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Think Python, 2nd Edition
Cassandra: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition
Network Programmability and Automation
Secure Coding in C and C++, 2nd Edition
Java Performance Companion
Reengineering .NET

Posted: 16 Aug 2016 01:10 PM PDT

If you want to learn how to program, working with Python is an excellent way to start. This hands-on guide takes you through the language a step at a time, beginning with basic programming concepts before moving on to functions, recursion, data structures, and object-oriented design. This second edition and its supporting code have been updated for Python 3.

Through exercises in each chapter, you'll try out programming concepts as you learn them. Think Python is ideal for students at the high school or college level, as well as self-learners, home-schooled students, and professionals who need to learn programming basics. Beginners just getting their feet wet will learn how to start with Python in a browser.

Start with the basics, including language syntax and semantics
Get a clear definition of each programming concept
Learn about values, variables, statements, functions, and data structures in a logical progression
Discover how to work with files and databases
Understand objects, methods, and object-oriented programming
Use debugging techniques to fix syntax, runtime, and semantic errors
Explore interface design, data structures, and GUI-based programs through case studies

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Cassandra: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition

Posted: 16 Aug 2016 01:07 PM PDT

Imagine what you could do if scalability wasn’t a problem. With this hands-on guide, you'll learn how the Cassandra database management system handles hundreds of terabytes of data while remaining highly available across multiple data centers. This expanded second edition—updated for Cassandra 3.0—provides the technical details and practical examples you need to put this database to work in a production environment.

Authors Jeff Carpenter and Eben Hewitt demonstrate the advantages of Cassandra's non-relational design, with special attention to data modeling. If you're a developer, DBA, or application architect looking to solve a database scaling issue or future-proof your application, this guide helps you harness Cassandra's speed and flexibility.

Understand Cassandra's distributed and decentralized structure
Use the Cassandra Query Language (CQL) and cqlsh—the CQL shell
Create a working data model and compare it with an equivalent relational model
Develop sample applications using client drivers for languages including Java, Python, and Node.js
Explore cluster topology and learn how nodes exchange data
Maintain a high level of performance in your cluster
Deploy Cassandra on site, in the Cloud, or with Docker
Integrate Cassandra with Spark, Hadoop, Elasticsearch, Solr, and Lucene

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Network Programmability and Automation

Posted: 16 Aug 2016 01:02 PM PDT

Automation is the new skillset that network engineers need to pick up. Much like sysadmins have had to learn how to use new tools like Chef and Puppet, network engineers are learning that they just can’t do things manually anymore. With examples in each chapter, this practical book provides you with baseline skills in network programmability and automation, using a range of technologies including Linux, Python, JSON, and XML. No previous knowledge of software development, programming, automation, or DevOps is required.

Understand the basics of Linux as applied to networking
Learn how to use text editors and Python to automate networks
Apply sound software design principles like continuous integration, DevOps, source control, etc. to optimize networks

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Secure Coding in C and C++, 2nd Edition

Posted: 16 Aug 2016 12:58 PM PDT

Learn the Root Causes of Software Vulnerabilities and How to Avoid Them

Commonly exploited software vulnerabilities are usually caused by avoidable software defects. Having analyzed tens of thousands of vulnerability reports since 1988, CERT has determined that a relatively small number of root causes account for most of the vulnerabilities.

Secure Coding in C and C++, Second Edition, identifies and explains these root causes and shows the steps that can be taken to prevent exploitation. Moreover, this book encourages programmers to adopt security best practices and to develop a security mindset that can help protect software from tomorrow's attacks, not just today's. Drawing on the CERT's reports and conclusions, Robert C. Seacord systematically identifies the program errors most likely to lead to security breaches, shows how they can be exploited, reviews the potential consequences, and presents secure alternatives.

Coverage includes technical detail on how to

Improve the overall security of any C or C++ application
Thwart buffer overflows, stack-smashing, and return-oriented programming attacks that exploit insecure string manipulation logic
Avoid vulnerabilities and security flaws resulting from the incorrect use of dynamic memory management functions
Eliminate integer-related problems resulting from signed integer overflows, unsigned integer wrapping, and truncation errors
Perform secure I/O, avoiding file system vulnerabilities
Correctly use formatted output functions without introducing format-string vulnerabilities
Avoid race conditions and other exploitable vulnerabilities while developing concurrent code

The second edition features

Updates for C11 and C++11
Significant revisions to chapters on strings, dynamic memory management, and integer security
A new chapter on concurrency
Access to the online secure coding course offered through Carnegie Mellon's Open Learning Initiative (OLI)

Secure Coding in C and C++, Second Edition, presents hundreds of examples of secure code, insecure code, and exploits, implemented for Windows and Linux. If you're responsible for creating secure C or C++ software–or for keeping it safe–no other book offers you this much detailed, expert assistance.

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Java Performance Companion

Posted: 16 Aug 2016 12:54 PM PDT

Java Performance Companion shows how to systematically and proactively improve Java performance with today's advanced multicore hardware and complex operating system environments.

The authors, who are all leading Java performance and Java HotSpot VM experts, help you improve performance by using modern software engineering practices, avoiding common mistakes, and applying tips and tricks gleaned from years of real-world experience.

Picking up where Charlie Hunt and Binu John's classic Java Performance left off, this book provides unprecedented detail on two powerful Java platform innovations: the Garbage First (G1) garbage collector and the HotSpot VM Serviceability Agent.

