Publisher: Packt Publishing
Founded in 2004 in Birmingham, UK, Packt's mission is to help the world put software to work in new ways, through the delivery of effective learning and information services to IT professionals. Working towards that vision, we have published over 6,500 books and videos so far, providing IT professionals with the actionable knowledge they need to get the job done - whether that's specific learning on an emerging technology or optimizing key skills in more established tools. As part of our mission, we have also awarded over $1,000,000 through our Open Source Project Royalty scheme, helping numerous projects become household names along the way.
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Oracle E-Business Suite R12 Integration and OA Framework Development and Extension Cookbook. A practical step-by-step guide to develop end-to-end extensions to Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12, with detailed illustrations and explanations

Andy Penver

Oracle's suite of applications is used by many major businesses and public sector organizations throughout the world. Oracle E-Business Suite is the most comprehensive suite of integrated, global business applications that enable organizations to make better decisions, reduce costs, and increase performance. The book will show you how to build different types of extensions with different toolsets. It will take you from start to finish with fully working examples.This book will show readers a wide variety of step-by-step examples of how to extend Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 in a number of areas. The book focuses on OA Framework personalization and development, WebADI, and BI Publisher. It will take readers through the process of how to get started and what tools are needed. It will explain how to develop working examples and how to deploy them within Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12. Learn how to extend Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) Release 12, using detailed examples to work through how various components are configured and how we can extend standard functionality. The book focuses on OA Framework personalization and development, desktop integration (formerly WebADI), and BI Publisher and each chapter will introduce the topic before going through working examples from start to finish. There are plenty of detailed illustrations throughout each chapter giving clear instructions of what we are doing and why. Each topic will develop a solution that will utilize common core components of a subject area. It focuses on starting an extension right from the beginning to deploying it within E-Business Suite. At the end of each chapter the reader will have a good understanding of what they need to do for each area to take away and start using it in practice. Each chapter will detail how to build an extension in the supported manner and also comes with complete, fully tested code and scripts that can be downloaded.

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Advanced TypeScript 3 Programming Projects. Build 9 different apps with TypeScript 3 and JavaScript frameworks such as Angular, React, and Vue

Peter O'Hanlon

With the demand for ever more complex websites, the need to write robust, standard-compliant JavaScript has never been greater. TypeScript is modern JavaScript with the support of a first-class type system, which makes it simpler to write complex web systems. With this book, you’ll explore core concepts and learn by building a series of websites and TypeScript apps.You’ll start with an introduction to TypeScript features that are often overlooked in other books, before moving on to creating a simple markdown parser. You’ll then explore React and get up to speed with creating a client-side contacts manager. Next, the book will help you discover the Angular framework and use the MEAN stack to create a photo gallery. Later sections will assist you in creating a GraphQL Angular Todo app and then writing a Socket.IO chatroom. The book will also lead you through developing your final Angular project which is a mapping app. As you progress, you’ll gain insights into React with Docker and microservices. You’ll even focus on how to build an image classification program with machine learning using TensorFlow. Finally, you’ll learn to combine TypeScript and C# to create an ASP.NET Core-based music library app.By the end of this book, you’ll be able to confidently use TypeScript 3.0 and different JavaScript frameworks to build high-quality apps.

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Developing High-Frequency Trading Systems. Learn how to implement high-frequency trading from scratch with C++ or Java basics

Sebastien Donadio, Sourav Ghosh, Romain Rossier

The world of trading markets is complex, but it can be made easier with technology. Sure, you know how to code, but where do you start? What programming language do you use? How do you solve the problem of latency? This book answers all these questions. It will help you navigate the world of algorithmic trading and show you how to build a high-frequency trading (HFT) system from complex technological components, supported by accurate data.Starting off with an introduction to HFT, exchanges, and the critical components of a trading system, this book quickly moves on to the nitty-gritty of optimizing hardware and your operating system for low-latency trading, such as bypassing the kernel, memory allocation, and the danger of context switching. Monitoring your system’s performance is vital, so you’ll also focus on logging and statistics. As you move beyond the traditional HFT programming languages, such as C++ and Java, you’ll learn how to use Python to achieve high levels of performance. And what book on trading is complete without diving into cryptocurrency? This guide delivers on that front as well, teaching how to perform high-frequency crypto trading with confidence.By the end of this trading book, you’ll be ready to take on the markets with HFT systems.

