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The 100 Best Stocks to Buy in 2013
Author: Peter Sander
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2012-10-18
Total Pages: 295
ISBN-13: 1440541841
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNow is the time to make money! You have watched the market swing amid concerns over the European debt crisis and heard the cautious optimism about U.S. economic recovery. Now, you're wondering where you should be putting your money for maximum safe return. With The 100 Best Stocks to Buy in 2013, you can reap high earnings with stock picks that promise a better return than the market average. In addition to naming 100 top-performing investments, this newest edition of the classic book includes: An evaluation of the current state of the market Information about significant investment opportunities Tips for balancing your portfolio between aggressive and safety stocks Advice about investing to cover rising college costs An essential guide for anyone investing in today's market, The 100 Best Stocks to Buy in 2013 gives you solid and dependable advice you can take to the bank.
Automating API Delivery
Author: Ikenna Nwaiwu
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2024-07-30
Total Pages: 398
ISBN-13: 1638355525
DOWNLOAD EBOOKImprove speed, quality, AND cost by automating your API delivery process! Automating API Delivery shows you how to strike the perfect balance between speed and usability by applying DevOps automation principles to your API design and delivery process. It lays out a clear path to making both the organizational and technical changes you need to deliver high-quality APIs both rapidly and reliably. In Automating API Delivery you’ll learn how to: Enforce API design standards with linting Automate breaking-change checks to control design creep Ensure accuracy of API reference documents Centralize API definition consistency checks Automate API configuration deployment Conduct effective API design reviews Author Ikenna Nwaiwu provides comprehensive guidance on implementing APIOps in your organization. He carefully walks through the technical steps and introduces the essential open-source tools, with practical advice and insights from his years of experience. You’ll benefit from his personal tips for avoiding common pitfalls and challenges of moving to automated API delivery. Foreword by Melissa van der Hecht. About the technology Create high quality, consistent, and fast-to-market APIs by automating the development process! This innovative book shows you how to apply established Continuous Delivery and DevOps principles along the whole API lifecycle, transforming a collection of individual tasks into a smooth, manageable pipeline that supports automated testing, iterative improvement, and reliable documentation. About the book Automating API Delivery introduces the tools and strategies behind APIOps. You’ll discover tools and process improvements that give you important quick wins, including API governance using the Spectral API linter and establishing an efficient CI/CD pipeline with GitHub Actions. You’ll even discover how to use the powerful OpenAPI Generator to automatically create client and server code from your API definitions. What's inside Check for breaking changes with oasdiff Create SDKs using OpenAPI Generator Maintain accurate documentation with API conformance tests Deploy API gateway configuration with GitOps About the reader Experience building RESTful APIs required. About the author Ikenna Nwaiwu is Principal Consultant at Ikenna Consulting, specializing in automating API governance. The technical editor on this book was Marjukka Niinioja. Table of Contents 1 What is APIOps? 2 Leaning into APIOps: Problem-solving and leading improvements 3 API linting: Automating API consistency 4 Breaking change checks: Managing API evolution 5 API design review: Checking for what you cannot automate 6 API conformance: Generating code and API definitions 7 API conformance: Schema testing 8 CI/CD for API artifacts 1: Source-stage governance controls 9 CI/CD for API artifacts 2: Build-stage and API configuration deployment 10 More on API consistency: Custom linting and security checks 11 Monitoring and analytics: Measuring API product metrics Appendixes A Value stream mapping icons B Installing API linting and OpenAPI diff tools C Introduction to JSON Pointer D Tools for API conformance and analytics E Docker and Kubernetes
NAVIGATING B2B SALES (E-BOOK)
Author: Roland Kümin
Publisher: tredition
Published: 2023-09-18
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 3384023730
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDive into the exciting and often surprising world of B2B sales with «Navigating B2B Sales: The Digital Age Unpacked». This guidebook, curated from the best articles on B2BModernSelling.com, is more than a reference - it's an engaging narrative that is both informative and entertaining. Through sixteen distinct chapters, this book from Roland Kümin peels back the curtain on the current state of B2B sales, serving as an indispensable roadmap for entrepreneurs, accomplished sales and revenue individuals, and anyone keen to gain the upper hand in the digitally-driven marketplace of today. From the art of building an elite sales team to the intriguing rise of AI and MACH technology, we traverse a myriad of topics that sit at the heart of modern B2B sales. We'll delve into the significance of data, the simplification of the purchase process, the redefinition of customer value, and the fresh mindset required of today's B2B marketers. We discuss the role of authentic events, the importance of active listening, the innovative approaches to customer targeting, and the growing impact of video email communication. We conclude with a comprehensive overview of future B2B sales trends and a handy guide to the latest sales technologies. «Navigating B2B Sales: The Digital Age Unpacked» is your go-to resource for mastering the waves of the B2B sales ocean, making it a fun, insightful, and ultimately rewarding journey. Hop on board, and let's conquer the digital age of sales together!
