The Linux DevOps Handbook ($39.99 Value) FREE for a Limited Time
The Linux DevOps Handbook is a comprehensive resource that caters to both novice and experienced professionals, ensuring a strong foundation in Linux. This book will help you understand how Linux serves as a cornerstone of DevOps, offering the flexibility, stability, and scalability essential for modern software development and operations. You’ll begin by covering Linux distributions, intermediate Linux concepts, and shell scripting to get to grips with automating tasks and streamlining workflows. You’ll then progress to mastering essential day-to-day tools for DevOps tasks. As you learn networking in Linux, you’ll be equipped with connection establishment and troubleshooting skills. You’ll also learn how to use Git for collaboration and efficient code management. The book guides you through Docker concepts for optimizing your DevOps workflows and moves on to advanced DevOps practices, such as monitoring, tracing, and distributed logging. You’ll work with Terraform and GitHub to implement continuous integration (CI)/continuous deployment (CD) pipelines and employ Atlantis for automated software delivery. Additionally, you’ll identify common DevOps pitfalls and strategies to avoid them. By the end of this book, you’ll have built a solid foundation in Linux fundamentals, practical tools, and advanced practices, all contributing to your enhanced Linux skills and successful DevOps implementation.
Learn Java with Projects ($44.99 Value) FREE for a Limited Time
Learn Java with Projects stands out in the world of Java guides; while some books skim the surface and others get lost in too much detail, this one finds a nice middle ground. You’ll begin by exploring the fundamentals of Java, from its primitive data types through to loops and arrays. Next, you’ll move on to object-oriented programming (OOP), where you’ll get to grips with key topics such as classes, objects, encapsulation, inheritance, polymorphism, interfaces, and more. The chapters are designed in a way that focuses on topics that really matter in real-life work situations. No extra fluff here, so that you get more time to spend on the basics and form a solid foundation. As you make progress, you’ll learn advanced topics including generics, collections, lambda expressions, streams and concurrency. This book doesn’t just talk about theory-it shows you how things work with little projects, which eventually add up to one big project that brings it all together. By the end of this Java book, you’ll have sound practical knowledge of Java and a helpful guide to walk you through the important parts of Java.
The Self-Taught Cloud Computing Engineer ($35.99 Value) Free for a Limited Time
This book is an all-inclusive guide for IT professionals to master cloud computing concepts by building a broad and deep cloud knowledge base, developing hands-on cloud skills, and achieving professional cloud certifications. If you’re a beginner with basic computer hardware and software understanding, this book provides the means to transitions into a cloud computing career. Starting with a focus on the Amazon cloud, you’ll be introduced to fundamental AWS cloud services, followed by advanced AWS cloud services in the domains of data, machine learning, and security. Next, you’ll build proficiency in Microsoft Azure cloud and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) by examining the common attributes of the three clouds, differentiating their unique features, along with leveraging real-life cloud project implementations on these cloud platforms. Finally, you’ll get guidance on cloud certifications and career development. Walking through this cloud computing book, you’ll systematically establish a robust footing in AWS, Azure, and GCP, and emerge as a cloud-savvy professional, equipped with cloud certificates to validate your skills.
