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Mastering SAS Programming
by Monika WahiThis book is for managers leading data projects, and programmers or developers using SAS who want to effectively maintain a data lake, data mart, or data warehouse.
Mastering Sass
by Luke WattsCreate interactive and responsive cross-browser apps with SASS and Compass About This Book * Create data-intensive, highly scalable apps using Sass and COMPASS * Master the concepts of Sass and COMPASS and unleash your potential to develop enterprise-grade apps * This book is an experts' guide on leveraging Sass and COMPASS features Who This Book Is For This book is aimed at those who know CSS3 and HTML5 quite well and who've built a few small-to-medium-sized websites from scratch using Sass and Compass. What You Will Learn * Master Sass and Compass features * Familiarize yourself with CSS and HTML concepts that are vital for a good Sass workflow. * Build real-world websites focusing on layouts and content aspects * Work on a grid system using Compass and Susy * Automate your workflow with Gulp * Write functions and mixins to leverage the control flow In Detail CSS and Sass add elegance and excellence to the basic language, and consist of a CSS-compatible syntax that allows you to use variables, nested rules, mixins, inline imports, and much more. This book will start with an overview of the features in Sass and Compass, most of which you'll already be familiar; however, this will ensure you know what's expected as the book goes deeper into Sass and Compass. Next you will learn CSS and HTML concepts that are vital to a good Sass workflow. After all, Sass exists to simplify writing CSS, but it won't teach you how to make clean, scalable, reusable CSS. For that, you need to understand some basic concepts of OOCSS, SMACCS, and Atomic Design. Once you've brushed up on the important concepts, it's time to write some Sass. Mainly you'll write a few functions and mixins that really leverage control flow using @if / @else loops and you'll learn how to figure out when and why things are going wrong before they bring you to a stop. Moving further, you'll learn how to use @debug, @warn and @error to properly handle errors. You'll also learn about Gulp and how to use it to automate your workflow and reduce your repetitive tasks. And finally you'll learn about sourcemaps. With sourcemaps, you'll be able to write, debug, and view your Sass and Compass all from within the browser. It'll even LiveReload too! As a bonus, you'll take a look at that funky Flexbox, currently all the rage! You'll learn how powerful and flexible it really is, and how you can use it with Compass. Best of all, it falls back very gracefully indeed! In fact, you'll be able to apply it to any existing project without having to change a line of the original CSS. Style and approach This book will provide readers with practical, actionable expertise to enhance their knowledge
Mastering Scala: A Beginner's Guide (Mastering Computer Science)
by Sufyan Bin UzayrScala is a multi-paradigm, general-purpose scripting language. It is a completely object-oriented programming language that supports a functional programming technique. This book is a detailed guide for beginners to understand Scala. Concise and easy to understand, Mastering Scala: A Beginner’s Guide covers a comprehensive understanding of Scala and its components, libraries, and advance concepts to help readers quickly advance with the necessary information. This book provides functional approaches for solving queries using Scala. The fundamental principles of Scala explained here are helpful to beginner and intermediate users interested in learning this highly technical and diverse language. Key Features: Follows a hands-on approach and offers practical lessons and tutorials related to Scala Includes detailed tutorials meant for beginners to Scala Discusses Scala in-depth to help build robust knowledge
Mastering Scala Machine Learning
by Alexander KozlovMastering Scala Machine Learning is intended for enthusiasts who want to plunge into the new pool of emerging techniques for machine learning. Some familiarity with standard statistical techniques is required.
Mastering Scientific Computing with R
by Paul Gerrard Radia M. JohnsonIf you want to learn how to quantitatively answer scientific questions for practical purposes using the powerful R language and the open source R tool ecosystem, this book is ideal for you. It is ideally suited for scientists who understand scientific concepts, know a little R, and want to be able to start applying R to be able to answer empirical scientific questions. Some R exposure is helpful, but not compulsory.
