Agile retrospectives are a key element of a successful continuous improvement process, and help you get to the root of your real problems, so you can solve them quickly and effectively. In this book, author and agile coach/trainer Marc Loeffler combines practical guidance, proven practices, and innovative approaches for maximizing the value of retrospectives for your team—and your entire organization.

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This book is a guide to how to understand and build microservices. Based on the experience of microservices developer Richard Rodger, it looks at the thinking behind microservice designs. Concepts covered include asynchronous messaging, service APIs, and encapsulation, while showing how to apply microservices architecture to real-world projects. It also contains detailed case studies with source code in JavaScript and Node.js that demonstrate best practices for team development, planning for change, and tool choice.

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The familiar concept of 24 sessions of one hour or less is applied to ASP.NET in this book. Author and ASP.NET Program Manager Jeffrey T. Fritz guides you from jumpstarting development with templates to implementing cutting-edge security and containerization, to help you build professional-quality, cloud-based, web-connected solutions with ASP.NET Core. This book’s straightforward, step-by-step approach guides you from the basics to advanced techniques, using practical examples to help you make the most of Microsoft’s radically revamped ASP.NET Core framework.

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The creators of the Apache Spark cluster computing framework have written this book showing how to use, deploy, and maintain Apache Spark. With an emphasis on improvements and new features in Spark 2.0, authors Bill Chambers and Matei Zaharia break down Spark topics into distinct sections, each with unique goals. Topics covered start from the basic operations and common functions of Spark’s structured APIs, as well as Structured Streaming, a new high-level API for building end-to-end streaming applications.

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This book shows how to use RxJS 5 to write complex programs in a simple way, alongside use of the Observable: a powerful data type that substitutes callbacks and promises. Author Sergi Mansilla shows how to think about your programs as streams of data that change and adapt to produce what you want. He also shows how to integrate RxJS 5 with your existing projects and use it with the frameworks you already know. All the code in this new edition has been thoroughly revised and updated for RxJS 5, ES6, and Cycle.js Unified.

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Subtitled, "Maker-Inspired Projects For Building Your Own Robots", this illustrated guide shows how to make your own robots, featuring 13 robotics projects suitable for beginner to intermediate level. Author Daniel Knox shows how to use easily sourced components that illustrate simple electronics and programming, and how to design and build custom-made creations that can walk, draw or even guard your home.

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With the subtitle "The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet"  this book looks at the women who have been involved in important waves in technology described byt author Claire L. Evans as unsung female heroes. Women in the book include Grace Hopper, the tenacious mathematician who led the charge for machine-independent programming languages after World War II, Elizabeth "Jake" Feinler, the one-woman Google who kept the earliest version of the Internet online, and Stacy Horn, who ran one of the first-ever social networks on a shoestring out of her New York City apartment in the 1980s.

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The book looks at microservices and cloud computing using Go. Authors Mina Andrawos and Martin Helmich start by covering the software architectural patterns of cloud applications, as well as practical concepts regarding how to scale, distribute, and deploy those applications. The book also shows how to build a JavaScript-based front-end for your application, using TypeScript and React.  AWS is also covered to show how commercial cloud offerings work.

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This book provides a framework for discussing the interaction of two concepts: machine learning and security. Authors Clarence Chio and David Freeman examine a broad range of topics in the security space, and provide examples of how machine learning can be applied to augment or replace rule-based or heuristic solutions to problems like intrusion detection, malware classification, or network analysis. In addition to exploring the core machine learning algorithms and techniques, the authors focus on the challenges of building maintainable, reliable, and scalable data mining systems in the security space.

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This is the third edition of Murach's guide to the skills you need to develop database-driven websites using PHP and MySQL. Joel Murach shows how to use the latest versions of PHP, MySQL (or MariaDB), and the Apache web server to build PHP applications. This edition covers PHP 7 enhancements like scalar data type declarations and improved error handling, as well as new operators and functions.

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Deep Learning with R introduces the world of deep learning using the Keras library and its R language interface. Initially written for Python as Deep Learning with Python by Keras creator and Google AI researcher François Chollet and adapted for R by RStudio founder J. J. Allaire, this book builds your understanding of deep learning through intuitive explanations and practical examples

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This book is introduces physical computing with the Arduino microcontroller platform. No prior experience is required, not even an understanding of basic electronics. Authors Jody Culkin and Eric Hagan combine color illustrations, easy-to-follow explanations, and step-by-step instructions, the book takes the beginner from building simple circuits on a breadboard to setting up the Arduino IDE and downloading and writing sketches to run on the Arduino.

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