• Learn the fundamentals of Hadoop's backup needs, recovery strategy, and troubleshooting
• Determine common failure points, intimate HBase, and explore different backup...

With the arrival of SAP Simple Finance, SAP is integrating its newest technologies into age-old business operations and you need to keep up. See what SAP Simple Finance can do, what it offers your organization, and where to begin with this introduction to this feather-light finance solution that packs a punch. Take a look at the applications...

With fascinating, spectacularly beautiful images, the book piques readers’ curiosity about the diversity of visual organs. This book is the result of a dual approach – scientific as well as aesthetic. The compelling images are accompanied by an easy-to-read, understandable text, aimed at both scientists and the educated public,...

• Learn to apply the breadth of Boost libraries, including containers, smart pointers, regular expressions, threads, network I/O, and other utilities through practical programming...

As responsive design evolves, we have a critical need to think about design challenges beyond mobile, tablet, and desktop. When properly designed and planned, design patterns-small, reusable modules-help your responsive layout reach more devices (and people) than ever before. Ethan Marcotte shows you just how that's done, focusing on...

• Create dynamic, multi-user web applications completely in...

Practical Graph Analytics with Apache Giraph helps you build data mining and machine learning applications using the Apache Foundation’s Giraph framework for graph processing. This is the same framework as used by Facebook, Google, and other social media analytics operations to derive business value from vast amounts of...

• Model your data as a graph using Neo4j to design databases with minimum hassle
• Discover new patterns using graphs and solve problems that are difficult to solve using any other database
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