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Stefano Viola, Ivan Morgillo

Take a deep dive into the Android build system and its customization with Learning Embedded Android Programming, written to help you master the steep learning curve of working with embedded Android. Start by exploring the basics of Android OS, discover Google’s “repo” system, and discover how to retrieve AOSP source code. You'll then find out to set up the build environment and the first AOSP system. Next, learn how to customize the boot sequence with a new animation, and use an Android “kitchen” to “cook” your custom ROM. By the end of the book, you'll be able to build customized Android open source projects by developing your own set of features.

Pentaho Data Integration 4 Cookbook. Over 70 recipes to solve ETL problems using Pentaho Kettle

Adri?É?íÂ!°n Sergio Pulvirenti, Lance Walter, María Carina Roldán, Adrian Sergio Pulvirenti

Pentaho Data Integration (PDI, also called Kettle), one of the data integration tools leaders, is broadly used for all kind of data manipulation such as migrating data between applications or databases, exporting data from databases to flat files, data cleansing, and much more. Do you need quick solutions to the problems you face while using Kettle?Pentaho Data Integration 4 Cookbook explains Kettle features in detail through clear and practical recipes that you can quickly apply to your solutions. The recipes cover a broad range of topics including processing files, working with databases, understanding XML structures, integrating with Pentaho BI Suite, and more.Pentaho Data Integration 4 Cookbook shows you how to take advantage of all the aspects of Kettle through a set of practical recipes organized to find quick solutions to your needs. The initial chapters explain the details about working with databases, files, and XML structures. Then you will see different ways for searching data, executing and reusing jobs and transformations, and manipulating streams. Further, you will learn all the available options for integrating Kettle with other Pentaho tools.Pentaho Data Integration 4 Cookbook has plenty of recipes with easy step-by-step instructions to accomplish specific tasks. There are examples and code that are ready for adaptation to individual needs.

Enhancing Virtual Reality Experiences with Unity 2022. Use Unity's latest features to level up your skills for VR games, apps, and other projects

Steven Antonio Christian, Patrick B. Thomas

Virtual reality (VR) has emerged as one of the most transformative mediums of the 21st century, finding applications in various industries, including gaming, entertainment, and education.Enhancing Virtual Reality Experiences with Unity 2022 takes you into the fascinating realm of VR, where creativity meets cutting-edge technology to bring tangible real-world applications to life. This immersive exploration not only equips you with the essential skills needed to craft captivating VR environments using Unity's powerful game engine but also offers a deeper understanding of the philosophy behind creating truly immersive experiences.Throughout the book, you’ll work with practical VR scene creation, interactive design, spatial audio, and C# programming and prepare to apply these skills to real-world projects spanning art galleries, interactive playgrounds, and beyond. To ensure your VR creations reach their full potential, the book also includes valuable tips on optimization, guaranteeing maximum immersion and impact for your VR adventures.By the end of this book, you’ll have a solid understanding of VR’s versatility and how you can leverage the Unity game engine to create groundbreaking projects.

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.

RavenDB 2.x Beginner's Guide. For .NET developers who want to acquire document-oriented database skills, there is no better introduction to RavenDB than this book. It covers all the bases in a user-friendly style that makes learning fast and easy

Khaled Tannir

RavenDB is a second generation document database written in .NET, offering a flexible data model designed to address requirements coming from real-world systems. It is different from the other document databases around, as with RavenDB you can get up and running in a few minutes, and that includes grasping all the basics. It allows you to build high-performance, low-latency applications with ease and efficiency.RavenDB 2.x Beginner's Guide introduces RavenDB concepts and teaches you everything, right from installing RavenDB, to creating documents, and querying indexes. This book will help you take advantage of powerful, document-oriented NoSQL databases and build a solid foundation on which you can create your .NET applications.This book presents RavenDB, the .NET document-oriented NoSQL database, through a series of clear and practical exercises that will help you to take advantage of this database server.The book starts off with an introduction to RavenDB and its Management Studio. You will then move ahead and learn how to quickly and efficiently build high performance, NoSQL document-oriented .NET applications using the .NET client API or the HTTP REST API. Next, Dynamic and static indexes that use map/reduce to process datasets are covered. You will then see how to create and query these indexes, with the help of detailed examples. You will also learn how to deploy your RavenDB server in a production environment and how to optimize and secure it.With numerous practical examples, RavenDB 2.x Beginner's Guide teaches you everything you need to know for building high performance .NET document-oriented NoSQL databases.

