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“…Microsoft Azure evangelist Haishi Bai shows how to: Implement background services and use stateless services to handle user requests Solve state-management problems in distributed systems Package, stage, and deploy applications Upgrade applications in place, with zero downtime Leverage Quality of Service (QoS) options throughout app design, implementation, and operation Manage Service Fabric clusters with Windows PowerShell and the Management Portal Configure Service Fabric Diagnostics and analyze collected data Test functionality and performance Design Internet of Things (IoT) solutions that capture and manage petabytes of data Handle demanding real-time data-streaming compute scenarios Understand multitenancy and single-tenancy as logical architecture choices Build Service Fabric game engines to support large-scale, multiplayer online games Model complex systems with the Service Fabric Actors Pattern About This Book For all cloud developers who want to create and operate large-scale distributed cloud applications by using Microsoft Azure Service Fabric For all IT professionals who want to integrate Windows Server and Microsoft Azure in any environment, including datacenters…”

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“…What’s Inside Mapping real problems to Storm components Performance tuning and scaling Practical troubleshooting and debugging Exactly-once processing with Trident About the Authors Sean Allen, Matthew Jankowski, and Peter Pathirana lead the development team for a high-volume, search-intensive commercial web application at TheLadders…”

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“…Set up your Swift development environment Master Swift’s fundamental data types and operators Make the most of arrays and dictionaries Control program flow, modify execution paths, and iterate code Perform complex actions with functions Work with higher-order functions and closures Harness the power of structs, enums, classes, and class inheritance Customize initializers of classes, structs, and enums Implement instance methods, type methods, and advanced type functionality Take full advantage of Swift’s advanced memory allocation Extend type functionality with protocols and extensions Leverage the power of generics, chaining, and other advanced features Interoperate with Objective-C code Interact with user interfaces Take advantage of Swift’s Standard Library features and functions Who Should Read this Book Beginner-intermediate level programmers Advanced programmers who are not yet familiar with Swift can benefit…”

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“…Creating and accessing data sources, making queries and iterating over the results; performing database inserts, updates, and deletes; executing database transactions Parsing XML documents; using XPath with JSTL custom actions; transforming XML with XSLT, filtering XML; accessing external entities Core JSTL shows you how to: Use JSTL to simplify Web development tasks Use the new JSTL expression language Access databases and execute transactions Develop internationalized Web sites Work with XML documents and JSP technology Extend JSTL with custom tags…”

“…This book also covers a mechanism provided by the Watson Language Translator service to train the service to perform domain-specific translations by customizing the existing linguistic models…”

“…The book: Takes you step-by-step through the workings of common table expressions and window functions Provides easy-to-follow examples of the new syntax Helps you answer business questions faster and easier than ever What You'll Learn: Answer business questions using simple queries that don’t break in the face of unexpected data Avoid writing queries that are a difficult-to-maintain quagmire of self-joins and nested subqueries Recognize situations that call for window functions, and learn when to use these features Reduce the need for performance-robbing self-joins Simplify and speed the execution of analytical queries Create queries that finish in seconds instead of hours…”

“…Use modules to simplify the development of well-performing complex systems Migrate applications to work with the modularized Java API and third-party modules Test code as you create it with the new JShell Read-Eval-Print Loop (REPL) Use lambda expressions to express actions more concisely Streamline and optimize data management with today's Streams API Leverage modern concurrent programming based on cooperating tasks Take advantage of a multitude of API improvements for working with collections, input/output, regular expressions, and processes Whether you're just getting started with modern Java or you're an experienced developer, this guide will help you write tomorrow's most robust, efficient, and secure Java code. …”

“…The result is a clear roadmap to high performance, and you’re standing on the starting line—are you ready to go? …”

“…How To –Look for this icon to study the steps you need to learn to perform certain tasks. Interactive Activities –Reinforce your understanding of topics by doing all the exercises from the online course identified throughout the book with this icon. …”