Free Book: Java: The Legend

Java: The Legend

Past, Present, and Future

By Ben Evans

Publisher: O'Reilly

Released: September 2015

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The road from Java's first public alpha of 1.0 to today has been long—and full of technical advances, innovative solutions, and interesting complications. Along the way, Java has flourished and is now one of the world's most important and widely-used programming environments.

Benjamin Evans, the Java editor for InfoQ and author of Java in a Nutshell, 6th edition, takes us on a journey through time:

- How Java has benefitted from early design decisions, including "Write Once, Run Anywhere" and an insistence on backward compatibility- The impact of open source- The enormous success and continued importance of the Java Virtual Machine and platform- The rise of Enterprise Java- The evolution of the Java developer community and ecosystem- Java's continuing influence on new programming languages- Java's greatest triumphs and most heroic failures- The future of Java, including Java 9, Project Panama, Project Valhalla, and the Internet of Things

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Book review: RESTful Web APIs

RESTful Web APIs

By Leonard Richardson, Mike Amundsen, Sam Ruby
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Released: September 2013
Pages: 408

This medium size-book is easy to read, because of it has good structured content, relevant real-life examples and simple terminology. The book doesn't require any specific knowledges, so it can be recommended to newbies as well as to experienced software engineers. 

The book gives a detail overview of HTTP, before actual start dealing about REST services. Then it provides recommendations about handling collections and media over RESTfull API. Microformats and deep dive into the most powerful HTTP feature for REST API - are the parts that I like the most. Haven't heart about HTML metadata profiles, or special kind of rest for embedded systems? So, in this case you can lear a lot of fascinating things. Also, very important is "multilanguage" orientation of the book. It doesn't relies on REST API implementation in some specific framework or even language, instead of that authors describe common principles of writing services.

The book was split in 13 independent chapters. So, a reader can concentrate only on important topics and omit not interesting/actual topics. I believe it is quite positive about book. Personally, I'd prefer more practical examples, and less theory. However, it'd be really difficult to achieve without increasing book size in twice. So, authors decided to focus more on wide theory and you will need more investigation before staring using some of mentioned approaches as the result.  

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Graph Databases 

By Ian Robinson, Jim Webber, Emil Eifrem Publisher:
O'Reilly Media
Released: June 2013 Pages: 224 4.5

 Discover how graph databases can help you manage and query highly connected data. With this practical book, you’ll learn how to design and implement a graph database that brings the power of graphs to bear on a broad range of problem domains. Whether you want to speed up your response to user queries or build a database that...

BookReview: Spring Data

 In scope of our partnership with O'Reilly Andriy Mishak reviewed  book "Spring Data (Modern Data Access for Enterprise Java)"  By Mark Pollack, Oliver Gierke, Thomas Risberg, Jon Brisbin, Michael Hunger.
Thx O'Reilly for a good book.
/Andriy Andrunevchyn
P.S. If you would like to read some new interesting book and ready to write some short review - ask me (skype: diykorey, email:diykorey@gmail.com)




SpringData 
 Modern Data Access for Enterprise Java
 By Mark Pollack, Oliver Gierke, Thomas Risberg, Jon Brisbin, Michael Hunger
 
This book is masterpiece from hands of five developers of the Spring data project. It is very good starting point for first contact with Spring Data world. For example, if you familiar with JPA (and/or JDBC), you can follow steps from specific chapter (or download sample project from github). So you became familiar with Spring Data way to organize data layer in application. Then you have some basis for start in NoSQL and Hadoop worlds, Spring Roo, Spring Integration and GemFire, because Spring Data generally use the same way to work with mentioned technologies. So, it is like crossroad for any unknown stated in book place for you, based on Spring Data.

One of the best part is low barrier to entry to start. You just need some basic knowledge of Java and Spring. For example, if you do not know anything about  Hadoop you can start with this book, corresponding sample project from github and this book. So you step first moves with Hive, Pig and Hbase. So it is for NoSQL, it consists of MongoDB, Neo4J and Redis chapters. You can try different schema-free  approaches – document, graph and key-value accordingly.

Why do you need to read this book? Because you want to have start with any mentioned (plus QueryDSL and Splunk) technologies.

When the best time to read it? I think, just before starting doing some with code for all stated abbreviations. Like first ever starting point for reading about them good too.

How the best way to work with it? My advice is reading the book while exploring sample projects code from github.

/Andriy Mishak

BookReview: MapReduce Design Patterns

As you know we take part in O'Reilly review program.
Several weeks ago I received for review "MapReduce Design Patterns" by Donald Miner, Adam Shook.  Actually it was my first experience with mapreduce and especially with hadoop. Hence it force me to read some articles

conclusion 1) This book is not for dummies but...

I've spent some time (not much really) to pick up some basic knowledge about mapreduce and hadoop afterwards it was much easier to understand. Book is well written and easy to read, I would even say that examples are too extensive.

conclusion 2) Good choice if you need  to implement something and don't have enough of knowledge.

All patterns in the book are grouped by such types: Summarization, Filtering, Data Organization, Join, Metapatterns and Input/Output patterns. The materials are well-structured, so it speeds up reading. I really like it 'cause from time to time I need to recall something without parsing the whole book

conclusion 3) book is well organized.

Last chapter is called "Final thoughts and the Future of Design patterns" and it was most interesting chapter for me, but  I will not reveal it so you'll enjoy reading it too))

O'Reilly Book review program

Yesterday I received two books for review from famous publisher - O'Reilly 
First one

Spring Data

Modern Data Access for Enterprise Java

Actually I'm reading it right now and planing to write review soon
Second one is

MapReduce Design Patterns

Building Effective Algorithms and Analytics for Hadoop and Other Systems

This book waits for reviewer(s) so anybody who wants to read this book and writes review please contact us. You can send mail on jug.lviv@gmail.com or write in skype: diykorey

Publisher User Group programs and JUG Library

Hi all,
As You already know, last month we joined three publisher User Group programs.
Last week I unexpectedly received two books from  O'Reilly. I really admired them. They sent two books (the first - 30$ and the second - 40$) to our Java user Group without any request from my side. It's so wonderful.
Anyway the main news are:
I've decided to create Java User Group Library
Anybody  can request any book from JUG Library and receive the book on our meeting but...
1) You have to return this book at the next meeting
2) You have to write your feedback and publish it on this blog

Also we have joined Manning User Group program and APRESS User Group program.
So, please, have a look at books list of these three publishers and send me letter which books would You like to read and I'll request them
[Updated]
Also We have joined partner programs of InformIT, Wrox and Packt Publishing
Kind regards
Andriy

P.S.
Books which I've received

RESTful Java with JAX-RS

By Bill Burke
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Released: November 2009
Pages: 320








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