Modelowanie w Fusion 360. Praktyczne przykłady

Tomasz Makowski, Marcelina Jałowiec, Amelia Święcicka

Pracuj z najlepszą platformą do projektowania i rozwoju produktów Autodesk Fusion 360 jest kompleksowym oprogramowaniem chmurowym, dzięki któremu stworzysz nawet bardzo rozbudowane zunifikowane projekty w 3D. W razie potrzeby wykonasz w nim również symulacje, przygotujesz dokumentację projektu i opracujesz jego dane. Fusion 360 łączy funkcje 3D CAD, CAM, CAE i PCB. Pozwala między innymi realizować zadania z zakresu wzornictwa przemysłowego, projektowania mechanicznego i symulacji obliczeniowych. Autodesk Fusion 360 pozwala przeprowadzić w wygodny i efektywny sposób zarówno modelowanie swobodne, jak i bryłowe czy parametryczne. Jak zacząć to robić? Najlepiej krok po kroku, wspomagając się tym poradnikiem. Rozpoczniesz od zapoznania się z interfejsem oprogramowania i poznasz jego najważniejsze funkcje. Dalej będziesz modelować coraz bardziej skomplikowane obiekty. Wreszcie zajmiesz się złożeniami i wiązaniami ― zobaczysz, jakich narzędzi się do tego używa, i przećwiczysz proces ich tworzenia. Wykonaj po kolei ćwiczenia zaproponowane w książce, by osiągnąć samodzielność w rozwiązywaniu praktycznych zadań i zdobyć konieczną wiedzę teoretyczną. Wprowadzisz w życie nawyki, które uczynią korzystanie z Autodesk Fusion 360 produktywnym i satysfakcjonującym, a tym samym diametralnie poprawią wydajność Twojej pracy.

Modelowanie wnętrz w 3D z wykorzystaniem bezpłatnych narzędzi

Joanna Pasek

Skąd pobrać i jak zainstalować potrzebne narzędzia? Jak wykonać model w Google SketchUp 8? Jak renderować model i animację w Kerkythei? Nie ma się co oszukiwać, dziś nawet najlepszy projekt aranżacji wnętrza nie ma szans sprzedaży, jeśli nie stoi za nim efektowna, wierna wizualizacja. Naszym klientom naprawdę trudno wyobrazić sobie nasze wzniosłe wizje o tym, jak "chłodny, surowy marmur pięknie skomponuje się z nowym, śliwkowym kolorem wschodniej ściany pokoju…". Oni muszą to przecież zobaczyć! Na szczęście powszechnie wykorzystywane przez architektów, dekoratorów, producentów mebli czy farb kosztowne programy do modelowania wnętrz doczekały się swoich darmowych i równie funkcjonalnych konkurentów. Dzięki temu nawet małe studio projektowe, nie dysponując wielkim budżetem, może wykonywać swoje usługi naprawdę profesjonalnie… a co za tym idzie, skutecznie! Autorka tej książki jest nie tylko specjalistką od grafiki 3D, jest także doświadczonym architektem, dzięki czemu doskonale wie, jakiej wiedzy potrzebujesz, by najlepiej wykorzystać potencjał darmowych narzędzi do modelowania wnętrz. Swoją naukę zaczniesz od poprawnej instalacji niezbędnych programów, ich konfiguracji i oswojenia środowiska pracy. Nauczysz się budować dokładny model wnętrza na podstawie zwymiarowanego rzutu, tworzyć i teksturować modele nietypowych elementów wyposażenia oraz korzystać z gotowych modeli do przyspieszenia pracy nad elementami typowymi (standardowe okna, drzwi, meble kuchenne, sprzęt AGD). Dowiesz się, jak przygotować model do eksportu, wyrenderować go, pracować ze światłem, wprowadzić realistyczne materiały i tło sceny. Na koniec odkryjesz, jak właściwie eksportować i renderować gotową animację. Po tym etapie zdobędziesz już wszystkie niezbędne umiejętności, by tworzyć naprawdę autentyczne, trójwymiarowe prezentacje wnętrz! Instalowanie odpowiednich narzędzi (Google SketchUp, Kerkythea) Rysowanie rzutów, tworzenie prostokątów, łuków, kół i obrysów Modelowanie ścian, tworzenie i wstawianie okien oraz drzwi Praca z materiałami i teksturami Wyposażanie wnętrza w oparciu o własne modele oraz gotowe komponenty Wprowadzanie cieni oraz dodatkowych źródeł światła na użytek programu renderującego Eksportowanie modelu do pliku XML Praca z kamerami, światłami i realistycznymi materiałami Zmiana tła sceny odpowiednio do typu oświetlenia (dzienne, nocne) Renderowanie swojego modelu i animacji Zobacz, jak wykorzystać darmowe narzędzia w tworzeniu profesjonalnych wizualizacji!

