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Welcome to Cloud Services For Dummies, IBM Limited Edition. Whether public, private, or hybrid, cloud computing is becoming an increasingly integral part of many companies' business and technology strategy. Cloud services help companies turn IT resources into a flexible, elastic, and self-service set of resources that they can more easily manage an

Software delivery practices are constantly improving as companies apply the philosophy of continuous delivery to deploy and release changes quickly, safely, and predictably. Most teams, however, hit roadblocks in the process. This report examines 10 organizations that have implemented continuous delivery in the real world. These case studies demons

The modern data stack has evolved rapidly in the past decade. Yet, as enterprises migrate vast amounts of data from on-premises platforms to the cloud, data teams continue to face limitations executing data transformation at scale. Data transformation is an integral part of the analytics workflow-but it's also the most time-consuming, expensive, an

DevOps like most new approaches, is only a buzzword for many people. Everyone talks about it, but not everyone knows what it is. In broad terms, DevOps is an approach based on lean and agile principles in which business owners and the development, operations, and quality assurance departments collaborate to deliver software in a continuous manner t

This core Microsoft Excel text provides students with the skills needed to execute many personal and professional activities. It also prepares them to go on to more advanced skills using the Excel software. The text takes the approach of creating Excel worksheets that are accurate, tell a story, and can be helpful in making decisions. Personal deci

This textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to computer graphics for a one-semester undergraduate course. It is designed for computer science students with substantial programming experience in languages like Java, C, or JavaScript, which are used in the examples. The book's approach uses a simplified subset of OpenGL to introduce fundament

Back in 1995, software engineer Rasmus Lerdorf needed an easier way to maintain his own web page, and wrote a set of programs he called Personal Home Page, or PHP. He soon open sourced the software, but never anticipated it would become the dominant web-page programming language it is today, Now, PHP powers more than 80% of websites that report the

This book positions the enterprise wide-area network (WAN) as a critical, yet often overlooked, foundation for successful digital transformation. The author argues that while technologies like cloud and mobile receive significant attention, a legacy WAN can derail transformation initiatives. The text makes the case for a new, cloud-first WAN archit

The Raspberry Pi is loved the world over by educators and makers thanks to it's tiny size and endless possibilities. We've managed to stuff the fourth edition of the official Raspberry Pi Projects book with another 200 pages of inspiring projects, practical tutorials, and definitive reviews so you can find out why people like it so much. - Get invo

This book, The Crystal Ball Instruction Manual: Volume Two, Foundations for Data Science, continues the series. The author, Stephen Davies, explains that the first volume was titled "Introduction to Data Science" because it provided an initial, broad tour of the field. He notes that the reader's continued interest indicates a readiness to explore t