Wow! eBook: OpenStack Cloud Computing Cookbook, 2nd Edition - 6 new eBooks

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• OpenStack Cloud Computing Cookbook, 2nd Edition
• Practical Data Analysis
• Web Application Development with R Using Shiny
• Apache Kafka
• Getting Started with MariaDB
• Getting started with IntelliJ IDEA

OpenStack Cloud Computing Cookbook, 2nd Edition Posted: 08 Mar 2014 09:26 AM PST Book Description OpenStack is an open source cloud operating stack that was born from Rackspace and NASA and became a global success, developed by scores of people around the globe and backed by some of the leading players in the cloud space today. OpenStack Cloud Computing Cookbook, Second Edition will show you exactly how to install the components that are required to make up a private cloud environment. You will learn how to set up an environment that you manage just as you would a public cloud provider like Rackspace with the help of experienced OpenStack administrators and architects. We begin by configuring the key components such as identity, image compute, and storage in a safe, virtual environment that we will then build on this throughout the book. The book will also teach you about provisioning and managing OpenStack in the datacenter using proven DevOps tools and techniques. From installing or creating a sandbox environment using Vagrant and VirtualBox to installing OpenStack in the datacenter, from understanding logging to automating OpenStack installations, whatever level of experience or interest you have with OpenStack there is a chapter for you. Installation steps cover compute, object storage, identity, block storage volumes, image, horizon, software defined networking and DevOps tools for automating your infrastructure OpenStack Cloud Computing Cookbook, Second edition gives you clear step-by-step instructions to installing and running your own private cloud. What you will learn from this book Understand, install, configure, and manage Nova, the OpenStack cloud compute resource Dive headfirst into managing software defined networks with the OpenStack networking project and Open vSwitch Install and configure, Keystone, the OpenStack identity & authentication service Install, configure and operate the OpenStack block storage project: Neutron Install and manage Swift, the highly scalable OpenStack object storage service Gain hands on experience with the OpenStack dashboard Horizon Explore different monitoring frameworks to ensure your OpenStack cloud is always online and performing optimally Automate your installations using Vagrant and Chef. Create custom Windows and Linux images for use in your private cloud environment. Approach OpenStack Cloud Computing Cookbook Second Edition will give you clear step-by-step instructions to installing and running your own private cloud successfully. It is full of practical and applicable recipes that enable you to use the latest capabilities of OpenStack and implement them. The book explains every step in detail so that you can build your knowledge about how things work. Who this book is for This book is aimed at system administrators and technical architects moving from a virtualized environment to cloud environments with familiarity of cloud computing platforms. Knowledge of virtualization and managing Linux environments is expected. Book Details Paperback: 396 pages Publisher: Packt Publishing; 2nd Edition (October 2013) Language: English ISBN-10: 1782167587 ISBN-13: 978-1782167587 Note: There is a file embedded within this post, please visit this post to download the file. Related Books Puppet 3 Cookbook (01-02-2014) OpenStack Cloud Computing Cookbook (24-10-2012) Learning AWS OpsWorks (21-02-2014) Expert Consolidation in Oracle Database 12c (21-12-2013) ZeroMQ (17-04-2013) Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Installation and Configuration Guide (23-04-2013) Windows Azure Hybrid Cloud (22-10-2013) vSphere High Performance Cookbook (25-11-2013) Oracle SOA Suite 11g Performance Tuning Cookbook (19-11-2013) Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Administration Cookbook (26-08-2013) OpenNebula 3 Cloud Computing (21-06-2012) Networking For Dummies, 10th Edition (23-04-2013) Microsoft System Center: Cloud Management with App Controller (10-12-2013) Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 Cookbook (28-08-2013) Managing Data in Motion (27-05-2013) Linux Shell Scripting Cookbook, 2nd Edition (22-09-2013) Intel® Trusted Execution Technology for Server Platforms (15-10-2013) Instant Munin Plugin Starter (05-04-2013) Information Management (10-02-2014) Implementing Splunk (26-02-2013) The post OpenStack Cloud Computing Cookbook, 2nd Edition appeared first on Wow! eBook.