Modern Android 13 Development Cookbook. Over 70 recipes to solve Android development issues and create better apps with Kotlin and Jetpack Compose

Madona S. Wambua

Android is a powerful operating system widely used in various devices, phones, TVs, wearables, automobiles, and more. This Android cookbook will teach you how to leverage the latest Android development technologies for creating incredible applications while making effective use of popular Jetpack libraries. You’ll also learn which critical principles to consider when developing Android apps.The book begins with recipes to get you started with the declarative UI framework, Jetpack Compose, and help you with handling UI states, Navigation, Hilt, Room, Wear OS, and more as you learn what's new in modern Android development. Subsequent chapters will focus on developing apps for large screens, leveraging Jetpack’s WorkManager, managing graphic user interface alerts, and tips and tricks within Android studio. Throughout the book, you'll also see testing being implemented for enhancing Android development, and gain insights into harnessing the integrated development environment of Android studio. Finally, you’ll discover best practices for robust modern app development.By the end of this book, you’ll be able to build an Android application using the Kotlin programming language and the newest modern Android development technologies, resulting in highly efficient applications.

Modern API Development with Spring 6 and Spring Boot 3. Design scalable, viable, and reactive APIs with REST, gRPC, and GraphQL using Java 17 and Spring Boot 3 - Second Edition

Sourabh Sharma

Spring is a powerful and widely adopted framework for building scalable and reliable web applications in Java, complemented by Spring Boot, a popular extension to the framework that simplifies the setup and configuration of Spring-based applications. This book is an in-depth guide to harnessing Spring 6 and Spring Boot 3 for web development, offering practical knowledge of building modern robust web APIs and services.The book covers a wide range of topics that are essential for API development, including RESTful web service fundamentals, Spring concepts, and API specifications. It also explores asynchronous API design, security, designing user interfaces, testing APIs, and the deployment of web services. In addition to its comprehensive coverage, this book offers a highly contextual real-world sample app that you can use as a reference for building different types of APIs for real-world applications. This sample app will lead you through the entire API development cycle, encompassing design and specification, implementation, testing, and deployment.By the end of this book, you’ll have learned how to design, develop, test, and deploy scalable and maintainable modern APIs using Spring 6 and Spring Boot 3, along with best practices for bolstering the security and reliability of your applications and improving your application's overall functionality.

Modern API Development with Spring and Spring Boot. Design highly scalable and maintainable APIs with REST, gRPC, GraphQL, and the reactive paradigm

Sourabh Sharma

The philosophy of API development has evolved over the years to serve the modern needs of enterprise architecture, and developers need to know how to adapt to these modern API design principles. Apps are now developed with APIs that enable ease of integration for the cloud environment and distributed systems. With this Spring book, you'll discover various kinds of production-ready API implementation using REST APIs and explore async using the reactive paradigm, gRPC, and GraphQL.You'll learn how to design evolving REST-based APIs supported by HATEOAS and ETAGs and develop reactive, async, non-blocking APIs. After that, you'll see how to secure REST APIs using Spring Security and find out how the APIs that you develop are consumed by the app's UI. The book then takes you through the process of testing, deploying, logging, and monitoring your APIs. You'll also explore API development using gRPC and GraphQL and design modern scalable architecture with microservices. The book helps you gain practical knowledge of modern API implementation using a sample e-commerce app. By the end of this Spring book, you'll be able to develop, test, and deploy highly scalable, maintainable, and developer-friendly APIs to help your customers to transform their business.

