Programming & Software Development

Fanatical Prospecting gives salespeople, sales leaders, entrepreneurs, and executives a practical, eye-opening guide that clearly explains the why and how behind the most important activity in sales and business development—prospecting. Step by step, Jeb Blount outlines his innovative approach...

Managing people is difficult wherever you work. But in the tech industry, where management is also a technical discipline, the learning curve can be brutal - especially when there are few tools, texts, and frameworks to help you. In this practical guide, author Camille Fournier (tech lead turned...

Dave Thomas and Andy Hunt wrote the first edition of this influential book in 1999 to help their clients create better software and rediscover the joy of coding. These lessons have helped a generation of programmers examine the very essence of software development....

You're spending hours wrestling with Claude—rewriting prompts, copying outputs, watching tutorials that were outdated before you finished them—and you still can't figure out how to make AI do anything that actually matters for your bottom line.

Generative AI has revolutionized how organizations tackle problems, accelerating the journey from concept to prototype to solution. As the models become increasingly capable, we have witnessed a new design pattern emerge: AI agents. By combining tools, knowledge, memory, and learning with...

For years, companies have rewarded their most effective engineers with management positions. But treating management as the default path for an engineer with leadership ability doesn't serve the industry well—or the engineer. The staff engineer's path allows engineers to contribute at a high...

From a New York Times bestselling author and investigative journalist comes The Social Network for the video game industry: a riveting examination of Blizzard Entertainment's rise and shocking downfall—"A fast paced thrill ride, perfect for anyone who has ever played a video game" (Ben...

Staff Engineer is your guide to building your career towards a staff engineering role, receiving the title, and succeeding within the role....

Dr. Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim set out to find a way to measure software delivery performance - and what drives it - using rigorous statistical methods. This book presents both the findings and the science behind that research....

Salary surveys worldwide regularly place software architect in the top 10 best jobs, yet no real guide exists to help developers become architects. Until now. This book provides the first comprehensive overview of software architecture’s many aspects. Aspiring and existing architects alike...

This audiobook is a summary of the advice I’ve given to software engineers over the years–and then some more.

AI is transforming software development, shifting programmers from writing code to collaborating with AI in an intent-driven workflow. Vibe coding—a prompt-first, exploratory approach where you describe what you want in natural language and let a large language model fill in the...

As an engineering manager, you almost always have someone in your company to turn to for advice: a peer on another team, your manager, or even the head of engineering. But who do you turn to if you're the head of engineering? Engineering executives have a challenging learning curve, and many...

There are no easy decisions in software architecture. Instead, there are many hard parts—difficult problems or issues with no best practices—that force you to choose among various compromises. With this book, you'll learn how to think critically about the trade-offs involved with distributed...

To stay competitive in today's market, organizations need to adopt a culture of customer-centric practices that focus on outcomes rather than outputs. Companies that live and die by outputs often fall into the "build trap", cranking out features to meet their schedule rather than the customer's...

AI Agents for Business Leaders introduces the Agentic Maturity Model—a five-level framework that shows exactly where your business sits today, what the next level looks like, and what changes when you get there. Most businesses are stuck at Level 1 or 2.

Start Small, Stay Small is a step-by-step guide to launching a self-funded start-up. If you're a desktop, mobile, or web developer, this audiobook is your blueprint to getting your start-up off the ground with no outside investment....

Newly adapted for audiobook listeners. As organizations shift from monolithic applications to smaller, self-contained microservices, distributed systems have become more fine-grained. But developing these new systems brings its own host of problems. This expanded second edition takes a holistic...

From the bestselling author of Blood, Sweat, and Pixels comes the next definitive, behind-the-scenes account of the video game industry: how some of the past decade's most renowned studios fell apart—and the stories, both triumphant and tragic, of what happened next. Jason Schreier's...

Microsoft project veteran Scott Berkun offers a collection of essays on field-tested philosophies and strategies for defining, leading, and managing projects. Each essay distills complex concepts and challenges into practical nuggets of useful advice, and the new edition now adds more value for...

Do you love gaming? Do you have ideas for games of your own and want to learn how to produce them professionally? Longtime game designer Justin Gary has the answers you seek. After 20 years in the gaming industry, creating such games as Solforge, Ascension....

Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days is a collection of interviews with founders of famous technology companies about what happened in the very earliest days. These people are celebrities now. What was it like when they were just a couple friends with an idea? Founders like Steve...

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...

Through a recent series of breakthroughs, deep learning has boosted the entire field of machine learning. Now, even programmers who know close to nothing about this technology can use simple, efficient tools to implement programs capable of learning from data. This bestselling book uses concrete...

Transform your organization using AI-driven solutions with Microsoft 365 Copilot Adoption: A Practical Guide for Business Leaders and Consultants

The Software Engineering industry often evaluates engineers based on how many lines of code they write, how many years of experience they have, or how many features they ship. But I think a more powerful metric is the number of bugs they encountered, reproduced, traced to their root cause and fixed. Those experiences shape an engineer far more than raw output or time served in my opinion, let me elaborate. Bugs hinder the stability of software, which affects the user experience.

