Learning How to Delegate as a Leader
This report examines the best ways to delegate work so you not only end up with successfully completed tasks, but also a team of cheerful people—including a cheerful you.
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A guide to Elasticsearch 5.0 and the ELK/Elastic Stack
Learn how to ship, parse, store, and analyze logs.
Using Linux tracing tools
Sasha Goldshtein reviews the modern tracing landscape—ftrace, perf_events, kprobes, uprobes, eBPF—uncovering what insight into system activity these tools can offer.
Repeatable sampling of data sets in BigQuery for machine learning
An efficient, fast, and repeatable selection method that works on very large data sets.
How do you document your Arduino project designs?
Learn how to sketch out your electronic designs as schematics and understand how they map to real-world circuits.
Using blocks in Ruby
With this excerpt from Head First Ruby, you’ll learn about Ruby blocks by looking at each concept from different angles.
What is the simplest way to clone an object in JavaScript?
Learn how to clone an object in JavaScript using the JSON.stringify, and Object.assign methods.
How do you check if an element is hidden in JavaScript?
Learn how to simplify your visibility search by nesting methods within CSS classes.
Running Consul at scale
Learn how Datadog integrated Consul into its environment. Darron Froese outlines mistakes made and lessons learned, plus tips for successful implementation in your own environment.
Complex neural networks made easy by Chainer
A define-by-run approach allows for flexibility and simplicity when building deep learning networks.
Implementing infrastructure as code
Learn how your team can implement a change-management pipeline to create a fast, reliable process for testing and hosting infrastructure for your microservices-based system.
Open source 101
Open source software is everywhere, but do you know where to start if you want to contribute, convince your manager your next project should be open source, or avoid recreating the wheel?
What is the correct JSON content type?
Learn about MIME types and how the browser and your JSON code interacts.
What href attribute should you use for JavaScript-only links?
Learn the best practices for adding JavaScript links to your code using buttons and divs.
How do you put a web server onto a tiny $10 Wi-Fi module?
Learn to serve web pages from the inexpensive and tiny ESP8266 module in a few lines of Arduino code.
How to build an app with client-side storage
A hands-on guide that demonstrates several storage APIs in action.
12 patterns for hypermedia service architecture
Open source software is everywhere, but do you know where to start if you want to contribute, convince your manager your next project should be open source, or avoid recreating the wheel?
Visualizing Value: How to Align Teams with Experience Mapping
Jim Kalbach explains how he uses maps as collaborative tools, highlighting the importance of value alignment, and demonstrates how to engage others in workshops and exercises.
TensorFlow for mobile poets
Running your image classifier in your own iOS application.
The myth of the sophisticated hack
Cracking the misconception that hacks are sophisticated and complex by breaking down the most common attack categories.
An introduction to Arista's MLAG
Combining two switches to look like one can be daunting and complex. Not with Arista. Learn how Arista's MLAG makes accomplishing this task very simple.
How do you correct a commit message in Git?
Learn how to fix a mistake using the “git commit -amend” command and understand when it is appropriate to force push a changed commit.
How do you check if one string contains a substring in JavaScript?
Learn eight methods for determining if a string contains a substring in JavaScript.
How do you check if an HTML form checkbox field is checked in JavaScript?
Learn how to verify if a checkbox or radio button is checked using the .checked property in JavaScript.
12 Agile principles
This chapter from Learning Agile lays out the 12 principles that every agile practitioner should use when working on a software project team.
Introduction to designing for scalability with Erlang/OTP
Erlang/OTP is unique among programming languages and frameworks in the breadth, depth, and consistency of the features it provides for scalable, fault-tolerant systems with requirements for high availability.
How to design for sustainability
Tim Frick offers simple tactics to make your own digital products and services more sustainable.
Part of the pipeline: Why continuous testing is essential
Understand how Capital One embraced continuous testing and learn the core principles, tools, and best practices behind the transformation.
Understanding the performance penalty: HTTP vs. HTTPS
Using RUM to analyze HTTP vs. HTTPS in different world regions and across wireline, rural wireline, and wireless ISPs.
Introduction to SVG animation
Learn why animating SVG is different from animating in CSS, and work around some common hiccups you might experience along the way.
