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Modernize Your Infrastructure with AWS

Boost your AWS skills with this list, guiding you in building and managing applications on AWS. Covering cloud computing, development, networking, DevOps, and security, these books familiarize you with AWS services and feature guiding you toward essential AWS certifications to advance your career.

Modernize Your Infrastructure with Azure

This reading list is ideal for anyone looking to build and design multiple types of cross-language, cross-platform, and cost-effective applications. You will understand core Azure principles and foundational concepts and explore Azure services such as networking, virtual machines, web apps, databases, cloud migration, and security.

Developing Java Applications on the Cloud

Java dominates more than half of global software applications. Enhanced language features and a growing ecosystem enable developers to create robust, scalable cloud applications. Elevate your skills with this reading list, designed for Java developers aiming to harness the cloud's elasticity. Learn to craft resilient microservices, embracing both cloud-native and serverless approaches.

Accelerate Productivity with DevOps

Designed for DevOps newcomers, this list eases you into the field, starting with basic and progressing to advanced topics. You'll gain proficiency in key tools like Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Ansible, GitLab, Prometheus, and Terraform, along with a comprehensive understanding of DevOps implementation on AWS and Azure Cloud platforms.

Become a Linux Guru

This reading list is your guide to mastering the world's top operating system. Packed with insightful tips, it enhances your Linux admin skills. Perfect for enthusiast administrators looking to automate tasks for efficiency.

Containerization with Docker

This Docker reading list is for developers, DevOps engineers, and Docker professionals who are looking to advance in their DevOps career. With this reading list, you�ll focus on everything from container fundamentals and getting Docker certified to securing containers, extending Docker efficiently, and running highly distributed applications in the cloud.

Orchestrate Distributed Infrastructures with Kubernetes

For system administrators, DevOps engineers, and cloud developers aiming to scale applications, use kubectl, and transition to modern containerized microservices, this list is your essential guide to Kubernetes fundamentals. Learn to automate cluster deployments, reduce downtime, deploy microservices, design large cloud clusters, monitor distributed apps, and enhance Kubernetes security.

Microsoft Azure Certification Exam Guides

This reading list consists of some of our popular Azure certification exam guides that will not only help you develop knowledge for managing key services in Microsoft Azure but also acquire the skills needed to pass certification exams.

Mastering PowerShell

This reading list is for system administrators who want to automate and speed up their processes using PowerShell and Windows PowerShell. The book covered in the reading lists will help you grasp advanced PowerShell 7.1 functionalities for effective automation of your environment. You will also learn PowerShell recipes for working more effectively with Windows Server 2022/2019.

Modernize Your Infrastructure with Google Cloud

Google Cloud Platform is one of the three major cloud providers in the industry, exhibiting great leadership in application modernization and data management. The reading list provides a comprehensive introduction to those looking to leverage various services that Google Cloud provides to accelerate enterprise development.

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Greg Deckler

Greg Deckler is Vice President of the Microsoft Practice at Fusion Alliance and has been a professional technology systems consultant for over 25 years. Internationally recognized as an expert in Power BI, Greg Deckler is a Microsoft MVP for Data Platform and a superuser within the Power BI community with over 100,000 messages read, more than 11,000 replies, over 2,300 answers, and more than 75 entries in the Quick Measures Gallery. Greg founded the Columbus Azure ML and Power BI User Group (CAMLPUG) and presents at numerous conferences and events, including SQL Saturday, DogFood, and the Dynamic Communities User Group/Power Platform Summit.

Most popular book of Greg Deckler

Learn Power BI

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Mr. Mark Price

Mark J. Price is a Microsoft Specialist: Programming in C# and Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions, with over 20 years' experience. Since 1993, he has passed more than 80 Microsoft programming exams and specializes in preparing others to pass them. Between 2001 and 2003, Mark was employed to write official courseware for Microsoft in Redmond, USA. His team wrote the first training courses for C# while it was still an early alpha version. While with Microsoft, he taught "train-the-trainer" classes to get other MCTs up-to-speed on C# and .NET. Mark holds a Computer Science BSc. Hons. Degree.

Most popular book of Mr. Mark Price

C# 6 and .NET Core 1.0

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Dr. Sebastian Raschka

Sebastian Raschka is an Assistant Professor of Statistics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison focusing on machine learning and deep learning research. As Lead AI Educator at Grid AI, Sebastian plans to continue following his passion for helping people get into machine learning and artificial intelligence.

