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Christoffer Noring, Dan Wahlin
Learn Model Context Protocol with TypeScript introduces developers, architects, and AI practitioners to the transformative capabilities of Model Context Protocol (MCP), an emerging protocol designed to standardize, distribute, and scale AI-driven applications. Through the lens of a practical project, the book tackles the modern challenges of resource management, client-server interaction, and deployment at scale.Drawing from Christoffer's expertise as a published author and tutor at the University of Oxford, you’ll explore the components of MCP and how they streamline server and client development. After that, you’ll progress from building robust backends and integrating LLMs into intelligent clients to interacting with servers via tools such as Claude for desktop and Visual Studio Code agents. The chapters help you understand the capabilities of hosts, clients, and servers, facilitating better interoperability, easier integration, and clearer communication between different components.The book also covers security best practices and building for the cloud, ensuring that you're ready to deploy your MCP-based apps. Each chapter enables you to develop hands-on skills for building and operating MCP-based agentic apps.*Email sign-up and proof of purchase required
Josué R. Batista, Christopher Papile
As the field of generative AI evolves, so does the demand for intelligent systems that can understand human speech. Navigating the complexities of automatic speech recognition (ASR) technology is a significant challenge for many professionals. This book offers a comprehensive solution that guides you through OpenAI's advanced ASR system.You’ll begin your journey with Whisper's foundational concepts, gradually progressing to its sophisticated functionalities. Next, you’ll explore the transformer model, understand its multilingual capabilities, and grasp training techniques using weak supervision. The book helps you customize Whisper for different contexts and optimize its performance for specific needs. You’ll also focus on the vast potential of Whisper in real-world scenarios, including its transcription services, voice-based search, and the ability to enhance customer engagement. Advanced chapters delve into voice synthesis and diarization while addressing ethical considerations.By the end of this book, you'll have an understanding of ASR technology and have the skills to implement Whisper. Moreover, Python coding examples will equip you to apply ASR technologies in your projects as well as prepare you to tackle challenges and seize opportunities in the rapidly evolving world of voice recognition and processing.
Learn OpenGL. Beginner's guide to 3D rendering and game development with OpenGL and C++
Frahaan Hussain
Learn OpenGL is your one-stop reference guide to get started with OpenGL and C++ for game development. From setting up the development environment to getting started with basics of drawing and shaders, along with concepts such as lighting, model loading, and cube mapping, this book will get you up to speed with the fundamentals.You begin by setting up your development environment to use OpenGL on Windows and macOS. With GLFW and GLEW set up using absolute and relative linking done, you are ready to setup SDL and SFML for both the operating systems.Now that your development environment is set up, you'll learn to draw using simple shaders as well as make the shader more adaptable and reusable. Then we move on to more advanced topics like texturing your objects with images and transforming your objects using translate, rotate and scale.With these concepts covered, we'll move on to topics like lighting to enable you to incorporate amazing dynamic lights in your game world.By the end of the book, you'll learn about model loading, right from setting up ASSIMP to learning about the model class and loading a model in your game environment. We will conclude by understanding cube mapping to bring advance worlds to your game.
Learn OpenShift. Deploy, build, manage, and migrate applications with OpenShift Origin 3.9
Denis Zuev, Artemii Kropachev, Aleksey Usov
Docker containers transform application delivery technologies to make them faster and more reproducible, and to reduce the amount of time wasted on configuration. Managing Docker containers in the multi-node or multi-datacenter environment is a big challenge, which is why container management platforms are required. OpenShift is a new generation of container management platforms built on top of both Docker and Kubernetes. It brings additional functionality to the table, something that is lacking in Kubernetes. This new functionality significantly helps software development teams to bring software development processes to a whole new level.In this book, we’ll start by explaining the container architecture, Docker, and CRI-O overviews. Then, we'll look at container orchestration and Kubernetes. We’ll cover OpenShift installation, and its basic and advanced components. Moving on, we’ll deep dive into concepts such as deploying application OpenShift. You’ll learn how to set up an end-to-end delivery pipeline while working with applications in OpenShift as a developer or DevOps. Finally, you’ll discover how to properly design OpenShift in production environments.This book gives you hands-on experience of designing, building, and operating OpenShift Origin 3.9, as well as building new applications or migrating existing applications to OpenShift.
