Software Programming

Great software can change the world. So, why not start with an idea of what your end user wants and needs? The success of any software is underpinned by the users’ need for it. Will it serve its purpose efficiently? Will it make the end user’s life easier? Will it give them their money’s worth? In User Experience by UX designer Steven Branson, you’ll find out everything you need to know. Expanding your UX approach, honing your coding abilities, and acing your computer programming interviews are within reach!

Master the most popular programming language in the world. Learn how to bring websites to life with the power of JavaScript, add dynamic interactivity and rich animations to otherwise dull webpages, all with the versatile programming language that builds apps, websites, and more!

In this book, technical strategist Sarah Wells provides practical, in-depth advice for moving to microservices. Having built her first microservices architecture in 2013 for the Financial Times, Sarah discusses the approaches you need to take from the start, and explains the potential traps most likely to trip you up. You'll also learn how to maintain the architecture as your systems mature while minimizing the time you spend on support and maintenance.

The Well-Grounded Java Developer, Second Edition introduces both the modern innovations and timeless fundamentals you need to know to become a Java master. Authors Ben Evans, Martijn Verburg, and Jason Clark distill their decades of experience as Java Champions, veteran developers, and key contributors to the Java ecosystem into this clear and practical audioguide. You’ll discover how Java works under the hood and learn design secrets from Java’s long history.

The Secure Vibe Coding Handbook by Taimur Ijlal is the essential guide you've been waiting for. Imagine building tools, scripts, and SaaS products at 10x the speed, without sacrificing your security principles. This book is your blueprint for surviving-and thriving-in the age of vibe coding. Written by Taimur Ijlal, a 20-year cybersecurity veteran and AI security educator, The Secure Vibe Coding Handbook gives you the knowledge, mindset, and frameworks you need to stay secure, fast, and future-ready.

Spring in Action, Fourth Edition is a hands-on guide to the Spring Framework, updated for version 4. It covers the features, tools, and practices including Spring MVC, REST, Security, Web Flow, and more. You'll move between short snippets and an ongoing example as you learn to build simple and efficient J2EE applications. Author Craig Walls has a special knack for crisp and entertaining examples that zoom in on the features and techniques you really need.

This audiobook explicitly discusses network engineering and the processes involved in it. Recent technological advancements have made network engineering gain significant attention, and people are now proactively choosing this as a career. It's a perfect time to work in this field as this is now one of the most well-earned and top of enterprise list professions. DevOps is a set of cultural philosophies, practices, and tools that improve an organization's ability to deliver applications and services at high velocity.

A jargon-free toolkit for turning ideas into real, revenue-ready web apps—without writing a single line of code. Learn to choose the right no-code platforms, design slick user experiences, automate workflows, integrate payments, and launch fast. Perfect for founders, freelancers and “citizen developers.”

Are you ready to elevate your UX design skills and craft unforgettable digital experiences? The Ultimate UX Designer's Handbook is your all-in-one guide to mastering the art and science of user experience design. Whether you're a seasoned designer looking to refine your skills or a newcomer eager to break into the field, this comprehensive handbook will empower you to create intuitive, user-friendly designs that delight users and drive success.

Confessional. “How-to”. Entertaining. Software world is in a disruptive phase. Technology is changing, business needs are changing, and so should the techies. Without sugar coating and without conforming to be politically right, this audiobook will remove the haziness and share the truth to thrive as a techie at work and life. After completing more than a decade in the tech world, Ramakrishna Reddy, tells it like it is.

Angular 2 Development with Typescript introduces Angular 2 to developers comfortable using AngularJS v1 or other web frameworks. You'll start by exploring how Angular 2 works in an Online auction application. Along the way, you'll learn to use TypeScript to write type-aware classes, interfaces, and generics. This is a practical book that covers real-world development concerns like data and views, user interaction with forms, and communicating with servers, as well as testing and deploying your Angular 2 applications.

This sweeping history of the Civil War and the Confederacy is told through the lens of its most crucial army: the Army of Northern Virginia, commanded by Robert E. Lee. General Lee's Army takes listeners across the Rebel landscape, from campfires to battlefields to their homes, as it portrays a world of life, death, healing, and hardship.

Solve difficult service-to-service communication challenges around security, observability, routing, and resilience with an Istio-based service mesh. Istio allows you to define these traffic policies as configuration and enforce them consistently without needing any service-code changes.

Microservices in .NET: Second Edition is a comprehensive guide to building microservice applications using the .NET stack. After a crystal-clear introduction to the microservices architectural style, it teaches you practical microservices development skills using ASP.NET. This second edition of the best-selling original has been revised with up-to-date tools for the .NET ecosystem, and more new coverage of scoping microservices and deploying to Kubernetes.

Start thinking about your development pipeline as a mission-critical application. Pipeline as Code is a practical guide to automating your development pipeline in a cloud-native, service-driven world. You’ll use the latest infrastructure-as-code tools like Packer and Terraform to develop reliable CI/CD pipelines for numerous cloud-native applications. Treat your CI/CD pipeline like the real application it is. With the Pipeline as Code approach, you create a collection of scripts that replace the tedious web UI wrapped around most CI/CD systems.

The Art of Unit Testing, Second Edition guides you step-by-step from writing your first simple tests to developing robust test sets that are maintainable, readable, and trustworthy. You'll master the foundational ideas and quickly move to high-value subjects like mocks, stubs, and isolation, including frameworks such as Moq, FakeItEasy, and Typemock Isolator.

Как трезво оценивать свой проект? Что мешает грамотно планировать свою работу? Какие психологические особенности игроков стоит учитывать? Создание видеоигр — особое искусство. Инструмент разработчика – не компьютер, не игровые движки, а мозг и сила воображения. Благодаря последнему можно создать шедевр или довести всё до полного фиаско. Книга Ошибки разработчиков видеоигр: от идеи до провала объяснит, как избежать самых распространенных ошибок, научит грамотно анализировать выбранное направление, четко оценивать свои силы и не опускать руки на пути к своей цели. Слава Грис.

Free and open source is the foundation of software development, and it's built by people just like you. Discover the fundamental tenets that drive the movement. Take control of your career by selecting the right project to meet your professional goals. Master the language and avoid the pitfalls that typically ensnare new contributors. Join a community of like-minded people and change the world. Programmers, writers, designers, and everyone interested in software will make their mark through free and open source software contributions.

Big data systems distribute datasets across clusters of machines, making it a challenge to efficiently query, stream, and interpret them. Spark can help. It is a processing system designed specifically for distributed data. It provides easy-to-use interfaces, along with the performance you need for production-quality analytics and machine learning. Spark 2 also adds improved programming APIs, better performance, and countless other upgrades.

How do some organizations maintain 24-7 internet-scale operations? How can organizations integrate security while deploying new features? How do organizations increase security within their DevOps processes? This practical guide helps you answer those questions. Steve Suehring provides unique content to help practitioners and leadership successfully implement DevOps and DevSecOps. Learning DevSecOps emphasizes prerequisites that lead to success through best practices and then takes you through some of the tools and software used by successful DevSecOps-enabled organizations.