Azure for Architects. Implementing cloud design, DevOps, IoT, and serverless solutions on your public cloud

Ritesh Modi

Over the years, Azure cloud services has grown quickly, and the number of organizations adopting Azure for their cloud services is also gradually increasing. Leading industry giants are finding that Azure fulfills their extensive cloud requirements.This book will guide you through all the important and tough decision-making aspects involved in architecturing a Azure public cloud for your organization. The book starts with an extensive introduction to all the categories of designs available with Azure. These design patterns focus on different aspects of cloud such as high availability, data management, and so on. Gradually, we move on to various aspects such as building your cloud structure and architecture. It will also include a brief description about different types of services provided by Azure, such as Azure functions and Azure Analytics, which can prove beneficial for an organization. This book will cover each and every aspect and function required to develop a Azure cloud based on your organizational requirements.By the end of this book, you will be in a position to develop a full-fledged Azure cloud.

Azure for Decision Makers. The essential guide to Azure for business leaders

Jack Lee, Jason Milgram, David Rendón

Azure for Decision Makers provides a comprehensive overview of the latest updates in cloud security, hybrid cloud and multi-cloud solutions, and cloud migration in Azure. This book is a must-have introduction to the Microsoft Azure cloud platform, demonstrating the substantial scope of digital transformation and innovation that can be achieved with Azure's capabilities.The first set of chapters will get you up to speed with Microsoft Azure's evolution before showing you how to integrate it into your existing IT infrastructure. Next, you’ll gain practical insights into application migration and modernization, focusing mainly on migration planning, implementation, and best practices. Throughout the book, you’ll get the information you need to spearhead a smooth migration and modernization process, detailing Azure infrastructure as a service (IaaS) deployment, infrastructure management, and key application architectures. The concluding chapters will help you to identify and incorporate best practices for cost optimization and management, Azure DevOps, and Azure automation.By the end of this book, you’ll have learned how to lead end-to-end Azure operations for your organization and effectively cost-optimize your processes ─ from the planning and cloud migration stage through to troubleshooting.

Azure for Developers. Implement rich Azure PaaS ecosystems using containers, serverless services, and storage solutions - Second Edition

Kamil Mrzygłód

Microsoft Azure is currently one of the fastest growing public cloud service providers thanks to its sophisticated set of services for building fault-tolerant and scalable cloud-based applications.This second edition of Azure for Developers will take you on a journey through the various PaaS services available in Azure, including Azure App Service, Azure Functions, and Azure SQL Databases, showing you how to build a complete and reliable system with ease. Throughout the book, you’ll discover ways to enhance your skills when building cloud-based solutions leveraging different SQL/NoSQL databases, serverless and messaging components, containerized solutions, and even search engines such as Azure Cognitive Search. That’s not all!! The book also covers more advanced scenarios such as scalability best practices, serving static content with Azure CDN, and distributing loads with Azure Traffic Manager, Azure Application Gateway, and Azure Front Door.By the end of this Azure book, you’ll be able to build modern applications on the Azure cloud using the most popular and promising technologies to make your solutions reliable, stable, and efficient.

Azure Integration Guide for Business. Master effective architecture strategies for business innovation

Joshua Garverick, Jack Lee, Mélony Qin, Trevoir Williams

Azure Integration Guide for Business is essential for decision makers planning to transform their business with Microsoft Azure. The Microsoft Azure cloud platform can improve the availability, scalability, and cost-efficiency of any business.The guidance in this book will help decision makers gain valuable insights into proactively managing their applications and infrastructure. You'll learn to apply best practices in Azure Virtual Network and Azure Storage design, ensuring an efficient and secure cloud infrastructure. You'll also discover how to automate Azure through Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and leverage various Azure services to support OLTP applications. Next, you’ll explore how to implement Azure offerings for event-driven architectural solutions and serverless applications. Additionally, you’ll gain in-depth knowledge on how to develop an automated, secure, and scalable solutions. Core elements of the Azure ecosystem will be discussed in the final chapters of the book, such as big data solutions, cost governance, and best practices to help you optimize your business.By the end of this book, you’ll understand what a well-architected Azure solution looks like and how to lead your organization toward a tailored Azure solution that meets your business needs.

