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Anthony Williams has added a new chapter to the C++ Concurrency in Action, Second Edition MEAP. In Chapter 6 we cover what it means to design data structures, for concurrency, guidelines for doing so, and example implementations of data structures designed for concurrency.

Bill Bejeck has a a new chapter ready to add to the Kafka Streams in Action MEAP. Chapter 6 covers the tradeoffs of higher abstractions vs. more control, working with Sources, Processors, and Sinks to create a Topology, digging deeper into the Processor API with a Stock Analysis Processor, creating a CoGrouping Processor, and integrating the Processor API and the KStream API.

Craig Grummitt has added a new chapter to the iOS Development with Swift MEAP. Chapter 13 looks at making our apps more visual! We cover adding images to your app bundle, adding app icons and a launch screen, drawing in your app, creating a custom view that you can reuse in other projects, taking photos in your app, selecting photos from the photo library, detecting barcodes, and playing sounds.

Jon Smith has added two new chapters to the Entity Framework Core in Action MEAP. Chapter 6 is the first chapter that looks at configuring EF Core, and it concentrates on configuring the non-relational properties in an entity class, known as scalar properties. Chapter 7 covers configuring relational properties.

Mark Tielens Thomas has added a new chapter to the React in Action React in Action MEAP. Chapter 9 covers server-side rendering with React, when to and when not to add server-side rendering, transitioning your routing to use React Router, and handling authenticated routes with React Router.

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