Solutions Architect's Handbook. Kick-start your career with architecture design principles, strategies, and generative AI techniques - Third Edition

Saurabh Shrivastava, Neelanjali Srivastav, Rajesh Sheth, Kamal Arora, ...

Build a strong foundation in solution architecture and excel in your career with the Solutions Architect’s Handbook. Authored by seasoned AWS technology leaders Saurabh Shrivastav and Neelanjali Srivastav, this book goes beyond traditional certification guides, offering in-depth insights and advanced techniques to meet the specific needs and challenges of solutions architects today. This edition introduces exciting new features that keep you at the forefront of this evolving field. From large language models and generative AI to deep learning innovations, these cutting-edge advancements are shaping the future of technology. Key topics such as cloud-native architecture, data engineering architecture, cloud optimization, mainframe modernization, and building cost-efficient, secure architectures remain essential today. This book covers both emerging and foundational technologies, guiding you through solution architecture design with key principles and providing the knowledge you need to succeed as a Solutions Architect. It also sharpens your soft skills, providing career-accelerating techniques to stay ahead.By the end of this book, you will be able to harness cutting-edge technologies, apply practical insights from real-world scenarios, and enhance your solution architecture skills with the Solutions Architect's Handbook.

Software Architecture with C# 12 and .NET 8. Build enterprise applications using microservices, DevOps, EF Core, and design patterns for Azure - Fourth Edition

Gabriel Baptista, Francesco Abbruzzese

Software Architecture with C# 12 and .NET 8 puts high-level design theory to work in a .NET context, teaching you the key skills, technologies, and best practices required to become an effective .NET software architect.This fourth edition puts emphasis on a case study that will bring your skills to life. You’ll learn how to choose between different architectures and technologies at each level of the stack. You’ll take an even closer look at Blazor and explore OpenTelemetry for observability, as well as a more practical dive into preparing .NET microservices for Kubernetes integration.Divided into three parts, this book starts with the fundamentals of software architecture, covering C# best practices, software domains, design patterns, DevOps principles for CI/CD, and more. The second part focuses on the technologies, from choosing data storage in the cloud to implementing frontend microservices and working with Serverless. You’ll learn about the main communication technologies used in microservices, such as REST API, gRPC, Azure Service Bus, and RabbitMQ. The final part takes you through a real-world case study where you’ll create software architecture for a travel agency.By the end of this book, you will be able to transform user requirements into technical needs and deliver highly scalable enterprise software architectures.

Oracle Autonomous Database in Enterprise Architecture. Utilize Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Autonomous Databases for better consolidation, automation, and security

Bal Mukund Sharma, Krishnakumar KM, Rashmi Panda

Oracle Autonomous Database (ADB) is built on the world’s fastest Oracle Database Platform, Exadata, and is delivered on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), customer data center (ExaCC), and Oracle Dedicated Region Cloud. This book is a fast-paced, hands-on introduction to the most important aspects of OCI Autonomous Databases.You'll get to grips with concepts needed for designing disaster recovery using standby database deployment for Autonomous Databases. As you progress, you'll understand how you can take advantage of automatic backup and restore. The concluding chapters will cover topics such as the security aspects of databases to help you learn about managing Autonomous Databases, along with exploring the features of Autonomous Database security such as Data Safe and customer-managed keys for Vaults.By the end of this Oracle book, you’ll be able to build and deploy an Autonomous Database in OCI, migrate databases to ADB, comfortably set up additional high-availability features such as Autonomous Data Guard, and understand end-to-end operations with ADBs.

Mobile DevOps Playbook. A practical guide for delivering high-quality mobile applications like a pro

Moataz Nabil

To build mobile apps, you need to understand mobile-first features, tools, and processes that help you build, test, and release robust apps faster and more efficiently. The multitude of challenges stemming from mobile development's inherent complexities, including native iOS and Android app creation, cross-platform frameworks, and the implementation of scalable architectures within extensive teams, collectively contribute to a substantial number of obstacles that can significantly prolong the release process.This book will help you understand and implement the best practices of mobile DevOps for continuous integration, testing, delivery, deployment, and monitoring. You’ll explore different challenges faced by developers due to varied OSs, the unforgiving nature of mobile applications, and continuous updates to mobile phones and learn how to maneuver through these challenges. You’ll also get to grips with the latest trends while discovering the potential future of mobile DevOps, with valuable insights and guidance about integrating mobile development teams into your organization.By the end of this book, you’ll be well-equipped to successfully implement mobile DevOps and build fast, qualitative, and efficient mobile apps for your team or organization.

