Best Network System Administration
This bestselling on-the-job reference and test preparation guide has been fully revised for the new 2015 CompTIA exam objectives for exams 901 & 902 Written by the leading authority on CompTIA A+ certification and training, this self-study set has been thoroughly updated to cover 100% of the topics covered on the latest edition of the exam. He is author of Mike Meyers’ A+ Guide to Managing and Troubleshooting PCs and Mike Meyers’ Network+ Guide to Managing and Troubleshooting Networks .
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Find Best Price at Amazon"My method of study i chose to read this textbook cover to cover, taking all practice tests at the end of each chapter, along with the included practice exams on the disc. In addition to this text i went further to find online practice exams and Professor Messer videos on Youtube as free self studying material. The book covered the objectives and even went beyond which is why this makes a great on-the-job reference."
"Most importantly, I was looking for a book that could not only keep me engaged yet also provide the necessary educational materials. Presently I'm over a hundred or so pages in (the book is Bible thick) and have purposely slowed myself down at times to ensure lesson absorption but honestly could read this book like it was a spellbinding work of fanciful fiction. It really helps to have an actual, honest interest in the subject matter and there are times where you'll want access to several different operating systems."
"the author does not drift off to complicated things when starting to learn the basics."
"While this was required material for my IT class, the writing is easy to follow and the information is clear."
"Pros: Packed with so much knowledge that I think Mike Meyers may be Thoth."
"Very informative, most chapters are easy enough to read, a little too heavy on the jokes some times, but I suppose I'd rather that than it being dry."
"It is packed with everything I need to know for passing the CompTIA A+ exam, and as a matter fact I almost gave it four stars because it is so packed it is too heavy to hold up when I’m laying down reading it!"
"Great book when it comes to questions in each."
While many books explain the how of bitcoin, The Internet of Money delves into the why of bitcoin. With The Internet of Money, he's matchedthat feat by compiling his talks into one of the best books on Bitcoinfor a broad audience. That required people to grasp not only how thisunorthodox technology worked but also its profound promise for society.No one has done more than Andreas Antonopoulos to get them over thathurdle. As an engaging public speaker, teacher and writer, Andreas makes complex subjects accessible and easy to understand.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"When I dove down the rabbit hole of Bitcoin in late 2013, Andreas' YouTube talks and podcasts pulled me further in, and this book is a compilation of these entertaining and informative talks."
"This study of Bitcoin is truly turning out to be an elemental experience where Andreaus' approach gives me the power to create endless scenarios about the world we live in."
"This book helped me understand that Bitcoin is more than a currency."
"Could not put the book down very thought provoking."
"The subject matter is interesting and the author does a good job of explaining it but unfortunately it's far too repetitive."
"I have started watching Andreas’videos since I got into bitcoin.And he is very knowledgeable of the subject and the delivery of his speeches is very captivating.When it comes to bitcoin i seek his take on the matter before I make up my mind."
"This is a great collection of thoughts on a technology that will have a tremendous impact on so many aspects of society."
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In this collection of essays and articles, key members of Google’s Site Reliability Team explain how and why their commitment to the entire lifecycle has enabled the company to successfully build, deploy, monitor, and maintain some of the largest software systems in the world. Based in San Francisco, he has previously been responsible for the care and feeding of Google’s advertising statistics, data warehousing, and customer support systems. In other lives, Chris has worked in academic IT, analyzed data for political campaigns, and engaged in some light BSD kernel hacking, picking up degrees in Computer Engineering, Economics, and Technology Policy along the way. He is currently cowriting a history of the Internet in Ireland, and is the holder of degrees in Computer Science, Mathematics, and Poetry Studies, which is surely some kind of mistake.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I liked this book."
"The establishment of SRE as a discipline is ascribed to Google, and many organizations are trying to hire SREs and establish SRE teams, even though the definition of what what a Site Reliability Engineer does varies by team. Google is a successful company and has solved some challenging problems, and we can learn a lot from the Google practices."
"Fantastic book."
"Actually I would give 4.5 stars (not 5) because it is not a book in common sense."
"Given those facts alone, it almost goes without saying that this book is worth a read by internet company engineers and anyone else interested in running web infrastructure at massive scale. The authors, Raymond Blum and Rhandeev Singh, posit a number of tenets and concepts that match my own views, but that I have never seen in print and haven't been able to express as well myself. I really only found them useful when offered a way to map them to popular industry solutions: Borg =~ Kubernetes, BorgMon =~ Prometheus, Chubby =~ ZooKeeper, etc. I had already noted the similarities in Google's postmortems and casualty drills, and some differences as well (rest assured there is no concept of an "error budget" on a nuclear submarine). It feels like the editors, handed essays by elite engineers with widely varying writing abilities, chose to conform to the median style rather than to the best. There are best-selling authors that friends and family adore, but that I find utterly unreadable solely due to sentence structure (for example, Dan Brown)."
