This week on Packt Hub – 20 April 2018

It’s been another busy week on the Packt Hub with a lot of tech news developments, hands on tutorials and insights on the latest and trending technological trends like Vue.js, Kotlin, GDPR and more. There has been plenty of interesting stories too from around the world.

Here’s what you might have missed in the last 7 days - Tutorials, insights and new on technology…

Featured Interview

Selenium and data-driven testing: An interview with Carl Cocchiaro

Data-driven testing has become a lot easier thanks to tools like Selenium. That’s good news for everyone in software development. We spoke to Carl Cocchiato about data-driven testing and much more. Carl is the author of Selenium Framework Design in Data-Driven Testing.

Tech news Bulletins

Cloud and networking news bulletin – Friday 20 April

Programming news bulletin – Thursday 19 April

Security news bulletin – Wednesday 18 April

Web development news bulletin – Tuesday 17 April

Data science news bulletin – Monday 16 April

Tutorials

This week we bring data and machine learning folks, tutorials on real-time streaming with Azure stream analytics, creating live visual dashboards in Power BI and using Q learning to build an options trading web app.

For web developers, this week is all about Vue.js with a little Go on the side. Android rules mobile development while Kotlin is gaining more traction as a serious programming language.

Data tutorials

How to get started with Azure Stream Analytics and 7 reasons to choose it

Performing Vehicle Telemetry job analysis with Azure Stream Analytics tools

Building a live interactive visual dashboard in Power BI with Azure Stream [Editor’s Pick]

Cross-validation in R for predictive models

How to build an options trading web app using Q-learning [Editor’s Pick]

Development & programming tutorials

Web development tutorials

How to build a basic server-side chatbot using Go

Building your first Vue.js 2 Web application [Editor’s Pick]

How to test node applications using Mocha framework

Game and Mobile development tutorials

How to Secure and Deploy an Android App

Packaging and publishing an Oracle JET Hybrid mobile application

Build your first Android app with Kotlin

Behavior Scripting in C# and Javascript for game developers [Editor’s Pick]

Programming tutorials

Getting started with Kotlin programming

How to boost R codes using C++ and Fortran

This week’s opinions, analysis, and insights

Some hot topics in focus this week are Chaos engineering, GDPR, AIOps, the reactive Manifesto, cloud security threats and more. See what we learned from the recently concluded IBM Think and VUECONF.US conferences in this week’s special coverage.