Practical Data Analysis Posted: 08 Mar 2014 09:23 AM PST Book Description Plenty of small businesses face big amounts of data but lack the internal skills to support quantitative analysis. Understanding how to harness the power of data analysis using the latest open source technology can lead them to providing better customer service, the visualization of customer needs, or even the ability to obtain fresh insights about the performance of previous products. Practical Data Analysis is a book ideal for home and small business users who want to slice and dice the data they have on hand with minimum hassle. Practical Data Analysis is a hands-on guide to understanding the nature of your data and turn it into insight. It will introduce you to the use of machine learning techniques, social networks analytics, and econometrics to help your clients get insights about the pool of data they have at hand. Performing data preparation and processing over several kinds of data such as text, images, graphs, documents, and time series will also be covered. Practical Data Analysis presents a detailed exploration of the current work in data analysis through self-contained projects. First you will explore the basics of data preparation and transformation through OpenRefine. Then you will get started with exploratory data analysis using the D3js visualization framework. You will also be introduced to some of the machine learning techniques such as, classification, regression, and clusterization through practical projects such as spam classification, predicting gold prices, and finding clusters in your Facebook friends’ network. You will learn how to solve problems in text classification, simulation, time series forecast, social media, and MapReduce through detailed projects. Finally you will work with large amounts of Twitter data using MapReduce to perform a sentiment analysis implemented in Python and MongoDB. Practical Data Analysis contains a combination of carefully selected algorithms and data scrubbing that enables you to turn your data into insight. What you will learn from this book Work with data to get meaningful results from your data analysis projects Visualize your data to find trends and correlations Build your own image similarity search engine Learn how to forecast numerical values from time series data Create an interactive visualization for your social media graph Explore the MapReduce framework in MongoDB Create interactive simulations with D3js Approach Practical Data Analysis is a practical, step-by-step guide to empower small businesses to manage and analyze your data and extract valuable information from the data Who this book is written for This book is for developers, small business users, and analysts who want to implement data analysis and visualization for their company in a practical way. You need no prior experience with data analysis or data processing; however, basic knowledge of programming, statistics, and linear algebra is assumed. Book Details Paperback: 360 pages Publisher: Packt Publishing (October 2013) Language: English ISBN-10: 1783280999 ISBN-13: 978-1783280995 Note: There is a file embedded within this post, please visit this post to download the file. Related Books KNIME Essentials (06-03-2014) Programming Elastic MapReduce (14-01-2014) MongoDB: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition (09-06-2013) Doing Data Science (09-11-2013) Data Just Right (26-12-2013) Analyzing the Analyzers (04-08-2013) Web Application Development with R Using Shiny (08-03-2014) Visual Intelligence (23-07-2013) Think Bayes (02-11-2013) The Technical and Social History of Software Engineering (06-01-2014) R Statistical Application Development by Example: Beginner's Guide (22-11-2013) Programming PHP, 3rd Edition (09-03-2013) Programming Massively Parallel Processors, 2nd Edition (24-05-2013) Processing, 2nd Edition (19-06-2013) Oracle PL/SQL Programming, 6th Edition (16-02-2014) Node.js in Action (29-01-2014) Mondrian in Action (19-10-2013) Microsoft Excel 2013: Data Analysis and Business Modeling (12-02-2014) Metaprogramming in .NET (30-01-2013) Learning R (31-10-2013) The post Practical Data Analysis appeared first on Wow! eBook.

