Programming & Software Development

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....

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...

You're spending hours wrestling with Claude—rewriting prompts, copying outputs, watching tutorials that were outdated before you finished them—and you still can't figure out how to make AI do anything that actually matters for your bottom line.

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...

Salary surveys worldwide regularly place software architect in the top ten best jobs, yet no real guide exists to help developers become architects. Until now. This updated edition provides a comprehensive overview of software architecture's many aspects, with five new chapters covering the...

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...

GenAI is fundamentally changing the world of software development like nothing since the internet. Vibe Coding is a first-of-its-kind, groundbreaking book that shows developers how to embrace this new frontier. Science fiction is now reality. Programmers no longer need to toil over code and syntax.

The Art of Game Design guides you through the design process step-by-step, helping you to develop new and innovative games that will be played again and again. It explains the fundamental principles of game design and demonstrates how tactics used in classic board, card, and athletic games also...

The greatest professional disruption since the internet is happening right now—and most leaders are responding with the one strategy guaranteed to fail: random experimentation.

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...

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...

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...

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...

In this eye-opening audiobook, we pull back the curtain on the artificial intelligence economy and expose exactly who is capturing the wealth generated by AI — and who is being left behind.

Are you tired of hearing about digital marketing but still not knowing where to start? You see people talking about ChatGPT, AI tools, social media, SEO, email marketing, leads, sales, and online business. But when you try to put it all together, it can feel confusing, scattered, and overwhelming.

Talking to people about your designs might seem like a basic skill, but it can be difficult to do well. In many cases, how you communicate with stakeholders, clients, and other non-designers may be more important than the designs themselves. Because if you can't get their support, your work will...

Abyssal Archive features the most comprehensive fan analysis of the Dark Souls mythos ever undertaken. We set out to pay tribute to Miyazaki's legendary game by crafting something that embodies the same care and attention to detail that makes Dark Souls itself such a peerless work of art.

The inspiring autobiography of video game designer and DOOM cocreator John Romero Doom Guy: Life in First Person is the long-awaited autobiography of gaming’s original rock star and the cocreator of DOOM, Quake, and Wolfenstein—some of the most recognizable and important titles in video game...

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

In Modern Software Engineering, continuous delivery pioneer David Farley helps software professionals think about their work more effectively, manage it more successfully, and genuinely improve the quality of their applications, their lives, and the lives of their colleagues....

Spying has never been more ubiquitous - or less understood. The world is drowning in spy movies, TV shows, and novels, but universities offer more courses on rock and roll than on the CIA, and there are more congressional experts on powdered milk than espionage. This crisis in intelligence...

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...

Newly adapted for audiobook listeners. Today, software engineers need to know not only how to program effectively but also how to develop proper engineering practices to make their codebase sustainable and healthy. This book emphasizes this difference between programming and software engineering...

Are you tired of hearing about digital marketing but still not knowing where to start? You see people talking about ChatGPT, AI tools, social media, SEO, email marketing, funnels, leads, sales, and online business. But when you try to put it all together, it can feel confusing, scattered, and overwhelming.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. The spreadsheet let accountants model their finances without a programmer, and the smartphone put a capable computer in nearly every pocket. Now artificial intelligence is quietly performing another shift, and most people still type a question, read an...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. The first time you turn to a chatbot for something that actually matters, you are asking a machine to help you run your business. The machine answers with a confidence that makes you forget it is guessing. Maybe you ask for a refund policy or a...

From a Commodore 64 to the frontlines of cyber warfare... this is twenty-five years of cybersecurity, told by someone who lived every year of it. The first computer I ever touched was a friend's Commodore 64. I was ten years old. By thirteen, I was copying BASIC code from magazines, debugging programs one mistyped character at a time, and dialing into bulletin board systems with a 9600 baud modem until a $397 phone bill ended my online adventures overnight. That curiosity never stopped. It just found a mission.

Master software architecture and build scalable cloud systems without getting lost in endless vendor hype or buzzwords. Perfect for your daily commute or focused upskilling sessions, this pragmatic deep dive transforms how tech leads and developers approach system complexity. Stop guessing with...