Drupal 6 Content Administration. Maintain, add to, and edit content of your Drupal site with ease

Dries Buytaert, J. Ayen Green

Often a company hires a web designer to build its Drupal site, and then takes over running the site in house. This book is for the Content Editors concerned with the ongoing creation and maintenance of the site content.In a few hours, you'll have the knowledge needed to maintain and edit your web site as a content-rich place that visitors return to again and again. There are many books available to help you administer a Drupal site, but this is the only one specifically for Content Editors. This book doesn't cover designing or creating a site. However, anybody who has built their own site but needs some help using the article management features will also benefit from it.This book is a quick-start guide, aimed at Content Editors. The author's experience enables him to explain in an efficient and interactive manner how you can keep your site up to date. The book begins with a discussion of content management and Drupal and then teaches you how to create content, add elements to it, and make the content findable. You will then learn to set up the framework for a creative team and the various options for editing content offline, their benefits and pitfalls.This book helps you to quickly and easily solve problems, and manage content and users for a web site. It will help you become a more effective and efficient manager of Drupal-based web sites.

Vue CLI 3 Quick Start Guide. Build and maintain Vue.js applications quickly with the standard CLI

Ajdin Imsirovic

The sprawling landscape of various tools in JavaScript web development is becoming overwhelming. This book will show you how Vue CLI 3 can help you take back control of the tool chain. To that end, we'll begin by configuring webpack, utilizing HMR, and using single-file .vue components. We'll also use SCSS, ECMAScript, and TypeScript. We'll unit test with Jest and perform E2E testing with Cypress.This book will show you how to configure Vue CLI as your default way of building Vue projects. You'll discover the reasons behind using webpack, babel, eslint, and other modern JavaScript toolchain technologies. You'll learn about the inner workings of each through the lens of Vue CLI 3. We'll explore the extendibility of Vue CLI with the built-in settings, and various core and third-party plugins.Vue CLI helps you work with Vue components, routers, directives, and services in the Vue ecosystem. While learning these concepts, you'll examine the evolution of JavaScript. You'll learn about use of npm, IIFEs, modules in JavaScript, Common.js modules, task runners, npm scripts, module bundlers, and webpack. You'll get familiar with the reasons why Vue CLI 3 is set up the way it is. You'll also learn to perform linting with ESLint and Prettier.Towards the end, we'll introduce you to working with styles and SCSS. Finally, we'll show you how to deploy your very own Vue project on Github Pages.

Machine Learning Engineering with MLflow. Manage the end-to-end machine learning life cycle with MLflow

Natu Lauchande

MLflow is a platform for the machine learning life cycle that enables structured development and iteration of machine learning models and a seamless transition into scalable production environments.This book will take you through the different features of MLflow and how you can implement them in your ML project. You will begin by framing an ML problem and then transform your solution with MLflow, adding a workbench environment, training infrastructure, data management, model management, experimentation, and state-of-the-art ML deployment techniques on the cloud and premises. The book also explores techniques to scale up your workflow as well as performance monitoring techniques. As you progress, you’ll discover how to create an operational dashboard to manage machine learning systems. Later, you will learn how you can use MLflow in the AutoML, anomaly detection, and deep learning context with the help of use cases. In addition to this, you will understand how to use machine learning platforms for local development as well as for cloud and managed environments. This book will also show you how to use MLflow in non-Python-based languages such as R and Java, along with covering approaches to extend MLflow with Plugins.By the end of this machine learning book, you will be able to produce and deploy reliable machine learning algorithms using MLflow in multiple environments.

