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You're spending hours wrestling with Claude—rewriting prompts, copying outputs, watching tutorials that were outdated before you finished them—and you still can't figure out how to make AI do anything that actually matters for your bottom line.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

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...

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...

Welcome to the wonderful world of hacking, a seemingly magical world, crafted out of the heart of mystery and wonder, but an oh so very real world where those who hesitate for even just a moment end up in trouble, and only the elite have what it takes to survive! Listen for more....

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.

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...

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....

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....

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.

In Project to Product, value stream network pioneer and technology business leader Dr. Mik Kersten introduces the Flow Framework - a new way of seeing, measuring, and managing software delivery. If you're driving your organization's transformation at any level, this is for you....

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

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...

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...

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. While they chase tools, a small cohort of strategic leaders is quietly building an advantage that compounds daily...

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.

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...

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...

Getting to the good solutions of complex management challenges can make the difference between fulfillment and frustration for teams, and, ultimately, the success or failure of companies....

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...

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...

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...

Newly adapted for audiobook listeners. Created by renowned data science experts Foster Provost and Tom Fawcett, Data Science for Business introduces the fundamental principles of data science, and walks you through the "data-analytic thinking" necessary for extracting useful knowledge and...

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...

"Fabulous Adventures in Data Structures and Algorithms" invites you to step off the beaten path and explore interesting, unfamiliar, and even exotic algorithms that will challenge your perspective and elevate your code. Legendary language designer Eric Lippert guides you with a refreshing, conversational approach, providing beautifully practical examples that highlight the recurring patterns behind stubborn coding problems. You'll begin with a fresh look at foundational, thread-safe, and persistent immutable data structures.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

An architecture is only as good as the design that fixes it on paper. Analysis and Design is the second book in the Enterprise Data Architecture for the AI-Native Era series. It turns the four-tier model into a design package that engineers can build and auditors can check. The method works backward from decisions: start from the decisions a business must make and the KPIs they move, then design each tier in the order those decisions need it. The worked example continues with Halden Retail Group, designing its store replenishment and customer retention decisions end to end. Every chapter ...

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...

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.

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...

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...

"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 ...

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 ...

You ran the update. The gateway never came back. Again. Meanwhile, people on Reddit are posting upgrades that took 25 seconds of machine time, then going back to work. The difference is not luck. It is not a cleaner install. It is a rehearsal they ran on a copy of their own state before they touched the real one. This book gives you the pipeline that turns an OpenClaw update into a scheduled event instead of a lost day, and then puts the agent on work that pays. You will write down what you actually have in one evening. By Saturday you will have run the whole upgrade against a copy. You ...

Let us begin with a simple question. How do we describe the behavior of a process? For many years, one of the most important answers has been the Labelled Transition System. Or simply, LTS. The idea is easy to understand. A process is in a state. It performs an action. And then it moves to another state. For example: s1 --a--> s2. (Read aloud: “State one performs action A and moves to state two.”) This simple idea has been remarkably powerful. It has helped us describe sequential behavior. Choice. Parallel behavior. Communication. Recursion. And many other aspects of process behavior. ...

Domain Name Millions: Virtual Real Estate Profits is a practical, forward‑looking guide to building wealth through one of the most overlooked digital assets of the modern economy: domain names. While most people think of domains as simple website addresses, this book reframes them as virtual real estate—scarce, valuable, and capable of generating substantial profits when understood strategically. As the online world expands, domains become prime locations in a crowded digital landscape, and those who learn how to identify, acquire, and develop them can build meaningful, long‑term ...

Stop an error where it starts, or watch it travel. Flow styles move work through stages: chains, topics, logs, streams and sagas. This book measures fifteen of them on the Gauntlet benchmark and shows how the flow family controls propagation — the way one stage’s mistake becomes the next stage’s input. Pipes and filters — a filter between stages lifts research success from 63 % to 92 % Backpressure and rate control for agent fleets Pub-sub teams and event sourcing as team memory Streaming cognition and its latency budget Sagas and compensation — the lowest plausible wrongness on ...