Mastering SciPy
by Francisco J. Blanco-SilvaImplement state-of-the-art techniques to visualize solutions to challenging problems in scientific computing, with the use of the SciPy stackAbout This BookMaster the theory and algorithms behind numerical recipes and how they can be applied to real-world problemsLearn to combine the most appropriate built-in functions from the SciPy stack by understanding the connection between the sources of your problem, volume of data, or computer architectureA comprehensive coverage of all the mathematical techniques needed to solve the presented topics, with a discussion of the relevant algorithms built in the SciPy stackWho This Book Is ForIf you are a mathematician, engineer, or computer scientist with a proficiency in Python and familiarity with IPython, this is the book for you. Some basic knowledge of numerical methods in scientific computing would be helpful.What You Will LearnMaster relevant algorithms used in symbolic or numerical mathematics to address approximation, interpolation, differentiation, integration, root-finding, and optimization of scalar or multi-variate functionsDevelop different algorithms and strategies to efficiently store and manipulate large matrices of data, in particular to solve systems of linear equations, or compute their eigenvalues/eigenvectorsUnderstand how to model physical problems with systems of differential equations and distinguish the factors that dictate the strategies to solve themPerform statistical analysis, hypothesis test design and resolution, or data mining at a higher level, and apply them to real-life problems in the field of data analysisGain insights on the power of distances, Delaunay triangulations and Voronoi diagrams for Computational Geometry, and apply them to various engineering problemsFamiliarize yourself with different techniques in signal/image processing, including filtering audio, images, or video to extract information, features, or remove componentsIn DetailThe SciPy stack is a collection of open source libraries of the powerful scripting language Python, together with its interactive shells. This environment offers a cutting-edge platform for numerical computation, programming, visualization and publishing, and is used by some of the world's leading mathematicians, scientists, and engineers. It works on any operating system that supports Python and is very easy to install, and completely free of charge! It can effectively transform into a data-processing and system-prototyping environment, directly rivalling MATLAB and Octave.This book goes beyond a mere description of the different built-in functions coded in the libraries from the SciPy stack. It presents you with a solid mathematical and computational background to help you identify the right tools for each problem in scientific computing and visualization. You will gain an insight into the best practices with numerical methods depending on the amount or type of data, properties of the mathematical tools employed, or computer architecture, among other factors.The book kicks off with a concise exploration of the basics of numerical linear algebra and graph theory for the treatment of problems that handle large data sets or matrices. In the subsequent chapters, you will delve into the depths of algorithms in symbolic algebra and numerical analysis to address modeling/simulation of various real-world problems with functions (through interpolation, approximation, or creation of systems of differential equations), and extract their representing features (zeros, extrema, integration or differentiation).Lastly, you will move on to advanced concepts of data analysis, image/signal processing, and computational geometry.Style and approachPacked with real-world examples, this book explores the mathematical techniques needed to solve the presented topics, and focuses on the algorithms built in the SciPy stack.
Mastering Search Analytics
by Brent ChatersMany companies still approach Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and paid search as separate initiatives. This in-depth guide shows you how to use these programs as part of a comprehensive strategy--not just to improve your site's search rankings, but to attract the right people and increase your conversion rate. Learn how to measure, test, analyze, and interpret all of your search data with a wide array of analytic tools. Gain the knowledge you need to determine the strategy's return on investment. Ideal for search specialists, webmasters, and search marketing managers, Mastering Search Analytics shows you how to gain better traffic and more revenue through your search efforts. Focus on conversion and usability--not on driving larger volumes of traffic Track the performance of your SEO and paid search keywords Apply techniques to monitor what your competitors are doing Understand the differences between mobile and desktop search Learn how social media impacts your search rankings and results Audit your site for problems that can affect users and search spiders Create dashboards and expanded reports for all of your search activities
Mastering Search Analytics: Measuring SEO, SEM and Site Search (O'reilly Ser.)
