Modern Engineering

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.

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.

The revered New York Times bestselling author traces the development of technology from the Industrial Age to the Digital Age to explore the single component crucial to advancement—precision—in a superb history that is both an homage and a warning for our future. The rise of manufacturing...

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...

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 ...

Network engineers build the infrastructure that powers the modern world. Every website, cloud platform, application, video call, database, and AI workload depends on networks that are designed, secured, monitored, and maintained by skilled professionals. But understanding networking concepts is only the beginning. Real network engineering requires implementation. Network Engineering is a practical, hands-on guide designed to help IT professionals, network administrators, cloud engineers, DevOps practitioners, cybersecurity specialists, and aspiring network engineers build real-world ...

A Russian dissident, a Jesuit priest, and an American mule skinner are but a few of the bold visionaries who crafted the scientific story of cosmic origins. The collective insights of these and numerous creative thinkers advanced human understanding from mythology to mathematics, yielding falsifiable alternatives to ancient folklore and campfire tales. Listening to the Big Bang tells the dramatic human story—filled with colorful characters, unsung catalysts, and glorified heroes—which made the Big Bang the leading cosmological theory.

TV, personal computers, automatic sliding doors, electron microscope, GPS, MRI scan and other such technological applications make our lives better. In the early 20th century, a number of important discoveries and theories were put forward – discovery of electron and internal structure of atom, photoelectric effect, Einstein’s relativity and quantum theory to name a few. Most ideas were beyond human comprehension, some of the theories were bizarre! In this book we will understand the basics of modern physics in a way that anyone can appreciate the relevance of modern technology in our ...

This is an extraordinary chronicle of the fifteen years, 1815–1830, that laid the foundations of modern society. It is a history of people, ideas, politics, manners, morals, economics, art, science and technology, diplomacy, business and commerce, literature, and revolution.

Aubrey Clayton traces the history of how statistics went astray, beginning with the groundbreaking work of the 17th-century mathematician Jacob Bernoulli and winding through gambling, astronomy, and genetics. Clayton recounts the feuds among rival schools of statistics, exploring the surprisingly human problems that gave rise to the discipline and the all-too-human shortcomings that derailed it.

Stop building 'Resume-Driven' architectures and start building data systems that actually work. In 'The Modern Data Engineer', senior engineer Ryan Kastner cuts through the industry hype to deliver a blunt, practical blueprint for 2025. This isn’t a promotional pamphlet for cloud vendors; it’s a serious text for working engineers who are tired of overengineered stacks and 'Big Data' taxes. Learn why S3 is your most important tool, how DuckDB is transforming localized compute, and why Apache Iceberg has won the table format wars. Kastner explains exactly when to reach for Spark—and ...

In The Blank Slate, Steven Pinker, one of the world's leading experts on language and the mind, explores the idea of human nature and its moral, emotional, and political colorings. With characteristic wit, lucidity, and insight, Pinker argues that the dogma that the mind has no innate traits, denies our common humanity and our individual preferences, replaces objective analyses of social problems with feel-good slogans, and distorts our understanding of politics, violence, parenting, and the arts.

It’s been over a year since The Day. Morgan and his companions have fought to stay alive and he finally managed to get to his parents and bring them back. Their situation is getting better every day, but there are still challenges ahead of them. With a desire to return to a normal life on everyone’s mind, the group starts taking steps to do just that. Thinking bigger they tackle some major projects that will provide valuable resources. However, there are others out there making plans for them as well.

Cloud computing is no longer optional. Organizations of every size now rely on cloud platforms to build applications, store data, secure infrastructure, deploy services globally, and scale technology faster than ever before. Yet many professionals use cloud services every day without fully understanding how they work. The truth is simple: You don't need to be a cloud architect to understand cloud computing. You need to understand the fundamentals, the technologies powering modern cloud platforms, and the principles organizations use to design, secure, and scale cloud infrastructure ...

Forged in Precision: The Evolution of the American Rifle Discover the captivating journey of the American rifle, a tool that has shaped the history, culture, and innovation of a nation. From its humble beginnings as a hunting instrument to becoming a symbol of freedom and technological ingenuity, this book dives deep into the evolution of the American rifle through history. Whether you’re a history enthusiast, a firearms expert, or a curious reader, this is the definitive guide to the fascinating transformation of rifles across centuries. How did a tool of survival evolve into a symbol of...

A lively history seen through the fifty inventions that shaped it most profoundly, by the bestselling author of The Undercover Economist and Messy. Who thought up paper money? What was the secret element that made the Gutenberg printing press possible? And what is the connection between The Da...

Data is the foundation of modern business. Every dashboard, recommendation engine, AI model, analytics report, and business decision depends on one thing: reliable data. But raw data is rarely useful on its own. The truth is simple: Organizations need engineers who can collect, move, transform, validate, store, and deliver data at scale. That is the role of the modern Data Engineer. In Data Engineering Essentials, Ethan Vale provides a practical guide to designing and building modern data platforms using the tools, architectures, and best practices used by today's leading technology ...

On August 10, 1632, five men in flowing black robes convened in a somber Roman palazzo to pass judgment on a deceptively simple proposition: that a continuous line is composed of distinct and infinitely tiny parts. With the stroke of a pen the Jesuit fathers banned the doctrine of infinitesimals, announcing that it could never be taught or even mentioned. The concept was deemed dangerous and subversive, a threat to the belief that the world was an orderly place, governed by a strict and unchanging set of rules.

ARE YOU LEAVING TIME, MONEY, AND RESULTS ON THE TABLE? AI IS CHANGING PROJECT MANAGEMENT FOREVER — AND THIS IS YOUR COMPLETE GUIDE. Whether you're a PMP-certified professional, a scrum master, an agile coach, or a team lead managing projects without a formal title, artificial intelligence is now the highest-leverage skill you can add to your toolkit. AI-Powered Project Management is the most comprehensive, practical, step-by-step guide available for using ChatGPT, Claude, Google Gemini, and Microsoft Copilot to transform how you plan, execute, monitor, and deliver projects — in any ...

From the author of the bestselling The Professor and the Madman comes the fascinating story of William Smith, the orphaned son of an English country blacksmith, who became obsessed with creating the world's first geological map and ultimately became the father of modern geology. In 1793 William...