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Deepak Agarwal is the VP of artificial intelligence (AI) at LinkedIn, a company on the frontline of data science. LinkedIn is heavily invested in AI and machine learning, transformative technologies that can improve all aspects of member experience. This investment is demonstrated in the LinkedIn AI Academy, which trains engineers and other employees on the power, potential, and best practices for developing and using AI tools. In this Q&A style course, Deepak discusses how LinkedIn leverages AI and machine learning, the ways the technology influences our lives, and what's to come, including advice for those wondering "Will AI take our jobs?" and "What skills can I learn in order to start a career in AI?"

Deepak Agarwal is the VP of artificial intelligence (AI) at LinkedIn, a company on the frontline of data science. LinkedIn is heavily invested in AI and machine learning, transformative technologies that can improve all aspects of member experience. This investment is demonstrated in the LinkedIn AI Academy, which trains engineers and other employees on the power, potential, and best practices for developing and using AI tools. In this Q&A style course, Deepak discusses how LinkedIn leverages AI and machine learning, the ways the technology influences our lives, and what's to come, including advice for those wondering "Will AI take our jobs?" and "What skills can I learn in order to start a career in AI?"

Add dynamic, asynchronously loading content to websites to make them more modern, professional, and user friendly with Ajax and PHP. Learn how to use Ajax to send and receive data in the background and how to use PHP to assemble and return text, HTML, or JSON responses. Kevin Skoglund walks viewers through sample projects for the most common Ajax use cases: buttons to allow users to mark or favorite items, forms that validate and submit data in the background, infinite scrolling of paginated content, and autosuggestions beneath a text field.

Minority Report changed production designer Alex McDowell's career. The film didn't begin with a script. Instead, director Steven Spielberg wanted a world that would jump-start the narrative. So with the help of a transmedia "think tank," Alex created a detailed digital environment complete with its own society, politics, technology, terrain, and infrastructure. Alex spent the next decade world building, working on films such as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Watchmen. Now he runs 5D GlobalStudio and the World Building Media Lab at the University of Southern California, where students learn how to solve storytelling problems through design.

In this interview, Alex tells us about his current projects (including models for sustainable living and a virtual exploration of the world's oceans), the future of media and narrative, and where he looks for inspiration.

Many stock market trades are now conducted with algorithms: computer programs that buy or sell stocks according to mathematical formulas. These trades are conducted at a speed and frequency that is hard for humans to replicate. Therefore, it's important for finance professionals, and indeed everyone who invests in the stock market, to know how these algorithms work. This course shows how to develop a back-tested, rules-based trading strategy and program a simple trading algorithm of your own.

Professor Michael McDonald provides a brief primer on securities markets. He explains how data helps investors forecast performance and automate trading. Then he moves into the practical steps: coming up with algorithmic trading rules and developing and testing an algorithm. Finally, he shows how the algorithm can be applied and eventually expanded to other securities. Anyone working in financial services, or interested in investing in the stock market, will be able to use these tutorials to understand and develop simple trading algorithms of their own.

Autodesk Alias is the premier CAD studio application for concept and surface design, enabling artists and designers to create high-quality, feasible CAD models. Whatever industry you're in, Veejay Gahir will provide a grounded introduction to Alias's tools and techniques. He'll show you how to create, modify, and analyze data, and export this data into formats that are usable in other CAD applications. Start watching and learn how to get up and running with this industry-leading program.

While a job applicant may look good on paper, there are many factors that contribute to a candidate being a good fit for an organization. Company culture and core values impact your recruiting efforts and results, so obtaining additional information about a role and soliciting input from the hiring authority can help you connect the best candidate with the job. In this course, expert recruiter and trainer Barbara Bruno helps you become a more effective recruiter by showing how to align your recruiting strategy more closely with the needs of your hiring organization. Barbara covers the basics of sharing job requisitions, goes into the common denominators of stellar hires, and outlines a step-by-step recruiting process that helps you get results.

How do top animation studios find talent? Recruiters like Alison Mann. In this interview, Alison explains how she finds artists and animators for feature films at Paramount Animation. Learn about the qualities she looks for in great artists; the role of social media in self-promotion and recruiting for creatives; and why internships are so important for uncovering new talent. She also explains how to assemble a portfolio that is focused and features your best work first.

Allan Haley is a consultant, educator, and formerly the Director of Words and Letters at Monotype. He is a giant in the typography community, responsible for maintaining a link to the history of type while keeping tabs on its future.