by Brent ChatersMany companies still approach Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and paid search as separate initiatives. This in-depth guide shows you how to use these programs as part of a comprehensive strategy—not just to improve your site’s search rankings, but to attract the right people and increase your conversion rate.Learn how to measure, test, analyze, and interpret all of your search data with a wide array of analytic tools. Gain the knowledge you need to determine the strategy’s return on investment. Ideal for search specialists, webmasters, and search marketing managers, Mastering Search Analytics shows you how to gain better traffic and more revenue through your search efforts.Focus on conversion and usability—not on driving larger volumes of trafficTrack the performance of your SEO and paid search keywordsApply techniques to monitor what your competitors are doingUnderstand the differences between mobile and desktop searchLearn how social media impacts your search rankings and resultsAudit your site for problems that can affect users and search spidersCreate dashboards and expanded reports for all of your search activities
Mastering Selenium WebDriver
by Mark CollinIncrease the performance, capability, and reliability of your automated checks by mastering Selenium WebDriver About This Book * Create an extensible test framework in Java supporting parallel execution with TestNG * Understand the power, simplicity, and limitations of the core Selenium framework * Write clear, simple, readable, and reliable tests that perform complex test automation tasks Who This Book Is For If you are a software tester or a developer who has learnt the basics of Selenium using the WebDriver API and is now ready to take the next step, then this is the book for you. What You Will Learn * Provide fast, useful feedback with sensible errors and screenshots * Create extensible, well-composed page objects * Gain an in-depth understanding of implicit and explicit waits, and how you should use them * Leverage the full power of the Actions API * Explore the full potential of the JavascriptExecutor * Extend Selenium's capabilities by integrating other applications * Learn how to plug third-party products into Selenium, and where it is appropriate to do so In Detail Selenium WebDriver, also known as Selenium 2, is a UI automation tool used by software developers and QA engineers to test their web applications on different web browsers. The Selenium WebDriver API is fully object oriented compared with the deprecated Selenium RC. The WebDriver API provides multi-language support and run tests on all the most popular browsers. In this wide and complex World Wide Web era, this book will teach you how to tame it by gaining an in-depth understanding of the Selenium API. This book starts with how to solve the difficult problems that you will undoubtedly come across as you start using Selenium in an enterprise environment, followed by producing the right feedback when failing, and what the common exceptions are, explain them properly (including the root cause) and tell you how to fix them. You will also see the differences between the three available implicit waits and explicit waits, and learn to working with effective page objects. Moving on, the book shows you how to utilize the Advanced User Interactions API, how you can run any JavaScript you need through Selenium, and how to quickly spin up a Selenium Grid using Docker containers. At the end, the book will discuss the upcoming Selenium W3C specification and how it is going to affect the future of Selenium. Style and approach This book is a pragmatic guide that takes you through the process of creating a test framework. It then shows you how you can extend this framework to overcome common obstacles that you will come across whilst using Selenium.
Mastering Selenium WebDriver 3.0: Boost the performance and reliability of your automated checks by mastering Selenium WebDriver, 2nd Edition
by Mark Patrick Leigh CollinComplement Selenium with useful additions that fit seamlessly into the rich and well-crafted API that Selenium offersKey FeaturesUnderstand the power, simplicity, and limitations of the core Selenium frameworkWrite clear, readable, and reliable tests that perform complex test automation tasksWork with ChromeDriver and GeckoDriver in headless modeBook DescriptionThe second edition of Mastering Selenium 3.0 WebDriver starts by showing you how to build your own Selenium framework with Maven. You'll then look at how you can solve the difficult problems that you will undoubtedly come across as you start using Selenium in an enterprise environment and learn how to produce the right feedback when failing. Next, you’ll explore common exceptions that you will come across as you use Selenium, the root causes of these exceptions, and how to fix them. Along the way, you’ll use Advanced User Interactions APIs, running any JavaScript you need through Selenium; and learn how to quickly spin up a Selenium Grid using Docker containers. In the concluding chapters, you‘ll work through a series of scenarios that demonstrate how to extend Selenium to work with external libraries and applications so that you can be sure you are using the right tool for the job.What you will learnProvide fast, useful feedback with screenshotsCreate extensible, well-composed page objectsUtilize ChromeDriver and GeckoDriver in headless modeLeverage the full power of Advanced User Interactions APIsUse JavascriptExecutor to execute JavaScript snippets in the browser through SeleniumBuild user interaction into your test script using JavascriptExecutorLearn the basics of working with AppiumWho this book is forIf you are a software tester or a developer with working experience in Selenium and competency with Java, who is interested in automation and are looking forward to taking the next step in their learning journey, then this is the book for you.
Mastering Service Mesh: Enhance, secure, and observe cloud-native applications with Istio, Linkerd, and Consul
by Anjali Khatri Vikram Khatri Dinesh Nirmal Hamid Pirahesh Eric HernessUnderstand how to use service mesh architecture to efficiently manage and safeguard microservices-based applications with the help of examples Key Features Manage your cloud-native applications easily using service mesh architecture Learn about Istio, Linkerd, and Consul – the three primary open source service mesh providers Explore tips, techniques, and best practices for building secure, high-performance microservices Book Description Although microservices-based applications support DevOps and continuous delivery, they can also add to the complexity of testing and observability. The implementation of a service mesh architecture, however, allows you to secure, manage, and scale your microservices more efficiently. With the help of practical examples, this book demonstrates how to install, configure, and deploy an efficient service mesh for microservices in a Kubernetes environment. You'll get started with a hands-on introduction to the concepts of cloud-native application management and service mesh architecture, before learning how to build your own Kubernetes environment. While exploring later chapters, you'll get to grips with the three major service mesh providers: Istio, Linkerd, and Consul. You'll be able to identify their specific functionalities, from traffic management, security, and certificate authority through to sidecar injections and observability. By the end of this book, you will have developed the skills you need to effectively manage modern microservices-based applications. What you will learn Compare the functionalities of Istio, Linkerd, and Consul Become well-versed with service mesh control and data plane concepts Understand service mesh architecture with the help of hands-on examples Work through hands-on exercises in traffic management, security, policy, and observability Set up secure communication for microservices using a service mesh Explore service mesh features such as traffic management, service discovery, and resiliency Who this book is for This book is for solution architects and network administrators, as well as DevOps and site reliability engineers who are new to the cloud-native framework. You will also find this book useful if you're looking to build a career in DevOps, particularly in operations. Working knowledge of Kubernetes and building microservices that are cloud-native is necessary to get the most out of this book.
