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Modern cloud systems require automation, consistency, and reliability. GitOps With ArgoCD shows how to manage Kubernetes applications using Git as the single source of truth while enabling automated deployments, policy enforcement, and scalable multi-cluster operations.Learn how DevOps teams use ArgoCD to simplify continuous delivery, improve infrastructure visibility, and maintain secure and reproducible environments.

This book teaches you to use R to effectively visualize and explore complex datasets. Exploratory data analysis is a key part of the data science process because it allows you to sharpen your question and refine your modeling strategies. This book is based on the industry-leading Johns Hopkins Data Science Specialization.

A model that crashes is a good day. The dangerous failures return answers — plausible, fluent, and wrong. 100 failures. 63 diagnostic instruments. One rule: inspect what actually happened.

New to research? This is the one book you should read. It's got everything. It'll take you from choosing your project and starting out in a lab, through designing experiments, acquiring data and performing the appropriate analysis, and all the way on to writing up your work for publication, and presenting your work at conferences.

Ihre Use Cases haben einen neuen Leser: einen KI-Agenten, der sie direkt in Code und Tests umwandelt. Die Implementierung ist mittlerweile kostengünstig, doch die präzise Formulierung der Absicht stellt den Engpass dar. Dieser Leitfaden vermittelt Ihnen, wie Sie Use Cases verfassen, die sowohl für Stakeholder und Ingenieure als auch für die KI-Agenten, die sie umsetzen, funktionieren.

Learn PostgreSQL the way you will actually use it — from your first SELECT to indexes, query plans, row-level security, backups, partitioning, replication, and pgvector. 501 pages, 23 chapters, one support-ticketing database that grows with you, and every listing verified against a live PostgreSQL 18.4 before it went to print.

If you could choose any time to be born — not knowing who you would be — would you choose now? Using decades of survey data, Allen Downey tests whether America has become fairer and more tolerant, and examines how changes in attitudes and beliefs relate to law and public policy.

Vector databases give you a similarity metric, an index with four tuning parameters, acompression option and a way to filter — and almost no guidance on what any of it costs. This book builds each one from scratch and measures it. The proximity graph, the invertedfile, the product quantiser: implemented in NumPy, included with the text, and checkedagainst exhaustive search — so every recall figure here is exact rather than estimated.

Practical, safe AI for people who actually run networks.

This textbook is designed for use in introductory Software Engineering courses. Additionally, it can be used by junior developers intending to consolidate their knowledge in the field. It has also a web version available at https://softengbook.org.

For the first time ever, C++23 changes "Hello World" in C++. What kind of fundamental changes does this mean for your code?

In today's competitive knowledge economy, you always need to keep learning —and fast. But most information and apps get in the way. This book describes 7 principles for selecting, processing and mastering knowledge using potent Mac apps.

INTJ is one of the rarest personality types in the world. Only about 2.1% of people share it. You notice inefficiency sooner, tolerate stupidity less, and spend years building capability without building leverage.And yet somehow, people with less depth, less skill, and less actual value keep making more money than you.

Architecture is still often considered as black art. If you develop large hardware/software systems maybe including mechanical or electrical components, this book is for you. Source Code is not enough to understand complex embedded systems. This is where arc42 as a pragmatic and practical template comes into the game. Read some real-life examples!

Includes Editions 1, 2, 3, and 4. Editions 1-3 are listed under "Extras" after checking out, including for $0 purchases. AHSS provides a thorough intro to statistics and supports students preparing for the AP Statistics exam. B&W paperbacks (color) are sold for $25 ($40). Paperback royalties are shared between OpenIntro and the authors. Leanpub contributions go to authors to fund their time.