The Little Book of Semaphores is a free textbook that introduces the principles of synchronization for concurrent programming. In most computer science curricula, synchronization is a module in an Operating Systems class. OS textbooks present a standard set of problems with a standard set of solutions, but most students don't get a good understanding of the material or the ability to sol

In 2012, early cloud pioneer Heroku developed the Twelve Factor App, a set of rules and guidelines for helping organizations build cloud-native applications. It served as an excellent starting point, but as technology inevitably marched forward, some areas needed revisiting. To accommodate current best practices, this practical book expands on the original guidelines to help you build ap

Kubernetes is the de facto standard for container orchestration and distributed applications management across a microservices framework. With this practical cookbook, you'll learn hands-on Kubernetes recipes for automating the deployment, scaling, and operations of application containers across clusters of hosts. In this fully updated 2nd edition, Sameer Naik, Sébastien Goasguen, and J

Although many large corporations are reluctant to release the software they use in-house publicly as open source, those companies can still use principles and processes of open source for developing their in-house software - a practice popularly known as InnerSource. But adopting open source practices without understanding the cultural context behind them often fails. That's where this r

Jeremy Keith begins by noting that the title Resilient Web Design might suggest a handbook for building robust websites, but clarifies that it is not a handbook - it is more like a history book. The text observes that in the world of web design, attention is mostly focused on the present. When designers look beyond the moment, it is usually to imagine future devices and interfaces, leavi

Enterprises in traditional and emerging industries alike are increasingly turning to machine learning (ML) to maximize the value of their business data. But many of these teams are likely to experience significant hurdles and setbacks throughout the journey. In this practical ebook, data scientists and machine learning engineers explore six common challenges that teams face every day whe

Space exploration is fascinating and inspiring for children and adults alike. With the tiny Raspberry Pi computer helping to change the world little by little, it was only a matter of time before it went into space to help out there as well. The Raspberry Pi Sense HAT aids two Raspberry Pi computers on board the International Space Station in their extraterrestrial mission: it sits on to

Differential Privacy in Artificial Intelligence: From Theory to Practice is a comprehensive resource designed to review the principles and applications of differential privacy in a world increasingly driven by data. This book delves into the theoretical underpinnings of differential privacy, its use in machine learning systems, practical implementation details, and its broader social and

Computer Vision Metrics provides an extensive survey and analysis of over 100 current and historical feature description and machine vision methods, with a detailed taxonomy for local, regional and global features. This book provides necessary background to develop intuition about why interest point detectors and feature descriptors actually work, how they are designed, with observations

As well-engineered as the .NET framework is, it's not perfect, and it doesn't always get memory management right. To write truly fantastic software, you need to understand how .NET memory management actually works. This book will take you from the very basics of memory management, all the way to how the OS handles its resources, and will help you write the best code you can. The .NET fra