O Reilly: 1860 books
Database Nation
The Death of Privacy in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2000
Fifty years ago, in 1984, George Orwell imagined a future in which privacy was demolished by a totalitarian state that used spies, video surveillance, historical revisionism, and control over the media to maintain its power. Those who worry about personal privacy and identity--especially in this day...
High Performance Spark
Best Practices for Scaling and Optimizing Apache Spark
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2017
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...
Essential Cybersecurity Science
Build, Test, and Evaluate Secure Systems
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
If you’re involved in cybersecurity as a software developer, forensic investigator, or network administrator, this practical guide shows you how to apply the scientific method when assessing techniques for protecting your information systems. You’ll learn how to conduct scientific experiments...
Calm Technology
Principles and Patterns for Non-Intrusive Design
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
How can you design technology that becomes a part of a user’s life and not a distraction from it? This practical book explores the concept of calm technology, a method for smoothly capturing a user’s attention only when necessary, while calmly remaining in the background most of the time. You’ll...
Understanding Industrial Design
Principles for UX and Interaction Design
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2016
With the coming flood of connected products, many UX and interaction designers are looking into hardware design, a discipline largely unfamiliar to them. If you’re among those who want to blend digital and physical design concepts successfully, this practical book helps you explore seven long-standing...
by Ohad Samet
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
If you've been tasked with building a team to handle risk management for online payments (RMP), this practical introduction provides a framework for choosing the technologies and personnel you need. Author and financial services executive Ohad Samet explains the components of payments risk management,...
PSP Hacks
Tips & Tools for Your Mobile Gaming and Entertainment Handheld
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2006
Sure, it's just what you've been clamoring for: an ultra slick, portable version of the most popular console gaming system in the world. But Sony's new PlayStation Portable (PSP) isn't just a handheld gaming device. Beyond its killer graphics and spectacular widescreen LCD for unparalleled game play,...
Security Monitoring
Proven Methods for Incident Detection on Enterprise Networks
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2009
How well does your enterprise stand up against today's sophisticated security threats? In this book, security experts from Cisco Systems demonstrate how to detect damaging security incidents on your global network--first by teaching you which assets you need to monitor closely, and then by helping...
Parallel R
Data Analysis in the Distributed World
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2011
It’s tough to argue with R as a high-quality, cross-platform, open source statistical software product—unless you’re in the business of crunching Big Data. This concise book introduces you to several strategies for using R to analyze large datasets. You’ll learn the basics of Snow, Multicore,...
Web Security, Privacy & Commerce
Security for Users, Administrators and ISPs
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2001
Since the first edition of this classic reference was published, World Wide Web use has exploded and e-commerce has become a daily part of business and personal life. As Web use has grown, so have the threats to our security and privacy--from credit card fraud to routine invasions of privacy by marketers...
Understanding PaaS
Unleash the Power of Cloud Computing
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2012
The least understood feature of cloud computing, Platform as a Service (PaaS), is also the most powerful and cost effective. This concise overview shows you why organizations that properly wield PaaS can quickly gain a strong competitive advantage. You’ll learn how PaaS enables developers to pursue...
Using Google App Engine
Building Web Applications
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2009
Build exciting, scalable web applications quickly and confidently using Google App Engine and this book, even if you have little or no experience in programming or web development.
App Engine is perhaps the most appealing web technology to appear in the last year, providing an easy-to-use application...
Designing Connected Products
UX for the Consumer Internet of Things
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2015
Networked thermostats, fitness monitors, and door locks show that the Internet of Things can (and will) enable new ways for people to interact with the world around them. But designing connected products for consumers brings new challenges beyond conventional software UI and interaction design.
This...
Dreamweaver CS3: The Missing Manual
The Missing Manual
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2007
Welcome to Dreamweaver CS3. This new version of the popular web design software offers a rich environment for building professional sites, with drag-and-drop simplicity, clean HTML code, and dynamic database-driven web site creation tools. Moreover, it's now integrated more tightly with Adobe's other...