Functional C#. Uncover the secrets of functional programming using C# and change the way you approach your applications

Wisnu Anggoro

Functional programming makes your application faster, improves performance, and increases your productivity. C# code is written at a higher level of abstraction, so that code will be closer to business requirements, abstracting away many low-level implementation details.This book bridges the language gap for C# developers by showing you how to create and consume functional constructs in C#. We also bridge the domain gap by showing how functional constructs can be applied in business scenarios. We’ll take you through lambda expressions and extension methods, and help you develop a deep understanding of the concepts and practices of LINQ and recursion in C#.By the end of the book, you will be able to write code using the best approach and will be able to perform unit testing in functional programming, changing how you write your applications and revolutionizing your projects.

The Definitive Guide to Data Integration. Unlock the power of data integration to efficiently manage, transform, and analyze data

Pierre-Yves BONNEFOY, Emeric CHAIZE, Raphaël MANSUY, Mehdi TAZI, ...

The Definitive Guide to Data Integration is an indispensable resource for navigating the complexities of modern data integration. Focusing on the latest tools, techniques, and best practices, this guide helps you master data integration and unleash the full potential of your data.This comprehensive guide begins by examining the challenges and key concepts of data integration, such as managing huge volumes of data and dealing with the different data types. You’ll gain a deep understanding of the modern data stack and its architecture, as well as the pivotal role of open-source technologies in shaping the data landscape. Delving into the layers of the modern data stack, you’ll cover data sources, types, storage, integration techniques, transformation, and processing. The book also offers insights into data exposition and APIs, ingestion and storage strategies, data preparation and analysis, workflow management, monitoring, data quality, and governance. Packed with practical use cases, real-world examples, and a glimpse into the future of data integration, The Definitive Guide to Data Integration is an essential resource for data eclectics.By the end of this book, you’ll have the gained the knowledge and skills needed to optimize your data usage and excel in the ever-evolving world of data.

C# 10 and .NET 6 - Modern Cross-Platform Development. Build apps, websites, and services with ASP.NET Core 6, Blazor, and EF Core 6 using Visual Studio 2022 and Visual Studio Code - Sixth Edition

Mark J. Price

Extensively revised to accommodate all the latest features that come with C# 10 and .NET 6, this latest edition of our comprehensive guide will get you coding in C# with confidence.You’ll learn object-oriented programming, writing, testing, and debugging functions, implementing interfaces, and inheriting classes. The book covers the .NET APIs for performing tasks like managing and querying data, monitoring and improving performance, and working with the filesystem, async streams, and serialization. You’ll build and deploy cross-platform apps, such as websites and services using ASP.NET Core.Instead of distracting you with unnecessary application code, the first twelve chapters will teach you about C# language constructs and many of the .NET libraries through simple console applications. In later chapters, having mastered the basics, you’ll then build practical applications and services using ASP.NET Core, the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern, and Blazor.

Generating Creative Images With DALL-E 3. Create accurate images with effective prompting for real-world applications

Holly Picano

Unveil the extraordinary capabilities of the groundbreaking AI model, DALL-E 3, as it transforms text prompts into accurate images. This book addresses the challenge of creating meaningful images by writing prompts, guiding you step by step through creating stunning visual art regardless of your skill level.Prepare to delve deep into the inner workings of DALL-E 3's architecture and training process. With clear explanations, practical tutorials, and real-world examples that can be easily applied, you’ll unlock secrets to creating awe-inspiring AI-generated art, from fine art prints to digital designs. This book provides comprehensive insights into various lens options, camera angles, lighting techniques, and art movements, helping you integrate AI capabilities with your artistic skills. You’ll also learn to create NFTs that can be monetized and gain invaluable insights into designing compelling covers, all within the ethical boundaries of AI-generated art. And with the invaluable prompt cheat sheet by your side, you’ll hone your skills in formulating captivating prompts for diverse purposes.By the end of this book, you’ll have learned how to produce generative AI art at a rapid pace and relatively low cost and push the boundaries of imagination with DALL-E 3.

