Books

This new edition has been updated for Kubernetes 1.25 and with the latest tools and code.

This book will help you understand what sensors and actuators are and how to wire and program a PLC to perform industrial control and automation tasks with ease. You’ll learn to program HMIs and SCADA and practice them using open source, free software, along with mastering the technology to advance your career in the industrial automation field.

This comprehensive guide will help you understand practical aspects of information systems auditing. It covers key areas such as governance and management of IT, information systems acquisition, development, implementation and information systems operations, business resilience, and the crucial topic of protecting information assets.

Gain a comprehensive understanding of the detection engineering lifecycle, why it’s important, and how it can be leveraged to protect your organization. Authored by three cybersecurity veterans, this practical guide covers everything from fundamental concepts to career insights, enriching your cybersecurity expertise and bolstering your CV.

Mastering Blockchain, Fourth Edition, is the blockchain bible to equip you with extensive knowledge of distributed ledger technology, cryptocurrencies, and blockchain platforms such as Ethereum, Solana, and Bitcoin. With updates on new concepts like privacy, scalability, and DeFi, this book will help keep your knowledge and skills up to date.

Systems Engineering Demystified helps you to adopt a model-based approach to systems engineering in a concise, clear, and consistent way. This easy-to-follow guide covers a range of concepts and techniques for modern systems engineering that will enable a significant transformation within your organization by realizing complex systems.

Immerse yourself in the world of Godot 4.0 as you craft five projects that highlight the engine’s exceptional 3D capabilities. This book will help you build your foundational skills, guiding you step-by-step through creating small-scale game projects, and preparing you to tackle large-scale endeavors.

This book shows you how to effectively use Power BI, covering everything from Fact tables and Dimension tables to different data modeling techniques. With the help of real-world scenarios, you'll be able to identify when, why, where, and how to prepare data to support an efficient Star Schema to satisfy business requirements.

PowerShell is a powerful framework and tool that can help both red and blue teamers. It’s easy to learn and provides direct access to the Windows subsystem and APIs. This book will provide you with the skills and knowledge to make the most of PowerShell from both a red and blue team perspective. You’ll learn to attack, secure, and build a robust security framework within your organization.

Unreal Engine 5 Game Development with C++ Scripting is a comprehensive guide to mastering C++ syntax, object-oriented programming, character creation, gameplay, UI, networking, and more. You’ll gain the skills to create high-quality games using Unreal Engine 5, even without a programming background.

This fully updated third edition takes you through tried-and-tested approaches to build distributed systems and implementing microservices architecture, following a single real-world project from start to finish. You’ll learn how to make the most of Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, and a full suite of related tools and frameworks for development, security, testing, and deployment.

Complete with real-world reference architectures, this book is a comprehensive guide for application and enterprise architects who want to design solutions for real-world problems using AWS.

Machine learning engineering is an in-demand skill set, and it can be difficult to find a helpful guide on the topic. This fully updated second edition will help you solve business problems by addressing the pain points in creating standardized pipelines for taking proof-of-concept ML models to production and producing trustworthy results.

This self-study book helps you master multiple clouds, including AWS, Azure, and GCP, and serves as a roadmap to becoming a certified cloud computing expert. The book will guide you to develop a professional cloud career by helping you build a broad cloud knowledge base, developing hands-on cloud computing skills, and getting cloud certified.

Microsoft Power Apps provides a modern approach to building low-code business applications for mobile, tablet, browser, and Microsoft Teams. The second edition of Learn Microsoft Power Apps will guide you in creating well-designed and secure apps that transform old processes and workflows. By the end of this Power Apps book, you’ll be ready to confidently develop lightweight business applications with minimal code.