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...

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....

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...

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...

You're spending hours wrestling with Claude—rewriting prompts, copying outputs, watching tutorials that were outdated before you finished them—and you still can't figure out how to make AI do anything that actually matters for your bottom line.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

Steven Levy's classic book traces the exploits of the computer revolution's original hackers - those brilliant and eccentric nerds from the late 1950s through the early '80s who took risks....

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.

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....

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.

Most people struggle with AI because they don't know how to talk to it. This hands-on beginner's guide gives you the tools, confidence, and structure to get real results from today's most powerful AI tools, no tech skills required.

In this insightful and comprehensive guide, Addy Osmani shares more than a decade of experience working on the Chrome team at Google, uncovering secrets to engineering effectiveness, efficiency, and team success. Engineers and engineering leaders looking to scale their effectiveness and drive...

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....

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...

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...

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 history....

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...

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

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.

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 ...

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...

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 ...

You start the loop and go to bed. You wake up to a $200 bill and code you still can't trust. Meanwhile, builders on Reddit are running nine-hour loops overnight and waking up to clean, merged pull requests. The difference isn't a smarter model. It's a loop that knows when to stop, how to verify its own work, and when to quit before it empties your wallet. This book hands you the complete loop-engineering system: a bounded, self-correcting Claude Code loop you can trust to run unattended. You'll build your first self-correcting loop in Chapter 4, the one that fixes a failing test and stops ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Application security starts long before the firewall. It begins in architectural decisions, in the code that gets written, in the practices a team adopts, and in the culture that holds all of it together over time. This book presents, in a structured and well-grounded way, the concepts, vulnerabilities, practices, and tools that make up secure application development. From the first chapter to the conclusion, readers follow a path that runs from the foundations of information security through to the most advanced practices for integrating security into the development lifecycle — covering...

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 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 ...

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.

Data Engineering for Beginners: A Practical Guide to Modern Data Pipelines and Analytics Data is the foundation of modern business, analytics, and artificial intelligence—but how does data move from raw information to valuable insights? Data Engineering for Beginners provides a clear and practical introduction to the world of data engineering. Designed for students, professionals, and aspiring data engineers, this book explains essential concepts in simple language without assuming prior experience. Inside, you'll learn: • How databases store and organize data • SQL fundamentals for ...

Your small business is wasting hours every week on work that AI could handle in minutes. Marcus Chen ran a landscaping company for a decade. He was good at his work, but his business was stuck — drowning in quote requests, appointment scheduling, and follow-up emails that kept him from actually growing. Then he started using AI. Within three months, he had automated his quote generation, his appointment booking, and his customer follow-ups. He reclaimed eight hours a week and landed two new commercial contracts he never would have had time to pursue. Marcus is not an anomaly. He is one of...

"Green Cloud Systems Engineering" is an authoritative, highly practical text designed to solve one of the most pressing issues in modern computer science: the exponential energy consumption of cloud computing. This text moves past high-level sustainability concepts to deliver a rigorous, hard-engineering approach to designing, building, and deploying power-aware digital infrastructures. Philosophy The core philosophy of this text is that sustainability in computing is fundamentally a systems engineering and computer science problem, not merely an environmental policy issue. I rely upon the ...

"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 ...

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-...

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.

You don't have to be "a math person." You just have to learn to think in steps. Most programming books hand you a language on page one and hope you keep up. Think First, Then Code does the opposite. It starts with the one skill every programmer needs and no language can teach you twice: breaking a problem into clear, ordered steps. You'll begin in pseudocode — plain, structured English — where you can learn to think without fighting punctuation or error messages. Then you'll watch that same thinking become real, running code in three very different languages: Python, JavaScript, and C. ...

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 ...

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.

Use modern technology to work smarter, serve customers better, and grow with confidence. AI for Small Businesses: A Practical Guide is a clear, action-focused resource for entrepreneurs, founders, and growing companies that want practical results without the jargon. If you have been wondering how to apply automation, data-driven decision-making, and intelligent tools in a real-world business setting, this book shows you where to start and how to move forward. Designed for busy owners and startup teams, this guide breaks down complex concepts into simple, usable steps. Instead of vague ...

The quantum computer that breaks RSA-2048 does not need to exist today. Nation-state adversaries are collecting encrypted traffic right now under a simple premise: when capable hardware arrives, the intercepted ciphertext comes with it. Harvest-now-decrypt-later is not a future risk. It is an operational reality on networks you already run. The FIPS 203, 204, 205, and 206 standards provide mathematically sound algorithms. They do not provide safe implementations. A data-dependent branch in a rejection-sampling loop becomes a timing oracle. An unmasked ML-KEM decapsulation routine ...