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Building Bots with Microsoft Bot Framework. Creating intelligent conversational interfaces
Kishore Gaddam
Bots help users to use the language as a UI and interact with the applications from any platform. This book teaches you how to develop real-world bots using Microsoft Bot Framework.The book starts with setting up the Microsoft Bot Framework development environment and emulator, and moves on to building the first bot using Connector and Builder SDK. Explore how to register, connect, test, and publish your bot to the Slack, Skype, and Facebook Messenger platforms. Throughout this book, you will build different types of bots from simple to complex, such as a weather bot, a natural speech and intent processing bot, an Interactive Voice Response (IVR) bot for a bank, a facial expression recognition bot, and more from scratch. These bots were designed and developed to teach you concepts such as text detection, implementing LUIS dialogs, Cortana Intelligence Services, third-party authentication, Rich Text format, Bot State Service, and microServices so you can practice working with the standard development tools such as Visual Studio, Bot Emulator, and Azure.
Tiffanie Miko Coffey
Squarespace is a web-based tool that allows non-technical people to create and manage professional-looking websites quickly, without needing to write any code. It empowers business owners to take total control of their own websites, without needing to pay someone to design or maintain it.This book covers much more than just how to use Squarespace. It covers all aspects of creating a successful business website, from developing your brand identity, to writing and structuring content to match your target audience's needs, and dozens of other other valuable tips that will help your website shine. Most importantly, you'll learn the correct steps to follow in order to ensure your project is smooth and stress-free.The book starts by helping you plan your website project and gather all the raw materials you'll need. Next, you'll set up your account and become familiar with the terminology and tools that you'll be using. Once you've learned the basics of how the Squarespace interface, templates, and different page types operate, you will create the framework of your website, ready for you to insert content and functionality. Then, once all the core elements are in place, you'll apply the aesthetic fine-tuning needed to bring your website in line with your brand. After the aesthetics have been honed and all functions tested, you will launch your website and drive traffic to it, monitor it, and improve it.
This book is ideal for anyone who wants to learn how to use the latest version of Squarespace to create a website from scratch and take it through to go-live. You don't need any prior experience with Squarespace, HTML or CSS, or building websites in general as everything is done using Squarespace's simple, browser-based interface.
Denis Rothman
Standalone LLMs no longer deliver sufficient business value on their own. This guide moves beyond basic chatbots, showing you how to build agentic, ChatGPT-grade systems capable of sophisticated semantic and sentiment analysis, powered by context engineering.You'll design AI controller architectures with multi-user memory retention to dynamically adapt your system to diverse user and system inputs. You'll architect a Retrieval-Augmented Generation system with Pinecone to combine instruction-driven scenarios. Through context engineering, you’ll minimize token usage, maximize response quality, and create systems that reason across complex tasks with precision. You'll enhance your system’s intelligence with multimodal capabilities—image generation, voice interactions, and machine-driven reasoning—leveraging Chain-of-Thought and context chaining to address cross-domain automation challenges. You'll also integrate OpenAI’s suite and DeepSeek-R1 without disrupting your existing GenAISys ecosystem.With context engineering as the backbone, every step becomes a deliberate act of shaping model behavior. Your GenAISys will apply neuroscience-inspired insights to marketing strategies, predict human mobility, integrate smoothly into human workflows, and connect to live external data, all wrapped in a polished, investor-ready interface.
Joel Lord
Tekton is a powerful yet flexible Kubernetes-native open source framework for creating continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) systems. It enables you to build, test, and deploy across multiple cloud providers or on-premise systems.Building CI/CD Systems Using Tekton covers everything you need to know to start building your pipeline and automating application delivery in a cloud-native environment. Using a hands-on approach, you will learn about the basic building blocks, such as tasks, pipelines, and workspaces, which you can use to compose your CI/CD pipelines. As you progress, you will understand how to use these Tekton objects in conjunction with Tekton Triggers to automate the delivery of your application in a Kubernetes cluster.By the end of this book, you will have learned how to compose Tekton Pipelines and use them with Tekton Triggers to build powerful CI/CD systems.
Tidjani Belmansour, Damian Brady
Developers and system administrators often face challenges like inefficient workflows, complex system operations, and the growing demand for robust automation tools. CLI applications provide a powerful solution by enhancing flexibility, efficiency, and productivity in various environments. This book will guide you through mastering the development of robust command-line tools using .NET.Written by a Microsoft Azure MVP, the book’s hands-on approach ensures practical experience with real-world projects. You’ll start with an overview of foundational principles, essential concepts, and best practices for CLI application development. From there, you’ll advance to creating interactive interfaces, integrating with external APIs and services, and implementing security measures to safeguard your applications. Each chapter will build progressively from basic to advanced topics.Beyond development, you’ll learn how to enhance application quality through testing, package for efficient distribution, and deploy effectively. The book also teaches strategies to optimize performance to ensure your applications run efficiently under heavy usage.By the end of this book, you’ll have gained a deep understanding of CLI application development with .NET to build modular, extensible, and easy-to-maintain applications.
Amit Malik
Windows Azure Pack is an on-premises cloud solution by Microsoft, which can be leveraged by Organizations and Services providers for building an enterprise class cloud solution. WAP provides consistent experience to Microsoft Azure, along with capabilities such as multi-tenancy, high density, self-service, automated. WAP can be leveraged to provide both IaaS & PaaS Offerings to internal and external customers. In this book, we will learn about planning and deployment of Cloud Fabric for Windows Azure Pack, Azure Pack components, VM Clouds and IaaS offerings, PaaS Offering including WebSites & Service Bus, DBaaS offerings, Automation with SMA, and extending capabilities with third party products integration and tenant experience for all services.
Tim O'Brien
Learn how to build GenAI applications using proven software engineering patterns instead of rapidly changing frameworks. This book helps engineers build secure, scalable agentic systems with familiar tools and practical, engineer-to-engineer architectural guidance.You will connect GenAI concepts such as agentic workflows, embeddings, and vector databases to enterprise patterns, including components, adapters, and microarchitectures. Established GoF and enterprise design patterns help explain agentic behavior and system design, enabling you to reason about architecture rather than memorize tools. The book also shows you how to generate multi-agent and GenAI patterns as RabbitMQ configurations for scalable orchestration and communication.Using language-agnostic examples and widely used messaging, orchestration, and data technologies, you will build production-ready systems that integrate with existing infrastructure without unnecessary complexity. You will also use our Topologos prompt to build, modify, and test deploy-ready multi-agent systems quickly while improving robustness and maintainability.By the end of this book, you will be able to design reliable GenAI systems, make informed architectural decisions, and adapt confidently as tools and frameworks evolve.*Email sign-up and proof of purchase required