Software Engineering

Use LoRA because it forgets less. Keep the learning rate low. Mix in some general data. Stopearly. Four pieces of advice everyone repeats and almost nobody quantifies. This book measures each one — and two turn out to be doing something other than what they arecredited with. LoRA's retention is governed by a scaling constant, not by its parameterefficiency. Early stopping bounds the damage without separating it from the gain. Everyexperiment reports two numbers: the new task, and the capability you were not trying tochange.

Start with your first line of code and grow into a confident VB.NET developer. Through clear explanations, practical examples and real-world projects, you’ll master modern .NET, object-oriented design, LINQ, async programming, databases, Windows apps, web APIs, testing and deployment, with a focus on writing software built for the real world.

Chunk at 500 with 50 of overlap. Retrieve five. Add a reranker. Use hybrid search.Repeated everywhere, justified almost nowhere. This book measures them instead, on corpora built so that the correct answer follows fromhow they were made. Several results contradicted the advice: the hybrid combination lost inevery condition tested, neither reranker produced an effect above the noise floor, andattribution collapsed to 0.170 while retrieval was still reporting 0.920.

Bring real Python to the browser. This practical guide takes you from Pyodide fundamentals to production-ready applications, with hands-on examples, proven patterns and clear-eyed trade-offs. Learn how Python and WebAssembly fit together, what works in the real world and how to build confidently for the web.

Ein Playbook gegen die agentische Drift — 29 Leitplanken, um KI-generierten Code prüfbar, ehrlich und auditierbar zu halten, destilliert aus über 27 Jahren Projekt- und Programmleitung in regulierten Branchen.

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.

Most asyncio tutorials introduce async and await on page one and ask you to take the runtime on faith. This book does it the other way around. You build a working event loop inthirty lines of plain Python — no asyncio import — and meet the keywords as labels for parts of a runtime you have already watched run. By the end, async Python stops beingintimidating and starts being readable.

Big O is not about seconds. It is about what happens to your work when your input gets ten times bigger, and that is the question interviewers are really asking. This book builds the notation from a list of names you can watch being searched, then hands you twenty everyday jobs in ten pairs and asks you to name the shape of each one.

Both parts of the Transition Playbook in one 139-page volume: the mental models, the orchestration patterns, and two 30-day plans for moving from writing code to directing agents.

Supabase wired into Claude and Cursor over MCP, with RLS designed for agent access, service_role blast radius contained, and ten failure modes diagnosed.

Measure where LLM context costs accumulate, then cut them with deduplication, summarization, truncation and cache exploitation, with a cost model that shows the ROI of each.

Master Spring Boot from the ground up and learn what it takes to build software that is ready for the real world. From Java fundamentals to secure microservices, testing and production deployment, this practical guide turns modern Spring Boot concepts into skills you can confidently put to work.

Prompting has more advice than evidence. This book measures it instead: a model reading apattern it has never seen, the same model failing at a task in one pass and solving itperfectly in four, a decoder that guarantees a format instead of improving the odds, and amodel that is 2.4% accurate while 78.6% confident. Six central claims are built from scratch and measured on a single CPU core. Everythingtaken from published research sits in a grey box marked "Not measured here" — so you neverhave to guess which is which.

Build crawlers that perform at scale without becoming a security liability, then learn to spot and stop the bots targeting your systems. Packed with production-ready code, real-world architectures and practical case studies, this book takes you deep into crawling, fingerprinting, bot detection, WAFs, machine learning and incident response.

Specification Engineering turns complex ideas into clear, workable specifications. This practical guide takes you from core principles to advanced methods for defining, validating, managing and evolving requirements across products, software, systems and services. Built for real-world use, it gives you the tools to create specifications that people can understand and act on.