FREE EBOOK - Load Balancing in the Cloud 
by Derek DeJonghe
Use of redundant servers has long been a solution for meeting sudden spikes in demand, machine failures, and outages. Cloud services greatly reduce the cost and hassle of provisioning redundant equipment and load balancers and give you the ability to deal with separate network, application, and client-side loads. But today there are many options to consider, and you have to determine which cloud service (or...
Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2018
by Anthony DeBarros
Practical SQL is an approachable and fast-paced guide to SQL (Structured Query Language), the standard programming language for defining, organizing, and exploring data in relational databases. The book focuses on using SQL to find the story your data tells, with the popular open-source database PostgreSQL and the pgAdmin interface as its primary tools.You'll first cover the fundamentals of databases a...
Price: $27.16 | Publisher: No Starch Press | Release: 2018
by Steve Klabnik, Carol Nichols
The Rust Programming Language is the official book on Rust, an open-source, community-developed systems programming language that runs blazingly fast, prevents segfaults, and guarantees thread safety. This is the undisputed go-to guide to Rust, written by two members of the Rust core team, with feedback and contributions from 42 members of the community. The book assumes that you've written code in ano...
Price: $8.99 | Publisher: No Starch Press | Release: 2018
by Rui Santos, Sara Santos
20 Easy Raspberry Pi Projects is a beginner-friendly collection of electronics projects, perfectly suited for kids, parents, educators, and hobbyists looking to level up their hardware skills.After a crash course to get you set up with your Raspberry Pi, you'll learn how to build interactive projects like a digital drum set; a WiFi controlled robot; a Pong game; an intruder alarm that sends email notif...
Price: $10.99 | Publisher: No Starch Press | Release: 2018
by OccupyTheWeb
If you're getting started along the exciting path of hacking, cybersecurity, and pentesting, Linux Basics for Hackers is an excellent first step. Using Kali Linux, an advanced penetration testing distribution of Linux, you'll learn the basics of using the Linux operating system and acquire the tools and techniques you'll need to take control of a Linux environment.First, you'll learn how...
Price: $23.48 | Publisher: No Starch Press | Release: 2018
by Michael W. Lucas
FreeBSD is the muscle behind companies like Netflix and EMC. Any place where someone does heavy lifting on the Internet, you'll find FreeBSD. This newly revised edition of Absolute FreeBSD brings FreeBSD's strengths to bear on your problems and covers FreeBSD's newest features, all in the inimitable style that has made author Michael W. Lucas system administration books so popular.Any compute...
Price: $39.40 | Publisher: No Starch Press | Release: 2018
FREE EBOOK - Eloquent JavaScript, 3rd Edition
by Marijn Haverbeke
JavaScript lies at the heart of almost every modern web application, from social apps like Twitter to browser-based game frameworks like Phaser and Babylon. Though simple for beginners to pick up and play with, JavaScript is a flexible, complex language that you can use to build full-scale applications.This much anticipated and thoroughly revised third edition of Eloquent JavaScript dives deep into the Java...
Price: $6.03 | Publisher: No Starch Press | Release: 2018
Google Cloud Platform in Action
by JJ Geewax
Google Cloud Platform in Action teaches you to build and launch applications that scale, leveraging the many services on GCP to move faster than ever. You'll learn how to choose exactly the services that best suit your needs, and you'll be able to build applications that run on Google Cloud Platform and start more quickly, suffer fewer disasters, and require less maintenance.Thousands of developer...
Price: $39.69 | Publisher: Manning | Release: 2018
by Mark Tielens Thomas
Facebook created React to help deliver amazing user experiences on a website with thousands of components and an incomprehensible amount of traffic. The same powerful tools are available to you too! The key is a clever design for managing state, data flow, and rendering, so your application is easy to think about and runs smoothly. Add an incredibly rich ecosystem of components and libraries, and you'v...
Price: $42.74 | Publisher: Manning | Release: 2018
by Ken Finnigan
Enterprise Java Microservices is an example-rich tutorial that shows how to design and manage large-scale Java applications as a collection of microservices.Large applications are easier to develop and maintain when you build them from small, simple components. Java developers now enjoy a wide range of tools that support microservices application development, including right-sized app servers, open source f...
Price: $39.99 | Publisher: Manning | Release: 2018