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Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing platform that helps you build, deploy, and manage applications to overcome your business challenges. This book covers the commonly used Azure services and also explains how you effectively integrate and utilize them.

Microsoft Dynamics NAV is an enterprise resource planning (ERP) software suite for organizations. The system offers specialized functionality for manufacturing, distribution, government, retail, and other industries. This book gets you started with its integrated development environment for solving problems through customizing business processes.

Explore Xamarin.Forms to develop dynamic applicationsKey FeaturesExplore SQLite through Xamarin to store locations for various location-based applicationsMake a real-time serverless chat service by using Azure SignalR serviceBuild Augmented Reality application with the power of UrhoSharp together with ARKit and ARCore Book DescriptionXamarin.Forms is a lightweight cross-platform development toolkit for building applications with a rich user interface. In this book you'll start by building projects that explain the Xamarin.Forms ecosystem to get up and running with building cross-platform applications. We'll increase in difficulty throughout the projects, making you learn the nitty-gritty of Xamarin.Forms offerings. You'll gain insights into the architecture, how to arrange your app's design, where to begin developing, what pitfalls exist, and how to avoid them. The book contains seven real-world projects, to get you hands-on with building rich UIs and providing a truly cross-platform experience. It will also guide you on how to set up a machine for Xamarin app development. You'll build a simple to-do application that gets you going, then dive deep into building advanced apps such as messaging platform, games, and machine learning, to build a UI for an augmented reality project. By the end of the book, you'll be confident in building cross-platforms and fitting Xamarin.Forms toolkits in your app development. You'll be able to take the practice you get from this book to build applications that comply with your requirements. What you will learnSet up a machine for Xamarin developmentGet to know about MVVM and data bindings in Xamarin.FormsUnderstand how to use custom renderers to gain platform-specific accessDiscover Geolocation services through Xamarin EssentialsCreate an abstraction of ARKit and ARCore to expose as a single API for the game Learn how to train a model for imageclassification with Azure Cognitive ServicesWho this book is forThis book is for mobile application developers who want to start building native mobile apps using the powerful Xamarin.Forms and C#. Working knowledge of C#, .NET, and Visual Studio is required.

This book will teach you how advanced machine learning can be performed in the cloud in a very cheap way. You will learn more about Azure ML processes as an enterprise-ready methodology. By the end of this book, you will implement machine learning and artificial intelligence concepts in your model to solve real-world problems.

This practical guide explains you to program and understand the power of Apache Cassandra 3.x. You will explore the integration and interaction of Cassandra components, and explore features such as the token allocation algorithm, CQL3, vnodes, lightweight transactions, and data modelling in detail.

Kubernetes has continued to grow and achieve broad adoption across various industries, helping you to orchestrate and automate container deployments on a massive scale. This book will give you a complete understanding of Kubernetes and how to get a cluster up and running.

REST architecture (style) is a pivot of distributed systems, simplify data integration amongst modern and legacy applications leverages through the RESTful paradigm. This book is fully loaded with many RESTful API patterns, samples, hands-on implementations and also discuss the capabilities of many REST API frameworks for Java, Scala, Python and Go

Design patterns enable you to speed up the development process by providing tested, proven development paradigms. Reusing design patterns helps prevent complex issues, improves your code base, promotes code reuse, and makes the architecture more robust. This book will ease the adoption of design patterns in Kotlin and provide best practices.

Explore 101 ways to improve your UX designs. Will Grant continues the lineage of Jakob Nielsen and Don Norman to bring his own expertise to the field of user experience (UX). Will's insights will challenge your approach and develop your skills, offering a better and more consistent UX to your customers.

This is a practical, example rich book that will help you in learning all the features of Three.js. With this book you'll learn how to create and animate beautiful looking 3D scenes directly in your browser utilizing the full potential of WebGL and modern browsers, without having to learn WebGL.

Magento is an open source, enterprise-level ecommerce platform with an unlimited ability for customization. This makes it a great choice not only for merchants, but for developers as well. This book guides you through Magento development, teaching you how to develop modules that extend or change its functionality, leading to more flexible and ...

JSON is an established and standard format used to exchange data. This book shows how JSON plays different roles in full web development through examples. By the end of this book, you'll have a new perspective on providing solutions for your applications and handling their complexities.

The visionaries who created ROS developed a framework for robotics centered on commonality of robotics system to simplify the process of building robots. From the fundamental concepts to advanced practical experience, ROS Robotics By Example, Second Edition will provide you with an incremental knowledge of the ROS framework, the backbone of the ...

Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations has a lot to offer developers. It allows them to customize and tailor their implementations to meet their organization's needs. This Development Cookbook will help you manage your company's or customer's ERP information and operations efficiently.