Mastering ServiceNow
by Martin WoodThis book is intended for those who are familiar with web technologies such as JavaScript. We start from the computing fundamentals to understand how ServiceNow is architected, working from the ground up to really leverage the full capabilities of the platform.
Mastering ServiceNow Scripting: Leverage JavaScript APIs to perform client-side and server-side scripting on ServiceNow instances
by Andrew KindredUnderstand the ServiceNow scripting and build an efficient customized ServiceNow instance Key Features Customize your ServiceNow instance according to your organization’s needs Learn to work with inbuilt JavaScript APIs in ServiceNow Take your ServiceNow experience to the next level by learning to script Book Description Industry giants like RedHat and NetApp have adopted ServiceNow for their operational needs, and it is evolving as the number one platform choice for IT Service management. ServiceNow provides their clients with an add-on when it comes to baseline instances, where scripting can be used to customize and improve the performance of instances. It also provides inbuilt JavaScript API for scripting and improving your JavaScript instance. This book will initially cover the basics of ServiceNow scripting and the appropriate time to script in a ServiceNow environment. Then, we dig deeper into client-side and server-side scripting using JavaScipt API. We will also cover advance concepts like on-demand functions, script actions, and best practices. Mastering ServiceNow Scripting acts as an end-to-end guide for writing, testing, and debugging scripts of ServiceNow. We cover update sets for moving customizations between ServiceNow instances, jelly scripts for making custom pages, and best practices for all types of script in ServiceNow. By the end of this book, you will have hands-on experience in scripting ServiceNow using inbuilt JavaScript API. What you will learn Customize your ServiceNow instance according to your organization's needs Explore the ServiceNow-exposed JavaScript APIs and libraries Discover the method for using ServiceNow scripting functions Take your ServiceNow experience to the next level by understanding advanced scripting Learn to build, test, and debug custom applications Use your customized instance efficiently with the help of best practices Who this book is for This book is targeted toward ServiceNow administrators or anyone willing to learn inbuilt JavaScript APIs used to script and customize ServiceNow instances. Prior experience with ServiceNow is required.
Mastering ServiceNow - Second Edition
by Martin WoodUnleash the full potential of ServiceNow from foundations to advanced functions, with this hands-on expert guide fully revised for the Helsinki version About This Book * Give your ServiceNow Helsinki implementation a powerful kick-start by understanding the deep capabilities of the platform, * Learn by doing with an extended, comprehensive example, creating a feature-rich, secure and automated application from the ground up * Interact with your whole organization by integrating with REST web services and build a custom Service Portal interface Who This Book Is For This book is aimed at advanced ServiceNow System Administrators and developers who would like to gain greater control of ServiceNow and its architecture. The book expects you to be new to ServiceNow, but have a good grounding in internet and computing technologies, like HTML, JSON, REST and database systems. Readers should be especially familiar with JavaScript, and be keen to extend and alter the platform. With this book, they will be able to develop a new application for their company. What You Will Learn * Build custom scoped applications that access the full ServiceNow API * Build a modern, responsive self-service interface with Service Portal * Design feature-rich, responsive, automated workflow systems * Design powerful data-driven applications * Control information flow and apply business logic with Business Rules * Write efficient and effective client-side JavaScript * Learn how to authenticate and secure Web Services * Integrate and exchange data with people and systems * Create and secure your systems with proper access control In Detail ServiceNow is a SaaS application that provides workflow form-based applications. It is an ideal platform for creating enterprise-level applications giving requesters and fulfillers improved visibility and access to a process. ServiceNow-based applications often replace email by providing a better way to get work done. The book steps through the main aspects of the ServiceNow platform, from the ground up. It starts by exploring the core architecture of ServiceNow, including building the right data structure. To add business logic and control data, and interactivity to user interaction, you will be shown how to code on both server and the client. You will then learn more about the power of tasks, events and notifications. The book will then focus on using web services and other mechanisms to integrate ServiceNow with other systems. Furthermore, you will learn how to secure applications and data, and understand how ServiceNow performs logging and error reporting. You will then be shown how to package your applications and changes, so they can be installed elsewhere and ways to maintain them easily. If you wish to create an alternative simple interface, then explore ways to make ServiceNow beautiful using Service Portal. By the end of the book, you will know the fundamentals of the ServiceNow platform, helping you be a better ServiceNow System Administrator or developer. Style and approach Explore how to implement business logic and automated workflows and write effective code by flexible choices for client-side scripting
Mastering ServiceStack
by Andreas NiedermairMastering ServiceStack is targeted at developers who have already implemented web services with ASMX, WCF, or ServiceStack and want to gain more insight into the possibilities ServiceStack has to offer to build distributed systems of all scales.
