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The Art of Drawing Dragons, Mythological Beasts, and Fantasy Creatures
Author Michael Dobrzycki
Packed with 50+ step-by-step projects, The Art of Drawing Dragons, Mythological Beasts, and Fantasy Creatures explores how to draw dragons, fairies, goblins, and more in graphite pencil.
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Author Peter Lazes , Marie Rudden
“Everyone in a hospital leadership role should read this book as it offers a wealth of practical advice for organizations intent on improving their clinical care delivery.” —Amy C. Edmondson, professor, Harvard Business School, and author of The Fearless Organizatio....
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Author John B. Izzo
“The perfect book for the times in which we live . . . page after page of engaging stories, profound insights, and practical tips on how you can stand up and take responsibility for making something meaningful happen.” —Jim Kouzes, coauthor of the bestselling The Le....
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Practical Project Risk Management, Third Edition, 3rd Edition
Author David Hillson , Peter Simon
This new edition of an award-winning risk management classic is more actionable than ever with new chapters on facilitating risk conversations and running a risk workshop. Risk isn't just about threat; it's also about opportunity. You have to be ready to take adva....
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Author Mark Treveil , Lynn Heidmann
For years, organizations have struggled to move data science, machine learning, and AI projects from the realm of experimental to having real business impact. One reason is because pivoting operations around these technologies involves more than just technology--the orche....
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iOS 14 Programming Fundamentals with Swift
Author Matt Neuburg
Move into iOS development by getting a firm grasp of its fundamentals, including the Xcode 12 IDE, Cocoa Touch, and the latest version of Apple’s acclaimed programming language, Swift 5.3. With this thoroughly updated guide, you’ll learn the Swift language, understand App....
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The Enterprise Path to Service Mesh Architectures, 2nd Edition
Author Lee Calcote
Planning to build a microservice-driven cloud native application or looking to modernize existing application services? Consider using a service mesh. A service mesh approach can help you create robust and scalable applications, but it also introduces new challenges. This....
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Author Alex Gorelik
A revolution is occurring in data management regarding how data is collected, stored, processed, governed, managed, and provided to decision makers. The data lake is a popular approach that harnesses the power of big data and marries it with the agility of self-service. W....
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97 Things Every SRE Should Know
Site reliability engineering (SRE) is more relevant than ever. Knowing how to keep systems reliable has become a critical skill. With this practical book, newcomers and old hats alike will explore a broad range of conversations happening in SRE. You'll get actionable advice on several topics, inclu.... -
Author Anthony Molinaro , Robert de Graaf
You may know SQL basics, but are you taking advantage of its expressive power? The new edition of this cookbook applies a highly practical approach to Structured Query Language (SQL) so you can create and manipulate large stores of data. Based on real-world examples, this....
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Mapping Experiences, 2nd Edition
Author James Kalbach
Customers who have inconsistent experiences with products and services are understandably frustrated. But it’s worse for organizations that can’t pinpoint these problems because they’re too focused on their own processes. This updated edition shows your team how to use al....
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Author Maude Lemaire
Maintaining large applications is difficult, but supporting large, disorganized applications is nearly impossible. If you’re unable to rapidly ship changes to your code without introducing new bugs or causing outages, perhaps it’s time to slow down and consider a signific....
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Author Ronnie Mitra , Irakli Nadareishvili
Microservices architectures offer great benefits: faster change speeds, better scalability and cleaner, evolvable architectures. But, implementing your first Microservices architecture to get those rewards is difficult. How do you quickly educate your team on all the tech....
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WordPress: The Missing Manual, 3rd Edition
Author Matthew MacDonald
Whether you’re a budding blogger or seasoned web designer, WordPress is a brilliant tool for creating websites—once you know how to tap into its impressive features. The latest edition of this jargon-free Missing Manual shows you how to use WordPress 5.0’s themes, ....
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Author Nader Dabit
With a new generation of services and frameworks, frontend and mobile developers can use their existing skill set to build full stack applications by leveraging the cloud. Developers can build robust applications with production-ready features such as authenticatio....
