• Learn how to create secure and blazingly fast programs in Rust
• Start working with Rust in a multicore and distributed environment
• Explore the core characteristics of Rust...

WCF is Microsoft's unified programming model for building service-oriented applications. It enables developers to build secure, reliable, transacted solutions that integrate across platforms and interoperate with existing investments. WCF is built on the Microsoft .NET Framework and simplifies development of connected systems. It unifies...

Why should a Java developer learn about functional programming (FP)? After all, hasn’t functional programming been safely hidden in academia for decades? Isn’t objectoriented programming (OOP) all we really need? This book explains why functional programming has become an important tool for the challenges of our time and how...

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In the competitive business arena your organization must continually strive to create new and better products faster, more efficiently, and more cost effectively than your competitors to gain and keep the competitive advantage. Computer-aided design (CAD), computer-aided engineering (CAE), and computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) are now the...

CSP notation has been used extensively for teaching and applying concurrency theory, ever since the publication of the text Communicating Sequential Processes by C.A.R. Hoare in 1985. Both a programming language and a specification language, the theory of CSP helps users to understand concurrent systems, and to decide whether a program meets...

This book presents an integrated collection of representative approaches for scaling up machine learning and data mining methods on parallel and distributed computing platforms. Demand for parallelizing learning algorithms is highly task-specific: in some settings it is driven by the enormous dataset sizes, in others by model complexity or by...

Designed for the professional programmer, the book...

• Implement concurrent applications using the Java 8 Concurrency API and its new components
• Improve the performance of your applications or process more data at the same time,...

Concurrency is a powerful technique for developing efficient and lightning- fast software. For instance, concurrency can be used in common applications...