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Move over native apps. New progressive web apps have capabilities that will soon make you obsolete. With this hands-on guide, web developers and business execs will learn howand whyto develop web apps that take advantage of features that have so far been exclusive to native apps. Features that include fast load times, push notifications, offline access, homescreen shortcuts, and an entirely app-like experience.By leveraging the latest browser APIs, progressive web apps combine all of the benefits of native apps, while avoiding their issues. Throughout the book, author Tal Ater shows you how to improve a simple website for the fictional Gotham Imperial Hotel into a modern progressive web app. Plus:Understand how service workers work, and use them to create sites that launch in an instant, regardless of the users internet connectionCreate full-screen web apps that launch from the phone's homescreen just like native appsRe-engage users with push notifications, even days after they have left your siteEmbrace offline-first and build web apps that gracefully handle loss of connectivityExplore new UX opportunities and challenges presented by progressive web apps

The upcoming Java 9 module system will affect existing applications and offer new ways of creating modular and maintainable applications. With this hands-on book, Java developers will learn not only about the joys of modularity, but also about the patterns needed to create truly modular and reliable applications. Authors Sander Mak and Paul Bakker teach you the concepts behind the Java 9 module system, along with the new tools it offers. Youll also learn how to modularize existing code and how to build new Java applications in a modular way.Understand Java 9 module system conceptsMaster the patterns and practices for building truly modular applicationsMigrate existing applications and libraries to Java 9 modulesUse JDK 9 tools for modular development and migration

The biggest online threat to businesses and consumers today is ransomware, a category of malware that can encrypt your computer files until you pay a ransom to unlock them. With this practical book, youll learn how easily ransomware infects your system and what steps you can take to stop the attack before it sets foot in the network.Security experts Allan Liska and Timothy Gallo explain how the success of these attacks has spawned not only several variants of ransomware, but also a litany of ever-changing ways theyre delivered to targets. Youll learn pragmatic methods for responding quickly to a ransomware attack, as well as how to protect yourself from becoming infected in the first place.Learn how ransomware enters your system and encrypts your filesUnderstand why ransomware use has grown, especially in recent yearsExamine the organizations behind ransomware and the victims they targetLearn how wannabe hackers use Ransomware as a Service (RaaS) to launch campaignsUnderstand how ransom is paidand the pros and cons of payingUse methods to protect your organizations workstations and servers

Learn how to design digital circuits with FPGAs (field-programmable gate arrays), the devices that reconfigure themselves to become the very hardware circuits you set out to program. With this practical guide, author Justin Rajewski shows you hands-on how to create FPGA projects, whether youre a programmer, engineer, product designer, or maker. Youll quickly go from the basics to designing your own processor.Designing digital circuits used to be a long and costly endeavor that only big companies could pursue. FPGAs make the process much easier, and now theyre affordable enough even for hobbyists. If youre familiar with electricity and basic electrical components, this book starts simply and progresses through increasingly complex projects.Set up your environment by installing Xilinx ISE and the authors Mojo IDELearn how hardware designs are broken into modules, comparable to functions in a software programCreate digital hardware designs and learn the basics on how theyll be implemented by the FPGABuild your projects with Lucid, a beginner-friendly hardware description language, based on Verilog, with syntax similar to C/C++ and Java

By 2020, the Internet of Things (IoT) will consist of millions of computational devices intimately connected to real-world aspects of human life. This insightful book demonstrates that if we build the IoT the way we built the current internet and other information technology initiatives, we're headed for trouble.

Smooth, powerful, and small, Elixir is an excellent language for learning functional programming, and with this hands-on introduction, you'll discover just how powerful Elixir can be.

