Cloud Observability with Azure Monitor. A practical guide to monitoring your Azure infrastructure and applications using industry best practices

José Ángel Fernández, Manuel Lázaro Ramírez

Cloud observability is complex and costly due to the use of hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructure as well as various Azure tools, hampering IT teams’ ability to monitor and analyze issues. The authors distill their years of experience with Microsoft to share the strategic insights and practical skills needed to optimize performance, ensure reliability, and navigate the dynamic landscape of observability on Azure.You’ll get an in-depth understanding of cloud observability and Azure Monitor basics, before getting to grips with the configuration and optimization of data sources and pipelines for effective monitoring. You’ll learn about advanced data analysis techniques using metrics and the Kusto Query Language (KQL) for your logs, design proactive incident response strategies with automated alerts, and visualize reports via dashboards. Using hands-on examples and best practices, you’ll explore the integration of Azure Monitor with Azure Arc and third-party tools, such as Datadog, Elastic Stack, or Dynatrace. You’ll also implement artificial intelligence for IT Operations (AIOps) and secure monitoring for hybrid and multi-cloud environments, aligned with emerging trends.By the end of this book, you’ll be able to develop robust and cost-optimized observability solutions for monitoring your Azure infrastructure and apps using Azure Monitor.

Cloud Penetration Testing. Learn how to effectively pentest AWS, Azure, and GCP applications

Kim Crawley

With AWS, Azure, and GCP gaining prominence, understanding their unique features, ecosystems, and penetration testing protocols has become an indispensable skill, which is precisely what this pentesting guide for cloud platforms will help you achieve. As you navigate through the chapters, you’ll explore the intricacies of cloud security testing and gain valuable insights into how pentesters evaluate cloud environments effectively.In addition to its coverage of these cloud platforms, the book also guides you through modern methodologies for testing containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes, which are fast becoming staples in the cloud ecosystem. Additionally, it places extended focus on penetration testing AWS, Azure, and GCP through serverless applications and specialized tools. These sections will equip you with the tactics and tools necessary to exploit vulnerabilities specific to serverless architecture, thus providing a more rounded skill set.By the end of this cloud security book, you’ll not only have a comprehensive understanding of the standard approaches to cloud penetration testing but will also be proficient in identifying and mitigating vulnerabilities that are unique to cloud environments.

Cloud Scale Analytics with Azure Data Services. Build modern data warehouses on Microsoft Azure

Patrik Borosch

Azure Data Lake, the modern data warehouse architecture, and related data services on Azure enable organizations to build their own customized analytical platform to fit any analytical requirements in terms of volume, speed, and quality.This book is your guide to learning all the features and capabilities of Azure data services for storing, processing, and analyzing data (structured, unstructured, and semi-structured) of any size. You will explore key techniques for ingesting and storing data and perform batch, streaming, and interactive analytics. The book also shows you how to overcome various challenges and complexities relating to productivity and scaling. Next, you will be able to develop and run massive data workloads to perform different actions. Using a cloud-based big data-modern data warehouse-analytics setup, you will also be able to build secure, scalable data estates for enterprises. Finally, you will not only learn how to develop a data warehouse but also understand how to create enterprise-grade security and auditing big data programs.By the end of this Azure book, you will have learned how to develop a powerful and efficient analytical platform to meet enterprise needs.

Cloud Security Automation. Get to grips with automating your cloud security on AWS and OpenStack

Prashant Priyam

Security issues are still a major concern forall IT organizations. For many enterprises,the move to cloud computing has raisedconcerns for security, but when applicationsare architected with focus on security,cloud platforms can be made just as secureas on-premises platforms. Cloud instancescan be kept secure by employing securityautomation that helps make your data meetyour organization's security policy.This book starts with the basics of whycloud security is important and howautomation can be the most effective wayof controlling cloud security. You willthen delve deeper into the AWS cloudenvironment and its security servicesby dealing with security functions suchas Identity and Access Managementand will also learn how these servicescan be automated. Moving forward,you will come across aspects suchas cloud storage and data security, automatingcloud deployments, and so on. Then,you'll work with OpenStack security modulesand learn how private cloud securityfunctions can be automated for bettertime- and cost-effectiveness. Toward the endof the book, you will gain an understandingof the security compliance requirementsfor your Cloud.By the end of this book, you will havehands-on experience of automating yourcloud security and governance.