Aleksey Usov, Aleksandr Varlamov, Denis Zuev
OpenShift is a powerful enterprise Kubernetes platform that simplifies the development, deployment, and management of containerized applications. Learn OpenShift is a comprehensive, hands-on guide designed for architects, DevOps engineers, SREs, and system administrators who want to take OpenShift 4 from architecture to production deployment. Drawing on the experience of seasoned architects who’ve worked on some of the world’s largest OpenShift projects, this book covers both fundamentals and advanced scenarios rarely discussed elsewhere. You’ll explore OpenShift 4 internals, understand its architecture, master cluster installation and upgrades, and gain deep insights into managing applications, configuring security, application builds, observability, and service mesh. With practical examples and real-world guidance, you’ll confidently deploy OpenShift on bare metal, virtualization, and cloud environments, and learn how to extend, maintain, and operate clusters at scale. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to install, secure, and operate OpenShift 4 clusters in enterprise production environments, deploy containerized applications at scale, and troubleshoot real-world issues with confidence.
Rishalin Pillay
Sending information via the internet is not entirely private, as evidenced by the rise in hacking, malware attacks, and security threats. With the help of this book, you'll learn crucial penetration testing techniques to help you evaluate enterprise defenses.You'll start by understanding each stage of pentesting and deploying target virtual machines, including Linux and Windows. Next, the book will guide you through performing intermediate penetration testing in a controlled environment. With the help of practical use cases, you'll also be able to implement your learning in real-world scenarios. By studying everything from setting up your lab, information gathering and password attacks, through to social engineering and post exploitation, you'll be able to successfully overcome security threats. The book will even help you leverage the best tools, such as Kali Linux, Metasploit, Burp Suite, and other open source pentesting tools to perform these techniques. Toward the later chapters, you'll focus on best practices to quickly resolve security threats.By the end of this book, you'll be well versed with various penetration testing techniques so as to be able to tackle security threats effectively
David Zientara
As computer networks become ubiquitous, it has become increasingly important to both secure and optimize our networks. pfSense, an open-source router/firewall, provides an easy, cost-effective way of achieving this – and this book explains how to install and configure pfSense in such a way that even a networking beginner can successfully deploy and use pfSense.This book begins by covering networking fundamentals, deployment scenarios, and hardware sizing guidelines, as well as how to install pfSense. The book then covers configuration of basic services such as DHCP, DNS, and captive portal and VLAN configuration. Careful consideration is given to the core firewall functionality of pfSense, and how to set up firewall rules and traffic shaping. Finally, the book covers the basics of VPNs, multi-WAN setups, routing and bridging, and how to perform diagnostics and troubleshooting on a network.
Luca Ferrari, Enrico Pirozzi
The latest edition of this PostgreSQL- dedicated book guides you from the ground up in using this great and feature-rich relational database. Starting from absolute scratch, you will quickly learn the internal mechanics of PostgreSQL and how to use the SQL language to get the most out of your databases. The book presents ways to configure, manage, secure and exploit the rich set of features that PostgreSQL provides to you and your applications, including its rich and continuously growing ecosystem of tools and extensions. You will get PostgreSQL up and running at lightning speed.You’ll become familiar with SQL for basic and advanced statements, including window functions, triggers, functions and procedures, and more. Managing large tables and databases through advanced techniques like table partitioning will be covered in detail.In this edition you will see also how to use PostgreSQL as a backbone for Artificial Intelligence systems. All the examples are presented through a set of Docker images, pre-built and freely available, to help you get comfortable with trying out and verifying new concepts. Moreover, every chapter includes a Q&A section to validate your new knowledge and important concepts. Thanks to this new edition, you will also learn how to deal with disaster recovery and database optimization.