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AI is an amplifier. It magnifies whatever engineering discipline — or lack of it — already exists, which means the bottleneck was never AI's capability; it is the collaboration space you design around it. This book is a six-level progression from early AI panic to sovereign engineering: the discipline of designing the environment in which human and artificial intelligence produce work worth keeping. It moves past prompting into the practices that compound — verification, habitat engineering, specification-first development, and the platform discipline that scales the practice across teams. The habitat is yours to design. Let's build it well.
- Reliable Generative AIA Practical Guide to Prompt Design, RAG, Agents, and Safer AI WorkflowsGeorge Tome
Reliable Generative AI bridges business use and technical architecture. It teaches the foundations of prompt design, RAG, agentic workflows, tool use, structured outputs, safety patterns, and evaluation without assuming the reader is a software engineer. The focus is practical: understanding how AI workflows fail, how to design around those failures, and how to build systems that professionals can trust.
This book starts with the basics of PowerShell and uses a step-by-step approach to build up to complex concepts. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced user, this book will help you become more proficient with PowerShell. By the time you finish this book, your skills will be as well-integrated as the seamless components in the cover artwork.
- Beyond the Feature FactoryFabio D'Amico
Most companies claim to be agile. Few actually are. The rituals changed; the waterfall mindset survived. This guide shows what real agile looks like through one concrete story: an empowered team going from business problem to measurable impact in eight weeks. Continuous discovery, TDD, feature flags, no story points. Practices you can put to work on Monday.
- The ProLUG Big Book of LabsScott Champine
Hands on Labs to prepare you for a career in Linux or system engineering. Built by the Professional Linux User's Group to focus on exactly what the professional needs in the enterprise.
Trunk-based development and branch by abstraction super reference. All the aspects of this industry leading branching model covered.
- Testing Spring Boot Applications DemystifiedWrite Better Tests, Ship Faster: A Practical Guide to Spring Boot TestingPhilip Riecks
Spring Boot testing doesn't have to be a nightmare of broken configurations and unreliable tests. This book transforms testing from your biggest frustration into your secret weapon, with proven strategies that work in real projects and examples you can implement today. Demystify testing real-world Spring Boot applications to deliver robust & maintainable code with confidence.
- Learning PatternsPatterns for building powerful web apps with vanilla JavaScript and ReactAddy Osmani and Lydia HallieNo Description Available
- The Anatomy Of Domain-Driven Design - BookletScott Millett and Samuel Knight
This booklet is a concise, practical and visual guide to the software practice of Domain-Driven Design.
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