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Mastering Windows Server 2022. Comprehensive administration of your Windows Server environment - Fourth Edition

Jordan Krause

Written by a 10-time Microsoft MVP award winner with over 20 years of IT experience, Mastering Windows Server 2022 is a practical guide to deploying, securing, and optimizing your server infrastructure. Whether you’re new to server administration or an experienced professional sharpening your skills, this book is designed to be referenced on a regular basis instead of gathering dust on your shelf.Updated for Windows Server 2022, this book covers versions, licensing models, and the latest features while guiding you through single-pane-of-glass administration with tools like Server Manager, PowerShell, and Windows Admin Center. While the primary focus is on Windows Server 2022 LTSC, we also explore SAC server releases, Containers, Nano Server, and OS release cadences.You’ll gain hands-on expertise in remote access technologies, PKI and certificate management, virtualization with Hyper-V, and deploying a Remote Desktop Services farm. Plus, you’ll master Server Core, built-in redundancy, and troubleshooting techniques – all while reinforcing core infrastructure skills like Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, and Group Policy.

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Mastering Graphics Programming with Vulkan. Develop a modern rendering engine from first principles to state-of-the-art techniques

Marco Castorina, Gabriel Sassone

Vulkan is now an established and flexible multi-platform graphics API. It has been adopted in many industries, including game development, medical imaging, movie productions, and media playback but learning it can be a daunting challenge due to its low-level, complex nature. Mastering Graphics Programming with Vulkan is designed to help you overcome this difficulty, providing a practical approach to learning one of the most advanced graphics APIs.In Mastering Graphics Programming with Vulkan, you’ll focus on building a high-performance rendering engine from the ground up. You’ll explore Vulkan’s advanced features, such as pipeline layouts, resource barriers, and GPU-driven rendering, to automate tedious tasks and create efficient workflows. Additionally, you'll delve into cutting-edge techniques like mesh shaders and real-time ray tracing, elevating your graphics programming to the next level.By the end of this book, you’ll have a thorough understanding of modern rendering engines to confidently handle large-scale projects. Whether you're developing games, simulations, or visual effects, this guide will equip you with the skills and knowledge to harness Vulkan’s full potential.

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AI-Powered Commerce. Building the products and services of the future with Commerce.AI

Andy Pandharikar, Frederik Bussler

Commerce.AI is a suite of artificial intelligence (AI) tools, trained on over a trillion data points, to help businesses build next-gen products and services. If you want to be the best business on the block, using AI is a must.Developers and analysts working with AI will be able to put their knowledge to work with this practical guide. You'll begin by learning the core themes of new product and service innovation, including how to identify market opportunities, come up with ideas, and predict trends. With plenty of use cases as reference, you'll learn how to apply AI for innovation, both programmatically and with Commerce.AI. You'll also find out how to analyze product and service data with tools such as GPT-J, Python pandas, Prophet, and TextBlob. As you progress, you'll explore the evolution of commerce in AI, including how top businesses today are using AI. You'll learn how Commerce.AI merges machine learning, product expertise, and big data to help businesses make more accurate decisions. Finally, you'll use the Commerce.AI suite for product ideation and analyzing market trends.By the end of this artificial intelligence book, you'll be able to strategize new product opportunities by using AI, and also have an understanding of how to use Commerce.AI for product ideation, trend analysis, and predictions.

