Distributed Tracing in Practice 
by Austin Parker, Ben Sigelman, Daniel Spoonhower, Jonathan Mace, Rebecca Isaacs
Since most applications today are distributed in some fashion, monitoring their health and performance requires a new approach. Enter distributed tracing, a method of profiling and monitoring distributed applications - particularly those that use microservice architectures. There's just one problem: distributed tracing can be hard. But it doesn't have to be.With this guide, you'll learn what ...
Price: $42.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2020
Practical Synthetic Data Generation 
by Khaled El Emam, Lucy Mosquera, Richard Hoptroff
Building and testing machine learning models requires access to large and diverse data. But where can you find usable datasets without running into privacy issues? This practical book introduces techniques for generating synthetic data - fake data generated from real data - so you can perform secondary analysis to do research, understand customer behaviors, develop new products, or generate new revenue.Data...
Price: $59.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2020
Practical Statistics for Data Scientists, 2nd Edition
by Peter Bruce, Andrew Bruce, Peter Gedeck
Statistical methods are a key part of data science, yet few data scientists have formal statistical training. Courses and books on basic statistics rarely cover the topic from a data science perspective. The second edition of this popular guide adds comprehensive examples in Python, provides practical guidance on applying statistical methods to data science, tells you how to avoid their misuse, and gives yo...
Price: $31.00 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2020
Practical AI on the Google Cloud Platform
by Micheal Lanham
Working with AI is complicated and expensive for many developers. That's why cloud providers have stepped in to make it easier, offering free (or affordable) state-of-the-art models and training tools to get you started. With this book, you'll learn how to use Google's AI-powered cloud services to do everything from creating a chatbot to analyzing text, images, and video.Author Micheal Lanham...
Price: $44.26 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | 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 ente...
Price: $35.89 | Publisher: Manning | Release: 2020
Mastering Large Datasets with Python
by John T. Wolohan
Modern data science solutions need to be clean, easy to read, and scalable. In Mastering Large Datasets with Python, author J.T. Wolohan teaches you how to take a small project and scale it up using a functionally influenced approach to Python coding. You'll explore methods and built-in Python tools that lend themselves to clarity and scalability, like the high-performing parallelism method, as well as...
Price: $39.99 | Publisher: Manning | Release: 2020
Learn Docker in a Month of Lunches
by Elton Stoneman
Go from zero to production readiness with Docker in 22 bite-sized lessons! Learn Docker in a Month of Lunches is an accessible task-focused guide to Docker on Linux, Windows, or Mac systems. In it, you'll learn practical Docker skills to help you tackle the challenges of modern IT, from cloud migration and microservices to handling legacy systems. There's no excessive theory or niche-use cases - j...
Price: $39.99 | Publisher: Manning | Release: 2020
Modern Systems Programming with Scala Native
by Richard Whaling
Access the power of bare-metal systems programming with Scala Native, an ahead-of-time Scala compiler. Without the baggage of legacy frameworks and virtual machines, Scala Native lets you re-imagine how your programs interact with your operating system. Compile Scala code down to native machine instructions; seamlessly invoke operating system APIs for low-level networking and IO; control pointers, arrays, a...
Price: $30.04 | Publisher: The Pragmatic Programmers | Release: 2020
by Ethan Garofolo
Much ink has been spilled on the topic of microservices, but all of this writing fails to accurately identify what makes a system a monolith, define what microservices are, or give complete, practical examples, so you're probably left thinking they have nothing to offer you. You don't have to be at Google or Facebook scale to benefit from a microservice-based architecture. Microservices will keep ...
Price: $40.13 | Publisher: The Pragmatic Programmers | Release: 2020
Design and Build Great Web APIs
by Mike Amundsen
APIs are transforming the business world at an increasing pace. Gain the essential skills needed to quickly design, build, and deploy quality web APIs that are robust, reliable, and resilient. Go from initial design through prototyping and implementation to deployment of mission-critical APIs for your organization. Test, secure, and deploy your API with confidence and avoid the "release into production...
Price: $22.17 | Publisher: The Pragmatic Programmers | Release: 2020