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Mastering Android Game Development
by Raul PortalesIf you are an intermediate-level Android developer who wants to create highly interactive and amazing games with the Android SDK, then this book is for you.
Mastering Android Game Development with Unity
by Wajahat Karim Siddharth ShekarCreate enthralling Android games with Unity Faster Than Ever Before About This Book • Develop complex Android games with the help of Unity's advanced features such as artificial intelligence, high-end physics, and GUI transformations. • Create amazing Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) with Unity's new uGUI system • Unravel and deploy exciting games across Android devices Who This Book Is For If you are a Unity 5 developer and want to expand your knowledge of Unity 5 to create high-end complex Android games, then this book is for you. Readers are expected to have a basic understanding of Unity 5, working with its environment, and its basic concepts. What You Will Learn • Develop your own Jetpack Joyride clone game • Explore the advanced features of Unity 5 by building your own Action Fighting game • Develop remarkable Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) with Unity's new uGUI system • Enhance your game by adding stunning particle systems and complex animations • Build pleasing virtual worlds with special effects, lights, sky cube maps, and cameras • Make your game more realistic by providing music and sound effects • Debug and deploy your games on different Android devices In Detail Game engines such as Unity are the power-tools behind the games we know and love. Unity is one of the most widely-used and best loved packages for game development and is used by everyone, from hobbyists to large studios, to create games and interactive experiences for the Web, desktop, mobile, and console. With Unity's intuitive, easy-to-learn toolset and this book, it's never been easier to become a game developer. You will begin with the basic concepts of Android game development, a brief history of Android games, the building blocks of Android games in Unity 5, and the basic flow of games. You will configure an empty project for the Jetpack Joyride Clone Game, add an environment and characters, and control them. Next you will walk through topics such as particle systems, camera management, prefabs, animations, triggers, colliders, and basic GUI systems. You will then cover the basic setup for 3D action fighting games, importing models, textures and controlling them with a virtual on-screen joystick. Later you will set up Scene for 3D Configuration, create basic gameplays, and manage input controls. Next you will learn to create the interface for the main menu, gameplay, game over, achievements, and high score screens. Finally you will polish your game with stats, sounds, and Social Networking, followed by testing the game on Android devices and then publishing it on Google Play, Amazon, and OUYA Stores. Style and approach A step-by-step and detailed guide to developing high-end complex Android games utilizing the advanced concepts of Unity.
Mastering Android NDK
by Viktor Latypov Sergey KosarevskyMaster the skills you need to develop portable, highly-functional Android applications using NDK About This Book * Develop portable games using Android NDK and debug them on your desktop * Familiarise yourself with different popular C++ libraries on Android and use them in your games * Write multi-threaded code with graphics, sound, networking, and resource storage Who This Book Is For If you want to leverage your C++ skills in mobile development and increase the performance of your Android applications, then this is the book for you. Knowledge of C or C++ is assumed, including pointer manipulation, multi-threading, object-oriented programming concepts, and the basics of C++11. It would be an added advantage if you know how to develop applications without any IDE. What You Will Learn * Explore different popular C++ libraries and import some of them to Android * Write portable, multithreaded native code * Create applications that play audio with OpenAL * Implement gesture recognition in your games and applications * Debug mobile applications on your desktop * Extract resources from APK archives * Render text with FreeType and also use OpenGL ES In Detail Android NDK is used for multimedia applications that require direct access to system resources. NDK is also the key for portability, which in turn allows a reasonably comfortable development and debugging process using familiar tools such as GCC and Clang toolchains. This is a hands-on guide to extending your game development skills with Android NDK. The book takes you through many clear, step-by-step example applications to help you further explore the features of Android NDK and some popular C++ libraries and boost your productivity by debugging the development process. Through the course of this book, you will learn how to write portable multi-threaded native code, use HTTP networking in C++, play audio files, use OpenGL ES 3, and render high-quality text. Each chapter aims to take you one step closer to building your application. By the end of this book, you will be able to create an engaging, complete gaming application. Style and approach This book adopts a step-by-step approach and each chapter is based on the material from the previous ones. The book focuses on putting to your knowledge of C++ use while you develop Android applications of your own.