This book is a practical guide to applying deep neural networks including MLPs, CNNs, LSTMs, and more in Keras and TensorFlow. Packed with useful hacks to solve real-world challenges along with the supported math and theory around each topic, this book will be a quick reference for training and optimize your deep neural networks.

This book bridges the gap between mathematics and computer science to show you how to gain actionable insights from your data. You'll explore the entire data science pipeline while learning effective data mining techniques and the fundamentals of computational mathematics and statistics to create powerful data visualizations.

This book is a practical, developer-oriented introduction to deep reinforcement learning (RL). Explore the theoretical concepts of RL, before discovering how deep learning (DL) methods and tools are making it possible to solve more complex and challenging problems than ever before. Apply deep RL methods to training your agent to beat arcade ...

C++ is a general-purpose programming language which has evolved over the years and is used to develop software for many different sectors. This book will be your companion as it takes you through implementing classic data structures and algorithms to help you get up and running as a confident C++ programmer.

With Cybercrime on a rise, Cybersecurity has become extremely vital to a large group of industries. Due to which, companies have started adopting the hard ways of preventing system breaches. This book will explore some Red Team and Blue Team tactics, where the Red Team tactics can be used in penetration for accessing sensitive data, and the ...

C++ is a highly portable language and can be used to write both large-scale applications and performance-critical code. It has evolved over the last few years to become a modern and expressive language. This book will guide you through optimizing the performance of your C++ apps by allowing them to run faster and consume fewer resources on the ...

Learning the new system''s programming language for all Unix-type systemsKey FeaturesLearn how to write system''s level code in Golang, similar to Unix/Linux systems codeRamp up in Go quicklyDeep dive into Goroutines and Go concurrency to be able to take advantage of Go server-level constructsBook DescriptionGo is the new systems programming language for Linux and Unix systems. It is also the language in which some of the most prominent cloud-level systems have been written, such as Docker. Where C programmers used to rule, Go programmers are in demand to write highly optimized systems programming code.Created by some of the original designers of C and Unix, Go expands the systems programmers toolkit and adds a mature, clear programming language. Traditional system applications become easier to write since pointers are not relevant and garbage collection has taken away the most problematic area for low-level systems code: memory management.This book opens up the world of high-performance Unix system applications to the beginning Go programmer. It does not get stuck on single systems or even system types, but tries to expand the original teachings from Unix system level programming to all types of servers, the cloud, and the web. What you will learnExplore the Go language from the standpoint of a developer conversant with Unix, Linux, and so onUnderstand Goroutines, the lightweight threads used for systems and concurrent applicationsLearn how to translate Unix and Linux systems code in C to Golang codeHow to write fast and lightweight server codeDive into concurrency with GoWrite low-level networking codeWho this book is for:Intermediate Linux and general Unix programmers. Network programmers from beginners to advanced practitioners. C and C++ programmers interested in different approaches to concurrency and Linux systems programming.

The latest guide to using QGIS 2.14 to create great maps and perform geoprocessing tasks with ease Key Features Learn how to work with various data and create beautiful maps using this easy-to-follow guide. Give a touch of professionalism to your maps both for functionality and look and feel with the help of this practical guide. A progressive hands-on guide that builds on a geo-spatial data and adds more reactive maps by using geometry tools.Book DescriptionQGIS is a user-friendly open source geographic information system (GIS) that runs on Linux, Unix, Mac OS X, and Windows. The popularity of open source geographic information systems and QGIS in particular has been growing rapidly over the last few years.Learning QGIS Third Edition is a practical, hands-on guide updated for QGIS 2.14 that provides you with clear, step-by-step exercises to help you apply your GIS knowledge to QGIS. Through clear, practical exercises, this book will introduce you to working with QGIS quickly and painlessly.This book takes you from installing and configuring QGIS to handling spatial data to creating great maps. You will learn how to load and visualize existing spatialdata and create data from scratch. You will get to know important plugins, perform common geoprocessing and spatial analysis tasks and automate them with Processing.We will cover how to achieve great cartographic output and print maps. Finally, you will learn how to extend QGIS using Python and even create your own plugin.What you will learn Install QGIS and get familiar with the user interface Load vector and raster data from files, databases, and web services Create, visualize, and edit spatial data Perform geoprocessing tasks and automate them Create advanced cartographic outputs Design great print maps Expand QGIS using PythonWho this book is forThis book is great for users, developers, and consultants who know the basic functions and processes of GIS and want to learn to use QGIS to analyze geospatial data and create rich mapping applications. If you want to take advantage of the wide range of functionalities that QGIS offers, then this is the book for you.