Software Architecture

Upgrade your (geek) life to the next level with this collection of recipes (guides) on building your own highly-available "private cloud", leveraging current, mainstream modern toolchains. Additional recipies follow for __using__ your cloud for running popular self-hosted tools (Plex, OwnCloud, Wordpress, etc)

A primordial Forth, and some related philosophy.

This case study shows processes, tools, and methods used by embedded system developers. The book's content is derived from the author's 35 years experience developing embedded systems for major corporations. The example project is a digital trombone implemented on an mbed and Arduino compatible, NUCLEO-L432KC board from STMicroelectronics..

Découvrez 11 design patterns du GoF grâce à une bande dessinée ! Une approche vulgarisée, des exemples simples en PHP, des diagrammes UML illustrés.Tout pour retenir les patrons suivants : Méthode modèle, Itérateur, Commande, Interpréteur, Stratégie, Visiteur, Chaîne de responsabilités, Observateur, Médiateur, État, Mémento.

Tips and Techniques to optimize your Web Pages, Web Server, Application Server and Database Server together with detailed insight into Tuning and Debugging of your application.

The objective of the book is to introduce its  reader to the world of design patterns by working through some important ones. It is not an exaustive reference text on design patterns, rather a friendly tutorial type text. The reader is expected to be familiar with programming in an object oriented language like Java or Python. 

Trailblazer introduces several new abstraction layers into Rails. It gives developers structure and architectural guidance and finally answers the question of "Where do I put this kind of code?" in Rails. This book walks you through a realistic development of a Rails application with Trailblazer and discusses every bloody aspect of it.

The only thing we truly know about software development is that we can expect changes to our system.Through concrete examples, let's explore ways to build flexible, adaptable software systems by better understanding Kent Beck's 4 Rules of Simple Design.

This is the classic volume on every variety of technical review of programs, designs, tests, documentation, plans, requirements, ...

This book helps you design an application with the UML (Unified Modeling Language) modeling tool, Enterprise Architect.It shows you how to write a Business Requirement Document (BRD) using a real-life Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system, an application with 20 years in the market.

This is the uncomplicated and practical guide, to building real asynchronous PHP applications, that you've been waiting for.

If you read the tech press, everyone knows they need an API but most aren't really sure what it is. They treat it as another checkbox like "Web 2.0" was a few years ago or a mobile app was most recently. In fact, there's an entire "API-first" movement in development circles that most people don't understand or even realize why..

Is Scaling PHP a pain in the ass? You're not exactly the next Facebook, but you're big enough, and it costs real money when your site goes down in the middle of the night. Scaling PHP Apps is filling in a ton of unexpected gaps in my server knowledge - Chris Fidao It's a damn good read, very useful for my new job. Setting up Nginx to play nice with PHP-FPM now. - Phil Sturgeon