Modern Big Data Processing with Hadoop. Expert techniques for architecting end-to-end big data solutions to get valuable insights

V Naresh Kumar, Prashant Shindgikar

The complex structure of data these days requires sophisticated solutions for data transformation, to make the information more accessible to the users.This book empowers you to build such solutions with relative ease with the help of Apache Hadoop, along with a host of other Big Data tools.This book will give you a complete understanding of the data lifecycle management with Hadoop, followed by modeling of structured and unstructured data in Hadoop. It will also show you how to design real-time streaming pipelines by leveraging tools such as Apache Spark, and build efficient enterprise search solutions using Elasticsearch. You will learn to build enterprise-grade analytics solutions on Hadoop, and how to visualize your data using tools such as Apache Superset. This book also covers techniques for deploying your Big Data solutions on the cloud Apache Ambari, as well as expert techniques for managing and administering your Hadoop cluster. By the end of this book, you will have all the knowledge you need to build expert Big Data systems.

Modern Brand Management

Magdalena Grębosz-Krawczyk, Dagna Siuda

The main purpose of this monograph is to present the concept of brand and the strategies of brand management, with particular emphasis on the importance of brand elements, brand identity and brand promotion. This monograph has resulted in two important contributions. Froma theoretical standpoint, it has contributed to brand management concept and has provided a better understanding of brand development possibilities especially thanks to the on-line activities implementation. From the substantive standpoint, it has shed light on the brand strategy implementation as well on the attitudes of Polish consumers towards branded products. This information can be useful for managers to understand how to implement different brand strategies and what outcomes can be expected.

Modern C++: Efficient and Scalable Application Development. Leverage the modern features of C++ to overcome difficulties in various stages of application development

Richard Grimes, Marius Bancila

C++ is one of the most widely used programming languages. It is fast, flexible, and used to solve many programming problems.This Learning Path gives you an in-depth and hands-on experience of working with C++, using the latest recipes and understanding most recent developments. You will explore C++ programming constructs by learning about language structures, functions, and classes, which will help you identify the execution flow through code. You will also understand the importance of the C++ standard library as well as memory allocation for writing better and faster programs.Modern C++: Efficient and Scalable Application Development deals with the challenges faced with advanced C++ programming. You will work through advanced topics such as multithreading, networking, concurrency, lambda expressions, and many more recipes.By the end of this Learning Path, you will have all the skills to become a master C++ programmer.This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products:• Beginning C++ Programming by Richard Grimes• Modern C++ Programming Cookbook by Marius Bancila• The Modern C++ Challenge by Marius Bancila

Modern C++ Programming Cookbook. Master C++ core language and standard library features, with over 100 recipes, updated to C++20 - Second Edition

Marius Bancila

C++ has come a long way to be one of the most widely used general-purpose languages that is fast, efficient, and high-performance at its core.The updated second edition of Modern C++ Programming Cookbook addresses the latest features of C++20, such as modules, concepts, coroutines, and the many additions to the standard library, including ranges and text formatting. The book is organized in the form of practical recipes covering a wide range of problems faced by modern developers.The book also delves into the details of all the core concepts in modern C++ programming, such as functions and classes, iterators and algorithms, streams and the file system, threading and concurrency, smart pointers and move semantics, and many others. It goes into the performance aspects of programming in depth, teaching developers how to write fast and lean code with the help of best practices.Furthermore, the book explores useful patterns and delves into the implementation of many idioms, including pimpl, named parameter, and attorney-client, teaching techniques such as avoiding repetition with the factory pattern. There is also a chapter dedicated to unit testing, where you are introduced to three of the most widely used libraries for C++: Boost.Test, Google Test, and Catch2.By the end of the book, you will be able to effectively leverage the features and techniques of C++11/14/17/20 programming to enhance the performance, scalability, and efficiency of your applications.

