Your software needs to leverage multiple cores, handle thousands of users and terabytes of data, and continue working in the face of both hardware and software failure. Concurrency and parallelism are the keys. Paul Butcher shows how emerging technologies such as actors and functional programming address issues with traditional threads and locks development.

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Providing tips on running complex queries and writing code to communicate with the BigQuery API, this guide comes from Jordan Tigani and Siddartha Naidu, founding members of the Google BigQuery team. They explain and demonstrate streaming ingestion, transformation via Hadoop in Google Compute engine, AppEngine datastore integration and how to use GViz with Tableau to generate charts of query results, using real-world examples.

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From lambda expressions and JavaFX 8 to new support for network programming and mobile development, Java 8 brings a wealth of changes. This cookbook helps you get up to speed right away with hundreds of hands-on recipes, each with self-contained code solutions across a broad range of Java topics. You’ll learn useful techniques for everything from debugging and data structures to GUI development and functional programming.

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Written by the inventors of the technology, this book is the definitive technical reference for the Java programming language. It provides complete, accurate, and detailed coverage of the Java programming language. It fully describes the new features added in Java SE 8, including lambda expressions, method references, default methods, type annotations, and repeating annotations.

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Learn how to build a full-stack application with Backbone.js by taking advantage of JavaScript modules, workflow automation, and Backbone’s interface building blocks. In this practical guide, Patrick Mulder takes experienced backend developers and JavaScript programmers through the steps necessary to create a fully functional single-page application.

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This slim biography is in a series from LifeCaps that looks at "lesser known or sometimes forgotten lives". After the recent Turing Year and the forthcoming biopic, the assertion that "few people knew about one of the greatest heroes of the war—a mild-mannered, eccentric mathematician from the University of Cambridge" may be mistaken. Intended primarily as an e-book it's also available as print on demand.

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Based on Big Nerd Ranch's iOS Bootcamp, this guide by Joe Conway, Aaron Hillegass and Christian Keur teaches iOS concepts and coding in tandem. Updated and expanded to cover iOS 7 and Xcode 5 this 4th edition leads you through the essential tools, and techniques for developing iOS applications, providing the understanding and  confidence you need to tackle iOS projects of your own. 

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Written by members of the Java EE documentation team at Oracle, this two-volume task-oriented, example-driven guide to developing enterprise applications provides new and intermediate Java programmers with a deep understanding of the platform. Volume 1 introduces platform basics, including resource creation, resource injection, and packaging.

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Get the most out of Samsung’s Galaxy S5 smartphone right from the start. With clear instructions from technology expert Preston Gralla, this Missing Manual gives you a guided tour of Samsung's new flagship phone, including great new features such as the fingerprint scanner, heart rate sensor, and Download Booster.

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A complete beginner's guide to the EV3 kit from robotics expert Laurens Valk. This full color book teaches you fundamental programming and robotics skills as you build and program six increasingly sophisticated robots that move, monitor sensors, and respond to their environments including an autonomous robotic arm and a humanoid that walks and talks.

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Learn how to program with Python from beginning to end with Michael Driscoll's book for beginners and intermediate programmers. After Python basics, he covers a subset of the Python standard library. There's a series of tutorials and the final part of the book is on 3rd party modules and also covers creating a module and its packaging and distribution.

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