“…You will understand Rust from the beginning: public and private visibility, struct and enums, special macros and variables, functions, HashMaps, and more. …”

“…As you advance, you'll understand how to secure microservices from threats, perform multi-cluster deployments on Kubernetes, use load balancing, monitor application traffic, implement service discovery and management, and much more. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cost versus reliability -- Summary -- Chapter 6: Rate Optimization with Discounts and Reservations -- Technical requirements -- Commitment-based discounts in Azure -- The Microsoft Enterprise Agreement -- The Microsoft Azure Consumption Commitment (MACC) -- Identifying reservation opportunities for your workload -- Using the Azure Cost Management (ACM) Power BI app -- Scenario 1 - you are purchasing VM reservations for the first time -- Scenario 2 - you have existing reservations but want to purchase a new one for another Region and VM SKU -- Understanding Azure Advisor recommendations for reservations -- Reservation purchase and cadence -- Purchase cadence -- Reservation details, renewal, savings, and chargeback report -- Reservation details -- Auto-renewal -- Reservation savings and chargeback report -- Reservation exchange and cancellation -- Exchange reservations -- Cancel (return) a reservation -- Summary -- Chapter 7: Leveraging Optimization Strategies -- Technical requirements -- Introducing Azure Spot market -- Estimating Spot VM discounts -- Spot VM and VM Scale Sets -- Spot VM caveats -- Eviction type and policy -- Limitations -- Pricing history and eviction rate details -- Architecting the workload to handle eviction -- Spot Priority Mix -- Discounting strategies with savings plans -- Savings plan versus reserved instances -- Purchasing a savings plan -- Writing a business case for cost optimization -- Business case: Orion business analytics platform cost optimization -- Summary -- Chapter 8: Case Study - Realize Savings and Apply Optimizations -- Case study - Peopledrift Inc., a healthcare company -- Challenges -- The solution -- Benefits -- Summary -- Part 3: Operate -- Chapter 9: Building a FinOps Culture -- Technical requirements -- Establishing a CoE for cloud cost management -- Motivating engineering teams to take action…”

“…Jean Vanmai's Chân Đăng The Tonkinese of Caledonia in the colonial era is a rare insider's account of the life experiences of Chân Đăng, the Vietnamese indentured workers who were brought from Tonkin to work in the New Caledonian nickel mines in the 1930s and 1940s, when both Indochina and New Caledonia were French colonies. …”

“…The book covers topics ranging from basic to advanced levels, and is a valuable reference for beginner-level electrical, IIoT, automation, process, instrumentation and control, production, and maintenance engineers working in manufacturing and oil and gas industries, among others…”

“…However, with the explosion of serverless technologies and vendors, it has become increasingly challenging to comprehend the foundational services and their offerings. …”

“…You will also learn to create a children's book from scratch, improve writing skills, and finalize the book. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…LTRIM() -- RPAD() -- LPAD() -- REPLACE() -- REVERSE() -- SUBSTRING() -- CAST() -- CONCATENATE() -- CONCATENATE_WS() -- UPPER function -- LOWER function -- INITCAP function -- INSTR function -- Summary -- Practical exercises -- Practical exercise 1 -- Practical exercise 2 -- Practical exercise 3 -- Practical exercise 4 -- Chapter 4: Data Wrangling on the DATE Data Type -- SQL DATE data type functions -- EXTRACT -- DATEDIFF() -- TIMEDIFF() -- DATE_ADD() -- DATE_SUB() -- DATE_FORMAT() -- STR_TO_DATE() -- Extracting the current date and time -- Summary -- Chapter 5: Handling NULL Values -- The impact of missing data and NULL values on data analysis -- Understanding the importance of data validation and cleaning before analyzing data -- Identifying NULL/missing values -- NULL values versus zero values -- Using the IS NULL and IS NOT NULL operators to filter and select data with NULL values -- IS NULL() and IS NOT NULL() - scenario -- Using the COALESCE and IFNULL functions to replace NULL values with a default value -- IFNULL() -- COALESCE() -- IS NULL versus = NULL -- Summary -- Chapter 6: Pivoting Data Using SQL -- SQL Transpose - rows to columns -- Use case scenario -- SQL Cross Tab - columns to rows -- Use case scenario -- Unpivoting data in SQL -- Analytical workflow - from SQL to business intelligence - transforming data into actionable insights -- Summary -- Part 3:SQL Subqueries, Aggregate And Window Functions -- Chapter 7: Subqueries and CTEs -- Introduction to subqueries -- Simple subqueries -- Correlated subqueries -- Using subqueries in SELECT statements -- Using subqueries in FROM statements -- Using subqueries in WHERE statements -- Nested subqueries -- Correlated subqueries -- Using subqueries in INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE statements -- Managing and maintaining subqueries -- Common table expressions…”

“…As you advance, you'll cover topics ranging from learning different methods of ingesting data into the cloud to designing the right data warehousing solution, managing large-scale data transformations, extracting valuable insights, and learning how to leverage cloud computing to drive advanced analytical workloads. …”

