Books published by Packt Publishing Limited

Truffle is a world class development environment, testing framework and asset pipeline for Ethereum, aiming to make life as an Ethereum developer easier. If you are a web developer wanting to try your hands at developing Dapps with Truffle then this is the ideal book. This book will teach you to write smart contracts and build Dapps with Truffle.

This book is a thorough guide for developers who want to get started with building computer vision applications using Julia. Julia is well suited to image processing because of its ease of use and the fact that it lets you write easy-to-compile and efficient machine code.

You will build full-fledged, deep learning applications with Java and different open-source libraries. Master numerical computing, deep learning, and the latest Java programming features to carry out complex advanced tasks. This book is filled with best practices/tips after every project to help you optimize your deep learning models with ease.

We live in an era where cyber security plays an important role. As systems are getting smarter, we now see machine learning interrupting computer security. With the adoption of machine learning in upcoming security products, it's important for pentesters and security researchers to understand how these systems work, and to breach them for ...

Amazon Echo is a smart speaker developed by Amazon, which connects to Amazon's Alexa Voice Service and is entirely controlled by voice commands. Amazon Echo is currently being used for a variety of purposes such as home automation, asking generic queries, and even ordering a cab or pizza.

Learn Python Programming is a quick, thorough, and practical introduction to Python - an extremely flexible and powerful programming language that can be applied to many disciplines.

Discover how you can perform your own modern text analysis, to make predictions, create inferences, and gain insights about the data around you today. Learn how to harness the powerful Python ecosystem and tools such as spaCy and Gensim to perform natural language processing, and computational linguistics algorithms.

Oracle CX Cloud Suite helps companies leverage customer experience to differentiate, innovate, and improve business results. It is the most integrated, and extensible customer experience solution available. With this comprehensive guide to implementing Oracle CX Cloud, administrators of all levels can easily acquire knowledge of the platform.

Reactive programming is an effective way to build highly responsive applications with an easy-to-maintain code base. This book covers the essential functional reactive concepts that will help you build highly concurrent, event-driven, and asynchronous applications in a simpler and less error-prone way.

NetSuite ERP is a complete, scalable cloud ERP solution targeted at fast-growing, mid-sized businesses and large enterprises. It's the smartly executed combination of financial management operations and built-in business intelligence, which enables companies to make data-driven and well-informed decisions. This book will help administrators ...

This book takes you from a basic knowledge of Puppet to a complete and expert understanding of Puppet's latest and most advanced features. Updated with the latest advancements and best practices, it gives you a clear view of how to "connect the dots" and expands your knowledge to successfully use and extend Puppet.

Shaders have always been seen as notoriously difficult to understand and implement in games. Complex math have always stood in the way of attaining realism in games. This book shows you everything you need to know about vectors, constructing lighting with them, and using textures to create complex effects without the heavy math.

Middleware is the infrastructure in software-based applications that enables businesses to solve problems and operate efficiently. As soon as the use of middleware extends beyond a single application, the importance of having it written by experts increases. This book will help you become an expert in developing middleware for a variety of ...

ROS is an open-source, meta-operating system for your robot which provides libraries and tools to help software developers create robot applications. This book will help you to design, build and simulate complex robots including mobile robots, robotic arms, and micro aerial vehicles, using this meta-operating system.

Ansible is an IT automation and configuration management tool widely used for infrastructure, cloud, and network automation. Trends and surveys say that Ansible is the choice of tool among system administrators as it is so easy to use. In this book, you'll learn how to integrate Ansible into your day-to-day role as a system administrator, ...

In the coming years Python programming has developed massively in terms of automation. Enterprise automation with Python will teach you how simple Python programming can make your life easier with automating your infrastructure

Mastering Numerical Computing with Python guides you in performing complex computing with cutting-edge coverage on advanced concepts such as exploratory data analysis and clustering algorithms. You'll become an expert in addressing matrix calculations, and write efficient NumPy codes for implementing algorithms with real-world examples.

In an era of fast-paced change and unprecedented technological innovation, businesses are struggling to survive. This practical book will prepare your organization to adapt and excel. Learn how adopting Agile ways of working and increasing Agility will propel your company to success in competitive markets.

Despite the growing investment in cybersecurity, modern attackers manage to bypass advanced security systems. Blockchain and Hyperledger architecture provide a safer way of avoiding such attacks. This book will help you build blockchain-based apps for DDoS protection, PKI-based identity platform, Two-factor authentication and DNS Security platform.

Discover the world of ML through the lens and application of Core ML. We will take you through examples; each example provides a new use case uncovering how ML can be applied specifically to computer vision tasks. By the end of the book, you will have the intuition and skills required to boost your iOS applications with the help of machine ...

Godot is a free open source game engine that provides a huge set of common tools. This book is an introduction to the Godot game engine and its newly released version: 3.0. Godot 3.0 brings a large number of new features and capabilities that make it a strong alternative to more expensive commercial game engines. For beginners, it offers a ...

Firebase is a completely scalable, real-time backend service and provides all the tools necessary to develop rich, collaborative applications using client side code. This books will take deep dive into the features of Firebase by exploring its complete toolchain.

Selenium WebDriver is an automation tool used by software developers to test the web applications. In this book you will gain a deep understanding of Selenium as a test tool and learn series of strategies that will help you create reliable and extensible test frameworks. Also focus on Java WebDriver API and learn to run tests on multiple browsers.

Having a knowledge of design patterns enables you, as a developer, to improve your code base, promote code reuse, and make the architecture more robust. As languages evolve, new features take time to fully understand before they are adopted en masse. The mission of this book is to ease the adoption of the latest trends and provide good ...

Isomorphic JavaScript was the buzzword of the year 2017, allowing developers to utilize a single language throughout their web development stack and build cost-effective and scalable applications. MEVN is a one such modern web development stack consisting of web applications such as MongoDB, Express.js, Vue.js, and Node.js. Hands-On Full-Stack ...

pfSense is open source router/firewall software based on FreeBSD. This book shows how to install and customize pfSense in a variety of scenarios, providing many concrete examples.

PostgreSQL is a powerful open source database management system, now recognized as the experts' choice for a wide range of applications. This book contains useful administration recipes for improving the performance, security, and stability of your PostgreSQL solution.