Spring Microservices in Action review

Summary

Spring Microservices in Action teaches you how to build microservice-based applications using Java and the Spring platform.

Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.

About the technology

Microservices break up your code into small, distributed, and independent services that require careful forethought and design. Fortunately, Spring Boot and Spring Cloud simplify your microservice applications, just as the Spring Framework simplifies enterprise Java development. Spring Boot removes the boilerplate code involved with writing a REST-based service. Spring Cloud provides a suite of tools for the discovery, routing, and deployment of microservices to the enterprise and the cloud.

About the Book

Spring Microservices in Action teaches you how to build microservice-based applications using Java and the Spring platform. You'll learn to do microservice design as you build and deploy your first Spring Cloud application. Throughout the book, carefully selected real-life examples expose microservice-based patterns for configuring, routing, scaling, and deploying your services. You'll see how Spring's intuitive tooling can help augment and refactor existing applications with micro services.

What's Inside

• Core microservice design principles
• Managing configuration with Spring Cloud Config
• Client-side resiliency with Spring, Hystrix, and Ribbon
• Intelligent routing using Netflix Zuul
• Deploying Spring Cloud applications

About the Reader

This book is written for developers with Java and Spring experience.

About the Author

John Carnell is a senior cloud engineer with twenty years of experience in Java.

Table of contents

1. Welcome to the cloud, Spring
2. Building microservices with Spring Boot
3. Controlling your configuration with Spring Cloud configuration server
4. On service discovery
5. When bad things happen: client resiliency patterns with Spring Cloud and Netflix Hystrix
6. Service routing with Spring Cloud and Zuul
7. Securing your microservices
8. Event-driven architecture with Spring Cloud Stream
9. Distributed tracing with Spring Cloud Sleuth and Zipkin
10. Deploying your microservices

Summary

Spring Microservices in Action teaches you how to build microservice-based applications using Java and the Spring platform.

Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.

About the technology

Microservices break up your code into small, distributed, and independent services that require careful forethought and design. Fortunately, Spring Boot and Spring Cloud simplify your microservice applications, just as the Spring Framework simplifies enterprise Java development. Spring Boot removes the boilerplate code involved with writing a REST-based service. Spring Cloud provides a suite of tools for the discovery, routing, and deployment of microservices to the enterprise and the cloud.

About the Book

Spring Microservices in Action teaches you how to build microservice-based applications using Java and the Spring platform. You'll learn to do microservice design as you build and deploy your first Spring Cloud application. Throughout the book, carefully selected real-life examples expose microservice-based patterns for configuring, routing, scaling, and deploying your services. You'll see how Spring's intuitive tooling can help augment and refactor existing applications with micro services.

What's Inside

• Core microservice design principles
• Managing configuration with Spring Cloud Config
• Client-side resiliency with Spring, Hystrix, and Ribbon
• Intelligent routing using Netflix Zuul
• Deploying Spring Cloud applications

About the Reader

This book is written for developers with Java and Spring experience.

About the Author

John Carnell is a senior cloud engineer with twenty years of experience in Java.

Table of contents

1. Welcome to the cloud, Spring
2. Building microservices with Spring Boot
3. Controlling your configuration with Spring Cloud configuration server
4. On service discovery
5. When bad things happen: client resiliency patterns with Spring Cloud and Netflix Hystrix
6. Service routing with Spring Cloud and Zuul
7. Securing your microservices
8. Event-driven architecture with Spring Cloud Stream
9. Distributed tracing with Spring Cloud Sleuth and Zipkin
10. Deploying your microservices

Read more...

Introduction to Programming in Java: An Interdisciplinary Approach (2nd Edition) review

Programming skills are indispensable in today’s world, not just for computer science students, but also for anyone in any scientific or technical discipline. Introduction to Programming in Java, Second Edition, by Robert Sedgewick and Kevin Wayne is an accessible, interdisciplinary treatment that emphasizes important and engaging applications, not toy problems. The authors supply the tools needed for students and professionals to learn that programming is a natural, satisfying, and creative experience, and to become conversant with one of the world’s most widely used languages.

 

This example-driven guide focuses on Java’s most useful features and brings programming to life for every student in the sciences, engineering, and computer science.

 

Coverage includes

• Basic elements of programming: variables, assignment statements, built-in data types, conditionals, loops, arrays, and I/O, including graphics and sound
• Functions, modules, and libraries: organizing programs into components that can be independently debugged, maintained, and reused
• Algorithms and data structures: sort/search algorithms, stacks, queues, and symbol tables
• Applications from applied math, physics, chemistry, biology, and computer science

Drawing on their extensive classroom experience, throughout the text the authors provide Q&As, exercises, and opportunities for creative engagement with the material. Together with the companion materials described below, this book empowers people to pursue a modern approach to teaching and learning programming.

