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The open source revolution and containerization have fundamentally transformed the .NET landscape. No longer confined to the Windows ecosystem, your .NET skills are now the direct path to building powerful applications directly on OpenShift. OpenShift for .NET Developers is your essential guide to becoming a first-class citizen in the OpenShift wor

Creative Scala is designed for developers with no prior experience in Scala, offering a fun and gentle introduction to functional programming. The book assumes only basic familiarity with another programming language and little to no exposure to Scala or functional programming concepts. The authors have three main objectives with this book: 1. Intr

This open access book is the 2nd edition involving the update on data, methods and models of Grey Systems. It covers up-to-date theoretical and applied advances in grey systems from across the world, and vividly presents the reader with the overall picture of this new theory and its frontier research. Many of the concepts, models and methods in the

Microsoft Excel is a tool that can be used in virtually all careers and is valuable in both professional and personal settings. Whether you need to keep track of medications in inventory for a hospital or create a financial plan for your retirement, Excel enables you to do these activities efficiently and accurately. This book introduces the fundam

Get going with tidymodels, a collection of R packages for modeling and machine learning. Whether you're just starting out or have years of experience with modeling, this practical introduction shows data analysts, business analysts, and data scientists how the tidymodels framework offers a consistent, flexible approach for your work. RStudio engine

Dynamic Management Views (DMVs) are a significant and valuable addition to the DBA's troubleshooting armory, laying bare previously unavailable information regarding the under-the-covers activity of your database sessions and transactions. Why, then, aren't all DBAs using them? Why do many DBAs continue to ignore them in favour of "tried and truste

Microservices architectures offer faster change speeds, better scalability, and cleaner, evolvable system designs. But implementing your first microservices architecture is difficult. How do you make myriad choices, educate your team on all the technical details, and navigate the organization to a successful execution to maximize your chance of suc

More than 100 Azure services offer everything you need to build and run your applications with all the performance, redundancy, security, and scale that the cloud has to offer. But knowing where to begin with all these services can seem overwhelming. Learn Azure in a Month of Lunches, 2nd Edition, is a tutorial on writing, deploying, and running ap

GitOps delivers on the vision promised to a DevOps culture, and while the practice isn't new, organizations are starting to realize how valuable it is to deliver products in a fast, highly automated, and secure way - without compromising the quality of their code. This book outlines the tools, workflows, and structures that teams need to have in pl

Complexity science uses computation to explore the physical and social sciences. In Think Complexity, you'll use graphs, cellular automata, and agent-based models to study topics in physics, biology, and economics. Whether you're an intermediate-level Python programmer or a student of computational modeling, you'll delve into examples of complex sy