Python Books
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Python Scripting for Computational Science (Texts in Computational Science and Engineering)
Published 9 years ago
by Hans Petter Langtangen, Springer
Now in its revised and updated 4th edition, this book teaches computational scientists how to develop tailored, flexible, and human-efficient working environments built from small programs written in the easy-to-learn, high-level Python language.As in the previous edition, the focus is on highly relevant examples and applications. These include binding together existing applications and tools, for example, for automating simulation, data analysis, and visualization.
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Coding for Penetration Testers: Building Better Tools
Published 9 years ago
by Jason Andress, Ryan Linn, Syngress
Tools used for penetration testing are often purchased or downloaded from the Internet. Each tool is based on a programming language such as Perl, Python, or Ruby. If a penetration tester wants to extend, augment, or change the functionality of a tool to perform a test differently than the default configuration, the tester must know the basics of coding for the related programming language.
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Redis: The Definitive Guide: Data modeling, caching, and messaging
Published 9 years ago
by Salvatore Sanfilippo, Pieter Noordhuis, O'Reilly Media
Written by the Redis dream team—including its creator, key developers, and the community itself—this book provides the details you need to implement this advanced key-value data store quickly and discerningly. Database administrators, architects, and programmers will learn how to work with different data structures in Redis, how to handle memory, replication, and the cache itself, and how to implement messaging, using just the shell or programming APIs in Ruby, Python, and JavaScript.
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The Python Standard Library by Example (Developer's Library)
Published 9 years ago
by Doug Hellmann, Addison-Wesley Professional
Master the Powerful Python Standard Library through Real Code ExamplesThe Python Standard Library (PSL) contains hundreds of modules for interacting with the operating system, interpreter, and Internet–all extensively tested and ready to jump-start your application development. The Python Standard Library by Example introduces virtually every important area of the Python 2.7 PSL through concise, standalone source code/output examples, designed for easy learning and reuse.
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HBase: The Definitive Guide
Published 9 years ago
by Lars George, O'Reilly Media
If your organization is looking for a storage solution to accommodate a virtually endless amount of data, this book will show you how Apache HBase can fulfill your needs. As the open source implementation of Google's BigTable architecture, HBase scales to billions of rows and millions of columns, while ensuring that write and read performance remain constant.
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Building Applications in the Cloud: Concepts, Patterns, and Projects
Published 9 years ago
by Christopher Moyer, Christopher M. Moyer, Addison-Wesley Professional
Following the familiar “Design Patterns” format, expert cloud developer Chris Moyer introduces proven patterns for cloud platforms from Amazon, IBM, Microsoft, Google, and other providers. Moyer demonstrates these patterns at work through extensive example code and case study applications for Python and Amazon Web Services (AWS). As you increasingly move to the cloud, you’ll constantly encounter the challenges this book solves.
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Mining the Social Web
Published 10 years ago
by Matthew A. Russell, O'Reilly Media
Popular social networks such as Facebook and Twitter generate a tremendous amount of valuable data on topics and use patterns. Who's talking to whom? What are they talking about? How often are they talking? This concise and practical book shows you how to answer these questions and more by harvesting and analyzing data using social web APIs, Python, and pragmatic storage technologies such as Redis, CouchDB, and NetworkX.
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Gray Hat Hacking The Ethical Hackers Handbook, 3rd Edition
Published 10 years ago
by Allen Harper, Shon Harris, Jonathan Ness, Chris Eagle, Gideon Lenkey, Terron Williams, McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
THE LATEST STRATEGIES FOR UNCOVERING TODAY'S MOST DEVASTATING ATTACKSThwart malicious network intrusion by using cutting-edge techniques for finding and fixing security flaws. Fully updated and expanded with nine new chapters, Gray Hat Hacking: The Ethical Hacker's Handbook, Third Edition details the most recent vulnerabilities and remedies along with legal disclosure methods.
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Foundations of Python Network Programming: The comprehensive guide to building network applications with Python
Published 10 years ago
by John Goerzen, Brandon Rhodes, Apress
This second edition of Foundations of Python Network Programming targets Python 2.5 through Python 2.7, the most popular production versions of the language. Python has made great strides since Apress released the first edition of this book back in the days of Python 2.3. The advances required new chapters to be written from the ground up, and others to be extensively revised.
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Cassandra: The Definitive Guide
Published 10 years ago
by Eben Hewitt, O'Reilly Media
The rising popularity of Apache Cassandra rests on its ability to handle very large data sets that include hundreds of terabytes -- and that's why this distributed database has been chosen by organizations such as Facebook, Twitter, Digg, and Rackspace. With this hands-on guide, you'll get all the details and practical examples you need to understand Cassandra's non-relational database design and put it to work in a production environment.
