Software Programming

It is a fact that you'll be bombarded with system design interview questions which have become part and parcel of all the software engineering hiring processes. Your performance in these interviews will reflect upon your capability to work with complex systems and translate into the role and position that the interviewing organization is interviewing you for. This audiobook is a comprehensive guide to master all the concepts about SDIs.

The Art of Unit Testing, Second Edition guides you step-by-step from writing your first simple tests to developing robust test sets that are maintainable, readable, and trustworthy. You'll master the foundational ideas and quickly move to high-value subjects like mocks, stubs, and isolation, including frameworks such as Moq, FakeItEasy, and Typemock Isolator.

Hypothesis-Driven Development (HDD) is an emerging approach to digital product management for both business people and engineers. It emphasizes rigorous, continuous experimentation as a way to both minimize waste and focus teams’ creative capabilities in directions that drive growth and innovation.

The dramatic increase in cyber compromises over the past five years, specifically of software supply chains, prompted intense scrutiny of measures to strengthen the resilience of supply chains for software used throughout government and critical infrastructure. Several policies and working groups at multiple levels within the U.S. Government focus on this need to ensure the authenticity, integrity, and trustworthiness of software products.

Business owners and managers are under increasing pressure to perform. Never has there been a better time to practice good people motivation and management techniques. Lack of employment security and flexible working contracts have reduced the level of loyalty, so more emphasis needs to be placed on building positive relationships with people. Traditional carrot-and-stick management techniques no longer work.

Microservices in .NET: Second Edition is a comprehensive guide to building microservice applications using the .NET stack. After a crystal-clear introduction to the microservices architectural style, it teaches you practical microservices development skills using ASP.NET. This second edition of the best-selling original has been revised with up-to-date tools for the .NET ecosystem, and more new coverage of scoping microservices and deploying to Kubernetes.

Manning's best-selling Java 8 book has been revised for Java 9 and 10! In Modern Java in Action, you'll build on your existing Java language skills with the newest features and techniques. Modern Java in Action connects new features of the Java language with their practical applications. It will help you expand your existing knowledge of core Java as you master modern additions like the Streams API and the Java Module System, explore new approaches to concurrency, and learn how functional concepts can help you write code that’s easier to read and maintain.

A guide to navigating the messiness of software development process change, dealing with all the legacy organizational elements, and focusing on increasing business agility.

Solve difficult service-to-service communication challenges around security, observability, routing, and resilience with an Istio-based service mesh. Istio allows you to define these traffic policies as configuration and enforce them consistently without needing any service-code changes.

Test automation is a fantastic field of engineering. Unfortunately, most test automation efforts fail soon after being initiated. From the many promises of ease of automation to oversimplified vendor demonstrations, it's easy to spend significant time and cost pursuing test automation with little to show in the end. If only there was a way to avoid the pitfalls encountered when embarking upon test automation? Greg Paskal shares his best insights learned as a successful test automation engineer.

Start thinking about your development pipeline as a mission-critical application. Pipeline as Code is a practical guide to automating your development pipeline in a cloud-native, service-driven world. You’ll use the latest infrastructure-as-code tools like Packer and Terraform to develop reliable CI/CD pipelines for numerous cloud-native applications. Treat your CI/CD pipeline like the real application it is. With the Pipeline as Code approach, you create a collection of scripts that replace the tedious web UI wrapped around most CI/CD systems.

Assembly language is often considered a bridge between high-level programming languages and machine code. Unlike high-level languages such as Python or C, which use human-readable syntax and abstract away many details of the underlying hardware, assembly language provides a more direct representation of the CPU's operations.

J. D. Buck was a prominent theosophist, an influential Freemason, as well as a writer on both subjects. In this particular piece from 1897, he writes about the importance of self-discipline and how it's tied in with the concept of power. He writes about controlling one's feelings and conquering one's passions in order to achieve and maintain the ability of self-mastery. He also talks about universal brotherhood, a concept important to theosophists and Freemasons alike.

Unlock the secrets to creating high-quality, market-ready software products with "Striano's Software Success Framework." This indispensable guide provides a step-by-step framework designed to transform visionary ideas into successful digital solutions. Whether you are a seasoned technologist or a first-time software creator, this book offers practical strategies to navigate the complexities of software development.

Create your very first video game without any prior coding experience!! Would you like to get ahold of simple, effective, and compatible steps that will enable you to be an excellent problem solver while game programming? Do you want to start game coding without worrying if you’re smart enough to get it right? If your answer is yes to any of these questions, you’ve got to listen to this book!

This audiobook is the first part of a trilogy to follow Software Wasteland. In Software Wasteland, we detailed the current poor state of application software development. We offered some tactical advice for reducing some of the worse of the excess. This is the first book in the "what to do instead" trilogy. From the age of punched cards to today's internet-driven systems, one thing has stayed fairly constant: software vendors and their implementers have been driving the enterprise IT industry. This is changing.

Making a presentation strikes fear into many hearts. It ranks alongside going to the dentist or being put into a cage with a hungry lion or two! Wherever it sits along the fear scale for you, this guide is designed to get through it if not actually reaching the point of enjoying giving a presentation. This guide includes: how to research and prepare a presentation; how to structure a presentation; how to manage information overload; how to use scripts, prompts, visual aids, and handouts; and more.

Every new version of Java is important, but Java 8 was a game changer. Java 8 in Action is a clearly written guide to the new features of Java 8. It begins with a practical introduction to lambdas, using real-world Java code. Next, it covers the new Streams API and shows how you can use it to make collection-based code radically easier to understand and maintain.

Quick Start Kubernetes, brought to you by best-selling author Nigel Poulton, assumes zero prior experience and gets you to the point you can hold your own in a conversation with an expert, and deploy simple applications.

Free and open source is the foundation of software development, and it's built by people just like you. Discover the fundamental tenets that drive the movement. Take control of your career by selecting the right project to meet your professional goals. Master the language and avoid the pitfalls that typically ensnare new contributors. Join a community of like-minded people and change the world. Programmers, writers, designers, and everyone interested in software will make their mark through free and open source software contributions.