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...

You're spending hours wrestling with Claude—rewriting prompts, copying outputs, watching tutorials that were outdated before you finished them—and you still can't figure out how to make AI do anything that actually matters for your bottom line.

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....

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...

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...

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.

Stop fighting symptoms. Start finding solutions. Discover the systems thinking tools that actually work. In Signals & Levers, Elisabeth Hendrickson—former VP R&D at Pivotal and author of the enduring Explore It!

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...

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...

Few books on software project management have been as influential and timeless as The Mythical Man-Month. With a blend of software engineering facts and thought-provoking opinions, Fred Brooks offers insight for anyone managing complex projects.

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...

Masters of Doom is the amazing true story of the Lennon and McCartney of video games: John Carmack and John Romero....

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...

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...

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 award-winning and best-selling business handbook for digital transformation is now fully updated and expanded with the latest research and new case studies....

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...

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...

Learn how to successfully emerge from complex crisis conditions with this practical, comprehensive guide. "A book I wish I’d had in difficult times.” —General Stanley McChrystal, US Army (Ret) & Co-Founder and CEO, McChrystal Group When the system breaks, what do you do? You're in the...

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...

In Build a Large Language Model (from Scratch) bestselling author Sebastian Raschka guides you step by step through creating your own LLM. Each stage is explained with clear text, diagrams, and examples.

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.

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....

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

Stop fighting symptoms. Start finding solutions. Discover the systems thinking tools that actually work. In Signals & Levers, Elisabeth Hendrickson—former VP R&D at Pivotal and author of the enduring Explore It!—and Joel Tosi—who has spent 25+ years delivering software and a decade helping teams stop “change theater”—teach you to see through the illusions that plague every software organization. Using tools from statistical process control, systems thinking, and economic theory, they show you how to identify real problems and find the levers that create lasting change.

The software engineering landscape is constantly evolving, and the demands on engineers intensify with each technological and methodological shift. In such an environment, being a good coder isn't enough—true effectiveness goes beyond technical skills. This book is designed as a guide for...

Large language models (LLMs) have transformed natural language processing, but deploying them in applications introduces numerous technical challenges. Large Language Models: The Hard Parts offers a clear, practical examination of the limitations developers and AI engineers face when building...

"Build a Reasoning Model (From Scratch)" is a practical guide to understanding how modern reasoning-oriented LLMs work by building their core methods step by step. The book tells a clear engineering story: start with a conventional pre-trained LLM, learn how text generation works, build reliable evaluation tools, improve reasoning through inference-time methods, then move into training-based approaches such as reinforcement learning and distillation.

Design the topology. Don't inherit it. Most agent systems get their shape by accident — a prompt, then a tool, then a retry, then a second agent because the first one got long. Nobody writes the topology down. Graph engineering is the discipline of declaring it on purpose: the nodes that must exist, the edges that are legal, the state that travels with the run, and the gates that sit on every irreversible step. Ken Huang writes for engineers who have to ship these systems and then operate them. Fourteen chapters cover: Execution graphs and memory graphs — and what conflating them costs ...

"Mastering Claude AI" is a strictly application-oriented, highly detailed technical guide explicitly designed to teach the end-to-end development of artificial intelligence solutions. This section outlines the core philosophy, pedagogical approach, target audience, and key takeaways that define the structure and purpose of this extensive text. Philosophy The guiding philosophy of this book is absolute pragmatism. In the current technological era, theoretical knowledge of artificial intelligence holds little value without the ability to implement it. Industry demands developers who can build...

HTML is not math, logic, or programming. It is simply digital labeling. If you can sort moving boxes and write "KITCHEN" on them with a marker, you already possess the logic required to write HTML. In HTML 5 Essentials: The Lazy Person's Guide to Web Development, Marie Ritchie strips away the intimidation of web design. This book is built on the "lazy" philosophy: refusing to do work a computer can do for you. Instead of memorizing trivia, you will learn to use modern tools that write and format code automatically while browsers handle the heavy visual lifting. Throughout the book, you will...

