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Microservices With Spring Boot and Spring Cloud
$18.71 Add to cartMicroservices has emerged as a powerful solution to build flexible, scalable, and resilient applications. This Book is the go-to-guide to understanding, designing, and implementing microservice architectures using Spring Boot. It takes you on a journey through the intricacies of microservices to create robust and efficient microservice-based applications.
This book helps you to understand the motivations and the entire process behind migrating from monolithic to microservice architectures. It covers essentials like REST basics, advanced topics such as centralized configuration, inter-service communication, Eureka Server, resilience mechanisms, security, and Docker deployment.
Readers will be equipped to effortlessly find and access instances within a microservice architecture without disrupting clients. You will delve into distributed tracing and its importance in monitoring the interactions among microservices. Finally, we will discuss strategies for ensuring the reliability of your microservices architecture.
Whether you’re new to microservices or seeking to enhance your existing expertise, this book is your comprehensive guide to navigating the intricacies of modern application development. Embark on your microservices journey today and unlock the potential of Spring Boot in crafting efficient, scalable, and resilient software solutions. -
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Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer Certification and Implementation Guide
$20.24 Add to cartGain practical knowledge and hands-on expertise in implementing Google Cloud Platform services and prepare to confidently pass the exam on your first attempt
• Explore Google Cloud Platform services and operations in depth
• Gain hands-on experience to effectively employ Google Cloud services
• Receive tailored guidance for Associate Cloud Engineer certification from Google experts
• Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook
Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is a leading cloud provider, helping companies and users worldwide to solve the most challenging business issues. This book will teach cloud engineers working with GCP how to implement, configure, and secure cloud environment, and help students gain confidence in utilizing various GCP services. The book begins by introducing you to Google Cloud and the ACE exam, including various resources that can help you pass. The next set of chapters will help you explore the various compute options in Google Cloud, such as Google Kubernetes Engine and Google Compute Engine. As you advance, you’ll gain a clear understanding of the essence of the cloud, including networking and storage, as well as the data analytics products that Google Cloud provides. The chapters also cover key topics such as monitoring, logging, diagnostics, and price estimation along with the most crucial of subjects, security, with a particular focus on identity and access management. Finally, you’ll be given the chance to test your newfound knowledge with the help of two mock exams. By the end of this book, you’ll have learned the difference between various Google Cloud Platform services, along with specific use cases, and be able to implement these services with the GCP console and command-line utilities.
• Grasp the key topics needed to achieve ACE certification
• Import and export data to and from Google Cloud
• Implement and configure various networking options in Google Cloud
• Derive insights from data with Google Data Analytics
• Gain knowledge and experience in monitoring and logging
• Test yourself in various scenarios while reading the book
• Choose the optimal options to manage your solution’s data
This book is for anyone preparing for Associate Cloud Engineer certification. It can be used by IT system administrators as well as DevOps and it will be most useful to cloud architects as it covers all areas of Google Cloud Platform. This guide is ideal for those who want to start working with Google Cloud, gain practical knowledge, and achieve certification.
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Practical A/B Testing
$14.62 Add to cartWhether you’re a catalyst for organizational change or have the support you need to create an engineering culture that embraces A/B testing, this book will help you do it right. The step-by-step instructions will demystify the entire process, from constructing an A/B test to breaking down the decision factors to build an engineering platform. When you’re ready to run the A/B test of your dreams, you’ll have the perfect blueprint.
With smart, tactful approaches to orchestrating A/B testing on a product, you’ll quickly discover how to reap all the benefits that A/B testing has to offer – benefits that span your users, your product, and your team. Take the reins today, and be the change you want to see in your engineering and product organizations.
Develop a hypothesis statement that’s backed with metrics that demonstrate if your prediction for the experiment is correct. Build more inclusive products by leveraging audience segmentation strategies and ad-hoc post analysis to better understand the impact of changes on specific user groups. Determine which path is best for your team when deciding whether to go with a third-party A/B test framework or to build the A/B testing platform in-house. And finally, learn how to cultivate an experimentation-friendly culture within your team.
