After years of researching, coding, and talking about microservices, Edson Yanaga - Red Hat's Director of Developer Experience - hears one question frequently: how do I evolve my monolithic legacy database? In this practical report, Yanaga explains strategies for dealing with your relational database when migrating from a monolithic codebase to a microservices architecture. In the proces

The opportunity to modernize and improve the enterprise data warehouse is one of the best reasons for moving your application to the cloud. A data warehouse can access a greater diversity of use cases and practices than is possible in an existing environment. In this report, researcher and analyst Stephen Swoyer offers a comprehensive overview of the benefits and challenges of implementi

Part of a series of specialized guides on System Center - this book shares real-world expertise for using Configuration Manager capabilities to deliver more effective IT services. Series editor Mitch Tulloch and a team of System Center experts provide concise technical guidance as they step you through key deployment and management scenarios. The purpose of this book is to provide System

Neo4j is the world's leading graph database and offers users a radical new way of dealing with connected data. This book has been created to help you get to grips with it, providing you with an accessible route through a tool built to contend with the complexity of modern data. Learn the fundamental concepts behind Neo4j, and put them into practice by following the featured examples and

Microsoft Press is pleased to offer the 2nd edition of Kraig Brockschmidt's in-depth ebook on writing Windows Store apps using HTML, CSS3, and JavaScript. The book's primary focus will be on applying web technologies within the Windows platform, highlighting its unique considerations, rather than exploring the intricacies of the web standards themselves. The author operates on the assump

If you are responsible for architecting and designing the backup strategy for your organization, especially if you're looking for ways to incorporate cloud backup into your business continuity scenarios, this book is for you. With the increasing trends in virtualization as well as the move to the pubic cloud, IT organizations are headed toward a world where data and applications run in o

Extract, transform, load (ETL) is at the center of every application of data, from business intelligence to AI. Constant shifts in the data landscape - including the implementations of lakehouse architectures and the importance of high-scale real-time data - mean that today's data practitioners must approach ETL a bit differently. This updated technical guide offers data engineers, engin

Add buttons, boxes, pictures and colours and more to your Python programs using the guizero library, which is quick, accessible, and understandable for all. This 156-page book is suitable for everyone, from beginners to experienced Python programmers who want to explore graphical user interfaces (GUIs). There are ten fun projects for you to create, including a painting program, an emoji

There are many books that teach beginners how to write secret messages using ciphers. There are a couple books that teach beginners how to hack ciphers. As far as I can tell, there are no books to teach beginners how to write programs to hack ciphers. This book fills that gap. This book is for complete beginners who do not know anything about encryption, hacking, or cryptography. The cip

So someone has heard about graph databases and wants to understand what all the buzz is about. Are they just a passing trend - here today and gone tomorrow - or are they a rising tide that businesses and development teams can't afford to ignore? Whether they're a business executive or a seasoned developer, something - perhaps a pressing business challenge or a limitation of their current