Beginning Entity Framework Core 2.0 
by Derek J. Rouleau
Use the valuable Entity Framework Core 2.0 tool in ASP.NET and the .NET Framework to eliminate the tedium around accessing databases and the data they contain.Entity Framework Core 2.0 greatly simplifies access to relational databases such as SQL Server that are commonly deployed in corporate settings. By eliminating tedious data access code that developers are otherwise forced to use, Entity Framework Core...
Price: $39.99 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2018
Modern Data Access with Entity Framework Core
by Holger Schwichtenberg
C# developers, here's your opportunity to learn the ins-and-outs of Entity Framework Core, Microsoft's recently redesigned object-relational mapper. Benefit from hands-on learning that will teach you how to tackle frustrating database challenges, such as workarounds to missing features in Entity Framework Core, and learn how to optimize the performance of your applications, head-on!Modern Data Acc...
Price: $34.19 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2018
by Russell Fustino
Discover how to create cross platform apps for Android, iOS and UWP using Azure services and C# with Xamarin Forms. This book illustrates how to utilize Azure cloud storage for serving up Azure SQL DB data through Azure App Services.The book starts by setting up Xamarin and introducing Xamarin Forms and then covers the Azure Portal from a developer's perspective and goes on to demonstrate how to build ...
Price: $22.66 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2018
Cloud Data Design, Orchestration, and Management Using Microsoft Azure
by Francesco Diaz, Roberto Freato
Use Microsoft Azure to optimally design your data solutions and save time and money. Scenarios are presented covering analysis, design, integration, monitoring, and derivatives.This book is about data and provides you with a wide range of possibilities to implement a data solution on Azure, from hybrid cloud to PaaS services. Migration from existing solutions is presented in detail. Alternatives and their s...
Price: $41.41 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2018
by Subhashini Chellappan, Dharanitharan Ganesan
Work with Apache Spark using Scala to deploy and set up single-node, multi-node, and high-availability clusters. This book discusses various components of Spark such as Spark Core, DataFrames, Datasets and SQL, Spark Streaming, Spark MLib, and R on Spark with the help of practical code snippets for each topic. Practical Apache Spark also covers the integration of Apache Spark with Kafka with examples. You&#...
Price: $31.66 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2018
Practical PHP 7, MySQL 8, and MariaDB Website Databases
by Adrian West, Steve Prettyman
Build interactive, database-driven websites with PHP 7, MySQL 8, and MariaDB. The focus of this book is on getting you up and running as quickly as possible with real-world applications. In the first two chapters, you will set up your development and testing environment, and then build your first PHP and MariaDB or MySQL database-driven website. You will then increase its sophistication, security, and funct...
Price: $36.97 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2018
Beginning Ethical Hacking with Kali Linux
by Sanjib Sinha
Get started in white-hat ethical hacking using Kali Linux. This book starts off by giving you an overview of security trends, where you will learn the OSI security architecture. This will form the foundation for the rest of Beginning Ethical Hacking with Kali Linux. With the theory out of the way, you'll move on to an introduction to VirtualBox, networking, and common Linux commands, followed by the st...
Price: $32.60 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2018
by Matei Zaharia, Bill Chambers
Learn how to use, deploy, and maintain Apache Spark with this comprehensive guide, written by the creators of the open-source cluster-computing framework. With an emphasis on improvements and new features in Spark 2.0, authors Bill Chambers and Matei Zaharia break down Spark topics into distinct sections, each with unique goals.You'll explore the basic operations and common functions of Spark's st...
Price: $27.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2018
by Tyler Akidau, Slava Chernyak, Reuven Lax
Streaming data is a big deal in big data these days. As more and more businesses seek to tame the massive unbounded data sets that pervade our world, streaming systems have finally reached a level of maturity sufficient for mainstream adoption. With this practical guide, data engineers, data scientists, and developers will learn how to work with streaming data in a conceptual and platform-agnostic way.Expan...
Price: $52.52 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2018
by Paul Rogers, Charles Givre
Get up to speed with Apache Drill, an extensible distributed SQL query engine that reads massive datasets in many popular file formats such as Parquet, JSON, and CSV. Drill reads data in HDFS or in cloud-native storage such as S3 and works with Hive metastores along with distributed databases such as HBase, MongoDB, and relational databases. Drill works everywhere: on your laptop or in your largest cluster....
Price: $42.26 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2018