• Leverage the power of Chef to transform your infrastructure into code to deploy new features in minutes
• Understand the Chef architecture and its various components including the different types of server...

The field of structured P2P systems has seen fast growth upon the introduction of Distributed Hash Tables (DHTs) in the early 2000s. The first proposals, including Chord, Pastry, Tapestry, were gradually improved to cope with scalability, locality and security issues. By utilizing the processing and bandwidth resources  of end users, the...

One of the first textbooks in this emerging important field of ecology.

Most of ecology is about metabolism: the ways that organisms use energy and materials. The energy requirements of individuals – their metabolic rates – vary predictably with their body size and temperature. Ecological interactions are...

This book is about different techniques that help us architect software in a better and more efficient way with microservices packed as immutable containers, tested and deployed continuously to servers that are automatically provisioned with configuration management tools. It's about fast, reliable and continuous deployments with...

• Solve your data analytics problems with the Elastic Stack
• Improve your user search experience with Elasticsearch and develop your own Elasticsearch plugins
• Design your index, configure it, and distribute it ― you'll...

• This practical guide demystifies Kubernetes and ensures that your clusters are always available, scalable, and up to date
• Discover new features such as autoscaling, rolling updates, resource quotas,...

• Learn to create interactive games with the Unity 5 game engine
• Explore advanced features of Unity 5 to help make your games more appealing and successful
• A step-by-step guide giving you the perfect...

• Unlock and discover how to tackle clusters of raw data through practical examples in R
• Explore your data and create your own models from scratch
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