Information Architecture Best Practices - April 2024

Information Architecture: For the Web and Beyond

Information architecture (IA) is far more challenging—and necessary—than ever. With the glut of information available today, anything your organization wants to share should be easy to find, navigate, and understand. But the experience you provide has to be familiar and coherent across multiple interaction channels, from the Web to smartphones, smartwatches, and beyond.To guide you through this broad ecosystem, this popular guide—now in its fourth edition—provides essential concepts, methods, and techniques for digital design that have withstood the test of time. UX designers, product ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B015D78JV6
• ASIN: B015D78JV6
• Manufacturer: O'Reilly Media

Big Data: Principles and best practices of scalable realtime data systems

SummaryBig Data teaches you to build big data systems using an architecture that takes advantage of clustered hardware along with new tools designed specifically to capture and analyze web-scale data. It describes a scalable, easy-to-understand approach to big data systems that can be built and run by a small team. Following a realistic example, this book guides readers through the theory of big data systems, how to implement them in practice, and how to deploy and operate them once they're built.Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Pub... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1617290343
• ASIN: 1617290343
• ISBN: 1617290343
• Brand: Manning Publications
• Manufacturer: Manning Publications

Principles: Life and Work

#1 New York Times Bestseller “Significant...The book is both instructive and surprisingly moving.” —The New York Times Ray Dalio, one of the world’s most successful investors and entrepreneurs, shares the unconventional principles that he’s developed, refined, and used over the past forty years to create unique results in both life and business—and which any person or organization can adopt to help achieve their goals.In 1975, Ray Dalio founded an investment firm, Bridgewater Associates, out of his two-bedroom apartment in New York City. Forty years later, Bridgewater has made mor... [Read More]

• ASIN: B071CTK28D
• ASIN: B071CTK28D
• Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

Software Requirements (3rd Edition) (Developer Best Practices)

Now in its third edition, this classic guide to software requirements engineering has been fully updated with new topics, examples, and guidance. Two leaders in the requirements community have teamed up to deliver a contemporary set of practices covering the full range of requirements development and management activities on software projects. Describes practical, effective, field-tested techniques for managing the requirements engineering process from end to end. Provides examples demonstrating how requirements "good practices" can lead to fewer change requests, higher customer satisfaction,... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0735679665
• ASIN: 0735679665
• ISBN: 0735679665
• Brand: Microsoft Press
• Manufacturer: Microsoft Press

Simple Architectures for Complex Enterprises (Developer Best Practices)

Dismantle the overwhelming complexity in your IT projects with strategies and real-world examples from a leading expert on enterprise architecture. This guide describes best practices for creating an efficient IT organization that consistently delivers on time, on budget, and in line with business needs. IT systems have become too complex—and too expensive. Complexity can create delays, cost overruns, and outcomes that do not meet business requirements. The resulting losses can impact your entire company. This guide demonstrates that, contrary to popular belief, complex problems demand simp... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0735625786
• UPC: 790145257864
• ASIN: 0735625786
• ISBN: 0735625786
• Brand: Brand: Microsoft Press
• Manufacturer: Microsoft Press

Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness

• ASIN: B00A5DCALY
• ASIN: B00A5DCALY
• Manufacturer: Penguin Books

Adaptive Code: Agile coding with design patterns and SOLID principles (2nd Edition) (Developer Best Practices)

Write code that can adapt to changes.   By applying this book’s principles, you can create code that accommodates new requirements and unforeseen scenarios without significant rewrites. Gary McLean Hall describes Agile best practices, principles, and patterns for designing and writing code that can evolve more quickly and easily, with fewer errors, because it doesn’t impede change.   Now revised, updated, and expanded, Adaptive Code, Second Edition adds indispensable practical insights on Kanban, dependency inversion, and creating reusable abstractions. Drawing on over a decade of Agile ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1509302581
• ASIN: 1509302581
• ISBN: 1509302581
• Brand: Microsoft Press
• Manufacturer: Microsoft Press

Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship (Robert C. Martin Series)

Even bad code can function. But if code isn’t clean, it can bring a development organization to its knees. Every year, countless hours and significant resources are lost because of poorly written code. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Noted software expert Robert C. Martin presents a revolutionary paradigm with Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship . Martin has teamed up with his colleagues from Object Mentor to distill their best agile practice of cleaning code “on the fly” into a book that will instill within you the values of a software craftsman and make you a ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B001GSTOAM
• ASIN: B001GSTOAM
• Manufacturer: Prentice Hall

Web Application Design Handbook: Best Practices for Web-Based Software (Interactive Technologies)

The standards for usability and interaction design for Web sites and software are well known. While not everyone uses those standards, or uses them correctly, there is a large body of knowledge, best practice, and proven results in those fields, and a good education system for teaching professionals "how to." For the newer field of Web application design, however, designers are forced to reuse the old rules on a new platform. This book provides a roadmap that will allow readers to put complete working applications on the Web, display the results of a process that is running elsewhere, and upda... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1558607528
• ASIN: 1558607528
• ISBN: 1558607528
• Brand: Brand: Morgan Kaufmann
• Manufacturer: Morgan Kaufmann

Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems

Data is at the center of many challenges in system design today. Difficult issues need to be figured out, such as scalability, consistency, reliability, efficiency, and maintainability. In addition, we have an overwhelming variety of tools, including relational databases, NoSQL datastores, stream or batch processors, and message brokers. What are the right choices for your application? How do you make sense of all these buzzwords?In this practical and comprehensive guide, author Martin Kleppmann helps you navigate this diverse landscape by examining the pros and cons of various technologies fo... [Read More]