Enterprise AI in the Cloud: A Practical Guide to Deploying End-to-End Machine Learning and ChatGPT Solutions ($48.00 Value) FREE for a Limited Time
Embrace emerging AI trends and integrate your operations with cutting-edge solutions. Enterprise AI in the Cloud: A Practical Guide to Deploying End-to-End Machine Learning and ChatGPT Solutionsis an indispensable resource for professionals and companies who want to bring new AI technologies like generative AI, ChatGPT, and machine learning (ML) into their suite of cloud-based solutions. If you want to set up AI platforms in the cloud quickly and confidently and drive your business forward with the power of AI, this book is the ultimate go-to guide. The author shows you how to start an enterprise-wide AI transformation effort, taking you all the way through to implementation, with clearly defined processes, numerous examples, and hands-on exercises. You’ll also discover best practices on optimizing cloud infrastructure for scalability and automation. Enterprise AI in the Cloudhelps you gain a solid understanding of: AI-First Strategy: Adopt a comprehensive approach to implementing corporate AI systems in the cloud and at scale, using an AI-First strategy to drive innovation. State-of-the-Art Use Cases:Learn from emerging AI/ML use cases, such as ChatGPT, VR/AR, blockchain, metaverse, hyper-automation, generative AI, transformer models, Keras, TensorFlow in the cloud, and quantum machine learning. Platform Scalability and MLOps (ML Operations):Select the ideal cloud platform and adopt best practices on optimizing cloud infrastructure for scalability and automation. AWS, Azure, Google ML:Understand the machine learning lifecycle, from framing problems to deploying models and beyond, leveraging the full power of Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud platforms. AI-Driven Innovation Excellence:Get practical advice on identifying potential use cases, developing a winning AI strategy and portfolio, and driving an innovation culture. Ethical and Trustworthy AI Mastery:Implement Responsible AI by avoiding common risks while maintaining transparency and ethics. Scaling AI Enterprise-Wide:Scale your AI implementation using Strategic Change Management, AI Maturity Models, AI Center of Excellence, and AI Operating Model. Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced AI or MLOps engineer, business or technology leader, or an AI student or enthusiast, this comprehensive resource empowers you to confidently build and use AI models in production, bridging the gap between proof-of-concept projects and real-world AI deployments. With over 300 review questions, 50 hands-on exercises, templates, and hundreds of best practice tips to guide you through every step of the way, this book is a must-read for anyone seeking to accelerate AI transformation across their enterprise.
Who Is the New How: Strategies to Find, Recruit, and Create the Best Teams ($17.00 Value) FREE for a Limited Time
Recruit, create, and retain the best teams. InWho Is the New How: Strategies to Find, Recruit, and Create the Best Teams, a team of accomplished talent experts delivers a hands-on roadmap to filling your most mission-critical roles with the best people. In the book, you’ll explore strategies that guide the world’s most innovative companies and high-performing organizations as they scour the globe to build impactful, productive teams. You’ll learn how to reimagine your talent acquisition strategy, from who you’re looking for to how you should recruit them. You’ll also discover how and why to say goodbye to familiar phrases like, “just get a butt in the seat,” and counter-productive metrics like “time-to-fill.” The authors also explain: Why identifying candidates aligned with your company’s mission and culture is so critical to long-term talent success. How using the right combination of technology and human expertise in the recruitment process can be the key to winning top talent. What building teams filled with the right people can do for your team’s morale and ultimately make companies successful. A revolutionary new approach to one of the most critical issues facing organizations today,Who Is the New Howis the talent playbook that business and HR leaders have been waiting for.
Loved: How to Rethink Marketing for Tech Products ($20.00 Value) FREE for a Limited Time
Most tech companies get marketing wrong because they don’t know how to do product marketing right. The next in the bestselling SVPG series, LOVED shows what leaders like Apple, Netflix, Microsoft, and Salesforce do well and how to apply it to transform product marketing at your company. The best products can still lose in the marketplace. Why? They are beaten by products with stronger product marketing. Good product marketing is the difference between “also-ran” products versus products that lead. And yet, product marketing is widely misunderstood. Although it includes segmenting customers, positioning your product, creating product collateral, and supporting sales teams, great product marketing achieves much more. It directs the best way to bring your product to market. It shapes what the world thinks about your product and category. It inspires others to tell your product’s story. Part of the bestselling series including INSPIRED and EMPOWERED, LOVED explains the fundamentals of best-in-class product marketing for product teams, marketers, founders and any leader with a product and a vision. Sharing her personal stories as a former product and marketing leader at Microsoft and Netscape, and as an advisor to Silicon Valley startups, venture capitalist, and UC Berkeley engineering graduate school lecturer, Martina Lauchengco distills decades of lessons gleaned from working with hundreds of companies to make LOVED the definitive guide to modern product marketing. With dozens of stories from the trenches of market leaders as well as newer startups with products just beginning their journey, the book shows you: the centrality of product marketing to any product’s success. the key skills and actions required to do it well. the four fundamentals of product marketing and how to apply them. how to hire, lead, and organize product marketing. how product marketers optimize crucial collaboration with other functions. one-sheet frameworks, tools and agile marketing practices that help simplify and elevate product marketing. LOVED is an invitation to rethink tired notions of product marketing and practice a more dynamic, customer and market-centric version that creates raving fans and helps products achieve their full market potential.
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