Books published by Packt Publishing Limited

Python's built-in unittest module is showing it's age; hard to extend, debug and track what's going on. The pytest framework overcomes these problems and simplifies testing your Python software. Many users love to use pytest and the improvement in their testing shows! This book is the ideal introduction to pytest, teaching you how to write ...

Pentaho Data Integration(PDI) is an intuitive and graphical environment packed with drag-and-drop design and powerful Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) capabilities. Given its power and flexibility, first attempts to use the Pentaho Data Integration tool can be difficult or confusing. This book is the ideal solution to that problem.

In this book, you will learn how to build interactive dashboards in a Jupyter notebook. Explore JupyterHub and various Jupyter widgets through which you can easily perform 3D data visualization, 3D plotting, and geospatial analytics. This book helps you understand BeakerX to create interactive tables and interact with spreadsheets.

Hands-On Serverless Applications with Go will teach you how to design a Go serverless application and deploy it to Lambda. Thanks to AWS Lambda, serverless architectures are growing in popularity and this book will help you build software that is modern, scalable, and efficient.

Continuous Integration (CI) is an essential part of any modern development process. Gone are the days of monolithic releases with massive changes, today it's about releasing fast and often. This book will build upon the concepts of CI/CD and help you write robust automation scripts that can scale and build CI environments for different purposes.

Python is currently used in many different areas. In all of these areas, experienced professionals can find examples of inefficiency, problems, and other perils, as a result of bad code. After reading this book, readers will understand these problems, and more importantly, understand how to correct them.

Artificial Intelligence is arguably the most exciting and disruptive field of robotics which makes a man-made machine intelligent. This book will fulfill this vision by introducing various machine learning concepts to make your robot efficient. It will also equip your robot to make decisions, learn, and adapt based on its environment.

Docker is the modern standard for building, testing, distributing and deploying cloud native applications, whilst AWS is the world's leading public cloud provider. Together these technologies provide you with a powerful platform to deliver your container applications into production, and this book will provide with the intelligent, effective, ...

This book is a comprehensive guide to help developers, architects, and senior programmers advance their career in the software architecture domain. You'll understand the expectations of users and other stakeholders from the point of view of an architect and will learn to communicate your architecture to the relevant stakeholders.

Today's web demands efficient real-time applications and scalability. If you want to learn to build fast, efficient, and high-performing applications using React 16, this is the book for you. We plunge directly into the heart of all the most important React concepts for you to conquer. Along the way, you'll learn how to work with the latest ...

Certified VCP-DCV professionals must know to deploy and configure vSphere storage, networking, security and they should also be able to create and administer vSphere virtual machines. This comprehensive guide shows you how to optimize, secure, and troubleshoot all components of the implementation and helps you confidently approach the 2V0-622 exam.

Reverse engineering is a tool used for analyzing software, to exploit its weaknesses and strengthen its defenses. Hackers use reverse engineering as a tool to expose security flaws and questionable privacy practices. This book helps you to master the art of using reverse engineering.

Scala is a type-safe JVM language that incorporates object-oriented and functional programming (OOP and FP) aspects. This book gets you started with essentials of software development by guiding you through different aspects of Scala programming, helping you bridge the gap between learning and implementing. You will learn the unique features ...

Microsoft have recently expanded their suite of SPA project templates to include a Vue.js based template that includes all the tooling required to build modern production ready applications out of the box. In this book, we'll leverage some of the more powerful Vue.js features with ASP.NET core backend to build modern web apps.

Kubernetes is an open source platform that automates scaling, deployment, and management of container-based applications. The book starts by explaining basics about container orchestration and then moves on to explain how the components of a complex system, such as Kubernetes, interact with each other and helps develop vital skills for ...

MongoDB has grown to become the de facto NoSQL database with millions of users, from small start-ups to Fortune 500 companies. It can solve problems that are considered difficult, if not impossible, for aging RDBMS technologies. Written for version 4 of MongoDB, this book is the easiest way to get started with MongoDB.

D3.js is a JavaScript library that allows you to create graphs and data visualizations in the browser, with HTML, SVG, and CSS. This book will take you from the basics of D3.js, so that you can create your own interactive visualizations, to creating the most common graphs that you will encounter as a developer, scientist, statistician, or data ...

OpenGL 4 Shading Language Cookbook covers easy-to-follow recipes that first walk you through the theory and background behind each technique, and then proceed to showcase and explain the GLSL and OpenGL code needed to implement it.

Fully updated up to Java 11, this book stands to help any Java developer enjoy the richness of the Java programming language. The modern Java platform can be used to build robust software applications including enterprise-level applications and mobile applications.

Using a problem-solution-based approach, we'll show how you can automate all the boring stuff and let your computer do it for you instead of using the Python programming language. By the end of the book, you will have learned to identify problems and correct them to produce superior and reliable systems

Selecting the correct concurrency architecture has a significant impact on the design and performance of your applications. Concurrency and parallelism are synonymous to performance and high-end scalability, and this book equips you with all the tools and techniques necessary to achieve those.

Swift is the perfect choice for game development. Developers are intrigued by Swift and want to make use of new features to develop their best games yet. Packed with best practices and easy-to-use examples, this book leads you step by step through the development of your first Swift game.

Cloud-native development is a modern approach to building and running applications that leverage the merits of the cloud computing model. With cloud-native development, teams can deliver faster and in a more lean and agile way than traditional approaches. This recipe-based guide provides you quick solutions for your cloud-native applications.

Cryptography is essential to protect sensitive information, but it is often performed inadequately or incorrectly. This book will show how to encrypt, evaluate, compare, and attack your data using Python. Overall, the book will help you deal with the common errors in encryption and would know how to exploit them.

This book will walk you through the web application penetration testing methodology, showing you how to write your own tools with Python for every main activity in the process. It will show you how to test for security vulnerabilities in web applications just like security professionals and hackers do.

In this book, we will show you how to report and reclaim memory, how to send and receive messages, and how to report and monitor the health of your entire microservice ecosystem. By the end of this book, you will be confident enough to develop a sturdy microservice architecture that works in a production setting-all by using the efficiency of C#.

Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open-source software development and distribution. This book will teach all the important command-line tools and utilities using real-world examples. You'll learn everything you need to know as a new Linux system administrator.

In this book, you will explore two important Python packages used by Data Analysts, NumPy & pandas. You will dive into different concepts such as reading, sorting, grouping of data, and also learn how to work with different data formats for your data analysis projects.

Unity Machine Learning Agents allows researchers and developers to create games and simulations using the Unity Editor which serve as environments where intelligent agents can be trained with machine learning methods through a simple-to-use Python API. This book takes you from the basics of Reinforcement and Q Learning to building Deep ...

Managing your organization's naming architecture and mitigating risks within complex naming environments is very important. This book will start with the basic anatomies of domain name servers and the request mechanism of DNS servers. You will also cover different factors associated with DNS servers such as security, strategy, and DNS queries.