Oracle Database Transactions and Locking Revealed 
by Thomas Kyte, Darl Kuhn
Oracle Database Transactions and Locking Revealed provides much-needed information for building scalable, high-concurrency applications and deploy them against the Oracle Database. Read this short, 150-page book that is adapted from Expert Oracle Database Architecture to gain a solid and accurate understanding of how locking and concurrency are dealt with by Oracle Database. Also learn how the Oracle Databa...
Price: $37.98 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2014
The Art of Application Performance Testing, 2nd Edition 
by Ian Molyneaux
Because performance is paramount today, this thoroughly updated guide shows you how to test mission-critical applications for scalability and performance before you deploy them-whether it's to the cloud or a mobile device. You'll learn the complete testing process lifecycle step-by-step, along with best practices to plan, coordinate, and conduct performance tests on your applications.Written by a ...
Price: $30.49 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2014
by Tom Fifield, Diane Fleming, Anne Gentle, Lorin Hochstein, Jonathan Proulx, Everett Toews, Joe Topjian
Design, deploy, and maintain your own private or public Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), using the open source OpenStack platform. In this practical guide, experienced developers and OpenStack contributors show you how to build clouds based on reference architectures, as well as how to perform daily administration tasks.Designed for horizontal scalability, OpenStack lets you build a cloud by integrating ...
Price: $28.05 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2014
Data Science at the Command Line
by Jeroen Janssens
This hands-on guide demonstrates how the flexibility of the command line can help you become a more efficient and productive data scientist. You'll learn how to combine small, yet powerful, command-line tools to quickly obtain, scrub, explore, and model your data.To get you started - whether you're on Windows, OS X, or Linux - author Jeroen Janssens introduces the Data Science Toolbox, an easy-to-...
Price: $7.67 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2014
by Trey Grainger, Timothy Potter
Solr in Action is a comprehensive guide to implementing scalable search using Apache Solr. This clearly written book walks you through well-documented examples ranging from basic keyword searching to scaling a system for billions of documents and queries. It will give you a deep understanding of how to implement core Solr capabilities.Solr in Action teaches you to implement scalable search using Apache Solr...
Price: $38.36 | Publisher: Manning | Release: 2014
FREE EBOOK - Cloud Design Patterns
by Alex Homer, John Sharp, Larry Brader, Masashi Narumoto, Trent Swanson
Cloud applications have a unique set of characteristics. They run on commodity hardware, provide services to untrusted users, and deal with unpredictable workloads. These factors impose a range of problems that you, as a designer or developer, need to resolve. Your applications must be resilient so that they can recover from failures, secure to protect services from malicious attacks, and elastic in order t...
Price: $40.18 | Publisher: Microsoft Press | Release: 2014
by Mark Furman
OpenVZ (Open Virtuozzo) is an OS-level virtualization technology based on the Linux kernel and OS written in C. It creates multiple secure and isolated Linux containers on a single physical server, enabling better server utilization and ensuring that applications do not conflict. OpenVZ is the only highly scalable virtualization technology with near-zero overhead, strong isolation, and rapid customer provis...
Price: $22.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2014
by Mohammed Raffic Kajamoideen, Aravind Sivaraman
VMware ESX and VMware ESXi hypervisors are used for providing the foundation for building and managing a virtualized IT infrastructure. vSphere 5.1 delivers the same industry-leading performance and scalability as prior vSphere releases, with several additional benefits including its improved reliability and security. VMware vSphere 5.1 is based on the ESXi hypervisor architecture, a thin purpose-built hype...
Price: $32.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2014
by Stephen Redmond
QlikView and its new sister product, Qlik Sense, are the leading tools for BI and data discovery. They both feature the ability to consolidate relevant data from multiple sources into a single application, an associative data model to allow you to explore the data the way your brain works, and state-of-the-art visualizations, dashboards, analysis, and reports.The book starts by reviewing the best performanc...
Price: $59.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2014
Getting Started with BizTalk Services
by Jon Fancey, Karthik Bharathy
BizTalk Services is a service based on Windows Azure that was introduced by Microsoft in the summer of 2013. It provides integration capabilities in the cloud to connect enterprises together in scalable and flexible ways that go beyond what traditional on-premises integration products (such as BizTalk Server) can manage. BizTalk Services provides the ability to construct integration solutions using familiar...
Price: $3.98 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2014