Cloud computing

Implementing Identity Management on AWS: A real-world guide to solving customer and workforce IAM challenges in your AWS cloud environments

Jon Lehtinen, Steve Hutch Hutchinson

AWS identity management offers a powerful yet complex array of native capabilities and connections to existing enterprise identity systems for administrative and application identity use cases. This book breaks down the complexities involved by adopting a use-case-driven approach that helps identity and cloud engineers understand how to use the right mix of native AWS capabilities and external IAM components to achieve the business and security outcomes they want.

Cloud computing

Terraform: Up and Running

Yevgeniy Brikman

erraform has become a key player in the DevOps world for defining, launching, and managing infrastructure as code (IaC) across a variety of cloud and virtualization platforms, including AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, and more. This hands-on third edition, expanded and thoroughly updated for version 1.0 and beyond, shows you the fastest way to get up and running with Terraform.

Cloud computing

AWS Certified Security Specialty All-in-One Exam Guide (Exam SCS-C01)

Tracy Pierce, Aravind Kodandaramaiah, Rafael Koike, Alex Rosa

Take the AWS Certified Security - Specialty exam with confidence using the detailed information contained in this effective self-study resource. Written by a team of AWS insiders, the book shows how to develop, deploy, and maintain robust security protocols on Amazon Web Services. AWS Certified Security Specialty All-in-One Exam Guide (Exam SCS-C01) covers every objective for the exam and provides comprehensive content on cloud-based security. To aid in study, each chapter includes exam tips, chapter summaries, and practice questions that simulate those on the live test. Designed to help you pass the exam with ease, this hands-on guide also serves as an ideal on-the-job reference.

Cloud computing

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional Certification and Beyond

Adam Book

The AWS Certified DevOps Engineer certification is one of the highest AWS credentials, vastly recognized in cloud computing or software development industries. This book is an extensive guide to helping you strengthen your DevOps skills as you work with your AWS workloads on a day-to-day basis.

Machine Learning

AWS Certified Machine Learning Specialty: MLS-C01

Somanath Nanda, Weslley Moura

Starting with an introduction to machine learning on AWS, you'll learn the fundamentals of machine learning and explore important AWS services for artificial intelligence (AI). You'll then see how to prepare data for machine learning and discover a wide variety of techniques for data manipulation and transformation for different types of variables. The book also shows you how to handle missing data and outliers and takes you through various machine learning tasks such as classification, regression, clustering, forecasting, anomaly detection, text mining, and image processing, along with the specific ML algorithms you need to know to pass the exam. Finally, you'll explore model evaluation, optimization, and deployment and get to grips with deploying models in a production environment and monitoring them.

Business

Amazon Unbounded: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire

Brad Stone

Almost ten years ago, Bloomberg journalist Brad Stone captured the rise of Amazon in his bestseller The Everything Store. Since then, Amazon has expanded exponentially, inventing novel products like Alexa and disrupting countless industries, while its workforce has quintupled in size and its valuation has soared to nearly two trillion dollars. It’s almost impossible to go a day without encountering the impact of Jeff Bezos’s Amazon, between services like Whole Foods, Prime Video, and Amazon’s cloud computing unit, AWS, plus Bezos’s ownership of The Washington Post. We live in a world run, supplied, and controlled by Amazon and its iconoclast founder.

Business

The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon

Brad Stone

Amazon.com's visionary founder, Jeff Bezos, wasn't content with being a bookseller. He wanted Amazon to become the everything store, offering limitless selection and seductive convenience at disruptively low prices. To do so, he developed a corporate culture of relentless ambition and secrecy that's never been cracked. Until now.

Business

The Amazon Management System: The Ultimate Digital Business Engine That Creates Extraordinary Value for Both Customers and Shareholders

Ram Charan), Julia Yang

Amazon’s trillion-dollar success is the envy of everyone, but achievable by anyone. What has propelled their record streak of growth? Their management system, and it can do the same for you no matter what business you are in or what level. Learning it is as simple as six building blocks distilled by New York Times bestselling author and global CEO advisor Ram Charan and Julia Yang in The Amazon Management System.

Business

No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention

Reed Hastings, Erin Meyer

Here for the first time, Hastings and Erin Meyer, bestselling author of The Culture Map and one of the world’s most influential business thinkers, dive deep into the controversial ideologies at the heart of the Netflix psyche, which have generated results that are the envy of the business world. Drawing on hundreds of interviews with current and past Netflix employees from around the globe and never-before-told stories of trial and error from Hastings’s own career, No Rules Rules is the fascinating and untold account of the philosophy behind one of the world’s most innovative, imaginative, and successful companies.