Modern C++ Programming Cookbook. Master Modern C++ with comprehensive solutions for C++23 and all previous standards - Third Edition

Marius Bancila

The updated third edition of Modern C++ Programming Cookbook addresses the latest features of C++23, such as the stacktrace library, std::expected and std::mdspan classes, the header, formatting library improvements, and updates to the ranges library. It also gets into more C++20 topics not previously covered, such as sync streams and source_location.The book is organized into practical recipes covering a wide range of real-world problems, helping you find the solutions you need quickly. You’ll find coverage of all the core concepts of modern C++ programming and features and techniques from C++11 through to C++23, meaning you’ll stay ahead of the curve by learning to incorporate the newest language and library improvements.Beyond the core concepts and new features, you’ll explore recipes related to performance and best practices, how to implement useful patterns and idioms, like pimpl, named parameter, attorney-client, and the factory pattern, and how to complete unit testing with the widely used C++ libraries: Boost.Test, Google Test, and Catch2.With the comprehensive coverage this C++ programming guide offers, by the end of the book you’ll have everything you need to build performant, scalable, and efficient applications in C++.

Modern C++ Programming Cookbook. Recipes to explore data structure, multithreading, and networking in C++17

Marius Bancila

C++ is one of the most widely used programming languages. Fast, efficient, and flexible, it is used to solve many problems. The latest versions of C++ have seen programmers change the way they code, giving up on the old-fashioned C-style programming and adopting modern C++ instead.Beginning with the modern language features, each recipe addresses a specific problem, with a discussion that explains the solution and offers insight into how it works. You will learn major concepts about the core programming language as well as common tasks faced while building a wide variety of software. You will learn about concepts such as concurrency, performance, meta-programming, lambda expressions, regular expressions, testing, and many more in the form of recipes. These recipes will ensure you can make your applications robust and fast.By the end of the book, you will understand the newer aspects of C++11/14/17 and will be able to overcome tasks that are time-consuming or would break your stride while developing.

Modern CMake for C++. Discover a better approach to building, testing, and packaging your software

Rafał Świdziński

Creating top-notch software is an extremely difficult undertaking. Developers researching the subject have difficulty determining which advice is up to date and which approaches have already been replaced by easier, better practices. At the same time, most online resources offer limited explanation, while also lacking the proper context and structure.This book offers a simpler, more comprehensive, experience as it treats the subject of building C++ solutions holistically. Modern CMake for C++ is an end-to-end guide to the automatization of complex tasks, including building, testing, and packaging. You'll not only learn how to use the CMake language in CMake projects, but also discover what makes them maintainable, elegant, and clean. The book also focuses on the structure of source directories, building targets, and packages. As you progress, you’ll learn how to compile and link executables and libraries, how those processes work, and how to optimize builds in CMake for the best results. You'll understand how to use external dependencies in your project – third-party libraries, testing frameworks, program analysis tools, and documentation generators. Finally, you'll get to grips with exporting, installing, and packaging for internal and external purposes.By the end of this book, you’ll be able to use CMake confidently on a professional level.

Modern CMake for C++. Effortlessly build cutting-edge C++ code and deliver high-quality solutions - Second Edition

Rafał Świdziński, Alexander Kushnir

Modern CMake for C++ isn't just another reference book, or a repackaging of the documentation, but a blueprint to bridging the gap between learning C++ and being able to use it in a professional setting. It's an end-to-end guide to the automation of complex tasks, including building, testing, and packaging software.This second edition is significantly rewritten, restructured and refreshed with latest additions to CMake, such as support of C++20 Modules.In this book, you'll not only learn how to use the CMake language in CMake projects but also discover how to make those projects maintainable, elegant, and clean. As you progress, you'll dive into the structure of source directories, building targets, and packages, all while learning how to compile and link executables and libraries. You'll also gain a deeper understanding of how those processes work and how to optimize builds in CMake for the best results. You'll discover how to use external dependencies in your project – third-party libraries, testing frameworks, program analysis tools, and documentation generators. Finally, you'll gain profi ciency in exporting, installing, and packaging for internal and external purposes.By the end of this book, you'll be able to use CMake confi dently at a professional level.