Web Application Development with R Using Shiny Posted: 08 Mar 2014 09:19 AM PST Book Description R is a highly flexible and powerful tool for analyzing and visualizing data. Shiny is the perfect companion to R, making it quick and simple to share analysis and graphics from R that users can interact with and query over the Web. Let Shiny do the hard work and spend your time generating content and styling, not writing code to handle user inputs. Web Application with R using Shiny is an accessible introduction to sharing interactive content from R using Shiny. You will learn by doing, with each chapter including code and examples to use and adapt for your own applications. By the end of this book, you will be able to build useful and engaging web applications with only a few lines of code – no JavaScript required. Web Application with R using Shiny will show you how to begin analyzing, visualizing, and sharing your data using practical examples. This book will teach you how to rapidly prototype and build interactive data summaries using Shiny’s built-in widgets and functions. You will learn how to integrate Shiny applications with your existing HTML and CSS, how to greatly extend the power and usability of your applications using JavaScript, and how to quickly deploy them over the Web. The book uses practical examples to show you how to get the best out of R and Shiny, helping you to produce and share cutting-edge analytics with minimal effort. What you will learn from this book Produce advanced analysis and graphics using R Implement Shiny’s built-in widgets to rapidly build user interfaces Apply reactive programming techniques to handle user interactions with minimal coding Adapt and change your interfaces in response to user input to give your users an engaging and rewarding experience Integrate JavaScript and jQuery with Shiny to add different and exciting content and interactions to your Shiny applications Use HTML and CSS to style your Shiny applications and integrate them seamlessly with your own web content Serve your users better by allowing them to upload their own data and download the results quickly and simply Deploy Shiny applications over the Web using simple and free technologies Approach This book follows a standard tutorial-based approach which will teach you how to make a web app using R and Shiny quickly and easily. Who this book is written for This book is for anybody who wants to produce interactive data summaries over the Web, whether you want to share them with a few colleagues or the whole world. You need no previous experience with R, Shiny, HTML, or CSS to begin using this book, although you will need at least a little previous experience with programming in a different language. Book Details Paperback: 110 pages Publisher: Packt Publishing (October 2013) Language: English ISBN-10: 1783284471 ISBN-13: 978-1783284474 Note: There is a file embedded within this post, please visit this post to download the file. Related Books Opa: Up and Running (09-03-2013) HTML5 Programming with JavaScript For Dummies (05-07-2013) Windows 8 Application Development with HTML5 For Dummies (20-02-2013) Single Page Web Applications (19-10-2013) Programming the Mobile Web, 2nd Edition (19-04-2013) Pro Windows 8 Development with HTML5 and JavaScript (04-02-2013) Pro SharePoint 2013 Branding and Responsive Web Development (15-08-2013) Pro jQuery 2.0, 2nd Edition (18-12-2013) PHP, MySQL, JavaScript & HTML5 All-in-One For Dummies (23-04-2013) PhoneGap 2.x Mobile Application Development Hotshot (06-04-2013) Opa Application Development (28-09-2013) Object-Oriented JavaScript, 2nd Edition (24-11-2013) Mobile ASP.NET MVC 5 (23-12-2013) JavaScript Step by Step, 3rd Edition (26-10-2013) Interactive Data Visualization for the Web (17-04-2013) Getting Started with Meteor.js JavaScript Framework (28-01-2013) Building UIs with Wijmo (21-02-2014) Beginning Windows Store Application Development, HTML and JavaScript Edition (21-12-2013) Beginning HTML and CSS (18-03-2013) Windows 8 MVVM Patterns Revealed (26-03-2013) The post Web Application Development with R Using Shiny appeared first on Wow! eBook.