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concrete5 Cookbook. Over 140 recipes to help you develop websites using the concrete5 content management system

Concrete5 Project, David Strack

concrete5 is an increasingly popular open source content management system because of its incredible and easy-to-use interface. But, it also comes complete with a robust PHP framework, allowing web developers to create custom websites and applications with ease.concrete5 Cookbook is a practical collection of solutions to tasks that both novice and experienced concrete5 developers face on a regular basis. Readers will learn multiple subjects, including full blueprints for developing an event calendar add-on and an image gallery block. Developers new to concrete5 will quickly learn how to customize concrete5 to their needs, and seasoned pros will find it an excellent quick reference for performing specific tasks.concrete5 Cookbook will transform ordinary PHP developers into concrete5 experts capable of bending concrete5 to their will and unleashing the true power of this up-and-coming content management system. Throughout the course of over 140 recipes and 3 bonus project blueprint chapters, PHP developers will learn how to create custom blocks and dashboard interfaces as well as programmatically work with pages, files, users, permissions, and more. Discover the built-in Active Record support that makes working with databases simple and maintainable. Readers will also learn how to take advantage of the numerous helper classes included in concrete5, and will dive deep into the concrete5 MVC framework to create powerful custom websites and applications. Tie together all of the concepts learned in the recipes with 3 bonus chapters featuring complete blueprints to create a calendar add-on, an image gallery block type, and tips on how to sell your themes and add-ons for money!concrete5 Cookbook is a complete collection of recipes to solve the most common (and some not-so-common) tasks that concrete5 developers will face on a regular basis.

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The Power Platform Playbook for Digital Transformation. Implement strategy, automation, and AI for scalable digital transformation

Victor Dantas, Chris Huntingford

Written by Victor Dantas, a five-time Microsoft MVP, and Chris Huntingford, MVP, Microsoft Certified Trainer, and FastTrack Recognized Solution Architect, this book distills the collective wisdom of two global thought leaders at the forefront of technological innovation. The Power Platform Playbook for Digital Transformation is your guide to strategizing, implementing, and scaling digital transformation using Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, Power Pages, and Copilot Studio. It equips you with tools to streamline operations, enhance decision-making, and scale automation without deep coding expertise.Unlike technical manuals that focus only on implementation, this book takes a holistic approach, combining strategy and execution. You’ll learn how to build enterprise-grade applications, automate repetitive tasks, and integrate Power Platform with Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, and third-party services. Real-world case studies, best practices, and step-by-step guidance equip you to implement governance, security, and compliance while ensuring long-term success.Whether you’re a business leader driving transformation, an IT professional managing enterprise automation, or a business analyst optimizing processes, this book provides a clear roadmap to leveraging Power Platform for scalable, AI-enhanced digital innovation.

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Unity 3.x Game Development by Example Beginner's Guide. A seat-of-your-pants manual for building fun, groovy little games quickly with Unity 3.x

Ryan Henson Creighton

Beginner game developers are wonderfully optimistic, passionate, and ambitious. But that ambition is often dangerous! Too often, budding indie developers and hobbyists bite off more than they can chew. Some of the most popular games in recent memory – Doodle Jump, Paper Toss, and Canabalt, to name a few – have been fun, simple games that have delighted players and delivered big profits to their creators. This is the perfect climate for new game developers to succeed by creating simple games with Unity.This book starts you off on the right foot, emphasizing small, simple game ideas and playable projects that you can actually finish. The complexity of the games increases gradually as we progress through the chapters. The chosen examples help you learn a wide variety of game development techniques. With this understanding of Unity and bite-sized bits of programming, you can make your own mark in the game industry by finishing fun, simple games.Unity 3.x Game Development by Example shows you how to build crucial game elements that you can reuse and re-skin in many different games, using the phenomenal (and free!) Unity 3D game engine. It initiates you into indie game culture by teaching you how to make your own small, simple games using Unity3D and some gentle, easy-to-understand code. It will help you turn a rudimentary keep-up game into a madcap race through hospital hallways to rush a still-beating heart to the transplant ward, program a complete 2D game using Unity's User Interface controls, put a dramatic love story spin on a simple catch game, and turn that around into a classic space shooter with spectacular explosions and pew sounds! By the time you're finished, you'll have learned to develop a number of important pieces to create your own games that focus in on that small, singular piece of joy that makes games fun.

