This book is a concise one-stop desk reference and synopsis of basic knowledge and skills for Cisco certification prep. For beginning and experienced network engineers tasked with building LAN, WAN, and data center connections, this book lays out clear directions for installing, configuring, and troubleshooting networks with Cisco devices....

“Science is art,” said Regina Dugan, senior executive at Google and former director of DARPA. “It is the process of creating something that never exists before. ... It makes us ask new questions about ourselves, others; about ethics, the future.” This second volume of the Digital Da Vinci book series leads the...

• Extract information from unstructured data using NLTK to solve NLP problems
• Analyse linguistic structures in text and learn the concept of semantic analysis and parsing
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• Move large amounts of data into HBase and learn how to manage it efficiently
• Set up HBase on the cloud, get it ready for production, and run it smoothly with high performance
• Maximize the ability of HBase with the...

Phenomena occurring during a contact of two bodies are encountered in everyday life. In reality almost every type of motion is related to frictional contact between a moving body and a ground. Moreover, modeling of simple and more complex processes as nailing, cutting, vacuum pressing, movement of machines and their elements, rolling or,...

• Become an expert at graph processing using GraphX
• Use Apache Spark as your single big data compute platform and master its libraries
• Learn with recipes...

• Set up your own Heroku-like PaaS by getting accustomed to the Docker ecosystem
• Run your applications on development machines, private servers, or the cloud, with minimal cost of a virtual...

• Master mission-critical aspects of virtualization to develop, deploy, and administer virtual infrastructures
• Integrate Citrix XenServer with OpenStack and CloudStack to...

• Make use of the latest Visual Studio debugging tools, to manage and debug multiple threads running simultaneously
• Learn how to use the Thread, Task, and Parallel libraries in your C#...

• Develop a complete game throughout the book
• Learn how to...

• Learn the basics of this emerging technology and have fun doing it
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