Building Technology

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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.

Anthony Kastros and Brian Brush’s Mastering Fireground Command: Calm the Chaos! is an unprecedented text with more than 1,000 years of combined experience in command case studies by incident commanders from coast to coast. This book will empower you with the skills to: —Improve communications, risk assessment, and accountability with less radio traffic. —Develop an aggressive team to save more civilian lives while keeping firefighters from unnecessary risk. —Bridge the tactical gap between the incident commander and crews working at the front. —Apply military models of ...

From our offices and homes to schools, hospitals, and restaurants, the indoor spaces where we work, learn, play, eat, and heal have an outsized impact on our performance and well-being. They affect our creativity, focus, and problem-solving ability and can make us sick - jeopardizing our future and dragging down profits in the process. Joseph Allen and John Macomber make a compelling case in this urgently needed book for why every business and home owner should make certain relatively low-cost investments a top priority. 

Roger Banks, 42, lives a comfortable life in Rochdale with his wife Sharon and their teenage son, Paul. A savvy online trader with a knack for spotting bargains, Roger supplements his income with several successful subscription apps he has developed from his workshop—a converted garage packed with tools, screens, and half-finished ideas. Life is steady, practical, and predictable. Until a phone call changes everything. When Roger’s eccentric Uncle George dies at the age of 84, he leaves Roger an unexpected inheritance: a parcel of land in Ogmore-by-Sea, near Porthcawl in South Wales. On...

Stop Building Chatbots. Start Engineering Autonomous Systems. Most “AI guides” teach prompts. This book teaches architecture. If you want to design AI agents that plan, reason, execute tools, manage memory, coordinate roles, and operate safely in real-world environments—this is your field manual. The All In One Agentic AI Bible is a structured 7-step framework that takes you from foundational concepts to enterprise-grade deployment.

"Drone Technology: Building from Scratch" is a comprehensive, hands-on guide designed to take readers from foundational principles to the construction and programming of a fully functional autonomous drone. This book serves as both a university textbook and a practical project manual, meticulously designed for the next generation of engineers and technologists. Philosophy: The core philosophy of this book is "learning by building." I believe that abstract concepts in engineering and computer science become concrete and memorable only when they are applied to create something tangible. This ...

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...

This audiobook teaches you how to build an intelligent system from end to end and leverage machine learning in practice. You will understand how to apply your existing skills in software engineering, data science, machine learning, management, and program management to produce working systems.

As you are aware, we stand at the threshold of a remarkable transformation in human technological capability, and China has emerged as one of the most dynamic forces shaping this future. This book explores one of the most consequential developments of our time: China's ambitious pursuit of self-building AI systems and recursive technology—artificial intelligence that can improve, adapt, and evolve itself with minimal human intervention. The story of China's remarkable AI journey is one of extraordinary ambition matched by impressive execution. Over the past two decades, China has ...

Steel Gods is the second novel in the Great Silence trilogy, which began with Grave Empire, from Sunday Times bestselling author Richard Swan—a dark flintlock fantasy filled with epic adventure, arcane mysteries and creeping dread. Industrial Revolution Beckons. Spiritual Catastrophe Looms...

Are you bored with bedtime stories about princes and princesses, gnomes, wizards, and dragons? Do you want something more realistic, closer to our time? Do you also need bedtime stories to make sense, teach a moral lesson, and raise interesting topics? Everything you need is here! A Collection of Fantastic Short Bedtime Stories for kids contains 10 five-minute fantasy stories that you can read aloud to your child before going to bed. No princesses here–these stories are about space, other planets, aliens, artificial intelligence, robots, cloning, portals, and modern technologies. There ...

In AI and the Octopus Organization: Building the Superintelligent Firm, leading futurist Jonathan Brill and innovation expert Stephen Wunker unveil a groundbreaking vision for how organizations must evolve to survive and thrive in the age of artificial intelligence. Drawing inspiration from the octopus, an ancient creature noted for both rapid adaptation and distributed intelligence, the authors show that only businesses that rewire their structure, leadership, and decision-making can unlock AI's full potential.

An AI agent is a system with four moving parts. Once you can name those parts and see how they connect, the technology stops being a black box and starts being a tool you can evaluate with the same operational judgment you apply to every other decision in your business. That sentence is the entire premise of AI Agent Foundations — and the layer missing from almost everything else written on the topic.

If you've already tried the "50 automations" approach — scattered tips from YouTube tutorials, half-finished Zapier flows, ChatGPT prompts that work in isolation but never connect to anything — you already know the difference. Tips give you a slightly better toolbox. Systems give you back your week.

Unlock the Secrets of AI Deep Learning and Neural Networks: Empower Your Future in Minutes a Day! Ready to dive into the world of artificial intelligence, but don’t know where to start? Whether you're a student, developer, or curious learner, this book takes you on a journey to master deep learning concepts, demystify neural networks, and transform your skills into real-world impact—all at your own pace.

Building a Better Mouse is the story of the Electronic Imagineers who designed Epcot Center. It tells the tale of the "hundreds of mostly young, mostly bright and all embarrassingly idealistic people" who worked on Epcot, and gives a unique insider's perspective on what it was like to be in the trenches as a Disney Imagineer in the early 1980s, from pixie dusting - when new employees are indoctrinated into all things Disney - through the craziness of the engineering design process, right up until the last frantic dash to opening day.

Ever wondered what It takes to transform an early-stage technology startup or nascent organization into an effective software product enterprise? The kind that attracts significant market traction, investment, and ultimately, valuation? It’s not all about genius or luck, but rather, focused execution of good practices over time. The trick is to iterate pragmatically on a path that continuously builds value and results while avoiding costly distractions. If you’re a technology or product leader in one of these firms, or considering a move into the startup world, you’ll find this book ...

The Wealth Creation Formula will give you an inside look at How I changed my poverty thinking and created Generational Wealth for myself and my family. In The Wealth Creation Formula, I will share the EXACT recipe I used to go from earning $30,000 a year to having financial freedom forever. This simple read will teach you how to go from poverty, getting by — middle-class traps that enslave so many to be poorer than they need to be.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the authors of Click and former Google Ventures partners, Sprint presents a unique five-day process for solving tough problems, proven at more than a hundred companies. Entrepreneurs and leaders face big questions every day: What’s the most important place to...