Microsoft Azure has over 20 platform-as-a-service offerings that can act in support of a big data analytics solution. The skill lies in knowing which one is right for your project. In this practical book author Zoiner Tejada helps you understand the breadth of Azure services by organizing them into a reference framework you can use when crafting your own big data analytics solution.

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In this lively book, Matthew Lane looks at the mathematical ideas concealed in video games. He discusses how gamers are engaging with the traveling salesman problem when they play Assassin's Creed, why it is mathematically impossible for Mario to jump through the Mushroom Kingdom in Super Mario Bros., and how The Sims teaches us the mathematical costs of maintaining relationships.

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Eberhard Wolff introduces a proven Continuous Delivery technology stack, including Docker, Chef, Vagrant, Jenkins, Graphite, the ELK stack, JBehave, and Gatling. He guides you through applying these technologies throughout build, continuous integration, load testing, acceptance testing, and monitoring. Wolff’s start-to-finish example projects offer the basis for your own experimentation, pilot programs, and full-fledged deployments.

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In this book author Evan Burchard provides clear guidance on how best to avoid common mistaken approaches to improving poor JavaScript code, such as rewriting it using the latest framework or slowly and carefully taking a guess at how the out-of-control system can be altered to allow for new features, hoping that this doesn't bring the whole stack of blocks down.

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This book presents advanced techniques for mobile app development, and addresses recent developments in mobile technologies and wireless networks. Authors Meikang Qiu, Wenyun Dai, and Keke Gai cover advanced algorithms, embedded systems, novel mobile app architecture, and mobile cloud computing paradigms.

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This book teaches readers not only how to build graph data structures, but also how to create their own dynamic, interactive visualizations using a variety of tools. Author Corey Lanum shows how graphs make the relationships between the data elements a core part of the data structure.

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Deep learning has boosted the entire field of machine learning, and makes it easier for programmers who aren't machine learning experts to use simple, efficient tools to implement programs capable of learning from data. In this practical book author Aurelien Geron shows you how, by using concrete examples, minimal theory, and two production-ready Python frameworks-scikit-learn and TensorFlow.

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This book explains the technology of The Internet of Things, the internetworking, and applications that are making IoT an everyday reality.  Authors Pethuru Raj and Anupama Raman begin with a discussion of IoT "ecosystems" and the technology that enables them, including wireless technologies, infrastructure and service discovery protocols, integration technologies and tools, and application and analytics enablement platforms.

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The second edition of this acclaimed cookbook includes recipes for working with user interfaces, multitouch gestures, location awareness, web services, and specific device features such as the phone, camera, and accelerometer. Author Ian F. Darwin guides you through building working Android apps with the help of more than 230 tested recipes

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This is the 2nd edition of a comprehensive primary reference to building 3D user interfaces and interactions. Five pioneering researchers and practitioners cover the full spectrum of emerging applications, techniques, and best practices. Joseph J. LaViola Jr., Ernst Kruijff, Ryan P. McMahan, Doug Bowman, Ivan P. Poupyrev combine theoretical foundations, analysis of leading devices, and empirically validated design guidelines.

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Lavishly illustrated with cartoons and drawings, in this book from Make Media author Marc de Vinck guides the reader through six hands-on projects using electricity. They illuminate such concepts as electric circuits, electromagnetism, electroluminescence, the Lorentz force and more, achieving impressive results with a handful of simple materials

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This book explains how adopting SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) can quickly improve time to market and increase productivity, quality, and employee engagement. Authors Richard Knaster and Dean Leffingwell discuss how businesses must be able to rapidly change the way they create and deliver value to their customers.

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