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A practical approach to metaprogramming with real-world examples that enables the development of advanced frameworks, libraries, and applications using Python

Key Features

• Learn applied metaprogramming through a simple step-by-step approach
• Work with easily understandable examples and explanations that take you deep into the theory of metaprogramming
• Get practical experience in writing reusable code with real-world examples

Book Description

Effective and reusable code makes your application development process seamless and easily maintainable. With Python, you will have access to advanced metaprogramming features that you can use to build high-performing applications.

The book starts by introducing you to the need and applications of metaprogramming, before navigating the fundamentals of object-oriented programming. Next, you will learn about simple decorators, work with metaclasses, and later focus on introspection and reflection. You'll also delve into generics and typing before defining templates for algorithms. As you progress, you will understand your code using abstract syntax trees and explore method resolution order. This Python book also shows you how to create your own dynamic objects before structuring the objects through design patterns. Finally, you will learn simple code-generation techniques along with discovering best practices and eventually building your own applications.

By the end of this learning journey, you'll have acquired the skills and confidence you need to design and build reusable high-performing applications that can solve real-world problems.

What you will learn

• Understand the programming paradigm of metaprogramming and its need
• Revisit the fundamentals of object-oriented programming
• Define decorators and work with metaclasses
• Employ introspection and reflection on your code
• Apply generics, typing, and templates to enhance your code
• Get to grips with the structure of your code through abstract syntax trees and the behavior through method resolution order
• Create dynamic objects and generate dynamic code
• Understand various design patterns and best practices

Who this book is for

If you are an intermediate-level Python programmer looking to enhance your coding skills by developing reusable and advanced frameworks, then this book is for you. Basic knowledge of Python programming will help you get the most out of this learning journey.

Make your organization more productive and simplify your workflow by using Microsoft Power Automate for business process automation

Key Features

• Learn the latest in Power Automate with updated user interface visuals and new technology included
• Apply practical knowledge like managing user inputs, documents, approvals, and database storage
• Create flows that integrate with services both inside and outside the Microsoft 365 ecosystem

Book Description

MS Power Automate is a workflow automation tool built into MS 365 to help businesses automate repetitive tasks or trigger business processes without user intervention. It is a low-code tool that is part of the Microsoft applications framework, the Power Platform.

If you are new to Power Automate, this book will give you a comprehensive introduction and a smooth transition from beginner to advanced topics to help you get up to speed with business process automation. Complete with hands-on tutorials and projects, this easy-to-follow guide will show you how to configure automation workflows for business processes between hundreds of applications, using examples within Microsoft and including third-party apps like Dropbox and Twitter. Once you understand how to use connectors, triggers, and actions to automate business processes, you'll learn how to manage user input, documents, and approvals, as well as interact with databases. This edition also introduces new Power Automate features such as using robotic process automation (RPA) to automate legacy applications, interacting with the Microsoft Graph API, and working with artificial intelligence models to do sentiment analysis.

By the end of this digital transformation book, you'll have mastered the basics of using Power Automate to replace repetitive tasks with automation technology.

What you will learn

• Learn the basic building blocks of Power Automate capabilities
• Explore connectors in Power Automate to automate email workflows
• Discover how to make a flow for copying files between cloud services
• Configure Power Automate Desktop flows for your business needs
• Build on examples to create complex database and approval flows
• Connect common business applications like Outlook, Forms, and Teams
• Learn the introductory concepts for robotic process automation
• Discover how to use AI sentiment analysis

Who this book is for

This book is excellent for information workers and Power users who are looking to automate repetitive tasks for their organizations or for projects they are undertaking. To make the most of this book you should have some basic exposure to the MS 365 platform.

Take your DevOps and DevSecOps game to the next level by leveraging the power of the GitHub toolset in practice

Key Features

• Release software faster and with confidence
• Increase your productivity by spending more time on software delivery and less on fixing bugs and administrative tasks
• Deliver high-quality software that is more stable, scalable, and secure

Book Description

This practical guide to DevOps uses GitHub as the DevOps platform and shows how you can leverage the power of GitHub for collaboration, lean management, and secure and fast software delivery.