Does a sorted array run faster than an unsorted array in Java?
In this video, Brian L. Gorman uncovers the relationship between efficiency and branch prediction when executing arrays in Java.
Is Java pass by reference or pass by value?
A common misconception is that Java is a pass by reference language. In this video Brian L. Gorman exposes the inner workings of pass by value.
Incident management at the edge
Lessons learned at Fastly: How to build a robust system that identifies, mitigates, contains, and properly communicates incidents to prevent recurrence.
TensorFlow on Android
Take deep learning mobile.
Capturing semantic meanings using deep learning
Word embedding in natural language processing.
Making continuous delivery a reality at a large enterprise
Learn how Capital One implemented continuous delivery, streamlined and automated the release management process, and overcame common roadblocks.
Integrating Lean UX and Agile
This chapter from Lean UX, 2nd Edition discusses how blending Lean UX and Agile can create a more productive team and a more collaborative process.
How do you make a page redirect using JavaScript?
Learn how to redirect from one page to another in JavaScript using the window.location object.
How do you include a JavaScript file in another JavaScript file?
Learn three methods for managing multiple scripts within a JavaScript project.
How do you obtain query string values in JavaScript?
Learn how to create a JavaScript function that will parse the query string into its constituent parts.
What does “use strict” do in JavaScript?
Learn how “use strict” can introduce more robust error reporting to your JavaScript code and cut down on logical errors.
Shared nothing architectures: Giving Hadoop's data processing frameworks scalability and fault tolerance
A look at the tools and patterns for accessing and processing data in Hadoop.
A Whirlwind Tour of Python
Jake VanderPlas explains Python’s essential syntax and semantics, built-in data types and structures, function definitions, control flow statements, and more, using Python 3 syntax.
Solving the right problem
Max Shron and Sasha Laundy explore tactics for need-finding and problem scoping that make it possible to put investments in data to profitable use.
The Remote Worker's Survival Guide
In this report, you’ll learn to address two main challenges: How to organize your own life as a telecommuter, and how to work as part of a larger team.
What is the difference between == and === in JavaScript?
Learn the difference between == and ===, and understand which you should be using in your code.
How do you subtract two dates in Java?
Learn how to account for time discontinuities in Java and use the new Java Time API to calculate durations accurately.
A sustainable web design primer
How web design standards can help make the Internet more environmentally friendly.
Microservices for Java developers
Learn how to build scalable, adaptive, complex systems that help your business adjust to rapidly changing competitive markets.
Thinking in coroutines
Lukasz Langa uses asyncio source code to explain the event loop, blocking calls, coroutines, tasks, futures, thread pool executors, and process pool executors.
What is the Docker workflow?
From spinning up containers to shipping software as a team.
Security and performance: Breaking the conundrum ... again!
Learn how security can be enforced at the browser level through a combination of optimization techniques and security enhancements.
How to build a robot that “sees” with $100 and TensorFlow
Adventures in deep learning, cheap hardware, and object recognition.
Cracking security misconceptions
Untangling common myths about modern information security.
How do I undo my last comment in Git?
Learn how to use the “git reset” command and reset the HEAD pointer to undo your last commit.
How do I delete a branch locally and remotely in Git?
Learn how to view and delete branches on both local and remote repositories so you can keep your project tidy and manageable.
What is the difference between String and string in C#?
Should you be concerned about the difference a capital letter makes with “string” in C#?
Extend structured streaming for Spark ML
Early methods to integrate machine learning using Naive Bayes and custom sinks.
Run strikingly fast parallel file searches in Go with sync.ErrGroup
Go’s new sync.ErrGroup package significantly improves developer productivity with goroutines.
How do you learn?
Shared learning: It's what we do at O'Reilly, and it's what we’d like to share with you.
Security architecture
Become familiar with various ways to design technical methods that minimize the risk of having a class of users who must be trusted—of their own volition—to behave within a set of rules in order to safeguard privacy.
Let’s use Keystone!
Use this instructional tutorial to interact with Keystone and invoke its core operational capabilities.
Configuring a continuous delivery pipeline in Jenkins
Learn the basics for setting up a continuous delivery pipeline in Jenkins, from modeling the pipeline to integrating the software.