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.

Instant jQuery Flot Visual Data Analysis. Visualize and analyze your data with the jQuery Flot plotting library using real-world examples

Brian Peiris

Data visualization and analysis is a crucial skill in many software projects. Flot uses jQuery and HTML5 to add easy and powerful visualization capabilities to any web application. Flot produces beautiful visualizations with a minimal amount of code. It is also highly configurable, extensible, and includes many plugins out of the box.A practical guide to take you through the basics of using Flot to visualize your data; the book describes Flot's functionality in dedicated sections that include code, screenshots, and detailed explanations so that you can learn to produce charts in minutes. As you progress though this book, it will guide you through real-world examples to show you how to use statistical techniques with Flot for interactive data visualization and analysis.Starting with the very basics, you will learn exactly what you need to do to display the simplest chart using Flot. This step-by-step guide takes you through Flot's many features and settings until you can finally master the techniques you'll need to apply Flot to your application's data.You'll learn to create basic point, line, and bar charts and to use Flot's stack, pie, and time plugins to create specialized chart types. Along with learning to display complex data with multiple customizable axes you will learn to make your charts interactive with Flot's crosshair plugin. Finally, this book will guide you through learning statistical techniques via the jStat JavaScript library to analyse data; along with Flot's errorbars and fillbetween plugins to display error margins and data percentiles.Instant jQuery Flot Visual Data Analysis will give you a head start so that you can add data visualization features to your applications with ease.

Learning PowerCLI. Automate your Vmware vSphere environment by learning how to install and use PowerCLI. This book takes a practical tutorial approach that will have you automating your daily routine tasks in no time

Robert van den Nieuwendijk

Instant Team Foundation Server 2012 and Project Server 2010 Integration How-to. Successfully perform and understand how to integrate your Team Foundation Server 2012 and Project Server 2010

Gary P Gauvin

Developers and project managers managing large software development projects often find themselves at odds during the course of a project. This usually ends with the developers feeling they are wasting time sending status updates, and the project managers feeling that they aren't getting all the information they need to satisfy stakeholders. It doesn't have to be that way! Instant Team Foundation Server 2012 and Project Server 2010 Integration How-to, is a practical format that walks you through what you need to know to get two of Microsoft's most popular products for managing team productivity integrated. We boil down the complex parts to deliver just what you need to know to get started today.The book takes you through the planning, setup, and configuration of Team Foundation Server Extensions for Project Server. Step-by-step instructions are provided with enough detail to get you started without burdening you with a ton of background information.Learn the basics of how to manage the integration as well as a few helpful tips on establishing a test environment, and the basics of how to integrate these server-based technologies.You will learn everything you need to know to get started with planning, installing, and managing the integration.

Continuous Testing, Quality, Security, and Feedback. Essential strategies and secure practices for DevOps, DevSecOps, and SRE transformations

Marc Hornbeek, Dan Wakeman

Organizations struggle to integrate and execute continuous testing, quality, security, and feedback practices into their DevOps, DevSecOps, and SRE approaches to achieve successful digital transformations. This book addresses these challenges by embedding these critical practices into your software development lifecycle.Beginning with the foundational concepts, the book progresses to practical applications, helping you understand why these practices are crucial in today’s fast-paced software development landscape. You’ll discover continuous strategies to avoid the common pitfalls and streamline the quality, security, and feedback mechanisms within software development processes. You’ll explore planning, discovery, and benchmarking through systematic engineering approaches, tailored to organizational needs. You’ll learn how to select toolchains, integrating AI/ML for resilience, and implement real-world case studies to achieve operational excellence. You’ll learn how to create strategic roadmaps, aligned with digital transformation goals, and measure outcomes recognized by DORA. You’ll explore emerging trends that are reshaping continuous practices in software development.By the end of this book, you’ll have the knowledge and skills to drive continuous improvement across the software development lifecycle.

Practical Windows Forensics. Leverage the power of digital forensics for Windows systems

Ayman Shaaban, Konstantin Sapronov

Over the last few years, the wave of the cybercrime has risen rapidly. We have witnessed many major attacks on the governmental, military, financial, and media sectors. Tracking all these attacks and crimes requires a deep understanding of operating system operations, how to extract evident data from digital evidence, and the best usage of the digital forensic tools and techniques. Regardless of your level of experience in the field of information security in general, this book will fully introduce you to digital forensics. It will provide you with the knowledge needed to assemble different types of evidence effectively, and walk you through the various stages of the analysis process.We start by discussing the principles of the digital forensics process and move on to show you the approaches that are used to conduct analysis. We will then study various tools to perform live analysis, and go through different techniques to analyze volatile and non-volatile data.

