Operating System Development

macOS powers millions of devices, but few developers ever explore what lies beneath its polished interface. Inside macOS explains how the XNU kernel, Mach, BSD, Apple Silicon, APFS, and modern security technologies work together, giving systems programmers, security researchers, and engineers a deep understanding of Apple's operating system.

Discover a proven method to learning programming in an accessible style. Ideal for enthusiasts, this book guides your from fundamentals to advanced concepts, enabling you to code confidently and build your tools and libraries using PowerShell 7.

Linux Advanced for SysAdmin is designed to elevate your expertise, focusing on the intricate tasks critical for managing enterprise-level Linux environments. This book is structured to provide comprehensive insights and practical experiences across seven key areas, transforming you into a proficient and capable system administrator.This book will transform you into a proficient and capable system administrator, ready to tackle the challenges of modern IT infrastructure. By mastering these advanced topics, you will be wellequipped to manage and optimize large-scale Linux environments, ensuring their security, performance, and reliability

Zig in Depth is a practical guide to modern systems programming with Zig. Through clear explanations and runnable examples, you'll learn to write safe, efficient, and idiomatic Zig code, from the language fundamentals to advanced features like comptime, memory management, concurrency, and C interoperability.

Build Linux systems that do more than boot. This hands-on guide takes you from bootloader and kernel to secure updates, reproducible images, manufacturing and fleet operations. With runnable code and production-tested techniques, you’ll learn how to build Linux appliances designed for the real world.

Master C the way it is used in serious software. Modern ANSI C Programming takes you from the fundamentals to memory management, data structures, concurrency and production-ready practices, with practical examples that show what works, what breaks and why. Write C that is portable, secure, efficient and built to last.

Whether you are opening Xcode for the first time or ready to ship a polished desktop app, this book guides you through every step. Learn Swift with practical projects, understand how macOS apps are built and gain the skills to create software that is ready for real users and the Mac App Store.

Master Linux C programming with a practical guide that takes you from core C fundamentals to advanced systems programming. Learn through real, compilable examples covering system calls, threads, networking, and modern Linux APIs to build robust, high-performance software.

Build real-world systems software with Tcl/Tk, from your first installation to production-ready deployment. Learn to create command-line tools, desktop apps, network services and automation frameworks that run across Windows, macOS and Linux. Practical code and clear explanations take you from foundation to confident deployment.

A practical guide to finding threats that never need to touch disk. Explore Windows internals, memory forensics, EDR telemetry and network detection through safe labs and real investigative methods. Built for defenders who want to understand what happens in memory, spot suspicious behavior and turn evidence into reliable detections.

Go beyond Go syntax and learn how real systems are built. Modern Go Systems Programming with Go 1.27 takes you from core language concepts to concurrency, networking, databases, observability and deployment, with runnable examples that show how everything fits together in production-grade distributed systems.

Go beneath C# and .NET—from CPU, kernel, processes and threads to IL, JIT, native code, stacks, heaps and GC. Build the runtime mental model you need before deciding where, why, and whether a system should be distributed.

What really happens when you open a website, send a message or connect to a server across the world? This book builds the Internet from first principles, revealing how bits become packets, packets cross networks and protocols make it all work. Learn the machinery behind the Internet by understanding why each piece exists and how it fits together.

SIMD can make software dramatically faster, but getting it right takes more than knowing a few intrinsics. This book shows you how vectorization really works, how to avoid costly mistakes and how to turn ordinary code into fast, production-ready software with techniques you can use again and again.

Build fast, secure and portable applications with WASI. Start with the fundamentals, then move into components, WIT, Wasmtime and real production patterns using Rust, C, Go and JavaScript. From sandboxed plugins to serverless and edge workloads, this practical guide gives you the skills to take WebAssembly from your first experiment to production.