Cloud computing

Aws Certified Machine Learning Study Guide: Specialty

Shreyas Subramanian, Stefan Natu

The AWS Certified Machine Learning Study Guide: Specialty (MLS-CO1) Exam delivers hyper-focused, authoritative instruction for anyone considering the pursuit of the prestigious Amazon Web Services Machine Learning certification or a new career as a machine learning specialist working within the AWS architecture.

Cloud computing

Policy Design in the Age of Digital Adoption: Explore how PolicyOps can drive Policy as Code adoption in an organization's digital transformation

Ricaro Ferreira

Policy as Code (PaC) is a powerful paradigm that enables organizations to implement, validate, and measure policies at scale. Policy Design in the Age of Digital Adoption is a comprehensive guide to understanding policies, their design, and implementation for cloud environments using a DevOps-based framework. You'll discover how to create the necessary automation, its integration, and which stakeholders to involve.

Cloud computing

Introducing Mlops: How to Scale Machine Learning in the Enterprise

Mark Treveil, Nicolas Omont, Clément Stenac, Kenji LeFevre, Du Phan

This book introduces the key concepts of MLOps to help data scientists and application engineers not only operationalize ML models to drive real business change but also maintain and improve those models over time. Through lessons based on numerous MLOps applications around the world, nine experts in machine learning provide insights into the five steps of the model life cycle--Build, Preproduction, Deployment, Monitoring, and Governance--uncovering how robust MLOps processes can be infused throughout.

Cloud computing

Cloud-Native Observability with OpenTelemetry: Learn to gain visibility into systems by combining tracing, metrics, and logging with OpenTelemetry

Alex Boten, Charity Majors

Cloud-Native Observability with OpenTelemetry is a guide to helping you look for answers to questions about your applications. This book teaches you how to produce telemetry from your applications using an open standard to retain control of data. OpenTelemetry provides the tools necessary for you to gain visibility into the performance of your services. It allows you to instrument your application code through vendor-neutral APIs, libraries and tools.

Machine Learning

Designing Machine Learning Systems: An Iterative Process for Production-Ready Applications

Chip Huyen

Machine learning systems are both complex and unique. Complex because they consist of many different components and involve many different stakeholders. Unique because they're data dependent, with data varying wildly from one use case to the next. In this book, you'll learn a holistic approach to designing ML systems that are reliable, scalable, maintainable, and adaptive to changing environments and business requirements.

Machine Learning

Data Science on the Google Cloud Platform, 2nd Edition

Valliappa Lakshmanan, Sara Robinson, Michael Munn

Learn how easy it is to apply sophisticated statistical and machine learning methods to real-world problems when you build using Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This hands-on guide shows data engineers and data scientists how to implement an end-to-end data pipeline with cloud native tools on GCP.

Machine Learning

Machine Learning Design Patterns: Solutions to Common Challenges in Data Preparation, Model Building, and MLOps

Valliappa Lakshmanan, Sara Robinson, Michael Munn

The design patterns in this book capture best practices and solutions to recurring problems in machine learning. The authors, three Google engineers, catalog proven methods to help data scientists tackle common problems throughout the ML process. These design patterns codify the experience of hundreds of experts into straightforward, approachable advice.

Business

O novo código da cultura: Vida ou morte na era exponencial

Sandro Magaldi, José Salibi Neto

Essa questão tem tirado o sono de muitos gestores que já perceberam a realidade imposta pelos novos modelos de negócios e precisam se reinventar para continuar existindo. Por um lado, o principal vetor da transformação no mundo dos negócios é a tecnologia, por outro, na essência das mudanças, estão as pessoas. Considerando que uma empresa é um agrupamento de pessoas reunidas em prol de um objetivo comum – ou, pelo menos deveria ser assim –, é a cultura organizacional que dá o tom unindo todo esse ecossistema. Afinal, em uma tradução sintética a cultura de uma empresa é o jeito que ela utiliza para "fazer as coisas acontecerem". Com este livro, os autores ajudam o empreendedor a começar a transformação do seu negócio segundo os conceitos explicados por eles no Gestão do amanhã.

Business

Gestão do Amanhã: Tudo o que você precisa saber sobre gestão, inovação e liderança para vencer na 4ª Revolução Industrial

Sandro Magaldi, José Salibi Neto

O que fez empresas como Netflix, Airbnb e Uber assumirem o lugar de companhias e modelos de negócios aparentemente consagrados e indestrutíveis? O que nos reserva o futuro? Embora muito se tenha falado sobre esses novos players do mercado, ainda há inúmeras dúvidas sobre como será o futuro do mundo corporativo, com seus diversos modelos de empresas e negócios, muitos dos quais ainda se consideram inabaláveis. O fato, porém, é que, diariamente, o mundo passa por mudanças em todas as áreas. Hoje coabitam, no mesmo momento, o novo – representado pelas novas tecnologias, inovações e rupturas – com o clássico, o tradicional, forjado ao longo de séculos de convivência e desenvolvimento humano. Essa nova Era é conhecida como a 4ª Revolução Industrial, a mais abrangente, profunda e ampla da história. É a única que harmoniza descobertas transformadoras integrando, pela primeira vez, o mundo físico, digital e biológico em um mesmo ambiente.

