Books published by Packt Publishing Limited

This Learning Path is your step-by-step guide to building deep learning models using R's wide range of deep learning libraries and frameworks. Through multiple real-world projects and expert guidance and tips, you'll gain the exact knowledge you need to get started with developing deep models using R.

This Learning Path is a comprehensive guide that gives you the complete knowledge on how to implement the powerful supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning techniques using R 3.5 in your data science projects. With this Learning Path, you'll gain insights from complex projects and learn advanced methods to build smart applications.

Data analysis is crucial to accurately predict the performance of an application. The book begins by getting you started with R, including basic programming and data import, data visualization, pivoting, merging, aggregating, and joins. Once you are comfortable with the basics, you can read ahead and learn all about data visualization and ...

Getting started with data science can be overwhelming, even for experienced developers. In this two-part, hands-on book we'll show you how to apply your existing understanding of the Python language to this new and exciting field that's full of new opportunities (and high expectations)!

What exactly is a developer advocate, and how do they connect developers and companies around the world? Why is the area of developer relations about to explode? What are the hot topics in areas including Java, JavaScript, "tech for good", artificial intelligence, blockchain, the cloud, and open source? These are just a few of the questions ...

Blockchain empowers enterprises to scale out in a unique way, allowing them to build and manage blockchain business networks. This book offers an exploration of distributed ledger technology, blockchain, and Hyperledger fabric along with blockchain-as-a-service (BaaS).

Google Flutter is a revolutionary mobile platform that makes it easier to write secure and high-performance native apps for iOS and Android. This book will start with the essentials of Dart programming and then go into learning the core elements of a mobile app to make your apps functional and enticing.

Data Science with Python will help you get comfortable with using the Python environment for data science. You will learn all the libraries that a data scientist uses on a daily basis. By the end of this course, you will be able to take a large raw dataset, clean it, manipulate it, and run machine learning algorithms to obtain results that ...

Go is the new systems programming language for Linux and Unix systems. After a brief introduction of Unix-based OS and of system programming, we'll dive into Go standard packages, focusing on how easily they allow to interact will all the functionality of the OS. By the end of this book, you will be comfortable with systems programming using Go.

This book is your one-stop solution to learning all that is needed to migrate a traditional on-premise SQL server database to a cloud-based solution with Microsoft Azure. Built with database administrators in mind, this book emulates different scenarios you might come across while working with large, complex SQL database migrations and ...

Hands-On Design Patterns with C# and .NET Core covers all the essential design patterns that help .NET developers build effective applications. The book will add to your skills by showing you how these patterns can be implemented easily in everyday programming, enabling you to develop robust applications with optimal performance.

Hands-on Microservices with Kubernetes will help you create a complete CI/CD pipeline and design and implement microservices using best practices. You will get hands on experience with the latest and greatest technologies, such as gRPC APIs, serverless frameworks, and service meshes.

This book aims to provide a gateway to financial modeling through easy to follow examples in Excel 2019. It will explore the process of modeling starting from a thorough understanding of the project to gathering historical information and arriving at assumptions. Good modeling practices are emphasized and demonstrated throughout the book.

The Swift standard library is developed using protocol-oriented programming techniques, generics, and first-class value semantics; therefore it is important that every Swift developer understand these powerful concepts and how to take advantage of them.This book will demonstrate how to use protocol-oriented programming techniques to build ...

This book explores the complexity of object-oriented programming and addresses the central concepts of this important programming paradigm. You can use it as your easy reference guide to learn different development approaches and tools, helping you to work efficiently and make the leap to becoming an expert programmer.

This book takes you on a learning journey - discover new ideas for improving your software design skills, the relationship within your team, and the way your business works. It starts by discussing individual practices, such as pair programming and simple design, and ends by showing how you can benefit by taking a business-oriented ...

Through this book, you'll learn why most statistical techniques give incorrect results and what you can do to avoid the most common pitfalls. You'll learn how to make sure you get the correct results the first time, every time.

Cyber-attacks, in their various forms, are increasing in frequency and complexity, causing potential losses to organizations. This book equips readers with the skills required to succeed at 210-255 SECOPS exam, and for those re-sitting, to understand their score report and quickly identify the appropriate sections to concentrate on.

Network programming, a challenging topic in C, is made understandable through careful exposition of socket programming APIs. Keeping up with the current trends, you will gain an insight into web programming for IoT. Finally, you will learn how to monitor the network, troubleshoot problems, implement security, and understand best practices.

GPU technologies are the paradigm shift in modern computing. This book will take you through architecting your GPU-based systems to deploying the computational models on GPUs for faster processing. You will learn to program your GPUs to build a GPU-accelerated environment for accelerating machine learning models and other data-intensive processing

This Learning Path is what you need to build a repertoire of skills and the vernacular necessary to work in the IoT space. It teaches you the ropes to create solutions that ensure the reliability, scalability, robust communication systems, security, and data analysis in your IoT infrastructure.

This Learning Path focuses on showing you how to leverage the benefits of the cloud and create applications that are high in performance and availability. It teaches you everything you need to know for designing industry-grade cloud applications and efficiently migrating your business to the cloud.

Security automation is the automatic handling of software security assessments tasks. This book helps you to build your security automation framework to scan for vulnerabilities without human intervention.

This book will take you through the process of efficiently training deep neural networks in Java for Computer Vision-related tasks. You will build real-world applications ranging from simple Java handwritten digit recognition models to real-time autonomous car driving systems and face recognition models using the popular Java-based libraries.

This book will provide a practical understanding of the test management process with Jira. We'll start with the basic concepts taking you through the details of the software testing process followed by the organization of test artifacts in Jira. The book later explores and contrasts between the three most popular Jira plugins Zephyr, Test ...

Adrian Pruteanu adopts the mindset of both a defender and an attacker in this practical guide to web application testing. By giving key insights into attack vectors and defenses, Becoming the Hacker builds your ability to analyze from both viewpoints and create robust defense strategies.

This book is for Python developers to implement various components of end-to-end decentralized applications such as cryptocurrencies, smart contracts, wallet and more. You will use the example-based approach using various libraries from Python ecosystem to build efficient and powerful blockchain applications at work or projects.

This book will get you up and running with building efficient relational database solutions right from scratch with the newest features of PostgreSQL 11. You will learn the end-to-end working of relational databases and how to work with database structures. You will also be able to write essential SQL statements, perform data manipulation and ...

QGIS is a user friendly, open source geographic information system (GIS). The popularity of open source GIS and QGIS, in particular, has been growing rapidly over the last few years. This book is designed to help beginners learn about all the tools required to use QGIS 3.4.

This book includes 9 projects on building smart and practical AI-based systems. These projects cover solutions to different domain-specific problems in healthcare, e-commerce and more. With this book, you will apply different machine learning and deep learning techniques and learn how to build your own intelligent applications for smart ...