Apache Kafka Posted: 08 Mar 2014 09:13 AM PST Book Description Message publishing is a mechanism of connecting heterogeneous applications together with messages that are routed between them, for example by using a message broker like Apache Kafka. Such solutions deal with real-time volumes of information and route it to multiple consumers without letting information producers know who the final consumers are. Apache Kafka is a practical, hands-on guide providing you with a series of step-by-step practical implementations, which will help you take advantage of the real power behind Kafka, and give you a strong grounding for using it in your publisher-subscriber based architectures. Apache Kafka takes you through a number of clear, practical implementations that will help you to take advantage of the power of Apache Kafka, quickly and painlessly. You will learn everything you need to know for setting up Kafka clusters. This book explains how Kafka basic blocks like producers, brokers, and consumers actually work and fit together. You will then explore additional settings and configuration changes to achieve ever more complex goals. Finally you will learn how Kafka works with other tools like Hadoop, Storm, and so on. You will learn everything you need to know to work with Apache Kafka in the right format, as well as how to leverage its power of handling hundreds of megabytes of messages per second from multiple clients. What you will learn from this book Download and build Kafka Set up single as well as multi-node Kafka clusters and send messages Learn Kafka design internals and message compression Understand how replication works in Kafka Write Kafka message producers and consumers using the Kafka producer API Get an overview of consumer configurations Integrate Kafka with Apache Hadoop and Storm Use Kafka administration tools Approach The book will follow a step-by-step tutorial approach which will show the readers how to use Apache Kafka for messaging from scratch. Who this book is written for Apache Kafka is for readers with software development experience, but no prior exposure to Apache Kafka or similar technologies is assumed. This book is also for enterprise application developers and big data enthusiasts who have worked with other publisher-subscriber based systems and now want to explore Apache Kafka as a futuristic scalable solution. Book Details Paperback: 88 pages Publisher: Packt Publishing (October 2013) Language: English ISBN-10: 1782167935 ISBN-13: 978-1782167938 Note: There is a file embedded within this post, please visit this post to download the file. Related Books Professional ASP.NET 4.5 in C# and VB (28-07-2013) Pro ASP.NET 4.5 in C#, 5th Edition (15-08-2013) Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Step by Step (28-07-2013) Hadoop Real-World Solutions Cookbook (06-04-2013) ZeroMQ (17-04-2013) Xcode 4 Cookbook (25-09-2013) Windows Store App Development (17-07-2013) Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V (20-03-2013) Vagrant: Up and Running (10-06-2013) Twilio Cookbook (20-02-2014) The Technical and Social History of Software Engineering (06-01-2014) The Modern Web (15-05-2013) The Definitive Guide to MongoDB, 2nd Edition (23-12-2013) Structured Parallel Programming (12-04-2013) SonarQube in Action (29-01-2014) Socket.IO Real-time Web Application Development (25-08-2013) Single Page Web Applications (19-10-2013) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Administration (14-07-2013) Realtime Web Apps (17-06-2013) Real World Windows 8 App Development with JavaScript (17-08-2013) The post Apache Kafka appeared first on Wow! eBook.

Getting Started with MariaDB Posted: 08 Mar 2014 09:07 AM PST Book Description In the modern age, storing data is of paramount importance, and this is where databases enter the picture. MariaDB is a relatively new database that has become very popular in a short amount of time. It is a community-developed fork of MySQL and it is designed to be an enhanced and backward compatible database solution. Getting Started with MariaDB is a practical, hands-on, beginner-friendly guide to installing and using MariaDB. This book will start with the installation of MariaDB before moving on to the basics. You will then learn how to configure and maintain your database with the help of real-world examples. Getting Started with MariaDB literally starts at square one by walking you through the basics of what you need to know about MariaDB. This book will teach you how to install MariaDB as well as how to configure it. Following that, you will then be shown how to secure MariaDB. This book will also teach you common commands and will help you learn how to maintain a MariaDB server. What you will learn from this book Install MariaDB on Windows/RedHat/Fedora/CentOS Linux/Debian/Ubuntu Linux Configure MariaDB to optimize data storage Administer users on MariaDB Learn how to utilize MariaDB to maintain a backup of your data Maintain MariaDB and keep it running smoothly Approach A practical, hands-on, beginner-friendly guide to installing and using MariaDB. Who this book is written for Getting Started with MariaDB is for anyone who wants to learn more about databases in general or MariaDB in particular. No prior database experience is required. It is assumed that you have basic knowledge of software installation, editing files with a text editor, and using the command line and terminal. Book Details Paperback: 100 pages Publisher: Packt Publishing (October 2013) Language: English ISBN-10: 1782168095 ISBN-13: 978-1782168096 Note: There is a file embedded within this post, please visit this post to download the file. Related Books SQL For Dummies, 8th Edition (02-12-2013) MySQL Pocket Reference, 2nd Edition (31-01-2013) Learning MySQL (31-01-2013) Getting Started with SQL Server 2012 Cube Development (19-02-2014) Getting Started with OrientDB (03-02-2014) Expert PHP and MySQL (15-10-2013) Expert MySQL, 2nd Edition (23-03-2013) WordPress Web Design For Dummies, 2nd Edition (02-12-2013) WordPress All-in-One For Dummies, 2nd Edition (06-07-2013) Using Open Source Platforms for Business Intelligence (12-04-2013) Twilio Cookbook (20-02-2014) The Art of SQL (29-10-2013) Statistical Analysis with Excel For Dummies, 3rd Edition (23-04-2013) Software Development on the SAP HANA Platform (17-11-2013) Securing SQL Server, 2nd Edition (07-05-2013) Scaling Big Data with Hadoop and Solr (21-01-2014) Resilience and Reliability on AWS (12-02-2013) Realtime Web Apps (17-06-2013) RavenDB High Performance (04-02-2014) RavenDB 2.x: Beginner's Guide (18-02-2014) The post Getting Started with MariaDB appeared first on Wow! eBook.

