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Harnessing the Best of Globalization
Author William R. Kerr
The opportunities for businesses to become global are expanding thanks to rapidly emerging product markets, the worldwide race for talent, and the widening impact of digitization. Success stories such as Airbnb Inc. and Uber Technologies Inc. are spurring the imagi....
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Parallel Programming with OpenACC
Author Rob Farber
Parallel Programming with OpenACC is a modern, practical guide to implementing dependable computing systems. The book explains how anyone can use OpenACC to quickly ramp-up application performance using high-level code directives called pragmas. The OpenACC directi....
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Author Hossam Gabbar
Smart Energy Grid Engineering provides in-depth detail on the various important engineering challenges of smart energy grid design and operation by focusing on advanced methods and practices for designing different components and their integration within the grid. ....
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Evolution of Knowledge Science
Author Syed V. Ahamed
Evolution of Knowledge Science: Myth to Medicine: Intelligent Internet-Based Humanist Machines explains how to design and build the next generation of intelligent machines that solve social and environmental problems in a systematic, coherent, and optimal fashion. ....
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Author Graham Sellers
The Definitive Vulkan™ Developer’s Guide and Reference: Master the Next-Generation Specification for Cross-Platform GraphicsThe next generation of the OpenGL specification, Vulkan, has been redesigned from the ground up, giving applications direct control over GPU ....
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Author Fabio Lima Leite , Alessandra Luzia Da Róz , Marystela Ferreira , Osvaldo de Olivei
Nanostructures covers the main concepts and fundamentals of nanoscience emphasizing characteristics and properties of numerous nanostructures.This book offers a clear explanation of nanostructured materials via several examples of synthesis/processing methodologies....
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The Intelligent Enterprise in the Era of Big Data
Author Venkat Srinivasan
“ … the enterprise of today has changed … wherever you sit in this new corporation … Srinivasan gives us a practical and provocative guide for rethinking our business process … calling us all to action around rapid development of our old, hierarchical structures in....
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Migrating to Swift from Flash and ActionScript
Author Hristo Lesev , Radoslava Leseva Adams
Build on your knowledge of ActionScript to take the fast track developing iOS apps with Apple's latest language, Swift. Swift's syntax is easier to understand than Objective-C for people already familiar with ActionScript. At the same time it offers a number of n....
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Reactive Programming with RxJava
Author Ben Christensen , Tomasz Nurkiewicz
In today’s app-driven era, when programs are asynchronous and responsiveness is so vital, reactive programming can help you write code that’s more reliable, easier to scale, and better-performing. With this practical book, Java developers will first learn how to vi....
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Author Gregory T Brown
Writing code is the easy part of your work as a software developer. This practical book lets you explore the other 90%—everything from requirements discovery and rapid prototyping to business analysis and designing for maintainability. Instead of providing neatly p....
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Author Tom Phoenix , brian d foy , Randal L. Schwartz
If you’re just getting started with Perl, this is the book you want—whether you’re a programmer, system administrator, or web hacker. Nicknamed "the Llama" by two generations of users, this bestseller closely follows the popular introductory Perl course taught by t....
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iOS 10 Programming Fundamentals with Swift
Author Matt Neuburg
Move into iOS development by getting a firm grasp of its fundamentals, including the Xcode IDE, the Cocoa Touch framework, and Swift 3—the latest version of Apple’s acclaimed programming language. With this thoroughly updated guide, you’ll learn Swift’s object-orie....
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Rails: Novice to Ninja, 3rd Edition
Author Patrick Lenz , Glenn Goodrich
Rails: Novice to Ninja is an easy-to-follow, practical and fun guide to Ruby on Rails for beginners. It covers all you need to get up and running, from installing Ruby, Rails and SQLite to building and deploying a fully-featured web application. The third edition o....
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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....
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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....
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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....
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Author Tim Nugent , Jonathon Manning , Paris Buttfield-Addison
Swift 3 is the first significant release since Apple’s heralded programming language became an open source project in late 2015. In this report, Jon Manning, Paris Buttfield-Addison, and Tim Nugent—authors of Learning Swift—provide a tour of Swift 3 and its growing....
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Functional and Reactive Domain Modeling
Author Debasish Ghosh
SummaryFunctional and Reactive Domain Modeling teaches you how to think of the domain model in terms of pure functions and how to compose them to build larger abstractions.About the TechnologyTraditional distributed applications won’t cut it in the reactive world o....
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The Little Elixir & OTP Guidebook
Author Benjamin Tan Wei Hao
The Little Elixir & OTP Guidebook gets you started writing applications with Elixir and OTP. You?ll begin with the immediately comfortable Elixir language syntax, along with just enough functional programming to use it effectively. Then, you?ll dive straight in....
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Author Dave Thomas
Explore functional programming without the academic overtones (tell me about monads just one more time). Create concurrent applications, but get them right without all the locking and consistency headaches. Meet Elixir, a modern, functional, concurrent language bui....
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Author Vladimir Vivien
An insightful guide to learning the Go programming languageAbout This BookInsightful coverage of Go programming syntax, constructs, and idioms to help you understand Go code effectivelyPush your Go skills, with topics such as, data types, channels, concurrency, obj....
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Building an RPG with Unity 5.x
Author Vahé Karamian
Unleash the full potential of Unity to build a fully playable, high-quality multiplayer RPGAbout This BookLearn to build a multiplayer real-time strategy game from scratch using UnityGain knowledge of Unity's UI system to build complex user interfacesSee how to bu....
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Author Nicolas Modrzyk , Makoto Hashimoto
Handle every problem you come across in the world of Clojure programming with this expert collection of recipesAbout This BookDiscover a wide variety of practical cases and real world techniques to enhance your productivity with Clojure.Learn to resolve the everyda....
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Unreal Engine 4 Scripting with C++ Cookbook
Author Stephen Whittle , William Sherif
Get the best out of your games by scripting them using UE4About This BookA straightforward and easy-to-follow formatA selection of the most important tasks and problemsCarefully organized instructions to solve problems efficientlyClear explanations of what you didS....
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Mastering Unity 2D Game Development - Second Edition
Author Simon Jackson , Ashley Godbold
Master everything you need to build a 2D game using Unity 5 by developing a complete RPG game framework!About This BookExplore the new features of Unity 5 and recognize obsolete code and elements.Develop and build a complete 2D retro RPG with a conversation system,....
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Author Gaurav Sood
Build robust Scala applications by implementing the fundamentals of test-driven development in your workflowAbout This BookGet a deep understanding of various testing concepts such as test-driven development (TDD) and BDDEfficient usage of the built-in Scala featur....
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Author Christian Baxter
Master the art of creating scalable, concurrent, and reactive applications using AkkaAbout This BookThis book will help you cure anemic models with domain-driven designWe cover major Akka programming concepts such as concurrency, scalability, and reactivityYou will....
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Author Valerio De Sanctis
Create powerful applications for the modern webAbout This BookBuild a complete single page application with two of the most impressive frameworks in modern developmentFind out how to bring together the capabilities and features of both Angular 2 and ASP.NET CoreFro....
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Author Jon Hoffman
Dive into the latest release of the Swift programming language with this advanced Apple development bookAbout This BookDiscover the new features and improvements to Swift 3Get to grips with advanced design patterns and techniques to write smarter, cleaner Swift cod....
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Beginning C++ Game Programming
Author John Horton
Learn C++ from scratch and get started building your very own gamesAbout This BookThis book offers a fun way to learn modern C++ programming while building exciting 2D gamesThis beginner-friendly guide offers a fast-paced but engaging approach to game developmentDi....
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