Cloud Security Handbook. Find out how to effectively secure cloud environments using AWS, Azure, and GCP

Eyal Estrin

Securing resources in the cloud is challenging, given that each provider has different mechanisms and processes. Cloud Security Handbook helps you to understand how to embed security best practices in each of the infrastructure building blocks that exist in public clouds.This book will enable information security and cloud engineers to recognize the risks involved in public cloud and find out how to implement security controls as they design, build, and maintain environments in the cloud. You'll begin by learning about the shared responsibility model, cloud service models, and cloud deployment models, before getting to grips with the fundamentals of compute, storage, networking, identity management, encryption, and more. Next, you'll explore common threats and discover how to stay in compliance in cloud environments. As you make progress, you'll implement security in small-scale cloud environments through to production-ready large-scale environments, including hybrid clouds and multi-cloud environments. This book not only focuses on cloud services in general, but it also provides actual examples for using AWS, Azure, and GCP built-in services and capabilities.By the end of this cloud security book, you'll have gained a solid understanding of how to implement security in cloud environments effectively.

Cloud Solution Architect's Career Master Plan. Proven techniques and effective tips to help you become a successful solution architect

Rick Weyenberg, Kyle Burns

In the fast-paced tech world where businesses rely ever more on cloud infrastructure, the role of a cloud solution architect serves as the backbone of operations. The Solution Architects Career Masterplan isn’t just informative; it’s an actionable roadmap to thriving in this role, providing the knowledge and strategies necessary to build a successful career in cloud computing.You’ll dive headfirst into mastering the role's core principles, strategically charting your career trajectory, and expanding your network within the cloud community. As you advance to the practical aspects, you’ll explore tailored education options, gain hands-on experience, and prepare to seize strategic opportunities. Finally, you’ll prepare for success by arming yourself with interview strategies, staying updated with evolving cloud technologies, and actively contributing to the cloud community.By the end of this book, you'll be on your path to a rewarding career in cloud architecture with this trusted companion.

Cloudera Administration Handbook. A complete, hands-on guide to building and maintaining large Apache Hadoop clusters using Cloudera Manager and CDH5

Rohit Menon

Cloud-Native Applications in Java. Build microservice-based cloud-native applications that dynamically scale

Ajay Mahajan, Munish Kumar Gupta, Shyam Sundar S

Businesses today are evolving so rapidly that they are resorting to the elasticity of the cloud to provide a platform to build and deploy their highly scalable applications. This means developers now are faced with the challenge of building build applications that are native to the cloud. For this, they need to be aware of the environment, tools, and resources they’re coding against. If you’re a Java developer who wants to build secure, resilient, robust, and scalable applications that are targeted for cloud-based deployment, this is the book for you. It will be your one stop guide to building cloud-native applications in Java Spring that are hosted in On-prem or cloud providers - AWS and AzureThe book begins by explaining the driving factors for cloud adoption and shows you how cloud deployment is different from regular application deployment on a standard data centre. You will learn about design patterns specific to applications running in the cloud and find out how you can build a microservice in Java Spring using REST APIsYou will then take a deep dive into the lifecycle of building, testing, and deploying applications with maximum automation to reduce the deployment cycle time. Gradually, you will move on to configuring the AWS and Azure platforms and working with their APIs to deploy your application. Finally, you’ll take a look at API design concerns and their best practices. You’ll also learn how to migrate an existing monolithic application into distributed cloud native applications.By the end, you will understand how to build and monitor a scalable, resilient, and robust cloud native application that is always available and fault tolerant.

