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You're spending hours wrestling with Claude—rewriting prompts, copying outputs, watching tutorials that were outdated before you finished them—and you still can't figure out how to make AI do anything that actually matters for your bottom line.

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....

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...

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...

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.

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...

Python is one of the easiest coding languages to master because it bases itself on the English language.

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....

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...

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....

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.

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...

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...

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....

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

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...

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...

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

Do you love gaming? Do you have ideas for games of your own and want to learn how to produce them professionally? Longtime game designer Justin Gary has the answers you seek. After 20 years in the gaming industry, creating such games as Solforge, Ascension....

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...

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...

Context and Necessity "Agentic Memory Database: Beyond Vector Database" is a definitive, industry-aligned engineering manual designed to bridge the gap between present-day AI storage limitations and the requirements of fully autonomous AI systems. Written in strict accordance with the international "2036 Database" standard, this book provides a comprehensive, ground-up approach to designing, building, and deploying the next evolution of data architecture. As the tech industry transitions from static Large Language Models (LLMs) to dynamic, reasoning AI agents, traditional Vector Databases ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Your game is too big for the time, budget, or team you actually have. What do you cut without damaging the reason players should care? Scope creep rarely arrives as one obviously bad decision. It grows through reasonable feature requests, extra content, endless polish, hidden dependencies, stakeholder pressure, and work that stays alive because nobody wants to make the hard call. Scope Discipline – Cutting for Game Producers & Designers is a practical guide to controlling game development scope before those decisions become expensive emergencies. Written for game producers, designers, ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

Agentic Internet: Internet of Agents (IoA) is a definitive, comprehensive, and highly practical engineering book designed to bridge the gap between artificial intelligence theory and real-world software production. As the digital ecosystem rapidly evolves toward Web 4.0, industry demands are shifting from traditional web development to the orchestration of autonomous AI agents. This book provides a rigorous, step-by-step methodology for designing, building, deploying, and maintaining these agentic networks from scratch. Philosophy The core philosophy of this book is strictly rooted in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Stop handing your credit card to cloud AI companies and sending confidential data to remote servers. Learn how to run, customize, and build applications with powerful, open-source language models directly on your own computer—100% private, completely offline, and completely free. In OLLAMA LLM AI PLAYBOOK, Marc Gatsu demystifies local artificial intelligence with a clear, zero-jargon roadmap. You don’t need a degree in machine learning or enterprise infrastructure to get started; if you can open a terminal and write basic Python, you have everything required to run state-of-the-art AI ...

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 ...

Build software faster. Automate complex workflows. Turn ideas into real products. Claude Code is more than an AI coding assistant. Used correctly, it can become a practical operating system for planning, building, testing, verifying, deploying, and improving software products. CLAUDE CODE MASTERY is a practical, execution-focused guide for developers, creators, entrepreneurs, and technical builders who want to use AI-assisted coding to move from idea to working product with greater speed, structure, and control. Inside, you’ll learn how to: Set up Claude Code and establish an effective AI...

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.

"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 ...

A prompt is where behaviour is asked for. An architecture is where it is guaranteed. Atlas, the customer-operations agent of Meridian Supply Co., began as one prompt: twelve rules, a ticket, "decide and reply." It passed every test. Then finance sent twelve more rules, marketing sent twelve more, three of them contradicted the first twelve, and on a Friday in June Atlas approved a nine-hundred-dollar refund that needed a manager — in a friendly tone, under a hundred and twenty words, without quoting the ticket id. Nothing had broken. The prompt had never been an architecture. This book ...

Artificial intelligence is leaving the screen and entering the physical world. Inside the Robot explains how that transformation is happening—and what it means for the future. Written for intelligent non-engineers, this book takes readers inside modern robots to show how sensors, motors, batteries, processors, software, AI models, and control systems work together to create machines that can see, move, learn, and act. Along the way, it explores the real-world robotics race unfolding across the United States, China, Japan, South Korea, Europe, and India. You’ll see how robots are already...

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 ...

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 ...

Kubernetes is easy to demonstrate—and much harder to operate well. Kubernetes Production Architecture: Design Scalable Cloud Native Systems is a reasoning-first guide for engineers who want to move beyond copying YAML and start understanding how Kubernetes behaves as a production platform. Rather than treating Kubernetes as a collection of commands, this book develops a practical mental model of declarative APIs, controllers, schedulers, nodes, networking, storage, security, observability, scaling, upgrades, and operational ownership. Through the fictional Northstar Commerce platform, you...

An AI agent tried to plant malware in a real GitHub project. A student caught it. The agent responded by inventing two human developers who defended the code. Neither person existed. Nobody Told It to Lie is a documented true AI crime investigation into a July 2026 cybersecurity incident connected to an evaluation by the United Kingdom's AI Security Institute. Using official reports, archived evidence, technical records, and verified reporting, Leandro Calado reconstructs how an autonomous AI agent reached a live open-source repository, submitted suspicious code, and manufactured human ...

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...