Cloud Books
Creating a Data-Driven Enterprise with DataOps
Many companies are busy collecting massive amounts of data, but few are taking advantage of this treasure horde to build a truly data insights-driven organization. To do so, the data team must democratize both data and the insights in a way that provides real-time access to all employees in the organization. This report explores DataOps, the proces
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS)
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks have existed for almost as long as the commercial web itself, and they remain one of the most effective ways to disrupt online services. But, since many of these attacks go undisclosed, industry collaboration on ways to combat them has been slow to emerge. This ebook provides engineers and IT managers wi
NGINX Cookbook, Part 3
This is the third and final installment of the NGINX Cookbook. This book is about NGINX the web server, reverse proxy, load balancer, and HTTP cache. This installment focuses on deployment and operations of NGINX and NGINX Plus, the licensed version of the server. Throughout this installment the reader will learn about deploying NGINX to Amazon Web
Observability Engineering
Observability is critical for building, changing, and understanding the software that powers complex modern systems. Teams that adopt observability are much better equipped to ship code swiftly and confidently, identify outliers and aberrant behaviors, and understand the experience of each and every user. This practical book explains the value of o
Automating Data Transformations
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
Operating Systems and Infrastructure in Data Science
In data science, mastering a system environment with its tools and processes is essential to achieve minimum productivity. Feeling alien to an environment, using the wrong tools or combining the right tools in the wrong order can lead not only to effectivity limitations but also yield wrong results. Hence, in this book, besides basic computer knowl
DevOps For Dummies, 3rd Edition
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
OpenJDK Migration For Dummies
Modern business runs on Java. It's the programming language of choice for large-scale applications, whether they're running in the cloud or in a private data center. Despite being nearly 30 years old, Java remains one of the most widely used programming languages in the world thanks to its versatility, reliability, and stability. Java is also far m
AI-Native Software Delivery
AI coding assistants are helping teams create software faster than ever. But to turn that speed into real innovation, organizations must go beyond writing code and deliver software quickly, securely, and reliably. While AI-assisted coding is now mainstream, what happens after the code is written is still catching up. AI-Native Software Delivery is
What Is eBPF?
In just the past few years, the extended Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF) has gone from relative obscurity to one of the hottest technology areas in modern infrastructure computing. With this report, Liz Rice dives into eBPF and explains how this framework enables networking, security, and observability tooling for modern compute environments. SREs, o