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....

You're spending hours wrestling with Claude—rewriting prompts, copying outputs, watching tutorials that were outdated before you finished them—and you still can't figure out how to make AI do anything that actually matters for your bottom line.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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....

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...

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.

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...

The inspiring autobiography of video game designer and DOOM cocreator John Romero 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...

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....

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...

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....

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.

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...

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.

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....

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.

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

In Modern Software Engineering, continuous delivery pioneer David Farley helps software professionals think about their work more effectively, manage it more successfully, and genuinely improve the quality of their applications, their lives, and the lives of their colleagues....

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....

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...

Are you tired of hearing about digital marketing but still not knowing where to start? You see people talking about ChatGPT, AI tools, social media, SEO, email marketing, funnels, leads, sales, and online business. But when you try to put it all together, it can feel confusing, scattered, and overwhelming.

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...

Master software architecture and build scalable cloud systems without getting lost in endless vendor hype or buzzwords. Perfect for your daily commute or focused upskilling sessions, this pragmatic deep dive transforms how tech leads and developers approach system complexity. Stop guessing with...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. The first time you turn to a chatbot for something that actually matters, you are asking a machine to help you run your business. The machine answers with a confidence that makes you forget it is guessing. Maybe you ask for a refund policy or a...

From a Commodore 64 to the frontlines of cyber warfare... this is twenty-five years of cybersecurity, told by someone who lived every year of it. The first computer I ever touched was a friend's Commodore 64. I was ten years old. By thirteen, I was copying BASIC code from magazines, debugging programs one mistyped character at a time, and dialing into bulletin board systems with a 9600 baud modem until a $397 phone bill ended my online adventures overnight. That curiosity never stopped. It just found a mission.

Harness Engineering is a practical guide to designing secure control planes for long-horizon, multi-agent AI systems. It explains how to move beyond prompt-only safety and build the durable harness around agents: autonomy controls, identity, intent contracts, context boundaries, memory governance, observability, runtime steering, scalability, data governance, and evaluation-driven improvement. Written for engineers, security leaders, architects, researchers, and advanced students, the book treats agent safety as an engineering discipline. Each chapter presents design patterns, failure modes...

"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...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

ABOUT THE BOOK Physical Computing is an exhaustive, strictly practical, and highly focused technical manual designed to take readers from absolute scratch to the final production and deployment of interactive, hardware-software integrated systems. Recognizing the massive paradigm shift in the modern tech industry, this book discards heavy, abstract theory in favor of actionable, step-by-step implementation. This section details the core philosophy, the pedagogical structure, key features, target audience, and the essential takeaways of the text. Philosophy The guiding philosophy of this ...

You can start using Kimi AI to build documents, slides, websites, and automations without any technical experience. If you have never touched artificial intelligence before, or if you just want to do more than chat with a basic bot, Kimi AI for Beginners will show you how. Jeffrey Lee wrote this book as a patient, step-by-step walkthrough of the Moonshot AI ecosystem. He skips the jargon and writes in plain English. The book guides you from creating your first account all the way to setting up advanced multi-agent workflows. Inside, you get twenty beginner projects, safety practices, ...

You can start using Qwen AI without knowing how to code. Most AI tools feel like they were made for developers. If you have looked at them and felt left behind, Jeffrey Lee wrote Qwen AI for Beginners to help. He created a simple walkthrough that takes you through one of the most capable systems available, step by step, without assuming you have a technical background. Maybe you want to automate routine work, design graphics, run research, or build basic web tools. This book shows you how to go from staring at a blank prompt to actually getting work done. Inside, you get ten beginner ...

RCT-IF: PROFESSIONAL PROMPT is an exhaustive, strictly practical, and highly focused technical book designed to teach the end-to-end development of AI-powered applications utilizing the proprietary RCT-IF (Role, Context, Task, Instruction, Format) framework. Structured to meet the precise, high-stakes demands of modern enterprise environments, this text discards heavy, convoluted theory in favor of actionable, deployable, and scalable implementation. It provides a comprehensive roadmap starting from absolute conceptual scratch, moving through design, build, setup, deployment, and concluding...