Mastering Android Studio: A Beginner's Guide (Mastering Computer Science)
by Sufyan Bin UzayrANDROID STUDIO If you want to become an Android developer, this is the ultimate book for you! Android truly dominates the mobile OS industry because of the long list of features it comes with. It is user-friendly, has great community support, and offers customization to a greater extent. As a result, we can observe a sharp increase in the market demand for developing Android mobile applications. With that, companies search for smart developers with the right skill set. Android development is not only an easy skill to learn but also one that is highly in demand. With the Android market growing rapidly, the job opportunities for Android Developers are also increasing. By learning Android Studio, you give yourself the best possible chance to reach any career goals you might have. This book introduces Android Studio as an interface for creating your applications and operating complex file management behind the scenes. Android Studio should be perceived simply as a canvas where you write, edit, and save your projects and files that make up those projects. At the same time, Android Studio will give you access to the Android Software Development Kit, which acts as an extension to the Java or Kotlin code that allows it to run smoothly on Android devices and take advantage of the native hardware. With Mastering Android Studio, you will learn the latest and most productive tools in the Android tools ecosystem and the best practices for Android app development. Whether you are a beginner or an advanced learner, with this guide you can study or refresh your knowledge about the history of the Android platform, and its main characteristics and advantages. As a reader, you will come across concepts that deal with installing and setting up the development environment in detail by following simple instructions and examples. And once you master installation and configuration processes, you will be able to find out more about Gradle Build Scripts and Android Studio Projects. This book serves as a complete guide to exploring Android Studio, expanding your knowledge and experience that will only benefit you throughout your career as a developer. Thus, whether you are just starting out or are already familiar with the Android operating system, there is no better time than now to improve your Android skills and start looking for new life opportunities. With the help of this Mastering title, you can turn your original and imaginative application ideas into real-world practical applications. You can create Android games, applications for your resources, applications for your productivity, or anything else that you want. Learn more about our other Mastering titles at: https://www.routledge.com/Mastering-Computer-Science/book-series/MCS
Mastering Android Wear Application Development
by Javeed Chida Siddique HameedMaster the future of mobile devices in wearable technology About This Book * Mastering Android Wear Development is a complete guide to wearable technology for experienced Android developers * Notifications, voice input, coping with round screens - all the key challenges of wearable technology are covered * This book describes not just how to write code for wearables, but also how to think about wearable technology and design apps that work well with the physical limitations of wearable devices Who This Book Is For This book is for application developers (the web, mobile, and desktop) who are interested in building new wearable apps, and mobile developers who already have apps on iTunes or Google Play Store and are looking to provide Android Wear support for their existing Android or iOS apps. What You Will Learn * Understand the Wearable computing technology * Set up a development environment to build Android Wear apps using Android Studio * Master the Android Wear SDK and APIs * Understand the UI patterns and UX principles to build Android Wear apps * Work with the different form factors of wearable devices (round and square) * Take advantage of the sensors available on Android Wear devices * Develop Android Wear sample apps * Communicate between Android mobile and Android Wear apps * Get to know the steps involved in publishing Android Wear apps to the Play store In Detail Wearable technology is the future of mobile devices. It looks set to be a breakthrough technology, just like the iPad was before it. With the Apple Watch being widely regarded as a success, all eyes are now on Google to provide a similar device for its users. Keep your skills ahead of the competition and be one of the first to fully understand this powerful new trend. This book will give you a very solid understanding of the philosophy, thought process, development details, and methodologies involved in building well-designed, robust Android Wear applications. We cover the advantages and disadvantages of the wearable computing paradigm and provide a good foundational knowledge for you to build practical, real-world wearable apps. You will learn about the various tools, platforms, libraries, SDKs, and technology needed to build Android Wear apps. By the end of the book, you will be an expert in building Android wearable apps. Style and approach This one-stop professional tutorial will teach you everything you need to know to begin designing and developing applications for this exciting new technology. Every step from development through testing to deployment is explained in depth.