Cloud-Native Development and Migration to Jakarta EE. Transform your legacy Java EE project into a cloud-native application

Ron Veen, David Vlijmincx

Cloud-Native Development and Migration to Jakarta EE will help you unlock the secrets of Jakarta EE's evolution as you explore the migration and modernization of your applications. You’ll discover how to make your code compatible with the latest Jakarta EE version and how to leverage its modern features effectively.First, you’ll navigate the realm of cloud-native development as you demystify containers and get introduced to the Eclipse MicroProfile, a powerful tool in your toolkit. Next, you’ll take the bold step of transitioning your applications from local hardware to the limitless possibilities of the cloud. By following the author’s expert guidance to deploy your Jakarta EE applications on Microsoft Azure, you’ll gain hands-on experience in managing cloud resources.In the final leg of your journey, you’ll explore the world of serverless architecture. You’ll learn to design and run services that are truly serverless, harnessing the potential of the event-driven paradigm for scalability and cost-efficiency.By the end of this book, you’ll have mastered Jakarta EE and become a proficient cloud-native developer. Join us on this exciting journey of transformation and innovation as you pave the way for the future of Jakarta EE and cloud-native development.

Cloud-Native Observability with OpenTelemetry. Learn to gain visibility into systems by combining tracing, metrics, and logging with OpenTelemetry

Alex Boten, Charity Majors

Cloud-Native Observability with OpenTelemetry is a guide to helping you look for answers to questions about your applications. This book teaches you how to produce telemetry from your applications using an open standard to retain control of data. OpenTelemetry provides the tools necessary for you to gain visibility into the performance of your services. It allows you to instrument your application code through vendor-neutral APIs, libraries and tools.By reading Cloud-Native Observability with OpenTelemetry, you’ll learn about the concepts and signals of OpenTelemetry - traces, metrics, and logs. You’ll practice producing telemetry for these signals by configuring and instrumenting a distributed cloud-native application using the OpenTelemetry API. The book also guides you through deploying the collector, as well as telemetry backends necessary to help you understand what to do with the data once it's emitted. You’ll look at various examples of how to identify application performance issues through telemetry. By analyzing telemetry, you’ll also be able to better understand how an observable application can improve the software development life cycle.By the end of this book, you’ll be well-versed with OpenTelemetry, be able to instrument services using the OpenTelemetry API to produce distributed traces, metrics and logs, and more.

CMake Best Practices. Discover proven techniques for creating and maintaining programming projects with CMake

Dominik Berner, Mustafa Kemal Gilor

CMake is a powerful tool used to perform a wide variety of tasks, so finding a good starting point for learning CMake is difficult. This book cuts to the core and covers the most common tasks that can be accomplished with CMake without taking an academic approach. While the CMake documentation is comprehensive, it is often hard to find good examples of how things fit together, especially since there are lots of dirty hacks and obsolete solutions available on the internet. This book focuses on helping you to tie things together and create clean and maintainable projects with CMake.You'll not only get to grips with the basics but also work through real-world examples of structuring large and complex maintainable projects and creating builds that run in any programming environment. You'll understand the steps to integrate and automate various tools for improving the overall software quality, such as testing frameworks, fuzzers, and automatic generation of documentation. And since writing code is only half of the work, the book also guides you in creating installers and packaging and distributing your software. All this is tailored to modern development workflows that make heavy use of CI/CD infrastructure.By the end of this CMake book, you'll be able to set up and maintain complex software projects using CMake in the best way possible.