Can machine learning techniques solve our computer security problems and finally put an end to the cat-and-mouse game between attackers and defenders? Or is this hope merely hype? Now you can dive into the science and answer this question for yourself! With this practical guide, youll explore ways to apply machine learning to security issues such as intrusion detection, malware classification, and network analysis.Machine learning and security specialists Clarence Chio and David Freeman provide a framework for discussing the marriage of these two fields, as well as a toolkit of machine-learning algorithms that you can apply to an array of security problems. This book is ideal for security engineers and data scientists alike.Learn how machine learning has contributed to the success of modern spam filtersQuickly detect anomalies, including breaches, fraud, and impending system failureConduct malware analysis by extracting useful information from computer binariesUncover attackers within the network by finding patterns inside datasetsExamine how attackers exploit consumer-facing websites and app functionalityTranslate your machine learning algorithms from the lab to productionUnderstand the threat attackers pose to machine learning solutions

In this practical guide, security researcher Michael Collins shows you several techniques and tools for collecting and analyzing network traffic datasets. You'll understand how your network is used, and what actions are necessary to protect and improve it

Get a practical introduction to React Native, the JavaScript framework for writing and deploying fully featured mobile apps that render natively. The second edition of this hands-on guide shows you how to build applications that target iOS, Android, and other mobile platforms instead of browsers.

Mine the rich data tucked away in popular social websites such as Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram. With the third edition of this popular guide, data scientists, analysts, and programmers will learn how to glean insights from social mediaincluding whos connecting with whom, what theyre talking about, and where theyre locatedusing Python code examples, Jupyter notebooks, or Docker containers.In part one, each standalone chapter focuses on one aspect of the social landscape, including each of the major social sites, as well as web pages, blogs and feeds, mailboxes, GitHub, and a newly added chapter covering Instagram. Part two provides a cookbook with two dozen bite-size recipes for solving particular issues with Twitter.Get a straightforward synopsis of the social web landscapeUse Docker to easily run each chapters example code, packaged as a Jupyter notebookAdapt and contribute to the codes open source GitHub repositoryLearn how to employ best-in-class Python 3 tools to slice and dice the data you collectApply advanced mining techniques such as TFIDF, cosine similarity, collocation analysis, clique detection, and image recognitionBuild beautiful data visualizations with Python and JavaScript toolkits

If youre ready to get started with Perl 6, this is the book you want, whether youre a programmer, system administrator, or web hacker. Perl 6 is a new languagea modern reinvention of Perl suitable for almost any task, from short fixes to complete web applications. This hands-on tutorial gets you started.Author brian d foy (Mastering Perl) provides a sophisticated introduction to this new programming language. Each chapter in this guide contains exercises to help you practice what you learn as you learn it. Other books may teach you to program in Perl 6, but this book will turn you into a Perl 6 programmer.Learn how to work with:Numbers, strings, blocks, and positionalsFiles and directories and input/outputAssociatives, subroutines, classes, and rolesJunctions and setsRegular expressions and built-in grammarsConcurrency features: Promises, supplies, and channelsControlling external programs and other advanced features

Data in the genomics field is booming. With this practical book, researchers will learn how to work with genomics algorithms using open source tools including the Genome Analysis Toolkit (GATK), Docker, WDL, and Terra.

Investors recognize that technology is a powerful tool for obtaining and interpreting financial data that could give them the one thing everyone on Wall Street wants: an edge. Yet, many dont realize that you dont need to be a programmer to access behind-the-scenes financial information from Bloomberg, IHS Markit, or other systems found at most banks and investment firms.This practical guide teaches analysts a useful subset of Excel skills that will enable them to access and interpret financial informationwithout any prior programming experience. This book will show analysts, step-by-step, how to quickly produce professional reports that combine their views with Bloomberg or Markit data including historical financials, comparative analysis, and relative value. For portfolio managers, this book demonstrates how to create professional summary reports that contain a high-level view of a portfolios performance, growth, risk-adjusted return, and composition. If you are a programmer, this book also contains a parallel path that covers the same topics using C#.Topics include:Access additional data that isnt visible on Bloomberg screensCreate tables containing corporate data that makes it possible to compare multiple companies, bonds, or loans side-by- sideBuild one-page analytic (Tear Sheet) reports for individual companies that incorporates important financials, custom notes, relative value comparison of the company to its peers, and price trends with research analyst targetsBuild two-page portfolio summary report that contains a high-level view of the portfolios performance, growth, risk-adjusted return, and compositionExplore daily prices and facility information for most of the tradable corporate bond and loan marketDetermine the relationship between two securities (or index) using correlation and regressionCompare each securitys performance to a cohort made of up of securities with similar risk and return characteristicsMeasure portfolio risk-adjusted return by calculating variance, standard deviation, and Sharpe ratioUse Markit data to identify meaningful trends in prices, new issue spreads, and refinancings

