Mastering High Performance with Kotlin 
by Igor Kucherenko
The ease with which we write applications has been increasing, but with it comes the need to address their performance. A balancing act between easily implementing complex applications and keeping their performance optimal is a present-day requirement In this book, we explore how to achieve this crucial balance, while developing and deploying applications with Kotlin.The book starts by analyzing various Kot...
Price: $44.57 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2018
Learn Python Programming, 2nd Edition
by Fabrizio Romano
Learn Python Programming creates a foundation for those who are interested in developing their skills in Python programming. The book starts with the fundamentals of programming with Python and ends by exploring different topics such as GUIs and real-world apps.You will begin by exploring the foundations of and fundamental topics on Python and learn to manipulate them. Then, you'll explore different pr...
Price: $49.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2018
Hands-On Microservices - Monitoring and Testing
by Dinesh Rajput
Microservices are the latest "right" way of developing web applications. Microservices architecture has been gaining momentum over the past few years, but once you've started down the microservices path, you need to test and optimize the services. This book focuses on exploring various testing, monitoring, and optimization techniques for microservices.The book starts with the evolution of sof...
Price: $29.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2018
Professional Azure SQL Database Administration
by Ahmad Osama
As the cloud version of SQL Server, Azure SQL Database differs in key ways when it comes to management, maintenance, and administration. It's important to know how to administer SQL Database to fully benefit from all of the features and functionality that it provides. This book addresses important aspects of an Azure SQL Database instance such as migration, backup restorations, pricing policies, securi...
Price: $49.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2018
Hands-On Neural Network Programming with C#
by Matt R. Cole
Neural networks have made a surprise comeback in the last few years and have brought tremendous innovation in the world of artificial intelligence.The goal of this book is to provide C# programmers with practical guidance in solving complex computational challenges using neural networks and C# libraries such as CNTK, and TensorFlowSharp. This book will take you on a step-by-step practical journey, covering ...
Price: $39.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2018
Applied Deep Learning with Python
by Alex Galea, Luis Capelo
Taking an approach that uses the latest developments in the Python ecosystem, you'll first be guided through the Jupyter ecosystem, key visualization libraries and powerful data sanitization techniques before we train our first predictive model. We'll explore a variety of approaches to classification like support vector networks, random decision forests and k-nearest neighbours to build out your u...
Price: $44.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2018
FREE EBOOK - SQL Server Execution Plans, 3rd Edition
by Grant Fritchey
Every Database Administrator, developer, report writer, and anyone else who writes T-SQL to access SQL Server data, must understand how to read and interpret execution plans. My book leads you right from the basics of capturing plans, through how to interrupt them in their various forms, graphical or XML, and then how to use the information you find there to diagnose the most common causes of poor query per...
Publisher: Self-publishing | Release: 2018
by Igor Zhirkov
Learn Intel 64 assembly language and architecture, become proficient in C, and understand how the programs are compiled and executed down to machine instructions, enabling you to write robust, high-performance code.Low-Level Programming explains Intel 64 architecture as the result of von Neumann architecture evolution. The book teaches the latest version of the C language (C11) and assembly language from s...
Price: $44.99 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2017
Expert Apache Cassandra Administration
by Sam R. Alapati
Follow this handbook to build, configure, tune, and secure Apache Cassandra databases. Start with the installation of Cassandra and move on to the creation of a single instance, and then a cluster of Cassandra databases.Cassandra is increasingly a key player in many big data environments, and this book shows you how to use Cassandra with Apache Spark, a popular big data processing framework. Also covered ar...
Price: $35.60 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2017
by Holden Karau, Rachel Warren
Apache Spark is amazing when everything clicks. But if you haven't seen the performance improvements you expected, or still don't feel confident enough to use Spark in production, this practical book is for you. Authors Holden Karau and Rachel Warren demonstrate performance optimizations to help your Spark queries run faster and handle larger data sizes, while using fewer resources.Ideal for softw...
Price: $27.31 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2017