“…To him, web development is an artistic journey, where a blank canvas becomes a masterpiece with strokes of coding. With a keen eye for creativity and an in-depth understanding of JavaScript, Desmond is dedicated to empowering aspiring developers with valuable insights and skills to succeed in the IT industry…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Understanding texel density -- Project - preparing your 3D scene to export to Unreal Engine 5 -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Importing the Scene -- Technical requirements -- Exporting/importing with a traditional workflow -- Importing FBX content into Unreal -- Exporting/importing with Datasmith workflow -- Exporting your scene -- Importing Datasmith content into Unreal -- Exploring the scene -- Navigating within the viewport -- Navigating the interface -- Editing models -- Merging components -- Project -- Troubleshooting -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Managing Your Assets -- Technical requirements -- Using the Content Browser -- Accessing -- Organizing your content -- Placing content from the Content Browser -- Importing content -- Copy and pasting .uAsset -- From the Marketplace -- From Unreal Engine content -- Discovering Quixel Bridge -- Exporting content -- Migrating content…”

“…Explore use cases and best practices to seamlessly migrate and scale legacy enterprise-grade applications running on on-premises vSphere environments to VMware Cloud SDDCs running on AWS infrastructure Key Features Understand data center extension, migration, disaster recovery, and app modernization through a variety of use cases Become an expert at configuring, automating, and troubleshooting VMC on AWS SDDC Implement design considerations, best practices, and onboarding preflight checklist for optimal performance on VMC on AWS Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook Book Description If you're looking to effortlessly transition from on-premises VMware vSphere environments or capital expenditure (CAPEX) to an agile operational expenditure (OPEX) model, trust the VMware Cloud (VMC) on AWS platform for swift re-platforming of legacy applications into cloud-native framework. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Creating UVs with UV Master -- Exporting textures using the Multi Map Exporter plugin -- Summary -- Chapter 7: Lighting and Rendering Your Model -- Technical requirements -- Managing lights in ZBrush -- Adjusting the lighting in ZBrush -- Exploring cinematography and lighting terminology -- Rendering in ZBrush -- Preparing for rendering -- Creating BPR renders -- Creating turntable videos -- Summary -- Part 2: Creating Characters from Scratch: A Comprehensive Guide -- Chapter 8: Sculpting Human Anatomy -- Technical requirements -- Preparing anatomy references -- Gathering references -- Loading resources -- Blocking out the anatomy -- Starting with the skeleton -- Adjusting the skeleton -- Correcting the base mesh -- Refining the anatomy -- Useful brushes for anatomy sculpting -- Sculpting the upper body -- Sculpting the lower body -- Sculpting hands and feet -- Adding fat deposits -- Finalizing the sculpture's anatomy -- Posing your model -- Adding asymmetry…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Chapter 5: Google Cloud Solutions for Data Management -- Understanding the data journey -- Acme e-commerce - case study -- Exploring types of data -- Elaborating on Google Cloud solutions for data management -- Data pipelines -- Data lakes -- Data warehouses -- Business intelligence tools -- Summary -- Chapter 6: Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence on Google Cloud -- AI overview and Google's contribution -- Considerations when building AI models -- Defining the problem -- Collecting the datasets -- Preparing the data -- Select the model and train it -- Evaluating the model -- Deploying the model -- Monitoring the model -- Google Cloud solutions for ML and AI -- Vertex AI and its associated services -- ML APIs -- AI business solutions -- Generative AI -- PaLM for text -- PaLM for chat -- Chirp for speech -- Imagen for text to image -- The embeddings API for text to image -- Codey -- Google AI Studio -- Gemini -- Summary -- Part 3: Infrastructure and Platform Modernization -- Chapter 7: Modernizing IT Infrastructure with Google Cloud -- The challenges with legacy infrastructure in the modern world -- Acme Inc. - buying servers -- The value of modernizing infrastructure with cloud technologies -- Agility -- Scalability -- Resilience -- Security -- The differences between hybrid and multi-cloud -- The evolution of computing from VMs to containers to serverless -- Summary -- Chapter 8: Modernizing Applications with Google Cloud -- The evolution of application development -- Acme Inc-development case study -- The benefits of cloud-native application development -- Google Cloud solutions for hosting applications -- Google Compute Engine (GCE) -- Google Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE) -- Sole-tenant nodes -- Kubernetes Engine (GKE) -- Cloud Run -- Artifact Registry -- Cloud Build -- App Engine -- Cloud Functions -- Summary -- Chapter 9: The Value of APIs…”

“…As Per Schelde shows, it becomes increasingly difficult in science fiction film to define the humans from their creations, and thus increasingly difficult to identify the monster. …”

“…In small companies, mentorship can be hard to come by and gaining the traits of a senior developer without that can take a long time. …”

“…Design, build, and secure scalable machine learning (ML) systems to solve real-world business problems with Python and AWS Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook Key Features Solve large-scale ML challenges in the cloud with several open-source and AWS tools and frameworks Apply risk management techniques in the ML life cycle and learn architecture patterns for solutions Understand the challenges and risks of implementing generative AI Book Description David Ping, Head of GenAI and ML Solution Architecture for global industries at AWS, provides expert insights and practical examples to help you become a proficient ML solutions architect, linking technical architecture to business-related skills. …”

“…These numbers are based on effectiveness data from a Swedish cohort study. Ethics1. NIPT is an ethically controversial technology. …”

“…We will introduce load simulations, ramping up users, and running Gatling from the command line with runtime parameters. Throughout the course, we will tackle challenges, refine our skills, and learn to monitor test executions with Gatling test result reports. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Chapter 13: Time Series, Sequences, and Prediction with TensorFlow -- Understanding and applying learning rate schedulers -- In-built learning rate schedulers -- Custom learning rate scheduler -- CNNs for time series forecasting -- RNNs in time series forecasting -- LSTMs in time series forecasting -- CNN-LSTM architecture for time series forecasting -- Forecasting Apple stock price data -- Note from the author -- Questions -- References -- Index -- About Packt -- Other Books You May Enjoy…”