If you’re a system administrator, developer, or site reliability engineer responsible for handling hundreds or even thousands of nodes in your network, the Puppet configuration management tool will make your job a whole lot easier. In this practical guide DevOps engineer, Jo Rhett, shows you what Puppet does, how it works, and how it can provide significant value to your organization.

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Big data is a hot topic. Everyone understands its power and importance, but many fail to grasp the actionable steps and resources required to utilise it effectively. This book from Bernard Marr, author of Big Data (see Kay Ewbank's review) fills the knowledge gap by showing how major companies are using big data every day, from an up-close, on-the-ground perspective.

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The third volume in a series by veteran of the computer games industry, Eric Lengyel. Covering the latest developments with practical methods and tips for game engine development it is intended to aid professionals in their work and shows students and others interested in game development how the pros tackle specific problems that arise during game engine development.

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Small Basic, created by Microsoft to inspire kids to learn to program, is a free modern language that makes coding simple and fun. This book from Majed Marji and Ed Price sets out to bring code to life and introduces you to the empowering world of programming with hands-on projects intended to challenge and inspire you. 

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Creating robust software requires the use of efficient algorithms, but programmers seldom think about them until a problem occurs. This updated edition of a book that figures among our popular reviews describes a large number of existing algorithms for solving a variety of problems, and helps you select and implement the right algorithm for your needs with just enough math to let you understand and analyze algorithm performance.

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Avi Pfeffer introduces the working programmer to probabilistic programming.You’ll immediately work on practical examples like building a spam filter, diagnosing computer system data problems, and recovering digital images. You’ll discover probabilistic inference, where algorithms help make extended predictions about issues like social media usage.

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If you’re a business analyst, this "Process-Based Guide for Beginners" ( will show you how to design effective business process management applications. BPM specialists Christine McKinty and Antoine Mottier show you step-by-step how to turn a simple business procedure into an automated, process-based application. Using hands-on examples, you’ll quickly learn how to create an online process that’s easy to use. Each chapter builds on earlier material.

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The new edition of this classic O’Reilly reference by Peter Prinz and Tony Crawford provides clear, detailed explanations of every feature in the C language and runtime library, including multithreading, type-generic macros, and library functions that are new in the 2011 C standard (C11). If you want to understand the effects of an unfamiliar function, and how the standard library requires it to behave, you’ll find it here, along with a typical example.

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Beginning with the basics and moving gradually to greater challenges, this book takes you step-by-step through experiments and projects that show you how to make your Arduino or Raspberry Pi create and control movement, light, and sound. Simon Monk clearly explains the differences between the Arduino and Raspberry Pi, when to use them, and to which purposes each are best suited.

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Cognitive robotics is an approach to creating artificial intelligence in robots by enabling them to learn from and respond to real-world situations, as opposed to pre-programming the robot with specific responses to every conceivable stimulus. This collection of contributions from international experts from various disciplines within the field has been edited by Hooman Samani whose Lovotics research into emotional bonds with robots is widely recognized.

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The subtitle of the latest edition of Pragmatic Bookshelf's classic iOS guide by Chris Adamson and Janie Clayton is "Creating iPhone and iPad Apps with Swift" and it uses Swift 2.0 to write cleaner, clearer, and more effective code than was previously possible. Starting with the basics, you'll see how Swift 2.0 offers more power with less boilerplate code, bringing elegant error-handling and functional programming concepts to your app development.

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In Alternate Reality Games: Gamification for Performance, Charles Palmer and Andy Petroski lead you through the fundamentals of ARGs. They include a discussion of what is and is not an ARG, citing examples and identifying business challenges that can be addressed through ARGs and present case studies that illustrate the variety of forms that ARGs take and the issues to which they can be applied, such as improving performance and critical communication situations.