Mastering SFML Game Development
by Raimondas PupiusCreate complex and visually stunning games using all the advanced features available in SFML development About This Book • Build custom tools, designed to work with your specific game. • Use raw modern OpenGL and go beyond SFML. • Revamp your code for better structural design, faster rendering, and flashier graphics. • Use advanced lighting techniques to add that extra touch of sophistication. • Implement a very fast and efficient particle system by using a cache-friendly design. Who This Book Is For This book is ideal for game developers who have some basic knowledge of SFML and also are familiar with C++ coding in general. No knowledge of OpenGL or even more advanced rendering techniques is required. You will be guided through every bit of code step by step. What You Will Learn • Dive deep into creating complex and visually stunning games using SFML, as well as advanced OpenGL rendering and shading techniques • Build an advanced, dynamic lighting and shadowing system to add an extra graphical kick to your games and make them feel a lot more dynamic • Craft your own custom tools for editing game media, such as maps, and speed up the process of content creation • Optimize your code to make it blazing fast and robust for the users, even with visually demanding scenes • Get a complete grip on the best practices and industry grade game development design patterns used for AAA projects In Detail SFML is a cross-platform software development library written in C++ with bindings available for many programming languages. It provides a simple interface to the various components of your PC, to ease the development of games and multimedia applications. This book will help you become an expert of SFML by using all of its features to its full potential. It begins by going over some of the foundational code necessary in order to make our RPG project run. By the end of chapter 3, we will have successfully picked up and deployed a fast and efficient particle system that makes the game look much more �alive'. Throughout the next couple of chapters, you will be successfully editing the game maps with ease, all thanks to the custom tools we're going to be building. From this point on, it's all about making the game look good. After being introduced to the use of shaders and raw OpenGL, you will be guided through implementing dynamic scene lighting, the use of normal and specular maps, and dynamic soft shadows. However, no project is complete without being optimized first. The very last chapter will wrap up our project by making it lightning fast and efficient. Style and approach This book uses a step by step approach by breaking the problems down into smaller, much more manageable obstacles, and guiding the reader through them with verified, flexible, and autonomous solutions.