Azure IoT Development Cookbook. Develop and manage robust IoT solutions

Yatish Patil

Microsoft’s end-to-end IoT platform is the most complete IoT offering, empowering enterprises to build and realize value from IoT solutions efficiently. It is important to develop robust and reliable solutions for your organization to leverage IoT services.This book focuses on how to start building custom solutions using the IoT hub or the preconfigured solution of Azure IoT suite. As a developer, you will be taught how to connect multiple devices to the Azure IoT hub, develop, manage the IoT hub service and integrate the hub with cloud. We will be covering REST APIs along with HTTP, MQTT and AMQP protocols. It also helps you learn Pre-Configured IoT Suite solution. Moving ahead we will be covering topics like:-Process device-to-cloud messages and cloud-to-device messages using .Net-Direct methods and device management-Query Language, Azure IoT SDK for .Net-Creating and managing, Securing IoT hub, IoT Suite and many more. We will be using windows 10 IoT core, Visual Studio, universal Windows platform. At the end, we will take you through IoT analytics and provide a demo of connecting real device with Azure IoT.

Azure Machine Learning Engineering. Deploy, fine-tune, and optimize ML models using Microsoft Azure

Sina Fakhraee, Balamurugan Balakreshnan, Megan Masanz

Data scientists working on productionizing machine learning (ML) workloads face a breadth of challenges at every step owing to the countless factors involved in getting ML models deployed and running. This book offers solutions to common issues, detailed explanations of essential concepts, and step-by-step instructions to productionize ML workloads using the Azure Machine Learning service. You’ll see how data scientists and ML engineers working with Microsoft Azure can train and deploy ML models at scale by putting their knowledge to work with this practical guide.Throughout the book, you’ll learn how to train, register, and productionize ML models by making use of the power of the Azure Machine Learning service. You’ll get to grips with scoring models in real time and batch, explaining models to earn business trust, mitigating model bias, and developing solutions using an MLOps framework.By the end of this Azure Machine Learning book, you’ll be ready to build and deploy end-to-end ML solutions into a production system using the Azure Machine Learning service for real-time scenarios.

Azure Networking Cookbook. Practical recipes for secure network infrastructure, global application delivery, and accessible connectivity in Azure - Second Edition

Mustafa Toroman

Azure's networking services enable organizations to manage their networks effectively. With the Azure Networking Cookbook, you’ll see how Azure paves the way for an enterprise to achieve reliable performance and secure connectivity.This updated second edition will take you through the latest networking features in Azure. The book starts with an introduction to Azure networking, covering basics such as creating Azure virtual networks, designing address spaces, and creating subnets. You’ll create and manage network security groups, application security groups, and IP addresses in Azure using easy-to-follow recipes. As you progress through the book, you’ll explore various aspects such as DNS and routing, load balancers, Traffic Manager, and site-to-site, point-to-site, and VNet-to-VNet connections. This cookbook covers all the functions crucial to understanding cloud networking practices and being able to plan, implement, and secure your network infrastructure with Azure. You’ll not only upscale your current environment but also get well-versed with monitoring, diagnosing, and ensuring secure connectivity. The book will help you grasp best practices as you learn how to create a robust environment.By the end of this Azure cookbook, you’ll have gained hands-on experience developing cost-effective solutions that can facilitate efficient connectivity in your organization.

Azure Networking Cookbook. Practical recipes to manage network traffic in Azure, optimize performance, and secure Azure resources

Mustafa Toroman

Microsoft provides organizations with an effective way of managing their network with Azure's networking services. No matter the size of your organization, Azure provides a way to highly reliable performance and secure connectivity with its networking services. The book starts with an introduction to the Azure networking like creating Azure virtual networks, designing address spaces and subnets. Then you will learn to create and manage network security groups, application security groups, and IP addresses in Azure. Gradually, we move on to various aspects like S2S, P2S, and Vnet2Vnet connections, DNS and routing, load balancers and traffic manager. This book will cover every aspect and function required to deliver practical recipes to help readers learn from basic cloud networking practices to planning, implementing, and securing their infrastructure network with Azure. Readers will not only be able to upscale their current environment but will also learn to monitor, diagnose, and ensure secure connectivity. After learning to deliver a robust environment readers will also gain meaningful insights from recipes on best practices.By the end of this book, readers will gain hands-on experience in providing cost-effective solutions that benefit organizations.

