Cloud Computing

The book covers every topic in the latest CISSP exam syllabus, organized in a format that makes it easy to drill down on specific exam domains and concepts at-a-glance, making it an essential exam resource for anyone who aims to prepare for the exam without wasting time or money.

Developer platforms promise to rewrite the laws of IT physics: they boost innovation through standards; they speed up development while assuring compliance; and they reduce cognitive load without restricting choice. Building such an in-house platform, or even deploying one, is far from easy, though. This book condenses a decade of building and rolling out platforms into practical advice for platform teams and users.5300+ happy readers! Also as Paperback edition

Ansible is a simple, but powerful, server and configuration management tool. Learn to use Ansible effectively, whether you manage one server—or thousands.

Tired of paying the "container tax" for bursty, event-driven workloads? It's time to elevate your cloud architecture. Building Serverless Applications with WebAssembly & Spin walks you through constructing a robust, multi-component Rust app from scratch. You will master Spin, learn about the underlying Wasm Component Model, and ship your app seamlessly to both Kubernetes and edge runtimes. Ditch heavy base images, eliminate cold starts, and master the future of lightweight, secure serverless compute.

This book is not just a Python course with a networking flavour or a networking course with a few scripts attached. You already know how routing converges, why VLANs leak, and what a half-open TCP session looks like on the wire. What this book adds is the ability to transform that knowledge into code that runs across hundreds of devices, reports accurately on its findings and never makes changes that cannot be undone.

The book covers every topic in the latest CCSP exam syllabus, with more than 400 pages organized in a format that makes it easy to drill down on specific exam domains and concepts at-a-glance, making it an essential exam resource for anyone who aims to prepare for the exam without wasting time or money.

Learn the basic principles that govern how distributed systems work and how you can design your systems for increased performance, availability and scalability. Understand the basic algorithms and protocols used to solve the most common problems in the space of distributed systems.

Linux is one of the best decisions you can make for your computer — but knowing where to start is the hard part. This guide walks you through everything: choosing a distribution, installing it, and using it confidently every day. It was written by Jay LaCroix of Learn Linux TV, for complete beginners. No prior experience required.

Strategy is the difference between making a wish and making it come true. To make your cloud journey a reality, and not just a wish, you’ll want to stay clear of buzzwords and product minutiae. Instead, focus on principles, decision models, and trade-offs that you can communicate broadly throughout your organization. This book tells you how. Paperback editionHardcover edition

When a license renewal lands at 567% of last year's bill, renting your infrastructure stops being a strategy. This is the escape tunnel: a complete production build of Apache CloudStack 4.22 LTS — KVM, Ceph, OS10 leaf-spine — across a three-city UK estate, written by an engineer with 32 years of building the real thing. Own your cloud down to the last packet.

For those seeking practical expertise on OpenStack Flamingo, and the services that drive modern private and enterprise cloud environments, you need look no further. With this book, you gain immediate access to the latest insights on OpenStack 2025.2 Flamingo. This book is for those who want to practically experience how OpenStack works, how its services connect, and how to manage them with confidence in real-world deployments.

By the time you finish this book, you should be able to make your systems observable across microservices, AI workloads, security monitoring, and hybrid cloud infrastructure. This book will help you learn how to effectively instrument, generate, collect, and export telemetry data (metrics, logs, and traces) to analyze your software’s performance and behavior.

The CISO's field guide to hardening ServiceNow, defending its APIs, and meeting NIS2, DORA, and EU AI Act obligations. Written by a former Principal Security Advisor in ServiceNow's Office of the CISO.

A companion book for implementing Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. Targeted end-users, super-users and administrators, this book covers many of the challenges you're faced when implementing a cloud-based ERP system. From setting up the system and creating the first company to user customizations and integration. Updated to 2026 Wave 1 v28.

A typed, signed-deliverable playbook for the enterprise-scale Oracle 19c → Azure migration. Across fifteen chapters, thirteen signed JSON deliverables chain end-to-end from Migration Assessment Bundle to Decommissioning Readiness Report. Defensible at a code review. Sign-off-ready for a director.