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Crafting Spring Boot Starters

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Crafting Spring Boot Starters

Design, build, test and publish auto-configuration libraries on Spring Boot

Wonder how the best Spring Boot 4 starters are written, the ones that drop into a project and just feel idiomatic? Want to give your teammates the same head start on new projects? Crafting Spring Boot Starters shows you how, drawn from patterns proven in production libraries.

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The Effective Software Engineer

Ethics, Flow, and Organizational Intelligence in Modern Software Development

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.
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  1. Business Process Improvement
    Business Process Improvement
    Practical Tools, Proven Methods, Lasting Impact
    Giuliano Marodin

    Why do some processes consistently deliver quality, speed, and value while others create delays, defects, rework, and frustration?Business Process Management, Lean and Six Sigma brings three powerful improvement disciplines together in one practical approach. Learn how to see processes differently, uncover the sources of waste and variation, use data to identify root causes, and design improvements that deliver measurable and sustainable results.

  2. OpenIntro Statistics
    OpenIntro Statistics
    Includes 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Editions
    OpenIntro, Christopher Barr, Mine Cetinkaya-Rundel, and David Diez

    A complete foundation for Statistics, also serving as a foundation for Data Science. Leanpub revenue supports OpenIntro (US-based nonprofit) so we can provide free desk copies to teachers interested in using OpenIntro Statistics in the classroom and expand the project to support free textbooks in other subjects. More resources: openintro.org.

  3. Logic for Programmers

    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!

  4. The SysML v2 Book
    The SysML v2 Book
    Practical Insights and Comprehensive Reference
    Tim Weilkiens and Vince Molnár

    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.

  5. CISSP: The Last Mile
    CISSP: The Last Mile
    Your guide to the finish line
    Pete Zerger

    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.

  6. CISM: The Last Mile
    CISM: The Last Mile
    Your guide to the finish line
    Pete Zerger

    This book covers every topic in the latest CISM exam syllabus, approaching topics from the ISACA perspective. It's 325+ pages 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 CISM exam without wasting time or money.

  7. Super Study Guide: Transformers & Large Language Models

    A clear, illustrated guide to large language models, covering key concepts and practical applications. Ideal for projects, interviews, or personal learning.

  8. The C++ Interview Book
    The C++ Interview Book
    173 questions, from foundations to C++26
    Sandor Dargo

    173 C++ interview questions. Junior to Senior. auto to C++26. Every question has follow-ups, code samples, and cross-references. A 100-day study plan with spaced repetition gets you through them all. A code-reading capstone sharpens your skills under pressure. Not just the answers — the reasoning that survives the follow-up questions.

  9. Build Your Own Coding Agent
    Build Your Own Coding Agent
    The Zero-Magic Guide to AI Agents in Pure Python
    J. Owen

    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.

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The Claude Certified Architect Bundle: Foundations + Professional

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The Claude Certified Architect Bundle: Foundations + Professional

Build a connected study path from Claude agent foundations to professional solution architecture. The bundle combines scenario-based preparation, practice exams, architecture exercises, and detailed reasoning about why plausible answers fail. Independent guides; not affiliated with or endorsed by Anthropic

Includes 2 books: Architect the Solution: The CCAR-P Certification Guide, Architect the Agent: The CCAR-F Certification Guide

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  1. CCIE Service Provider Ultimate Study Bundle
    Piotr Jablonski, Łukasz Bromirski, and Nicholas Russo

    Piotr Jablonski, Lukasz Bromirski, and Nick Russo have joined forces to deliver the only CCIE Service Provider training resource you'll ever need. This bundle contains a detailed and challenging collection of workbook labs, plus an extensively detailed technical reference guide. All of us have earned the CCIE Service Provider certification...

  2. Build a connected study path from Claude agent foundations to professional solution architecture. The bundle combines scenario-based preparation, practice exams, architecture exercises, and detailed reasoning about why plausible answers fail. Independent guides; not affiliated with or endorsed by Anthropic

  3. LLM Development Bundle
    Steve Publications

    Build a complete understanding of modern large language models from the inside out. This bundle takes you from transformer architecture and model training to inference optimization, quantization, and local deployment. Learn how LLMs are built, compressed, accelerated, and run efficiently using real-world tools, practical code, and proven engineering techniques.

  4. Big Kotlin pack
    Marcin Moskała
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  5. C++20, C++17, and MoveSemantics - The Complete Guides

  6. 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.

  7. C++ Trio Bundle
    Steve Publications

    Master modern C++ from the ground up with this complete three-book collection covering C++23 and C++26. Learn the fundamentals, explore the latest language and library features and build the skills needed to write fast, reliable and maintainable software. Whether you're a beginner, a student or an experienced developer, this bundle gives you a clear path from your first lines of code to professional-level C++ development.

  8. 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...

  9. Four books. One complete arc: master C++, debug like a forensic investigator, build an LLM inference engine from scratch, and understand quantization down to the bit level. Everything in one place, for engineers who want to understand — not just use.

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Gareth Holebrook, Author of Ishi: The Discipline of Determined Intent

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Gareth Holebrook - Gareth Holebrook, an Agile transformation specialist, discusses his book Ishi: The Discipline of Determined Intent. He presents the Ishi Spiral, a four-phase discipline that governs how intent is set, how practice is structured, when persistence is justified and how reflection prevents drift before collapse forces correction.

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Astrophysics for the Rest of Us: Physics of Stars

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Astrophysics for the Rest of Us: Physics of Stars

What does it really mean to “observe” a star? This course trains you to think like an observational astronomer, moving from intuition to first-principles reasoning about starlight and stellar matter. By following real observational clues and turning data into explanations, you will build a coherent picture of stellar physics.

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  1. Stratospheric - From Zero to Production with Spring Boot and AWS
    Hands-on online course to learn all you need to know to get a Spring Boot application into production with AWS.
    Philip Riecks, Björn Wilmsmann, and Tom Hombergs

    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.

  2. 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.

  3. Generative AI in a Nutshell
    How to Survive and Thrive in the Age of AI
    Henrik Kniberg

    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.

  4. 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.

  5. Microservices Masterclass
    David Farley and CourseAI

    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...

  6. Manifest Android Interview Course
    The ultimate guide to cracking Android & Compose technical interviews.
    Jaewoong

    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

  7. Practical Kotlin Deep Dive Course
    Unlocking the 'How' and 'Why' behind Kotlin fundamentals and internal mechanisms.
    Jaewoong

    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 

  8. Machine Learning Made Simple
    8 Pillar Machine Learning Algorithms in Python
    Finxter and Lukas Rieger

    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.

  9. 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.

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A Simple Path to Python Success

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A Simple Path to Python Success

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...

Includes 7 courses: Machine Learning Made Simple, The Smartest Way to Learn Python Regex, Learn Python the Practical Way [Coding Interview Exercises], Python Exercises Collection +3 more

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  1. AI Masterclass
    Henrik Kniberg, Obie Fernandez, and Andriy Burkov

    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...

  2. 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...

  3. Kotlin for developers
    Marcin Moskała

    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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. "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...

  7. Real World Python
    Lukas Rieger and Finxter

    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...

  8. A Simple Path to Python Success
    Finxter, Lukas Rieger, and Shubham Sayon

    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...

  9. 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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