Mastering Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 HOTSHOT. Take your video editing skills to new and exciting levels with eight fantastic projects

Paul Ekert, PAUL EKERT

Adobe Premiere Pro has become synonymous with video editing, in the same way Photoshop has become a byword for image manipulation. To unlock the true potential of this powerful software you don't need you to take expensive training courses or spend hours trying to get your footage “just right”. Work through this practical guide and truly master Premiere Pro CS6 using real footage with engaging examples.Using the included source material (available via digital download), this book will help you discover a plethora of features and functionality hidden within Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 that can truly augment your skills and take your footage to the next level. By covering a diverse array of topics in a practical manner, you will gain a full understanding of how to approach pretty much any video editing project you want to tackle with Adobe Premiere Pro CS6.Starting off with an entry-level project to get both new and existing users up to speed, Mastering Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 Hotshot dives right into a series of engaging real-world projects that help you understand how you can harness Premiere Pro's full potential. With an explicit focus on practical real-world projects from concept to publication, this is the definitive guide for people who want to make the most out of this powerful software.As you progress through the book you'll encounter problems of poorly shot footage; news reporters who stumble over their dialog and camera crews who fail to deliver key scenes, leaving you to scavenge and then hide your trail. Not only will you develop a full understanding of how core features work, you'll also have a clear grasp on how to make your footage stand out from the crowd.

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011: Dashboards Cookbook. Figuring out Dashboards in Microsoft Dynamic CRM doesn’t have to be complicated. The smart way to learn is by following these 50+ recipes that help you visualize your CRM data clearly and communicatively

Mark AuCoin, Mark AuCoin

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 offers you access to exciting new interactive and flexible Dashboards that contain any combination of Charts, Lists, iFrames and Silverlight components. These can be used to easily visualize your CRM data and provide you with a light BI interface, all of which this practical cookbook will enable you to utilize.At first glance, Dashboards and their myriad information can be overwhelming to users that are new to the Dynamics CRM 2011 interface. This book guides you through navigating and interacting with Dashboards in a simple and easy to follow manner, and builds on that experience to walk you through creating and sharing your own User Dashboards.Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011: Dashboards Cookbookù offers a range of practical recipes for mastering dashboard navigation, interaction, and building custom Dashboards in Dynamics CRM.You will immediately get to grips with essential tasks like changing Dashboard settings and sharing Dashboards with other members in the CRM team, as well as adding custom components like iFrames and Lists. Along the way you will also follow the creation of a simple HTML WebResouce that can be added to your Dashboard.By the end of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011: Dashboards Cookbookù, you will be fully equipped to take advantage of the exciting new Dashboards features of Dynamics CRM 2011.

Amazon EC2 Cookbook. Over 40 hands-on recipes to develop and deploy real-world applications using Amazon EC2

Sekhar Reddy, Aurobindo Sarkar

Discover how to perform a complete forensic investigation of large-scale Hadoop clusters using the same tools and techniques employed by forensic experts. This book begins by taking you through the process of forensic investigation and the pitfalls to avoid. It will walk you through Hadoop’s internals and architecture, and you will discover what types of information Hadoop stores and how to access that data. You will learn to identify Big Data evidence using techniques to survey a live system and interview witnesses. After setting up your own Hadoop system, you will collect evidence using techniques such as forensic imaging and application-based extractions. You will analyze Hadoop evidence using advanced tools and techniques to uncover events and statistical information. Finally, data visualization and evidence presentation techniques are covered to help you properly communicate your findings to any audience.

Rust Web Programming. A hands-on guide to developing fast and secure web apps with the Rust programming language

Maxwell Flitton

Are safety and high performance a big concern for you while developing web applications?While most programming languages have a safety or speed trade-off, Rust provides memory safety without using a garbage collector. This means that with its low memory footprint, you can build high-performance and secure web apps with relative ease.This book will take you through each stage of the web development process, showing you how to combine Rust and modern web development principles to build supercharged web apps.You'll start with an introduction to Rust and understand how to avoid common pitfalls when migrating from traditional dynamic programming languages. The book will show you how to structure Rust code for a project that spans multiple pages and modules. Next, you'll explore the Actix Web framework and get a basic web server up and running. As you advance, you'll learn how to process JSON requests and display data from the web app via HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. You'll also be able to persist data and create RESTful services in Rust. Later, you'll build an automated deployment process for the app on an AWS EC2 instance and Docker Hub. Finally, you'll play around with some popular web frameworks in Rust and compare them.By the end of this Rust book, you'll be able to confidently create scalable and fast web applications with Rust.