Principles of Web API Design
Author: James Higginbotham
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Published: 2021-12-08
Total Pages: 485
ISBN-13: 0137355734
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Full-Lifecycle Guide to API Design Principles of Web API Design brings together principles and processes to help you succeed across the entire API design lifecycle. Drawing on extensive in-the-trenches experience, leading consultant James Higginbotham helps you align every stakeholder on specific outcomes, design APIs that deliver value, and scale the design process from small teams to the entire organization. Higginbotham helps you bring an "outside-in" perspective to API design to reflect the voices of customers and product teams, map requirements to specific and well-organized APIs, and choose the right API style for writing them. He walks through a real-world example from the ground up, offering guidance for anyone designing new APIs or extending existing APIs. Deliver great APIs by getting your design processes right Gain agreement on specific outcomes from design teams, customers, and other stakeholders Craft job stories, conduct EventStorming, and model capabilities Identify the right APIs, and organize operations into coherent API profiles Choose the best styles for each project: REST, gRPC, GraphQL, or event-based async APIs Refine designs based on feedback from documenters, testers, and customers Decompose APIs into microservices Mature your API program, implementing design and management processes that scale This guide is invaluable for anyone involved in planning or building APIs--architects, developers, team leaders, managers in single and multi-team environments, and any technical or business professional delivering "API-as-a-product" offerings. Register your book for convenient access to downloads, updates, and/or corrections as they become available. See inside book for details.
The 100 Best Stocks You Can Buy 2010
Author: Peter Sander
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2009-09-18
Total Pages: 279
ISBN-13: 1440504296
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“Never invest in a company you don’t understand.”- Warren Buffett With Wall Street in shambles, investors need all the help they can get. There’s money to be made, but how? In this classic bestselling guide, Peter Sander and John Slatter offer informed, detailed advice about which stocks to buy in a time of financial chaos—and why. The 2010 edition of this classic guide features a new introduction discussing the current recession and how investors should cope with it as well as new stock picks and an updated listing of all recommended stocks by growth potential. Regardless of the economic climate, this guide remains the go-to guide for investors who want their money to work for them.
Software Business
Author: Krzysztof Wnuk
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2018-12-06
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 3030048403
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Software Business, ICSOB 2018, held in Tallinn, Estonia, in June 2018. This year the conference theme was “How Digitalization Impacts Software Business” and focused on digitalization and its impact on the speed of business models and business modeling and the realization of these business models. The 11 full papers and 1 short paper presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 34 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: software ecosystems; software product management and business models; and software start-ups.
Business of APIs
Author: Kin Lane
Publisher: Original Web Solutions
Published: 2011-04-28
Total Pages: 53
ISBN-13: 1461113881
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn recent years, API adoption has exploded among developers, for reasons that this book will examine. But the purpose of this book is not to discuss how to deliver an API but to rather how to scale the business side to meet this rising developer demand. Written by someone with an engineering and a business background, The Business of APIs also aims to bridge the technical and the business aspects of API development.This book serves to help people understand what APIs are, who uses them, and the different types of APIs that are available. As the title suggests, this is a business-oriented book. Nonetheless it does seek to educate users about what types of technologies go into popular Web APIs. The book also surveys the history of modern Web APIs and examines how they've been used successfully.If you are considering launching an API, this book should help you understand the common stumbling blocks that have been faced by many API owners -- then hopefully you can avoid them. The book will also identify common building blocks used by API owners, building blocks that should be fundamental for your API planning and development.The Business of APIs highlights what it takes to be successful in providing quality Web APIs and points to some of the innovative steps new businesses are taking with their APIs -- all in an effort to build vibrant API ecosystems and healthy businesses.
RESTful Web APIs
Author: Leonard Richardson
Publisher: "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
Published: 2013-09-12
Total Pages: 403
ISBN-13: 1449359744
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe popularity of REST in recent years has led to tremendous growth in almost-RESTful APIs that don’t include many of the architecture’s benefits. With this practical guide, you’ll learn what it takes to design usable REST APIs that evolve over time. By focusing on solutions that cross a variety of domains, this book shows you how to create powerful and secure applications, using the tools designed for the world’s most successful distributed computing system: the World Wide Web. You’ll explore the concepts behind REST, learn different strategies for creating hypermedia-based APIs, and then put everything together with a step-by-step guide to designing a RESTful Web API. Examine API design strategies, including the collection pattern and pure hypermedia Understand how hypermedia ties representations together into a coherent API Discover how XMDP and ALPS profile formats can help you meet the Web API "semantic challenge" Learn close to two-dozen standardized hypermedia data formats Apply best practices for using HTTP in API implementations Create Web APIs with the JSON-LD standard and other the Linked Data approaches Understand the CoAP protocol for using REST in embedded systems
Understanding Business Valuation
Author: Gary R. Trugman
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2018-01-08
Total Pages: 1253
ISBN-13: 1119483646
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis fifth edition simplifies a technical and complex area of practice with real-world experience and examples. Expert author Gary Trugman's informal, easy-to-read style, covers all the bases in the various valuation approaches, methods, and techniques. Author note boxes throughout the publication draw on Trugman's veteran, practical experience to identify critical points in the content. Suitable for all experience levels, you will find valuable information that will improve and fine-tune your everyday activities.
