FREE EBOOK - Cloud Native Applications 
by Michael Wittig, Andreas Wittig
Cloud computing is a game changer. Being able to automate and constantly adjust infrastructure is one important reason to use cloud computing for your clients. And developing and operating systems that are able to recover from failure automatically has never been easier. Cloud providers offer you the needed infrastructure for a very reasonable price and technologies like messaging systems and load balancers...
Publisher: Manning | Release: 2016
by Ryan Bigg, Yehuda Katz, Steve Klabnik, Rebecca Skinner
Rails is a full-stack, open source web framework powered by Ruby. Now in version 4, Rails is mature and powerful, and to use it effectively you need more than a few Google searches. You'll find no substitute for the guru's-eye-view of design, testing, deployment, and other real-world concerns that this book provides.Rails 4 in Action is a hands-on guide to the subject. In this fully revised new ed...
Price: $6.70 | Publisher: Manning | Release: 2015
PostGIS in Action, 2nd Edition
by Regina O. Obe, Leo S. Hsu
Processing data tied to location and topology requires specialized know-how. PostGIS is a free spatial database extender for PostgreSQL, every bit as good as proprietary software. With it, you can easily create location-aware queries in just a few lines of SQL code and build the back end for a mapping, raster analysis, or routing application with minimal effort.PostGIS in Action, 2nd Edition teaches you to ...
Price: $4.40 | Publisher: Manning | Release: 2015
by Michael Wittig, Andreas Wittig
Amazon Web Services in Action introduces you to computing, storing, and networking in the AWS cloud. The book will teach you about the most important services on AWS. You will also learn about best practices regarding automation, security, high availability, and scalability.Physical data centers require lots of equipment and take time and resources to manage. If you need a data center, but don't want t...
Price: $29.61 | Publisher: Manning | Release: 2015
by Raymond K. Camden
Apache Cordova in Action teaches you how to design, create, and launch hybrid mobile apps people will want to use. With the help of straightforward, real-world examples, you'll learn to build apps from the Cordova CLI and to make use of native device features like the camera and accelerometer. You'll learn testing techniques and discover the PhoneGap Build service and how to submit your apps to Go...
Price: $22.09 | Publisher: Manning | Release: 2015
by Joshua Suereth, Matthew Farwell
A tutorial about effectively building Scala projects, sbt in Action introduces the sbt tool with a simple project that establishes the fundamentals of running commands and tasks. Next, it shows you how to use the peripheral libraries in sbt to make common tasks simpler. Finally, it covers how to deploy software effectively. You'll learn to appreciate how sbt improves the process of developing software,...
Price: $28.10 | Publisher: Manning | Release: 2015
by Lukas Ruebbelke
AngularJS is a JavaScript-based framework that extends HTML, so you can create dynamic, interactive web applications in the same way you create standard static pages. Out of the box, Angular provides most of the functionality you'll need for basic apps, but you won't want to stop there. Intuitive, easy to customize, and test-friendly, Angular practically begs you to build more interesting apps.Ang...
Price: $4.04 | Publisher: Manning | Release: 2015
by Robert I. Kabacoff
R in Action, Second Edition presents both the R language and the examples that make it so useful for business developers. Focusing on practical solutions, the book offers a crash course in statistics and covers elegant methods for dealing with messy and incomplete data that are difficult to analyze using traditional methods. You'll also master R's extensive graphical capabilities for exploring and...
Price: $14.98 | Publisher: Manning | Release: 2015
by Norman Maurer, Marvin Allen Wolfthal
Netty is a Java-based networking framework that manages complex networking, multithreading, and concurrency for your applications. And Netty hides the boilerplate and low-level code, keeping your business logic separate and easier to reuse. With Netty, you get an easy-to-use API, leaving you free to focus on what's unique to your application.Netty in Action introduces the Netty framework and shows you ...
Price: $16.90 | Publisher: Manning | Release: 2015
Clojure in Action, 2nd Edition
by Amit Rathore
Clojure in Action, 2nd Edition is an expanded and improved version that's been updated to cover the new features of Clojure 1.6. The book gives you a rapid introduction to the Clojure language, moving from abstract theory to practical examples. You'll start by learning how to use Clojure as a general-purpose language. Next, you'll explore Clojure's efficient concurrency model, based on t...
Price: $38.08 | Publisher: Manning | Release: 2015