Have you ever looked at a stunning, modern website and thought, “I could never make something like that”? CSS for Beginners: CSS Explained So Simply a 5-Year-Old Could Design a Modern Website proves that you absolutely can. Written specifically for complete beginners, this guide breaks down Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) into friendly, bite-sized pieces. Author Marie Ritchie replaces confusing technical jargon with everyday visual analogies—like gingerbread houses, labeled jars, and paint boxes—ensuring that every new concept actually sticks. Throughout your journey, you will be ...

Were the verdicts about price, or about architecture? This book finds out. Books 2–5 found that almost every multi-agent style beats a single agent on accuracy and loses on cost. This book puts a tuned inference core under all 65 styles of the series and switches on, one at a time, the techniques inference engineering offers — then re-runs every style. Cost anatomy: every bill split into calls, input tokens, output tokens and roles Prompt and KV caching — about a fifth off with no answer changed Semantic caching — safe only when tight, and dangerous inside a pipeline Batching and ...

Go from opening Fusion for the first time to designing like a professional — one clear step at a time. Autodesk Fusion (formerly Fusion 360) is one of the most powerful design and manufacturing tools in the world — and one of the most overwhelming to learn on your own. Most beginners waste weeks fighting broken sketches, tangled files, and models that fall apart the moment something changes. This book fixes that. Written as a complete, hands-on course, From Zero to Pro takes you through the entire workflow — sketching, 3D modeling, assemblies, drawings, rendering, CNC/CAM, and ...

Most enterprises have more data than they can turn into decisions. Reports multiply, dashboards disagree, and the decisions that matter still wait on spreadsheets and meetings. The Four-Tier Model is the first book in the Enterprise Data Architecture for the AI-Native Era series. It lays out one architecture for turning data into decisions — DATA, INFORMATION, KNOWLEDGE and DECISION — and gives each tier its purpose, its owners, its technologies and its standards. A single worked example runs through every chapter: Halden Retail Group, a fictional sixty-store omnichannel retailer, ...

A master that verifies is accurate. A master that dies takes everything with it. This book measures both. Hierarchies are the first architecture most teams build: a planner delegates, workers answer, someone merges. This book puts eleven hierarchical styles on the Gauntlet benchmark from Book 1 and reports what each one really buys. Master–slave with verification — why checking at the master cuts plausible wrongness from 19 % to single digits Supervisor trees — restart semantics borrowed from resilient runtimes Delegation depth — the measured cost of every extra layer Layered ...

Before you choose an agent architecture, learn to measure one. Most arguments about multi-agent AI systems are arguments about taste. This book replaces them with measurement. You will rebuild one workload three ways, classify agent systems by control, state and flow, and build the Gauntlet — three fixed workloads (research, transactions, monitoring) scored on eight metrics, including the failure mode that hurts most in practice: plausible wrongness, answers that look right and are not. You will learn to: Write quality-attribute scenarios for agent systems and test designs against them ...

Agents that build on each other’s work need a place to put it — and that place can fail, go stale, or conflict. This book measures eighteen shared-memory styles on the Gauntlet benchmark. It starts from the classic blackboard — knowledge sources, partial entries, an agenda written as code — and then asks what it costs to keep a shared board alive and true. The classic blackboard: 96 % on research at 0.79× the cost of a voting board Tuple spaces — a hierarchy without a master The consistency menu — why stale reads are cheap and strong reads cost the deadline CRDTs — convergent...

No master to lose. What does that cost, and what does it buy? Decentralized agent systems replace the coordinator with peers that negotiate, gossip, bid and swarm. This book measures twelve such styles on the Gauntlet benchmark and finds where redundancy pays and where it only adds a bill. Peer-to-peer negotiation and gossip for shared state The actor model as an agent runtime — the cheapest reliable style in the series Contract nets and auctions — verification without a master Markets — including an honest null result: pricing tasks does not help when agents are alike Swarms and ...

"Playwright MCP with Claude" is a comprehensive, strictly practical engineering book designed to teach the integration of advanced artificial intelligence with state-of-the-art browser automation. At its core, the book explores how to use the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to connect Anthropic’s Claude to Microsoft’s Playwright. Traditionally, browser automation required developers to manually write rigid scripts, locate precise DOM selectors, and constantly update code as web interfaces changed. Conversely, AI models like Claude possessed incredible reasoning abilities but could not ...

