Brandon Brown
Humans learn best from feedback - we are encouraged to take actions that lead to positive results while deterred by decisions with negative consequences. This reinforcement process can be applied to computer programs allowing them to solve more complex problems that classical programming cannot. Deep Reinforcement Learning in Action teaches you the fundamental concepts and terminology of deep reinforcement ...
Price: $39.99 | Publisher: Manning | Release: 2020
by Jean-Georges Perrin
The Spark distributed data processing platform provides an easy-to-implement tool for ingesting, streaming, and processing data from any source. In Spark in Action, 2nd Edition, you'll learn to take advantage of Spark's core features and incredible processing speed, with applications including real-time computation, delayed evaluation, and machine learning. Spark skills are a hot commodity in enterprises wo...
Price: $39.99 | Publisher: Manning | Release: 2020
Microservices Security in Action
by Prabath Siriwardena, Nuwan Dias
Unlike traditional enterprise applications, Microservices applications are collections of independent components that function as a system. Securing the messages, queues, and API endpoints requires new approaches to security both in the infrastructure and the code. Microservices Security in Action teaches you how to address microservices-specific security challenges throughout the system. This practical gui...
Price: $39.99 | Publisher: Manning | Release: 2020
by Eric Windmill
In 2017, consumers downloaded 178 billion apps, and analysts predict growth to 258 billion by 2022. Mobile customers are demanding more - and better - apps, and it's up to developers like you to write them! Flutter, a revolutionary new cross-platform software development kit created by Google, makes it easier than ever to write secure, high-performance native apps for iOS and Android. Flutter apps are blazi...
Price: $39.99 | Publisher: Manning | Release: 2020
by Michael Geers
Browser-based software can quickly become complex and difficult to maintain, especially when it's implemented as a large single-page application. By adopting the micro frontends approach and designing your web apps as systems of features, you can deliver faster feature development, easier upgrades, and pick and choose the technology you use in your stack. Micro Frontends in Action is your guide to simplifyi...
Price: $39.99 | Publisher: Manning | Release: 2020
by Mark Volkmann
Imagine web apps with fast browser load times that also offer amazing developer productivity and require less code to create. That's what Svelte and Sapper deliver! Svelte pushes a lot of the work a frontend framework would handle to the compile step, so your app components come out as tight, well-organized JavaScript modules. Sapper is a lightweight web framework that minimizes application size through ser...
Price: $39.99 | Publisher: Manning | Release: 2020
Cognitive Virtual Assistants Using Google Dialogflow
by Navin Sabharwal, Amit Agrawal
Follow a step-by-step, hands-on approach to building production-ready enterprise cognitive virtual assistants using Google Dialogflow. This book provides an overview of the various cognitive technology choices available and takes a deep dive into cognitive virtual agents for handling complex real-life use cases in various industries such as travel and weather.You'll delve deeper into the advanced features o...
Price: $16.19 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2020
Machine Learning with R, the tidyverse, and mlr
by Hefin I. Rhys
Machine learning (ML) is a collection of programming techniques for discovering relationships in data. With ML algorithms, you can cluster and classify data for tasks like making recommendations or fraud detection and make predictions for sales trends, risk analysis, and other forecasts. Once the domain of academic data scientists, machine learning has become a mainstream business process, and tools like th...
Price: $39.99 | Publisher: Manning | Release: 2020