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ZooKeeper: Building distributed applications is difficult enough without having to coordinate the actions that make them work. This practical guide shows how Apache ZooKeeper helps you manage distributed systems, so you can focus mainly on application logic. Even with ZooKeeper, implementing coordination tasks is not trivial, but this book provides good practices to give you…

The Pragmatic Bookshelf | Pomodoro Technique Illustrated

The Dream Team Nightmare: This first-ever interactive Agile Adventure is the gripping tale of an experienced team struggling with agile adoption. In this unique mashup of a business novel written in the gamebook format, you’ll overcome common yet daunting challenges that come from using agile methods. As Jim, the agile coach, you’ll learn to apply…

Jump Start Sinatra: This short SitePoint book provides readers with a fun and yet practical introduction to Sinatra, a framework that makes web development with Ruby extremely simple. It’s not intended to be a completely comprehensive guide to the framework or an in-depth Ruby tutorial, but will quickly get you up to speed with Sinatra…

The Pragmatic Bookshelf | Raspberry Pi

Build Awesome Command-Line Applications in Ruby 2: Speak directly to your system. With itssimple commands, flags, and parameters, a well-formed command-lineapplication is the quickest way to automate a backup, a build, or adeployment and simplify your life. With this book, you’ll learnspecific ways to write command-line applications that are easy touse, deploy, and maintain, using…

http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920031000.do Ready to move to the Mac? This incomparable guide helps you make a smooth transition. New York Times columnist and Missing Manuals creator David Pogue gets you past four challenges: syncing with iOS, transferring your stuff, assembling Mac programs so you can do what you did with Windows, and learning your way around OS…

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Seven Concurrency Models in Seven Weeks: Your software needs to leverage multiple cores, handle thousands of users and terabytes of data, and continue working in the face of both hardware and software failure. Concurrency and parallelism are the keys, and Seven Concurrency Models in Seven Weeks equips you for this new world. See how emerging…