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JavaScript lies at the heart of almost every modern web application, from social apps like Twitter to browser-based game frameworks like Phaser and Babylon. Though simple for beginners to pick up and play with, JavaScript is a flexible, complex language that you can use to build full-scale applications. This much anticipated and thoroughly revised

One of its most important capabilities is content caching, which is a highly effective method for improving a website's performance. In this ebook, the authors describe how NGINX caches content, how to implement caching and cache clustering, and some of the ways to improve performance. The text provides a deep dive into how content caching truly wo

This 2d volume describes the systematic application of Promise Theory to systems, representing a significant step forward in describing functional systems with both dynamics and semantics. By combining quantitative and qualitative descriptions in a single framework, Promise Theory provides the first impartial language for multiscale system phenomen

Network and System Administration usually refers only to the traditional skills and recipes for keeping computers and networks running properly. But, in truth, this view omits the most important part of the system: humans. The skill needed to comprehend and tame systems comprising both humans and machines is that of managing complexity. In this boo

Are your data systems slowing down your AI initiatives? The potential of AI to revolutionize business is undeniable, but many organizations struggle to bridge the gap between ambitious ideas and real-world results. The cause? Traditional data architectures remain too rigid and siloed to support today's dynamic, data-intensive demands. If you're a d

Extract, transform, load (ETL) is at the center of every application of data, from business intelligence to AI. Constant shifts in the data landscape - including the implementations of lakehouse architectures and the importance of high-scale real-time data - mean that today's data practitioners must approach ETL a bit differently. This updated tech

Microsoft Azure is Microsoft's cloud computing platform, providing a wide variety of services you can use without purchasing and provisioning your own hardware. Azure enables the rapid development of solutions and provides the resources to accomplish tasks that may not be feasible in an on-premises environment. Azure's compute, storage, network, an

Get a head start deploying Windows 10 - with tips and best practices from experts in the field. This guide shows you how to deploy Windows 10 in an automated way without impacting end users by leveraging System Center Configuration Manager, which is the most used product to deploy Microsoft operating systems in the industry today. Windows 10 repres

This book takes a single line of code - the extremely concise BASIC program for the Commodore 64 inscribed in the title - and uses it as a lens through which to consider the phenomenon of creative computing and the way computer programs exist in culture. The authors of this collaboratively written book treat code not as merely functional but as a t

Even connecting a few programs across a few sockets is plain nasty when you start to handle real life situations. Trillions? The cost would be unimaginable. Connecting computers is so difficult that software and services to do this is a multi-billion dollar business. So today we're still connecting applications using raw UDP and TCP, proprietary pr