Getting software released to users is often a painful, risky, and time-consuming process. This groundbreaking new book sets out the principles and technical practices that enable rapid, incremental delivery of high quality, valuable new functionality to users. Through automation of the build, deployment, and testing...

• Carlos R. Morrison from NASA will teach you to build a supercomputer with Raspberry Pi 3
• Deepen your understanding of setting up host nodes, configuring networks, and automating mountable drives
• Learn various math, physics, and engineering applications to solve complex...

Large-scale data analysis is now vitally important to virtually every business. Mobile and social technologies are generating massive datasets;...

• Deploy and manage virtual machines, virtual networks, and an online database for application provisioning, maintenance, and high availability of your data
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Cloud computing is a paradigm shift in the IT industry similar to the displacement of local electric generators with the electric grid, providing utility computing, and it is changing the nature of competition within the computer industry. There are over a hundred companies that claim they can provide cloud services....

• Build scalable and highly available real-time applications
• Make cost-effective architectural decisions by implementing your product's functional and non-functional requirements
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When migrating to the new wave of cloud-based applications, we now think about business logic, we think about automating processes, and we think about how we can make the systems better. Force.com is a cloud-based platform that is used to build and deploy enterprise applications on the cloud with minimum coding. Demand for Force.com experts...

As the Internet becomes the medium of choice for value-added IP service offerings such as TV broadcasting, videoconferencing, and Voice over IP, the ability of automating configuration...

“I have found this book to be a very useful classroom text, as well as a great Linux resource. It teaches Linux using a ground-up approach that gives students the chance to progress with their skills and grow into the Linux world. I have often pointed to this book when asked to recommend a solid...

Pro SQL Server 2012 Practices is an anthology of high-end wisdom from a group of accomplished database administrators who are quietly but relentlessly pushing the performance and feature envelope of Microsoft SQL Server 2012. With an emphasis upon performance—but also branching into release...