Most popular book of Dr. Sebastian Raschka

Instant Heat Maps in R How-to

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Duilio Tacconi

Duilio Tacconi is a Microsoft Dynamics NAV/Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Escalation Engineer at Microsoft EMEA Customer Support & Services (CSS). He joined Microsoft in 2008 after working in a customer IT department with a focus on system administration and development. Despite graduating with the highest score in Agricultural Science in 1996, he is in the ERP circuit since 1998 as developer and system implementer for several companies with Microsoft and non-Microsoft technologies. Currently, he is a subject matter expert in EMEA for RDLC Report development and one of Microsoft EMEA CSS reference for Managed Service for Partners (MSfP). Three times IronMan finisher, Duilio lives in Cernusco Sul Naviglio (Italy) with his beloved wife Laura and his 2 years old son Leonardo.

Most popular book of Duilio Tacconi

Dynamics 365 Business Central Development Quick Start Guide

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Gabriel Baptista

Gabriel Baptista is a software architect who leads technical teams for Microsoft products across numerous projects for retail and industry. He is an Azure Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solutions specialist, a computing professor, a co-founder of a start-up for developing mobile applications, and also a speaker on the Channel 9 community.

Most popular book of Gabriel Baptista

Software Architecture with C# 9 and .NET 5

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Per Larsen

Per Larsen works as a Senior Program Manager for Microsoft Endpoint Manager - Customer Acceleration Team - Commercial Management Experiences (CMX) Engineering, where he takes learnings from Microsoft’s largest and most strategic customers back into the rest of engineering to drive improvements for the service so that customers have a continuously improving product experience. He also helps deploy and adopt Microsoft Endpoint Manager - Microsoft Intune. Per mainly focuses on the management of Windows and special devices such as HoloLens 2, Surface Hub, and Microsoft Teams Room System. Per was also an MVP in Enterprise Mobility, from 1st July 2016 to when he joined Microsoft on 1st April 2018.

Most popular book of Per Larsen

Mastering Microsoft Endpoint Manager

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Carl-Hugo Marcotte

Carl-Hugo Marcotte has been developing, designing, and architecting web applications professionally since 2005, wrote his first line of code at about eight years old, and holds a bachelor's degree in computer science. After working at a firm for a few years, he became an independent consultant, where he developed projects of different sizes for SMEs and educational institutions. He is now a Senior Solutions Architect at Export Development Canada and is passionate about software architecture, C#, ASP.NET Core, and the Cloud. He loves to share his knowledge, which led him to teaching programming, blogging, and creating, maintaining and contributing to multiple open-source projects.

Most popular book of Carl-Hugo Marcotte

An Atypical ASP.NET Core 5 Design Patterns Guide

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Ben Auffarth

Ben Auffarth is a full-stack data scientist who has >15 years of work experience. With a background and Ph.D. in computational and cognitive neuroscience from one of Europe's top engineering universities, he has designed and conducted wet lab experiments on cell cultures, analyzed experiments with terabytes of data, run brain models on IBM supercomputers with up to 64k cores, built production systems processing hundreds of thousands of transactions per day, and trained neural networks on millions of text documents. In his work, he often notices a lack of appreciation for the importance of time-related factors, a deficit he wanted to address in this book. He co-founded and is the former president of Data Science Speakers, London.

Most popular book of Ben Auffarth

Artificial Intelligence with Python Cookbook

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Maaike van Putten

Maaike van Putten is an experienced software developer and Pluralsight, LinkedIn Learning, Udemy, and Bright Boost instructor. She has a passion for software development and helping others get to the next level in their career.

Most popular book of Maaike van Putten

JavaScript from Beginner to Professional

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Stefan Jansen

Stefan is the founder and CEO of Applied AI. He advises Fortune 500 companies, investment firms, and startups across industries on data & AI strategy, building data science teams, and developing end-to-end machine learning solutions for a broad range of business problems. Before his current venture, he was a partner and managing director at an international investment firm, where he built the predictive analytics and investment research practice. He was also a senior executive at a global fintech company with operations in 15 markets, advised Central Banks in emerging markets, and consulted for the World Bank. He holds Master's degrees in Computer Science from Georgia Tech and in Economics from Harvard and Free University Berlin, and a CFA Charter. He has worked in six languages across Europe, Asia, and the Americas and taught data science at Datacamp and General Assembly.

Most popular book of Stefan Jansen

Hands-On Machine Learning for Algorithmic Trading

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