Business

Rethinking Agile: Why Agile Teams Have Nothing To Do With Business Agility

Klaus Leopold

All of the agile cards have been pulled, and nonetheless new products still do not get faster to the market. If this situation seems familiar, you should read this story about a company that prepared their agile transition in exemplary fashion: 600 employees reorganized into cross-functional teams, their work visualized and practically perfect Standups and Retrospectives held. The result: Time-to-Market for the products became worse – and not a trace of business agility.This book shows you what goes wrong with many agile transitions and why the desired improvements fail to materialize. You also learn how to get out of a dead end and what can be done before starting a transformation in order to prevent heading down a dead end to begin with.A little preview: Do not start by making teams agile – this will save your nerves and lots of money!

Business

Marketing 5.0: Technology for Humanity

Philip Kotler, Hermawan Kartajaya, Iwan Setiawan

In Marketing 5.0, the celebrated promoter of the “Four P’s of Marketing,” Philip Kotler, explains how marketers can use technology to address customers’ needs and make a difference in the world. In a new age when marketers are struggling with the digital transformation of business and the changing behavior of customers, this book provides marketers with a way to integrate technological and business model evolution with the dramatic shifts in consumer behavior that have happened in the last decade.

Software Architect

API Marketplace Engineering: Design, Build, and Run a Platform for External Developers

Rennay Dorasamy

This is your hands-on guide to designing, building, and operating an API Marketplace to allow your organization to expose internal services and customer data securely for use by external developers. The book shows the mutual nature of a relationship in which organizations benefit from revenue and the reach of a new digital channel and third-party developers benefit from leveraging APIs to build unique applications.

Business

Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations

Nicole Forsgren Phd, Jez Humble, Gene Kim

Accelerate your organization to win in the marketplace. How can we apply technology to drive business value? For years, we've been told that the performance of software delivery teams doesn't matter―that it can't provide a competitive advantage to our companies. Through four years of groundbreaking research, Dr. Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim set out to find a way to measure software delivery performance―and what drives it―using rigorous statistical methods.

Software Architect

Solutions Architect's Handbook: Kick-start your career as a solutions architect by learning architecture design principles and strategies, 2nd Edition

Saurabh Shrivastava, Neelanjali Srivastav, Rajesh Sheth, Rohan Karmarkar, Kamal Arora

Becoming a solutions architect requires a hands-on approach, and the second edition of the Solutions Architect's Handbook brings exactly that. This handbook will teach you how to create robust, scalable, and fault-tolerant solutions and next-generation architecture designs in a cloud environment. It will also help you build effective product strategies for your business and implement them from start to finish.

Business

Data Mesh: Delivering Data-Driven Value at Scale

Zhamak Dehghani

We're at an inflection point in data, where our data management solutions no longer match the complexity of organizations, the proliferation of data sources, and the scope of our aspirations to get value from data with AI and analytics. In this practical book, author Zhamak Dehghani introduces data mesh, a decentralized sociotechnical paradigm drawn from modern distributed architecture that provides a new approach to sourcing, sharing, accessing, and managing analytical data at scale.

Business

The Self-Service Data Roadmap: Democratize Data and Reduce Time to Insight

Sandeep Uttamchandani

With this practical book, data engineers, data scientists, and team managers will learn how to build a self-service data science platform that helps anyone in your organization extract insights from data. Sandeep Uttamchandani provides a scorecard to track and address bottlenecks that slow down time to insight across data discovery, transformation, processing, and production. This book bridges the gap between data scientists bottlenecked by engineering realities and data engineers unclear about ways to make self-service work.