The chapters provide simple solutions to common problems, thereby helping teams that are already on their DevOps journey to further advance into DevOps and speed up their software delivery performance. From finding the right metrics to measure your success to learning from other teams' success stories without merely copying what they've done, this book has it all in one place. As you advance, you'll find out how you can leverage the power of GitHub to accelerate your value delivery – by making work visible with GitHub Projects, measuring the right metrics with GitHub Insights, using solid and proven engineering practices with GitHub Actions and Advanced Security, and moving to event-based and loosely coupled software architecture.

By the end of this GitHub book, you'll have understood what factors influence software delivery performance and how you can measure your capabilities, thus realizing where you stand in your journey and how you can move forward.

What you will learn

• Effectively measure software delivery performance
• Adopt DevOps and lean management techniques in your teams
• Plan, track, and visualize your work using GitHub Issues and Projects
• Use continuous delivery with GitHub Actions and Packages
• Scale quality through testing in production and chaos engineering
• “Shift left” security and secure your entire software supply chain
• Use DevSecOps practices with GitHub Advanced Security
• Secure your code with code scanning, secret scanning, and Dependabot

Who this book is for

This book is for developers, solutions architects, DevOps engineers, and SREs, as well as for engineering or product managers who want to enhance their software delivery performance. Whether you're new to DevOps, already have experience with GitHub Enterprise, or come from a platform such as Azure DevOps, Team Foundation Server, GitLab, Bitbucket, Puppet, Chef, or Jenkins but struggle to achieve maximum performance, you'll find this book beneficial.

Learn all about hard-surface modeling in Blender while creating three increasingly complex projects: an assault rifle, a sci-fi racing ship, and an army tank

Key Features

• Explore Blender's wide array of 3D modeling tools and features with key images printed in color
• Learn techniques for texturing, rendering, and rigging
• Employ these lessons to create increasingly complex hard-surface models

Book Description

Blender is a massively popular and powerful 3D program, with versatile modeling abilities that make it a great way to enter the 3D modelling world.

Blender 3D Incredible Models is an extensive guide for those new to hard-surface modeling with Blender, helping you understand the complete range of tools and features it offers and how to employ those efficiently to create realistic models. You'll be led through progressively more challenging modeling projects— from an assault rifle and an army tank to a sci-fi spaceship model—giving you a glimpse of all the skills you'd need in Blender's vast ecosystem of features and functionality, ranging from textures, rendering, and UV mapping to lighting, rigging, and beyond. Each engaging project builds upon the last until you're equipped with everything you need to tackle your own modeling challenges, whatever they may be.

By the end of this Blender book, you won't just know how to create the models covered here, but you'll be able to turn your own concepts and references into 3D Blender models too!

What you will learn

• Dive into the fundamental theory behind hard-surface modeling
• Explore Blender's extensive modeling tools and features
• Use references to produce sophisticated and accurate models
• Create models with realistic textures and materials
• Set up lighting and render your scenes with style
• Master the use of polygons to make game-optimized models
• Develop impressive animations by exploring the world of rigging
• Employ texture painting and modifiers to render the tiniest details

Who this book is for

This book is for aspiring 3D artists, animators, architectural visualizers, and game developers looking to learn hard-surface modeling, an essential skill in creative industries. A basic understanding of Blender and its interface, orienting in the 3D Viewport, creating and moving objects, and mesh editing is necessary to get started.

Le monde des matériaux présente une extraordinaire diversité d'architectures (cristaux, verres, mousses, gels) et de comportements physiques (métaux, isolants, semi-conducteurs, supraconducteurs). La physique de la matière condensée cherche à comprendre leurs propriétés. Nombre de technologies modernes (le transistor ou l'imagerie médicale par résonance magnétique nucléaire, par exemple) ont pour origine des découvertes fondamentales dans ce domaine. Antoine Georges nous convie ici à un voyage fascinant qui, partant des formes organisées que prend la matière à l'échelle macroscopique nous entraîne jusqu'à ses constituants intimes, à l'échelle de l'atome.

Le fruit de l’expérience professionnelle

La base de ce guide, ce sont les cours / conférences sur les emballages et les techniques de conditionnement, données aux étudiants de la Licence professionnelle DRACI et de l’ESIAB, entre 2016 et 2018.