Coverage includes

Leveraging G1 to overcome limitations in parallel, serial, and CMS garbage collection
Understanding each stage of G1 GC collections, both young and old
Getting under the hood with G1 and efficiently fine-tuning it for your application
Identifying potential optimizations, interpreting experimental results, and taking action
Exploring the internals of the HotSpot VM
Using HotSpot VM Serviceability Agent to analyze, triage, and resolve diverse HotSpot VM issues
Troubleshooting out of memory errors, Java level deadlocks, and HotSpot VM crashes
Extending the Serviceability Agent, and using the Plugin for VisualVM
Mastering useful HotSpot VM command line options not covered in Java™ Performance

Java Performance Companion can help you squeeze maximum performance and value from Java with JDK 8 or 9–for any application, in any environment.

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Reengineering .NET

Posted: 16 Aug 2016 12:52 PM PDT

Reengineer .NET Code to Improve Quality, Update Architecture, Access New Tools, and Accelerate Delivery of New Features

As software ages, it becomes brittle: difficult to understand, fix, manage, use, and improve. Developers working with many platforms have encountered this problem; now, developers working with Microsoft's .NET are facing it as well. In Reengineering .NET, leading .NET architect Bradley Irby introduces proven best practices for revitalizing older .NET code and integrating new architectural and development advances into business-critical systems that can't go offline. Using a step-by-step approach, .NET professionals can make legacy enterprise software more reliable, maintainable, attractive, and usable—and make it easier to upgrade for years to come.

Through real-world case studies and extensive downloadable sample code, Irby shows how to carefully plan a .NET reengineering project, understand the true current state of your code, introduce unit testing and other agile methods, refactor to services and controllers, and leverage powerful .NET reengineering tools built into Microsoft Visual Studio 2012.

This book is an indispensable resource for all developers, architects, and project managers responsible for existing .NET code bases and for a wide audience of non-technical managers and CTOs who want to understand the unique challenges faced by .NET teams involved in application or system reengineering projects.

Coverage includes:

Migrating legacy .NET software to more flexible, extensible, and maintainable architectures—without breaking it
Reengineering web applications with the MVC pattern, Winforms software with MVP, and WPF/Silverlight systems with MVVM
Asking the right questions to predict refactoring problems before they happen
Planning and organizing reengineering projects to apply the right expertise to each task at the right time
Using innovative Test Doubling to make unit testing even more effective
Applying Dependency Inversion to break tight coupling and promote easier development and testing
Leveraging source control, defect tracking, and continuous integration
"Cleaning up" legacy solutions to improve them before you even touch business logic
Establishing solid development infrastructure to support your reengineering project
Refactoring to services—including advanced techniques using Repositories, Domain Models, and the Command Dispatcher
Refactoring to controller/view or ViewModel/View pairs

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Mesos in Action
Data Algorithms
Transitions and Animations in CSS

Mesos in Action

Posted: 03 Aug 2016 03:17 PM PDT

Mesos in Action introduces readers to the Apache Mesos cluster manager and the concept of application-centric infrastructure. Filled with helpful figures and hands-on instructions, this book guides you from your first steps creating a highly-available Mesos cluster through deploying applications in production and writing native Mesos frameworks. You'll learn how to scale to thousands of nodes, while providing resource isolation between processes using Linux and Docker containers. You'll also learn practical techniques for deploying applications using popular key frameworks.

What's Inside

Spinning up your first Mesos cluster
Scheduling, resource administration, and logging
Deploying containerized applications with Marathon, Chronos, and Aurora
Writing Mesos frameworks using Python

About the Technology

Modern datacenters are complex environments, and when you throw Docker and other container-based systems into the mix, there's a great need to simplify. Mesos is an open source cluster management platform that transforms the whole datacenter into a single pool of compute, memory, and storage resources that you can allocate, automate, and scale as if you're working with a single supercomputer.

About the Reader

Readers need to be familiar with the core ideas of datacenter administration and need a basic knowledge of Python or a similar programming language.

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Data Algorithms

Posted: 03 Aug 2016 03:10 PM PDT

If you are ready to dive into the MapReduce framework for processing large datasets, this practical book takes you step by step through the algorithms and tools you need to build distributed MapReduce applications with Apache Hadoop or Apache Spark. Each chapter provides a recipe for solving a massive computational problem, such as building a recommendation system. You'll learn how to implement the appropriate MapReduce solution with code that you can use in your projects.

Dr. Mahmoud Parsian covers basic design patterns, optimization techniques, and data mining and machine learning solutions for problems in bioinformatics, genomics, statistics, and social network analysis. This book also includes an overview of MapReduce, Hadoop, and Spark.

Topics include:

Market basket analysis for a large set of transactions
Data mining algorithms (K-means, KNN, and Naive Bayes)
Using huge genomic data to sequence DNA and RNA
Naive Bayes theorem and Markov chains for data and market prediction
Recommendation algorithms and pairwise document similarity
Linear regression, Cox regression, and Pearson correlation
Allelic frequency and mining DNA
Social network analysis (recommendation systems, counting triangles, sentiment analysis)

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Transitions and Animations in CSS

Posted: 03 Aug 2016 03:06 PM PDT

Add life and depth to your web applications and improve user experience through the discrete use of CSS transitions and animations. With this concise guide, you'll learn how to make page elements move or change in appearance, whether you want to realistically bounce a ball, gradually expand a drop-down menu, or simply bring attention to an element when users hover over it.

Short and deep, this book is an excerpt from the upcoming fourth edition of CSS: The Definitive Guide. When you purchase either the print or the ebook edition of Transitions and Animations in CSS, you'll receive a discount on the entire Definitive Guide once it's released. Why wait? Learn how to make your web pages come alive today.

Understand and learn how to implement Disney's 12 principles of cartoon animation
Learn which CSS properties you can animate and use in transitions
Apply CSS's four transition properties and nine animation properties to your CSS elements
Use CSS keyframe animations to granularly control an element's property values
Learn details that will save you hours of debugging and megabytes of unnecessary JavaScript

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