Harness Engineering is a practical guide to designing secure control planes for long-horizon, multi-agent AI systems. It explains how to move beyond prompt-only safety and build the durable harness around agents: autonomy controls, identity, intent contracts, context boundaries, memory governance, observability, runtime steering, scalability, data governance, and evaluation-driven improvement. Written for engineers, security leaders, architects, researchers, and advanced students, the book treats agent safety as an engineering discipline. Each chapter presents design patterns, failure modes...

Everyone is mapping what AI can do. Almost no one is mapping what it can't — and that boundary is where the real strategic edge lives. The Intelligence Ceiling is a field guide for leaders who have to make consequential bets on AI while the ground keeps shifting: founders, executives, investors, and the operators everyone turns to when a new model drops. It refuses both the hype and the panic. Instead, it draws the hard lines that will actually determine where machine intelligence stops, stalls, or surprises us — and shows you how to build a strategy on foundations that don't go stale ...

"Agentic Programming" is a definitive, comprehensive book written specifically for the modern software developer and systems architect. As artificial intelligence transitions from conversational interfaces to autonomous, action-taking systems, the technology industry requires a new breed of developers capable of building these sophisticated applications. This book is a direct response to the current and future industry demands for engineers who can design, build, set up, deploy, implement, and maintain autonomous agents in live production environments. Philosophy Agentic systems are viewed ...

Great games are built around systems that make the next action feel worthwhile. This practical guide explains how to design repeatable gameplay loops, meaningful rewards, balanced progression, and lasting engagement without relying on guesswork or empty Skinner-box mechanics. From a single player action to a complete campaign economy, the book shows how individual systems connect. You will learn to examine what players do, what decisions they make, how the game responds, and why the resulting rewards encourage continued play. Clear frameworks and practical examples make the ideas useful for...

Build runs that feel different for meaningful reasons Replayability is more than shuffling rooms and rewards. It comes from giving players clear choices, understandable risks, compelling builds, and enough control to adapt when a run takes an unexpected turn. This practical guide presents a complete framework for designing roguelikes, roguelites, and hybrid games around those principles. From the first room to the final boss, you will learn how to shape a satisfying run loop, define failure and completion conditions, and connect moment-to-moment decisions with long-term progression. The ...

For generations, much of the world chose to build around American power, law, technology, and institutions. That dependence was not created by strength alone. It rested on something even more valuable: trust. Trust that America would remain predictable. Trust that its institutions would endure. Trust that its technology, laws, alliances, and economic systems could be relied upon even when governments changed. That assumption is being reconsidered. Across Europe and beyond, governments are investing in sovereign clouds, open-source technology, domestic artificial intelligence, independent ...

This book is a comprehensive, hands-on book designed to equip you with the skills to build, train, and deploy personalized Small Language Models (SLMs) on edge devices. It moves beyond the theory to provide a practical, code-first blueprint for creating efficient and private AI applications from scratch. Philosophy The core philosophy of this book is "Learning by Building." I do believe the most effective way to master a technical subject is to apply it immediately. Traditional AI/ML textbooks often front-load complex theory, leaving the practical application as an afterthought. I reversed ...

Master artificial intelligence by building deep learning models from the ground up using plain Python and simple math. Whether commuting or dedicating focused time to upskilling your programming career, this empowering audio journey transforms complex machine learning into accessible logic. Say...

You can start using Kimi AI to build documents, slides, websites, and automations without any technical experience. If you have never touched artificial intelligence before, or if you just want to do more than chat with a basic bot, Kimi AI for Beginners will show you how. Jeffrey Lee wrote this book as a patient, step-by-step walkthrough of the Moonshot AI ecosystem. He skips the jargon and writes in plain English. The book guides you from creating your first account all the way to setting up advanced multi-agent workflows. Inside, you get twenty beginner projects, safety practices, ...

What if AI didn't just answer your questions — but actually got things done? For years, "AI" meant a clever chatbot: you asked, it answered, and that was the end of it. That era is over. A new generation of AI agents can now plan, use tools, remember what they've learned, and work through complex, multi-step tasks almost entirely on their own — booking travel, writing and debugging code, researching a market, managing an inbox, and far more. Agentic AI for Beginners is the plain-English guide to this new world, written for absolute beginners with no technical background required. Inside...

