Mastering Palo Alto Networks. The complete journey to firewall mastery from setup to advanced security - Third Edition

Tom Piens aka 'reaper'

Mastering Palo Alto Networks is the ultimate guide for anyone looking to become proficient in configuring and managing Palo Alto firewalls. Written by a seasoned security consultant and author with 25 years of expertise in network security, this book provides a comprehensive approach to mastering Palo Alto Networks’ firewalls. If you’ve struggled with managing firewall policies, setting up VPNs, or integrating cloud security, this book will provide clear solutions.You’ll get to grips with the fundamentals, and go through the entire process step by step—from initial setup to advanced configurations, gaining a solid understanding of both on-premise and cloud-based security solutions.Packed with practical examples and expert tips, chapters show you how to deploy and optimize firewall policies, secure your network, and troubleshoot issues effectively. With a focus on real-world applications, this guide covers essential topics like traffic management, threat prevention, VPN setup, and integration with Prisma Access for cloud security.By the end of this book, you’ll have the confidence and expertise to manage even the most complex network security environments, making this a must-have resource for anyone working with Palo Alto Networks.

Jasmine JavaScript Testing. Test your JavaScript applications efficiently using Jasmine and React.js

Paulo Vitor Zacharias Ragonha

Mastering the Art of Sales Engineering. Develop essential skills and gain valuable insights for high-tech sales engineering success

Jeffrey Silver, Jason Mar-Tang, Michael Huckaby

Sales engineers often need to balance their technical expertise with the soft skills needed to close deals and build lasting client relationships. This book provides a framework for both senior engineers seeking professional growth and individuals just starting their sales engineering careers. This book draws from the authors’ extensive experience in this industry and as leaders in top high-tech companies, offering real-world insights and life lessons applicable to this specialized and in-demand industry. You’ll pick up the core disciplines a successful sales engineer should exemplify, along with mastering practical, day-to-day operational aspects. Within these chapters, you will learn the roles and responsibilities of a sales engineer, as well as adjacent roles within a sales team. You’ll also develop the skills needed to navigate complex sales cycles and exceed traditional expectations. This book covers various key aspects of sales engineering, including mastering communication techniques, navigating complex meetings, managing customer expectations, understanding legal matters, and handling administrative tasks. By the end of this book, you’ll have acquired advanced knowledge to excel as a world-class sales engineer and become a valuable member of your organization’s broader team.

Coding Roblox Games Made Easy. The ultimate guide to creating games with Roblox Studio and Lua programming

Zander Brumbaugh

Roblox is a global virtual platform like no other for both playing and creating games. With well over 150 million monthly active users, Roblox hosts all genres of games that can be played by other members of the community using the Lua programming language. Not only can you create games for free, but you can also earn considerable sums of money if from the success of your games, and become part of the vast and supportive developer circle that provides excellent opportunities for networking in a tight-knit community.With this practical book, you'll get hands-on experience working on the Roblox platform. You'll start with an overview of Roblox development and then understand how to use Roblox Studio. As you progress, you'll gradually learn everything you need from how to program in Roblox Lua to creating Obby and Battle Royale games. Finally, you'll delve into the logistics of game production, focusing on optimizing the performance of your game by implementing impressive mechanics, monetization, and marketing practices.By the end of this Roblox book, you'll be able to lead or work with a team to bring your gaming world to life, and extend that experience to players around the world.

Blender 3D Printing Essentials. Learn 3D printing using the free open-source Blender software. This book gives you both an overview and practical instructions, enabling you to learn how to scale, build, color, and detail a model for a 3D printer

Gordon Fisher, Ton Roosendaal

Like computing, 3D printing has been around for decades but it was expensive and was only used for making complex prototypes. Now, prices have dropped and third-party printing services such as Shapeways have become available, making the technology available to everyone.Blender is an open source modeling and animation program popular in the 3D printing community. 3D printing demands more of a modeler than animation or virtual reality. The model maker must engineer their model to work in the real world. They must keep in mind the particular needs of the materials and printers that they are planning to use to print their model. This practical guide gives Blender users all the information they need to design high-quality 3D printed objects. With a solid exploration of the 3D modeling process, design considerations for 3D printing, plus step-by-step exercises, you will soon be comfortable making 3D objects for real-world enjoyment. Starting with an overview of 3D printing, this guide moves onto to precision measurement, fixing problems in a 3D model, and how to make it light and strong enough for real-world use.You will learn how to scale, build, and detail a model for a 3D printer. You will learn to color and decorate it, as well as making parts precisely in the size you want them, so that multi-part objects fit together smoothly. You will also learn tips on saving money when you have printed your model.With the help of this guide, you will be able to complete your project and learn how to export the file so it is ready for a variety of 3D printers.

Mastering NServiceBus and Persistence. Design and build various enterprise solutions using NServiceBus while utilizing persistence enterprise objects

Richard L Helton

ASP.NET Core 9 Web API Cookbook. Over 60 hands-on recipes for building and securing enterprise web APIs with REST, GraphQL, and more

Luke Avedon, Garry Cabrera

Discover what makes ASP.NET Core 9 a powerful and versatile framework for building modern web APIs that are both scalable and secure. This comprehensive, recipe-based guide leverages the authors’ decade-long experience in software development to equip developers with the knowledge to create robust web API solutions using the framework's most powerful features.Designed for intermediate to advanced .NET developers, this cookbook contains hands-on recipes that demonstrate how to efficiently build, optimize, and secure APIs using this cutting-edge technology. You'll master essential topics, such as creating RESTful APIs, implementing advanced data access strategies, securing your APIs, creating custom middleware, and enhancing your logging capabilities. The book goes beyond traditional API development by introducing GraphQL, SignalR, and gRPC, offering insights into how these technologies can extend the reach of your APIs. To prepare you for real-world challenges, the recipes cover testing methodologies, cloud deployment, legacy system integration, and advanced concepts like microservices and Hangfire.By the end of this book, you’ll gain the expertise needed to build and manage enterprise-grade web APIs with ASP.NET Core 9.

Learn React Hooks. Build and refactor modern React.js applications using Hooks

Daniel Bugl

React Hooks revolutionize how you manage state and effects in your web applications. They enable you to build simple and concise React.js applications, along with helping you avoid using wrapper components in your applications, making it easy to refactor code.This React book starts by introducing you to React Hooks. You will then get to grips with building a complex UI in React while keeping the code simple and extensible. Next, you will quickly move on to building your first applications with React Hooks. In the next few chapters, the book delves into various Hooks, including the State and Effect Hooks. After covering State Hooks and understanding how to use them, you will focus on the capabilities of Effect Hooks for adding advanced functionality to React apps. You will later explore the Suspense and Context APIs and how they can be used with Hooks. Toward the concluding chapters, you will learn how to integrate Redux and MobX with React Hooks. Finally, the book will help you develop the skill of migrating your existing React class components, and Redux and MobX web applications to Hooks.By the end of this book, you will be well-versed in building your own custom Hooks and effectively refactoring your React applications.