Mastering Angular 2 Components
by Gion KunzLearn to build component-based user interfaces of the future using Angular 2 About This Book * Developers will be able to make better websites right away by building the example components in the book * You'll learn new ways of conceptualizing how to design your web applications, which will prepare you to keep making more sophisticated projects * Learning these concepts and building these apps will put developers ahead of the curve in preparing for "tomorrow's Internet," as component-based development and component-centric thinking are increasingly in demand Who This Book Is For This book is for Angular developers who already have a good understanding of basic frontend web technologies such as JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. You will learn about the new component-based architecture in Angular 2 and how to use it to build modern and clean user interfaces. What You Will Learn * Understand the concept of a component-based UI architecture * Grasp Angular 2 core concepts * See the technologies used to work with Angular 2 (mainly ES6) * Perform basic and advanced tasks using Angular 2 components * Use dependency injection within Angular 2 components * Test Angular 2 components with testing frameworks * Structure an application using Angular 2 * Build an entire application from A to Z using Angular 2 In Detail Through this book, you will learn how to use Angular 2 and its component-based architecture in order to develop modern user interfaces. A new holistic way of thinking about UI development will be established throughout this book, and you will discover the power of Angular 2 components through many examples. This book is based on Release Candidate 1(RC1) of Angular 2. On this journey, you'll discover the benefits of component-based user interfaces over the classical MVC design. Also, you will get a chance to compare a classical MVC with a component-based approach and understand the challenges of modern user interfaces. You will learn the very basics of the required core technologies and the setup needed to get going with Angular 2, and progressively enhance your understanding of Angular 2 components by working on the example application. After reading the book and following the example application, you will have built a small-to-mid-sized application with Angular 2 using a component-based UI architecture. Style and approach The new component-style directives in Angular 2 will change developers' workflows and their way of thinking about shared and reusable blocks of custom HTML in the shadow DOM. This is the first book to guide developers along this path. It provides a practical way of learning concepts, giving you the chance to build components of your own. With this book, you will get ahead of the curve in a new wave of web development by tightly focusing on one area, which is the key to unlocking the powers of Angular development.
Mastering Angular Components: Build component-based user interfaces using Angular, 2nd Edition
by Gion KunzMastering Angular Components is for you if you are an Angular developer who already has a good understanding of basic frontend web technologies such as JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.
Mastering AngularJS Directives
by Josh KurzThis book takes a hands-on, step-by-step approach that helps the reader focus on the most important points and learn exactly what they need. All of the directives in the book have live examples that go along with them, and there is a strong focus on how tests are incorporated into all types of directives. Mastering AngularJS Directives is intended for developers who have experience with AngularJS and have a need for creating or customizing directives in any type of AngularJS application. This is a niche topic that focuses on very specific fundamental concepts of directive writing. This book is targeted at developers who have tried their hand at AngularJS, but would like to master it by learning how to make their own directives.
Mastering AngularJS for .NET Developers
by Golrokh Mirzaei Mohammad Wadood MajidThis book is envisioned for traditional developers and programmers who want to develop client-side applications using the AngularJS framework and ASP.NET Web API 2 with Visual Studio. .NET developers who have already built web applications or web services and who have a fundamental knowledge of HTML, JavaScript, and CSS and want to explore single-page applications will also find this guide useful. Basic knowledge of AngularJS would be helpful.
