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Author Russell Pavlicek
The cloud has ushered in a new era of computing, but its tenants still use old-school methods to deploy poorly secured, resource-hogging applications. This 40-page report provides a high-level overview of unikernels: small, secure, and fast workloads that could ush....
Release Date 2016/10 -
Effective Multi-Tenant Distributed Systems
Author Sean Suchter , Chad Carson
Organizations are eager to capitalize on real-time data analysis, move beyond batch processing for time-critical insights, and excel at big data in a predictable, reliable way. But performance has been an issue for distributed systems like Hadoop, especially when t....
Release Date 2016/10 -
Author Konrad Malawski
It’s often difficult to separate hype from reality when it comes to evaluating new technologies, and that’s certainly true of reactive programming. In this report, author Konrad Malawski analyzes reactive principles, and explains how and when it makes sense to adop....
Release Date 2016/10 -
Author Michael Hausenblas
The serverless paradigm is going mainstream. Major players such as Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and IBM are among the dozen organizations that now provide serverless compute options in the cloud—also known as Function-as-a-Service. What exactly does the serverless op....
Release Date 2016/11 -
Service-Oriented Architecture: Analysis and Design for Services and Microservices, Second Edition
Author Thomas Erl
The Top-Selling, De Facto Guide to SOA--Now Updated with New Content and Coverage of Microservices! For more than a decade, Thomas Erl’s best-selling Service-Oriented Architecture: Concepts, Technology, and Design has been the definitive end-to-end tutorial on SOA,....
Release Date 2016/12 -
Essentials of Software Engineering, 4th Edition
Author Tsui
Written for the undergraduate, one-term course, Essentials of Software Engineering, Fourth Edition provides students with a systematic engineering approach to software engineering principles and methodologies. Comprehensive, yet concise, the Fourth Edition includes....
Release Date 2016/12 -
Author Hugh McKee
Everything old is new again, at least when it comes to the Actor model. Today, there is renewed interest and adoption of this technology for building distributed systems, especially as cloud concurrency challenges increase. As this report explains, the Actor model ....
Release Date 2017/01 -
Evolutionary Computation with Biogeography-based Optimization
Author Dan Simon , Haiping Ma
Evolutionary computation algorithms are employed to minimize functions with large number of variables. Biogeography-based optimization (BBO) is an optimization algorithm that is based on the science of biogeography, which researches the migration patterns of specie....
Release Date 2017/02 -
Creating a Data-Driven Enterprise with DataOps
Author Joydeep Sen Sarma , Ashish Thusoo
Many companies are busy collecting massive amounts of data, but few are taking advantage of this treasure horde to build a truly data insights-driven organization. To do so, the data team must democratize both data and the insights in a way that provides real-time ....
Release Date 2017/03 -
Building a More Intelligent Enterprise
Author Philip E. Tetlock , Paul J.H. Schoemaker
To succeed in the long run, businesses need to create and leverage some kind of sustainable competitive edge. Although the authors say that advantages can still come from sources such as lower cost, intellectual property, motivated employees, and strategic leaders,....
Release Date 2017/04 -
Author Roger Leakey
In a world increasingly challenged by the need to integrate and understand highly specialized knowledge in a multidisciplinary way, this book is innovative and perhaps unique in addressing this challenge. It focuses on ideas, strategies, techniques and practices s....
Release Date 2017/04 -
Introduction to Nonlinear Aeroelasticity
Author Grigorios Dimitriadis
Introduces the latest developments and technologies in the area of nonlinear aeroelasticityNonlinear aeroelasticity has become an increasingly popular research area in recent years. There have been many driving forces behind this development, increasingly flexible ....
Release Date 2017/05 -
Author Randy Deutsch
There is today a pronounced and accelerated convergence in architecture. This convergence is occurring by doers not thinkers; in practice not academia; in building design, fabrication, and construction. It is about solution-centric individuals engaged in real time ....
Release Date 2017/06 -
Object-Oriented Design with ABAP: A Practical Approach
Author James E. McDonough
Conquer your fear and anxiety learning how the concepts behind object-oriented design apply to the ABAP programming environment. Through simple examples and metaphors this book demystifies the object-oriented programming model.Object-Oriented Design with ABAP prese....
Release Date 2017/06 -
Author John Chapin , Michael Roberts
Although the cloud has revolutionized the way we manage applications, many companies still view their systems in terms of servers—even though they no longer work with physical servers. What if you take the concept of servers out of the equation and begin to think of....