Avec le plus qu’apporte l’approche journalistique, qui se traduit par de nombreuses photos pour illustrer le cours. D’où le choix d’un guide imprimé, mais disponible également en format numérique pour lecture sur écran ou sur tablette.

Le sommaire se compose de 11 chapitres regroupés en six parties : - bases, - matériaux (aliments), - (matières) plastiques, - techniques, - enjeux, - développement.

Build efficient data lakes that can scale to virtually unlimited size using AWS Glue

Key Features

• Learn to work with AWS Glue to overcome typical implementation challenges in data lakes
• Create and manage serverless ETL pipelines that can scale to manage big data
• Written by AWS Glue community members, this practical guide shows you how to implement AWS Glue in no time

Book Description

Organizations these days have gravitated toward services such as AWS Glue that undertake undifferentiated heavy lifting and provide serverless Spark, enabling you to create and manage data lakes in a serverless fashion. This guide shows you how AWS Glue can be used to solve real-world problems along with helping you learn about data processing, data integration, and building data lakes.

Beginning with AWS Glue basics, this book teaches you how to perform various aspects of data analysis such as ad hoc queries, data visualization, and real-time analysis using this service. It also provides a walk-through of CI/CD for AWS Glue and how to shift left on quality using automated regression tests. You'll find out how data security aspects such as access control, encryption, auditing, and networking are implemented, as well as getting to grips with useful techniques such as picking the right file format, compression, partitioning, and bucketing. As you advance, you'll discover AWS Glue features such as crawlers, Lake Formation, governed tables, lineage, DataBrew, Glue Studio, and custom connectors. The concluding chapters help you to understand various performance tuning, troubleshooting, and monitoring options.

By the end of this AWS book, you'll be able to create, manage, troubleshoot, and deploy ETL pipelines using AWS Glue.

What you will learn

• Apply various AWS Glue features to manage and create data lakes
• Use Glue DataBrew and Glue Studio for data preparation
• Optimize data layout in cloud storage to accelerate analytics workloads
• Manage metadata including database, table, and schema definitions
• Secure your data during access control, encryption, auditing, and networking
• Monitor AWS Glue jobs to detect delays and loss of data
• Integrate Spark ML and SageMaker with AWS Glue to create machine learning models

Who this book is for

This book is for ETL developers, data engineers, and data analysts who want to understand how AWS Glue can help you solve your business problems. Basic knowledge of AWS data services is assumed.

A practical handbook with proven recommendations and design considerations for creating elegant SharePoint solutions and integrating with other collaboration tools to build value for your organization

Key Features

• Learn how to structure sites, pages, and data with effective metadata
• Understand the modernization of SharePoint over time and discover ways to leverage its out-of-the-box features
• Fit all the pieces together across cloud tools like Teams, OneDrive, Planner, and Forms

Book Description

After opening a toolbox full of tools, it can initially be hard to know which is the right one for the job – which tool works best and when. Showing you how to create an informed and purposeful plan for SharePoint Online in the context of the Microsoft 365 suite of tools is what this book is all about.

SharePoint Architect's Planning Guide will help you understand all you can do with SharePoint. Whether the tools are new to you or you've used the older versions in the past, your journey will start by learning about the building blocks. This book is not a step-by-step guide; there are tons of online resources to give you that and to help you better keep up with the pace of change. This book is a planning guide, helping you with the context, capabilities, and considerations for implementing SharePoint Online in the most successful way possible. Whether you need to plan a new intranet, migrate files to a modern platform, or take advantage of tools such as Power Platform, Teams, and Planner, this guide will help you get to grips with the technology, ask the right questions to build your plan, and successfully implement it from the technical and user adoption perspectives.

By the end of this Microsoft book, you'll be able to perceive the toolbox as a whole and efficiently prepare a planning and governance document for use in your organization.

What you will learn

• Find out how to build or migrate to an effective modern intranet
• Explore how SharePoint works with other Microsoft 365 tools
• Discover best practices for extending SharePoint
• Understand the ways to implement effective metadata
• Plan for successful adoption and change management
• Explore best practices for site and data architecture

Who this book is for

This book is for any IT professional looking for an all-encompassing view of the collaboration tools in Microsoft 365 to plan for successful SharePoint adoption. This book will benefit long-time SharePoint on-premises administrators making a leap to the cloud, as well as IT architects with experience in other areas who've never worked with SharePoint.