Azure OpenAI Essentials. A practical guide to unlocking generative AI-powered innovation with Azure OpenAI

Amit Mukherjee, Adithya Saladi, Marco Casalaina

Find out what makes Azure OpenAI a robust platform for building AI-driven solutions that can transform how businesses operate. Written by seasoned experts from Microsoft, this book will guide you in understanding Azure OpenAI from fundamentals through to advanced concepts and best practices.The book begins with an introduction to large language models (LLMs) and the Azure OpenAI Service, detailing how to access, use, and optimize its models. You'll learn how to design and implement AI-driven solutions, such as question-answering systems, contact center analytics, and GPT-powered search applications. Additionally, the chapters walk you through advanced concepts, including embeddings, fine-tuning models, prompt engineering, and building custom AI applications using LangChain and Semantic Kernel. You'll explore real-world use cases such as QnA systems, document summarizers, and SQLGPT for database querying, as well as gain insights into securing and operationalizing these solutions in enterprises.By the end of this book, you'll be ready to design, develop, and deploy scalable AI solutions, ensuring business success through intelligent automation and data-driven insights.

Azure PowerShell Quick Start Guide. Deploy and manage Azure virtual machines with ease

Thomas Mitchell

As an IT professional, it is important to keep up with cloud technologies and learn to manage those technologies. PowerShell is a critical tool that must be learned in order to effectively and more easily manage many Azure resources. This book is designed to teach you to leverage PowerShell to enable you to perform many day-to-day tasks in Microsoft Azure. Taking you through the basic tasks of installing Azure PowerShell and connecting to Azure, you will learn to properly connect to an Azure tenant with PowerShell. Next, you will dive into tasks such as deploying virtual machines with PowerShell, resizing them, and managing their power states with PowerShell. Then, you will learn how to complete more complex Azure tasks with PowerShell, such as deploying virtual machines from custom images, creating images from existing virtual machines, and creating and managing of data disks. Later, you will learn how to snapshot virtual machines, how to encrypt virtual machines, and how to leverage load balancers to ensure high availability with PowerShell.By the end of this book, you will have developed dozens of PowerShell skills that are invaluable in the deployment and management of Azure virtual machines.

Azure Resource Manager Templates Quick Start Guide. Create, deploy, and manage Azure resources with ARM templates using best practices

Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates are declarations of Azure resources in the JSON format to provision and maintain them using infrastructure as code. This book gives practical solutions and examples for provisioning and managing various Azure services using ARM templates.The book starts with an understanding of infrastructure as code, a refresher on JSON, and then moves on to explain the fundamental concepts of ARM templates. Important concepts like iteration, conditional evaluation, security, usage of expressions, and functions will be covered in detail. You will use linked and nested templates to create modular ARM templates. You will see how to create multiple instances of the same resources, how to nest and link templates, and how to establish dependencies between them. You will also learn about implementing design patterns, secure template design, the unit testing of ARM templates, and adopting best practices.By the end of this book, you will understand the entire life cycle of ARM templates and their testing, and be able to author them for complex deployments.

Azure Security Cookbook. Practical recipes for securing Azure resources and operations

Steve Miles

With evolving threats, securing your cloud workloads and resources is of utmost importance. Azure Security Cookbook is your comprehensive guide to understanding specific problems related to Azure security and finding the solutions to these problems.This book starts by introducing you to recipes on securing and protecting Azure Active Directory (AD) identities. After learning how to secure and protect Azure networks, you’ll explore ways of securing Azure remote access and securing Azure virtual machines, Azure databases, and Azure storage. As you advance, you’ll also discover how to secure and protect Azure environments using the Azure Advisor recommendations engine and utilize the Microsoft Defender for Cloud and Microsoft Sentinel tools. Finally, you’ll be able to implement traffic analytics; visualize traffic; and identify cyber threats as well as suspicious and malicious activity.By the end of this Azure security book, you will have an arsenal of solutions that will help you secure your Azure workload and resources.