Release Date 2017/06 -
Author Tim Walker , Yiannis Kanellopoulos
Everyone in software development supports the goal of producing high-quality code. And yet, long-term observations in the field by the Software Improvement Group (SIG) reveals that many organizations don’t have the necessary resources or institutional processes to ....
Release Date 2017/06 -
Author Keyvan Akbary , Christian Soronellas , Carlos Buenosvinos
Real examples written in PHP showcasing DDD Architectural Styles, Tactical Design, and Bounded Context IntegrationAbout This BookFocuses on practical code rather than theoryFull of real-world examples that you can apply to your own projectsShows how to build PHP ap....
Release Date 2017/06 -
Building A Global Information Assurance Program
Author Douglas E. Campbell , Raymond J Curts
Governments, their agencies, and businesses are perpetually battling to protect valuable, classified, proprietary, or sensitive information but often find that the restrictions imposed upon them by information security policies and procedures have significant, nega....
Release Date 2017/07 -
Understanding the InnerSource Checklist
Author Silona Bonewald
Although many large corporations are reluctant to release the software they use in-house publicly as open source, those companies can still use principles and processes of open source for developing their in-house software—a practice popularly known as InnerSource.....
Release Date 2017/07 -
Building Serverless Web Applications
Author Diego Zanon
Build scalable, efficient, and highly available web apps using AWSAbout This BookGet an in-depth understanding of the serverless modelBuild a complete serverless web application end to endLearn how to use the Serverless Framework to improve your productivityWho Thi....
Release Date 2017/07 -
Building Serverless Architectures
Author Cagatay Gurturk
Build scalable, reliable, and cost-effective applications with a serverless architectureAbout This BookDesign a real-world serverless application from scratchLearn about AWS Lambda function and how to use Lambda functions to glue other AWS ServicesUse the Java prog....
Release Date 2017/07 -
Author Mohamed Farouk
Reduce the time spent analyzing infrastructure modules while lowering your cost and resources in the process. Most software project teams that develop custom software build the systems from scratch. With limited budgets and time, they often concentrate on the ....
Release Date 2017/08 -
Author Jason Hand
Anyone who works with technology knows that eventually something will go wrong—even in today’s complex, distributed, and highly available IT systems. In the battle to maintain uninterrupted service, your DevOps teams require updated methods for detecting and solvin....
Release Date 2017/08 -
Serverless computing in Azure with .NET
Author Sasha Rosenbaum
Harness the power of the Cloud, leveraging the speed and scale of Azure Serverless computingAbout This BookTake advantage of the agility, scale, and cost-effectiveness of the cloud using Azure Serverless computeBuild scalable, reliable, and cost-effecient applicati....
Release Date 2017/08 -
Azure Serverless Computing Cookbook
Author Praveen Kumar Sreeram
Over 50 recipes to help you build applications hosted on Serverless architecture using Azure Functions.About This BookEnhance Azure Functions with continuous deployment using Visual Studio Team ServicesLearn to deploy and manage cost-effective and highly available ....
Release Date 2017/08 -
Author Jonas Bonér
If you want your application to provide millisecond response times and close to 100% uptime, traditional architectures with single SQL databases and thread-per-request models simply cannot compete with microservices. This report discusses strategies and techniques ....
Release Date 2017/09 -
Defining Data-Driven Software Development
Author Eric Laquer
Every year, developers learn new frameworks and languages not only to enhance productivity, but also to stay relevant in an ever-changing industry. And yet there’s always a chance that tools you learn today won’t be around next year. So you end up wasting your time....
Release Date 2017/09 -
Author Mitesh Soni , Manisha Yadav
Embracing the cloud - a Serverless architecture to solve problems at scaleAbout This BookLearn to develop, manage, deploy, and monitor Azure functions in any language.Make the most out of Azure functions to build scalable systems.A step-by-step guide that will help....
Release Date 2017/09 -
Author Ramón Garrido Lázaro , Fidel Prieto Estrada
WSO2 Made Simple ? dive deep into the core concepts of WSO2 to overcome the challenges faced while using the Enterprise IntegratorAbout This BookDesign, create, and publish services in the WSO2 technologyIntegrate the WSO2 Enterprise Integrator with other component....
Release Date 2017/09 -
Author Aaron Hill , Greg Miller , Jack Skeen
A roadmap to fulfillment, with practical tools for the journeyThe Circle Blueprint is your personal guide to fulfillment. Are you thriving or just surviving? Are you energized, balanced, and happy? This book helps you dig to the root of the problem, and gives you a....
Release Date 2017/10