by Amir Shevat, Brenda Jin, Saurabh Sahni
Using a web API to provide services to application developers is one of the more satisfying endeavors that software engineers undertake. But building a popular API with a thriving developer ecosystem is also one of the most challenging. With this practical guide, developers, architects, and tech leads will learn how to navigate complex decisions for designing, scaling, marketing, and evolving interoperable ...
Price: $12.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2018
by Mark Michaelis
Essential C# 7.0 is a well-organized, no-fluff guide to C# 7.0 for programmers at all levels of experience. Reflecting the most important C# features from 3.0 through 7.0 and including modern programming patterns, it will help you write code that's simple, powerful, robust, secure, and maintainable.Author Mark Michaelis is a world-class C# expert: a long-time Microsoft MVP and Regional Director who als...
Price: $47.99 | Publisher: Addison-Wesley | Release: 2018
SQL Server 2017 Administration Inside Out 
by William Assaf, Randolph West, Sven Aelterman, Mindy Curnutt
Dive into SQL Server 2017 administration - and really put your SQL Server DBA expertise to work. This supremely organized reference packs hundreds of timesaving solutions, tips, and workarounds - all you need to plan, implement, manage, and secure SQL Server 2017 in any production environment: on-premises, cloud, or hybrid. Four SQL Server experts offer a complete tour of DBA capabilities available in SQL S...
Price: $34.23 | Publisher: Microsoft Press | Release: 2018
by Anthony DeBarros
Practical SQL is an approachable and fast-paced guide to SQL (Structured Query Language), the standard programming language for defining, organizing, and exploring data in relational databases. The book focuses on using SQL to find the story your data tells, with the popular open-source database PostgreSQL and the pgAdmin interface as its primary tools.You'll first cover the fundamentals of databases a...
Price: $27.16 | Publisher: No Starch Press | Release: 2018
by Sean McManus
Launch into coding with Mission Python, a space-themed guide to building a complete computer game in Python. You'll learn programming fundamentals like loops, strings, and lists as you build Escape!, an exciting game with a map to explore, items to collect, and tricky logic puzzles to solve. As you work through the book, you'll build exercises and mini-projects, like making a spacewalk simulator a...
Price: $20.30 | Publisher: No Starch Press | Release: 2018
by Jim Bennett
Rewriting the same app for iOS and Android is tedious, error-prone, and expensive. Microsoft's Xamarin drastically reduces dev time by reusing most application code - typically 70% or more. The core of your iOS and Android app is shared; you write platform-specific code only for the UI layer. And because Xamarin uses C#, your apps benefit from everything this modern language and the .NET ecosystem have...
Price: $39.99 | Publisher: Manning | Release: 2018
FREE EBOOK - Azure Tips and Tricks
by Michael Crump
When I reflect back on Azure Tips and Tricks a year ago, I was only thinking that I'd write a couple of posts and move on. Fast-forward to today, the collection has grown to over 150+ tips, as well as videos, conference talks, and now an eBook spanning the entire universe of the Azure platform. What you are currently reading is a special collection of tips based on page views of the entire series over ...
Publisher: Microsoft Press | Release: 2018
Hands-On Cloud Solutions with Azure 
by Greg Leonardo
Azure provides cloud-based solutions to support your business demands. Building and running solutions on Azure will help your business maximize the return on investment and minimize the total cost of ownership.Hands-On Cloud Solutions with Azure focuses on addressing the architectural decisions that usually arise when you design or migrate a solution to Microsoft Azure. You will start by designing the build...
Price: $29.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2018
Mastering Office 365 Administration
by Thomas Carpe, Nikkia Carter, Alara Rogers
In today's world, every organization aims to migrate to the cloud to become more efficient by making full use of the latest technologies. Office 365 is your one-stop solution to making your organization reliable, scalable, and fast.The book will start with an overview of Office 365 components, and help you learn how to use the administration portal, and perform basic administration. Then this book cove...
Price: $25.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2018
C# and .NET Core Test Driven Development
by Ayobami Adewole
This book guides developers to create robust, production-ready C# 7 and .NET Core applications through the practice of test-driven development process.In C# and .NET Core Test-Driven Development, you will learn the different stages of the TDD life cycle, basics of TDD, best practices, and anti-patterns. It will teach you how to create an ASP.NET Core MVC sample application, write testable code with SOLID pr...
Price: $39.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2018