Azure Serverless Computing Cookbook. Build and monitor Azure applications hosted on serverless architecture using Azure Functions - Second Edition

Praveen Kumar Sreeram, Jason Marston

Microsoft provides a solution for easily running small segments of code in the cloud with Azure Functions. The second edition of Azure Serverless Computing Cookbook starts with intermediate-level recipes on serverless computing along with some use cases demonstrating the benefits and key features of Azure Functions. You’ll explore the core aspects of Azure Functions, such as the services it provides, how you can develop and write Azure Functions, and how to monitor and troubleshoot them.As you make your way through the chapters, you’ll get practical recipes on integrating DevOps with Azure Functions, and providing continuous integration and continuous deployment with Azure DevOps. This book also provides hands-on, step-by-step tutorials based on real-world serverless use cases to guide you through configuring and setting up your serverless environments with ease. You will also learn how to build solutions for complex, real-world, workflow-based scenarios quickly and with minimal code using Durable Functions. In the concluding chapters, you will ensure enterprise-level security within your serverless environment. The most common tips and tricks that you need to be aware of when working with Azure Functions on production environments will also be covered in this book.By the end of this book, you will have all the skills required for working with serverless code architecture, providing continuous delivery to your users.

Azure Serverless Computing Cookbook. Build and monitor Azure applications hosted on serverless architecture using Azure functions - Third Edition

Praveen Kumar Sreeram

This third edition of Azure Serverless Computing Cookbook guides you through the development of a basic back-end web API that performs simple operations, helping you understand how to persist data in Azure Storage services. You'll cover the integration of Azure Functions with other cloud services, such as notifications (SendGrid and Twilio), Cognitive Services (computer vision), and Logic Apps, to build simple workflow-based applications.With the help of this book, you'll be able to leverage Visual Studio tools to develop, build, test, and deploy Azure functions quickly. It also covers a variety of tools and methods for testing the functionality of Azure functions locally in the developer's workstation and in the cloud environment. Once you're familiar with the core features, you'll explore advanced concepts such as durable functions, starting with a hello world example, and learn about the scalable bulk upload use case, which uses durable function patterns, function chaining, and fan-out/fan-in.By the end of this Azure book, you'll have gained the knowledge and practical experience needed to be able to create and deploy Azure applications on serverless architectures efficiently.

Azure Serverless Computing Cookbook. Build applications hosted on serverless architecture using Azure Functions

Praveen Kumar Sreeram

Microsoft provides a solution to easily run small segment of code in the Cloud with Azure Functions. Azure Functions provides solutions for processing data, integrating systems, and building simple APIs and microservices.The book starts with intermediate-level recipes on serverless computing along with some use cases on benefits and key features of Azure Functions. Then, we’ll deep dive into the core aspects of Azure Functions such as the services it provides, how you can develop and write Azure functions, and how to monitor and troubleshoot them. Moving on, you’ll get practical recipes on integrating DevOps with Azure functions, and providing continuous integration and continous deployment with Visual Studio Team Services. It also provides hands-on steps and tutorials based on real-world serverless use cases, to guide you through configuring and setting up your serverless environments with ease. Finally, you’ll see how to manage Azure functions, providing enterprise-level security and compliance to your serverless code architecture. By the end of this book, you will have all the skills required to work with serverless code architecture, providing continuous delivery to your users.

Azure Stack Hub Demystified. Building hybrid cloud, IaaS, and PaaS solutions

Richard Young

Azure Stack Hub is the on-premise offering from Microsoft, which provides Azure Cloud services within a customer's own data center. It provides consistent processes between on-site and the cloud, allowing developers to test locally and deploy to the cloud in exactly the same manner. Azure Stack Hub Demystified provides complete coverage of deploying, configuring, administrating, and running Microsoft Azure Stack Hub efficiently.Firstly, you will learn how to deploy Azure Stack Hub within an organization. As you progress, you'll understand configuration and the different services provided by the platform. The book also focuses on the underlying architecture and connectivity options for the modern data center. Later, you will understand various approaches to DevOps and their implementation, and learn key topics for the AZ-600 exam.By the end of this Azure book, you will have a thorough understanding of Azure Stack Hub and the services that are provided by the platform, along with the confidence and information you need to be able to pass the AZ-600 exam.