Salesforce.com Customization Handbook. Customize Salesforce to automate your business requirements

Rakesh Gupta, Sagar Pareek

Mastering jBPM6. Design, build, and deploy business process-centric applications using the cutting-edge jBPM technology stack

Simone Fiorini, Arun V Gopalakrishnan

The MySQL Workshop. A practical guide to working with data and managing databases with MySQL

Thomas Pettit, Scott Cosentino

Do you want to learn how to create and maintain databases effectively? Are you looking for simple answers to basic MySQL questions as well as straightforward examples that you can use at work? If so, this workshop is the right choice for you.Designed to build your confidence through hands-on practice, this book uses a simple approach that focuses on the practical, so you can get straight down to business without having to wade through pages and pages of dull, dry theory.As you work through bite-sized exercises and activities, you'll learn how to use different MySQL tools to create a database and manage the data within it. You'll see how to transfer data between a MySQL database and other sources, and use real-world datasets to gain valuable experience of manipulating and gaining insights from data. As you progress, you'll discover how to protect your database by managing user permissions and performing logical backups and restores.If you've already tried to teach yourself SQL, but haven't been able to make the leap from understanding simple queries to working on live projects with a real database management system, The MySQL Workshop will get you on the right track.By the end of this MySQL book, you'll have the knowledge, skills, and confidence to advance your career and tackle your own ambitious projects with MySQL.

Learning Azure DocumentDB. Create outstanding enterprise solutions around DocumentDB using the latest technologies and programming tools with Azure

Riccardo Becker

Learning DocumentDB adopts a practical, step-by-step approach to help you learn the basics of DocumentDB and use your new-found abilities in real-life scenarios and enterprise solutions.We start with the absolute basics, such as setting up a DocumentDB environment, and guide you through managing your databases, and executing simple and complex queries. Next, we explain how to work with DocumentDB using the open REST protocol, and demonstrate how JavaScript works with DocumentDB. We’ll also show you how to authenticate and execute queries. Moving on, you’ll find out how to use DocumentDB from within Node.js to kick-start your Node.js projects. Next, you’ll discover how to increase the performance of your DocumentDB database and fine-tune it. Finally, you’ll get to grips with using DocumentDB in conjunction with other services offered from the Microsoft Azure platform.

Learning Reactive Programming with Java 8. Learn how to use RxJava and its reactive Observables to build fast, concurrent, and powerful applications through detailed examples

Nickolay Tzvetinov

Keycloak - Identity and Access Management for Modern Applications. Harness the power of Keycloak, OpenID Connect, and OAuth 2.0 to secure applications - Second Edition

Stian Thorgersen, Pedro Igor Silva

The 2nd Edition of Keycloak - Identity and Access Management for Modern Applications is an updated, comprehensive introduction to Keycloak and its updates.In this new edition, you will learn how to use the latest distribution of Keycloak. The recent versions of Keycloak are now based on Quarkus, which brings a new and improved user experience and a new admin console with a higher focus on usability. You will see how to leverage Spring Security, instead of the Keycloak Spring adapter, while using the latest distribution of Keycloak. As you progress, you will understand the new Keycloak distribution and explore best practices in using OAuth. Finally, you'll cover general best practices and other information on how to protect your applications.By the end of this new edition, you will have learned how to install and manage the latest version of Keycloak to secure new and existing applications using the newest features.

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.

OpenJDK Cookbook. Over 80 recipes to build and extend your very own version of Java platform using OpenJDK project

Alex Kasko, Alexey Kashchenko, Alexey Mironchenko, Stanislav Kobylyanskiy

Joomla! Search Engine Optimization. Drive people to your site with this supercharged guide to Joomla! and Search Engine Optimization with this book and

Ric Shreves

Joomla! is an award-winning content management system (CMS), which enables you to build websites and powerful online applications. SEO, or Search Engine Optimization, is the process and techniques by which you optmize the content and style of your site in order to induce more people to view it.Joomla! Search Engine Optimization will help you develop and execute an effective search engine optimization strategy for your site. From planning to implementation, the book covers best practices in contemporary SEO.In Joomla! Search Engine Optimization you will learn how to develop a dynamic and productive SEO campaign. Covering both the basics of campaign development as well as the daily work it takes to maintain your SEO competitiveness, this book will show you how to produce a distinct and appropriate strategy for your particular site. In particular you will learn key phrase selection and competitor analysis and the correct groundwork for your dynamic SEO campaign. Joomla! Search Engine Optimization will then show you, by finding the right combination of extensions, how to supercharge your site. You will also be given a guided tour of key SEO services, like Google and Bing Webmaster, in order to implement a progressive and effective link building campaign. You will then learn key expert tips and tricks to enable you to build SEO-effective content which will take your site from invisible to unmissable with little effort.

Elasticsearch Server. From creating your own index structure through to cluster monitoring and troubleshooting, this is the complete guide to implementing the ElasticSearch search engine on your own websites. Packed with real-life examples

Marek Rogozinski, Rafal Kuc