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• Building Maintainable Software, Java Edition : Ten Guidelines for Future-Proof Code
• Site Reliability Engineering : How Google Runs Production Systems
• Calm Technology : Principles and Patterns for Non-Intrusive Design
• Graphing Data with R : An Introduction
• Designing Efficient BPM Applications : A Process-Based Guide for Beginners
• Optimizing Java : Practical Techniques for Improved Performance Tuning
• Laravel: Up & Running : A Framework for Building Modern PHP Apps
• Kafka: The Definitive Guide : Real-time data and stream processing at scale
• Think DSP : Digital Signal Processing in Python
• Programming Rust : Fast, Safe Systems Development

Building Maintainable Software, Java Edition : Ten Guidelines for Future-Proof Code Posted: 28 Mar 2016 12:52 PM PDT Have you ever felt frustrated working with someone else's code? Difficult-to-maintain source code is a big problem in software development today, leading to costly delays and defects. Be part of the solution. With this practical book, you'll learn 10 easy-to-follow guidelines for delivering Java software that's easy to maintain and adapt. These guidelines have been derived from analyzing hundreds of real-world systems. Written by consultants from the Software Improvement Group (SIG), this book provides clear and concise explanations, with advice for turning the guidelines into practice. Examples for this edition are written in Java, while our companion C# book provides workable examples in that language.

Site Reliability Engineering : How Google Runs Production Systems Posted: 28 Mar 2016 12:52 PM PDT The overwhelming majority of a software system's lifespan is spent in use, not in design or implementation. So, why does conventional wisdom insist that software engineers focus primarily on the design and development of large-scale computing systems? In this collection of essays and articles, key members of Google's Site Reliability Team explain how and why their commitment to the entire lifecycle has enabled the company to successfully build, deploy, monitor, and maintain some of the largest software systems in the world. You'll learn the principles and practices that enable Google engineers to make systems more scalable, reliable, and efficient—lessons directly applicable to your organization.

Calm Technology : Principles and Patterns for Non-Intrusive Design Posted: 28 Mar 2016 12:52 PM PDT How can you design technology that becomes a part of a user's life and not a distraction from it? This practical book explores the concept of calm technology, a method for smoothly capturing a user's attention only when necessary, while calmly remaining in the background most of the time. You'll learn how to design products that work well, launch well, are easy to support, easy to use, and remain unobtrusive. Author Amber Case presents ideas first introduced by researchers at Xerox PARC in 1995, and explains how they apply to our current technology landscape, especially the Internet of Things. This book is ideal for UX and product designers, managers, creative directors, and developers.

Graphing Data with R : An Introduction Posted: 28 Mar 2016 12:52 PM PDT It's much easier to grasp complex data relationships with a graph than by scanning numbers in a spreadsheet. This introductory guide shows you how to use the R language to create a variety of useful graphs for visualizing and analyzing complex data for science, business, media, and many other fields. You'll learn methods for highlighting important relationships and trends, reducing data to simpler forms, and emphasizing key numbers at a glance. Anyone who wants to analyze data will find something useful here - even if you don't have a background in mathematics, statistics, or computer programming. If you want to examine data related to your work, this book is the ideal way to start.

Designing Efficient BPM Applications : A Process-Based Guide for Beginners Posted: 28 Mar 2016 12:52 PM PDT Looking for efficiency gains in your business? If you're a business analyst, this practical guide will show you how to design effective business process management (BPM) applications. Every business uses business processes—these everyday tasks help you gain and retain customers, stay profitable, and keep your operations infrastructure functioning. BPM specialists Christine McKinty and Antoine Mottier show you step-by-step how to turn a simple business procedure into an automated, process-based application. Using hands-on examples, you'll quickly learn how to create an online process that's easy to use. Each chapter builds on earlier material. You don't have to have any programming experience to design business processes—and if you have skills in designing workflows and understanding human interactions with processes, you already have a headstart.

Optimizing Java : Practical Techniques for Improved Performance Tuning Posted: 28 Mar 2016 12:52 PM PDT Currently, no books exist that focus on the practicalities of Java application performance tuning, as opposed to the theory and internals of Java virtual machines. This practical guide is the "missing link" that aims to move Java performance tuning from the realm of guesswork and folklore to an experimental science. Learn how to approach performance problems in an consistent and systematic way; Resolve production performance issues by learning core Java performance topics; Identify and resolve performance issues before encountering them in production; Understand the performance problems you encounter by learning the Java platform's internals.

Laravel: Up & Running : A Framework for Building Modern PHP Apps Posted: 28 Mar 2016 12:52 PM PDT This practical book teaches Laravel piece by piece, starting from the ground up. It's not a reference book; you'll work through creating usable, real-world tools and applications as a way to learn all of the pieces of the framework. The purpose of this book is to teach beginners the foundations necessary to quickly become proficient with Laravel. This book is ideal for developers with experience in PHP or other C-family programming languages—especially those who don't have the time or resources to sift through the multitude of training resources available online. This is your single resource to Laravel when you want to get up and running right away.

Kafka: The Definitive Guide : Real-time data and stream processing at scale Posted: 28 Mar 2016 12:52 PM PDT Learn how to take full advantage of Apache Kafka, the distributed, publish-subscribe queue for handling real-time data feeds. With this comprehensive book, you'll understand how Kafka works and how it's designed. Authors Neha Narkhede, Gwen Shapira, and Todd Palino show you how to deploy production Kafka clusters; secure, tune, and monitor them; write rock-solid applications that use Kafka; and build scalable stream-processing applications.

Think DSP : Digital Signal Processing in Python Posted: 28 Mar 2016 12:52 PM PDT Think DSP: Digital Signal Processing in Python is an introduction to signal processing and system analysis using a computational approach. The premise of this book (like the others in the Think X series) is that if you know how to program, you can use that skill to learn other things. By the end of the first chapter, you'll be able to decompose a sound into its harmonics, modify the harmonics, and generate new sounds. Subsequent chapters follow a logical progression that develops the important ideas incrementally, with a focus on applications.

Programming Rust : Fast, Safe Systems Development Posted: 28 Mar 2016 12:52 PM PDT This practical book introduces systems programmers to Rust, the new and cutting-edge language. You'll learn how Rust offers the rare and valuable combination of statically verified memory safety and low-level control—imagine C++, but without dangling pointers, null pointer dereferences, leaks, or buffer overruns. Author Jim Blandy - a former maintainer of GNU Emacs and GNU Guile - demonstrates how Rust has the potential to be the first usable programming language that brings the benefits of an expressive modern type system to systems programming. Rust's rules for borrowing, mutability, ownership, and moves versus copies will be unfamiliar to most systems programmers, but they're key to Rust's unique advantages. This book presents Rust's rules clearly and economically; elaborates on their consequences; and shows you how to express the programs you want to write in terms that Rust can prove are free of broad classes of everyday errors.

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