Category: Books

Feed: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Upcoming Titles. Author: O'Reilly Media, Inc.. This updated edition of Java in a Nutshell not only helps experienced Java programmers get the most out of Java versions 9 through 11, it’s also a learning path for new developers. Chock full of examples that demonstrate how to take complete advantage of modern Java APIs and development best practices, this thoroughly revised book includes new material on Java Concurrency Utilities. The book’s first section provides a fast-paced, no-fluff introduction to the Java programming language and the core runtime aspects of the Java platform. The second section is a ... Read More

Feed: The Connector by Workato. Author: Amlan Debnath; HR departments often face increasing pressure to not only attract but also retain highly sought after talent pools. After all, employees form the backbone of a company—and any strong business is only as good as its people. According to Capterra, 75% of hiring managers use either applicant tracking or recruiting software to improve their hiring process. And according to Gartner, cloud-based HR software expenditures are increasing faster than spending on on-premise solutions. In fact, HR cloud solutions will constitute 50% or more of all HR technology spending by the end of this ... Read More

Feed: The Connector by Workato. Author: Nicole Lee; A comprehensive suite of business apps has become an essential toolkit for any digital-first organization. According to an IDC survey, nearly one-third of the worldwide enterprise application market will be SaaS-based by 2018; this number will have doubled from $22.6 billion in annual SaaS revenue in 2013 to an estimated $50.8 billion next year. Putting these metrics into perspective, the average enterprise currently uses 1,427 distinct cloud services; the average employee actively uses 36 cloud services at work. By 2020—not too long from now—Gartner predicts that cloud software will become the default ... Read More

Feed: The Connector by Workato. Author: Nicole Lee; On a fundamental level, digital transformation is a full-scale commitment to continuous business innovation. It starts with the right leadership, a forward-thinking mindset, and a  bottom-up cultural change from within. According to IDC, businesses will spend $369 billion on digital transformation by 2020; and 67% of the world’s top 1000 enterprises will adopt digital transformation as a key strategic goal by 2018. Although most companies are already investing in technology to kick-start their digital journey, many still struggle to transition seamlessly to being digital-first organizations. The transition can spell disaster for even ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Paulo Jesus; MySQL Shell 8.0.13 (GA) introduced a new feature to allow you to easily import JSON documents to MySQL. The basics of this new feature were described in a previous blog post. In this blog we we will provide more details about this feature, focusing on a practical use case of interest for to many: How to import JSON data from MongoDB to MySQL. The same “recipe” may be applied to import of data from other document-store databases to MySQL, as long as they are able to produce or export data to JSON. The task ... Read More

Feed: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Upcoming Titles. Author: O'Reilly Media, Inc.. A lot of work is required to release an API, but the effort doesn’t always pay off. Overplanning before an API matures is a wasted investment, while underplanning can lead to disaster. This practical guide provides maturity models for individual APIs and multi-API landscapes to help you invest the right human and company resources for the right maturity level at the right time. How do you balance the desire for agility and speed with the need for robust and scalable operations? Four experts from the API Academy show software architects, ... Read More

Feed: Liquid Web. Author: Jennifer Bourn; If you’re not using content marketing to expand your brand reach, increase your visibility, and connect with ideal clients and your greater audience, you’re already behind because your competitors are and it’s helping them win business that could be yours.Take a look at these stats:From social media posts, live videos, podcasts, and YouTube channels, to blog posts, white papers, ebooks, and articles, content marketing has taken over and it’s not going anywhere. The problem is content marketing isn’t easy, there isn’t one clear roadmap to follow, and most businesses who are trying to make ... Read More

Feed: Liquid Web. Author: Andrej Walilko; More and more web application managers are considering adding graphics cards into their servers. And the numbers don’t lie; CPU has a high cost per core, and GPU has a low cost per core. For about the same investment, you could have a dozen or two additional CPU cores or a few thousand GPU cores. That’s the power of GPUs, or Graphics Processing Units.In fact, since June 2018, more of the new processing power from the top 500 supercomputers around the world comes from GPUs instead of CPUs. And companies like Microsoft, Facebook, Google, ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Fergus O'Sullivan; Welcome to the State of the Cloud, Cloudwards.net’s monthly column where we take you through the news of the month that’s been and tell you our opinion on it. In our October edition we predicted it would be an interesting month, and boy, were we right. It’s been a crazy few weeks in techland and we’re relishing the chance to shine our light on it. Get our newsletter delivered straight to your inbox every month. Facebook will be making an appearance (we’ll pause as you recover from your surprise), we’ll have more proof that Google ... Read More

Feed: The Connector by Workato. Author: Hannah Herman; For a large enterprise, every business-critical process can be a complex balancing act. To do something like complete a project, for example, the organization must: Allocate resources appropriately, including personnel Facilitate collaboration between teams Make sure that best practices and relevant regulations are followed Track, store, and manage data–including unstructured data like documents or images Making this all happen in a fast-paced enterprise environment can be challenging and tedious for the employees who must execute these complex (but necessary!) processes. This is a real pain point, as evidenced by the hundreds of apps and ... Read More