Computers and Programming

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.

Linux is one of the best decisions you can make for your computer — but knowing where to start is the hard part. This guide walks you through everything: choosing a distribution, installing it, and using it confidently every day. It was written by Jay LaCroix of Learn Linux TV, for complete beginners. No prior experience required.

Bestselling book on building LLMs. 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 36 hands-on projects with deliberate sabotage experiments. Build it. Break it. Measure it.

The fastest practical path to understanding harness-driven development as a complete system. Through clear visual diagrams and a real repository mapped to the book, you will see how a harness guides AI agents, evaluates their work, detects drift, enforces constraints, supports repair, and keeps software evolution visible, verifiable, and under control.

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 practical guide to designing scalable and maintainable frontends. Learn how to think beyond components, model data effectively, shape APIs around real access patterns, and apply modern techniques like pagination, caching, virtualization, and real-time updates. Perfect for engineers preparing for system design interviews or leveling up in complex frontend projects.

With the advent of LLMs and AI coding assistants, we are generating code at an ever-accelerating rate. How do we manage this influx of code without getting fatigued and overwhelmed? How do we ensure coding standards are maintained? What practices and tools can we put in place to amplify our efforts while not introducing more bugs?

Your organization does all the right things. They practice chaos engineering, GameDays, and load testing. They conduct incident reviews and operational readiness reviews. Yet the same types of incidents keep recurring. This book examines why resilience practices so often fail to build resilience, revealing the organizational dynamics that systematically transform learning mechanisms into compliance theater and what you can do to navigate them consciously.

You tried Emacs. You quit. You're back. This time, you'll finish — with a keyboard-driven setup you built yourself, understand completely, and will use for life.

Learn ontology engineering from the ground up in Protege, using the classic Pizza.owl tutorial, and see how it connects to a modern framework for building executable semantic systems.

This book takes you straight into the Compose compiler, runtime, and UI layer, all about Compose performance tuning, reading the source line by line and explaining the why behind every design decision, then connecting each internal mechanism back to the code you write every day. The Course: Jetpack Compose Mechanisms | Hardcover | ISBN-13: 9798185354780

Learn how modern LLM inference engines work by building one from scratch in Rust. From transformers and tokenization to KV caching, quantization, batching, and GPU optimization, this book combines theory, hands-on code, and performance engineering to help you create fast, production-ready AI systems.

This 2025 edition of Docker Deep Dive is a true masterpiece. The best-selling Docker book is up-to-date with the hottest Docker technologies and the latest industry trends. This edition includes a brand-new chapter on Docker Model Runner for fast, private LLM-based apps. You won't find a better and more up-to-date book on Docker. Hand-crafted and kept up to date over the past 9 years by best-selling author Nigel Poulton.

Takes you from “how to use Kotlin” into “how Kotlin really works,” revealing the internal implementations, desmifying bytecodes and compiler behavior, and internals that shape the language. If you want to write smarter, more confident Kotlin across fundamentals, coroutines, and multiplatform. Hardcover | ISBN: 979-8243872744 [Course] Practical Kotlin Deep Dive Course

Kotlin coroutines have revolutionized JVM development, especially on Android and the backend, as they let us easily implement efficient and reliable multithreading. Their cutting-edge design and features are ideally suited to modern use cases. In this book, we will explore how Kotlin coroutines work and how we can use them to improve our code.