 

Companion web site (introcs.cs.princeton.edu/java) contains

• Chapter summaries
• Supplementary exercises, some with solutions
• Detailed instructions for installing a Java programming environment
• Program code and test data suitable for easy download
• Detailed creative exercises, projects, and other supplementary materials

Companion studio-produced online videos (informit.com/sedgewick) are available for purchase and provide students and professionals with the opportunity to engage with the material at their own pace and give instructors the opportunity to spend their time with students helping them to succeed on assignments and exams.

Read more...

Core Java SE 9 for the Impatient (2nd Edition) review

An Accessible Guide to the Java Language and Libraries

 

Modern Java introduces major enhancements that impact the core Java technologies and APIs at the heart of the Java platform. Many old Java idioms are no longer needed and new features such as modularization make you far more effective. However, navigating these changes can be challenging.

 

Core Java® SE 9 for the Impatient, Second Edition, is a complete yet concise guide that includes all the latest changes up to Java SE 9. Written by Cay S. Horstmann–author of the classic two-volume Core Java–this indispensable tutorial offers a faster, easier pathway for learning modern Java. Given Java SE 9’s size and the scope of its enhancements, there’s plenty to cover, but it’s presented in small chunks organized for quick access and easy understanding.

 

Horstmann’s practical insights and sample code help you quickly take advantage of all that’s new, from Java SE 9’s long-awaited “Project Jigsaw” module system to the improvements first introduced in Java SE 8, including lambda expressions and streams.

• Use modules to simplify the development of well-performing complex systems
• Migrate applications to work with the modularized Java API and third-party modules
• Test code as you create it with the new JShell Read-Eval-Print Loop (REPL)
• Use lambda expressions to express actions more concisely
• Streamline and optimize data management with today’s Streams API
• Leverage modern concurrent programming based on cooperating tasks
• Take advantage of a multitude of API improvements for working with collections, input/output, regular expressions, and processes
  

Whether you’re just getting started with modern Java or you’re an experienced developer, this guide will help you write tomorrow’s most robust, efficient, and secure Java code.

Register your product at informit.com/register for convenient access to downloads, updates, and/or corrections as they become available.

Read more...

Murach's Java Programming (5th Edition) review

This is the 5th edition of Murach's classic Java book that's trained thousands of developers in the last 15 years. Now fully updated to Java 9, this book helps any programmer learn Java faster and better than ever before:

• It's the one Java book that presents object-oriented features like inheritance, interfaces, and polymorphism in a way that's both understandable and useful in the real world.
• It offers new coverage of JavaFX, the date/time API, lambdas, and working with SQLite databases.
• It uses a self-paced approach that works whether you're a beginner or have years of programming experience.
• It's full of practical coding examples that enhance training and that provide starting code for new applications.
• It lets you practice what you've just learned at the end of every chapter, to solidify your skills.
• And it's all done in the distinctive Murach style that has been training professional programmers for more than 43 years.

Read more...

High Performance Spark: Best Practices for Scaling and Optimizing Apache Spark review

Apache Spark is amazing when everything clicks. But if you haven’t seen the performance improvements you expected, or still don’t feel confident enough to use Spark in production, this practical book is for you. Authors Holden Karau and Rachel Warren demonstrate performance optimizations to help your Spark queries run faster and handle larger data sizes, while using fewer resources.

Ideal for software engineers, data engineers, developers, and system administrators working with large-scale data applications, this book describes techniques that can reduce data infrastructure costs and developer hours. Not only will you gain a more comprehensive understanding of Spark, you’ll also learn how to make it sing.

With this book, you’ll explore:

• How Spark SQL’s new interfaces improve performance over SQL’s RDD data structure
• The choice between data joins in Core Spark and Spark SQL
• Techniques for getting the most out of standard RDD transformations
• How to work around performance issues in Spark’s key/value pair paradigm
• Writing high-performance Spark code without Scala or the JVM
• How to test for functionality and performance when applying suggested improvements
• Using Spark MLlib and Spark ML machine learning libraries
• Spark’s Streaming components and external community packages

Read more...

Beginning Programming with Java For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech)) review

Learn to speak the Java language like the pros

Are you new to programming and have decided that Java is your language of choice? Are you a wanna-be programmer looking to learn the hottest lingo around? Look no further! Beginning Programming with Java For Dummies, 5^th Edition is the easy-to-follow guide you'll want to keep in your back pocket as you work your way toward Java mastery! In plain English, it quickly and easily shows you what goes into creating a program, how to put the pieces together, ways to deal with standard programming challenges, and so much more.

Whether you're just tooling around or embarking on a career, this is the ideal resource you'll turn to again and again as you perfect your understanding of the nuances of this popular programming language. Packed with tons of step-by-step instruction, this is the only guide you need to start programming with Java like a pro.