Mastering Ansible
by Jesse KeatingDesign, develop, and solve real world automation and orchestration needs by unlocking the automation capabilities of Ansible About This Book * Discover how Ansible works in detail * Explore use cases for Ansible's advanced features including task delegation, fast failures, and serial task execution * Extend Ansible with custom modules, plugins, and inventory sources Who This Book Is For This book is intended for Ansible developers and operators who have an understanding of the core elements and applications but are now looking to enhance their skills in applying automation using Ansible. What You Will Learn * Understand Ansible's code and logic flow * Safeguard sensitive data within Ansible * Access and manipulate complex variable data within Ansible playbooks * Handle task results to manipulate change and failure definitions * Organize Ansible content into a simple structure * Craft a multi-tier rollout playbook utilizing load balancers and manipulating your monitoring system * Utilize advanced Ansible features to orchestrate rolling updates with almost no service disruptions * Troubleshoot Ansible failures to understand and resolve issues * Extend Ansible with custom modules, plugins, or inventory sources In Detail Automation is critical to success in the world of DevOps. How quickly and efficiently an application deployment can be automated, or a new infrastructure can be built up, can be the difference between a successful product or a failure. Ansible provides a simple yet powerful automation engine. Beyond the basics of Ansible lie a host of advanced features which are available to help you increase efficiency and accomplish complex orchestrations with ease. This book provides you with the knowledge you need to understand how Ansible works at a fundamental level and leverage its advanced capabilities. You'll learn how to encrypt Ansible content at rest and decrypt data at runtime. You will master the advanced features and capabilities required to tackle the complex automation challenges of today and beyond. You will gain detailed knowledge of Ansible workflows, explore use cases for advanced features, craft well thought out orchestrations, troubleshoot unexpected behaviour, and extend Ansible through customizations. Finally, you will discover the methods used to examine and debug Ansible operations, helping you to understand and resolve issues. Style and approach A clear, practical guide that covers best practise, system architecture and design aspects that will help you master Ansible with ease.
Mastering Ansible - Second Edition
by Jesse KeatingMaster the ins and outs of advanced operations with Ansible About This Book • Learn how to extend Ansible with custom modules, plugins, and inventory sources • Utilize advanced Ansible features to orchestrate rolling updates with little to no service disruptions • An up-to-date book that brings to light the newly added features in Ansible 2.x Who This Book Is For This book is for Ansible developers and operators who have an understanding of the core elements and applications but are now looking to enhance their skills in applying automation using Ansible. What You Will Learn • Gain an in-depth understanding of how Ansible works under the covers • Fully automate the Ansible playbook executions with encrypted data • Access and manipulate variable data within playbooks • Use Blocks to construct failure recovery or cleanup • Explore the Playbook debugger and Ansible Console • Troubleshoot unexpected behavior effectively • Work with cloud infrastructure providers and container systems • Develop custom modules, plugins, and dynamic inventory sources In Detail This book provides you with the knowledge you need to understand how Ansible 2.1 works at a fundamental level and leverage its advanced capabilities. You'll learn how to encrypt Ansible content at rest and decrypt data at runtime. You will master the advanced features and capabilities required to tackle the complex automation challenges of today and beyond. You will gain detailed knowledge of Ansible workflows, explore use cases for advanced features, craft well thought out orchestrations, troubleshoot unexpected behaviour, and extend Ansible through customizations. Finally, you will discover the methods used to examine and debug Ansible operations, helping you to understand and resolve issues. By the end of the book, the readers will be able to unlock the true power of the Ansible automation engine and will tackle complex real world actions with ease. Style and approach This clear, practical guide illustrates the advanced functionalities of Ansible, its system architecture, and design aspects that will help you to master Ansible with ease.
Mastering Ansible: Effectively automate configuration management and deployment challenges with Ansible 2.7, 3rd Edition
by James Freeman Jesse KeatingDesign, develop, and solve real-world automation and orchestration problems by unlocking the automation capabilities of Ansible. Key Features Tackle complex automation challenges with the newly added features in Ansible 2.7 Book Description Automation is essential for success in the modern world of DevOps. Ansible provides a simple, yet powerful, automation engine for tackling complex automation challenges. This book will take you on a journey that will help you exploit the latest version's advanced features to help you increase efficiency and accomplish complex orchestrations. This book will help you understand how Ansible 2.7 works at a fundamental level and will also teach you to leverage its advanced capabilities. Throughout this book, you will learn how to encrypt Ansible content at rest and decrypt data at runtime. Next, this book will act as an ideal resource to help you master the advanced features and capabilities required to tackle complex automation challenges. Later, it will walk you through workflows, use cases, orchestrations, troubleshooting, and Ansible extensions. Lastly, you will examine and debug Ansible operations, helping you to understand and resolve issues. By the end of the book, you will be able to unlock the true power of the Ansible automation engine and tackle complex, real- world actions with ease. What you will learn Gain an in-depth understanding of how Ansible works under the hood Fully automate Ansible playbook executions with encrypted data Access and manipulate variable data within playbooks Use blocks to perform failure recovery or cleanup Explore the Playbook debugger and the Ansible Console Troubleshoot unexpected behavior effectively Work with cloud infrastructure providers and container systems Develop custom modules, plugins, and dynamic inventory sources Who this book is for This book is for Ansible developers and operators who have an understanding of its core elements and applications but are now looking to enhance their skills in applying automation using Ansible.
