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CCDE Design Labs – Volume I challenges you with realistic, scenario-driven network design problems inspired by the complexity and decision-making expected at the CCDE level.Work through evolving business requirements, technical constraints, architecture trade-offs, exhibits, and unexpected changes then compare your decisions against detailed answers and design rationale.Built for experienced network engineers and architects who want to sharpen their design judgment, challenge their assumptions, and prepare for advanced real-world network design.

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

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.

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!

An introduction to philosophy for software engineers and architects that will help them understand their design process. This book helps to answer the question “Why are we like this?”.

Residuality Theory is a new way to think about the design of software systems that explains why we experience design the way we do, why certain things seem to work only sporadically, and why certain architects get it right so often regardless of which tools they use. A new, scientific approach is defined that fuses Software Engineering, Complexity Science, and Philosophy to produce an entirely new way to think about how to design software. The result is a theoretical base that allows architecture to finally become its own discipline.

All new language and library features of C++23 (for those who know C++20) 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

A leader at a company opens Slack one morning. The brief their virtual employee wrote looks normal: same headers, same prose voice, same cadence as every other brief that week. The last line ends mid-sentence. The API returned `stop_reason: "max_tokens"`. The system shipped it anyway. No exception. No log line. No retry. That bug doesn't look like the normal kind. This book is about why, and what to build instead.

With more than 1200 microcontrollers, STM32 is probably the most complete ARM Cortex-M platform on the market. This book aims to be the most complete guide around introducing the reader to this exciting MCU portfolio from ST Microelectronics and its official CubeHAL and STM32CubeIDE development environment.

800 pages. 11 chapters. The full forecasting stack in Python — from ARIMA to foundation models — with production-grade code and proper evaluation. No hype.

Language models guess. Knowledge graphs know. Rusty Graph shows you how to build a local AI agent whose memory is a real knowledge graph — typed, validated, reasoned over, and queryable with SPARQL — all inside a single static Rust binary. No JVM. No Docker sidecar. No Python runtime bolted to the side. You will build Ares a research-assistant agent that observes papers, forms beliefs, makes promises to other agents, and tracks the provenance of every fact it holds. Chapter by chapter, Ares grows from an empty Cargo workspace into a full pipeline: > load → reason → validate → query → answer All of it in under a thousand lines of idiomatic Rust, using three crates that actually work today: `oxigraph`, `reasonable`, and `rudof_lib`. `grapfeo` You will learn how to- Model a domain as RDF triples and load them into an embedded store. - Write RDFS and OWL 2 RL axioms that infer trust, identity, and inverse relationships — automatically. - Guard your graph with SHACL shapes that reject bad data at the boundary, not in production. - Query everything with SPARQL, from simple lookups to federated queries across named graphs. - Wire the graph into a hybrid RAG pipeline so your LLM answers are grounded in facts, not vibes. Who it is forRust developers building agents, assistants, or any system where the answer "the model said so" is not good enough. You should be comfortable with Cargo and traits. You do **not** need any prior semantic-web background — every concept is introduced through Ares before any formal definition appears. Why Rust, why nowLocal agents are the next deployment target: a user's laptop, a Raspberry Pi, a WASM sandbox. Python cannot go there comfortably. Rust can. This book is the missing manual for the Rust side of the semantic web — the one that tells you exactly which crates work, where the ecosystem is thin, and how to ship anyway. Stop hoping your model tells the truth. Give it a graph that does.

You know C++ syntax. Now learn how to structure, build, test, and maintain a real C++ application.

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.

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.

The book is also available in paperback for $25. Paperback royalties go to OpenIntro (US-based nonprofit), and the optional Leanpub PDF contributions go to authors to fund their time on this book.