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This book teaches you how to build and contribute to Scala programs, recognizing common patterns and techniques used with the language. You'll learn how to write concise, functional code with Scala. After an introduction to core concepts, syntax, and writing example applications with scalac, you'll learn about the Scala Collections API and how ...

This comprehensive guide shows you how to use the APIs provided by Java EE to create RESTful web services. You will learn how to use the different JAX-RS APIs in depth. You wil delve into the structure of web services and communicate and share data between applications. Throughout this course, you will develop several fully functional web services.

MobX is a simple and highly scalable state management library in JavaScript. Its abstractions can help you manage state in small to extremely large applications. However, if you are just starting out, it is essential to have a guide that can help you take the first steps. This book aims to be that guide that will equip you with the skills ...

This book covers everything the reader needs to know to get pfSense up and running, as well as how to configure core pfSense services to both secure and optimize their networks, third party packages that extend the functionality of pfSense, and the basics of diagnostics and troubleshooting networks.

Facebook's fastText library handles text representation and classification, used for Natural Language Processing (NLP). Most organizations have to deal with enormous amounts of text data on a daily basis, and efficient data insights requires powerful NLP tools like fastText. This book is your ideal introduction to fastText.

Selenium WebDriver 3 is the latest version used by many professionals for automated testing. The book will guide you through various Selenium WebDriver APIs and provide solutions to the common challenges faced while using Selenium WebDriver. You will learn to use remote WebDriver to run tests on remote machines for cross-browser testing and ...

Security is one of the most vital concerns for any organization. The complexity of an application is compounded when you need to integrate security with existing code, new technology, and other frameworks. This book will show you how to effectively write Java code that is robust and easy to maintain.

Next.js is a powerful addition to the evergrowing and dynamic JavaScript world. Built on top of React, Webpack and Babel, it is a minimalistic framework for server-rendered universal JavaScript applications. This book will show you the best practices of building sites using Next.jS, enabling you to build SEO-friendly and super fast websites.

Walks through the hands-on process of building intelligent agents from the basics and all the way up to solving complex problems including playing Atari games and driving a car autonomously in the CARLA simulator. Discusses various learning environments and how to transform real-world problems into learning environments and solve using the agents.

This book will help you gain practical knowledge of building modern full-stack web apps from scratch using Angular with a Laravel back end. You will learn the most important technical facets of developing with Angular and Laravel, and demonstrates how to put those skills into practice.

Mastering Kibana 6.x provides a rundown explanation required for data visualization and analysis such as X-Pack features, Beats, and machine learning. You will be expert in creating analytics-driven visualizations from a web application. You will be a maestro in creating custom monitoring dashboard using Beats with various examples

One of the most powerful tools that can be used almost every day is the Bash shell, but its true utility remains untapped by most users. Using a collection of recipes and intuitive lessons, the Bash Cookbook walks you through a series of exercises designed to teach you how to effectively use the Bash shell to create and execute your own scripts.

This hands-on guide will teach you simple-to-advanced steps of user experience design. It starts from idea concept evaluation, product research, user interface design, and design implementation in code. We focus not only on the UI or design, but also on other things that are connected to it. UX has its own process that requires its own sets of ...

The future of user interfaces is moving away from touch based and mouse clicking web interfaces to voice and conversational based user interfaces. This book will take you on a journey from getting started with voice apps to building your very own smart assistants which not only understand voice commands but respond to them.

The Angular framework has embraced a mature UI component architecture. It's a powerful tool for developing scalable application interfaces. The simple design of Angular components helps in building large component-based applications. This book covers a holistic way of thinking about UI development and explores the power of the components.

Do you want to create amazing applications which grab the attention of users? Progressive web apps are just the right thing for you. With its example-based approach, this book will show you how effective progressive web apps can boost the performance of web and native apps.

Built on the Salesforce App Cloud, the new Salesforce Lightning Experience combines three major components: Lightning Design System, Lightning App Builder, and Lightning Components, to provide an enhanced user experience. This book will enable you to quickly create modern, enterprise apps with Lightning.

Making sure that your application runs across different systems as intended is quickly becoming a standard development requirement. With Docker, you can ensure that what you build will behave the way you expect it to, regardless of where it's deployed. By guiding you through Docker from start to finish (from installation, to the Docker ...

This book demonstrates various machine learning techniques and their implementation in JavaScript. Build models to power your applications with smart, predictive features. From predicting future prices, analyzing sentiments to medical diagnosis, this book shows you how to use the power of JavaScript to build efficient machine learning systems.

Apache Hadoop is the most popular platform for big data processing to build powerful analytics solutions. This book shows you how to do just that, with the help of practical examples. You will be well-versed with the analytical capabilities of Hadoop ecosystem with Apache Spark and Apache Flink to perform big data analytics by the end of this book.

Google Cloud AI enables you to consume Artificial Intelligence within your applications, from a REST API. Text, video and speech analysis are among the powerful machine learning features that can be used. This book is the easiest way to get started with the Google Cloud AI services suite and open up the world of smarter applications.

Django is a powerful Python web framework designed to develop web applications quickly. If you want to learn about the entire process of developing professional web applications with Django, then this book is for you. This book will walk you through the creation of four professional Django projects, teaching you how to solve common problems ...

Cloud adoption is a core component of digital transformation. Scaling the IT environment, making it resilient, and reducing costs are what organizations want. Architecting Cloud Computing Solutions presents and explains the critical Cloud solution design considerations and technology decisions required to choose and deploy the right Cloud ...

Moodle is a learning platform or Course Management System (CMS) that is easy to install and use, but the real challenge is in developing a learning process that leverages its power and maps the learning objectives to content and assessments for an integrated and effective course. Moodle 3.x E-Learning Course Development guides you through ...

REST is an architectural style that tackles the challenges of building scalable web services. In today's connected world, APIs have taken a central role on the web. APIs provide the fabric through which systems interact, and REST has become synonymous with APIs. The depth, breadth, and ease of use of ASP.NET Core, makes it a breeze for ...

Raspberry Pi 3 is a tiny affordable chip used to learn and program through interactive projects. It has gained a lot of traction as the first choice in single-board computers due to its versatility. It extends a wide range of support to Python programming. This recipe-based guide will allow you to showcase the capabilities of Raspberry Pi 3.

PostgreSQL is increasingly utilized in all kind of applications, starting from desktop to web and mobile applications. In this book, you will find the best ways to design, monitor and maintain your PostgreSQL solution, with suggestions and tips for high performance, troubleshooting and high availability.

As the cloud version of SQL Server, Azure SQL Database differs in key ways when it comes to management, maintenance, and administration. It's important to know how to administer SQL Database to fully benefit from all of the features and functionality that it provides. This book addresses important aspects of an Azure SQL Database instance such ...

Many businesses are rapidly adopting a microservices-first approach to development, driven by the availability of new commercial services like Azure Functions and AWS Lambda. In this book, we'll show you how to quickly get up and running with your own serverless development on Microsoft Azure. We start by working through a single function, and ...

Projects like Angular and React are rapidly changing how development teams build and deploy web applications to production. In this book, you'll learn the basics you need to get up and running with React and tackle real-world projects and challenges. It includes helpful guidance on how to consider key user requirements within the development ...