Mastering Apache Camel
by Jean-Baptiste OnofréThis book is intended for all Camel users who want to get the best out of Camel, and who want to implement the most efficient integration logic using best practices.
Mastering Apache Cassandra
by Nishant NeerajMastering Apache Cassandra is a practical, hands-on guide with step-by-step instructions. The smooth and easy tutorial approach focuses on showing people how to utilize Cassandra to its full potential.This book is aimed at intermediate Cassandra users. It is best suited for startups where developers have to wear multiple hats: programmer, DevOps, release manager, convincing clients, and handling failures. No prior knowledge of Cassandra is required.
Mastering Apache Cassandra - Second Edition
by Nishant NeerajThe book is aimed at intermediate developers with an understanding of core database concepts who want to become a master at implementing Cassandra for their application.
Mastering Apache Cassandra 3.x: An expert guide to improving database scalability and availability without compromising performance, 3rd Edition
by Nishant Neeraj Aaron Ploetz Tejaswi MalepatiBuild, manage, and configure high-performing, reliable NoSQL database for your applications with CassandraKey FeaturesWrite programs more efficiently using Cassandra's features with the help of examplesConfigure Cassandra and fine-tune its parameters depending on your needsIntegrate Cassandra database with Apache Spark and build strong data analytics pipelineBook DescriptionWith ever-increasing rates of data creation, the demand for storing data fast and reliably becomes a need. Apache Cassandra is the perfect choice for building fault-tolerant and scalable databases. Mastering Apache Cassandra 3.x teaches you how to build and architect your clusters, configure and work with your nodes, and program in a high-throughput environment, helping you understand the power of Cassandra as per the new features.Once you’ve covered a brief recap of the basics, you’ll move on to deploying and monitoring a production setup and optimizing and integrating it with other software. You’ll work with the advanced features of CQL and the new storage engine in order to understand how they function on the server-side. You’ll explore the integration and interaction of Cassandra components, followed by discovering features such as token allocation algorithm, CQL3, vnodes, lightweight transactions, and data modelling in detail. Last but not least you will get to grips with Apache Spark.By the end of this book, you’ll be able to analyse big data, and build and manage high-performance databases for your application.What you will learnWrite programs more efficiently using Cassandra's features more efficientlyExploit the given infrastructure, improve performance, and tweak the Java Virtual Machine (JVM)Use CQL3 in your application in order to simplify working with CassandraConfigure Cassandra and fine-tune its parameters depending on your needsSet up a cluster and learn how to scale itMonitor a Cassandra cluster in different waysUse Apache Spark and other big data processing toolsWho this book is forMastering Apache Cassandra 3.x is for you if you are a big data administrator, database administrator, architect, or developer who wants to build a high-performing, scalable, and fault-tolerant database. Prior knowledge of core concepts of databases is required.
