MobX Quick Start Guide. Supercharge the client state in your React apps with MobX

Pavan Podila, Michel Weststrate

MobX is a simple and highly scalable state management library in JavaScript. Its abstractions can help you manage state in small to extremely large applications. However, if you are just starting out, it is essential to have a guide that can help you take the first steps. This book aims to be that guide that will equip you with the skills needed to use MobX and effectively handle the state management aspects of your application.You will first learn about observables, actions, and reactions: the core concepts of MobX. To see how MobX really shines and simplifies state management, you'll work through some real-world use cases. Building on these core concepts and use cases, you will learn about advanced MobX, its APIs, and libraries that extend MobX.By the end of this book, you will not only have a solid conceptual understanding of MobX, but also practical experience. You will gain the confidence to tackle many of the common state management problems in your own projects.

Design Innovative Robots with LEGO SPIKE Prime. Seven creative STEM robotic designs to challenge your mind

Aaron Maurer

The new LEGO SPIKE Prime is one of the latest additions to the LEGO robotics line of products. This book will help you to enjoy building robots and understand how exciting robotics can be in terms of design, coding, and the expression of ideas.The book begins by taking you through a new realm of playful learning experiences designed for inventors and creators of any age. In each chapter, you'll find out how to build a creative robot, learn to bring the robot to life through code, and finally work with exercises to test what you've learned and remix the robot to suit your own unique style. Throughout the chapters, you'll build exciting new smart robots such as a handheld game, a robotic arm with a joystick, a guitar, a flying bird, a sumobot, a dragster, and a Simon Says game.By the end of this LEGO book, you'll have gained the knowledge and skills you need to build any robot that you can imagine.

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.

Learning iPhone Game Development with Cocos2D 3.0. Harness the power of Cocos2D to create your own stunning and engaging games for iOS

Kirill Muzykov

Modern Cryptography for Cybersecurity Professionals. Learn how you can leverage encryption to better secure your organization's data

Lisa Bock

In today's world, it is important to have confidence in your data storage and transmission strategy. Cryptography can provide you with this confidentiality, integrity, authentication, and non-repudiation. But are you aware of just what exactly is involved in using cryptographic techniques? Modern Cryptography for Cybersecurity Professionals helps you to gain a better understanding of the cryptographic elements necessary to secure your data.The book begins by helping you to understand why we need to secure data and how encryption can provide protection, whether it be in motion or at rest. You'll then delve into symmetric and asymmetric encryption and discover how a hash is used. As you advance, you'll see how the public key infrastructure (PKI) and certificates build trust between parties, so that we can confidently encrypt and exchange data. Finally, you'll explore the practical applications of cryptographic techniques, including passwords, email, and blockchain technology, along with securely transmitting data using a virtual private network (VPN).By the end of this cryptography book, you'll have gained a solid understanding of cryptographic techniques and terms, learned how symmetric and asymmetric encryption and hashed are used, and recognized the importance of key management and the PKI.

Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure and Operations Explained. Accelerate your application migration and modernization journey on the cloud with IBM and Red Hat

Mansura Habiba, Mihai Criveti

Most organizations are now either moving to the cloud through modernization or building their apps in the cloud. Hybrid cloud is one of the best approaches for cloud migration and the modernization journey for any enterprise. This is why, along with coding skills, developers need to know the big picture of cloud footprint and be aware of the integration models between apps in a hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructure. This book represents an overview of your end-to-end journey to the cloud. To be future agnostic, the journey starts with a hybrid cloud.You'll gain an overall understanding of how to approach migration to the cloud using hybrid cloud technologies from IBM and Red Hat. Next, you’ll be able to explore the challenges, requirements (both functional and non-functional), and the process of app modernization for enterprises by analyzing various use cases. The book then provides you with insights into the different reference solutions for app modernization on the cloud, which will help you to learn how to design and implement patterns and best practices in your job.By the end of this book, you’ll be able to successfully modernize applications and cloud infrastructure in hyperscaler public clouds such as IBM and hybrid clouds using Red Hat technologies as well as develop secure applications for cloud environments.

Azure Machine Learning Engineering. Deploy, fine-tune, and optimize ML models using Microsoft Azure

Sina Fakhraee, Balamurugan Balakreshnan, Megan Masanz

Data scientists working on productionizing machine learning (ML) workloads face a breadth of challenges at every step owing to the countless factors involved in getting ML models deployed and running. This book offers solutions to common issues, detailed explanations of essential concepts, and step-by-step instructions to productionize ML workloads using the Azure Machine Learning service. You’ll see how data scientists and ML engineers working with Microsoft Azure can train and deploy ML models at scale by putting their knowledge to work with this practical guide.Throughout the book, you’ll learn how to train, register, and productionize ML models by making use of the power of the Azure Machine Learning service. You’ll get to grips with scoring models in real time and batch, explaining models to earn business trust, mitigating model bias, and developing solutions using an MLOps framework.By the end of this Azure Machine Learning book, you’ll be ready to build and deploy end-to-end ML solutions into a production system using the Azure Machine Learning service for real-time scenarios.

Music for Film and Game Soundtracks with FL Studio. Learn music production, compose orchestral music, and launch your music career

Joshua Au-Yeung

FL Studio is a cutting-edge software music production environment and a powerful and easy-to-use tool for composing music. In this comprehensive guide, you’ll discover how to use FL Studio's tools and techniques to design exciting soundtracks for your films, TV shows, video games, and much more.You'll start by understanding the business of composing, learning how to communicate, score, market your services, land gigs, and deliver music projects for clients like a professional. Next, you'll set up your studio environment, navigate key tools, such as the channel rack, piano roll, playlist, mixer, and browser, and export songs. The book then advances to show you how to compose orchestral music using MIDI (musical instrument digital interface) programming, with a dedicated section to string instruments. You’ll create sheet music using MuseScore for live musicians to play your compositions. Later, you’ll learn about the art of Foley for recording realistic sound effects, create adaptive music that changes throughout video games, and design music to trigger specific emotions, for example, scary music to terrify your listener. Finally, you'll work on a sample project that will help you prepare for your composing career.By the end of this book, you’ll be able to create professional soundtrack scores for your films and video games.