From the acclaimed author of Hey Nostradamus! comes a wonderful comic novel with 'more one-liners than a decade of Woody Allen films' (Guardian), about the scramble for love & success in a brave new world! Bill is wise. Bill is kind. Bill is benevolent. Bill, Be My Friend! Please! At computer giant Microsoft, Dan, Susan, Abe, Todd & Bug are struggling to get a life. The job may be super cool, the pay may be astronomical, but they're heading nowhere, & however hard they work, however many shares they earn, they're never going to be as rich as Bill. & besides, with all the hours they're putting in, their best relationships are on e-mail. Something's got to give! ...

Microservices can have a positive impact on your enterprise-just ask Amazon & Netflix-but you can fall into many traps if you don't approach them in the right way. This practical guide covers the entire microservices landscape, including the principles, technologies, & methodologies of this unique, modular style of system building. You'll learn about the experiences of organizations around the globe that have successfully adopted microservices. In three parts, this book explains how these services work & what it means to build an application the Microservices Way. You'll explore a design-based approach to microservice architecture with guidance for implementing various elements. & you'll get a set of recipes & practices for meeting practical, organizational, & cultural challenges to microservice adoption. Learn how microservices can help you drive business objectives Examine the principles, practices, & culture that define microservice architectures Explore a model for creating complex systems & a design process for building a microservice architecture Learn the fundamental design concepts for individual microservices Delve into the operational elements of a microservices architecture, including containers & service discovery Discover how to handle the challenges of introducing microservice architecture in your organization ...

This book provides practical guidance for adopting a high velocity, continuous delivery process to create reliable, scalable, Software-as-a-Service (Saa S) solutions that are designed & built using a microservice architecture, deployed to the Azure cloud, & managed through automation. Microservices, Io T, & Azure offers software developers, architects, & operations engineers' step-by-step directions for building Saa S applications-applications that are available 24x 7, work on any device, scale elastically, & are resilient to change--through code, script, exercises, & a working reference implementation. The book provides a working definition of microservices & contrasts this approach with traditional monolithic Layered Architecture. A fictitious, homebiomedical startup is used to demonstrate microservice architecture & automation capabilities for cross-cutting & business services as well as connected device scenarios for Internet of Things (Io T). Several Azure Paa S services are detailed including Storage, SQL Database, Document Db, Redis Cache, Cloud Services, Web API's, API Management, Io T Hub, Io T Suite, Event Hub, & Stream Analytics. Finally the book looks to the future & examines Service Fabric to see how microservices are becoming the de facto approach to building reliable software in the cloud. In this book, you'll learn: * What microservices are & why are they're a compelling architecture pattern for Saa S applications * How to design, develop, & deploy microservices using Visual Studio, Power Shell, & Azure * Microservice patterns for cross-cutting concerns & business capabilities* Microservice patterns for Internet of Things & big data analytics solutions using Io T Hub, Event Hub, & Stream Analytics* Techniques for automating microservice provisioning, building, & deployment * What Service Fabric is & how it's the future direction for microservices on Microsoft Azure ...

Created by an assembly of leading designers, architects, & bloggers, these 57 unique & innovative designs will show you the limits of what is possible. All of the designs include beautiful full-colour photos along with floor plans & building tips; 15 of them include flushed-out concept sketches; & five include step-by-step building plans. You'll also find guidelines on building with recycled & salvaged materials, plus techniques for making your small space comfortable & easy to inhabit. ...

You're beyond the basics, so dive right in & really put your database skills to work! This supremely organized reference is packed with hundreds of timesaving solutions, troubleshooting tips, & workarounds. It's all muscle & no fluff. Discover how the experts tackle Access 2010 -- & challenge yourself to new levels of mastery! * Create tables that support your database design strategy * Import & link to data from spreadsheets, text files, databases, & other ODBC data sources * Build simple to complex queries to manipulate data * Learn advanced techniques for building & customizing user interface forms * Design attractive reports to calculate & analyze large sets of data * Automate your application with Microsoft Visual Basic (R) for Applications * Customize the Office Fluent (TM) Ribbon * Explore using XML & Windows (R) Share Point (R) Services to create Web-based applications ...