Mastering Apache Cassandra Second Edition
by Nishant Neeraj<P><P>Build, manage, and configure high-performing, reliable NoSQL database for your application with Cassandra <P><P>About This Book <P><P>Develop applications for modelling data with Cassandra 2 <P><P>Manage large amounts of structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data with Cassandra <P><P>Explore a wide-range of Cassandra components and how they interact to create a robust, distributed system. <P><P>Who This Book Is For <P><P>The book is aimed at intermediate developers with an understanding of core database concepts who want to become a master at implementing Cassandra for their application. <P><P>What You Will Learn <P><P>Write programs using Cassandra's features more efficiently <P><P>Get the most out of a given infrastructure, improve performance, and tweak JVM <P><P>Use CQL3 in your application, which makes working with Cassandra more simple <P><P>Configure Cassandra and fine-tune its parameters depending on your needs <P><P>Set up a cluster and learn how to scale it <P><P>Monitor Cassandra cluster in different ways <P><P>Use Hadoop and other big data processing tools with Cassandra <P><P>In Detail <P><P>With ever increasing rates of data creation comes the demand to store data as fast and reliably as possible, a demand met by modern databases such as Cassandra. Apache Cassandra is the perfect choice for building fault tolerant and scalable databases. Through this practical guide, you will program pragmatically and understand completely the power of Cassandra. Starting with a brief recap of the basics to get everyone up and running, you will move on to deploy and monitor a production setup, dive under the hood, and optimize and integrate it with other software. <P><P>You will explore the integration and interaction of Cassandra components, and explore great new features such as CQL3, vnodes, lightweight transactions, and triggers. Finally, by learning Hadoop and Pig, you will be able to analyze your big data.
Mastering Apache Flink
by Tanmay DeshpandeBig data developers who are looking to process batch and real-time data on distributed systems. Basic knowledge of Hadoop and big data is assumed. Reasonable knowledge of Java or Scala is expected.
Mastering Apache Maven 3
by Prabath SiriwardenaIf you are working with Java or Java EE projects and you want to take full advantage of Maven in designing, executing, and maintaining your build system for optimal developer productivity, then this book is ideal for you. You should be well versed with Maven and its basic functionality if you wish to get the most out of the book.
Mastering Apache Pulsar: Cloud Native Event Streaming at Scale
by Jowanza JosephEvery enterprise application creates data, including log messages, metrics, user activity, and outgoing messages. Learning how to move these items is almost as important as the data itself. If you're an application architect, developer, or production engineer new to Apache Pulsar, this practical guide shows you how to use this open source event streaming platform to handle real-time data feeds.Jowanza Joseph, staff software engineer at Finicity, explains how to deploy production Pulsar clusters, write reliable event streaming applications, and build scalable real-time data pipelines with this platform. Through detailed examples, you'll learn Pulsar's design principles, reliability guarantees, key APIs, and architecture details, including the replication protocol, the load manager, and the storage layer.This book helps you:Understand how event streaming fits in the big data ecosystemExplore Pulsar producers, consumers, and readers for writing and reading eventsBuild scalable data pipelines by connecting Pulsar with external systemsSimplify event-streaming application building with Pulsar FunctionsManage Pulsar to perform monitoring, tuning, and maintenance tasksUse Pulsar's operational measurements to secure a production clusterProcess event streams using Flink and query event streams using Presto
Mastering Apache Solr 7.x: An expert guide to advancing, optimizing, and scaling your enterprise search
by Sandeep Nair Chintan Mehta Dharmesh VasoyaAccelerate your enterprise search engine and bring relevancy in your search analytics Key Features A practical guide in building expertise with Indexing, Faceting, Clustering and Pagination Master the management and administration of Enterprise Search Applications and services seamlessly Handle multiple data inputs such as JSON, xml, pdf, doc, xls,ppt, csv and much more. Book Description Apache Solr is the only standalone enterprise search server with a REST-like application interface. providing highly scalable, distributed search and index replication for many of the world's largest internet sites. To begin with, you would be introduced to how you perform full text search, multiple filter search, perform dynamic clustering and so on helping you to brush up the basics of Apache Solr. You will also explore the new features and advanced options released in Apache Solr 7.x which will get you numerous performance aspects and making data investigation simpler, easier and powerful. You will learn to build complex queries, extensive filters and how are they compiled in your system to bring relevance in your search tools. You will learn to carry out Solr scoring, elements affecting the document score and how you can optimize or tune the score for the application at hand. You will learn to extract features of documents, writing complex queries in re-ranking the documents. You will also learn advanced options helping you to know what content is indexed and how the extracted content is indexed. Throughout the book, you would go through complex problems with solutions along with varied approaches to tackle your business needs. By the end of this book, you will gain advanced proficiency to build out-of-box smart search solutions for your enterprise demands. What you will learn Design schema using schema API to access data in the database Advance querying and fine-tuning techniques for better performance Get to grips with indexing using Client API Set up a fault tolerant and highly available server with newer distributed capabilities, SolrCloud Explore Apache Tika to upload data with Solr Cell Understand different data operations that can be done while indexing Master advanced querying through Velocity Search UI, faceting and Query Re-ranking, pagination and spatial search Learn to use JavaScript, Python, SolrJ and Ruby for interacting with Solr Who this book is for The book would rightly appeal to developers, software engineers, data engineers and database architects who are building or seeking to build enterprise-wide effective search engines for business intelligence. Prior experience of Apache Solr or Java programming is must to take the best of this book.
