Analytics are key to a strong startup business model
Learn how to create a business model that includes the right metrics and get an introduction to the Business Model Flipbook planning tool.
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Unikernel-powered transient services
Russell Pavlicek reviews unikernel systems and considers how microservices built on highly secure unikernels can remake the principles of solution architecture.
Making Sense of Stream Processing
Stream processing is finally coming of age. This report shows you how stream processing can make data storage and processing systems more flexible and less complex.
How we amplify privilege with supervised machine learning
Michael Williams uses sentiment analysis to show that supervised machine learning has the potential to amplify the voices of the most privileged people in society.
Solving a parallel streams puzzler in Java 8
Master simple guidelines for implementing the Streams API in practice
Machine Learning for Designers
This report introduces contemporary machine learning systems, but also provides a conceptual framework to help you integrate machine-learning capabilities into your user-facing designs.
Operation mode plumbing in the Junos system
Understanding management system internals and operational command flow.
Python’s pandas make data analysis easy and powerful with a few lines of code
The pandas library offers shortcuts for common data operations and Matplotlib graphics.
WebGL: The next generation
Tony Parisi offers practical knowledge about creating WebGL content and deploying applications on a variety of platforms and devices, including virtual reality.
Learn Lua from JavaScript, part 3: Object-oriented behavior
JavaScript’s prototype-based classes compared to a Lua class pattern.
Write your own custom tasks in Gradle
Learn how to customize the Gradle build process.
Security on a shoestring
Kelsey Gilmore-Innis shares the essential concepts behind securing your users’ data and offers examples of how she and her team applied them to Callisto.
Organizing big data with the crowd
Using real-world cases, Lukas Biewald describes microtasking, where it fits in the crowdsourcing landscape, and how data scientists and developers can tap into the crowd to collect and process data sets.
Hello, TensorFlow!
Building and training your first TensorFlow graph from the ground up.
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Analytics frameworks for the startup lifecycle
This chapter from Lean Analytics reviews the various frameworks that exist for growing your business and keeping up with the changes that come with that growth.
How to make threat modeling work for you
Robert Hurlbut offers practical strategies for threat modeling for secure software design and explains how to apply risk management to deal with the threats.
A quick guide to choosing infrastructure tools
The essential parts of an Infrastructure as Code platform.
The legend of Canvas
Rich McLaughlin uses "The Legend of Zelda" to teach different game mechanics. He also covers the core topics you need to get rolling with Canvas for game or traditional web development.
Learn Lua from JavaScript, part 2: Control flow and data structures
The guts of Lua: functions, loops, and tables.
How to use commit scripts to modify the Junos system's commit process
Customize the Junos configuration process to make it work for your environment.
DevOpsSec: Securing software through continuous delivery
Build security and compliance into your DevOps platforms and pipelines by applying the same processes and tools that DevOps practitioners use to automate software delivery and infrastructure changes.
Don't build "Death Star" security
David Strauss explores methods for maintaining agility and security in distributed and microservice architectures.
Apache Spark for atom-smashing experiments
Crunching CERN’s colossal data with scalable analytics
Roof Design with Revit Architecture
Learn time-saving techniques for creating any kind of roof in this free Revit Architecture training video.
Learn Lua from JavaScript, part 1: An introduction to Lua
If you know JavaScript, learning Lua is a snap, as Tyler Neylon explains in this first in a series of three posts.
It's a brave new world: Avoiding legal, privacy, and security snafus with big data and the IoT
Practical privacy, data security, and consumer protection dos and don’ts to help you avoid becoming a legal target.
PANOPTES: Open source planet discovery
Exoplanets are planets that orbit stars other than our sun. Until now, exoplanet discovery was the exclusive domain of professional scientists. PANOPTES, which combines inexpensive, off-the-shelf components with open source hardware and software to build a geographically dispersed array of small observing telescopes, brings exoplanet science to amateur astronomers and school students.
Real-world data collection
Prioritizing and evaluating data sources for ROI.
Web applications should work for everyone and everywhere
Many people own older computers, have slow connections, or struggle with physical disabilities that prevent them from accessing today’s newer sites and apps. How do you strike a balance in your design to include everyone?
Optimize string use: a case study
This chapter from the book Optimized C++ discusses performance-tuning principles to optimize string handling functions, which are among the most used features of the C++ standard library.
Testing in Swift
Learn about automating the tedious yet essential task of testing a complex app in this excerpt from Learning Swift.
Understanding the universal selector
The universal selector selects everything in your document, the same way the "wild card" selector does in Linux. However, when you include the universal selector as part of a larger complex selector, confusion sets in. How exactly does the universal selector work?
Real-time fraud detection using process mining with Spark streaming
Bolke de Bruin and Hylke Hendriksen explain how, by considering a user’s click path a followed process, ING applied process mining and adapted it to Spark Streaming. This resulted in near real-time fraud detection and analysis.