Windows Azure programming patterns for Start-ups. A step-by-step guide to create easy solutions to build your business using Windows Azure services with this book and

Riccardo Becker

Leverage different Windows Azure components together with your existing Microsoft .NET skills to fully take advantage of the power of Windows Azure. Use this book to start small and end big by creating and using storage, cloud services, sql databases, networking, caching and other innovative technology to realize your first top-class Windows Azure service!Windows Azure for Start-ups is an incremental guide that will take you from the essentials of the Windows Azure platform up to the realization of your own cloud services running on the platform. You will learn how to apply different technologies of the Windows Azure platform with the help of examples all focusing on one single fictitious start-up scenario.This book is centred around a fictitious company called Geotopia that wants to build a brand new social network by using the Windows Azure platform. It will take the reader from the theory and rationale behind Windows Azure right to building services and coding C#.The books starts by outlining the concepts of Windows Azure. It then demonstrates how to set up a development environment and how to build your application by using different storage mechanisms, applying different features from the Windows Azure platform and ending with the newest features explained from the latest release.Windows Azure for Startups will help you take full advantage of the Windows Azure platform and bring your new service online as quickly as possible.

Working Smarter with Microsoft Outlook. Supercharge your office and personal productivity with expert Outlook tips and techniques

Staci Warne

Millions of users across the globe spend their working hours using Microsoft Outlook to manage tasks, schedules, emails, and more. Post-pandemic, many organizations have started adopting remote working, and the need to stay productive in workspace collaboration has been increasing.Working Smarter with Microsoft Outlook takes you through smart techniques, tips, and productivity hacks that will help you become an expert Outlook user. This book brings together everything you need to know about automating your daily repetitive tasks. You’ll gain the skills necessary for working with calendars, contacts, notes, and tasks, and using them to collaborate with Microsoft SharePoint, OneNote, and many other services. You’ll learn how to use powerful tools such as Quick Steps, customized Rules, and Mail Merge with Power Automate for added functionality. Later, the book covers how to use Outlook for sharing information between Microsoft Exchange and cloud services. Toward the concluding chapters, you’ll get an introduction to Outlook programming by creating macros and seeing how you can integrate it within Outlook.By the end of this Microsoft Outlook book, you’ll be able to use Outlook and its features and capabilities efficiently to enhance your workspace collaboration and time management.

Oracle SOA Suite 11g Administrator's Handbook. This book will quickly become your constant companion in achieving the reliability and security you want in your day to day administration of Oracle SOA Suite 11g. Covers both broad concepts and real-world implementation

Arun Pareek, Ahmed Aboulnaga

Oracle SOA Suite 11g is the backbone of messaging and application integration in a service-oriented architecture. An application administrator is responsible for an end-to-end administration and management of the infrastructure. Understanding the underlying components, services, and configuration and their relations to each other is necessary to effectively administer the Oracle SOA Suite 11g environment. Due to its sheer size, administering Oracle SOA Suite 11g is a daunting task.This book provides detailed explanations of all the core administrative and management activities around Oracle SOA Suite. It includes compact information for end-to-end administration of Oracle SOA Suite 11g. It delves into advanced topics such as silent installs, cloning, backup and recovery and high availability installations.Using this book, you will be able to administer and secure your Oracle SOA Suite services and applications. You will follow examples that you can use in your everyday life as a SOA Suite administrator. The book begins with managing composite applications, their deployments and lifecycles and then moves on to monitoring instances, service engines, Weblogic Server and composite applications. With a detailed coverage of topics like the administration of individual service components as well as configuring MBeans using both Oracle Enterprise Manager Fusion Middleware Control and WLST-based scripts, you will be equipped to work with any services and applications.Towards the end, you will be taken through identifying faults & exceptions, troubleshooting approaches, and securing various components.