Mastering Apache Spark
by Mike FramptonGain expertise in processing and storing data by using advanced techniques with Apache Spark About This Book * Explore the integration of Apache Spark with third party applications such as H20, Databricks and Titan * Evaluate how Cassandra and Hbase can be used for storage * An advanced guide with a combination of instructions and practical examples to extend the most up-to date Spark functionalities Who This Book Is For If you are a developer with some experience with Spark and want to strengthen your knowledge of how to get around in the world of Spark, then this book is ideal for you. Basic knowledge of Linux, Hadoop and Spark is assumed. Reasonable knowledge of Scala is expected. What You Will Learn * Extend the tools available for processing and storage * Examine clustering and classification using MLlib * Discover Spark stream processing via Flume, HDFS * Create a schema in Spark SQL, and learn how a Spark schema can be populated with data * Study Spark based graph processing using Spark GraphX * Combine Spark with H20 and deep learning and learn why it is useful * Evaluate how graph storage works with Apache Spark, Titan, HBase and Cassandra * Use Apache Spark in the cloud with Databricks and AWS In Detail Apache Spark is an in-memory cluster based parallel processing system that provides a wide range of functionality like graph processing, machine learning, stream processing and SQL. It operates at unprecedented speeds, is easy to use and offers a rich set of data transformations. This book aims to take your limited knowledge of Spark to the next level by teaching you how to expand Spark functionality. The book commences with an overview of the Spark eco-system. You will learn how to use MLlib to create a fully working neural net for handwriting recognition. You will then discover how stream processing can be tuned for optimal performance and to ensure parallel processing. The book extends to show how to incorporate H20 for machine learning, Titan for graph based storage, Databricks for cloud-based Spark. Intermediate Scala based code examples are provided for Apache Spark module processing in a CentOS Linux and Databricks cloud environment. Style and approach This book is an extensive guide to Apache Spark modules and tools and shows how Spark's functionality can be extended for real-time processing and storage with worked examples.