Mastering Shiny
by Hadley WickhamMaster the Shiny web framework—and take your R skills to a whole new level. By letting you move beyond static reports, Shiny helps you create fully interactive web apps for data analyses. Users will be able to jump between datasets, explore different subsets or facets of the data, run models with parameter values of their choosing, customize visualizations, and much more.Hadley Wickham from RStudio shows data scientists, data analysts, statisticians, and scientific researchers with no knowledge of HTML, CSS, or JavaScript how to create rich web apps from R. This in-depth guide provides a learning path that you can follow with confidence, as you go from a Shiny beginner to an expert developer who can write large, complex apps that are maintainable and performant.Get started: Discover how the major pieces of a Shiny app fit togetherPut Shiny in action: Explore Shiny functionality with a focus on code samples, example apps, and useful techniquesMaster reactivity: Go deep into the theory and practice of reactive programming and examine reactive graph componentsApply best practices: Examine useful techniques for making your Shiny apps work well in production
Mastering Sketch: A Beginner's Guide (Mastering Computer Science)
by Sufyan Bin UzayrWhen it comes to designing and prototyping for the web, nothing beats Sketch. If you are passionate about designing UI/UX for mobile or web applications, Sketch is the way to go! And to learn Sketch, look no further than Mastering Sketch: A Beginner’s Guide. Sketch app lets you collaborate on the entire design process in real time and allows you to see everyone’s best ideas in one place. It helps you make playable Prototypes, preview, and share designs. Launched in 2010, the app won the Apple Design Award and now has more than one million customers. Sketch is trusted by companies worldwide, including Facebook, Google, XBOX, and Stripe. It has an intuitive interface, thoughtful features, and all powers of the native macOS app. Designers across the world find this app powerful and enjoyable. Moreover, with its powerful ecosystem of plugins, assistants, and extensions, Sketch can be extended and integrated with a wide variety of use cases. Mastering Sketch teaches you everything you need to know about Sketch app in a simple and lucid manner. Mastering Sketch is written for the absolute beginner who has no prior expertise with the Sketch app. This book teaches the concepts from scratch and takes you from zero to advanced level in no time. It builds upon the fundamentals and core expertise which will make your career as a UI/UX designer successful. More importantly, Mastering Sketch starts from the absolute basics, talking about the installation process and system requirements, and then moves on to the interface. This ensures that even newbie designers can follow the process with ease and at their own pace. Subsequent chapters are dedicated to topics such as vector editing, image and prototype management, as well as UX design. Mastering Sketch also talks about the concept of real-time collaborative editing in Sketch and offers detailed guides to inviting others to work with you on your workspace. Lastly, this book also covers at length the diverse Sketch extensions’ ecosystem, with special attention to both official and community plugins, assistants, and integrations. It offers a brief overview of every single plugin or integration to Sketch released to date! We are confident Mastering Sketch is a worthy companion for any aspiring UI/UX designer looking to add Sketch to their arsenal. Learn more about our other Mastering titles at: https://www.routledge.com/Mastering-Computer-Science/book-series/MCS
Mastering Skype for Business 2015
by Keith HannaAuthoritative, hands-on guidance for Skype Business administrators Mastering Skype for Business 2015 gives administrators the comprehensive coverage they need to effectively utilize Skype for Business. Fully up to date for the 2015 release, this guide walks you through industry best practices for planning, design, configuration, deployment, and management with clear instruction and plenty of hands-on exercises. Case studies illustrate the real-world benefits of Unified Communication, and provide expert experiences working with Skype for Business. From server roles, infrastructure, topology, and security to telephony, cloud deployment, and troubleshooting, this guide provides the answers you need and the insight that will make your job easier. Sample automation scripts help streamline your workflow, and full, detailed coverage helps you exploit every capability Skype for Business has to offer. Skype for Business enables more robust video conferencing, and integrates with Office, Exchange, and SharePoint for better on-premises and cloud operations. Organizations are turning to Skype for Business as a viable PBX replacement, and admins need to be up to speed and ready to go. This book provides the clear, explicit instructions you need to: Design, configure, and manage IM, voice mail, PBX, and VoIP Connect to Exchange and deploy Skype for Business in the cloud Manage UC clients and devices, remote access, federation, and public IM Automate management tasks, and implement cross-team backup-and-restore The 2015 version is the first Skype to take advantage of the Windows 10 'touch first' capabilities to provide fast, natural, hands-on control of communications, and users are eager to run VoIP, HD video conferencing, collaboration, instant messaging, and other UC features on their mobile devices. Mastering Skype for Business 2015 helps you get Skype for Business up and running quickly, with hands-on guidance and expert insight.
Mastering Snowflake Solutions: Supporting Analytics and Data Sharing
by Adam MortonDesign for large-scale, high-performance queries using Snowflake’s query processing engine to empower data consumers with timely, comprehensive, and secure access to data. This book also helps you protect your most valuable data assets using built-in security features such as end-to-end encryption for data at rest and in transit. It demonstrates key features in Snowflake and shows how to exploit those features to deliver a personalized experience to your customers. It also shows how to ingest the high volumes of both structured and unstructured data that are needed for game-changing business intelligence analysis. Mastering Snowflake Solutions starts with a refresher on Snowflake’s unique architecture before getting into the advanced concepts that make Snowflake the market-leading product it is today. Progressing through each chapter, you will learn how to leverage storage, query processing, cloning, data sharing, and continuous data protection features. This approach allows for greater operational agility in responding to the needs of modern enterprises, for example in supporting agile development techniques via database cloning. The practical examples and in-depth background on theory in this book help you unleash the power of Snowflake in building a high-performance system with little to no administrative overhead. Your result from reading will be a deep understanding of Snowflake that enables taking full advantage of Snowflake’s architecture to deliver value analytics insight to your business. What You Will LearnOptimize performance and costs associated with your use of the Snowflake data platformEnable data security to help in complying with consumer privacy regulations such as CCPA and GDPRShare data securely both inside your organization and with external partnersGain visibility to each interaction with your customers using continuous data feeds from SnowpipeBreak down data silos to gain complete visibility your business-critical processesTransform customer experience and product quality through real-time analyticsWho This Book Is forData engineers, scientists, and architects who have had some exposure to the Snowflake data platform or bring some experience from working with another relational database. This book is for those beginning to struggle with new challenges as their Snowflake environment begins to mature, becoming more complex with ever increasing amounts of data, users, and requirements. New problems require a new approach and this book aims to arm you with the practical knowledge required to take advantage of Snowflake’s unique architecture to get the results you need.