CLAUDE CODE FOR BEGINNERS A practical learning book for beginners, students, professionals, creators, and curious non-programmers Want to explore AI-assisted coding but don't know where to start? Claude Code For Beginners gives you a simple, step-by-step introduction to using Claude Code to explore projects, create and edit files, debug problems, write tests, work with Git, and build practical projects. You don't need to be an experienced programmer. The book explains concepts in simple language and focuses on learning by doing, with practical examples, prompts, workflows, exercises, and ...

Stop paying monthly seat fees for closed, proprietary AI tools that lock you into rigid models and usage caps. Take control of your coding toolchain with OpenCode—the fast, open-source terminal agent that lets you assemble your own AI programming stack. In OPENCODE AI FOR BEGINNERS, Marc Gatsu provides an honest, zero-jargon roadmap to building software with open-source coding agents. You do not need to be a command-line wizard or an AI engineer to get started; if you can open a terminal and describe what you want built, you already have every skill required to orchestrate a tireless AI ...

You already know how to ask a chatbot a question. That skill plateaus the moment you need a research pack, a Word draft that survives three revisions, a weekly ops sweep, or an agent that keeps working while you do something else. Working the Desk is a field manual for Grok Bot — an assistant that is not “just chat.” It has its own computer, you have yours, and the gap between those two machines is where leverage lives. You’ll learn how to hire specialist agents instead of one overloaded oracle; what to put in memory and what to forget; how routines run work overnight; how skills ...

You're not behind. You're early. Artificial intelligence showed up without asking. It's in the news, in your grandchildren's homework, and in the phone in your pocket. Most of what's written about it is breathless or frightening, and almost none of it is written for you. This book is. It's plain English, at your pace, from a retired attorney and executive who came to AI the way most readers will: skeptical, late, and in a hurry. He did the hair-pulling first, so you don't have to. Inside, you'll learn how to: Understand what AI is, with no jargon Choose one of the four major tools and have ...

Loop Engineering: Reliability Starts After the Prompt is a definitive, industry-aligned book dedicated to the next phase of Artificial Intelligence development: the creation of robust, self-correcting, and autonomous AI systems. As organizations integrate Large Language Models (LLMs) into critical business processes, the limitations of simple "Prompt Engineering" have become glaringly obvious. A single prompt cannot guarantee factual accuracy, multi-step logic, or systemic stability. This book addresses this critical vulnerability by introducing Loop Engineering—the science of wrapping ...

"Claude Code: Write Prompts that Deliver Effective Results" is a definitive, hands-on technical book designed and written specifically to meet the current and future demands of the software and technology industries. As Large Language Models transition from novelties to foundational infrastructure, the ability to effectively design, build, setup, deploy, and maintain applications powered by Claude has become a critical industry requirement. This book is strictly structured to address this exact need, prioritizing absolute practical implementation over abstract theory. Philosophy The core ...

Master the technology of autonomous AI agents that independently plan, execute, and achieve complex business goals. Whether you are commuting to the office or brainstorming your next startup venture, understanding these proactive systems delivers a massive competitive advantage. Leave the hype...

Running a solo service or creator business can feel like doing three fulltime jobs at once: CEO, operator, and marketer. AI promises relief, but most advice swings between “automate everything” and “just prompt better,” leaving you overwhelmed or skeptical. AI CoFounder is a practical, fieldtested guide to turning AI into a calm business partner instead of a shiny toy. It helps you build a simple “AI stack” you can actually run—clarifying what you’re building, designing reusable workflows for focus and planning, and turning messy ideas into clear offers, systems, and content in your own voice.

Computers were supposed to make life easier. Instead, they gave us forgotten passwords, mysterious error messages, printers with emotional problems, and the terrifying phrase, “Your files may not have been saved.” STRANGE BUT TRUE: THE WEIRD HISTORY OF COMPUTERS uncovers the brilliant, bizarre, and occasionally ridiculous story of how humanity stumbled into the digital age. Long before computers sat on desks or hid inside telephones, computers were actual people. They performed complicated calculations by hand, usually without freezing, crashing, or demanding an update. Then ambitious ...