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AWS Lambda in Action is an example-driven tutorial that teaches you how to build applications that use an event-driven approach on the back end. Starting with an overview of AWS Lambda, the audiobook moves on to show you common examples and patterns you can use to call Lambda functions from a web page or a mobile app. The second part of the audiobook puts these smaller examples together to build larger applications. By the end, you'll be ready to create applications that take advantage of the high availability, security, performance, and scalability of AWS.

A successful pipeline moves data efficiently, minimizing pauses and blockages between tasks, and keeping processes along the way operational. Apache Airflow provides a single customizable environment for building and managing data pipelines, eliminating the need for a hodgepodge collection of tools, snowflake code, and homegrown processes. Using real-world scenarios and examples, this book teaches you how to simplify and automate data pipelines, reduce operational overhead, and smoothly integrate all the technologies in your stack.

Big Data teaches you to build big data systems using an architecture designed specifically to capture and analyze web-scale data. This book presents the Lambda Architecture, a scalable, easy-to-understand approach that can be built and run by a small team. You'll explore the theory of big data systems and how to implement them in practice. In addition to discovering a general framework for processing big data, you'll learn specific technologies like Hadoop, Storm, and NoSQL databases.

More than ever, the web is a universal platform for all types of applications, and JavaScript is the language of the web. If you're serious about web development, it's not enough to be a decent JavaScript coder. You need to be ninja stealthy, efficient, and ready for anything. This audiobook shows you how.

Developers and programmers are amongst the highest paid professions in the world, and according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, the number of jobs for software and app developers will increase by a shocking 24 percent in the next few years. In 2019, the tech industry posted 4.6 million job openings in the US job market, and their direct economic output was estimated at 1.9 trillion dollars.

Blazor in Action is a practical guide to building stunning UIs and client-side applications using C# and .NET. You’ll use the Blazor frontend framework to create a fun and exciting web application for plotting hiking routes. As you build up your new application, you’ll master the key features of Blazor, such as routing, forms and validation, and dynamic and reusable components. By the time you're done, you'll be ready to develop beautiful sites and apps that seamlessly execute your C# code natively in the browser.

Want to use the Terraform automation tool to design and manage servers that can be provisioned, shared, changed, tested, and deployed with a single command? Terraform in Action introduces the infrastructure-as-code (IaC) model that lets you instantaneously create new components and respond efficiently to changes in demand. Using practical, relevant examples, you’ll use Terraform to provision a Kubernetes cluster, deploy a multiplayer game, and configure other hands-on projects. Listen and discover how to think in Terraform rather than just copying and pasting scripts.

Fully updated to ASP.NET 5.0, ASP.NET Core in Action, Second Edition is a hands-on primer to building cross-platform web applications with your C# and .NET skills. Even if you've never worked with ASP.NET, you'll start creating productive cross-platform web apps fast. And don’t worry about late-breaking changes to ASP.NET Core.

Are you new to software development? Are you curious about learning what artificial intelligence is? Do you want to master the Python programming language? Well, this audiobook is your best choice! There may be a lot of different languages that you can work with when it comes to the coding that you would like to work with, but none are going to provide you with the benefits that you are working with. This language is so popular and used so often that there are a few different operating systems that already have some version of Python found on them for you to use.

In the competitive job market, the need for SQL developers has increased dramatically throughout the years. It’s the new alternative to web design and app development that’s so saturated to the point that in order to succeed, you need to be the best of the best. SQL development is the new hidden talent that big companies are looking for that nobody has really heard about.

Go in Action is for any intermediate-level developer who has experience with other programming languages and wants a jump-start in learning Go or a more thorough understanding of the language and its internals. This book provides an intensive, comprehensive, and idiomatic view of Go. It focuses on the specification and implementation of the language, including topics like language syntax, Go's type system, concurrency, channels, and testing.

R in Action, Second Edition teaches you how to use the R language by presenting examples relevant to scientific, technical, and business developers. Focusing on practical solutions, the book offers a crash course in statistics, including elegant methods for dealing with messy and incomplete data. You'll also master R's extensive graphical capabilities for exploring and presenting data visually. And this expanded second edition includes new chapters on forecasting, data mining, and dynamic report writing.

JavaScript: Elite JavaScript Coding from the Ground Up is the fourth entry in a series of audiobooks designed to make JavaScript accessible to the novice user. This series will break up the material into bite-sized chunks and take listeners from uninitiated programmer to expert coder with layman explanations and code examples.

Spring in Action, Fourth Edition is a hands-on guide to the Spring Framework, updated for version 4. It covers the features, tools, and practices including Spring MVC, REST, Security, Web Flow, and more. You'll move between short snippets and an ongoing example as you learn to build simple and efficient J2EE applications. Author Craig Walls has a special knack for crisp and entertaining examples that zoom in on the features and techniques you really need.

Because this audiobook employs simple vocabulary, short sentences, and brief paragraphs, it is appropriate for absolute novices with or without prior programming experience. Learning C++ programming the triple S approach. C++ is a general-purpose programming language (pronounced cee plus). The primary goal of C++ is to add object orientation to the C programming language. C++ has imperative, object-oriented, and generic programming features, as well as low-level memory management capabilities. Inheritance and polymorphism are two other valuable elements that have been added to C++.

Are you interested in machine learning? Do you want to know how it all works and what it involves? Then you've chosen the right guide. Machine learning is a subset of computer science and artificial intelligence. There's no getting away from the fact that it is here to stay, and it is already changing how many businesses work and target their customers. It's a complex subject, but this guide will give you a concise overview of the steps required in every machine learning project.

Spring Microservices in Action: Second Edition teaches you to build microservice-based applications using Java and Spring. By dividing large applications into separate self-contained units, microservices are a great step toward reducing complexity and increasing flexibility. This second edition is fully updated for the latest version of Spring, with expanded coverage of API routing with Spring Cloud Gateway, logging with the ELK stack, metrics with Prometheus and Grafana, security with the Hashicorp Vault, and modern deployment practices with Kubernetes and Istio.

Are you aware that C is one of the most popular and commonly-used programming languages today? Did you know many expert developers have started learning C in order to become knowledgeable in computer programming? Do you want a simple way to understand step-by-step actions to learning C programming, while skipping all the technical jargon so many learners fear in programming? If you are having doubts about learning the language, do not! C is actually easy to learn. Compared to C++, C is much simpler!

It's challenging to assess and understand how to learn a new skill, mainly when the subject appears vast. There can be so much data available that it is difficult to know where to begin. Even worse, you start learning and soon find there are so many definitions, commands, and complexities not clarified. This book is helpful even if you have never used Linux before but want to master it.

Discover the world of Language Learning Models (LLMs) and chatbot development with this comprehensive guide. Designed for learners of all levels, this book provides a step-by-step approach to understanding, creating, and deploying LLM chatbots. Starting with the fundamentals, it explores the intricacies of natural language processing and machine learning, enabling you to grasp how chatbots comprehend and generate human-like language.