Seven Concurrency Models in Seven Weeks 
by Paul Butcher
Your software needs to leverage multiple cores, handle thousands of users and terabytes of data, and continue working in the face of both hardware and software failure. Concurrency and parallelism are the keys, and Seven Concurrency Models in Seven Weeks equips you for this new world. See how emerging technologies such as actors and functional programming address issues with traditional threads and locks de...
Price: $28.49 | Publisher: The Pragmatic Programmers | Release: 2014
by Daniel Hinojosa
If you build your Scala application through Test-Driven Development, you'll quickly see the advantages of testing before you write production code. This hands-on book shows you how to create tests with ScalaTest and the Specs2 - two of the best testing frameworks available - and how to run your tests in the Simple Build Tool (SBT) designed specifically for Scala projects.By building a sample digital ju...
Price: $6.45 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
by Alvin Alexander
Save time and trouble when using Scala to build object-oriented, functional, and concurrent applications. With more than 250 ready-to-use recipes and 700 code examples, this comprehensive cookbook covers the most common problems you'll encounter when using the Scala language, libraries, and tools. It's ideal not only for experienced Scala developers, but also for programmers learning to use this J...
Price: $27.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
MongoDB: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition
by Kristina Chodorow
Manage the huMONGOus amount of data collected through your web application with MongoDB. This authoritative introduction - written by a core contributor to the project - shows you the many advantages of using document-oriented databases, and demonstrates how this reliable, high-performance system allows for almost infinite horizontal scalability.This updated second edition provides guidance for database dev...
Price: $17.95 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
by Richard Dallaway
If you need help building web applications with the Lift framework, this cookbook provides scores of concise, ready-to-use code solutions. You'll find recipes for everything from setting up a coding environment to creating REST web services and deploying your application to production.Built on top of the Scala JVM programming language, Lift takes a different - yet ultimately easier - approach to develo...
Price: $3.85 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
by Jeff Sheltren, Narayan Newton, Nathaniel Catchpole
How can you help your Drupal website continue to perform at the highest level as it grows to meet demand? This comprehensive guide provides best practices, examples, and in-depth explanations for solving several performance and scalability issues. You'll learn how to apply coding and infrastructure techniques to Drupal internals, application performance, databases, web servers, and performance analysis...
Price: $19.27 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
Functional Programming in Scala
by Paul Chiusano, Runar Bjarnason
Functional programming (FP) is a programming style emphasizing functions that return consistent and predictable results regardless of a program's state. As a result, functional code is easier to test and reuse, simpler to parallelize, and less prone to bugs. Scala is an emerging JVM language that offers strong support for FP. Its familiar syntax and transparent interoperability with existing Java libra...
Price: $9.97 | Publisher: Manning | Release: 2013
by Peter Hilton, Erik Bakker, Francisco Canedo
Play is a Scala web framework with built-in advantages: Scala's strong type system helps deliver bug-free code, and the Akka framework helps achieve hassle-free concurrency and peak performance. Play builds on the web's stateless nature for excellent scalability, and because it is event-based and nonblocking, you'll find it to be great for near real-time applications.Play for Scala teaches yo...
Price: $24.51 | Publisher: Manning | Release: 2013
Getting Started with Twitter Flight
by Tom Hamshere
Flight is a lightweight, component-based JavaScript application framework developed by Twitter for Twitter.com. It is an exciting alternative to the complexities of modern MVVM frameworks, offering a minimal API that allows you to write fast, reliable, scalable applications with a minimum of boilerplate code.Getting Started with Twitter Flight offers the reader insight into why Flight was created and how to...
Price: $17.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2013
by Zahir Hussain Shah
Over a short span of time, server virtualization has been one of the most rapidly adopted technologies in IT business. Microsoft Hyper-V is a hardware-assisted hypervisor product, available as a server role in the Windows Server operating system. Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V provides cutting-edge server virtualization features for a scalable, flexible, and highly available virtual machine infrastructure.&...
Price: $29.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2013