In this interview, a partnership between Lynda.com and AIGA, Allan talks to Kristin Ellison about typography: why typography inspires a passionate response from cognoscenti and laymen alike, how the evolution from metal-set to digital type has impacted interest, and why certain typefaces endure. They also discuss

• The qualities of a great typeface
• Advice for typeface designers
• The impact of craftspeople like Doyald Young and the Maker movement
• Marketing typefaces and combatting font piracy
• Developing Monotype's Fonts.com library
• Why Monotype reinvests in fonts like Metro and Gill Sans
• Leaving Monotype to consult
• What makes a good addition to a font library
• How to design a font to fulfill a gap in the marketplace
• What's on the horizon for typography

In this interview, prolific author and music producer Bobby Owsinski talks to iconic audio- and music-industry personalities: the outliers, forward thinkers, and rule breakers. This installment features revered recording engineer Al Schmitt.

Al has won more GRAMMYs than any other music producer/engineer in history (23 so far), but got his start wrapping cables at the age of 8 in the first indie studio in New York City. And since then, he's recorded everyone from Ray Charles and Paul McCartney to Steely Dan and Diana Krall. In this interview, Bobby and Al chat about Al's career, influences, and inspirations.

Look for other installments with Richard Gibbs, Hanson Hsu, and Michael Beinhorn—coming soon!

Understanding how to successfully analyze system performance within Amazon Web Services (AWS) is crucial for SysOps administrators. In this course, gain the intermediate-level skills you need to analyze system performance within AWS by identifying bottlenecks and ways to optimize services. In addition, this course can help to prepare you for the AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate certification exam.

Instructor Joseph Holbrook dives into the areas of focus that comprise the AWS Analysis domain, discussing AWS performance bottlenecks, optimizing the environment, and identifying application issues.

Learn how to use Amazon Web Services (AWS) tools and best practices to understand, forecast, and control service costs. This course covers core AWS tools, such as CloudWatch billing alarms, consolidated billing with AWS Organizations, and the AWS billing dashboard tools. Instructor Lynn Langit shows how to control costs through key services, such as EC2, S3, RDS, and more. She also goes over how to best leverage third-party tools, and reviews architectural decisions related to cost control drawn from her own professional experiences.

Many modern organizations have a wealth of data that they can draw from to inform their decisions. But all of this information can't truly benefit a business unless the professionals working with that data can efficiently extract meaningful insights from it. Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers data scientists an array of tools and services that they can leverage to analyze data. In this course, learn about best practices, patterns, and tools for designing and implementing data analytics using AWS. Explore key analytics concepts, common methods of approaching analytics challenges, and how to work with services such as Athena, RDS, and QuickSight. Plus, discover how to visualize text-based data in a more visually intuitive way, use partner solutions for analytics from the AWS Marketplace, and more.

Learn best practices, patterns, and processes for designing and implementing data security with the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. This course can also help to prepare you for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate exam. Your instructor, Lynn Langit, covers how to use AWS design patterns, tools, and best practices for security, governance, and validation of data used in AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), and Route 53. She also goes over other AWS tools, such as AWS CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and Inspector; explores encryption concepts; looks at working with security scenarios; and reviews common patterns and practices for implementing disaster recovery processes.

Why use Amazon Web Services for data storage? AWS provides big data at a small cost, offering one of the most full-featured and scalable data solutions around. Start here to explore your storage and framework options when working with data services on the Amazon cloud. Your guide, Lynn Langit, a working big data architect, helps you parse through the storage of files, relational data, semistructured data (in NoSQL), data warehousing, graph databases, and Hadoop. Plus, discover how these solutions translate to real-world scenarios involving businesses of different sizes and needs, including startups and enterprise clients.

AWS is an exciting proposition for DevOps. Yes, it's amazing to be able to build a virtual data center with ease, but that is just the beginning: wait until you start using AWS to deploy software. Watch this course to learn how to use AWS tools to provision hosts and deploy apps that take advantage of its elastic, cost-effective, and scalable infrastructure. IT architect and instructor Brandon Rich shows how to start up new computing resources with EC2, provision them, and deploy applications in a fast, automated, and consistent way. Discover how to manage infrastructure as code with CloudFormation, rapidly build an app stack with Elastic Beanstalk, perform provisioning and deployment with OpsWorks, and automate code pushes with CodeDeploy. These lessons help you do more with AWS than you might have ever thought possible on the cloud.