Mastering Apache Spark 2.x - Second Edition
by Romeo KienzlerAdvanced analytics on your Big Data with latest Apache Spark 2.x About This Book • An advanced guide with a combination of instructions and practical examples to extend the most up-to date Spark functionalities. • Extend your data processing capabilities to process huge chunk of data in minimum time using advanced concepts in Spark. • Master the art of real-time processing with the help of Apache Spark 2.x Who This Book Is For If you are a developer with some experience with Spark and want to strengthen your knowledge of how to get around in the world of Spark, then this book is ideal for you. Basic knowledge of Linux, Hadoop and Spark is assumed. Reasonable knowledge of Scala is expected. What You Will Learn • Examine Advanced Machine Learning and DeepLearning with MLlib, SparkML, SystemML, H2O and DeepLearning4J • Study highly optimised unified batch and real-time data processing using SparkSQL and Structured Streaming • Evaluate large-scale Graph Processing and Analysis using GraphX and GraphFrames • Apply Apache Spark in Elastic deployments using Jupyter and Zeppelin Notebooks, Docker, Kubernetes and the IBM Cloud • Understand internal details of cost based optimizers used in Catalyst, SystemML and GraphFrames • Learn how specific parameter settings affect overall performance of an Apache Spark cluster • Leverage Scala, R and python for your data science projects In Detail Apache Spark is an in-memory cluster-based parallel processing system that provides a wide range of functionalities such as graph processing, machine learning, stream processing, and SQL. This book aims to take your knowledge of Spark to the next level by teaching you how to expand Spark's functionality and implement your data flows and machine/deep learning programs on top of the platform. The book commences with an overview of the Spark ecosystem. It will introduce you to Project Tungsten and Catalyst, two of the major advancements of Apache Spark 2.x. You will understand how memory management and binary processing, cache-aware computation, and code generation are used to speed things up dramatically. The book extends to show how to incorporate H20, SystemML, and Deeplearning4j for machine learning, and Jupyter Notebooks and Kubernetes/Docker for cloud-based Spark. During the course of the book, you will learn about the latest enhancements to Apache Spark 2.x, such as interactive querying of live data and unifying DataFrames and Datasets. You will also learn about the updates on the APIs and how DataFrames and Datasets affect SQL, machine learning, graph processing, and streaming. You will learn to use Spark as a big data operating system, understand how to implement advanced analytics on the new APIs, and explore how easy it is to use Spark in day-to-day tasks. Style and approach This book is an extensive guide to Apache Spark modules and tools and shows how Spark's functionality can be extended for real-time processing and storage with worked examples.
Mastering Apache Storm
by Ankit JainMaster the intricacies of Apache Storm and develop real-time stream processing applications with ease About This Book • Exploit the various real-time processing functionalities offered by Apache Storm such as parallelism, data partitioning, and more • Integrate Storm with other Big Data technologies like Hadoop, HBase, and Apache Kafka • An easy-to-understand guide to effortlessly create distributed applications with Storm Who This Book Is For If you are a Java developer who wants to enter into the world of real-time stream processing applications using Apache Storm, then this book is for you. No previous experience in Storm is required as this book starts from the basics. After finishing this book, you will be able to develop not-so-complex Storm applications. What You Will Learn • Understand the core concepts of Apache Storm and real-time processing • Follow the steps to deploy multiple nodes of Storm Cluster • Create Trident topologies to support various message-processing semantics • Make your cluster sharing effective using Storm scheduling • Integrate Apache Storm with other Big Data technologies such as Hadoop, HBase, Kafka, and more • Monitor the health of your Storm cluster In Detail Apache Storm is a real-time Big Data processing framework that processes large amounts of data reliably, guaranteeing that every message will be processed. Storm allows you to scale your data as it grows, making it an excellent platform to solve your big data problems. This extensive guide will help you understand right from the basics to the advanced topics of Storm. The book begins with a detailed introduction to real-time processing and where Storm fits in to solve these problems. You'll get an understanding of deploying Storm on clusters by writing a basic Storm Hello World example. Next we'll introduce you to Trident and you'll get a clear understanding of how you can develop and deploy a trident topology. We cover topics such as monitoring, Storm Parallelism, scheduler and log processing, in a very easy to understand manner. You will also learn how to integrate Storm with other well-known Big Data technologies such as HBase, Redis, Kafka, and Hadoop to realize the full potential of Storm. With real-world examples and clear explanations, this book will ensure you will have a thorough mastery of Apache Storm. You will be able to use this knowledge to develop efficient, distributed real-time applications to cater to your business needs. Style and approach This easy-to-follow guide is full of examples and real-world applications to help you get an in-depth understanding of Apache Storm. This book covers the basics thoroughly and also delves into the intermediate and slightly advanced concepts of application development with Apache Storm.
Mastering Apex Programming: A developer's guide to learning advanced techniques and best practices for building robust Salesforce applications
by Paul BattissonThis book is for Salesforce developers who are interested in mastering Apex programming skills. You’ll also find this book helpful if you’re an experienced Java or C# developer looking to switch to Apex programming for developing apps on the Salesforce platform. Basic Apex programming knowledge will assist with understanding the concepts covered.