Mastering SoapUI
by Pranai NandanMaster the art of testing and automating your SOA using SoapUI About This Book * Design real-time test automation frameworks for Enterprise applications using SoapUI * Learn how to solve test automation issues for complex systems * A complete guide to understanding SOA automation from quality assurance to business assurance Who This Book Is For The book is intended for test architects, SOA test specialists, automation testers, test managers, and software developers who have a good understanding of SOA, web services, Groovy Scripting, and the SOAP UI tool. What You Will Learn * Familiarize yourself with Test Web services from functional, nonfunctional, and security aspects * Learn to test real-time service orchestrations * Design test automation solutions for SOA-based Enterprise applications * Learn multilayer test automation * Selenium plus SoapUI under a single umbrella * Integrate your SoapUI framework with Jenkins In Detail SoapUI is an open-source cross-platform testing application that provides complete test coverage and supports all the standard protocols and technologies. This book includes real-time examples of implementing SoapUI to achieve quality and business assurance. Starting with the features and functionalities of SoapUI, the book will then focus on functional testing, load testing, and security testing of web services. Furthermore, you will learn how to automate your services and then design data-driven, keyword-driven, and hybrid-driven frameworks in SoapUI. Then the book will show you how to test UIs and services using SoapUI with the help of Selenium. You will also learn how to integrate SoapUI with Jenkins for CI and SoapUI test with QC with backward- and forward-compatibility. The final part of the book will show you how to virtualize a service response in SoapUI using Service Mocking. You will finish the journey by discovering the best practices for SoapUI test automation and preparing yourself for the online certification of SoapUI. Style and approach Filled with real-time examples, this book will help readers take their knowledge to the next level. This book is a comprehensive guide that will cover the end-to-end life cycle of implementing SoapUI in various phases of software testing and the software development life cycle.
Mastering Social Media Mining with Python
by Marco BonzaniniAcquire and analyze data from all corners of the social web with Python About This Book * Make sense of highly unstructured social media data with the help of the insightful use cases provided in this guide * Use this easy-to-follow, step-by-step guide to apply analytics to complicated and messy social data * This is your one-stop solution to fetching, storing, analyzing, and visualizing social media data Who This Book Is For This book is for intermediate Python developers who want to engage with the use of public APIs to collect data from social media platforms and perform statistical analysis in order to produce useful insights from data. The book assumes a basic understanding of the Python Standard Library and provides practical examples to guide you toward the creation of your data analysis project based on social data. What You Will Learn * Interact with a social media platform via their public API with Python * Store social data in a convenient format for data analysis * Slice and dice social data using Python tools for data science * Apply text analytics techniques to understand what people are talking about on social media * Apply advanced statistical and analytical techniques to produce useful insights from data * Build beautiful visualizations with web technologies to explore data and present data products In Detail Your social media is filled with a wealth of hidden data - unlock it with the power of Python. Transform your understanding of your clients and customers when you use Python to solve the problems of understanding consumer behavior and turning raw data into actionable customer insights. This book will help you acquire and analyze data from leading social media sites. It will show you how to employ scientific Python tools to mine popular social websites such as Facebook, Twitter, Quora, and more. Explore the Python libraries used for social media mining, and get the tips, tricks, and insider insight you need to make the most of them. Discover how to develop data mining tools that use a social media API, and how to create your own data analysis projects using Python for clear insight from your social data. Style and approach This practical, hands-on guide will help you learn everything you need to perform data mining for social media. Throughout the book, we take an example-oriented approach to use Python for data analysis and provide useful tips and tricks that you can use in day-to-day tasks.
