O Reilly Media: 1789 books
Building Maintainable Software, Java Edition
Ten Guidelines for Future-Proof Code
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Have you ever felt frustrated working with someone else’s code? Difficult-to-maintain source code is a big problem in software development today, leading to costly delays and defects. Be part of the solution. With this practical book, you’ll learn 10 easy-to-follow guidelines for delivering Java...
Machine Learning for Hackers
Case Studies and Algorithms to Get You Started
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2012
If you’re an experienced programmer interested in crunching data, this book will get you started with machine learning—a toolkit of algorithms that enables computers to train themselves to automate useful tasks. Authors Drew Conway and John Myles White help you understand machine learning and...
Decentralized Applications
Harnessing Bitcoin's Blockchain Technology
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2016
Take advantage of Bitcoin’s underlying technology, the blockchain, to build massively scalable, decentralized applications known as dapps. In this practical guide, author Siraj Raval explains why dapps will become more widely used—and profitable—than today’s most popular web apps. You’ll...
Data Science on the Google Cloud Platform
Implementing End-to-End Real-Time Data Pipelines: From Ingest to Machine Learning
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
Learn how easy it is to apply sophisticated statistical and machine learning methods to real-world problems when you build on top of the Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This hands-on guide shows developers entering the data science field how to implement an end-to-end data pipeline, using statistical...
Programming Beyond Practices
Be More Than Just a Code Monkey
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
Writing code is the easy part of your work as a software developer. This practical book lets you explore the other 90%—everything from requirements discovery and rapid prototyping to business analysis and designing for maintainability. Instead of providing neatly packaged advice from on high, author...
The Art of Capacity Planning
Scaling Web Resources in the Cloud
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
In their early days, Twitter, Flickr, Etsy, and many other companies experienced sudden spikes in activity that took their web services down in minutes. Today, determining how much capacity you need for handling traffic surges is still a common frustration of operations engineers and software developers....
Network Security with OpenSSL
Cryptography for Secure Communications
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2009
Most applications these days are at least somewhat network aware, but how do you protect those applications against common network security threats? Many developers are turning to OpenSSL, an open source version of SSL/TLS, which is the most widely used protocol for secure network communications....
VMware Cookbook
A Real-World Guide to Effective VMware Use
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
With scores of step-by-step solutions, this cookbook helps you work with VMware ESXi in a wide range of network environments. You’ll not only learn the basics—how to pool resources from hardware servers, computer clusters, networks, and storage, and then distribute them among virtual machines—but...
LPI Linux Certification in a Nutshell
A Desktop Quick Reference
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2010
Linux deployment continues to increase, and so does the demand for qualified and certified Linux system administrators. If you're seeking a job-based certification from the Linux Professional Institute (LPI), this updated guide will help you prepare for the technically challenging LPIC Level 1 Exams...
SSH, The Secure Shell: The Definitive Guide
The Definitive Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
Are you serious about network security? Then check out SSH, the Secure Shell, which provides key-based authentication and transparent encryption for your network connections. It's reliable, robust, and reasonably easy to use, and both free and commercial implementations are widely available for most...
by Ivan Ristic
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2009
With more than 67% of web servers running Apache, it is by far the most widely used web server platform in the world. Apache has evolved into a powerful system that easily rivals other HTTP servers in terms of functionality, efficiency, and speed. Despite these impressive capabilities, though, Apache...
STL Pocket Reference
Containers, Iterators, and Algorithms
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2003
The STL Pocket Reference describes the functions, classes, and templates in that part of the C++ standard library often referred to as the Standard Template Library (STL). The STL encompasses containers, iterators, algorithms, and function objects, which collectively represent one of the most important...
Understanding MySQL Internals
Discovering and Improving a Great Database
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2007
Although MySQL's source code is open in the sense of being publicly available, it's essentially closed to you if you don't understand it. In this book, Sasha Pachev -- a former member of the MySQL Development Team -- provides a comprehensive tour of MySQL 5 that shows you how to figure out the inner...
by Thuan L. Thai
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1999
DCOM -- the Distributed Component Object Model -- is a recent upgrade of a time-honored and well-tested technology promoted by Microsoft for distributed object programming. Now that components are playing a larger and larger part in Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0, and Windows 2000, every Windows programmer...