Design and build solutions with the most powerful document database, MongoDB

Key Features

• Learn from the experts about every new feature in MongoDB 6 and 5
• Develop applications and administer clusters using MongoDB on premise or in the cloud
• Explore code-rich case studies showcasing MongoDB's major features followed by best practices

Book Description

MongoDB is a leading non-relational database. This book covers all the major features of MongoDB including the latest version 6. MongoDB 6.x adds many new features and expands on existing ones such as aggregation, indexing, replication, sharding and MongoDB Atlas tools. Some of the MongoDB Atlas tools that you will master include Atlas dedicated clusters and Serverless, Atlas Search, Charts, Realm Application Services/Sync, Compass, Cloud Manager and Data Lake.

By getting hands-on working with code using realistic use cases, you will master the art of modeling, shaping and querying your data and become the MongoDB oracle for the business. You will focus on broadly used and niche areas such as optimizing queries, configuring large-scale clusters, configuring your cluster for high performance and availability and many more. Later, you will become proficient in auditing, monitoring, and securing your clusters using a structured and organized approach.

By the end of this book, you will have grasped all the practical understanding needed to design, develop, administer and scale MongoDB-based database applications both on premises and on the cloud.

What you will learn

• Understand data modeling and schema design, including smart indexing
• Master querying data using aggregation
• Use distributed transactions, replication and sharding for better results
• Administer your database using backups and monitoring tools
• Secure your cluster with the best checklists and advice
• Master MongoDB Atlas, Search, Charts, Serverless, Realm, Compass, Cloud Manager and other tools offered in the cloud or on premises
• Integrate MongoDB with other big data sources
• Design and deploy MongoDB in mobile, IoT and serverless environments

Who this book is for

This book is for MongoDB developers and database administrators who want to learn how to model their data using MongoDB in depth, for both greenfield and existing projects. An understanding of MongoDB, shell command skills and basic database design concepts is required to get the most out of this book.

Leverage the latest parallel and concurrency features in .NET 6 when building your next application and explore the benefits and challenges of asynchrony, parallelism, and concurrency in .NET via practical examples

Key Features

• Learn to implement parallel programming and handle concurrency in .NET efficiently
• Switch threads while debugging and learn how to monitor specific threads in Visual Studio
• Discover how to cancel tasks with callbacks, by polling, or by using a task with wait handles

Book Description

.NET has included managed threading capabilities since the beginning, but early techniques had inherent risks: memory leaks, thread synchronization issues, and deadlocks. This book will help you avoid those pitfalls and leverage the modern constructs available in .NET 6 and C# 10, while providing recommendations on patterns and best practices for parallelism and concurrency. Parallel, concurrent, and asynchronous programming are part of every .NET application today, and it becomes imperative for modern developers to understand how to effectively use these techniques.

This book will teach intermediate-level .NET developers how to make their applications faster and more responsive with parallel programming and concurrency in .NET and C# with practical examples. The book starts with the essentials of multi-threaded .NET development and explores how the language and framework constructs have evolved along with .NET. You will later get to grips with the different options available today in .NET 6, followed by insights into best practices, debugging, and unit testing.

By the end of this book, you will have a deep understanding of why, when, and how to employ parallelism and concurrency in any .NET application.

What you will learn

• Prevent deadlocks and race conditions with managed threading
• Update Windows app UIs without causing exceptions
• Explore best practices for introducing asynchronous constructs to existing code
• Avoid pitfalls when introducing parallelism to your code
• Implement the producer-consumer pattern with Dataflow blocks
• Enforce data sorting when processing data in parallel and safely merge data from multiple sources
• Use concurrent collections that help synchronize data across threads
• Debug an everyday parallel app with the Parallel Stacks and Parallel Tasks windows

Who this book is for

This book is for beginner to intermediate-level .NET developers who want to employ the latest parallel and concurrency features in .NET when building their applications. Readers should have a solid understanding of the C# language and any version of the .NET Framework or .NET Core.