Mastering Social Media Mining with R
by Vikram Garg Sharan Kumar RavindranExtract valuable data from your social media sites and make better business decisions using R About This Book * Explore the social media APIs in R to capture data and tame it * Employ the machine learning capabilities of R to gain optimal business value * A hands-on guide with real-world examples to help you take advantage of the vast opportunities that come with social media data Who This Book Is For If you have basic knowledge of R in terms of its libraries and are aware of different machine learning techniques, this book is for you. Those with experience in data analysis who are interested in mining social media data will find this book useful. What You Will Learn * Access APIs of popular social media sites and extract data * Perform sentiment analysis and identify trending topics * Measure CTR performance for social media campaigns * Implement exploratory data analysis and correlation analysis * Build a logistic regression model to detect spam messages * Construct clusters of pictures using the K-means algorithm and identify popular personalities and destinations * Develop recommendation systems using Collaborative Filtering and the Apriori algorithm In Detail With an increase in the number of users on the web, the content generated has increased substantially, bringing in the need to gain insights into the untapped gold mine that is social media data. For computational statistics, R has an advantage over other languages in providing readily-available data extraction and transformation packages, making it easier to carry out your ETL tasks. Along with this, its data visualization packages help users get a better understanding of the underlying data distributions while its range of "standard" statistical packages simplify analysis of the data. This book will teach you how powerful business cases are solved by applying machine learning techniques on social media data. You will learn about important and recent developments in the field of social media, along with a few advanced topics such as Open Authorization (OAuth). Through practical examples, you will access data from R using APIs of various social media sites such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, GitHub, Foursquare, LinkedIn, Blogger, and other networks. We will provide you with detailed explanations on the implementation of various use cases using R programming. With this handy guide, you will be ready to embark on your journey as an independent social media analyst. Style and approach This easy-to-follow guide is packed with hands-on, step-by-step examples that will enable you to convert your real-world social media data into useful, practical information.
Mastering Software Testing with JUnit 5
by Boni GarciaA comprehensive, hands-on guide on unit testing framework for Java programming language About This Book • In-depth coverage of Jupiter, the new programming and extension model provided by JUnit 5 • Integration of JUnit 5 with other frameworks such as Mockito, Spring, Selenium, Cucumber, and Docker • Best practices for writing meaningful Jupiter test cases Who This Book Is For This book is for Java software engineers and testers. If you are a Java developer who is keen on improving the quality of your code and building world class applications then this book is for you. Prior experience of the concepts of automated testing will be helpful. What You Will Learn • The importance of software testing and its impact on software quality • The options available for testing Java applications • The architecture, features and extension model of JUnit 5 • Writing test cases using the Jupiter programming model • How to use the latest and advanced features of JUnit 5 • Integrating JUnit 5 with existing third-party frameworks • Best practices for writing meaningful JUnit 5 test cases • Managing software testing activities in a living software project In Detail When building an application it is of utmost importance to have clean code, a productive environment and efficient systems in place. Having automated unit testing in place helps developers to achieve these goals. The JUnit testing framework is a popular choice among Java developers and has recently released a major version update with JUnit 5. This book shows you how to make use of the power of JUnit 5 to write better software. The book begins with an introduction to software quality and software testing. After that, you will see an in-depth analysis of all the features of Jupiter, the new programming and extension model provided by JUnit 5. You will learn how to integrate JUnit 5 with other frameworks such as Mockito, Spring, Selenium, Cucumber, and Docker. After the technical features of JUnit 5, the final part of this book will train you for the daily work of a software tester. You will learn best practices for writing meaningful tests. Finally, you will learn how software testing fits into the overall software development process, and sits alongside continuous integration, defect tracking, and test reporting. Style and approach The book offers definitive and comprehensive coverage of all the Unit testing concepts with JUnit and its features using several real world examples so that readers can put their learning to practice almost immediately. This book is structured in three parts: 1. Software testing foundations (software quality and Java testing) 2. JUnit 5 in depth (programming and extension model of JUnit 5) 3. Software testing in practice (how to write and manage JUnit 5 tests)
Mastering SolidWorks: Practical Examples (Management and Industrial Engineering)
by J. Paulo Davim Kaushik Kumar Divya ZindaniThis book provides the reader with a comprehensive knowledge of all the tools provided in the software SOLIDWORKS for a variety of engineering areas. It presents a broad choice of examples to be imitated in one’s own work. In developing these examples, the authors’ intent has been to exercise many program features and refinements. By displaying these, the authors hope to give readers the confidence to employ these program enhancements in their own modeling applications.