The Software Developers’ Guidebook
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A practical handbook packed with real-world advice to help you write better code, adopt effective developer habits, and build great software.
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Amazing CTO
The missing manual for managing
Your hard skills landed you the management position, but it’s your soft and management skills that will drive your success. Numerous books cover architecture and processes, "Amazing CTO" stands out as the essential guide for managing effectively, authored by influential CTO Coach Stephan Schmidt.
Learn MoreYour hard skills landed you the management position, but it’s your soft and management skills that will drive your success. Numerous books cover architecture and processes, "Amazing CTO" stands out as the essential guide for managing effectively, authored by influential CTO Coach Stephan Schmidt.
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Kotlin Coroutines
Are you a Kotlin developer looking to explore how coroutines in Kotlin work and how you can use them to improve our applications – using both the built-in support and the kotlinx.coroutines library? Let me take you there!
Are you a Kotlin developer looking to explore how coroutines in Kotlin work and how you can use them to improve our applications – using both the built-in support and the kotlinx.coroutines library? Let me take you there!
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Alex Telford - Len Epp interviews Alex Telford, senior pipeline and software engineer and author of Practical Python for Production Under Pressure. Alex discusses his career in VFX, the high-stakes nature of production environments, and how his book provides pragmatic coding advice for getting projects over the line amid constant change and pressure.
Alex Telford - Len Epp interviews Alex Telford, senior pipeline and software engineer and author of Practical Python for Production Under Pressure. Alex discusses his career in VFX, the high-stakes nature of production environments, and how his book provides pragmatic coding advice for getting projects over the line amid constant change and pressure.
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The Quality Coach's Handbook
Anne-Marie CharrettAre you a VP or Head of Engineering considering the best quality engineering model for your company?
Are you a director of Engineering tasked with rolling out a Quality Coach Model?
Are you a test lead or software tester shifting to a quality coach role?
The Quality Coach Handbook is your practical guide to shifting to a model where the whole team owns quality and in particular software engineers design, build, test and support software.
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Manifest Android Interview
JaewoongTo ace your next Android job interview, focus on truly understanding the concepts—not just memorizing answers—and practicing how to apply them. With 108 interview questions, 162 additional practical questions, and 50+ pro tips, this book helps you sharpen skills, understand the why, and prepare for real-world technical challenges.
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CISSP: The Last Mile
Pete ZergerThe 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.
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The Hundred-Page Language Models Book
Andriy BurkovMaster language models through mathematics, illustrations, and code―and build your own from scratch!
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Platform Strategy
Gregor HohpeDeveloper platforms promise to rewrite the laws of IT physics: they boost innovation through standards; they speed up development while assuring compliance; and they reduce cognitive load without restricting choice. Building such an in-house platform, or even deploying one, is far from easy, though. This book condenses a decade of building and rolling out platforms into practical advice for platform teams and users.
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Patterns of Application Development Using AI
Obie FernandezUnlock the power of AI in your applications with this groundbreaking book 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 and AI components.
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OpenIntro Statistics
David Diez, Christopher Barr, Mine Cetinkaya-Rundel, and OpenIntroA 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.
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Practical Python for Production under Pressure
Alex TelfordFacing the insanity that is pipeline development alongside a production in full swing, "Practical Python for Production under Pressure" helps TDs to deliver quality tools and pipelines amidst the chaos.
This book focuses on practical workflows and theory to build practical tools and pipelines within an ever changing environment using python, PySide and
duct tapeingenuity.Learn about managing communications, building pipelines, working with AI in production, user experience and more.
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Logic for Programmers
Hillel WayneLogic is the most important branch of math to software engineering. Knowing logic opens up a vast world of development techniques, from everyday tricks of the trade to exotic tools for cracking impossible tasks.
This book teaches the basics of logic and nine special logic-powered techniques: property testing, decision tables, constraint solving, and more. Over 40 exercises are provided to help readers master the material. No prior math background required!
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C++17 in Detail, Lambda and Initialization
Learn about all major C++17 changes, plus the Story of lambda expressions across recent C++ versions, and then various aspects of Initialization. All to improve your knowledge about Modern C++.
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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... - #6
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Leanpub: Publish Early, Publish Often
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