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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.

Whether you're writing your first automated test or building a large-scale testing platform, Mastering Playwright takes you from the fundamentals to advanced, production-ready automation techniques. Through practical examples, proven design patterns, and real-world guidance, you'll learn how to create fast, reliable, and maintainable test suites that scale with your applications and your team.

Modern web security goes far beyond the basics. This book covers advanced web attacks including injection flaws, SSRF, API abuse, request smuggling and exploit chaining, plus 2026 topics like React2Shell, HTTP/3, AI-driven attacks, WebAssembly and supply chain compromises. Built for penetration testers, application security engineers and experienced developers.

Every web application has security headers, cookies, TLS configurations, and CORS policies that need to be correct. Most teams find out they're wrong only after a penetration test — or worse, after an incident. This book shows you how to build a scanner that catches these issues automatically. You'll create a Python CLI tool that uses Hurl (declarative HTTP testing) to assert security properties, SSLyze to validate TLS protocol versions, and AI to generate specific remediation for every failure it finds. The output: structured JSON reports, visual HTML dashboards, and AI-generated security posture assessments. **What you'll build:** - 9 declarative Hurl security test files (headers, cookies, CORS, HSTS, CSP, CSRF, redirects, TLS) - A preprocessor that handles domain substitution and authentication - An output parser with built-in remediation guidance for every test - A TLS scanner validating SSL 2.0/3.0 disabled and TLS 1.2/1.3 enabled - An AI analyzer that generates context-specific fixes using Ollama, OpenAI, or Bedrock - An HTML reporter with dark-themed visual dashboards - Docker multi-architecture deployment - CI/CD pipeline with GitHub Actions **Who this is for:** - Developers who want security checks before deploying - DevSecOps engineers building CI/CD security gates - Penetration testers who need quick baseline assessments - Security students learning web vulnerability concepts hands-on - Platform teams enforcing security standards across services Every failure includes: what was expected, what was received, why it matters, how to fix it, and a documentation link. AI adds domain-specific code examples on top.

Closures, this, the event loop, async: the five topics that make people quit JavaScript, finally explained, so they click. Learn them all by building a retro arcade, one machine at a time.

Make ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude and Google AI cite the sites you build. A code-first AEO/GEO guide for developers and agencies — with a production-tested Next.js boilerplate.

Real-world advice for adding reliable tests to your Rails apps with the default tools (mostly), complete with expanded, exclusive content and a full sample application. Learn to test with confidence!

A no-fluff guide to building real sites with HTML, CSS & JavaScript — and getting paid to do it

Build real AI products with TypeScript. Learn LLMs, RAG, Agents, MCP, and production AI engineering from a frontend developer's perspective.

What you've got here is a hands-on walkthrough of Spring Boot 4.0, where we'll build a single application from start to finish, using the command line and then packaging it as a JAR at the end. Each chapter adds one real capability, like a REST endpoint, a database, an error handler, a security layer or a test suite. Each chapter gets straight into the code, and you can run, modify and break it to see what happens.There's even a dedicated troubleshooting chapter at the end that deals with the exact errors beginners actually encounter in practice, not just hypothetical ones.

I'd say Laravel 12 is a pretty mature and confident framework. It's ditched old habits, tweaked its bootstrap configuration, given its scheduler a modern makeover, and adopted a filesystem-first approach to media management. PHP 8.5 has some great new features that make our code cleaner and clearer. So, when you put these two together, you've basically got the best version of the Laravel ecosystem there's ever been.

Turn "our Shopware store feels slow" into a measurable 30-day plan: one fix a day, each with a before/after metric. Field-tested engineering on caching, Elasticsearch, Redis and CDN — not generic tips.

Part I: PHP Fundamentals Covers the basics of PHP, including syntax, control structures, functions, and file handling, providing a strong foundation for beginners.Part II: Advanced PHP Concepts Introduces more complex topics like arrays, strings, object-oriented programming, error handling, and file management, essential for building robust applications.Part III: Database Integration and Web Development Focuses on integrating PHP with MySQL, session management, form handling, and securing web applications against common vulnerabilities.Part IV: Advanced PHP Development Explores RESTful APIs, popular frameworks, and front-end integration, enabling developers to build scalable, modern web applications.

A practical frontend interview reference covering modern React and TypeScript development (535 manuscript pages).

Introduction to the Book In the ever-evolving world of web development, PHP remains one of the most versatile and widely used programming languages. This book, Mastering PHP Programming: A Comprehensive Guide for BCA, MCA, and Professionals, is meticulously designed to cater to students, aspiring developers, and professionals looking to sharpen their PHP skills. Covering fundamental to advanced concepts, this guide aims to bridge the gap between academic learning and practical industry requirements.