by Andrew Hoffman
While many resources for network and IT security are available, detailed knowledge regarding modern web application security has been lacking - until now. This practical guide provides both offensive and defensive security concepts that software engineers can easily learn and apply.Andrew Hoffman, a senior security engineer at Salesforce, introduces three pillars of web application security: recon, offense,...
Price: $28.00 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2020
Distributed Tracing in Practice 
by Austin Parker, Ben Sigelman, Daniel Spoonhower, Jonathan Mace, Rebecca Isaacs
Since most applications today are distributed in some fashion, monitoring their health and performance requires a new approach. Enter distributed tracing, a method of profiling and monitoring distributed applications - particularly those that use microservice architectures. There's just one problem: distributed tracing can be hard. But it doesn't have to be.With this guide, you'll learn what ...
Price: $42.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2020
by Liz Rice
To facilitate scalability and resilience, many organizations now run applications in cloud native environments using containers and orchestration. But how do you know if the deployment is secure? This practical book examines key underlying technologies to help developers, operators, and security professionals assess security risks and determine appropriate solutions. Author Liz Rice, VP of open source engin...
Price: $35.35 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2020
Architecting for Scale, 2nd Edition 
by Lee Atchison
Every day, companies struggle to scale critical applications. As traffic volume and data demands increase, these applications become more complicated and brittle, exposing risks and compromising availability. With the popularity of software as a service, scaling has never been more important.Updated with an expanded focus on modern architecture paradigms such as microservices and cloud computing, this pract...
Price: $29.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2020
The Customer-Driven Culture: A Microsoft Story
by Travis Lowdermilk, Monty Hammontree
If you're striving to make products and services that your customers will love, then you'll need a customer-driven organization. As companies transform their businesses to meet the demands of the digital age, they find themselves grappling with uniquely human challenges. Organizational knowledge becomes siloed, employees move to safeguard their expertise, and customer data creates polarization and...
Price: $32.47 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2020
by Maude Lemaire
Making significant changes to large, complex codebases is a daunting task-one that's nearly impossible to do successfully unless you have the right team, tools, and mindset. If your application is in need of a substantial overhaul and you're unsure how to go about implementing those changes in a sustainable way, then this book is for you.Software engineer Maude Lemaire walks you through the entire...
Price: $36.90 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2020
by Ryan Sleeper
Level up with Tableau to build eye-catching, easy-to-interpret data visualizations. In this follow-up guide to Practical Tableau, author Ryan Sleeper takes you through a collection of unique tips and tutorials for using this popular software. Beginning to advanced Tableau users will learn how to go beyond Show Me to make better charts and learn dozens of tricks to improve both the author and user experience...
Price: $51.21 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2020
by Derek DeJonghe
NGINX is one of the most widely used web servers available today, in part because of its capabilities as a load balancer and reverse proxy server for HTTP and other network protocols.This cookbook provides easy-to-follow examples to real-world problems in application delivery. The practical recipes will help you set up and use either the open source or commercial offering to solve problems in various use ca...
Price: $19.35 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2020
FREE EBOOK - Building Secure and Reliable Systems
by Betsy Beyer, Piotr Lewandowski, Ana Oprea, Paul Blankinship, Heather Adkins, Adam Stubblefield
Can a system be considered truly reliable if it isn't fundamentally secure? Or can it be considered secure if it's unreliable? Security is crucial to the design and operation of scalable systems in production, as it plays an important part in product quality, performance, and availability. In this book, experts from Google share best practices to help your organization design scalable and reliable...
Price: $49.92 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2020
by Adam Bertram
PowerShell is both a scripting language and an administrative shell that lets you control and automate nearly every aspect of IT. In PowerShell for Sysadmins, five-time Microsoft MVP "Adam the Automator" Bertram shows you how to use PowerShell to manage and automate your desktop and server environments so that you can head out for an early lunch.You'll learn how to: Combine commands, control ...
Price: $19.39 | Publisher: No Starch Press | Release: 2020