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UNLOCK YOUR GAME'S NARRATIVE POTENTIAL! With increasingly sophisticated video games being consumed by an enthusiastic and expanding audience, the pressure is on game developers like never before to deliver exciting stories and engaging characters. With Video Game Storytelling, game writer and...

Great game stories don't come from big budgets. They come from good systems. The classic LucasArts adventures - The Secret of Monkey Island, Grim Fandango, Day of the Tentacle - built worlds players still quote decades later. They did it on floppy disks, at 320×200 resolution, with no voice budget and no cinematic engine. Their advantage wasn't money. It was design discipline: story and mechanics fused so tightly you couldn't separate them. Modern indie developers work under the same kind of constraints those teams did - small crews, tight budgets, no time. This book argues that's an ...

How Real Estate Developers Think considers developers from three different perspectives. Brown profiles the careers of individual developers to illustrate the character of the entrepreneur; considers the roles played by innovation, design, marketing, and sales in the production of real estate; and examines the risks and rewards that motivate developers as people.

AI-Assisted Software Development Mastery is a complete, hands-on guide to working with AI across the entire development lifecycle, prompt engineering, coding, debugging, testing, documentation, and system architecture. Real Java code. Real company examples from Netflix, Stripe, Google, and Amazon. A 25-question quiz closing every chapter, so it actually sticks. Software developers who master AI-assisted workflows aren't just coding faster, they're solving problems junior teams can't touch and shipping features senior teams used to need weeks for. AI-Assisted Software Development Mastery is ...

"Agentic System and Design" is a comprehensive, practical guide designed to equip students and developers with the skills needed to build modern, AI-powered agentic systems. This book cuts through the hype and theory to provide a direct, hands-on path to mastering the design and implementation of intelligent agents using the LangChain framework. Philosophy The philosophy of this book is rooted in a simple but powerful idea: understanding comes from doing. I believe that complex topics like AI agent design are best learned not by reading abstract descriptions but by actively building and ...

Unlock the secrets to designing scalable, resilient, and high-performing systems with the System Design Workbook! This hands-on guide provides developers with the practical knowledge and tools to tackle real-world system design challenges. Whether you're preparing for technical interviews, optimizing existing systems, or building robust architectures, this workbook is your essential resource.What You'll Learn: Core system design concepts, including scalability, bottleneck identification, and trade-offs. Effective strategies for data partitioning and replication to handle large-scale data. ...

AI agents are easy to demonstrate. Reliable agents are engineered. Generative AI agents can retrieve knowledge, call tools, coordinate workflows, and take action across real business systems. But once an agent moves beyond a controlled demonstration, probabilistic behavior, unsafe tool use, prompt injection, hidden state, rising costs, and silent failures become engineering problems—not merely prompting problems. Building Reliable Generative AI Agents gives developers, software architects, engineering leaders, and technical decision-makers a practical, framework-neutral blueprint for ...

The Systems Thinker's Advantage: Why the Rarest Skill in Software Is the Only One AI Can't Replace AI can write your code. It can't see your system. The software industry is splitting in two. On one side: developers whose value was translating requirements into code — now watching AI do it faster and cheaper. On the other: developers who see the whole system — the feedback loops between technology, organizations, markets, and human behavior — and who thrive precisely because AI makes that interconnection more complex, not less. This book is for developers who want to be on the right ...

Inside this book, readers will learn how to: Apply a five-question framework before writing a single line of architecture — identifying what decision the system supports, who consumes its output, how fresh that output must be, what a wrong output costs, and what the system does when it is unavailable Design the data layer for ML workloads from first principles — covering data contracts, schema versioning, lineage tracking, and the boundary discipline that prevents the silent cross-team failures most ML incidents trace back to Build feature engineering pipelines with point-in-time ...

Autonomous AI Agents Guide for Developers: Design Reliable Agentic Applications with Python, APIs, RAG, Memory, and Human Oversight You can build an AI agent that completes a demo—but can you trust it to act safely, recover from failure, and behave predictably in production? For software developers, AI engineers, and technical architects, the difficult part is no longer generating model responses. The real challenge is controlling what happens when an agent selects tools, accesses private data, remembers information, delegates work, waits for approval, or changes an external system. ...