Save 5 –10 Hours A Week At Work — Without Writing Code, Learning Jargon, OrWasting Another Afternoon Inside The Wrong AI Tool A Plain-English Guide To AI Agents, Generative AI & Prompt Engineering —For Working Professionals Who Want Real Hours Back, Not Another TheoryLecture The Complete Artific

Unlock the Power of the Most Effective Digital Creative Duo Available Today. Do you want to create stunning digital content, professional documents, and high-impact presentations but feel restricted by a lack of design experience or writing blocks? You do not need an art degree, and you do not need a background in software engineering. Everything you need to succeed starts completely from zero. In Claude AI and Canva for Beginners, retired educator and creative systems builder Joseph Wappel provides a definitive, practical roadmap to mastering two of the world’s most powerful free ...

Game development isn't just about ideas and creativity. It's about survival. It's about turning your vision into a product that retains, monetizes, and scales—without burning out your team or going broke. The Game Product Management Handbook gives you the real-world systems, mental models, and growth frameworks used inside studios that ship and scale. No fluff. No theory. Just tactics forged through 16 years of painful pivots, missed payrolls, and unexpected wins.

Most AI books talk like they’re pitching a boardroom, teaching a coding class, or auditioning for TED Talk auditions nobody asked for. The average person does not care about transformer architectures, vector embeddings, or “synergistic agent ecosystems.” They care about this: “Am I getting replaced?” “Is this helping me or spying on me?” “What jobs survive?” “What happens to my kids?” “Why does every company suddenly shove AI into everything?” “How do I use this without becoming dependent on it?” That’s the book.

A Platform Mindset is a leadership book that shows how organizations can unlock scale and innovation by combining long-term platform investments with a culture of collaboration, trust, and shared purpose. Marcus Fontoura's career, and indeed this book, has largely been about the ethos needed to build powerful platforms. A tech platform is a reusable system that implements a core piece of functionality, such as identity. In this case, an identity platform provides a solution for users to log-in to multiple services.

Before Netflix. Before Spotify. Before streaming changed everything — there was The Pirate Bay. In the early 2000s, a small group of Swedish hackers built a website that the most powerful entertainment industry in the world couldn't kill. Police raids. Criminal trials. International manhunts. Hollywood's best lawyers. None of it worked. Every time the system tried to shut them down, they came back stronger. The Pirate Who Tried to Make the Internet Free tells the full story — from the wild early days of Napster and burned CDs, to the rise of a file-sharing empire that redefined the ...

This book is a study of the psychology, neuroscience, and philosophy of creativity, originality, and inspiration viewed from the lens of a seasoned game developer. It introduces the concept of creative sobriety—a practice that advocates better understanding our own sources of inspiration so...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. This written text was created using AI. Most people have been told passive income from software doesn't exist. They're wrong—and AI just made it accessible to everyone. Codex for Agentic AI Automation is the complete guide to using OpenAI's Codex AI...

You hit the rate limit mid-refactor. Then the monthly bill lands. Again. Meanwhile, developers on Reddit are running Claude Code on their own machines for about $2 a month. No bill. No rate limits. Nothing leaving the laptop. The difference isn't a better GPU. It's knowing how to point the agent at a model running locally. This book wires the real Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode to a model running on your own machine. You'll have a local agent editing real code in 15 minutes. By Chapter 5, Claude Code runs fully local through a proxy you control. By Chapter 9, you'll know your exact break-...

What if your greatest technical bottleneck wasn’t learning how to code, but trusting the code you never read? Welcome to 2026. The syntax barrier is dead. Anyone can describe a software app in plain English and watch an AI agent build it in seconds. We call it Vibe Coding—and it’s the greatest democratization of leverage in human history. But beneath the surface of thousands of high-speed AI startups lies an invisible emergency: When anyone can build an app without understanding how it works, what happens when it breaks? In "The Vibe Coder’s Dilemma," creative entrepreneur and tech ...

The foundational philosophy of "Edge Computing With Agentic AI" is rooted in pragmatic engineering and actionable intelligence. The technology sector is currently saturated with high-level discourse about what AI "might" do in the future. However, industry engineers are tasked with what AI "must" do today. This book operates on the philosophy that true mastery of a technology is achieved only through building it. Therefore, I prioritized practical application over abstract academic theory. Key Features 1. Industry-Relevant Curriculum: Every chapter is aligned with current market trends and ...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Power Platform at Scale: Governing, Building, and Scaling Enterprise Platforms Your platform is live. Adoption is growing. And things are starting to break. Ungoverned apps. Unmonitored flows. Environments without policies. Solutions with no owners...