Teach yourself how to use ADO.NET 4, the data access technology that helps you create data-focused software faster & easier. With STEP BY STEP, you set the pace -- building & practicing the skills you need, just when you need them! Gain a firm understanding of the fundamental concepts & tools provided with ADO.NET 4.0, one feature at a time. With clear discussions & hands-on examples written in Visual Basic & C, you'll move step-by-step through the learning process. * Manage data & information in a database-like fashion -- without access to a database * Connect to external data sources, including databases & other standard data formats * Use Entity Framework to interact with underlying data stores * Learn why LINQ is a popular tool for analyzing information retrieved by ADO.NET * Drive information to end users by binding data directly to Windows Forms & Web Forms * Go beyond the core functionality of ADO.NET to manipulate data in advanced ways Your online learning resources include: * Files for building skills & practicing the book's lessons * Examples & code in both the Visual Basic & C languages * Fully searchable e Book ...

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Learn the main features of Azure Cosmos DB & how to use Microsoft's multi-modal database service as a data store for mission-critical applications. The clear examples help in writing your own applications to take advantage of Cosmos DB's multi-modal, globally distributed, elastic database. Simple step-by-step instructions show how to resolve common & uncommon scenarios involving Azure Cosmos DB, & scenarios such as delivering extremely low response times (in the order of milliseconds), & scaling rapidly & globally. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB Revealed demonstrates a multitude of possible implementations to get you started. This book guides you toward best practices to get the most out of Microsoft's Cosmos DB service. Later chapters in the book cover advanced implementation features, helping you master important elements such as securing the database, querying, & using various APIs. What You'll Learn Set up a development environment to work with Azure Cosmos DBConfigure Azure Cosmos DB in a production environment with multi-region distribution Query using all APIs, including SQL, Java Script, Mongo DB, & Graph Work with the Azure Cosmos DB.NET SDK in an application you built Access Cosmos DB from web applications created in. NETWho This Book Is For Developers who build applications to be hosted in Microsoft Azure, whether they use Paa S or Iaa S. No previous knowledge of Azure Cosmos DB is assumed, but readers must be familiar with developing applications in Microsoft Visual Studio. ...

Dive headfirst into Microsoft's Computer Vision APIs through sample-driven scenarios! Imagine an app that describes to the visually impaired the objects around them, or reads the Sunday paper, a favorite magazine, or a street sign. Or an app that is capable of monitoring what is happening inside an area without human control, & then makes a decision based on interpreting an occurrence detected with a live camera. This book teaches developers Microsoft's Computer Vision APIs, a service capable of understanding & interpreting the content of any image. Author Del Sole begins by providing a succinct need to know overview of the service with descriptions. You then learn from hands-on demonstrations that show how basic C code examples can be re-used across platforms. From there you will be guided through two different kinds of applications that interact with the service in two different ways: the more common means of calling a REST service to get back JSON data, & via the. NET libraries that Microsoft has been building to simplify the job (this latter one with Xamarin). What You'll Learn Understand AI's role & how devices & applications use sophisticated algorithms to improve people's lives & business tasks. Analyze images for Optical Character Recognition to detect written words & sentences Think about the next-generation applications in relation to your customers' needs Get up-to-speed on the latest version of the Computer Vision service, which now comes through Azure Set up an Azure subscription in order to access the Cognitive Services within the portal After reading this book, you will be able to get started with AI services from Microsoft in order to begin building powerful new apps for your company or customers. Who This Book Is For Developers just getting familiar with artificial intelligence. A minimal knowledge of C is required. ...

An in-depth, expert guide to Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 from Microsoft CRM experts! What better way to learn how to administer Dynamics CRM 2011 than from two Microsoft CRM experts? This in-depth Bible is packed with expert guidance on the latest version of Microsoft's hot CRM product. ...