Alasdair Gilchrist: 41 books

Concise Guide to DWDM is a high level beginners guide to the worls of DWDM and optic transmission networks. The book dewcribes the theory, evolution, planning, maintenance and future of DWDM without getting bogged soen in physics, maths and standards. This book is aimed at managers, technicians...

Biometric indicators, such as the subject's photograph have been used by border control for decades to manually identify travelers. However security now requires more stringent tests, so passport control are experimenting with other biometric indicators, such as voice, ear and facial recognition....

A concise beginners guide to the theory of object orientated programming. This book covers the basic theory and more advanced best practices, patterns and advanced concepts such as Publish/Subcribe, CQRS, Dependency Injection and a brief introduction to MVC,

This book is an introduction to Robotics, it aims to introduce the reader to the world of robots, how they work and how science strives to transform them from simple electro-mechanical contraptions into intelligent thinking machines. The topics of interest this book covers are as follows: History...

Organizations that have successfully laid a foundation for continuous innovation and agility have adopted microservice architectures to respond rapidly to the demands of their business. Microservices are the evolution of best-practice architectural principles that shape the delivery of solutions to...

This book is aimed at those wishing to learn how to do IP subnetting. This is often a confusing subject but in this short book we strive to show you a quick and simple metho that is use by the professionals.

Just as the EU GDPR set out the stringent rules to contain the security and privacy malpractices of online business when conducting business with EU citizens the CCPA will also enforce the best behavior and best practices in ensuring that businesses in California or those that trade with Californians...

This book, 'A Concise Guide to SSL/TLS for DevOps' is an introduction to SSL & TLS in application and operational environments and as such is a more technical in depth study than is typically the case in the Executive and Management series. This book aims to cover the theory and practice of SSL...

Explore the current state of the production, processing, and manufacturing industries and discover what it will take to achieve re-industrialization of the former industrial powerhouses that can counterbalance the benefits of cheap labor providers dominating the industrial sector. This book explores...

A practical guide to capturing and analyzing network traffic using Wireshark.  This book shows real world network traffic analysis and shows the techniques that DevOp teams need to use to detect malicious behavior. Additionally it shows how DevOps can translate packet captures into valuable information by decoding IP packets and detect malicious activity

This ebook is a concise guide to learning dynamic web applications using PHP, MySQL and Apache in a simplified manner. You will learn how to create applications and write programs, that are dynamic and purposeful. You will also learn how to develop intricate programs in order to construct web applications and dynamic web-sites.

The concise guide to Certified Ethical Hacker - version 8 is a compact study guide for those pursuing the Certified Ethical Hacker Certification. This book summarizes all you need to know in the twenty exam modules to pass the exam. If you are a practicing security professional there...

OTN networks are terribly complex and they really stress the beginner. It is not just the alphabet soup, or the acronyms for every link or connection that confuses most, it is the prospect of containers, and multiplexing bit-rates and whatever. But it is not that difficult and in this book we will...