Creating new instruments is much more than an art form. When you want to make a note sound higher or lower, you have to change the sound waves coming out of the instrument. That's science! When you explore the way different materials produce different sounds, that's engineering.

This book introduces soft-robotics concepts to students, inventors, and makers with easy-to-understand explanations and hands-on DIY projects.

Its an exciting time to get involved with MicroPython, the re-implementation of Python 3 for microcontrollers and embedded systems. This practical guide delivers the knowledge you need to roll up your sleeves and create exceptional embedded projects with this lean and efficient programming language. If youre familiar with Python as a programmer, educator, or maker, youre ready to learnand have fun along the way.Author Nicholas Tollervey takes you on a journey from first steps to advanced projects. Youll explore the types of devices that run MicroPython, and examine how the language uses and interacts with hardware to process input, connect to the outside world, communicate wirelessly, make sounds and music, and drive robotics projects.Work with MicroPython on four typical devices: PyBoard, the micro:bit, Adafruits Circuit Playground Express, and ESP8266/ESP32 boardsExplore a framework that helps you generate, evaluate, and evolve embedded projects that solve real problemsDive into practical MicroPython examples: visual feedback, input and sensing, GPIO, networking, sound and music, and roboticsLearn how idiomatic MicroPython helps you express a lot with the minimum of resourcesTake the next step by getting involved with the Python community

In this practical book, author Susan Fowler presents a set of microservice standards in depth, drawing from her experience standardizing over a thousand microservices at Uber. You'll learn how to design microservices that are stable, reliable, scalable, fault tolerant, performant, monitored, documented, and prepared for any catastrophe.

Learn how to work with the Automate feature of CloudForms, the powerful Red Hat cloud management platform that lets you administer your virtual infrastructure, including hybrid public and private clouds. This practical introduction shows you how to increase your operational efficiency by automating day-to-day tasks that now require manual input.

In this updated second edition, author Simon St.Laurent shows you how to write simple Erlang programs by teaching you one skill at a time. By the end of your journey, you'll understand why Erlang is ideal for concurrency and resilience.

Organizations big and small have started to realize just how crucial system and application reliability is to their business. Theyve also learned just how difficult it is to maintain that reliability while iterating at the speed demanded by the marketplace. Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is a proven approach to this challenge.SRE is a large and rich topic to discuss. Google led the way with Site Reliability Engineering, the wildly successful OReilly book that described Googles creation of the discipline and the implementation thats allowed them to operate at a planetary scale. Inspired by that earlier work, this book explores a very different part of the SRE space. The more than two dozen chapters in Seeking SRE bring you into some of the important conversations going on in the SRE world right now.Listen as engineers and other leaders in the field discuss:Different ways of implementing SRE and SRE principles in a wide variety of settingsHow SRE relates to other approaches such as DevOpsSpecialties on the cutting edge that will soon be commonplace in SREBest practices and technologies that make practicing SRE easierThe important but rarely explored human side of SREDavid N. Blank-Edelman is the books curator and editor.

Explore the latest Java-based software development techniques and methodologies through the project-based approach in this practical guide. Unlike books that use abstract examples and lots of theory, Real-World Software Development shows you how to develop several relevant projects while learning best practices along the way.With this engaging approach, junior developers capable of writing basic Java code will learn about state-of-the-art software development practices for building modern, robust and maintainable Java software. Youll work with many different software development topics that are often excluded from software develop how-to references.Featuring real-world examples, this book teaches you techniques and methodologies for functional programming, automated testing, security, architecture, and distributed systems.