CMake Best Practices. Upgrade your C++ builds with CMake for maximum efficiency and scalability - Second Edition

Dominik Berner, Mustafa Kemal Gilor

Discover the cutting-edge advancements in CMake with the new edition of CMake Best Practices. This book focuses on real-world applications and techniques to leverage CMake, avoiding outdated hacks and overwhelming documentation.You’ll learn how to use CMake presets for streamlined project configurations and embrace modern package management with Conan 2.0. Covering advanced methods to integrate third-party libraries and optimize cross-platform builds, this updated edition introduces new tools and techniques to enhance software quality, including testing frameworks, fuzzers, and automated documentation generation. Through hands-on examples, you’ll become proficient in structuring complex projects, ensuring that your builds run smoothly across different environments. Whether you’re integrating tools for continuous integration or packaging software for distribution, this book equips you with the skills needed to excel in modern software development.By the end of the book, you’ll have mastered setting up and maintaining robust software projects using CMake to streamline your development workflow and produce high-quality software.

CMake Cookbook. Building, testing, and packaging modular software with modern CMake

Radovan Bast, Roberto Di Remigio

CMake is cross-platform, open-source software for managing the build process in a portable fashion. This book features a collection of recipes and building blocks with tips and techniques for working with CMake, CTest, CPack, and CDash.CMake Cookbook includes real-world examples in the form of recipes that cover different ways to structure, configure, build, and test small- to large-scale code projects. You will learn to use CMake's command-line tools and master modern CMake practices for configuring, building, and testing binaries and libraries. With this book, you will be able to work with external libraries and structure your own projects in a modular and reusable way. You will be well-equipped to generate native build scripts for Linux, MacOS, and Windows, simplify and refactor projects using CMake, and port projects to CMake.

CMS Made Simple 1.6: Beginner's Guide. Create a fully functional and professional website using CMS Made Simple

Sofia Hauschildt, Ted Kulp (USD)

CMS Made Simple is a an open source content management system that allows rapid website development in a fraction of the normal time, avoiding hours of coding by providing modules and 3rd Party add-ons. With this book in hand you will be able to harness the power of this modular and extendable content management system at your fingertips.This guide for CMS Made Simple is based on practical and working solutions allowing you to understand how this powerful and simple application can support you in your daily work. The workshop helps you create engaging, effective, and easy-to-use CMS websites for businesses, clubs, or organizations.This is a step- by-step case study, aimed at helping you build a complete professional website with CMS Made Simple. You can take a ready-to-use template or implement your own custom design, enrich the website with features like a photo gallery, an e-commerce solution with PayPal checkout, and forms of any complexity or popular JQuery effects and finish it off by optimizing it for search engines. The useful HTML and CSS code snippets are optimized and can be easily adapted for your own projects. Chapter by chapter you will put yourself in the role of web designer, developer, administrator, and business manager, thus learning every aspect needed for building rich websites that are very simple to manage.

CMS Made Simple Development Cookbook. Over 70 simple but incredibly effective recipes for extending CMS Made Simple with detailed explanations – useful for beginners and experts alike!

Ted Kulp (USD), Samuel Goldstein

CMS Made Simple has great capabilities “out of the box,” but one of its great strengths is the ease of extending those capabilities. You can add a surprising amount of functionality just by customizing the core modules, but once you learn to write your own tags and modules, your ability to add features is virtually limitless.CMS Made Simple Development Cookbook will show you how to use custom PHP code to extend the power and features of CMS Made Simple, and make it do exactly what you want. This easy to use guide contains clear recipes that introduce the key concepts behind each approach to extending the CMS, while also providing examples of solutions to real-world problems.You will learn the differences between the various kinds of tags and modules in the CMS Made Simple environment, and to which purposes each is best fit. Each technology is then explored in detail with a series of practical recipes and examples.You will not only learn the basics of creating tags and modules, but you will explore the underlying APIs that you will use to solve real-world website problems. You will become proficient with the database and form APIs, so that the code you write is portable and maintainable. You'll learn to localize your code and use templates to add its flexibility. You'll master the safe handling of parameters and the creation of secure code. You’ll be familiar with the CMS Made Simple Developer's Forge, and how you can use it in conjunction with revision control as a community-focused code management system, complete with web-based bug tracking and feature requests. You will learn to code complex interactions between modules, both directly and via the creation and handling of events. You will gain exposure to an array of advanced tips and tricks, along with commentary from the distilled experience of someone who has written dozens of modules. The CMS Made Simple Developer's Cookbook offers an amazing wealth of knowledge in approachable, bite-sized recipes. Whether you're new to the CMS or an old hand, you're sure to find valuable tips and information that will have you creating a richer CMS.