• Updated for Java 9, learn the language with samples and the Java toolkit
• Familiarize yourself with decisions, conditions, statements, and information overload
• Differentiate between loops and arrays, objects and classes, methods, and variables
• Find links to additional resources

Once you discover the joys of Java programming, you might just find you're hooked. Sound like fun? Here's the place to start.

Learn to speak the Java language like the pros

Are you new to programming and have decided that Java is your language of choice? Are you a wanna-be programmer looking to learn the hottest lingo around? Look no further! Beginning Programming with Java For Dummies, 5^th Edition is the easy-to-follow guide you'll want to keep in your back pocket as you work your way toward Java mastery! In plain English, it quickly and easily shows you what goes into creating a program, how to put the pieces together, ways to deal with standard programming challenges, and so much more.

Whether you're just tooling around or embarking on a career, this is the ideal resource you'll turn to again and again as you perfect your understanding of the nuances of this popular programming language. Packed with tons of step-by-step instruction, this is the only guide you need to start programming with Java like a pro.

• Updated for Java 9, learn the language with samples and the Java toolkit
• Familiarize yourself with decisions, conditions, statements, and information overload
• Differentiate between loops and arrays, objects and classes, methods, and variables
• Find links to additional resources

Once you discover the joys of Java programming, you might just find you're hooked. Sound like fun? Here's the place to start.

Read more...

Kotlin in Action review

Summary

Kotlin in Action guides experienced Java developers from the language basics of Kotlin all the way through building applications to run on the JVM and Android devices. Foreword by Andrey Breslav, Lead Designer of Kotlin.

Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.

About the Technology

Developers want to get work done - and the less hassle, the better. Coding with Kotlin means less hassle. The Kotlin programming language offers an expressive syntax, a strong intuitive type system, and great tooling support along with seamless interoperability with existing Java code, libraries, and frameworks. Kotlin can be compiled to Java bytecode, so you can use it everywhere Java is used, including Android. And with an effi cient compiler and a small standard library, Kotlin imposes virtually no runtime overhead.

About the Book

Kotlin in Action teaches you to use the Kotlin language for production-quality applications. Written for experienced Java developers, this example-rich book goes further than most language books, covering interesting topics like building DSLs with natural language syntax. The authors are core Kotlin developers, so you can trust that even the gnarly details are dead accurate.

What's Inside

• Functional programming on the JVM
• Writing clean and idiomatic code
• Combining Kotlin and Java
• Domain-specific languages

About the Reader

This book is for experienced Java developers.

About the Author

Dmitry Jemerov and Svetlana Isakova are core Kotlin developers at JetBrains.

Table of Contents

1. PART 1 - INTRODUCING KOTLIN

2. Kotlin: what and why
3. Kotlin basics
4. Defining and calling functions
5. Classes, objects, and interfaces
6. Programming with lambdas
7. The Kotlin type system

   PART 2 - EMBRACING KOTLIN

8. Operator overloading and other conventions
9. Higher-order functions: lambdas as parameters and return values
10. Generics
11. Annotations and reflection
12. DSL construction

Summary

Kotlin in Action guides experienced Java developers from the language basics of Kotlin all the way through building applications to run on the JVM and Android devices. Foreword by Andrey Breslav, Lead Designer of Kotlin.

Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.

About the Technology

Developers want to get work done - and the less hassle, the better. Coding with Kotlin means less hassle. The Kotlin programming language offers an expressive syntax, a strong intuitive type system, and great tooling support along with seamless interoperability with existing Java code, libraries, and frameworks. Kotlin can be compiled to Java bytecode, so you can use it everywhere Java is used, including Android. And with an effi cient compiler and a small standard library, Kotlin imposes virtually no runtime overhead.

About the Book

Kotlin in Action teaches you to use the Kotlin language for production-quality applications. Written for experienced Java developers, this example-rich book goes further than most language books, covering interesting topics like building DSLs with natural language syntax. The authors are core Kotlin developers, so you can trust that even the gnarly details are dead accurate.

What's Inside

• Functional programming on the JVM
• Writing clean and idiomatic code
• Combining Kotlin and Java
• Domain-specific languages

About the Reader

This book is for experienced Java developers.

About the Author

Dmitry Jemerov and Svetlana Isakova are core Kotlin developers at JetBrains.

Table of Contents

1. PART 1 - INTRODUCING KOTLIN

2. Kotlin: what and why
3. Kotlin basics
4. Defining and calling functions
5. Classes, objects, and interfaces
6. Programming with lambdas
7. The Kotlin type system

   PART 2 - EMBRACING KOTLIN

8. Operator overloading and other conventions
9. Higher-order functions: lambdas as parameters and return values
10. Generics
11. Annotations and reflection
12. DSL construction

Read more...