Modern Software

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.

Master the Art of Designing Modern Software Systems — From Beginner to Expert, with Real-World Examples and Interview Prep. If you’re a beginner just starting out, or a developer preparing for system design interviews, or a senior architect looking to sharpen your knowledge, Modern Software System Design & Architecture is your complete guide to building reliable, scalable, and real-world systems.Who This Book Is For? Newcomers: Learn the fundamentals of reliable and scalable system design with simple, beginner-friendly explanations. Experienced Engineers: Prepare confidently for system ...

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 latest insights from the field. Aspiring and existing architects alike will examine architectural characteristics, architectural patterns, component determination, diagramming architecture, governance, data, generative AI, team topologies, and many other topics.

Most engineers are preparing for yesterday's interviews. This book prepares you for today's. Generative AI system design is now a core expectation at top tech companies — not a bonus skill. If you're walking into a system design interview in 2026 without knowing how to architect LLM-powered systems, RAG pipelines, and vector search at scale, you're already behind. This book closes that gap — fast. What You'll Learn A battle-tested framework for approaching any GenAI system design question How LLMs, RAG, embeddings, vector databases, and prompt engineering actually work in production How...

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 architectures. Architecture veterans and practicing consultants Neal Ford, Mark Richards, Pramod Sadalage, and Zhamak Dehghani discuss strategies for choosing an appropriate architecture.

This book is about software project management, using the fictitious story of Kelly, Pat, and Shane, who work on developing a product called Stippy at a startup called FunPlace. The book covers the different phases of the project, from planning to execution, and the challenges and solutions that the team encounters along the way.

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 ...

VIBE CODING: AI Pair-Programming Done Right is a manifesto for modern programming as both craft and discipline. Inspired by timeless principles of clarity, order, and resilience, it leads you from intention-revealing functions to scalable, cloud-native systems. Inside, you’ll find not only code examples but also professionally designed prompts that show how to generate clean, maintainable code aligned with professional standards. Balancing philosophy and practice—tests as foundation, version control as memory, documentation as hospitality, deployments as ritual—it redefines coding ...

A comprehensive guide to day trading, with prescriptive information and actionable advice to help you achieve financial success. It may seem that day trading is only for savvy investors who know the ins and outs of the marketplace—but it doesn’t have to be. All it takes is the right...

Software powers modern business. But building software is only half the challenge. The real challenge is delivering software quickly, reliably, securely, and at scale. That is where DevOps changes everything. DevOps Engineering Essentials is a practical guide to modern software delivery, helping readers understand the tools, practices, and automation strategies used by today's highest-performing engineering organizations. From source code management and CI/CD pipelines to containers, Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, observability, reliability engineering, and platform engineering, this ...

Discover the full power of modern C programming, with an inside look at the new C23 standard. For programs that need to be small, fast, and reliable, C is the gold standard. Whether you’re writing embedded code, low-level system routines, or high-performance applications, C is up to the challenge. This unique book by Jens Gustedt, a member of the ISO C standards committee, gets you up to speed with C23.

Every SaaS company on earth is careening towards its next revenue plateau. It’s called a Growth Ceiling—a moment in time where growth stops, and you’re losing just as many customers as you’re bringing in. It’s not an opinion—it’s just how recurring revenue businesses work.

Software Testing in the AI Era: A Complete Guide for Modern Testers by Rajamanickam Antonimuthu Step into the future of quality assurance with Software Testing in the AI Era. This practical and easy-to-read guide shows how Artificial Intelligence is reshaping the world of software testing — from using AI-powered tools for automation to testing the AI systems themselves. Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced QA professional, this book will help you: Understand how AI transforms traditional testing methods Use AI tools to generate, maintain, and optimize test cases Test data, models...

A clear and structured guide to AI infrastructure. This book provides a straightforward and well organized explanation of the systems that make artificial intelligence possible.t explains the full infrastructure that supports modern AI, from hardware and data systems to networking and control software. Designed for readers with a basic understanding of technology, it keeps the language simple while remaining technically accurate. You will learn: What makes AI infrastructure different from traditional computing How processors such as CPUs, GPUs, TPUs, NPUs, and FPGAs support AI workloads How...

The modern world runs on data — this is the book that shows you how to design the systems behind it. In today’s digital age, data isn’t just fuel — it’s the engine that powers everything from financial transactions and personalized recommendations to artificial intelligence and global-scale analytics. Yet, while technology evolves at a breathtaking pace, the fundamental challenge remains the same: how do we design systems that are reliable, scalable, and intelligent enough to keep up? Modern Data Systems: Designing Reliable, Scalable, and Intelligent Applications by Daniel R. Holt...

Are you ready to architect enterprise-grade systems with modern C# and .NET 14? Do you want to master Clean Architecture and enterprise patterns to build scalable applications? Tired of brittle codebases, spaghetti dependencies, and costly refactors? Want to reduce infrastructure costs while increasing your earning potential as a sought-after software architect? This updated 2025 edition of The Software Architecture Bible is your comprehensive, full-color guide to mastering modern system design. It provides the structured framework you need to go from concept to production in just 30 days. ...

Twenty-seven minutes. That's how long it took Sarah Chen's team to deploy a critical production fix that would have taken three weeks just two years ago. No frantic debugging. No war rooms. Just a developer, an AI pair programmer, and a conversation that felt more like orchestration than coding. While you were perfecting your sprint planning, the gap between thinking "I need to build this" and seeing it running in production collapsed from months to minutes. Engineers at GitHub and Google are shipping features before lunch that would have been quarterly projects in 2020. Here's what ...

Ever tried learning Python, only to get lost in tutorials that feel too technical, too fast, or just plain confusing? You're not alone. This friendly, step-by-step beginner's guide makes Python simple, practical, and surprisingly fun even if you've never written a single line of code. With 35+ hands-on exercises and 6 real world projects, you'll go from complete beginner to confident Python programmer. No tech background required. Just 10 minutes a day.

Operational architecture for long-lived data systems. Modern data systems rarely fail because of broken code. They fail because architectural intent erodes under time, pressure, and continuous change. Operating Modern Data Systems is a deep, architecture-first examination of what happens after systems leave the whiteboard and enter production. It reframes operations as an architectural discipline—where guarantees are defended or lost, authority is exercised under stress, and reliability is proven over years rather than releases. This book is not about tools, dashboards, or incident ...

Data systems outlive applications, frameworks, and infrastructure. They encode decisions that shape what a system can become—and what it can never safely change. Designing Modern Data Systems is a deep, decision-driven guide to building data systems that are reliable, scalable, and adaptable over time. Rather than focusing on tools or trends, this book teaches how to reason about architecture itself: how guarantees are chosen, where authority lives, how failures manifest, and how systems evolve under real-world pressure. Written for experienced engineers and architects, the book treats ...