Coaching zwinnych zespołów. Kompendium wiedzy dla ScrumMasterów, Agile Coachów i kierowników projektu w okresie transformacji

Lyssa Adkins

Na czym polega coaching według zasad Agile? Na ciągłym poprawianiu wpływu swoich działań coachingowych, aby inni mogli stawać się świetni. Dzięki temu zespoły mogą tworzyć wspaniałe produkty, a firmy czerpią korzyści z funkcjonowania samodzielnych i odpowiedzialnych zespołów. Być może w efekcie w świecie pełnym możliwości zapanuje kultura innowacyjności i ciągłego doskonalenia się. Właśnie ten imperatyw „ciągłego doskonalenia się” oznacza otwieranie się na coraz to nowsze koncepcje coachingowe i wprowadzanie ich do swojej codziennej pracy z zespołami i pojedynczymi ludźmi. Aby to osiągnąć, każdy coach potrzebuje zmierzyć się z nowymi pomysłami, nawet jeśli część z nich miałaby wymiar prowokacyjny, a tylko niektóre praktyczny. Ta książka jest czymś w rodzaju wyprawy, podczas której poznasz sposoby na osiągnięcie doskonałości w roli Agile Coacha. Zainspiruje Cię do obserwowania swojego zespołu i poszczególnych osób oraz wyciągania wniosków z tych obserwacji, a także przepracowania własnych uprzedzeń i emocji. Dowiesz się, kiedy podejmować decyzje o przekuciu tych obserwacji i refleksji w działania, aby możliwie najlepiej przysłużyć się poprawie obecnego stanu. Nie znajdziesz tu jedynego słusznego przepisu, ale pomoc w odkryciu własnej, niepowtarzalnej ścieżki coacha. Opisane tu koncepcje ułatwią zmianę perspektywy i odkrywanie skutecznych technik, które pomogą w motywowaniu zespołu do uzyskiwania wyższej efektywności. Treści zawarte w tej książce: style przywódcze a predyspozycje Agile Coacha podstawy profesjonalnego coachingu w zwinnym zespole sterowanie konfliktem i konstruktywna niezgoda kształtowanie zdolności zespołu do współdziałania najczęstsze błędy Agile Coachów i sposoby, jak się ich ustrzec Jaki efekt uzyskasz? Niesamowity zespół i spektakularne wyniki!

Cocos2d Cross-Platform Game Development Cookbook. Develop games for iOS and Android using Cocos2d with the aid of over 70 step-by-step recipes - Second Edition

Siddharth Shekar, Raydelto Hernandez

Cocos2d is the world’s leading game development framework for developing iOS games. With the introduction of Swift and Spritebuilder, it has become easier than ever to develop the games of your dreams without much effort. With Cocos2d, you can also deploy the game on Android, thereby maximizing profit and reducing development and porting costs.The book starts off with a detailed look at how to implement sprites and animations into your game to make it livelier. You will then learn to add scenes to the game such as the gameplay scene and options scene and create menus and buttons in these scenes, as well as creating transitions between them. From there on, you will get an understanding of how to program user interactions such as tapping, holding, and swiping. You’ll then add accelerometer inputs and physics to the scene, and make objects respond back to the inputs. A game is practically incomplete without audio being added, so this will be covered next. The next section will include ways to add Artificial Intelligence to enemies in the game, allowing them to patrol, chase, and shoot in a projectile manner. You will then learn to use NSUserDefault to save and load game progress, and create and access files using JSON, Plist, and XML files for custom storage and retrieval of data. Then you will learn to add dynamic lighting to your game and will use industry-wide tools such as Texture Packer, Glyph Designer, Physics Editor, Particle Designer, and Sprite Illuminator to create more visually appealing and performance-optimized games.Towards the end of the book, we dive into Apple’s latest programming language—Swift, highlighting the major differences between Objective C and Swift. The book culminates with taking your existing game developed for iOS and porting it to Android, showing you how to install the Android Xcode plugin as well.

