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Build Every Layer of a Large Language Model from Scratch
A practical, project-driven manual for engineers who want to understand how modern language models are built — and where they fail — by writing every layer themselves. From a scalar autograd engine to RLHF to fused specialists, in 35 hands-on projects with deliberate sabotage experiments. Build it. Break it. Measure it.
Skip the black-box frameworks. Build a production-grade AI coding agent from scratch in pure Python - cloud or local, tested with pytest, all in a single file.
1000 carefully designed C++ problems across 8 progressive volumes — from your very first line of code to advanced algorithms. Every single solution is compiled and tested on g++, with hints, complexity analysis, and a clear explanation for each. A complete, structured path from beginner to mastery.
AI can generate code faster than ever. But speed is no longer the hardest part of software development.The real challenge is building systems where generated code remains correct, controlled, and aligned with architectural intent. Becoming a Harness-Driven Developer introduces a new development model for the age of AI-assisted engineering - one where developers focus less on writing every line by hand and more on defining the rules, structure, and enforcement mechanisms within which AI code agents operate.Through a practical repository mapped directly to the book’s chapters, this book shows how to move from ad hoc coding to a harness-driven approach based on specification, architecture, invariants, controlled execution, and system evolution. This is a book about staying in control while software development changes.
Graphics Pipeline Design and Hardware ImplementationModern GPUs are the most complex and efficient parallel processors ever created—and this book shows you exactly how they work at the hardware level.Unlike typical graphics or programming guides, this volume takes you inside the GPU itself: how instructions flow through pipelines, how memory hierarchies sustain bandwidth, how shader cores and fixed-function units cooperate to render billions of pixels per second.
The value of a SaaS business is more than code and revenue. Domains, service accounts, social profiles, and infrastructure ownership matter too. A competitor claiming your brand on X is bad, but a malicious npm scope using your brand to ship harmful code to customers is far worse.
The most important impact of AI on software development isn't that it writes code faster — it's that it changes what you can delegate. Agentic Programming is a practical roadmap for climbing the AI Fluency Ladder: from prompting to agentic workflows, verified execution, and ultimately autonomous software development.
A best-selling book. The practitioner's guide to Claude Code in production. Thirty-one chapters covering the agent loop, tools, hooks, MCP, the Claude Agent SDK, permissions, multi-agent orchestration, evals, observability, and cost engineering. Includes a full walkthrough of Anthropic's financial services reference agents. Code from real production systems, not toy examples.
You’ll just need the Five Essential Elements of Learning Through five essential elements, you’ll gain the ability to learn anything deeply—no matter how complex the subject. These five pillars of effective learning will become lifelong tools, guiding you every time you set out to truly master new knowledge and retain it permanently. If you're ready to stop passively consuming information and start truly mastering it, this book is for you.
Prepare for senior Go interviews, or for the jump from mid-level to senior, with a focus on AI platform engineering: LLM gateways, RAG, vector search, Kubernetes, observability, concurrency ownership, and production failure modes. Includes interview questions, senior-level answer rubrics, executable Go examples, and a production-oriented RAG service capstone you can run, test, break, and explain.
Build a complete LLM inference engine in C++ — from a blank project to a working Transformer that loads a real model and generates text. Forged one challenge at a time, with tests that prove every piece works before you move on.
How to put AI agents in production without ending up in the news. A field guide to bounded AI autonomy, MCP security, and AgentSecOps.
What makes a software engineer truly effective? Beyond writing code, effectiveness comes from ethics, sustainable practices, collaboration, and the courage to adapt. The Effective Software Engineer guides you from clean coding habits to organizational empowerment, bridging the gap between developers and leaders.
Spring Boot 4 changes everything you thought you knew about building Java applications. Virtual threads make blocking code fast again. Native images deliver instant startup. First-class API versioning finally solves the "how do we evolve our APIs?" problem. But here's the catch: upgrading isn't just a dependency bump. Jakarta EE 11, new auto-configuration patterns, GraalVM constraints, and reactive vs. virtual threads— getting it right requires understanding the *why* behind every change. This book is your production-ready guide to Spring Boot 4 and Spring Framework 7. Written for intermediate developers who need more than "hello world" tutorials. Learn how to: • Build cloud-native microservices that scale • Migrate from Boot 3 safely and incrementally • Design APIs with built-in versioning and resilience • Choose between reactive, virtual threads, and native images • Secure distributed systems with JWT and OAuth2 • Implement observability that actually helps you debug production issues 300+ pages. 27 chapters. Real code. Real architecture. Real problems solved.
