"Deep thinking is rare in this field where most companies are glad to copy designs that were great back in the 1970s. The Humane Interface is a gourmet dish from a master chef. Five mice!"
--Jakob Nielsen, Nielsen Norman Group
Author of Designing Web Usability: The Practice...

• Get your projects up and running quickly and effortlessly by simulating complicated environments that can be easily shared with colleagues
• Provision...

Our goal in writing Network Intrusion Detection, Third Edition has been toempower you as an analyst. We believe that if you read this book cover to cover,and put the material into practice as you go, you will be ready to enter theworld of intrusion analysis. Many people have read our books, or attended ourlive class offered by SANS, and the...

This book is your hands-on guide to infrastructure provisioning and configuration management in the cloud using Chef’s open source, cross-platform toolset. With over 10,000 customers joining the Microsoft Azure cloud platform each week and steadily increasing usage, the need for automation approaches has never been greater. This book...

• Get to know the background of DevOps so you understand the collaboration between different aspects of an IT organization and a software developer
• Improve your organization's performance to ensure smooth production of software and services
• Deploy top-quality software and...

• Discover how a DevOps cloud management solution can accelerate your path to delivering highly scalable infrastructure and applications
• Learn about infrastructure automation, auto-scaling, and distributed...

"The popular understanding of nutrition is clouded by superstitions, primitive intuitions, conspiracy theories, and old wives' tales. This irreverent and intelligent expose brings sanity and good sense to one of life's great pleasures." ―Steven Pinker, author of Angels of Our Better Nature

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• Discover how Chef can be used to manage a heterogeneous network of Windows and Linux systems with ease
• Configure an entire .NET application stack, deploy it, and scale in the...

Maybe you've heard the story—or probably urban legend—about the university that didn't lay any grass or pour any concrete when it first opened, leaving the campus grounds as solid dirt. Then, as students began to traverse the campus from one class to the next, campus planners mapped the common paths they took, and then...