Azure Strategy and Implementation Guide. The essential handbook to cloud transformation with Azure - Fourth Edition

Jack Lee, Greg Leonardo, Jason Milgram, Dave Rendón

Microsoft Azure is a powerful cloud computing platform that offers a multitude of services and capabilities for organizations of any size moving to a cloud strategy.This fourth edition comes with the latest updates on cloud security fundamentals, hybrid cloud, cloud migration, Microsoft Azure Active Directory, and Windows Virtual Desktop. It encapsulates the entire spectrum of measures involved in Azure deployment that includes understanding Azure fundamentals, choosing a suitable cloud architecture, building on design principles, becoming familiar with Azure DevOps, and learning best practices for optimization and management.The book begins by introducing you to the Azure cloud platform and demonstrating the substantial scope of digital transformation and innovation that can be achieved with Azure's capabilities. The guide also acquaints you with practical insights into application modernization, Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) deployment, infrastructure management, key application architectures, best practices of Azure DevOps, and Azure automation.By the end of this book, you will have acquired the skills required to drive Azure operations from the planning and cloud migration stage to cost management and troubleshooting.

Azure Strategy and Implementation Guide. Up-to-date information for organizations new to Azure - Third Edition

Peter De Tender, Greg Leonardo, Jason Milgram

Microsoft Azure is a powerful cloud computing platform that offers a multitude of services and capabilities for organizations of any size moving to a cloud strategy.Azure Strategy and Implementation Guide Third Edition encapsulates the entire spectrum of measures involved in Azure deployment that includes understanding Azure fundamentals, choosing a suitable cloud architecture, building on design principles, becoming familiar with Azure DevOps, and learning best practices for optimization and management.The book begins by introducing you to the Azure cloud platform and demonstrating the substantial scope of digital transformation and innovation that can be achieved by leveraging Azure’s capabilities. The guide further acquaints you with practical insights on application modernization, Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) deployment, infrastructure management, key application architectures, best practices of Azure DevOps, and Azure automation.By the end of this book, you will be proficient in driving Azure operations right from the planning and cloud migration stage to cost management and troubleshooting.

Azure Synapse Analytics Cookbook. Implement a limitless analytical platform using effective recipes for Azure Synapse

Gaurav Agarwal, Meenakshi Muralidharan, Dr Rohini Srivathsa

As data warehouse management becomes increasingly integral to successful organizations, choosing and running the right solution is more important than ever. Microsoft Azure Synapse is an enterprise-grade, cloud-based data warehousing platform, and this book holds the key to using Synapse to its full potential. If you want the skills and confidence to create a robust enterprise analytical platform, this cookbook is a great place to start.You'll learn and execute enterprise-level deployments on medium-to-large data platforms. Using the step-by-step recipes and accompanying theory covered in this book, you'll understand how to integrate various services with Synapse to make it a robust solution for all your data needs. Whether you're new to Azure Synapse or just getting started, you'll find the instructions you need to solve any problem you may face, including using Azure services for data visualization as well as for artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) solutions.By the end of this Azure book, you'll have the skills you need to implement an enterprise-grade analytical platform, enabling your organization to explore and manage heterogeneous data workloads and employ various data integration services to solve real-time industry problems.

Azyl dla pogubionych serc

Anna Wojtkowska-Witala

Przejmujące dzieje rodziny na tle burzliwych czasów wojny Klara rezygnuje z pracy, sprzedaje mieszkanie i kupuje dom, który okazuje się miejscem szczególnym. Pisze również historię rodziny ze strony ojca babci Moniki i jej rodzeństwa. Lena po rozwodzie postanawia nie wiązać się już z żadnym mężczyzną. Jednak los ma wobec niej inne plany. Wiktor wyjeżdża na Madagaskar, gdzie chce pomagać innym. Niespodziewany wypadek sprawia, że musi wrócić do Polski. Co łączy tę trójkę? Jak życie zaskoczyło Klarę, Lenę i Wiktora, weryfikując ich plany? Losy wielu pokoleń zebrane klamrą subtelnej narracji. Z typową dla autorki wrażliwością poznajemy historię rodziny sięgającą wojennej zawieruchy. Uświadamiamy sobie, że żaden człowiek nie żyje w oderwaniu od innych. Wszyscy jesteśmy sumą dobrych i złych uczynków naszych przodków. Ciąży na nas odpowiedzialność nie tylko za własny los, ale i za tych, którzy przyjdą po nas. Wzruszająca opowieść o poszukiwaniu własnych korzeni. Zatrzymuje koło czasu i pozwala upamiętnić wspomnienia. Żaneta Pawlik, autorka książek: Za zasłoną milczenia, Światło po zmierzchu, Tamarynt. Marząc o lepszym jutrze oraz Mowy nie ma!

