Blockchain For Dummies, 2nd IBM Limited Edition, equips you with an understanding of what blockchain is, how it works, and how it can enhance your business and the industry in which it operates. You learn the fundamentals of blockchain and how this technology revolutionizes transactions and business networks. You also discover the important difference between "blockchain" and "blockchain

JavaScript lies at the heart of almost every modern web application, from social apps like Twitter to browser-based game frameworks like Phaser and Babylon. Though simple for beginners to pick up and play with, JavaScript is a flexible, complex language that you can use to build full-scale applications. This much anticipated and thoroughly revised third edition of Eloquent JavaScript div

Artificial intelligence is already changing industry landscapes, with early adopters reporting benefits in high-value business cases such as fraud detection, preventative maintenance, and recommendation engines. Yet working on an AI initiative is demanding for many enterprises, whether you're in the middle of the process or just getting started. This ebook provides advice to help your co

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Java can be clunky and slow. Learn how to optimize Java for today's compute and runtime demands with Quarkus - a Kubernetes-native platform. Quarkus for Spring Developers introduces Quarkus to Java developers, with a special eye to helping those familiar with Spring's conventions make a quick and easy transition. What you (a developer/architect) will learn in this open ebook: - Understan

Since Facebook released React as an open-source software library for front-end programming in 2013, React has gain popularity quickly. Although there are other frameworks or libraries, React is considered a programmer-friendly JavaScript library using the functional programming approach for the front-end web application development. Teaching and learning React can provide training in Fun

This open access book explores the latest advancements and challenges in standardized methodologies, efficient code management, and scalable data processing of neuroimaging datasets. The chapters in this book are organized in four parts. Part One shows the researcher how to access and download large datasets, and how to compute at scale. Part Two covers best practices for working with la

Recently, data scientists have found effective methods to generate high-quality synthetic data. That's good news for companies seeking large amounts of data to train and build artificial intelligence and machine learning models. This report provides an overview of synthetic data generation that not only focuses on business value and use cases but also provides some practical techniques f

This is the first of three installments of NGINX Cookbook. This book is about NGINX the web server, reverse proxy, load balancer, and HTTP cache. This installment focuses mostly on the load balancing aspect and the advanced features around load balancing, as well as some information around HTTP caching. The book touches on NGINX Plus, the licensed version of NGINX which provides many adv

This open access book will introduce the main concepts required to write a 3D game using the LWJGL 3 library. LWJGL is a Java library that provides access to native APIs used in the development of graphics (OpenGL), audio (OpenAL) and parallel computing (OpenCL) applications. This library leverages the high performance of native OpenGL applications while using the Java language. The auth