Microsoft Azure HDInsight is Microsoft's fully compliant distribution of Apache Hadoop on its Azure cloud platform. Consequently, standard Hadoop concepts and technologies are directly applicable, meaning that knowledge of the Hadoop stack is transferable to the HDInsight service. In "Introducing Microsoft Azure HDInsight," the authors explore the true meaning of big data, how organizati

Software delivery practices are constantly improving as companies apply the philosophy of continuous delivery to deploy and release changes quickly, safely, and predictably. Most teams, however, hit roadblocks in the process. This report examines 10 organizations that have implemented continuous delivery in the real world. These case studies demonstrate how branching strategy, environmen

The data you encounter in the real world is usually easier to think of as objects or documents than as the tables and rows required by a standard RDBMS. RavenDB, a modern document-oriented database written in .NET, requires no schema to be declared and enables developers to work with data more naturally. RavenDB applications are high-performance, low-latency, and easy to scale and mainta

The author argues that while cryptology has a reputation for being complex and difficult to master - often associated with advanced theories like number theory, complexity theory, and quantum computation - many of its foundational concepts are actually accessible and practical. They emphasize that the best way to understand these basics is through hands-on experience, particularly by wor

Now that software development is shifting primarily toward mobile and cloud computing, the venerable C++ programming language is returning to the dominant position it held during the object-oriented boom of the 1990s. In this O'Reilly report, you'll learn why C++ is once again the preferred choice across several diverse industries, after taking a backseat to Java during the 2000s. C++ is

A Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) system automatically selects and supplies domain-specific context to an LLM, radically improving its ability to generate accurate, hallucination-free responses. The GraphRAG pattern employs a knowledge graph to structure the RAG's input, taking advantage of existing relationships in the data to generate rich, relevant prompts. Retrieval Augmented Ge

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

This book presents the VISCERAL project benchmarks for analysis and retrieval of 3D medical images (CT and MRI) on a large scale, which used an innovative cloud-based evaluation approach where the image data were stored centrally on a cloud infrastructure and participants placed their programs in virtual machines on the cloud. The book presents the points of view of both the organizers o

While containers, microservices, and distributed systems dominate discussions in the tech world, the majority of applications in use today still run monolithic architectures that follow traditional development processes. This practical book helps developers examine long-established Java-based models and demonstrates how to bring these monolithic applications successfully into the future.

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