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Databricks Certified Associate Developer for Apache Spark Using Python. The ultimate guide to getting certified in Apache Spark using practical examples with Python

Saba Shah, Rod Waltermann

Spark has become a de facto standard for big data processing. Migrating data processing to Spark saves resources, streamlines your business focus, and modernizes workloads, creating new business opportunities through Spark’s advanced capabilities. Written by a senior solutions architect at Databricks, with experience in leading data science and data engineering teams in Fortune 500s as well as startups, this book is your exhaustive guide to achieving the Databricks Certified Associate Developer for Apache Spark certification on your first attempt.You’ll explore the core components of Apache Spark, its architecture, and its optimization, while familiarizing yourself with the Spark DataFrame API and its components needed for data manipulation. You’ll also find out what Spark streaming is and why it’s important for modern data stacks, before learning about machine learning in Spark and its different use cases. What’s more, you’ll discover sample questions at the end of each section along with two mock exams to help you prepare for the certification exam.By the end of this book, you’ll know what to expect in the exam and gain enough understanding of Spark and its tools to pass the exam. You’ll also be able to apply this knowledge in a real-world setting and take your skillset to the next level.

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Building Microservices with Node.js. Explore microservices applications and migrate from a monolith architecture to microservices

Daniel Kapexhiu

– Immerse yourself in the world of microservices with this guide to migration from a monolithic architecture to microservices. – With this book, you’ll acquire a deep understanding of microservices architecture and apply it confidently in your web application projects. – As you progress, you’ll be guided through the process of creating a simple application and incorporating the Node.js framework into it, along with its commonly used libraries. – You’ll learn how the framework operates, how to configure it, and how to develop handlers for the web framework and explore how to deploy your application to a production server. – Get to grips with the intricacies of JavaScript and Node.js and find out how to approach microservices in Node.js, implement them effectively, and integrate RESTful APIs. – Gain insights into service-to-service authentication and authorization and learn how to work with databases and caching, as well as with monitoring and logging in microservices with Node.js. – By the end of this microservices book, you’ll be able to develop a web app using the Node.js framework, configure it, extend it using libraries available for this framework, and launch it using best practices.

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Mastering OpenStack. Implement the latest techniques for designing and deploying an operational, production-ready private cloud - Third Edition

Omar Khedher

OpenStack provides flexibility and control for designing and deploying robust and scalable cloud infrastructures, which has led to it having one of the largest open source communities in the cloud market. This book delves deep into the OpenStack architecture, dissecting each component to guide you in architecting your cloud with precision. From essential components to cutting-edge services, this book offers a step-by step approach, ensuring you grasp the fundamentals before exploring the latest advancements.This updated edition guides you through the deployment process, integrating secure best practices inspired by the DevSecOps philosophy. You’ll also explore the Antelope release, covering new services such as container management and software-defined networking (SDN). The book outlines best practices for running and managing fault-tolerant, secure, monitored, and high-performing setups. In the last part, it navigates the convergence of public and private clouds, covering hybrid models through use cases of managing Kubernetes-based applications in OpenStack private and public clouds.By the end of the book, you’ll be well versed in the latest OpenStack advancements, ready to lead your organization on a successful cloud journey.

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Kubernetes Anti-Patterns. Overcome common pitfalls to achieve optimal deployments and a flawless Kubernetes ecosystem

Govardhana Miriyala Kannaiah

As the popularity of Kubernetes continues to grow, it’s essential to understand and navigate the potential challenges of scalability, resource optimization, troubleshooting, and security. Kubernetes Anti-Patterns offers vital insights and strategies tailored to the current needs of practitioners and enthusiasts navigating the complexities of Kubernetes. Penned by an AWS-certified solutions architect with 16+ years of experience, this book will teach you the essential Kubernetes anti-patterns, their types, causes, and consequences. You’ll find practical solutions for each of the challenges and uncover real-world examples and case studies to enhance your Kubernetes expertise. Beyond technical details, you’ll delve into optimization, proactive assessment, and prevention strategies, ensuring your Kubernetes endeavors are marked by success and efficiency. Experienced or beginner, this book will equip you with the right knowledge to deploy and maintain a robust Kubernetes environment. By the end of this book, you’ll gain a holistic understanding of Kubernetes anti-patterns and develop the expertise to identify and address issues in various Kubernetes contexts. This knowledge will enable you to optimize your container orchestration environments and ensure the reliability, scalability, and security of your applications.

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