Adobe Animate 2022 for Creative Professionals. Implement professional techniques and create vivid animated and interactive content with Animate - Second Edition

Joseph Labrecque

Adobe Animate is platform-agnostic asset creation, motion design, animation, and interactivity software. Complete with explanations of essential concepts and step-by-step walkthroughs of practical examples, this book will guide you in using Adobe Animate to create immersive experiences by breaking through creative limitations across every medium.We begin by getting up to speed with all that you need to know about Adobe Animate. You'll learn how to get started with Animate as a creative platform and explore the features introduced in its most recent versions. The book will show you how to consume and produce media assets for multiple platforms through both the publish and export workflows. Following this, you’ll explore advanced rigging techniques and discover how to create more dynamic animation with advanced depth and movement techniques. You’ll also find out how to build projects such as games, virtual reality experiences, and apps for various platforms as the book demonstrates different ways to use Animate. Finally, it covers the different methods used to extend the software for various needs.By the end of this Adobe Animate book, you'll be able to produce a variety of media assets, motion graphic design materials, animated artifacts, and interactive content pieces for platforms such as HTML5 Canvas, WebGL, and mobile devices.

jQuery Mobile Web Development Essentials. Build a powerful and practical jQuery-based framework in order to create mobile-optimized websites - Third Edition

Raymond Camden, Andy Matthews

jQuery Mobile is a HTML5-based touch-optimized web framework. jQuery Mobile can be used to build responsive cross-platform websites and apps for a wide range of smartphones, tablets, and desktop devices. The jQuery Mobile framework can be integrated with other mobile app frameworks such as PhoneGap, IBM Worklight, and more.Introduction to jQuery Mobile explains how to add the framework to your HTML pages to create rich, mobile-optimized web pages with minimal effort. You’ll learn how to use jQuery Mobile’s automatic enhancements and configure the framework for customized, powerful mobile-friendly websites. We then dig into forms, events, and styling. You'll see how jQuery Mobile automatically enhances content, and will find out how to use the JavaScript API to build complex sites. We’ll introduce you to how jQuery Mobile can be themed as well looking into how JavaScript can be used for deep sets of customizations. The examples are ready to run and can be used to help kick-start your own site. Along the way, you will leverage all the concepts you learn to build three sample mobile applications.

Responsive Media in HTML5. Learn effective administration of responsive media within your website or CMS system using practical techniques

Alex Libby

Android Studio 3.5 Development Essentials - Kotlin Edition. Developing Android 10 (Q) Apps Using Android Studio 3.5, Kotlin and Android Jetpack

Neil Smyth

Popularity of Kotlin as an Android-compatible language keeps growing every day. This book will help you to build your own Android applications using Kotlin.Android Studio 3.5 Development Essentials Kotlin Edition first teaches you to install Android development and test environment on different operating systems. Next, you will create an Android app and a virtual device in Android studio, and install an Android application on emulators. You will test apps on physical android devices, then study Android Studio code editor, Android architecture, and the anatomy of an Android app. The focus then shifts to Kotlin language. You’ll get an overview of Kotlin language and practice converting code from Java to Kotlin. You’ll also explore Kotlin data types, operators, expressions, loops, functions, and the basics of OOP concept in Kotlin. This book will then cover Android Jetpack and how to create an example app project using ViewModel component, as well as advanced topics such as views and widgets implementation, multi-window support integration, and biometric authentication. Finally, you will learn to upload your app to the Google Play Console and handle the build process with Gradle.By the end of this book, you will have gained enough knowledge to develop powerful Android applications using Kotlin.

Google Visualization API Essentials. Make sense of your data: make it visual with the Google Visualization API

Traci Lynn Ruthkoski

There's a lot of data in our world, and visual representations are often the best method of making sense of it all. Yet, it should not take an army of programmers and analysts to create visualizations in order to make data useful. The Google Visualization API is accessible to novice and advanced programmers alike, making data useful to more people.Google Visualization API Essentials will show you how to create interactive data displays with very little code. The API, combined with Google Spreadsheets and Fusion Tables, is a complete system, from data management to analytical displays. Not only is it simple to learn, but the Google Visualization API can also be viewed as a first step to learning additional Google APIs.Google Visualization API Essentials uses both methodology overviews and hands-on examples with real data to introduce chart and graph creation on the Google platform. Topics are presented from various aspects, including Google Spreadsheets and Fusion Tables, and Graphic User Interfaces. An overview of the various API development environments available to developers is also covered. Basic and advanced charts, data source connectivity, style formatting, and publishing options are also explored in depth.Google Visualization API Essentials brings the arsenal of Google Visualizations into the web developer toolkit.

