SC - 1319 | Microservices for the Enterprise: Designing, Developing, and Deploying

Kasun Indrasiri, Prabath Siriwardena

Architectural challenges using microservices with service integration and API management are presented and you learn how to eliminate the use of centralized integration products such as the enterprise service bus (ESB) through the use of composite/integration microservices. Concepts in the book are supported with use cases, and emphasis is put on the reality that most of you are implementing in a “brownfield” environment in which you must implement microservices alongside legacy applications with minimal disruption to your business.

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SC - 1318 | Practical GIS: Learn novice to advanced topics such as QGIS, Spatial data analysis, and more

Gabor Farkas

Key Features
• This easy-to-follow guide allows you to manage and analyze geographic data with ease using open source tools
• Publish your geographical data online
• Learn the basics of geoinformatics in a practical way by solving problems

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SC - 1317 | Software Design Decoded: 66 Ways Experts Think

Marian Petre, André van der Hoek, Yen Quach

An engaging, illustrated collection of insights revealing the practices and principles that expert software designers use to create great software.

What makes an expert software designer? It is more than experience or innate ability. Expert software designers have specific habits, learned practices, and observed principles that they apply deliberately during their design work.
This book offers sixty-six insights, distilled from years of studying experts at work, that capture what successful software designers actually do to create great software.

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SC - 1316 | Designing Event-Driven Systems: Concepts and Patterns for Streaming Services with Apache Kafka

Ben Stopford

Many forces affect software today: larger datasets, geographical disparities, complex company structures, and the growing need to be fast and nimble in the face of change.

Proven approaches such as service-oriented and event-driven architectures are joined by newer techniques such as microservices, reactive architectures, DevOps, and stream processing. Many of these patterns are successful by themselves, but as this practical ebook demonstrates, they provide a more holistic and compelling approach when applied together.

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SC - 1315 | Complex Enterprise Architecture: A New Adaptive Systems Approach

John McDowall

Implement successful and cost-effective enterprise architecture projects. This book provides a new approach to developing enterprise architecture based on the idea of emergent behaviors―where instead of micromanaging system implementation, the enterprise architecture effort establishes clear goals and leaves the details to the implementation teams. System development efforts are measured based on their contribution to achieving business goals instead of implementing specific (possibly outdated) requirements.

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