Cloud Books

Now that software development is shifting primarily toward mobile and cloud computing, the venerable C++ programming language is returning to the dominant position it held during the object-oriented boom of the 1990s. In this O'Reilly report, you'll learn why C++ is once again the preferred choice across several diverse industries, after taking a b

Red Hat OpenShift provides several layers of abstraction over vanilla Kubernetes, but navigating its rich feature set and functionality can be daunting. Operating OpenShift is a practical guide to running and operating OpenShift clusters more efficiently using a site reliability engineering (SRE) approach. Kubernetes has gained significant populari

Automation skills are in high demand as businesses look to simplify their day-to-day operations and scale infrastructure efficiently. Ansible is a powerful open source tool that makes it easy to build and operate IT automation at scale, in the cloud, hybrid cloud, and at the edge. Download the Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) Ansible Automation St

This book provides end-to-end guidance on the Docker application development lifecycle with Microsoft tools and services while providing an introduction to Docker development concepts for readers who might be new to the Docker ecosystem. This way, anyone can understand the global picture and start planning development projects based on Docker and M

The GraphQL API query language radically streamlines data exchanges with backend servers by representing application data as easy-to-understand graphs. You can amplify GraphQL's benefits by using graph-aware tools and data stores, like React, Apollo, and Neo4j, throughout your application. A full stack graph approach provides a consistent data mode

The Windows Azure public cloud platform is one of the three pillars of Microsoft's Cloud OS vision that will transform the traditional datacenter environment, help businesses unlock insights in data stored anywhere, enable the development of a wide range of modern business applications, and empower IT to support users who work anywhere on any devic

NGINX is one of the most widely used web servers available today, in part because of its capabilities as a load balancer and reverse proxy server for HTTP and other network protocols. This cookbook provides easy-to-follow examples to real-world problems in application delivery. The practical recipes will help you set up and use either the open sour

.NET is far from dead. Although JavaScript, Go, and Swift have gathered plenty of developer attention, .NET remains a dominant framework. But it hasn't been entirely smooth sailing. With .NET's coupling to Windows environments, .NET apps haven't had access to the bleeding edge of server automation or application deployment. Configuration management

Firewalls have traditionally focused on network traffic, but with the advent of cloud computing and DevOps, security and operations professionals need a more sophisticated solution to track session state and application layer activity. In this ebook, cyber security consultant Chad Russell covers the current application threat landscape for modern d

Mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets are set to become the main computers that virtually all people will own and carry with them at all times. And yet,mobile devices are not yet used for all computing tasks. A project at Microsoft Research was created to answer a simple question: "It is possible to create interesting apps directly on a sm