At first glance, building and deploying applications seem simple enough. But in fact, difficult releases without any confidence or processes backing them are very common. Integration and management of a new deployment can be laborious and fraught with risk. So as team size and volume of projects grow, management becomes more difficult and risk...

The book never loses sight of practical details. The book pays particularly...

Legal and ethical issues have become a standard part of engineering and business schools’ curricula. This has not been the case for computer science or management information systems programs although there has been increased emphasis on the social skills of these students. This leaves a frightening void in the student’s professional...

Most programmers learn by looking at computer programs. This book teaches you design patterns in exactly this way: by looking at computer programs and analyzing them in terms of the patterns that they use. Consequently, you learn how the patterns actually occur in the real world, and how to apply the patterns to solve real problems. This book...