Written for AI and enterprise architects, engineers, technologists, cognitive scientists, researchers, technical leaders, entrepreneurs, students, and curious readers, this book investigates a transition that may define the next phase of AI. This book continues the intellectual journey I began in Cognitive Computing Reimagined, while deliberately moving from conceptual foundations to practical architecture and engineering. The earlier book examined cognition through neurobiology, cognitive psychology, cognitive computing, and emerging artificial cognition. This new volume asks the next ...

It is written with a strict, unwavering focus on the practical implementation of satellite internet systems, guiding the reader from scratch to the design, build, setup, deployment, and final production of real-world solutions. The tools required to interact with satellites such as inexpensive SDRs, open-source decoding software, and off-the-shelf antennas are now readily available. This book provides the precise instruction manual for assembling those tools into powerful, production-ready systems. It is an invitation to look upward, harness the data flowing through the stars, and build the...

You are the bottleneck. You prompt, you wait, you read the diff, you prompt again. Your agent stops the second you stop typing. Again. Meanwhile, developers on Reddit are closing their laptops and waking up to merged pull requests. One of them left the house for four hours and came back to seven shipped PRs, unattended. The difference isn't talent. It's a loop that knows when it's done. This book gives you a fleet of agents that ships real code by Sunday. You start your first loop in Chapter 1, on a real repository, in ten minutes. By Chapter 4 you are running three kinds of loop and know ...

The overarching philosophy of "RAG in Production From Scratch" is written in aggressive pragmatism. In the modern technology sector, theoretical knowledge holds limited value unless it can be translated into a functional, deployed application that solves a real-world problem. The artificial intelligence ecosystem is currently saturated with high-level conceptual overviews and toy examples that work perfectly in a controlled notebook environment but fail catastrophically when exposed to real user data and production traffic. The philosophy here is simple: build it, break it, fix it, and ...

Master practical software engineering with artificial intelligence to write code faster and eliminate technical debt. Perfect for your daily commute, this pragmatic guide cuts through industry hype to deliver actionable, level-headed workflows for real-world development teams. Whether you are...

Intelligent Computing Frameworks and Applications is a definitive, strictly practical manual designed to transform readers from theoretical learners into capable, production-ready engineers. This section outlines the structural foundation of the book, explaining its underlying philosophy, educational approach, defining characteristics, target audience, and the key knowledge you will acquire by reading it. Philosophy The central philosophy of this book is "Implementation over Theory." For too long, the field of intelligent computing has been dominated by literature that treats algorithms as ...

For generations, much of the world chose to build around American power, law, technology, and institutions. That dependence was not created by strength alone. It rested on something even more valuable: trust. Trust that America would remain predictable. Trust that its institutions would endure. Trust that its technology, laws, alliances, and economic systems could be relied upon even when governments changed. That assumption is being reconsidered. Across Europe and beyond, governments are investing in sovereign clouds, open-source technology, domestic artificial intelligence, independent ...

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...

Stop running one agent at a time. You open Claude Code. One agent. One task. You wait, you read, you tell it what to do next. Again. Meanwhile Anthropic's own engineers are running hundreds of agents through eight phase gates to produce a million lines of code in under two weeks, with the full test suite green before merge. Developers on Reddit are shipping fully orchestrated pull requests with 70 agents in a three hour build. The difference isn't talent. It's a graph. This book hands you the complete agent graph system, built on the subagents and dynamic workflows Claude Code already ships...

If you’ve ever pasted a quick prompt into Claude AI only to receive a generic, forgettable response, you aren't alone. The problem isn't the AI—it's how the information is handed over. In Automate Your Business with Claude AI, author Helen Sandbank breaks down a repeatable, no-code framework that turns Anthropic’s Claude into a relentless, hyper-efficient business collaborator. Instead of relying on gimmicky prompt tricks or fragile hacks, this book teaches you the Prompt Chain Method: a practical system for structuring context, mapping instructions, and connecting clean workflows so ...