Building Software

Master AI coding tools to ship software faster while securing your engineering career against rapid industry automation. Whether you are upskilling during your morning commute or deep in a remote development sprint, this focused guide cuts through the noise to deliver pragmatic solutions...

How can we apply technology to drive business value? For years we've been told that the performance of software delivery teams doesn't matter - that it can't provide a competitive advantage to our companies. Through four years of groundbreaking research to include data collected from the State of DevOps reports conducted with Puppet, 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.

Attention all aspiring entrepreneurs and small business owners! Are you ready to take your bookkeeping skills to the next level? Look no further than "From Scratch to Success," the ultimate guide to building and growing your own bookkeeping business. In this comprehensive eBook, you'll learn everything you need to know to start and manage your very own bookkeeping service. From understanding the importance of bookkeeping to assessing your own qualifications, researching your market, and developing a solid business plan, every step of the process is covered in detail. We'll show you how to ...

The software engineering landscape has changed forever. Are you building with the speed of an entire engineering team, or are you still coding like it's 2024? In 2026, the elite developers aren't just writing code anymore—they are orchestrating autonomous systems. Anthropic's Claude Code has shattered the traditional IDE paradigm, moving AI from a passive chatbot to an active, terminal-integrated, self-correcting engineering agent. If you are not leveraging this shift, you are operating at a massive competitive disadvantage. The Claude Code Black Book is the definitive, highly practical ...

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. They can now describe what they want and watch it materialize instantly. Welcome to the future—Vibe Coding.

A startup executive and investor draws on expertise developed at the premier venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz and as an executive at Uber to address how tech’s most successful products have solved the dreaded ""cold start problem”—by leveraging network effects to launch and scale...

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.

The Art of the API: Building Future-Proof Software from Code to Agentic AI This book takes you from Foundations to the Future of Intelligent Systems APIs are no longer just developer tools—they are the backbone of modern software, powering everything from mobile apps and cloud platforms to automated systems and AI-driven solutions. The Art of the API is your practical guide to understanding, designing, and building APIs that scale, adapt, and create real business value. In this book, you’ll start with the fundamentals—what APIs are, why they matter, and how they have evolved into the ...

Mastering Quality Assurance" is a comprehensive guide that equips readers with the knowledge and skills needed to excel in the field of software testing and quality engineering. This book provides a step-by-step journey through the entire QA process, covering key concepts, methodologies, tools, and best practices. From test planning and execution to defect management and test automation, this book offers practical insights and real-world examples to help readers deliver high-quality software products. Whether you're a seasoned QA professional or new to the field, "Mastering Quality ...

The book explains what it takes to build and manage partner channels in the software industry. The book uses the business model framework introduced by Alexander Osterwalder. It provides a practical guide for organizing the activities required to design productive partner programs as well as implement these programs for the recruitment and management of partners that will find, win, make, keep, and grow happy customers on our behalf.

Living Patterns: Christopher Alexander and the Power of Pattern Language in Design is a compelling exploration of one of the most influential architectural thinkers of the modern era. Christopher Alexander’s groundbreaking work on pattern language transformed not only architecture but also urban planning, community design, and even software development. This book offers readers an accessible yet in-depth introduction to his vision of creating environments that are not only functional and beautiful but truly alive. From his early writings in Notes on the Synthesis of Form to his ...

Stop learning to code. Start learning to Vibe. Have you ever had a brilliant idea for an app, only to be stopped by the "Technical Wall"? You have the vision and the business logic, but you don’t have the months of free time required to master Python, JavaScript, or React. The game has changed. Welcome to the era of Vibe Coding. In Vibe Coding 101, N.J. Parker reveals how to turn Google AI Studio into your personal elite engineering team. This isn't about "prompt engineering" or simple chatbots. This is about a new paradigm of software creation where your natural language is the source ...

"Vibe Coding: The Art of Building Software with AI" is a definitive, industry-centric manual designed to teach modern software engineering through the lens of artificial intelligence. As the technology sector rapidly evolves, traditional methods of typing every line of code by hand are becoming obsolete. This book is a detailed, 10-chapter masterclass on how to use AI to design, build, and deploy software applications practically and efficiently. This book is your practical toolkit for the modern era of software engineering. It guarantees that by the final page, you will possess the precise...

“Andrew Blum plunges into the unseen but real ether of the Internet in a journey both compelling and profound….You will never open an email in quite the same way again.” —Tom Vanderbilt, New York Times bestselling author of Traffic In Tubes, Andrew Blum, a correspondent at Wired magazine...

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...

Kubernetes has become the dominant container orchestrator, but many organizations that have recently adopted this system are still struggling to run actual production workloads. In this practical book, four software engineers from VMware bring their shared experiences running Kubernetes in production and provide insight on key challenges and best practices.

Written with the verve of such works as The Big Short, The History of the Future, and The Spider Network, here is the fascinating, true story of the rise of Ethereum, the second-biggest digital asset in the world, the growth of cryptocurrency, and the future of the internet as we know it...

Unlock the Secrets to Managing Software Development! Building Better Software provides clear, actionable insights to help you lead your teams more effectively, ensuring that the software your team creates is well-designed, robust, and thoroughly tested. Author Martin J. Fenelon breaks down the complexities of software development into simple, actionable steps that project managers can follow, no matter their technical background. Discover how to guide your team confidently through every phase of the project lifecycle, regardless of delivery methodology. Learn how to identify warning signs, ...

Your prompt engineering stopped working the day Claude got smarter, and your production pipeline is paying for it. The techniques that worked on last year's Claude now overtrigger tools, hallucinate details, or quietly break your JSON parser. Nobody sent you the memo when the rules changed. Advanced Prompt Engineering with Claude AI is the technical field guide built for exactly this shift. It covers system prompts, XML tag structuring, and schema-guaranteed structured outputs. No filler, no beginner theory. Built for Opus 4.8, Sonnet 5, and Fable 5, not techniques written for a model two ...

Move beyond basic chatbots. Unlock the next frontier of automation and build your own custom network of autonomous AI agents to run your daily operations on autopilot. For the past few years, the world has used AI as a basic assistant—typing a prompt, waiting for an answer, and doing the manual work themselves. But the era of the simple chatbot is officially over. Welcome to the age of Agentic AI. AI agents don’t just answer your questions; they execute multi-step workflows, use software tools, collaborate with other digital workers, and complete complex projects from start to finish ...