• ASIN: B06XPJML5D
• ASIN: B06XPJML5D
• Manufacturer: O'Reilly Media

Scalability Patterns: Best Practices for Designing High Volume Websites

In this book, the CEO of Cazton, Inc. and internationally-acclaimed speaker, Chander Dhall, demonstrates current website design scalability patterns and takes a pragmatic approach to explaining their pros and cons to show you how to select the appropriate pattern for your site. He then tests the patterns by deliberately forcing them to fail and exposing potential flaws before discussing how to design the optimal pattern to match your scale requirements. The author explains the use of polyglot programming and how to match the right patterns to your business needs. He also details several No-SQL... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1484210743
• ASIN: 1484210743
• ISBN: 1484210743
• Manufacturer: Apress

Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series)

• ASIN: B000SEIBB8
• ASIN: B000SEIBB8
• Manufacturer: Addison-Wesley Professional

The Sustainable Sites Handbook: A Complete Guide to the Principles, Strategies, and Best Practices for Sustainable Landscapes

Get the definitive resource guide for sustainable site design, construction, and management. The Sustainable Sites Initiative (SITES) is transforming land design, development, and management practices across the United States with the first national rating system for sustainable landscapes. The Sustainable Sites Handbook features comprehensive and detailed information on principles, strategies, technologies, tools, and best practices for sustainable site design. Contributors to this book are some of the same experts that carefully shaped the SITES rating tool, ensuring thorough coverage of the... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0470643552
• UPC: 884753588752
• ASIN: 0470643552
• ISBN: 0470643552
• Brand: Wiley
• Manufacturer: Wiley

Building Microservices: Designing Fine-Grained Systems

Distributed systems have become more fine-grained in the past 10 years, shifting from code-heavy monolithic applications to smaller, self-contained microservices. But developing these systems brings its own set of headaches. With lots of examples and practical advice, this book takes a holistic view of the topics that system architects and administrators must consider when building, managing, and evolving microservice architectures.Microservice technologies are moving quickly. Author Sam Newman provides you with a firm grounding in the concepts while diving into current solutions for modeling,... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00T3N7XB4
• ASIN: B00T3N7XB4
• Manufacturer: O'Reilly Media

Business Architecture: The Missing Link in Strategy Formulation, Implementation and Execution

Praise for the book "Pierre Hadaya and Bernard Gagnon offer readers a practical and inspiring handbook for bridging the gap between formulating, implementing and executing an organization’s strategy. Let yourselves be seduced by this refreshing manifesto for business architecture." Prof. Yves Pigneur, HEC Lausanne. Author with Alex Osterwalder of "Business Model Generation" Description History has shown that having a competitive advantage is critical to the success and long-term viability of all organizations. However, creating and sustaining such an advantage is a challenge. Organizations m... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0994931905
• ASIN: 0994931905
• ISBN: 0994931905
• Manufacturer: ASATE Publishing Inc.

Landscape Architecture Documentation Standards : Principles, Guidelines, and Best Practices

SUPERB EXECUTION RELIES UPON RIGOROUS PROJECT DOCUMENTATION A project will only be built as well as it is documented. This publication focuses on the key documentation needs of the landscape architectural design and construction documentation

• UPC: 11595569

The Practice of Enterprise Architecture : A Modern Approach to Business and IT Alignment

Based on an extensive study of the actual industry best practices, this book provides a systematic, end-to-end description of various aspects of an EA practice integrated into a consistent logical picture. This book offers research-based,

• UPC: 367909109

The Practice of Enterprise Architecture : A Modern Approach to Business and IT Alignment

Based on an extensive study of the actual industry best practices, this book provides a systematic, end-to-end description of various aspects of an EA practice integrated into a consistent logical picture. This book offers research-based,

• UPC: 390792219

AWS System Administration : Best Practices for Sysadmins in the Amazon Cloud

With platforms designed for rapid adaptation and failure recovery such as Amazon Web Services, cloud computing is more like programming than traditional system administration. Tools for automatic scaling and instance replacement allow even small DevOps

• UPC: 40401572

Guidance for It Asset Management (Itam) : Step by Step Implementation Guide with Workflows, Metrics, Best Practices and Checklists

Guidance for ITAM provides a direction in a concise, clear, user friendly and understandable way for all the ITAM audiences (newbie's, intermediates, experts). This book is not just for ITAM process consultants or management folks

• UPC: 53408889

Strategic Enterprise Architecture Management : Challenges, Best Practices, and Future Developments

This book shows how EAM is used to leverage strategic planning and controlling processes and contribute to sustainable competitive advantage. The book outlines crucial elements of successful EAM, based on best practices from eight leading

• UPC: 17372305

Summary of Best Practices for Information Technology - eBook

The theme in this book is the need to align all the efforts in an Information Technology shop. The chapters describe the need for vision, best practices for projects, operations, governance and how to measure

• UPC: 574248445

Enterprise Soa : Service-Oriented Architecture Best Practices

This volume identifies pragmatic architectural strategies and project management techniques for the entire SOA lifecycle: planning, design, implementation, testing, rollout, and maintenance. It presents a complete roadmap for using service-oriented architectures to reduce cost and

• UPC: 26353035

Selling Information Governance to the Business: Best Practices by Industry and Job Function - eBook

Tackling one of the major challenges with implementing an information-governance program, this book provides insight into the best ways to convince businesses of the value of the practice. Most information-governance programs deal with problems that are

• UPC: 574106491

Keeping Up with Emerging Technologies: Best Practices for Information Professionals - eBook

The ever-increasing acceleration of technological change demands that today's information professionals and educators not only be constantly acquiring new knowledge and skills, but also that they cultivate the ability to make sound judgments on which

• UPC: 272290412

Big data: principles and best practices of scalable real-time data systems by

• UPC: 303517394662
• Category: Non-Fiction
• Price: 23 GBP

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• UPC: 372955240628
• Category: Non-Fiction
• Price: 23 GBP