by Jo Rhett
If you're a system administrator, developer, or site reliability engineer responsible for handling hundreds or even thousands of nodes in your network, the Puppet configuration management tool will make your job a whole lot easier. This practical guide shows you what Puppet does, how it works, and how it can provide significant value to your organization.Through hands-on tutorials, DevOps engineer Jo R...
Price: $36.06 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2016
by Gaurav Vaish
Ready to build mobile apps that out-perform the rest? If you're an iOS developer with app-building experience, this practical guide provides tips and best practices to help you solve many common performance issues. You'll learn how to design and optimize iOS apps that deliver a smooth experience even when the network is poor and memory is low.Today's picky users want fast and responsive apps ...
Price: $30.76 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2016
by Maximiliano Firtman
Optimize the performance of your mobile websites and webapps to the extreme. With this hands-on book, veteran mobile and web developer Maximiliano Firtman demonstrates which aspects of your site or app slow down the user's experience, and what you can do to achieve lightning-fast performance. There's much at stake: if you want to boost your app's conversion rate, then tackling performance iss...
Price: $7.00 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2016
by Kurt Guntheroth
In today's fast and competitive world, a program's performance is just as important to customers as the features it provides. This practical guide teaches developers performance-tuning principles that enable optimization in C++. You'll learn how to make code that already embodies best practices of C++ design run faster and consume fewer resources on any computer - whether it's a watch, p...
Price: $46.76 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2016
by Kief Morris
Virtualization, cloud, containers, server automation, and software-defined networking are meant to simplify IT operations. But many organizations adopting these technologies have found that it only leads to a faster-growing sprawl of unmanageable systems. This is where infrastructure as code can help. With this practical guide, author Kief Morris of ThoughtWorks shows you how to effectively use principles, ...
Price: $38.49 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2016
by Shelley Powers
Take your web development skills from browser to server with Node - and learn how to write fast, highly scalable network applications on this JavaScript-based platform. Updated for the latest Node Long Term Support (LTS) and Node Current (6.0) releases, this hands-on edition helps you master Node's core fundamentals and gain experience with several built-in and contributed modules.Get up to speed on No...
Price: $24.04 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2016
FREE EBOOK - Fundamentals of Azure, 2nd Edition
by Michael Collier, Robin Shahan
Microsoft Azure is Microsoft's cloud computing platform, providing a wide variety of services you can use without purchasing and provisioning your own hardware. Azure enables the rapid development of solutions and provides the resources to accomplish tasks that may not be feasible in an on-premises environment. Azure's compute, storage, network, and application services allow you to focus on build...
Publisher: Microsoft Press | Release: 2016
Exam Ref 70-744 Securing Windows Server 2016 
by Timothy L. Warner, Craig Zacker
Prepare for Microsoft Exam 70-744 - and help demonstrate your real-world mastery of securing Windows Server 2016 environments. Designed for experienced IT professionals ready to advance their status, Exam Ref focuses on the critical-thinking and decision-making acumen needed for success at the MCSE level.Focus on the expertise measured by these objectives: Implement server hardening solutions; Secure a virt...
Price: $23.12 | Publisher: Microsoft Press | Release: 2016
by V. K. Cody Bumgardner, Jay Pipes
OpenStack in Action offers real-world use cases and step-by-step instructions on how to develop your own cloud platform. This book guides you through the design of both the physical hardware cluster and the infrastructure services you'll need. You'll learn how to select and set up virtual and physical servers, how to implement software-defined networking, and technical details of designing, deploy...
Price: $6.56 | Publisher: Manning | Release: 2016
by Dominique D. Guinard, Vlad M. Trifa
A hands-on guide that teaches you how to design and implement scalable, flexible, and open IoT solutions using web technologies. This book focuses on providing the right balance of theory, code samples, and practical examples to enable you to successfully connect all sorts of devices to the web and to expose their services and data over REST APIs.Because the Internet of Things is still new, there is no univ...
Price: $26.61 | Publisher: Manning | Release: 2016