Azyl dla serc

Urszula Gajdowska

Weronika - ambitna weterynarz z wielkiego miasta, wraca do rodzinnego majątku Garlickich na prowincji po tym, jak jej życie rozpada się na kawałki... Jednak życie na prowincji okazuje się trudniejsze, niż przypuszczała. Zmagając się z uprzedzeniami mieszkańców, musi udowodnić, że potrafi nie tylko zrozumieć, ale i pomóc ich zwierzętom. Na miejscu spotyka dawnego znajomego Eryka Kolta, tajemniczego weterana wojennego, który prowadzi miejscowe schronisko dla zwierząt. Ich początkowa niechęć przeradza się w burzliwą relację pełną napięć, wzajemnych oskarżeń i zaskakujących momentów zrozumienia. Jednak sielankę psuje niespodziewany powrót Daniela, byłego narzeczonego, który nie cofnie się przed niczym, by odzyskać Weronikę - zwłaszcza gdy dowiaduje się, że jej rodzina ma wpływy polityczne. W tle tej emocjonującej opowieści o rodzącej się miłości wysnutej wśród krajobrazów Podlasia, rozgrywa się również walka o zaufanie lokalnej społeczności, odkrywanie rodzinnych tajemnic i próba przezwyciężenia demonów przeszłości. Czy Weronika znajdzie swoje miejsce w świecie, który kiedyś porzuciła? Czy Eryk odważy się otworzyć serce na nowo? I czy wspólnie zdołają odnaleźć szczęście w prostocie życia na wsi?

Azyl. Zapiski stalkera

Tomasz Ilnicki

Wybuch reaktora elektrowni atomowej w Czarnobylu to jedno z najbardziej dramatycznych wydarzeń lat osiemdziesiątych ubiegłego wieku. Promieniowanie, niepewność, panika. Kilkadziesiąt sekund wystarczyło, by życie tysięcy ludzi legło w gruzach, a miliony ogarnął zwierzęcy strach o przyszłość. Co dziś zostało po tamtych emocjach? I po tamtym miejscu? Obszar, z którego po katastrofie ewakuowano zagrożoną skażeniem ludność, nazywany jest Strefą. Jest niedostępny, ale nie aż tak, by nie dało się do niego dotrzeć. A kto zrobi to raz, chce tu wracać. Strefa wciąga, oferuje niesamowite doznania, daje wolność, ale w zamian nie pozwala przestać o sobie myśleć. Tomasz Ilnicki czarnobylską strefę wykluczenia odwiedził sześciokrotnie. Opowiadając o tym, zabiera nas w podróż w przeszłość i przyszłość równocześnie. Jak w grze komputerowej prowadzi nas przez kolejne lokacje: szerokie aleje Prypeci, miasta-widma, w którym natura zwyciężyła cywilizację, cmentarzysko statków, przerażający pustką oddział położniczy szpitala. Razem z nim przebijamy czołówką mroki korytarzy w podziemnym laboratorium, by za chwilę spoglądać na ten fascynujący świat ze szczytu dźwigu. Szczera, autentyczna opowieść o pasji, poszukiwaniu wolności i cenie, jaką za to trzeba zapłacić.