A tour of Docker's components: Machine, swarm, compose, and more
Docker has grown from a convenience wrapper to encompass an entire architecture. Learn how Docker's major components are related to each other.
Reactive Angular 2
Rob Wormald explains how to use Angular 2 and RxJS to make your apps run fast.
Stories from the trenches: The challenges of building an analytics stack
Fangjin Yang and Xavier Léauté describe how they architected their analytics stack around Druid, and overcame the challenges around scaling the system, balancing features with cost, and making performance consistent.
Getting Started with Deep Learning using Keras and Python
Experiment with deep learning neural networks using Keras, a high-level alternative to TensorFlow and Theano. Get started by focusing on model structure, and avoid the complexity of numerical programming on GPUs. Play faster and go deep.
Comparing the nth-child and nth-of-type pseudoclasses
nth-child and nth-of-type sound like the same thing, and in some situations, they can act the same way as well. Learn which pseudoclass is right for which situation, and never confuse the two again!
The practical basics of Android app security
Learn where the vulnerabilities are, and how to address them.
Why Node.js for shell scripting?
Learn some of the benefits of using server-side JavaScript for your shell scripts.
Why is service discovery important? (And what is Consul?)
A brief introduction to service discovery—and the most popular tool for achieving it: Consul.
Introduction to YAML
Learn the basics of YAML, a friendly language for data, and an increasingly important one for IT ops (particularly if you're planning on using Ansible).
Building web apps for everyone
As web developers, we are responsible for shaping the experiences of users’ online lives. By making ethical, user-centered choices, we create a better web for everyone.
Securing Apache Kafka
Jun Rao explains the threats that Kafka Security mitigates, the changes that were made to Kafka to enable security, and the steps required to secure an existing Kafka cluster.
Convert between XML and native Python data structures with jxmlease
A new module for easing the pain of XML conversion.
Introducing the nth-of-type pseudoclass
Part of the new CSS3 standard, the nth-of-type and nth-last-of-type pseudoclasses are a useful way to select elements on a website, such as odd or even elements, or every 3rd or 4th element. Learn how this simple selector can impact your next project.
Fluent Python: The Power of Special Methods
You’ve used Python for years. Do you really know it? Be brave and skin that Python. In this cut, Luciano Ramalho probes deep into special methods and the Data Model. Become fluent with idiomatic Python.
JavaScript string interpolations
Kyle Simpson demonstrates how ES6 makes strings easier to assemble.
Visual design principles
Learn the basic principles of good design and how to deal with color, shape, lines, and more.
Building a scalable, secure platform: If I knew then what I know now
Bill Loconzolo reveals the lessons learned from building the Intuit Analytics Cloud.
Apache Spark 2.0: Introduction to Structured Streaming
Michael Armbrust and Tathagata Das explain updates to Spark version 2.0, demonstrating how stream processing is now more accessible with Spark SQL and DataFrame APIs.
How to build an anomaly detection engine with Spark, Akka, and Cassandra
Natalino Busa presents the Coral system, a solution for streaming anomaly detection.
What is a resilient distributed dataset?
Alex Robbins guides you through an in-depth look at the Python API for Apache Spark. In this segment, he explores RDDs--the central abstraction in Spark and essential knowledge for anyone working in the system.
Designing for individual and social connections with material objects
How objects can have importance beyond strict functionality, and the role of tradition and its impact on design.
Introducing the nth-child pseudoclass
Part of the new CSS3 standard, the nth-child and nth-last-child pseudoclasses are a useful way to select elements on a website, such as odd or even elements, or every 3rd or 4th element. Learn how this simple selector can impact your next project.
The mechanics of interface design
Learn how to design effective interfaces across different form factors by understanding how people hold devices and complete tasks.
Installing Jupyter Notebook Extensions
Jonathan Whitmore demonstrates how to install pivot tables and showcases the features of this extension by examining a dataset of restaurant scores.
Configuring the Junos system's management daemon (MGD)
Learn how configuration data flows and how the commit process works.
What is Docker?
An introduction to Docker, a new paradigm in developing and shipping applications.
Labeling offsite and PDF links automatically, using attribute selectors
Use attribute selectors to label links consistently with this handy formula.
Accelerating real-time analytics with Apache Spark
Sean Owen and Yann Delacourt cover Spark's architecture, deployment strategies, and use cases, as well as Spark's impact on data science, analytics, and machine learning.
Intro to Hadoop security: Role assignments and gateway isolation
Learn the hands-on basics of securing a Hadoop cluster in AWS in this video excerpt.
Radical candor: Be a better boss
Kim Scott outlines three principles for approaching the relationship between a boss and their team, and shares stories of successes and failures.