Scala Books

Read the tips and tricks recommended by some of the smartest minds in the ASP.NET community. 25 tips from the ASP.NET community for boosting performance in your web applications; Learn the secrets of your fellow developers and read advice from MVPs and other experts; Covers async/await, Web API, ORMs, interactions between your code and your databas

Azure Web Apps is a fully managed platform that you can use to build mission-critical web applications that are highly available, secure, and scalable to global proportions. Combined with first-class tooling from Visual Studio and the Microsoft Azure Tools, the Azure Web Apps service is the fastest way to get your web application to production. Azu

This ebook introduces a fairly new feature of Microsoft Azure called Azure Automation. Using a highly scalable workflow execution environment, Azure Automation allows you to orchestrate frequent deployment and life cycle management tasks using runbooks based on Windows PowerShell Workflow functionality. These runbooks are stored in and backed up by

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

Discover critical considerations and best practices for improving database performance based on what has worked, and failed, across thousands of teams and use cases in the field. This open access book provides practical guidance for understanding the database-related opportunities, trade-offs, and traps you might encounter while trying to optimize

Cloud applications have a unique set of characteristics. They run on commodity hardware, provide services to untrusted users, and deal with unpredictable workloads. These factors impose a range of problems that you, as a designer or developer, need to resolve. Your applications must be resilient so that they can recover from failures, secure to pro

React in Patterns is a comprehensive guide to building scalable and maintainable user interfaces with React. Authored by Krasimir Tsonev, this book explores common design patterns and advanced techniques used in modern React development. Readers will learn how to leverage React's powerful composition model, manage data flow effectively, use context

The DSC Book is a comprehensive and continually evolving guide to Microsoft's Desired State Configuration (DSC) technology. Authored by Don Jones and Steve Murawski, this mini book demystifies the powerful declarative platform designed for automating the configuration and management of infrastructure across on-premises and cloud environments. It co

The SQL Notes for Professionals book is compiled from Stack Overflow Documentation, the content is written by the beautiful people at Stack Overflow.

Data science is the process of representing models that fit data. Its goal is to predict future output based on past observations of inputs. In data science, one collects information and interprets it to make decisions. This open book contains two parts, the first is designed to be used in an introductory programming course for students looking to