What will you learn from this book?Its no secret the world around you is becoming more connected, more configurable, more programmable, more computational. You can remain a passive participant, or you can learn to code. With Head First Learn to Code youll learn how to think computationally and how to write code to make your computer, mobile device, or anything with a CPU do things for you. Using the Python programming language, youll learn step by step the core concepts of programming as well as many fundamental topics from computer science, such as data structures, storage, abstraction, recursion, and modularity.Why does this book look so different?Based on the latest research in cognitive science and learning theory, Head First Learn to Code uses a visually rich format to engage your mind, rather than a text-heavy approach that puts you to sleep. Why waste your time struggling with new concepts? This multi-sensory learning experience is designed for the way your brain really works.

The book is perfect for makers new to leatherworking, as well as experienced leatherworkers who want to understand how to integrate new digital fabrication tools into their workbench. Written by an experienced leatherworker and programmer, this is a resource that makers will turn to again and again.

Minecraft for Makers explores the intersection of this creative and beloved electronic game with the real world. It gives readers the opportunity to take familiar objects from the game - such as blocks, jack o'lanterns, and mobs - and make real-world versions of them.

Make: Volume 57 is all about cheap computers and microcontrollers! First, go in depth with maker luminary Limor Fried and the rockstars at Adafruit in our cover story. Then, take a look at the coolest new boards that should be on your radar this year, or make your own with the new Voltera V-One desktop circuit board printer.

Zero to Maker is the career guide for the maker movement. Fun and readable, it's the fastest way to understand and join in our digital manufacturing future.

Feature engineering is a crucial step in the machine-learning pipeline, yet this topic is rarely examined on its own. With this practical book, youll learn techniques for extracting and transforming featuresthe numeric representations of raw datainto formats for machine-learning models. Each chapter guides you through a single data problem, such as how to represent text or image data. Together, these examples illustrate the main principles of feature engineering.Rather than simply teach these principles, authors Alice Zheng and Amanda Casari focus on practical application with exercises throughout the book. The closing chapter brings everything together by tackling a real-world, structured dataset with several feature-engineering techniques. Python packages including numpy, Pandas, Scikit-learn, and Matplotlib are used in code examples.Youll examine:Feature engineering for numeric data: filtering, binning, scaling, log transforms, and power transformsNatural text techniques: bag-of-words, n-grams, and phrase detectionFrequency-based filtering and feature scaling for eliminating uninformative featuresEncoding techniques of categorical variables, including feature hashing and bin-countingModel-based feature engineering with principal component analysisThe concept of model stacking, using k-means as a featurization techniqueImage feature extraction with manual and deep-learning techniques

If you want to push your Java skills to the next level, this book provides expert advice from Java leaders and practitioners. Youll be encouraged to look at problems in new ways, take broader responsibility for your work, stretch yourself by learning new techniques, and become as good at the entire craft of development as you possibly can.Edited by Kevlin Henney and Trisha Gee, 97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know reflects lifetimes of experience writing Java software and living with the process of software development. Great programmers share their collected wisdom to help you rethink Java practices, whether working with legacy code or incorporating changes since Java 8.A few of the 97 things you should know:"e;Behavior Is Easy, State Is Hard"e;Edson YanagaLearn Java Idioms and Cache in Your BrainJeanne BoyarskyJava Programming from a JVM Performance PerspectiveMonica Beckwith"e;Garbage Collection Is Your Friend"e;Holly K CumminsJava's Unspeakable TypesBen Evans"e;The Rebirth of Java"e;Sander MakDo You Know What Time It Is?Christin Gorman

Have you ever felt frustrated working with someone else's code? Difficult-to-maintain source code is a big problem in software development today, leading to costly delays and defects. Be part of the solution. With this practical book, you'll learn 10 easy-to-follow guidelines for delivering Java software that's easy to maintain and adapt

The coloring book includes 12 images from the O'Reilly Animal image archive, converted for coloring by O'Reilly designer Karen Montgomery. These beautiful reproductions of 19th century engravings are printed on heavyweight paper with nothing on the back to compromise your own colorful masterpieces.