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A practical, project-driven manual for engineers who want to understand how modern language models are built — and where they fail — by writing every layer themselves. From a scalar autograd engine to RLHF to fused specialists, in 35 hands-on projects with deliberate sabotage experiments. Build it. Break it. Measure it.
A best-selling book. The practitioner's guide to Claude Code in production. Thirty-one chapters covering the agent loop, tools, hooks, MCP, the Claude Agent SDK, permissions, multi-agent orchestration, evals, observability, and cost engineering. Includes a full walkthrough of Anthropic's financial services reference agents. Code from real production systems, not toy examples.
A structured introduction to the foundations of civil, criminal, and business law. This book breaks down essential legal principles in a clear and accessible way, helping readers understand how the law functions in real-world situations. Designed for students and independent learners building their first strong foundation in law.
Learn SysML v2 with the ultimate guide for all skill levels in MBSE. Authored by insiders, it's your key to unlocking the full potential of system modeling and a passport to mastering your MBSE.
The most important impact of AI on software development isn't that it writes code faster — it's that it changes what you can delegate. Agentic Programming is a practical roadmap for climbing the AI Fluency Ladder: from prompting to agentic workflows, verified execution, and ultimately autonomous software development.
Not just for mathematicians and detectives! Learn the basics of logic and its many applications, including advanced testing, constraint solving, function composition, and code proofs. Over 50 exercises and 20 sample programs are included. No prior math background required!
All new language and library features of C++23 (for those who know C++20 already). The book presents all new language and library features of C++23. Learn how this impacts day-to-day programming, to benefit in practice, to combine new features, and to avoid all new traps. Buy early, pay less, free updates. Current Content: www.cppstd23.com Other leanpub books by this author:C++20C++17C++ Move Semantics
The book covers every topic in the latest CISSP exam syllabus, organized in a format that makes it easy to drill down on specific exam domains and concepts at-a-glance, making it an essential exam resource for anyone who aims to prepare for the exam without wasting time or money.
Residues and The Philosophy of Software Architecture
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Two practical books for teams building enterprise AI agents in production. Start with Claude Code, tools, MCP, evals, observability, and production agent workflows. Then secure those agents with bounded autonomy, AgentSecOps, RAG governance, identity controls, audit evidence, and regulatory readiness.
Build the future of AI engineering with a complete collection covering local LLM deployment, AI infrastructure, production agent systems, and reliable automation. This bundle gives developers and technical professionals the practical skills to run powerful models privately, design scalable AI architectures, connect agents to real-world tools, and build intelligent systems ready for production.
Own all three books in the Architect Elevator series for 900 pages of large-scale IT architecture! First, rethink the role of the architect, and then apply it to two major anchors of any IT strategy: cloud computing and platforms.
Unlocking the 'How' and 'Why' behind Kotlin fundamentals and internal mechanisms, and a dissection of what runs beneath every @Composable.
This bundle includes the books “Residues: Time, Change and Uncertainty in Software Architecture” and “The Architect’s Paradox: Uncertainty and the Philosophy of Software Architecture” by Barry M O’Reilly. The books complement each other, with Residues giving a practical description of how to apply residuality theory and The Architect’s Paradox...
Growing Agile: Coach's Guide Series This bundle provides a collection of training and workshop plans for a variety of agile topics. The series is aimed at agile coaches, trainers and ScrumMasters who often find themselves needing to help teams understand agile concepts. Each book in the series provides the plans, slides, handouts and activity...
The future of software belongs to engineers who know how to build with AI, not just use it. This five-book collection is your complete guide to mastering AI-assisted software development, production AI systems, business automation, prompt engineering, algorithmic trading, and enterprise-grade SaaS. Packed with practical frameworks, real-world case studies, production-ready architectures, and immediately applicable techniques, these books will help you move beyond AI experimentation to building reliable, scalable, high-impact systems that create measurable business value.
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Russ Miles - Len Epp interviews Russ Miles, author of The Sovereign Engineer, about how software professionals can thrive in the age of AI. Russ argues that AI magnifies both good and bad engineering practices, introducing concepts such as habitat engineering, AI literacy, and sovereign engineering. They explore LLMs, agentic development, architecture, TDD, feedback loops, and why human judgment, curiosity, and systems thinking remain essential as AI transforms software development.
Hands-on online course to learn all you need to know to get a Spring Boot application into production with AWS. Visit our landing page for a tour of the contents. Make sure to get familiar with all available bundle options before enrolling.