Modern Computer Architecture and Organization. Learn x86, ARM, and RISC-V architectures and the design of smartphones, PCs, and cloud servers

Jim Ledin

Are you a software developer, systems designer, or computer architecture student looking for a methodical introduction to digital device architectures but overwhelmed by their complexity? This book will help you to learn how modern computer systems work, from the lowest level of transistor switching to the macro view of collaborating multiprocessor servers. You'll gain unique insights into the internal behavior of processors that execute the code developed in high-level languages and enable you to design more efficient and scalable software systems.The book will teach you the fundamentals of computer systems including transistors, logic gates, sequential logic, and instruction operations. You will learn details of modern processor architectures and instruction sets including x86, x64, ARM, and RISC-V. You will see how to implement a RISC-V processor in a low-cost FPGA board and how to write a quantum computing program and run it on an actual quantum computer. By the end of this book, you will have a thorough understanding of modern processor and computer architectures and the future directions these architectures are likely to take.

Modern Computer Architecture and Organization. Learn x86, ARM, and RISC-V architectures and the design of smartphones, PCs, and cloud servers - Second Edition

Jim Ledin, Dave Farley

Are you a software developer, systems designer, or computer architecture student looking for a methodical introduction to digital device architectures, but are overwhelmed by the complexity of modern systems? This step-by-step guide will teach you how modern computer systems work with the help of practical examples and exercises. You’ll gain insights into the internal behavior of processors down to the circuit level and will understand how the hardware executes code developed in high-level languages.This book will teach you the fundamentals of computer systems including transistors, logic gates, sequential logic, and instruction pipelines. You will learn details of modern processor architectures and instruction sets including x86, x64, ARM, and RISC-V. You will see how to implement a RISC-V processor in a low-cost FPGA board and write a quantum computing program and run it on an actual quantum computer.This edition has been updated to cover the architecture and design principles underlying the important domains of cybersecurity, blockchain and bitcoin mining, and self-driving vehicles.By the end of this book, you will have a thorough understanding of modern processors and computer architecture and the future directions these technologies are likely to take.

Modern Computer Vision with PyTorch. A practical roadmap from deep learning fundamentals to advanced applications and Generative AI - Second Edition

V Kishore Ayyadevara, Yeshwanth Reddy

Whether you are a beginner or are looking to progress in your computer vision career, this book guides you through the fundamentals of neural networks (NNs) and PyTorch and how to implement state-of-the-art architectures for real-world tasks.The second edition of Modern Computer Vision with PyTorch is fully updated to explain and provide practical examples of the latest multimodal models, CLIP, and Stable Diffusion.You’ll discover best practices for working with images, tweaking hyperparameters, and moving models into production. As you progress, you'll implement various use cases for facial keypoint recognition, multi-object detection, segmentation, and human pose detection. This book provides a solid foundation in image generation as you explore different GAN architectures. You’ll leverage transformer-based architectures like ViT, TrOCR, BLIP2, and LayoutLM to perform various real-world tasks and build a diffusion model from scratch. Additionally, you’ll utilize foundation models' capabilities to perform zero-shot object detection and image segmentation. Finally, you’ll learn best practices for deploying a model to production.By the end of this deep learning book, you'll confidently leverage modern NN architectures to solve real-world computer vision problems.

Modern Computer Vision with PyTorch. Explore deep learning concepts and implement over 50 real-world image applications

V Kishore Ayyadevara, Yeshwanth Reddy

Deep learning is the driving force behind many recent advances in various computer vision (CV) applications. This book takes a hands-on approach to help you to solve over 50 CV problems using PyTorch1.x on real-world datasets.You’ll start by building a neural network (NN) from scratch using NumPy and PyTorch and discover best practices for tweaking its hyperparameters. You’ll then perform image classification using convolutional neural networks and transfer learning and understand how they work. As you progress, you’ll implement multiple use cases of 2D and 3D multi-object detection, segmentation, human-pose-estimation by learning about the R-CNN family, SSD, YOLO, U-Net architectures, and the Detectron2 platform. The book will also guide you in performing facial expression swapping, generating new faces, and manipulating facial expressions as you explore autoencoders and modern generative adversarial networks. You’ll learn how to combine CV with NLP techniques, such as LSTM and transformer, and RL techniques, such as Deep Q-learning, to implement OCR, image captioning, object detection, and a self-driving car agent. Finally, you'll move your NN model to production on the AWS Cloud.By the end of this book, you’ll be able to leverage modern NN architectures to solve over 50 real-world CV problems confidently.

