“…You’ll dive into Istio with detailed examples of: Traffic control: Examine Istio patterns including smarter canaries and dark launches Service resiliency: Discover how Istio provides load balancing, circuit breaking, and pool ejection Chaos testing: Test your system’s ability to withstand turbulent conditions through fault injection Observability: Use tracing and metrics to learn the relationships between individual system components Security: Explore Istio’s blacklist and whitelist security concepts…”

“…Learn how blockchains provide strong guarantees about accuracy and consistency, even when shared by untrusted participants Understand Bitcoin’s intricate process for adding new blocks to its chain Examine how blockchains are able to maintain privacy and anonymity Learn about smart contracts—also known as decentralized applications or Dapps Explore enterprise blockchain providers, hosting companies, tools vendors, platform and framework providers, and consultancies Review a list of questions you need to consider when looking into a blockchain deployment…”

“…Understanding how to leverage VBA to improve your Excel programming skills can enhance the quality of deliverables that you produce—and can help you take your career to the next level. Explore fully updated content that offers comprehensive coverage through over 900 pages of tips, tricks, and techniques Leverage templates and worksheets that put your new knowledge in action, and reinforce the skills introduced in the text Improve your capabilities regarding Excel programming with VBA, unlocking more of your potential in the office Excel 2019 Power Programming with VBA is a fundamental resource for intermediate to advanced users who want to polish their skills regarding spreadsheet applications using VBA…”

“…As a comprehensive update to the Practice Standard for Work Breakdown Structures – Second Edition, the third edition applies the WBS to the predictive, iterative, incremental, and agile project life cycles; it also explores several different types of decomposition in practice today. …”

“…Discover how variational autoencoders can change facial expressions in photos Build practical GAN examples from scratch, including CycleGAN for style transfer and MuseGAN for music generation Create recurrent generative models for text generation and learn how to improve the models using attention Understand how generative models can help agents to accomplish tasks within a reinforcement learning setting Explore the architecture of the Transformer (BERT, GPT-2) and image generation models such as ProGAN and StyleGAN…”

“…Ideal for organizations looking to transition to microservices, rather than rebuild Helps companies determine whether to migrate, when to migrate, and where to begin Addresses communication, integration, and the migration of legacy systems Discusses multiple migration patterns and where they apply Provides database migration examples, along with synchronization strategies Explores application decomposition, including several architectural refactoring patterns Delves into details of database decomposition, including the impact of breaking referential and transactional integrity, new failure modes, and more…”

“…Learn how to utilize process automation in cloud-scale or low-latency scenarios Explore options for designing architecture that facilitates process automation Learn methods for modeling processes properly to avoid potential pitfalls Understand the difference between orchestration and choreography and how to balance both Examine process automation use cases to learn viable solutions and appreciate the possibilities…”

“…You’ll learn how: Continuous integration makes certain that individual code changes are suitable for inclusion in the code base and merged in successfully Continuous delivery assembles your product, automatically tests quality and functionality, and produces deliverables that are proven to be deployable Continuous deployment simplifies releasing the product to customers—whether it’s in the cloud, via download, or in some other format—while also allowing for limited deployments or rolling deployments back This valuable resource for business professionals, software engineering managers, senior developers, and architects will also explore how containers and Kubernetes interact in this environment…”

“…Learn what synthetic data is and how it can accelerate machine learning model development Understand how synthetic data is generated—and why these datasets are similar to real data Explore the process and best practices for generating synthetic datasets Examine case studies of synthetic data use in industries including manufacturing, healthcare, financial services, and transportation Learn key requirements for future work and improvements to synthetic data…”

“…Understand where your Kubernetes system is vulnerable with threat modelling techniques Focus on pods, from configurations to attacks and defenses Secure your cluster and workload traffic Define and enforce policy with RBAC, OPA, and Kyverno Dive deep into sandboxing and isolation techniques Learn how to detect and mitigate supply chain attacks Explore filesystems, volumes, and sensitive information at rest Discover what can go wrong when running multitenant workloads in a cluster Learn what you can do if someone breaks in despite you having controls in place…”

“…Authors Griffin Kao, Jessica Hong, Michael Perusse, and Weizhen Sheng provide relevant commentary as they explore the stories behind companies such as Apple, Amazon, OpenTable, and many more. …”

“…Learn how to establish a Kubernetes cluster and deploy an Operator Examine a range of Operators from usage to implementation Explore the three pillars of the Operator Framework: the Operator SDK, the Operator Lifecycle Manager, and Operator Metering Build Operators from the ground up using the Operator SDK Build, package, and run an Operator in development, testing, and production phases Learn how to distribute your Operator for installation on Kubernetes clusters…”

“…Dive into Istio with detailed examples of: Traffic control: Examine Istio patterns including smarter canaries and dark launches Service resiliency: Discover how Istio provides load balancing, circuit breaking, and pool ejection Chaos testing: Test your system’s ability to withstand turbulent conditions through fault injection Observability: Use tracing and metrics to learn the relationships between individual system components Security: Explore Istio’s security capabilities, such as mTLS, RBAC, and policy enforcement…”

“…Practical Tableau sections include: Fundamentals: get started with Tableau from the beginning Chart types: use step-by-step tutorials to build a variety of charts in Tableau Tips and tricks: learn innovative uses of parameters, color theory, how to make your Tableau workbooks run efficiently, and more Framework: explore the INSIGHT framework, a proprietary process for building Tableau dashboards Storytelling: learn tangible tactics for storytelling with data, including specific and actionable tips you can implement immediately…”

“…Understand how the native Node.js MongoDB driver works Learn to use the Mongoose ODM to communicate with a MongoDB server Compare asynchronous coding styles: callbacks, promises, generators and async/await Learn how to serialize JS objects to documents stored in MongoDB. Explore basic CRUD operations with MongoDB. Practice debugging, error handling, logging, and monitoring…”

“…Many IT, manufacturing, healthcare, and energy firms already practice predictive maintenance, but companies in other industries need time and expertise to pursue the large-scale data collection, advanced analysis, machine learning, and automation required to make it work. This report explores the possible rewards and caveats of this innovative model. …”

“…Examine the most widely used media systems, as well as advanced 40 and 100 gigabit Ethernet Learn about Ethernet’s four basic elements and the IEEE standards Explore full-duplex Ethernet, Power over Ethernet, and Energy Efficient Ethernet Understand structured cabling systems and the components you need to build your Ethernet system Use Ethernet switches to expand and improve network design Delve into Ethernet performance, from specific channels to the entire network Get troubleshooting techniques for problems common to twisted-pair and fiber optic systems…”

“…Get a quick primer on Android internals, including the Linux kernel and Dalvik virtual machine. Set up and explore the AOSP without hardware, using a functional emulator image. …”

“…Understand how to define the scope of an application and determine the algorithms necessary, and why it's important Learn how to use industry-standard interfaces such as RS-232, RS-485, and GPIB Create low-level extension modules in C to interface Python with a variety of hardware and test instruments Explore the console, curses, TkInter, and wxPython for graphical and text-based user interfaces Use open source software tools and libraries to reduce costs and avoid implementing functionality from scratch…”

“…This book is intended for database administrators (DBAs) who use IBM DB2 10.1 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows operating systems who want to explore and get started with the DB2 pureScale feature…”