"The NoSQL Design & Modeling Solution" is a comprehensive, practical-oriented guide designed for students and professionals of computer science and information technology. It provides a thorough exploration of non-relational databases, focusing on the critical skills of data modeling, system design, and real-world implementation. Philosophy The core philosophy of this book is "learning by doing." We operate on the principle that true understanding of NoSQL databases comes not from memorizing definitions, but from grappling with design trade-offs and implementing practical solutions. The ...

Master software architecture and conquer complex team codebases using practical object-oriented design patterns. Perfect for focused upskilling during your morning commute or while debugging at your desk, this audio guide strips away dense computer science theory to reveal what elegant...

A fully updated edition of the classic business reference book on product development from a world renowned innovation management scholar For more than two decades, Winning at New Products has served as the bible for product developers everywhere. Robert G. Cooper demonstrates why consistent...

From the creator of the world's leading RAG learning resource - the 27,000-star RAG Techniques repository on GitHub. Stop drowning in code. Start understanding RAG. Most RAG books hand you 400 pages of Python and hope you piece the ideas together yourself. RAG Made Simple does the opposite. Every technique is taught through clear visual diagrams and plain-English analogies - so you actually understand why each method works before you ever touch a line of code. Inside this book you'll master 22 production-grade RAG techniques, including: The foundations - simple RAG, reliable RAG, semantic ...

Transform chaotic legacy systems into clean architecture and escape the daily frustration of tangled software development. Whether you are tuning in during a stressful commute or seeking mental clarity after battling fragile codebases, this tactical playbook delivers immediate relief. Break free...

You absolutely can. And you don't need a computer science degree, an artistic background, or any previous coding experience to do it. In Unreal Engine 5 for Beginners, industry veteran and interactive media educator Irene Bolton strips away the intimidating jargon and technical gatekeeping to hand you the ultimate "dummy-proof" guide to game creation. Over her twelve-year career building everything from indie puzzles to massive action-adventure titles, Irene has proven that the power of Unreal Engine 5 belongs to everyone—not just seasoned engineers. This book is the step-by-step ...

Stop trading your elite technical intellect for corporate compliance. Eliminate the glass ceiling on your earnings, protect your professional autonomy, and build a high-yielding independent B2B practice. Most senior software engineers, database architects, and technical product managers face a silent crisis. They climb the corporate tech ladder only to find themselves trapped in the golden handcuff paradox—spending their weeks sitting through agonizing cross-departmental alignment loops, navigating reorg politics, and managing administrative compliance while their specialized technical ...

Have you ever wondered how top-tier apps like Instagram or Airbnb build their sleek, effortless interfaces? Are you a developer wanting to collaborate better with your design team, an entrepreneur looking to mock up your next big idea, or a complete beginner ready to launch a high-paying career in UI/UX design? The answer to breaking into the design world sits right in your hands. In Figma For Beginners, UI/UX designer and software developer Arthur Landon strips away the confusing tech jargon to deliver a clear, project-based blueprint to mastering Figma—the absolute industry-standard ...

"Design, Build & Deploy AI-Powered Full Stack Apps" is a comprehensive, project-oriented guide that systematically bridges the gap between Artificial Intelligence (AI) and full-stack web development. This book is engineered for learners and practitioners who want to move beyond theoretical knowledge and gain the hands-on skills required to create, from scratch, modern, intelligent applications. Philosophy The guiding philosophy of this book is "Implementation First." It is built on the pedagogical principle that the most effective way to learn complex technical skills is by actively ...

Most AI systems don’t fail because of capability—they fail because of architecture. If you’ve already built AI agents, you’ve likely felt the limits. Things work… until they don’t. Systems become unpredictable. Scaling introduces chaos. What started simple becomes hard to control. This book is your shift—from builder to architect. Agentic AI Architecture & Multi-Agent Systems shows you how to design systems that don’t just work, but hold together under real-world pressure. You’ll move beyond single-agent setups and learn how to structure coordinated, scalable, production-...