Modern Cryptography for Cybersecurity Professionals. Learn how you can leverage encryption to better secure your organization's data

Lisa Bock

In today's world, it is important to have confidence in your data storage and transmission strategy. Cryptography can provide you with this confidentiality, integrity, authentication, and non-repudiation. But are you aware of just what exactly is involved in using cryptographic techniques? Modern Cryptography for Cybersecurity Professionals helps you to gain a better understanding of the cryptographic elements necessary to secure your data.The book begins by helping you to understand why we need to secure data and how encryption can provide protection, whether it be in motion or at rest. You'll then delve into symmetric and asymmetric encryption and discover how a hash is used. As you advance, you'll see how the public key infrastructure (PKI) and certificates build trust between parties, so that we can confidently encrypt and exchange data. Finally, you'll explore the practical applications of cryptographic techniques, including passwords, email, and blockchain technology, along with securely transmitting data using a virtual private network (VPN).By the end of this cryptography book, you'll have gained a solid understanding of cryptographic techniques and terms, learned how symmetric and asymmetric encryption and hashed are used, and recognized the importance of key management and the PKI.

Modern Data Architecture on AWS. A Practical Guide for Building Next-Gen Data Platforms on AWS

Behram Irani

Many IT leaders and professionals are adept at extracting data from a particular type of database and deriving value from it. However, designing and implementing an enterprise-wide holistic data platform with purpose-built data services, all seamlessly working in tandem with the least amount of manual intervention, still poses a challenge.This book will help you explore end-to-end solutions to common data, analytics, and AI/ML use cases by leveraging AWS services. The chapters systematically take you through all the building blocks of a modern data platform, including data lakes, data warehouses, data ingestion patterns, data consumption patterns, data governance, and AI/ML patterns. Using real-world use cases, each chapter highlights the features and functionalities of numerous AWS services to enable you to create a scalable, flexible, performant, and cost-effective modern data platform.By the end of this book, you’ll be equipped with all the necessary architectural patterns and be able to apply this knowledge to efficiently build a modern data platform for your organization using AWS services.

Modern Data Architectures with Python. A practical guide to building and deploying data pipelines, data warehouses, and data lakes with Python

Brian Lipp

Modern Data Architectures with Python will teach you how to seamlessly incorporate your machine learning and data science work streams into your open data platforms. You’ll learn how to take your data and create open lakehouses that work with any technology using tried-and-true techniques, including the medallion architecture and Delta Lake.Starting with the fundamentals, this book will help you build pipelines on Databricks, an open data platform, using SQL and Python. You’ll gain an understanding of notebooks and applications written in Python using standard software engineering tools such as git, pre-commit, Jenkins, and Github. Next, you’ll delve into streaming and batch-based data processing using Apache Spark and Confluent Kafka. As you advance, you’ll learn how to deploy your resources using infrastructure as code and how to automate your workflows and code development. Since any data platform's ability to handle and work with AI and ML is a vital component, you’ll also explore the basics of ML and how to work with modern MLOps tooling. Finally, you’ll get hands-on experience with Apache Spark, one of the key data technologies in today’s market.By the end of this book, you’ll have amassed a wealth of practical and theoretical knowledge to build, manage, orchestrate, and architect your data ecosystems.