Azyle, nisze i enklawy, czyli katalog małych utopii

Jakub Szczęsny

Czy da się żyć w najdłużej istniejącej komunie na świecie? Jak Mussolini osuszał mokradła, budując wsie idealne? Co trzeba zrobić, by skutecznie przekształcić współczesne slumsy w osiedla - na przykładzie Quinta Monroy w Peru i Aranyi w hinduskim Ahmadabadzie? I kim są queerowe Radical Faeries, a kim brazylijscy Robin Hoodowie (i Robin Hoodki)? Nowa książka Jakuba Szczęsnego - autora Witaj w świecie bez architektów - to subiektywny katalog małych utopii, projektów i przykładów tego, jak w różnych miejscach i epokach, na wiele sposobów, ludzie budowali wokół ważnych dla nich tematów wciąż nowe wizje przyszłości. Autor przekonuje, że idee niejednokrotnie uznawane za utopijne udawało się z sukcesem wprowadzać w życie, choć często w innej formie i skali, niż to było zakładane. Architektura odgrywa tu ważną rolę, ale sam autor występuje w roli znacznie wykraczającej poza zawód architekta. Analizuje, wspomina, relacjonuje swoje doświadczenia, a przede wszystkim daje nadzieję i "przewodnik po dobrych praktykach" na lepsze jutro. "Architektura jako medium neutralne ideologicznie lub politycznie stanowi witruwiański ideał, ale w praktyce prawie nigdy nie udaje się projektować i budować w oderwaniu od osobistej lub grupowej optyki i wpływu takiego czy innego światopoglądu. Zazwyczaj więc architektura jest formą ucieleśnienia przekonań co do tego, jak należy żyć w bliższej lub dalszej przyszłości". Autor tą książką i swoją pracą edukatora otwiera przed nami nieprzebrane pokłady wiary w człowieka i jego pomysły i robi to w reporterski, zachwycający sposób. ~ Magda Mołek To opowieść o kilkudziesięciu projektach, które szalone, nieracjonalne, dziwne, były przede wszystkim emanacją ludzkiej siły przetrwania, wielkiego poczucia wspólnoty i wiary, że wciąż umiemy budować lepsze światy. ~ Anna Cymer Katalog utopii w architekturze opisanych ze swadą i poczuciem humoru. ~ Tomasz Fudala Jakub Szczęsny jest architektem, projektantem najwęższego domu świata (Domu Kereta, w kolekcji nowojorskiego Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej), licznych instalacji w przestrzeniach publicznych i serii prefabrykowanych domów Simple House i FreeDOM. Studiował architekturę w Warszawie, Paryżu i Barcelonie, pracował w branży reklamowej i w grupie projektowej Centrala. Od 2016 roku prowadzi własną pracownię SZCZ w Warszawie. Uczy na Wydziale Architektury Politechniki Warszawskiej i w School of Form. Prowadzi popularyzatorskie programy telewizyjne na temat architektury i projektowania wnętrz. Publikuje felietony w pismach "Architektura i Biznes" i "Polityce Salon". Dyrektor artystyczny firmy Paged Meble.

Azymut na AI. Jak obrać najlepszy kierunek?

Chris Badura

Rewolucja już tu jest Decyzja, by napisać tę książkę, wzięła się z przekonania jej autora, że w sercu każdej technologii powinien się znajdować człowiek: jego potrzeby, emocje i marzenia. Drugim powodem było pragnienie nakreślenia ogromu perspektyw, jakie otwiera przed nami sztuczna inteligencja. I nie chodzi tu tylko o możliwości techniczne. Także o to, że AI zaprasza ludzi do świata, w którym maszyny rozumieją ich lepiej niż kiedykolwiek przedtem. Rewolucja AI właśnie się rozpoczyna, dobrze jest się do niej zawczasu przygotować - zarówno mentalnie, jak i zawodowo. Zacznij czytać i przekonaj się, w jaki sposób sztuczna inteligencja kształtuje teraźniejszość i przyszłość w różnych aspektach życia: od rewolucyjnych zmian w edukacji, poprzez przełomowe zastosowania w medycynie, aż po wyjątkowe innowacje w sztuce i designie. Zrozum, jak działa sztuczna inteligencja Dowiedz się, w jakich dziedzinach życia wspomaga nas już dziś Naucz się z nią komunikować Poznaj zawody, w których współpraca z AI będzie wkrótce odgrywała kluczową rolę Zobacz, jak za przyczyną sztucznej inteligencji zmieni się świat