Master language models through mathematics, illustrations, and code―and build your own from scratch! This course includes nearly three hours of exclusive video interviews with the author, covering questions related to each of the six lessons included in the course.
Unlock the power of AI in your applications with this groundbreaking course on AI-driven application architecture. Discover practical patterns and principles for building intelligent, adaptive, and user-centric software systems that harness the potential of large language models. This course includes exclusive video interviews with the author.
This is a fast-paced, practical, and visual guide to the strange new world of Generative AI. It is like an extended version of Henrik's viral video with the same name.
Microservices are a great approach for building software at scale. But although the ideas at the root of microservices may sound simple, this is not a simple approach. There are several big traps along the way, and it's important to avoid them...
To ace your next Android developer job interview, focus on truly understanding the concepts, not just memorizing answers, and practicing how to apply them. With over 250 quiz questions, 370 practical and follow-up questions with full answers, and 60+ pro tips, this course helps you sharpen skills, understand the why, and prepare for real-world technical challenges. ISBN: 979-8285926436
Takes you from "how to use Kotlin" into "how Kotlin really works," revealing internal implementations, demystifying bytecode and compiler behavior, and uncovering the internals that shape the language. With hands-on Code Playgrounds for immediate practice and 158 interactive assessments to test and reinforce your understanding, this course doesn't just show you why everything is the way it is, it challenges you to prove you've mastered it. ISBN: 979-8243872744
This course gives you an intuitive understanding of the eight most important machine learning algorithms. It helps you get started using them in your own projects NOW -- in a single line of Python code. After finishing this course, you'll be able to select, understand, and implement the top 8 machine learning algorithms in your own projects.
This course is based on the 2025 edition of the best-selling Kubernetes book, that has been fully updated for the latest versions of Kubernetes and the latest industry trends. You won't find a better and more up-to-date book-based course on Kubernetes. Hand-crafted over the past 8 years by best-selling author Nigel Poulton.
7 Course-Bundle: Shut Up and Code Python + PyCharm + Coding Interview + Machine Learning + One-Liners + Regex + Lambdas
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About the Track: AI Masterclass Artificial Intelligence is reshaping the way we live, work, and build technology. The AI Masterclass Track brings together three powerful courses from world-class experts to give you a comprehensive, practical, and hands-on education in the age of AI. Whether you want to understand the big picture, apply AI...
Taking this bundle, you'll get a comprehensive set of courses that cover almost the whole surface of the .NET framework.The big topics that are covered:WPFMVVMSpecFlow and SeleniumLINQMultithreading and Parallel ProgrammingC# in Depth: Puzzles and GotchasAlgorithms and Data Structures in C#VS and R#and engineering practices:Unit Testing with...
This is the complete track to learn about essential Kotlin features and get ready for working in Kotlin in daily basis. It starts from essentials, and on the way reaches advanced topics like efficient collection processing or DSL creation.
Senior Android developer interviews rarely test memorized answers. They test whether you truly understand how things work under the hood. This track takes you beyond “how to use” into “how Android, Compose, and Kotlin actually work,” exploring internal implementations, bytecode and compiler behavior, and the system-level concepts that shape modern Android development.
Senior Android interviews test real understanding, not memorized answers. This track goes beyond “how to use Kotlin” into how Kotlin and Android actually work under the hood, including compiler behavior and internal concepts. With hands-on playgrounds and 400+ quiz and interview-style questions, it helps you practice reasoning through problems and confidently tackle senior-level technical interviews.
"Shut up and code." Laughter in the audience. The hacker had just plugged in his notebook and started sharing his screen to present his super-smart Python script. "Shut up and code" The letters written in a white literal coding font on black background was the hackers' home screen background mantra. At the time, I was a first-year computer...
Learn Python the Practical Way - In this course you learn all the basics of the Python programming language. It contains exercises, explanatory videos, an example solution and a quiz. This will enable you to apply your skills to a wide range of real world problems.A collection of more Python exercises - Exercises with solutions to continue...
Python is the fastest-growing major programming language on the planet. This practical course set will teach you Python in a hands-on, highly practical way that guarantees your success. All you need to go from zero to completing your own Python projects in a relaxed, student-centric, and fun environment. Create yourself a new skill that'll bring...
Taking this course bundle, you'll learn:SOLID principles (SRP, OCP, ISP, LSP, DIP) in-depthMeta principles: DRY, KISS, YAGNI, SoC, CQS, Law of Demeter, PoLADependency Injection in Depth: IoC or DI containers, best practices, and anti-patternsFunctional Programming in C#: purity and side effects, functional C# features, immutability,...
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