Books

The Microservices Primer gives a short introduction to Microservices: What they are, why they are useful and how to learn more about them. It is meant as a quick read for the busy developer, architect and manager and is a great start into the world of Microservices.

How long do you think it will be before AI technology like ChatGPT will change the way you work and play? This book provides a look back at how it was in 2023. How far have we come?

Customer support used to be easy. Not that the questions and problems were simple to solve, but at least you could be sure every customer who needed help would walk into your store—as that was the only place they'd expect support. It's far from simple today, when customers can call, email, Tweet, instant message, and more with their problems. How do you manage it all—and do it well? That's what you'll learn in The Ultimate Guide to Customer Support.

Strong-style pair programming is about handing the keyboard to your pair when you have the idea. As a style of pairing, it is particularly well suited for engaging uneven pairs and people new to pairing. Learn to play with the style of pair programming and add strong-style pair programming to your options.

A progressive discovery of the Laravel helper features, functions, classes, utilities, Collections, and more!

Smart Customer Management provides the reader with key capabilities and up-to-date resources needed to create customer-centered competitive advantages for business.

A free book for people new to software testing, which focuses on teaching the basics of the job.

Just Enough ownCloud on a Raspberry Pi aims at providing a low stress method of experimenting with some cool hardware in the form of the Raspberry Pi and some neat software in the form of the free Dropbox alternative ownCloud.

Bioavailability is a complicated issue. This thesis (from 2003) is on the uptake and elimination of organic chemicals by earthworms, and how to model it. The previously unpublished Chapter 2 is a general treatise on toxicokinetic models.

Modelling the energy budget of an animal over its life cycle is a powerful tool to tackle many different applied and scientific questions in ecology and ecotoxicology. DEBkiss is a simplified version of the standard Dynamic Energy Budget (DEB) animal model: easier to understand, easier to apply, but still extremely useful.

Dynamic Energy Budget (DEB) theory is a powerful framework for ecotoxicology and stress ecology. This book provides a gentle introduction into the concepts behind DEB theory, and how to apply them in practice to understand stressor effects. The book is completely "math free".

No nos engañemos, tener datos no nos aporta beneficios. Porque creer que recoger datos es suficiente para ganar dinero, es como creer que con compraros una báscula, pesarnos diariamente y llevar un registro de nuestro peso será suficiente para adelgazar. --El 100% de los ingresos del autor son para Oxfam America--

Makerspaces, crowdfunding, an incredible number of new prototyping tools transformed how people think about creating hardware. These trends enabled people to take their hobbies to the next level by starting a hardware business, and directly target global audiences. This report examines the origin of these changes, the ecosystem around hardware startups, details four specific product categories to watch, and gives suggestions for improvements based on the current trends.

This book introduces the topic of Developing Data Products in R. A data product is the ideal output of a Data Science experiment. This book is based on the Coursera Class "Developing Data Products" as part of the Data Science Specialization. Particular emphasis is paid to developing Shiny apps and interactive graphics.