This course is also part of a series designed to help you prepare for the AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate certification exam.

Learn how to use Amazon Web Services (AWS) design patterns, tools, and best practices for the managing the entire application architecture life cycle. This course covers how to identify requirements, plan for implementation, and configure services including EC2, S3, Elastic Beanstalk, CloudFormation, VPC, and IAM. Find out how to guide developers and DevOps team members in using recommended cloud application architectures for high availability, fault tolerance, managed costs, scalability, and more.

This course is also an exam preparation resource, as it covers topics that map to the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate exam.

A disaster recovery (DR) procedure is a critical component of each organization's business continuity plan. The failure to appropriately plan for a datacenter outage can have a profoundly negative impact on a business, as recent public events have indicated. From IT executives to system administrators, it's imperative that employees have an in-depth understanding of their organization's DR plan. This entry-level course reviews the benefits of the public cloud—specifically, Amazon Web Services (AWS)—in implementing a DR plan. It also covers AWS-specific DR concepts, shows how to configure the core AWS services needed for DR, and provides demos that give you hands-on experience with using AWS services to build a reliable DR environment.

Cloud computing isn't just for startups. Many of the world's leading companies, including GE and Dow Jones, run on the cloud, and they choose Amazon Web Services (AWS). If you're tasked with implementing AWS at your organization, big or small, this is the course for you. Understanding security concepts is the gateway to using AWS as your enterprise solution.

Sharif Nijim couples pragmatic advice with practical examples that educate IT pros on how to create a secure infrastructure within Amazon Web Services. Sharif explores the shared responsibility model of security, which splits duties between your company and AWS, and introduces key identity and access management concepts, including users, groups, roles, and policies. Learn how to configure Identity and Access Manager (IAM) and Simple Storage Service (S3) access management, including policies and access control lists. At the end of the course, Sharif helps you prepare for the inevitable audit of your AWS account(s).

This course is also part of a series designed to help you prepare for the AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate certification exam.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is one of the most widely used cloud platforms, and the go-to for many organizations looking to reduce costs by adopting a cloud infrastructure strategy. This course starts by examining cloud concepts and best practices. Next, it walks you through how to design your infrastructure to prevent failure. Then, you'll discover how to implement elasticity with automation, and strategies to decouple application components. Then, learn how to optimize for performance and for cost. Last, put concepts into practice by setting up the server-based architectures for a web application in addition to implementing a serverless approach using AWS API Gateway and Lambda.

Learn what you need to know to implement cloud-based big data solutions using the right mix of Amazon Web Services—from big data and cloud architect and AWS community hero Lynn Langit.

Starting with top-level categories of storage, data, computer, and services, Lynn guides you through planning your ideal AWS architecture, providing service demos using the AWS Console, command-line interface, and other tools. Learn when to use which service for which business case, such as Docker or Lambda or DynamoDB or Aurora? She shows how to script creation of services such as S3 buckets and EC2 instances, create and populate a managed data warehouse, and develop a data processing pipeline that works for you. Chapter 6 covers the AWS Internet of Things (IoT) services.

These exercises can help you build proof-of-concepts, minimum viable products, and deployable solutions to scale and support big data initiatives at your company.

Building out a resilient application takes knowledge and effort. Businesses increasingly turn to IT professionals who can maintain and improve the security of cloud-based infrastructures. System administrators and technical managers with sharp and up-to-date skills are depended on. This course discusses high availability (HA) concepts and shows how to use the tools in Amazon Web Services to design and set up a strong and highly-available environment.

This course is also part of a series designed to help you prepare for the AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate certification exam.

Move your infrastructure to the cloud. Learn the primary IaaS components of Amazon Web Services so that you can procure, configure, and deploy the right services for your organization. Instructor Brian Eiler explains the functions of each major product while diving into the aspects of implementation and troubleshooting. He covers Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Machine Images (AMIs), and storage, including S3 and Elastic Block Store (EBS). By the end of the course, you'll have a thorough understanding of AWS IaaS options and be prepared to answer questions from the AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Associate) exam.

Get up to speed with how to implement and troubleshoot the platform as a service (PaaS) products within Amazon Web Services (AWS). This course covers the primary PaaS components of AWS, going over each one, diving into implementation, and covering best practices. The topics covered include Identity and Access Management (IAM), CloudFormation, Elastic Beanstalk, and OpsWorks. This course can also help you prepare for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate exam.