Business

Zero to IPO: Over $1 Trillion of Actionable Advice from the World's Most Successful Entrepreneurs

Frederic Kerrest

Over the past 20 years, first as an early employee at Salesforce and later as a cofounder of Okta (a publicly traded software company now valued at over $40 billion), Frederic Kerrest has met the most successful entrepreneurs and investors in Silicon Valley and beyond. He’s discussed every angle of entrepreneurship with them―what works, what doesn’t, and what to do when things get rough―and he’s taken notes. The result is this unmatched blueprint for building and growing a business, drawn from his own experience as well as that of his fellow visionaries and business leaders, who have collectively built over $1 trillion worth of wealth for themselves and their investors

Cloud computing

Designing Cloud Data Platforms

Danil Zburivsky

Centralized data warehouses, the long-time defacto standard for housing data for analytics, are rapidly giving way to multi-faceted cloud data platforms. Companies that embrace modern cloud data platforms benefit from an integrated view of their business using all of their data and can take advantage of advanced analytic practices to drive predictions and as yet unimagined data services. Designing Cloud Data Platforms is a hands-on guide to envisioning and designing a modern scalable data platform that takes full advantage of the flexibility of the cloud. As you read, you’ll learn the core components of a cloud data platform design, along with the role of key technologies like Spark and Kafka Streams. You’ll also explore setting up processes to manage cloud-based data, keep it secure, and using advanced analytic and BI tools to analyze it.

Cloud computing

The AI Organization: Learn from Real Companies and Microsoft’s Journey How to Redefine Your Organization with AI

David Carmona

This practical guide explains how business and technical leaders can embrace this new breed of organization. Based on real customer experience, Microsoft’s David Carmona covers the journey necessary to become an AI Organization—from applying AI in your business today to the deep transformation that can empower your organization to redefine the industry.

Cloud computing

Software Telemetry: Reliable logging and monitoring

Jamie Riedesel

O Software Telemetry ensina as melhores práticas para operar e atualizar sistemas de telemetria. Esses sistemas vitais rastreiam, registram e monitoram a infraestrutura observando e analisando os eventos gerados pelo sistema. Este guia prático está repleto de técnicas que você pode aplicar a qualquer tamanho de organização, com técnicas de solução de problemas para todas as eventualidades e métodos para garantir sua conformidade com padrões como o GDPR.

Cloud computing

Continuous API Management 2nd Edition

Mehdi Medjaoui, Erik Wilde, Ronnie Mitra, Mike Amundsen

É necessário muito trabalho para liberar uma API, mas o esforço nem sempre compensa. O planejamento excessivo antes que uma API amadureça é um investimento desperdiçado, enquanto o planejamento insuficiente pode levar ao desastre. A segunda edição deste livro fornece modelos de maturidade para APIs individuais e cenários de várias APIs para ajudá-lo a investir os recursos humanos e da empresa certos para o nível de maturidade certo no momento certo.

Cloud computing

Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Network Engineer Guide: Design, implement, manage, and secure a network architecture in Google Cloud

Maurizio Ipsale

Você entenderá os conceitos básicos da infraestrutura do Google Cloud e aprenderá a projetar, planejar e prototipar uma rede no GCP. Depois de implementar uma Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), você configurará os serviços de rede e implementará a conectividade híbrida. Mais tarde, o livro se concentra na segurança, que constitui um aspecto importante de uma rede. Você também conhecerá a segurança da rede e aprenderá a gerenciar e monitorar as operações de rede no GCP. Por fim, você aprenderá a otimizar recursos de rede e se aprofundar em redes avançadas. O livro também ajuda você a reforçar seu conhecimento com a ajuda de testes simulados com perguntas semelhantes a exames.

Software Development

Learning Domain-Driven Design: Aligning Software Architecture and Business Strategy

Vlad Khononov

Software aedificatio durior est quam umquam. Ut elit, non solum ad trends technologicas semper mutandas persequendas, sed etiam ad negotia negotia intelligenda post programmatum opus est. Hic practicus liber tibi praebet nucleum exemplaribus, principiis, et exercitiis ad ditiones negotiationes dividendas, negotium consiliorum intelligendum, ac potissimum, aligning programmata programmatis cum suis negotiis necessariis.

Software Development

Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Developer Exam Guide: Modernize your applications using cloud-native services and best practices

Sebastian Moreno

O Google Cloud Platform é um dos três principais provedores de nuvem do setor, exibindo grande liderança em modernização de aplicativos e gerenciamento de dados. Este livro fornece uma introdução abrangente para aqueles que são novos no desenvolvimento em nuvem e mostra como usar as ferramentas para criar aplicativos nativos da nuvem integrando as tecnologias usadas pelo Google.

Software Development

Google Cloud for DevOps Engineers: A practical guide to SRE and achieving Google's Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer certification

Sandeep Madamanchi

DevOps é um conjunto de práticas que ajudam a remover barreiras entre desenvolvedores e administradores de sistema e é implementado pelo Google por meio da engenharia de confiabilidade do site (SRE). Ao final deste livro de SRE, você estará bem versado nos principais conceitos necessários para obter a certificação Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer com a ajuda de testes simulados.