Are you ready to turn plain web pages into stunning, responsive websites? CSS Mastery for Beginners is your practical, step-by-step guide to learning the essential styling skills every web developer needs. Whether you're completely new to coding or looking to strengthen your front-end development foundation, this book will help you master CSS with clear explanations, hands-on examples, and real-world projects. Inside, you'll learn how to: Style text, colors, backgrounds, and layouts with confidence Build modern designs using Flexbox and CSS Grid Create responsive websites that work on all ...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Everyone knows ChatGPT. Almost no one knows how much they are leaving on the table by not using Claude. How to Use Claude AI is the practical guide to one of the most powerful and underutilized AI tools available today—built by Anthropic and quietly...

The central philosophy of "Intelligent Threat Detection using AI" is rooted in pragmatic execution: theory without application is a vulnerability. In the realm of cybersecurity, knowing how an algorithm functions mathematically is vastly different from knowing how to deploy it as a robust, scalable service that intercepts live malicious traffic. Therefore, the philosophy of this book dictates that every concept introduced must immediately be tied to a practical application. I view AI not as an abstract academic discipline, but as a functional tool—a core component of a larger engineering ...

Learn the most widely deployed database in the world — the one already running on your phone, inside your browser, in Python's standard library, and on NASA spacecraft — and build AI-powered local data applications with it, from scratch. SQLite with AI takes you from your very first SQL query through joins, indexes, views, triggers, full-text search, JSON support, mobile and desktop integration, and query optimization — and then into integrating OpenAI and LLM APIs to build AI-powered analytics dashboards, intelligent search applications, and local AI data workflows. Written for the ...

"OpenClaw Architecture and Mechanics" is an exhaustive, practical, and highly detailed technical manual designed to take readers from absolute zero to the successful deployment of a fully functional, industry-grade automated mechanical system. This section breaks down the core elements that define this book's structure, purpose, and value. Philosophy The driving philosophy behind this book is "Implementation Over Abstraction." In the modern tech and manufacturing sectors, knowing about a technology is useless unless you know how to build and deploy it. The industry suffers from a surplus of...

The central philosophy of "Biological Intelligence" is rooted in the belief that nature operates as the ultimate optimization engine. Over millions of years, biological systems have evolved to process information, adapt to dynamic environments, and solve highly complex problems with minimal energy consumption. Traditional computing architectures, while powerful, often rely on brute-force processing, consuming massive amounts of power and requiring rigid, pre-defined rulesets. The philosophy of this text is that the future of technology lies in bridging these two domains: taking the ...

Learn the most loved programming language in the world — the one replacing C and C++ in operating systems, browsers, and high-performance backends — and build AI-powered systems and intelligent tools with it, from the ground up. Rust Programming with AI takes you from your very first Rust program through ownership, borrowing, lifetimes, traits, generics, async programming, REST APIs, unsafe code, and database integration — and then into integrating OpenAI and LLM APIs to build high-performance AI backends, intelligent command-line tools, and AI-driven data processing pipelines. ...

"Beyond Artificial Super Intelligence" is not a standard textbook; it is a comprehensive, hands-on engineering manual designed to transform theoretical concepts into fully functional, production-ready applications. The technology sector has reached a critical inflection point where understanding AI is no longer sufficient; professionals must know how to build, integrate, and deploy it at scale. This book addresses that exact need by providing a meticulous, step-by-step blueprint for developing advanced intelligent systems from scratch. Philosophy The core philosophy of this book is absolute...

Learn the programming language built for developer happiness — the one powering Shopify, GitHub, and Airbnb — and build AI-powered automation systems and intelligent backends with it, from scratch. Ruby Programming with AI takes you from your very first puts statement through object-oriented programming, blocks, mixins, gems, functional patterns, database integration, background jobs, and testing — and then into integrating OpenAI and LLM APIs to build AI-powered chat assistants, intelligent automation scripts, and data analysis tools. Written for Ruby 3.4 with modern idioms and 2026 ...

"Quantum Teleportation" is an exhaustive, strictly practical, and industry-oriented book designed to teach the end-to-end development, implementation, and deployment of quantum state transfer applications. In today’s rapidly evolving technological landscape, quantum computing has exited the laboratory and entered the commercial sector. However, a significant void exists in educational resources: most materials are heavily steeped in theoretical physics, leaving software engineers and IT professionals without a clear pathway to practical application. This book serves as the definitive ...

Master the world's most advanced open-source relational database — the one powering Apple, Instagram, Spotify, and Supabase — and build AI-powered data systems on top of it, from scratch. PostgreSQL with AI takes you from your very first SQL query through advanced query optimization, window functions, JSONB, full-text search, replication, cloud deployment, and pgvector — and then into integrating modern AI APIs to build semantic search engines, intelligent recommendation systems, and AI-driven data pipelines. Written for the 2026 ecosystem, every chapter is practical, current, and ...

The fastest-growing AI project in GitHub history — finally explained for everyone. In early 2026, a single open-source tool accumulated over 60,000 GitHub stars in 72 hours and sparked a global conversation about the future of personal AI. That tool was OpenClaw — and it changed everything...