by Benjamin Muschko
One of the newer players in the build tool field is Bazel, the open source variant of Google's powerful internal build tool Blaze. After years of refinement, the first production-ready version, Bazel 1.0, was released in October 2019. Is this tool right for your organization? This report explores the use cases, features, and usability concerns of Bazel, including its benefits and shortcomings.Author Be...
Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2020
by Anthony Molinaro, Robert de Graaf
You may know SQL basics, but are you taking advantage of its expressive power? This second edition applies a highly practical approach to Structured Query Language (SQL) so you can create and manipulate large stores of data. Based on real-world examples, this updated cookbook provides a framework to help you construct solutions and executable examples in severalflavors of SQL, including Oracle, DB2, SQL Ser...
Price: $44.41 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2020
The Software Architect Elevator 
by Gregor Hohpe
As the digital economy changes the rules of the game for enterprises, the role of software and IT architects is also transforming. Rather than focus on technical decisions alone, architects and senior technologists need to combine organizational and technical knowledge to effect change in their company's structure and processes. To accomplish that, they need to connect the IT engine room to the penthou...
Price: $36.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2020
Head First Design Patterns, 2nd Edition
by Eric Freeman, Elisabeth Robson
You know you don't want to reinvent the wheel, so you look to Design Patterns: the lessons learned by those who've faced the same software design problems. With Design Patterns, you get to take advantage of the best practices and experience of others so you can spend your time on something more challenging. Something more fun. This book shows you the patterns that matter, when to use them and why,...
Price: $40.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2020
by Derek DeJonghe
NGINX is one of the most widely used web servers available today, in part because of its capabilities as a load balancer and reverse proxy server for HTTP and other network protocols.This cookbook provides easy-to-follow examples to real-world problems in application delivery. The practical recipes will help you set up and use either the open source or commercial offering to solve problems in various use ca...
Price: $19.35 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2020
FREE EBOOK - NGINX Unit Cookbook 
by Derek DeJonghe
Alongside its popular web server, NGINX provides a dynamic application server that supports a RESTful JSON API. The open source NGINX Unit server deploys configuration changes without service disruptions and runs apps built with multiple languages and frameworks. This updated cookbook shows developers, DevOps personnel, network admins, and cloud infrastructure pros how to quickly get started with NGINX Unit...
Price: $19.51 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2020
Articulating Design Decisions, 2nd Edition
by Tom Greever
Talking to people about your designs might seem like a basic skill, but it can be difficult to do well. In many cases, how you communicate with stakeholders, clients, and other nondesigners may be more important than the designs themselves. Because if you can't get their support, your work will never see the light of day - no matter how good it is.This practical guide focuses on principles, tactics, an...
Price: $38.67 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2020
by Carl Allchin
For self-service data preparation, Tableau Prep is relatively easy to use - as long as you know how to clean and organize your datasets. Carl Allchin, from The Information Lab in London, gets you up to speed on Tableau Prep through a series of practical lessons that include methods for preparing, cleaning, automating, organizing, and outputting your datasets.Based on Allchin's popular blog, Preppin...
Price: $59.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2020
Software Engineering at Google
by Titus Winters, Hyrum Wright, Tom Manshreck
Today, software engineers need to know not only how to program effectively but also how to develop proper engineering practices to make their codebase sustainable and healthy. This book emphasizes this difference between programming and software engineering.How can software engineers manage a living codebase that evolves and responds to changing requirements and demands over the length of its life? Based on...
Price: $28.27 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2020
FREE EBOOK - Building Secure and Reliable Systems
by Betsy Beyer, Piotr Lewandowski, Ana Oprea, Paul Blankinship, Heather Adkins, Adam Stubblefield
Can a system be considered truly reliable if it isn't fundamentally secure? Or can it be considered secure if it's unreliable? Security is crucial to the design and operation of scalable systems in production, as it plays an important part in product quality, performance, and availability. In this book, experts from Google share best practices to help your organization design scalable and reliable...
Price: $49.92 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2020