Learn IT - Books tags scalability

Functional Programming for Java Developers: Tools for Better Concurrency, Abstraction, and Agility

O'Reilly, 2011

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...

Programming Many-Core Chips

Springer, 2011

Parallel computing has been confined, for much of its over 40 year history, to highly specialized, technology-wise advanced domains such as scientific computing or telecommunications. There were only a few experts who had the background and experience to write efficient, robust and scalable programs for these parallel machines.

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Securing the Cloud: Cloud Computer Security Techniques and Tactics

Syngress Publishing, 2011

This book will prove to be a practical resource for anyone who is considering using, building, or securing a cloud implementation. Security professionals may refer to this book as a source of detailed information for evaluating and verifying cloud security policy and requirements. Cloud infrastructure engineers, cloud services...

Information Extraction in the Web Era: Natural Language Communication for Knowledge Acquisition and Intelligent Information Agents

Springer, 2003

The number of research topics covered in recent approaches to Information Extraction (IE) is continually growing as new facts are being considered. In fact, while the user’s interest in extracting information from texts deals mainly with the success of the entire process of locating, in document collections, facts of interest,...

Web Reasoning and Rule Systems: Fourth International Conference, RR 2010, Bressanone/Brixen, Italy

Springer, 2010

The Semantic Web aims at allowing knowledge to be freely accessed and exchanged by software. It is now widely recognized that if the Semantic Web is to contain deep knowledge, the need for new representation and reasoning techniques is critical. These techniques need to find the right trade-off between expressiveness,...

Pro Java 7 NIO.2 (Professional Apress)

Apress, 2011

The recommended entry point to start exploring the NIO.2 API, also known as “JSR 203: More New I/O

APIs for the Java Platform” (NIO.2), is the new abstract class java.nio.file.Path. This class is a milestone of NIO.2, and every application that involves I/O operations will exploit the powerful facilities of this...

Computational and Data Grids: Principles, Applications and Design

IGI Global, 2011

After a lot of development efforts, computer science led us undoubtedly to technological revolutions which have been characterized by the creation of the Internet that influences the future of this science. The next revolutionary step occurred by the necessity of the creation of a new computer network, when researchers realized...

Juniper Networks Warrior: A Guide to the Rise of Juniper Networks Implementations

O'Reilly, 2012

The network has changed a lot recently, with 10 years’ worth of developments packed into just 2 or 3. Those changes have been in specific network domains. The industry has grown out of the “just put another rack in” approach, because putting another rack in does not necessarily equate to gaining...

Distributed Systems: Concepts and Design (4th Edition)

Addison Wesley, 2005

This fourth edition of OUf textbook appears at a time when the Internet and the Web are mature systems, supporting a wide variety of di stdbuted applications on a scale far greater than could have been anticipated when our third edition was published almost five years ago.

The book aims to provide an understanding...

Professional Microsoft IIS 8

Wrox Press, 2012

WINDOWS SERVER 2012 is the latest incarnation of Microsoft’s successful server platform. Included is a new version of IIS, now in its eighth incarnation.

IIS 8.0 isn’t the revolutionary change in architecture that IIS 7.0 was. However it offers much new functionality, absorbing many of the standalone...

The Internet of Things: Key Applications and Protocols

John Wiley & Sons, 2012

An all-in-one reference to the major Home Area Networking, Building Automation and AMI protocols, including 802.15.4 over radio or PLC, 6LowPAN/RPL, ZigBee 1.0 and Smart Energy 2.0, Zwave, LON, BACNet, KNX, ModBus, mBus, C.12 and DLMS/COSEM, and the new ETSI M2M system level standard. In-depth coverage of Smart-grid and EV charging use...

IBM Websphere Portal 8: Web Experience Factory and the Cloud

Packt Publishing, 2012

When I joined IBM in early 2001, WebSphere Portal was little more than an idea. But some believed this was going to be the future of web technology. When WebSphere Portal v1 was released later in that same year, spending the time required to cobble together the components needed to make it run, was an exercise in patience and...

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