This book is for Gophers who want to learn how to build distributed systems, developers who know the basics of Go and are eager to put their knowledge to work. Travis Jeffery shows how to build distributed services that are highly available, resilient, and scalable. The book covers designing, developing, and deploying a distributed service. Start from the bare essentials of storage handling, then work your way through networking a client and server, and finally to distributing server instances, deployment, and testing.

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This book teaches how to implement an automated testing plan for JavaScript-based web applications. Lucas de Costa, a core contributor to popular JS testing libraries, shows how to build a comprehensive and reliable JS application testing suite, covering both how to write tests and how JS testing tools work under the hood and provides informative explanations and diagrams, easily-transferable code samples, and useful tips on using the latest and most consolidated libraries and frameworks of the JavaScript ecosystem.

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This updated second edition expounds upon the first with more details and techniques. With new chapters, updated C# code and examples, Jeff W. Murray’s book explains structured game development in Unity.  New to this edition is a step-by-step tutorial for building a 2D infinite runner game from the framework and scripts included in the book. The book contains a flexible and reusable framework in C# suitable for all game types. From game state handling to audio mixers to asynchronous scene loading, the focus of this book is building a reusable structure to take care of many of the most used systems.

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With the subtitle "Incorporating 5G Communications and Fog/Edge Computing Technologies", this book explores unusual types of Internet of Things (IoT) architecture, for example, the Web of Things (WoT) with its open character that breaks the barriers among various IoT vertical applications. Yang Yang, Xu Chen, Rui Tan and Yong Xiao examine and compare key technologies from physical to platform level, especially the Narrow Band Internet of Things (NB-IoT) technology.

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This book shows how to use Swift 5.3 and Xcode 12.14 to program for iOS using efficient, readable, and maintainable Swift code that reflects industry best practices. In this 4th edition, updated for iOS 14, Mario Eguiluz Alebicto, Chris Barker and Donny Wals look at how to build apps and get to grips with real-world app development flow. The practical examples are designed to provide hands-on experience with using iOS 14's new features and highlight the language changes in Swift 5.3.

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The subtitle of this book explains what it covers - Manage Aging Computer Systems (and Future Proof Modern Ones). “Kill it with fire,” the typical first reaction to a legacy system falling into obsolescence, is a knee-jerk approach that often burns through tons of money and time only to result in a less efficient solution. In this book Marianne Bellotti offers a far more forgiving modernization framework, laying out smart value-add strategies and proven incremental techniques that work equally well for ancient systems and brand-new ones.

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Fully updated to ASP.NET 5.0, this is a hands-on primer to building cross-platform web applications with C# and .NET skills. Andrew Lock goes from basic HTTP concepts to advanced framework customization. This updated edition covers the latest features, including Razor Pages and the new hosting paradigm.

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This book will take you through a range of techniques for text processing, from basics such as parsing the parts of speech to complex topics such as topic modeling, text classification, and visualization. Zhenya Antić shows how to solve real-world NLP problems, such as dependency parsing, information extraction, topic modeling, and text data visualization.

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“You look like a thing and I love you” is one of the best pickup lines ever…according to an artificial intelligence system trained by Janelle Shane, creator of the blog AI Weirdness. In her book subtitled "How Artificial Intelligence Works and Why It's Making the World a Weirder Place", Shane creates silly AIs that learn how to name colors of paint, create the best recipes, and even flirt (badly) with humans.

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Practical and example-driven, this book gives the tools to get comfortable with the GraphQL language, build and optimize a data API service, and use it in a front-end client application. Samer Buna shows how to create a complete GraphQL server, and easy ways to incorporate GraphQL into an existing codebase to offer simple, efficient, and scalable data APIs.

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Subtitled "The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World", this book looks at the way artificial intelligence has been built into our biggest companies, our social discourse, and our daily lives, with few of us even noticing.  New York Times Silicon Valley journalist, Cade Metz, has based this book on hundreds of interviews at those companies. He presents the fierce conflict AI engenders between national interests, shareholder value, the pursuit of scientific knowledge, and the very human concerns about privacy, security, bias, and prejudice.

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The BBC micro:bit is capable of taking on a variety of roles including that of a powerful IoT device. In order to gain full access to its features and to external devices, however, you need to use C which delivers the speed which is crucial when you are writing programs to communicate with the outside world. The updated, expanded, 2nd Edition covers the new V2 version of the micro:bit and uses the VS Code for offline development. Writing for the electronics enthusiast with a programming background, Harry Fairhead presents details of sensors and circuits with several complete programs and provides downloadable templates for both V1 and V2 of the micro:bit to help you get started.

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