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...

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.

You're spending hours wrestling with Claude—rewriting prompts, copying outputs, watching tutorials that were outdated before you finished them—and you still can't figure out how to make AI do anything that actually matters for your bottom line.

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

Russell Scott provides a thorough how-to guide in "Digital Products Creation Formula: The Blueprint to Creating Digital Products", which will help you turn your successful digital product ideas into reality....

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...

Tired of AI tutorials that leave you more confused than when you started? Sick of copy-pasting code that crashes the moment things get real? Wondering how everyone else seems to be building and deploying AI agents while you're still stuck on theory?

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...

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.

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....

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...

A revealing look at how negative biases against women of color are embedded in search engine results and algorithms....

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...

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...

Unlock the potential of Generative AI with this Large Language Model production-ready playbook for seamless deployment, optimization, and scaling.

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...

The foundational philosophy of Claude Code: Reverse Engineering is rooted in the concept of "Applied Deconstruction." In the modern tech industry, it is no longer sufficient to merely read documentation or understand the high-level theoretical concepts of Large Language Models. True mastery is achieved only by taking apart complex, highly functional systems, analyzing their core components, and rebuilding them from scratch. This book operates on the strict belief that theory must always serve implementation. I believe AI not as a magical black box, but as a complex software architecture ...

"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 ...

Your agent finishes. Your teammate's agent finishes. Two agents just independently rewrote the same file. Again. Meanwhile, teams on Reddit are running six agents in one shared workspace and shipping from it. One of them counted the damage first. 1,879 markdown files. 317 of them written by agents. A 126KB handoff document, 51 days old, that every fresh agent still read as the current state of the project. The difference isn't talent. It's a workspace with an owner on every file. This book builds the multiplayer workspace that Slack, Y Combinator, OpenClaw and Lindy all shipped inside one ...

You installed the skills. You copied the folder. You still type the same prompt every morning. Again. Meanwhile, the question under every skill post on Reddit is the one you already have. How do I actually use this in my projects. The replies never get there. The people who worked it out are already posting folders where the right skill fires on its own and the wrong one stays quiet. The difference isn't talent. It's twelve tests, and nobody has written them down. This book turns the folder you already installed into a working set you can put in front of a client. You run the first test in ...

"Software Engineering for AI" is a comprehensive, meticulously structured manual designed to bridge the chasm between artificial intelligence concepts and production-grade software engineering. As the tech industry evolves, the ability to merely train an AI model is no longer sufficient. Companies demand end-to-end solutions: applications that are designed, built, deployed, and maintained with rigorous engineering standards. This book provides a clear, practical, and highly detailed roadmap for developing AI applications from scratch to final production. Philosophy The core philosophy of ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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...

Your platform needs 8.69% of your tables. The other 91% is a three-year project nobody can defend. Ashgrove Group has 2,140 tables across eleven source systems. Its 68 priority decisions need 186 of them. That single change of question — from "what data do we have?" to "what do our decisions need?" — is the largest cost lever in platform design, and everything in this book is downstream of it. The number this book is written around Ashgrove's platform costs $4.17 million a year and supports decisions worth $18.6 million. That is 22.40% of the value it enables — defensible, but not ...

"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...

Canva has transformed graphic design from a specialised profession into a skill that almost anyone can learn—and potentially turn into an income-generating opportunity. Graphic Design with Canva: 15-Day Intensive Course is a practical, hands-on guide for beginners who want to learn how to create professional-looking designs without years of formal training or expensive software. Over 15 focused days, you will progress from the fundamentals of design and Canva to typography, colour, composition, images, social-media graphics, posters, flyers, presentations, infographics, branding and ...

Software engineering has always sought better ways to understand, design, and build complex systems. One important approach has been model consistency. By creating different models of a software system and ensuring that they remain consistent, engineers can manage complexity and reduce errors. But consistency has a limitation. Different models may be individually correct and mutually consistent, yet they can still remain separate views of the system. What is missing is a deeper connection between what a system is and what a system does. This audiobook introduces Structure–Behavior ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 do not need a computer science degree to build a real app. You need to know how to direct AI — and this book teaches you by taking one complete project from an empty screen to a live link. Everyone says "anyone can build apps with AI now." Almost no book actually walks a complete beginner from a blank screen to a finished, published app. This one does. You will build TapGlint, a fast reflex web game where a target appears, you tap it to score, and the challenge gets harder as you play. Then you will connect a shared online leaderboard, add a Challenge a friend button, and publish the ...

Welcome to Beyond Consistency: From Multi-View UML to Coalescent Software Systems. Software systems are often described through multiple models and views. UML helps us manage this complexity, and model consistency is essential. But consistency may not be enough. This audiobook asks a simple question: Can we move beyond consistent models and understand software as one coherent system? The answer explored in this book is Structure–Behavior Coalescence, or SBC. SBC brings structure, interaction, and behavior together as one system. The journey is simple: From multiple views, to consistent ...

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 ...

Ninety thousand records arrive. Eighty-nine thousand are published, two hundred and eighty-six are quarantined with reasons, five hundred and sixty-three are replays removed — and that equation is checked rather than asserted. Then the harder half: three divisions report three figures for the same month's revenue, differing by 12.34 per cent, and every one is computed correctly. The remedy is not a data dictionary. It is a layer where each metric is declared once and every consumer obtains it by asking. Book 2 of From Data to Decision builds the two lower tiers in code that runs. Part I ...

Welcome to Consistency Is Not Coalescence: Rethinking System Unity beyond SysML. Modern systems are becoming increasingly complex. From spacecraft and autonomous vehicles to digital enterprises and collaborative AI agents, engineers must understand many aspects of a system at the same time. SysML and Model-Based Systems Engineering have made an important contribution by allowing these aspects to be represented through multiple, connected views. But an important question remains: If all the views of a system are consistent, do they really constitute one unified system? This book explores ...

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 ...

ABOUT THE BOOK Photonic Intelligence is an exhaustive, highly practical manual designed to bridge the critical gap between traditional artificial intelligence software development and next-generation optical hardware. As the tech industry faces the physical limitations of silicon-based microprocessors, the demand for high-speed, low-power computing alternatives has skyrocketed. This book delivers a comprehensive, end-to-end blueprint for developing AI applications powered by light. Philosophy The core philosophy of this book is strictly centered on practical application and real-world ...

Most companies say they use AI. Very few can say what they are becoming — or answer one question: if every AI tool were switched off tomorrow, would the business still run? Thinking in AI: The Foundations gives every reader — executive, manager, employee or engineer — one shared set of ideas for adopting AI on purpose: the three adoption levels (AI First, AI Embedded, AI Native); the shutdown test that reveals which level you are really at; the difference between an agent (a thing you can count), an autonomy level (a degree you can set) and a multi-agent system (a system you can ...