Getting started with IntelliJ IDEA Posted: 08 Mar 2014 09:04 AM PST Book Description IntelliJ IDEA is a commercial Java development tool which competes with the free Eclipse and NetBeans projects. It is an integrated development environment (IDE) designed to automate parts of the coding process; to support a large number of different frameworks, tools, and targets; to work with multiple languages; and not to get in the way of the developer's work. IntelliJ IDEA also does a good job of keeping up-to-date with the Java platform, subject to the expense of keeping current with the latest product version. A practical guide that will provide you with concepts and clear step-by-step exercises to help you understand and improve your performance. Through this guide, you will be able to extract more from IntelliJ IDEA 12. This book will navigate through the features of IntelliJ IDEA 12 and present the reader with concepts and tips that will give them a greater understanding of this IDE. Using a practical real-world example, readers will learn to develop one application and use some of the features presented. Through clear instructions, you will learn how to integrate the IDE with your favorite bug tracker, take a look at the refactoring approaches that IntelliJ offers, and will quickly understand and use different ways to navigate through the code. This book teaches you how to develop a web application and a simple Swing application. The development of this application will help you to understand how to work with IntelliJ’s Swing GUI constructor. The book will also provide a simple code as starting point and will show you how to develop some code. What you will learn from this book Manage your tasks using (or not using) your favorite bug tracker Work with Spring framework with IntelliJ Understand and use the intentions and smart code completion features Create web services using the IntelliJ tools Install and use third party plugins Approach A practical, fast-paced guide with clear, step-by-step exercisesto help you understand the basics of IntelliJ Idea and develop a web application. Who this book is written for This book will be ideal if you are a Java developer who has a little knowledge about IntelliJ and wants to get more information on using it to improve your development performance. Book Details Paperback: 114 pages Publisher: Packt Publishing (October 2013) Language: English ISBN-10: 1849699615 ISBN-13: 978-1849699617 Note: There is a file embedded within this post, please visit this post to download the file. Related Books Instant Spring for Android Starter (28-02-2013) Getting Started with Oracle WebLogic Server 12c: Developer's Guide (25-02-2014) Vaadin 7 UI Design By Example: Beginner's Guide (25-11-2013) The Definitive Guide to Grails 2 (08-02-2013) RESTful Java with JAX-RS 2.0, 2nd Edition (13-12-2013) Pro Spring Security (17-06-2013) Making Java Groovy (19-10-2013) JBoss AS 7 Development (02-10-2013) Java EE 7 Recipes (10-08-2013) Introducing Java EE 7 (14-08-2013) Eclipse 4 Plug-in Development by Example: Beginner's Guide (02-10-2013) Beginning EJB 3: Java EE 7 Edition, 2nd Edition (21-06-2013) WordPress for Web Developers, 2nd Edition (17-08-2013) Windows Phone 8 Development Internals (18-07-2013) The Java EE 6 Tutorial, 4th Edition (28-12-2013) Spring in Practice (16-07-2013) Scala in Action (16-07-2013) Scala Cookbook (19-09-2013) SAP ABAP Advanced Cookbook (29-01-2013) Programming Grails (17-05-2013) The post Getting started with IntelliJ IDEA appeared first on Wow! eBook.

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