"The book meanders a lot."
"I must read for devops engineers."
"Unless you are working with 100+ web engineers, my guess is that most of this book does not apply to your situation."
Best Internet & Networking
From Mike Meyers, the #1 name in CompTIA training and exam preparation, a thorough revision of his bestselling exam guide—updated to cover the 2015 release of the CompTIA Network+ exam. Mike Meyers, CompTIA A+, CompTIA Network+, CompTIA Security+, is the industry's leading authority on CompTIA certifications and the bestselling author of eight editions of CompTIA A+ Certification All-in-One Exam Guide .
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Find Best Price at Amazon"My advise to everyone to pass network+; -Read the book."
"This was the only book I used for my Network+ exam."
"Clear, slightly irreverent tone, which made the book as fun to read as a technical book can be."
"This book is exactly the same that you get elsewhere for twice as much."
"It will inevitably contain one or two typos, but if you've been paying attention to the book, you'll be able to recognize and work around them."
"Used this book with an online study course for the Net+ exam through my community college."
"I love the Mike Meyers series of Technical books I am learning so much and passing all my test."
"This is a great book except it keeps telling you about these great exercises you can do to reinforce what you just read...oh wait they are extra money."
Best Client-Server Systems
Design for minimum complexity and maximum creativity Reap the benefits of collaborative development Apply defensive programming techniques to reduce and flush out errors Exploit opportunities to refactor—or evolve—code, and do it safely Use construction practices that are right-weight for your project Debug problems quickly and effectively Resolve critical construction issues early and correctly Build quality into the beginning, middle, and end of your project. He is the author of several books, including Code Complete and Rapid Development, both honored with Software Development magazine's Jolt Award.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"readable encyclopedia of best practices on software quality, covering topics such as how to build classes, use data and control structures, debug, refactor, and code-tune. Yes, it would be nice if the book was updated to include substantive material on languages like Ruby or Python (cf. p. 65, Python "also contains some support for creating larger programs") but, in the words of Gertrude Stein, "Not everything can be about everything" -- though Code Complete does come pretty close. McConnell also sprinkles the text with classic words of wisdom, e.g. "The competent programmer is fully aware of the strictly limited size of his own skull" (Edsger Dijkstra), "Never debug standing up" (Gerald Weinberg), "Copy and paste is a design error" (David Parnas), "Any fool can defend his or her mistakes -- and most fools do." It is important to point out that even though this volume is encyclopedia-like, it does have both a sense of humor (e.g. "the encryption algorithm is so convoluted that it seems like it's been used on itself") and a clear authorial voice (e.g. "Though sometimes tempting, that's dumb."). 33, after quoting Edward Yourdon at length, McConnell adds "This lusty tribute to programming machismo is pure B.S. I found this to be bizarre, given that in the 1995 edition of "The Mythical Man-Month" Brooks states in no uncertain terms that he has changed his mind on this: "This I now perceive to be wrong" (p. 265). On a different note, although some of the on-line accompanying material is fascinating (e.g. the links to the original Dijkstra and Lawrence articles in ch."
"Very readable, excellent real-world examples and case studies, and many valuable insights."
"I'm a self taught programmer going on 5 years now doing it full time, and I have learned a lot of techniques that have filled in some holes in my skills."
"The Microsoft code way."
"Bad humor, takes a long time to convey information, but is useful."
"I'd also recommend the more recent Clean Code, especially for Java programmers, as it goes into more depth, even providing actual case studies in which code is dramatically cleaned up."
"I make all of my new programmers at least read selections from it (in fact that is part of our training program.)."
"Great book on software development."
Best Computer Networks, Protocols & APIs
From Mike Meyers, the #1 name in CompTIA training and exam preparation, a thorough revision of his bestselling exam guide—updated to cover the 2015 release of the CompTIA Network+ exam. Mike Meyers, CompTIA A+, CompTIA Network+, CompTIA Security+, is the industry's leading authority on CompTIA certifications and the bestselling author of eight editions of CompTIA A+ Certification All-in-One Exam Guide .
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Very good overview."
"Very understandable, pulls together concepts in very logical fashion with good detail."
"Mike Meyer's in depth look at objectives on the test has been very helpful in my studying!"
"Will take the test next week."
"great gift for beginners."
"necessary for exam study."