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Author Jason Katzer
Serverless is a hot topic. Many companies today are turning to this cloud-computing model as a way to avoid steep investments in DevOps while still reliably running production-grade systems. If you’re a developer with one of these organizations, this practical book....
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Author Piethein Strengholt
The amount of data generated is growing tremendously in size and complexity. As trends in data management and integration, such as cloud, API management, microservices, open data, software as a service (SaaS), and new software delivery models, continue to evolve ra....
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Author Panos Alexopoulos
Perhaps you’re an information architect on a mission to make your organization’s data more understandable and usable across applications. Or a knowledge engineer working to infuse domain knowledge into the next Alexa or Siri. Or a machine learning expert having dif....
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Author Tanay Agrawal
Dive into hyperparameter tuning of machine learning models and focus on what hyperparameters are and how they work. This book discusses different techniques of hyperparameters tuning, from the basics to advanced methods.This is a step-by-step guide to hyperparameter optim....
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Author Jay M. Patel
Utilize web scraping at scale to quickly get unlimited amounts of free data available on the web into a structured format. This book teaches you to use Python scripts to crawl through websites at scale and scrape data from HTML and JavaScript-enabled pages and convert it ....
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Author Ásgeir Gunnarsson , Michael Johnson
Manage Power BI within organizations. This book helps you systematize administration as Microsoft shifts Power BI from a self-service tool to an enterprise tool. You will learn best practices for many Power BI administrator tasks. And you will know how to manage artifacts....
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Foundation Gatsby Projects: Create Four Real Production Websites with Gatsby
Author Nabendu Biswas
Enhance your Gatsby skillset by building a series of ready-to-use web sites. With the aid of four projects, this book teaches you how to use Gatsby alongside the latest technologies, including Contentful, Twillio, and Stackbit.In the first project, you will create a simpl....
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Author Jack Avon
Financial modeling is a crucial concept for business leaders to understand and execute effectively, but few have the tools necessary to do so. While many professionals are familiar with financial statements and accounting reports, not many are truly proficient at building....
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Modern Web Performance Optimization: Methods, Tools, and Patterns to Speed Up Digital Platforms
Author Shailesh Kumar Shivakumar
Web-based platforms have become vehicles for enterprises to realize their digital strategy and are key to positive user engagement. The performance of these platforms can make the difference between an effective sale and a negative review. There exist several tools and me....
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Goliath Strikes Back: How Traditional Retailers Are Winning Back Customers from Ecommerce Startups
Author Peter S. Cohan
Capturing the ecommerce edge in customer growth and retention has been a decades-long battle between eRetail startups and large traditional retailers. The two face different sets of challenges and those challenges are constantly evolving in our digital world. Goliath Stri....
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Applied Neural Networks with TensorFlow 2: API Oriented Deep Learning with Python
Author Orhan Gazi Yalçın
Implement deep learning applications using TensorFlow while learning the “why” through in-depth conceptual explanations. You’ll start by learning what deep learning offers over other machine learning models. Then familiarize yourself with several technologies ....
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Author Stijn Van Hijfte
The call for innovation within both society and all sectors of enterprise at large grows louder every day. In order to achieve this, organizations need to attract talent with the insight and creativity necessary to be able to understand the needs of not only this generati....
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Kubernetes: Preparing for the CKA and CKAD Certifications
Author Philippe Martin
Master all the concepts and tools necessary to start administering a Kubernetes cluster and deploying applications to production. You will cover the entire curricula of the two Kubernetes certifications (for application developers and administrators).The initial chapters ....
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SQL Server 2019 AlwaysOn: Supporting 24x7 Applications with Continuous Uptime
Author Peter A. Carter
Get a fast start to using AlwaysOn, the SQL Server solution to high-availability and disaster recovery. This third edition is newly-updated to cover the 2019 editions of both SQL Server and Windows Server and includes strong coverage of implementing AlwaysOn Availability ....
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Author Shimon Ifrah
Deploy, manage, and secure containers and containerized applications on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This book covers each container service in GCP from the ground up and teaches you how to deploy and manage your containers on each service.You will start by setting ....
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