"Data Lake Integration with Emerging Technologies" is a comprehensive and practical guide designed for the next generation of data engineers, data scientists, and technology leaders. This textbook navigates the dynamic landscape of modern data management, focusing on the critical synergy between central data lakes and transformative technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI), the Internet of Things (IoT), and Blockchain. The book moves beyond theory to provide a hands-on, end-to-end roadmap for designing, building, and operationalizing a modern data ecosystem. Starting with foundational...

Go from AI uncertainty to practical skills, income, and useful systems. This 5-book collection is presented together in reading order. If AI feels like a conversation you joined late, begin with a plain-language map of what these tools do, how they produce answers, and where they can fail. Each stage addresses a familiar problem: confusing terms, ideas that never become offers, useful tools that seem too technical to build, repeated work that fills the day, and uncertainty about where AI belongs in learning or career decisions. Inside this 5-book collection Book 1: AI, Explained for Real ...

How I Decoded Corporate Politics to Maximize My Pay and Reclaim My Sanity. I used to think hard work alone guaranteed promotions—until I realized corporate games are rigged to suppress salaries and keep employees trapped. I was burning out, constantly asking: Who can I actually trust? How do I handle toxic office politics without killing my career? It wasn't until I decoded the hidden playbooks companies use to cap pay and limit growth that I completely transformed my trajectory.

Beyond The Prompt is a definitive, industry-aligned engineering manual designed to navigate the impending death of prompt engineering. As Generative AI rapidly evolves, the standard chat-box interface is becoming obsolete. The tech industry is shifting from systems that require explicit, highly engineered text instructions to systems that anticipate needs based on context, environment, biological data, and overarching goals. This book provides a rigorous, practical, step-by-step blueprint for designing, building, and deploying the next generation of autonomous applications. Philosophy The ...

Adding AI to a company does not make it an AI company. Most companies have bolted AI onto the outside of an unchanged process: a chatbot on the website, a "summarise" button, a copilot in the inbox. The three-day task still takes three days. This book gives you one test to see where you really stand — take the AI out, what is left? — and a twelve-month map to get from "we have AI" to an enterprise that operates AI-Native: the machine reads, extracts, checks and proposes; people approve at clearly defined gates; take the AI out and the machine stops. It is a build manual, not a survey. ...

If you’ve ever lost an afternoon fixing a broken Excel file, you know the pain. When Mara Delgado opened Rook & Pawn Café, a single spreadsheet handled all her member tracking. It worked perfectly. Then concurrent edits wiped out the renewal records. Next, a comma-separated list ruined her inventory queries. Eventually, a bad formula caused billing errors. In Relational Database Design for Beginners, Jessie Landon shows you how to turn that chaos into a clean, scalable system. You don't need a computer science degree, and you don't need prior coding experience. This guide teaches core ...

What if the strange, mind-bending world of quantum computing could finally be understood in plain English? Quantum Computing Made Simple: The Strange Phenomenon Broken Down into Plain English takes the mystery out of one of the most fascinating technologies of the modern age. Without drowning you in complicated mathematics or technical jargon, this accessible guide explores quantum computing, quantum mechanics, qubits, superposition, entanglement, quantum algorithms, quantum computers, and the revolutionary ideas that make this technology so different from traditional computing. Whether you...

Learn C++ the way beginners actually understand it—by building real programs step by step. Most people do not struggle with C++ because they are not smart enough. They struggle because they get thrown into complicated syntax, dry explanations, and endless theory before they ever build something that actually works. C++ Projects for Beginners fixes that.

A few years ago, learning to code meant struggling through syntax rules, missing semicolons, and endless debugging. Today, modern AI tools allow you to describe what you want in plain English and generate working code in seconds. But AI coding tools are not magic—they are extremely capable, occasionally wrong, and always in need of a human who knows how to steer them. In AI-Assisted Coding for Beginners, author Helen Sandbank delivers a hands-on, zero-experience-required guide to directing modern AI coding assistants like a professional developer. Whether you have never written a line of ...

ABOUT THE BOOK Physical Computing is an exhaustive, strictly practical, and highly focused technical manual designed to take readers from absolute scratch to the final production and deployment of interactive, hardware-software integrated systems. Recognizing the massive paradigm shift in the modern tech industry, this book discards heavy, abstract theory in favor of actionable, step-by-step implementation. This section details the core philosophy, the pedagogical structure, key features, target audience, and the essential takeaways of the text. Philosophy The guiding philosophy of this ...