FREE EBOOK - Agile Development for Serverless Platforms 
by Danilo Poccia
You need more than great dev tools to release great software; you need an efficient pipeline that takes advantage of modern Agile development practices. Serverless platforms like AWS offer the basic building blocks you need to run code, store data, or process streaming information so you can focus on the features you want to provide, not get bogged down with the infrastructure. Combined with an agile proces...
Publisher: Manning | Release: 2017
FREE EBOOK - Exploring the Data Jungle
by Brian Godsey
Some people like to believe that all data is ready to be used immediately. Not so! Data in the wild is hard to track and harder to understand, and the first job of data scientists to identify and prepare data so it can be used. To find your way through the data jungle successfully, you need the right perspective and guidance. (There's no point hacking at overgrowth with a spoon after all!) Identify and...
Publisher: Manning | Release: 2017
FREE EBOOK - Exploring .NET Core with Microservices, ASP.NET Core, and Entity Framework Core
by Dustin Metzgar
Windows developers have always enjoyed the productivity boost you get with the .NET platform, tools like Entity Framework and ASP.NET, and the amazingly-powerful C# language. Now, .NET Core extends those same benefits to Linux-based systems, offering a true cross-platform solution for enterprise application development. The .NET Core tools, including Entity Framework Core and ASP.NET Core, are lightweight a...
Publisher: Manning | Release: 2017
by Jim R. Wilson
JavaScript is the backbone of the modern web, powering nearly every web app's user interface. Node.js is JavaScript for the server. This greatly expanded second edition introduces new language features while dramatically increasing coverage of core topics. Each hands-on chapter offers progressively more challenging topics and techniques, broadening your skill set and enabling you to think in Node.js.Wr...
Price: $27.99 | Publisher: The Pragmatic Programmers | Release: 2017
The Cucumber Book, 2nd Edition
by Matt Wynne, Aslak Hellesoy, Steve Tooke
Express your customers wild ideas as a set of clear, executable specifications that everyone on the team can read. Feed those examples into Cucumber and let it guide your development. Build just the right code to keep your customers happy. You can use Cucumber to test almost any system or any platform.Get started by using the core features of Cucumber and working with Cucumber's Gherkin DSL to describe...
Price: $22.99 | Publisher: The Pragmatic Programmers | Release: 2017
by Benjamin Tan Wei Hao
Ruby developers use the Ruby language as the yardstick for expressivity, flexibility, and elegance - and a large part of this is due to blocks, lambdas, and procs. These language features make Ruby one of the most beautiful and pleasant languages to work with. Learn how to understand and craft code that will take you closer to Ruby mastery.Start with the basics of closures and then dive into blocks, as you ...
Price: $35.82 | Publisher: The Pragmatic Programmers | Release: 2017
by Vaskaran Sarcar
Learn how to implement design patterns in Java: each pattern in Java Design Patterns is a complete implementation and the output is generated using Eclipse, making the code accessible to all. The examples are chosen so you will be able to absorb the core concepts easily and quickly.This book presents the topic of design patterns in Java in such a way that anyone can grasp the idea. By giving easy to follow ...
Price: $29.99 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2016
Beginning SOLID Principles and Design Patterns for ASP.NET Developers
by Bipin Joshi
This book teaches you all the essential knowledge required to learn and apply time-proven SOLID principles of object-oriented design and important design patterns in ASP.NET 5 applications. You will learn to write server-side as well as client-side code that makes use of proven practices and patterns.SOLID is an acronym used to describe five basic principles of good object-oriented design - Single Responsib...
Price: $24.49 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2016
by Michael Nash, Wade Waldron
When it comes to big data processing, we can no longer ignore concurrency or try to add it in after the fact. Fortunately, the solution is not a new paradigm of development, but rather an old one. With this hands-on guide, Java and Scala developers will learn how to embrace concurrent and distributed applications with the open source Akka toolkit. You'll learn how to put the actor model and its associa...
Price: $27.67 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2016
FREE EBOOK - Modern Java EE Design Patterns
by Markus Eisele
With the ascent of DevOps, microservices, containers, and cloud-based development platforms, the gap between state-of-the-art solutions and the technology that enterprises typically support has greatly increased. But as Markus Eisele explains in this O'Reilly report, some enterprises are now looking to bridge that gap by building microservice-based architectures on top of Java EE.Can it be done? Is it ...
Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2016