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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

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.

Modern networks like the Internet — explained as simply as possible — but no simpler.

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

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.

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.

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.

Understanding Docker can be difficult or time-consuming. I've created this collection of sketchnotes about Docker in order to explain the Cloud technology in a visual way.

Azure from Zero to Production is a practical guide for engineers who want to build secure, reliable and automated platforms on Microsoft Azure. It covers real-world architecture, infrastructure automation, deployments, cost and performance optimization and day-to-day operations, helping you take workloads from development to production with confidence.

Spanning roughly 250 pages with step-by-step screenshots-based instructions, this book will guide you on managing a daloRADIUS deployed server to run FreeRADIUS AAA system. with daloRADIUS you can easily and quickly manage your FreeRADIUS deployment, thanks to flexible user interface and navigation flow.

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.

HashiCorp Vault is a popular secret management project used by small startups to the world's largest organizations. In this book, learn core Vault concepts and application patterns using a hands-on approach.

AWS Amplify Gen 2 lets you build full-stack applications on AWS with a TypeScript-first workflow. This book covers authentication, data modeling, serverless backends, AI integrations, security and deployment through practical examples that help you build production-ready applications faster.