Modern DevOps Practices. Implement and secure DevOps in the public cloud with cutting-edge tools, tips, tricks, and techniques

Gaurav Agarwal

Containers have entirely changed how developers and end-users see applications as a whole. With this book, you'll learn all about containers, their architecture and benefits, and how to implement them within your development lifecycle.You'll discover how you can transition from the traditional world of virtual machines and adopt modern ways of using DevOps to ship a package of software continuously. Starting with a quick refresher on the core concepts of containers, you'll move on to study the architectural concepts to implement modern ways of application development. You'll cover topics around Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, Terraform, Packer, and other similar tools that will help you to build a base. As you advance, the book covers the core elements of cloud integration (AWS ECS, GKE, and other CaaS services), continuous integration, and continuous delivery (GitHub actions, Jenkins, and Spinnaker) to help you understand the essence of container management and delivery. The later sections of the book will take you through container pipeline security and GitOps (Flux CD and Terraform).By the end of this DevOps book, you'll have learned best practices for automating your development lifecycle and making the most of containers, infrastructure automation, and CaaS, and be ready to develop applications using modern tools and techniques.

Modern DevOps Practices. Implement, secure, and manage applications on the public cloud by leveraging cutting-edge tools - Second Edition

Gaurav Agarwal

DevOps and the cloud have changed how we look at software development and operations like never before, leading to the rapid growth of various DevOps tools, techniques, and practices. This updated edition helps you pick up the right tools by providing you with everything you need to get started with your DevOps journey.The book begins by introducing you to modern cloud-native architecture, and then teaches you about the architectural concepts needed to implement the modern way of application development. The next set of chapters helps you get familiarized with Git, Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, Terraform, Packer, and other similar tools to enable you to build a base. As you advance, you’ll explore the core elements of cloud integration—AWS ECS, GKE, and other CaaS services. The chapters also discuss GitOps, continuous integration, and continuous delivery—GitHub actions, Jenkins, and Argo CD—to help you understand the essence of modern app delivery. Later, you’ll operate your container app in production using a service mesh and apply AI in DevOps. Throughout the book, you’ll discover best practices for automating and managing your development lifecycle, infrastructure, containers, and more.By the end of this DevOps book, you'll be well-equipped to develop and operate applications using modern tools and techniques.

Modern Distributed Tracing in .NET. A practical guide to observability and performance analysis for microservices

Liudmila Molkova, Sergey Kanzhelev

As distributed systems become more complex and dynamic, their observability needs to grow to aid the development of holistic solutions for performance or usage analysis and debugging. Distributed tracing brings structure, correlation, causation, and consistency to your telemetry, thus allowing you to answer arbitrary questions about your system and creating a foundation for observability vendors to build visualizations and analytics.Modern Distributed Tracing in .NET is your comprehensive guide to observability that focuses on tracing and performance analysis using a combination of telemetry signals and diagnostic tools. You'll begin by learning how to instrument your apps automatically as well as manually in a vendor-neutral way. Next, you’ll explore how to produce useful traces and metrics for typical cloud patterns and get insights into your system and investigate functional, configurational, and performance issues. The book is filled with instrumentation examples that help you grasp how to enrich auto-generated telemetry or produce your own to get the level of detail your system needs, along with controlling your costs with sampling, aggregation, and verbosity.By the end of this book, you'll be ready to adopt and leverage tracing and other observability signals and tools and tailor them to your needs as your system evolves.

Modern Frontend Development with Node.js. A compendium for modern JavaScript web development within the Node.js ecosystem

Florian Rappl

Almost a decade after the release of Node.js, the tooling used by frontend developers is fully embracing this cross-platform JavaScript runtime, which is sadly often limited to server-side web development. This is where this Node.js book comes in, showing you what this popular runtime has to offer and how you can unlock its full potential to create frontend-focused web apps.You’ll begin by learning the basics and internals of Node.js, before discovering how to divide your code into modules and packages. Next, you’ll get to grips with the most popular package managers and their uses and find out how to use TypeScript and other JavaScript variants with Node.js. Knowing which tool to use when is crucial, so this book helps you understand all the available state-of-the-art tools in Node.js. You’ll interact with linters such as ESLint and formatters such as Prettier. As you advance, you’ll become well-versed with the Swiss Army Knife for frontend developers – the bundler. You’ll also explore various testing utilities, such as Jest, for code quality verification. Finally, you’ll be able to publish your code in reusable packages with ease.By the end of this web development book, you’ll have gained the knowledge to confidently choose the right code structure for your repositories with all that you’ve learned about monorepos.