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July 19 2016

Oracle Database 11gR2 Performance Tuning Cookbook

Effectively apply performance tuning principles with concise recipes

What You Will Learn

• Design applications that run at lightning speed
  
• Implement fast and scalable SQL and PL/SQL code
  
• Choose the correct structures to store the data and access them
  
• Optimize sort operations, such as order-by, Top-N queries, ranking, and set operators
  
• Help the optimizer to choose the right access plan to retrieve data at the best available speed
  
• Load data in the database at a faster speed by using the correct tools and options
  
• Tune the database memory to obtain maximum performance using available resources
  
• Tune the I/O operations, by designing a database over the I/O system
  
• Tune and reduce contention issues on data and structures by using an optimal design
  

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July 20 2016

Skill Up 2016: Developer Skills Report

The tools and trends that define how software developers work today.

What You Will Learn

• What tools are most valuable and who is using them?
  
• What's driving adoption trends? 
  
• What are the biggest challenges - and opportunities facing developers today?
  

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July 21 2016

Making Big Data Work for Your Business

Bridge the gap between data and decision with our practical, no nonsense guide to implementing a Big Data strategy in your organization. From cultural change to technology, you'll learn the most important steps to unlocking new opportunities to drive growth.

What You Will Learn

• Define the scope of your Big Data project
  
• Manage your project with a sharp and efficient approach
  
• Build the right team and select the right tools right for you
  
• Align your organization to the insights of Big Data and successfully manage change
  
• Sustain the results to implement lasting change for a bright future
  

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July 22 2016

Learning AndEngine

Design and create Android games with the simple but powerful tool AndEngine

What You Will Learn

• Understand the basics of a game engine
  
• Install all the required software and download and set up AndEngine along with its physics extension
  
• Design basic game rules and gather game assets
  
• Create a basic runnable application using AndEngine
  
• Display text and graphics in the game
  
• Implement basic interactions between the player and the game, making use of the mobile device sensors
  
• Simulate real-world physics in-game
  
• Finish a polished 2D physics-based
  

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July 23 2016

Getting Started with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization

Leverage powerful Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization solutions to build your own IaaS cloud

What You Will Learn

• Install RHEV Manager and RHEV Hypervisor hosts
  
• Set up RHEV virtual infrastructure components such as data centers, cluster, hosts, storage, and networks
  
• Create and manage virtual machines, snapshots, and templates
  
• Discover advanced storage, network features, and hotplug devices
  
• Manage virtualization environments from the command line
  
• Troubleshoot RHEV through logfiles
  
• Set up basic storage and directory services for RHEV
  

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July 24 2016

Optimizing Hadoop for MapReduce

This book is the perfect introduction to sophisticated concepts in MapReduce and will ensure you have the knowledge to optimize job performance. This is not an academic treatise; it’s an example-driven tutorial for the real world.

What You Will Learn

• Learn about the factors that affect MapReduce performance
  
• Utilize the Hadoop MapReduce performance counters to identify resource bottlenecks
  
• Size your Hadoop cluster’s nodes
  
• Set the number of mappers and reducers correctly
  
• Optimize mapper and reducer task throughput and code size using compression and Combiners
  
• Understand the various tuning properties and best practices to optimize clusters
  

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July 25 2016

Skill Up 2016: Developer Skills Report


It's back! Our Skill Up campaign has returned, and with it our latest Skill Up report. Want to know what skills everyone else is learning this year to ensure you don't fall behind and can be the developer you want to be? Download our report and see exactly what you need to know today!

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July 26 2016

CentOS 6 Linux Server Cookbook

An all-in-one guide to installing, configuring, and running a Centos 6 server. Ideal for newbies and old-hands alike, this practical tutorial ensures you get the best from this popular, enterprise-class free server solution.

What You Will Learn

• Installing and validating CentOS 6 and adding a desktop environment
  
• Configuring CentOS to allow you to manage time and multiple IP addresses
  
• Managing log files by using logrotate, memory usage and databases
  
• Managing Packages will show you how to manage the system with the Yum package manager
  
• Administering CentOS through creating new administrative users and creating customized email reports
  
• Securing your shell environment, ascending user privileges and building firewalls to prevent outside attacks
  
• Building networks, domains and implementing the Apache web server.
  

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July 27 2016

R Graph Essentials

Use R's powerful graphing capabilities to design and create professional-level graphics

What You Will Learn

• Understand and implement the basic graphics syntax and techniques
  
• Create scatterplots and line plots, and include mathematical expressions in them
  
• Include more advanced graphics and color palettes in your graph
  
• Create and customize graphs using the qplot function
  
• Customize the graphics, backgrounds, sizes, and colors of your graph using ggplot
  
• Add layers to your graph using ggplot
  
• Make publication-quality graphs using ggplot
  

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July 28 2016

Storm Real-time Processing Cookbook

Java developers can expand into real-time data processing with this fantastic guide to Storm. Using a cookbook approach with lots of practical recipes, it’s the user-friendly way to learn how to process unlimited data streams.

What You Will Learn

• Create a log spout
  
• Consume messages from a JMS queue
  
• Implement unidirectional synchronization based on a data stream
  
• Execute disaster recovery on a separate AWS region
  

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