Data Lakehouse in Action. Architecting a modern and scalable data analytics platform

Pradeep Menon

The Data Lakehouse architecture is a new paradigm that enables large-scale analytics. This book will guide you in developing data architecture in the right way to ensure your organization's success.The first part of the book discusses the different data architectural patterns used in the past and the need for a new architectural paradigm, as well as the drivers that have caused this change. It covers the principles that govern the target architecture, the components that form the Data Lakehouse architecture, and the rationale and need for those components. The second part deep dives into the different layers of Data Lakehouse. It covers various scenarios and components for data ingestion, storage, data processing, data serving, analytics, governance, and data security. The book's third part focuses on the practical implementation of the Data Lakehouse architecture in a cloud computing platform. It focuses on various ways to combine the Data Lakehouse pattern to realize macro-patterns, such as Data Mesh and Data Hub-Spoke, based on the organization's needs and maturity level. The frameworks introduced will be practical and organizations can readily benefit from their application.By the end of this book, you'll clearly understand how to implement the Data Lakehouse architecture pattern in a scalable, agile, and cost-effective manner.

Hands-On RESTful Python Web Services. Develop RESTful web services or APIs with modern Python 3.7 - Second Edition

Gaston C. Hillar

Python is the language of choice for millions of developers worldwide that builds great web services in RESTful architecture. This second edition of Hands-On RESTful Python Web Services will cover the best tools you can use to build engaging web services.This book shows you how to develop RESTful APIs using the most popular Python frameworks and all the necessary stacks with Python, combined with related libraries and tools. You’ll learn to incorporate all new features of Python 3.7, Flask 1.0.2, Django 2.1, Tornado 5.1, and also a new framework, Pyramid. As you advance through the chapters, you will get to grips with each of these frameworks to build various web services, and be shown use cases and best practices covering when to use a particular framework.You’ll then successfully develop RESTful APIs with all frameworks and understand how each framework processes HTTP requests and routes URLs. You’ll also discover best practices for validation, serialization, and deserialization. In the concluding chapters, you will take advantage of specific features available in certain frameworks such as integrated ORMs, built-in authorization and authentication, and work with asynchronous code. At the end of each framework, you will write tests for RESTful APIs and improve code coverage.By the end of the book, you will have gained a deep understanding of the stacks needed to build RESTful web services.

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.

Apache Airflow Best Practices. A practical guide to orchestrating data workflow with Apache Airflow

Dylan Intorf, Dylan Storey, Kendrick van Doorn

Data professionals face the challenge of managing complex data pipelines, orchestrating workflows across diverse systems, and ensuring scalable, reliable data processing. This definitive guide to mastering Apache Airflow, written by experts in engineering, data strategy, and problem-solving across tech, financial, and life sciences industries, is your key to overcoming these challenges. Covering everything from Airflow fundamentals to advanced topics such as custom plugin development, multi-tenancy, and cloud deployment, this book provides a structured approach to workflow orchestration. You’ll start with an introduction to data orchestration and Apache Airflow 2.x updates, followed by DAG authoring, managing Airflow components, and connecting to external data sources. Through real-world use cases, you’ll learn how to implement ETL pipelines and orchestrate ML workflows in your environment, and scale Airflow for high availability and performance. You’ll also learn how to deploy Airflow in cloud environments, tackle operational considerations for scaling, and apply best practices for CI/CD and monitoring.By the end of this book, you’ll be proficient in operating and using Apache Airflow, authoring high-quality workflows in Python, and making informed decisions crucial for production-ready Airflow implementations.