Cocos2d for iPhone 1 Game Development Cookbook. Over 100 recipes for iOS 2D game development using cocos2d

Nathan Burba

Cocos2d for iPhone is a robust but simple-to-use 2D game framework for iPhone. It is easy to use, fast, flexible, free, and Appstore approved. More than 2500 AppStore games already use it, including many best-seller games. Do you want to take your cocos2d game development skills to the next level and become more professional in cocos2d game design?Cocos2d for iPhone 1 Game Development Cookbook will help you reach that next level. You will find over 100 recipes here that explain everything from the drawing of a single sprite to AI pathfinding and advanced networking. Full working examples are emphasized.Starting with the first chapter, Graphics, you will be taken through every major topic of game development. You will find both simple and complex recipes in the book.Each recipe is either a solution to a common problem (playing video files, accelerometer steering) or a cool advanced technique (3D rendering, textured polygons).This cookbook will have you creating professional quality iOS games quickly with its breadth of working example code.

Cocos2d Game Development Blueprints. Design, develop, and create your own successful iOS games using the Cocos2d game engine

Jorge Jordán

Cocos2D Game Development Essentials. For new users - a quickstart guide to bringing your mobile game ideas to life with Cocos2D

Ben Trengrove, Benjamin Trengrove

Cocos2d-x by Example: Beginner's Guide. Unleash your inner creativity with the popular Cocos2d-x framework and learn how to build great cross-platform 2D games with this Cocos2dx tutorial

Roger Engelbert

Cocos2d-x Cookbook. Over 50 hands-on recipes to help you efficiently administer and maintain your games with Cocos2d-x

Akihiro Matsuura

Cocos2d-x Game Development Blueprints. Build a plethora of games for various genres using one of the most powerful game engines, Cocos2d-x

Karan Sequeira

Code with me. Zostań game developerem

Krzysztof Pianta

Projektuj, programuj, promuj! Zostań twórcą gier komputerowych! Nie zaglądaj tu, nie warto! Stracisz tylko czas, na sto procent nie dowiesz się niczego ciekawego, znudzisz się i będziesz rozczarowany, bo... z pewnością nie chcesz dołączyć do prawdziwej elity programistów, zdobyć poszukiwanych na rynku umiejętności, nauczyć się czegoś naprawdę ekscytującego ani uzyskać wpływu na jedną z najdynamiczniej rozwijających się gałęzi przemysłu komputerowego, prawda? Jeśli jednak mocno pragniesz zostać twórcą gier komputerowych, dobrze trafiłeś! Ta książka powstała właśnie z myślą o tych, którzy chcą rozpocząć karierę profesjonalnego game developera. Bezboleśnie wprowadzi Cię w zagadnienia związane z tworzeniem gier sieciowych 2D w językach: HTML5, PHP i MySQL. Nauczysz się projektować oprogramowanie, dbać o jakość rozwiązania, opracowywać niezbędne materiały graficzne i dźwiękowe, a nawet promować i sprzedawać swoje dzieło. Niszczenie terenu jak w grach Worms i Soldat Scrollowanie obrazu (kamera 2D) Pseudooświetlenie (2D lighting) Manipulowanie pikselami (getImageData) i proste efekty, na przykład blur (rozmycie) Różne typy kolizji, perfekcyjna kolizja (pixel perfect collision) System cząsteczek (efekty 2D): efekt gwiezdny (starfield effect), deszcz, śnieg, deszcz 3D, mgła lub dym NW.js (node-webkit) Rysowanie prostych kształtów, obrazków i sprite'ów Własny loader plików Grawitacja Menu obsługiwane za pomocą klawiatury lub myszy Zrób pierwszy krok na drodze do profesjonalnej kariery!