Software

This book explains Samman Technical Coaching. It is a method for helping software teams to become more agile, learn Test-Driven Development, and raise the quality of their work.

A high-performance data access layer must resonate with the underlying database system. Knowing the inner workings of a relational database and the data access frameworks in use can make the difference between a high-performance enterprise application and one that barely crawls.

Learn how to build, run, and optimize llama.cpp from the ground up. This book covers everything from compiling the code and working with GGUF models to deploying fast, production-ready local LLM inference.

A developer-friendly, practical and pragmatic guide to lightweight software architecture, technical leadership and the balance with agility.

Event-Driven Architecture with Spring Boot 4.x and Kafka 4.x is a hands-on, code-first guide to building resilient, scalable systems with real-world patterns like CQRS, event sourcing, sagas, outbox, idempotency, schema evolution, observability, and testing. Each chapter focuses on one concept and backs it with practical trade-offs, failure modes, and runnable Spring Boot projects you can clone and run today. If you want to move beyond buzzwords and actually ship event-driven systems that hold up in production, this book is for you.

Secure boot is what separates a trusted device from a compromised one — but the chain of trust from hardware fuses to a verified OS is rarely explained clearly. This illustrated guide walks you through every layer: root of trust, key provisioning, bootloader handoffs, certificate chains, and real-world attack vectors. 8 chapters, all visual, zero fluff.

This eBook is the ideal study guide for the official TCCD certification by the TYPO3 Association. The revised and updated 3rd edition for TYPO3 v12 LTS contains more than 200 example questions and detailed explanations of which answers are correct and why. Simply the perfect choice for every developer to prepare for the test and master the exam! 🏆

A long pull of functions, combinators, & decorators, written in modern JavaScript.

“Happily purchased. Handy to have these in one place. Thank you!” — Kent Beck “Excellent new thinking on Domain-Driven Design. It's full of real practical experience in getting the most value from domain modelling. Just like the Eric Evans' DDD book, this gives more insight each time you read it.” — Ian Russell

Modern AI applications are not built from scratch but, instead, by integrating off-the-shelf components: libraries, frameworks, and services. "Applied Artificial Intelligence - An Engingeering Approach" focuses on engineering user friendly, high-performance, and maintainable AI applications.

The Windows 11 Field Guide is a full-length e-book about the latest version of Microsoft Windows, aimed at those users who will upgrade from Windows 10 or acquire Windows 11 with a new PC.

Learn how a focus on software operability helps to increase system reliability, reduce problems in Production, and reduce total cost of ownership (TCO).

Don't waste your time to learn how to code. That's what AI is here for. This book focuses on the far more profound question: What to code? This is the new meta skill between now and 2030!

A pattern language for event sourced applications and reliable distributed systems. Examples are written in the Python programming language. Now includes event-oriented introductions to the pattern language scheme of Christopher Alexander, the process philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead, and the person-centred psychology of Rogers and Rosenberg.

You distinguish yourself from others not so much by what you've read, viewed or listened to, but by the lasting impact that information has had upon you. How can you use knowledge to become a more effective person? Cognitive Productivity answers this question with cognitive science and practical strategies.