Leverage the A/B testing methodology to demonstrate the impact of changes on a product to your users, your key business metrics, and the way your team works together. After all, if you aren’t measuring the impact of the changes you make, how will you know if you’re truly making improvements?
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Adobe After Effects Classroom in a Book
$29.24 Add to cartAdobe After Effects Classroom in a Book (2023 release) uses real-world, project-based learning to cover the basics and beyond, providing countless tips and techniques to help you become more productive with the program. For beginners and experienced users alike, you can follow the book from start to finish or choose only those lessons that interest you. Learn to:
Create, manipulate, and optimize motion graphics for film, video, the web, and mobile devices
Animate text and images, customize a wide range of effects, track and sync content, rotoscope, manipulate timing, correct color, and remove unwanted objects
Customize cameras and lighting to create compelling 3D content
Design Motion Graphics templates for editing in Adobe Premiere Pro
Deform and animate objects and video using robust Puppet toolsClassroom in a Book®, the best-selling series of hands-on software training workbooks, offers what no other book or training program does—an official training series from Adobe, developed with the support of Adobe product experts.
Purchasing this book includes valuable online extras. Follow the instructions in the book’s “Getting Started” section to unlock access to:
Downloadable lesson files you need to work through the projects in the book
Web Edition containing the complete text of the book, interactive quizzes, and videos that walk you through the lessons step by stepWhat you need to use this book: Adobe After Effects (2023 release) software, for either Windows or macOS. (Software not included.)
Note: Classroom in a Book does not replace the documentation, support, updates, or any other benefits of being a registered owner of Adobe After Effects software.
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UML 2 for Dummies
$14.25 Add to cartUses friendly, easy-to-understand For Dummies style to help readers learn to model systems with the latest version of UML, the modeling language used by companies throughout the world to develop blueprints for complex computer systems Guides programmers, architects, and business analysts through applying UML to design large, complex enterprise applications that enable scalability, security, and robust execution Illustrates concepts with mini-cases from different business domains and provides practical advice and examples Covers critical topics for users of UML, including object modeling, case modeling, advanced dynamic and functional modeling, and component and deployment modeling
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Premiere Pro CC Digital Classroom
$24.74 Add to cartA Complete Training Package!
Full-color, step-by-step instructional book
Video training from expert instructors
Tutorials and lesson files on companion DVDYou have a personal tutor in the Digital Classroom
If you want expert instruction that fits into your schedule, the Digital Classroom series delivers. Expert instructors guide you through each lesson, helping you learn essential Premiere Pro CC skills at your own speed. Full-color, step-by-step instructions in the book are enhanced with video tutorials on the companion DVD. With this Digital Classroom training package, you have your own private instructor showing you the easiest way to learn Premiere Pro CC.
Import video, audio, and still images and edit them together on the Timeline
Add transitions and effects to your video to make your projects more engaging and appealing
Automatically stabilize shaky footage with the Warp Stabilizer
Animate layered Photoshop files to create onscreen graphics
Create text and titles using the built-in Premiere Pro Titler
Use Adobe Encore to author your projects to disk or for web distributionDVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of the e-book file, but are available for download after purchase.
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Pro JavaScript Techniques
$25.49 Add to cartPro JavaScript Techniques is the ultimate JavaScript book for the modern web developer. It provides everything you need to know about modern JavaScript, and shows what JavaScript can do for your web sites. This book doesn’t waste any time looking at things you already know, like basic syntax and structures.Expert web developer and author John Resig concentrates on fundamental, vital topics—what modern JavaScripting is (and isnt), the current state of browser support, and pitfalls to be wary of. The book is organized into four sections: Modern JavaScript development using JavaScript the object-oriented way, creating reusable code, plus testing and debugging DOM scripting updating content and styles, plus events, and effect and event libraries How Ajax works, overcoming problems, and using libraries to speed up development of Ajax applications The future of JavaScript looking at cutting edge topics like JSON, HTML5, and more All concepts are backed up by real-world examples and case studies, and John provides numerous reusable functions and classes to save you time in your development. There are also up-to-date reference appendixes for the DOM, events, browser support (including IE7), and frameworks, so you can look up specific details quickly and easily.
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