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
FREE EBOOK - Designing Event-Driven Systems
by Ben Stopford
Many forces affect software today: larger datasets, geographical disparities, complex company structures, and the growing need to be fast and nimble in the face of change. Proven approaches such as service-oriented and event-driven architectures are joined by newer techniques such as microservices, reactive architectures, DevOps, and stream processing. Many of these patterns are successful by themselves, bu...
Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2018
Foundations for Architecting Data Solutions
by Jonathan Seidman, Ted Malaska
While many companies ponder implementation details such as distributed processing engines and algorithms for data analysis, this practical book takes a much wider view of big data development, starting with initial planning and moving diligently toward execution. Authors Ted Malaska and Jonathan Seidman guide you through the major components necessary to start, architect, and develop successful big data pro...
Price: $39.09 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2018
by Mike Amundsen, Ronnie Mitra, Mehdi Medjaoui, Erik Wilde
A lot of work is required to release an API, but the effort doesn't always pay off. Overplanning before an API matures is a wasted investment, while underplanning can lead to disaster. This practical guide provides maturity models for individual APIs and multi-API landscapes to help you invest the right human and company resources for the right maturity level at the right time.How do you balance the de...
Price: $16.77 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2018
Exam Ref 70-483 Programming in C#, 2nd Edition
by Rob Miles
Prepare for the latest versions of Microsoft Exam 70-483 and help demonstrate your real-world mastery of modern C# programming. Designed for experienced C# developers ready to advance their status, Exam Ref focuses on the critical thinking and decision-making acumen needed for success at the MCSA level.Focus on the expertise measured by these objectives: Manage program flow; Create and use types; Debug appl...
Price: $22.99 | Publisher: Microsoft Press | Release: 2018
Microsoft Visual C# Step by Step, 9th Edition
by John Sharp
Expand your expertise - and teach yourself the fundamentals of programming with the latest version of Visual C# with Visual Studio 2017. If you are an experienced software developer, you'll get all the guidance, exercises, and code you need to start building responsive, scalable, cloud-connected applications that can run almost anywhere.Discover how to: Quickly start creating Visual C# code and project...
Price: $10.50 | Publisher: Microsoft Press | Release: 2018
by Frank Dagenhardt, Jose Moreno, Bill Dufresne
With the Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) software-defined networking platform, you can achieve dramatic improvements in data center performance, redundancy, security, visibility, efficiency, and agility. In Deploying ACI, three leading Cisco experts introduce this breakthrough platform, and walk network professionals through all facets of design, deployment, and operation. The authors demonst...
Price: $48.70 | Publisher: Cisco Press | Release: 2018
by Julien Danjou
Sharpen your Python skills as you dive deep into the Python programming language with Serious Python. You'll cover a range of advanced topics like multithreading and memorization, get advice from experts on things like designing APIs and dealing with databases, and learn Python internals to help you gain a deeper understanding of the language itself. Written for developers and experienced programmers, ...
Price: $23.76 | 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
by Manul Laphroaig
The International Journal of Proof-of-Concept or Get The Fuck Out is a celebrated magazine of reverse engineering, retro-computing, and systems internals. This 2nd collected volume holds all of the articles from releases nine to thirteen.Learn how to patch the firmware of a handheld amateur radio, then emulate that radio's proprietary audio code under Linux. How to slow the Windows kernel when exploiti...
Price: $25.34 | Publisher: No Starch Press | Release: 2018