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  1. Writing Use Cases for AI
    Writing Use Cases for AI
    How to write use cases for stakeholders, engineers, and AI agents
    Simon Martinelli

    Your use cases have a new reader: an AI agent that turns them directly into code and tests. Implementation is now cheap but expressing intent precisely is the bottleneck. This guide teaches you to write use cases that work for stakeholders, engineers, and the AI agents that implement from them.

  2. Continuous Delivery Pipelines
    Continuous Delivery Pipelines
    How to Build Better Software Faster
    Dave Farley

    This practical handbook provides a step-by-step guide for you to get the best continuous delivery pipeline for your software.

  3. Libuv Mastery
    Libuv Mastery
    Building High-Performance Asynchronous Applications in C
    Steve Publications

    Learn to build fast, scalable asynchronous applications in C with libuv, the cross-platform library behind Node.js. Through practical examples and clear explanations, you'll master event-driven programming and write high-performance software that runs efficiently across Linux, macOS and Windows.

  4. Claude Code for Legacy Modernization
    Claude Code for Legacy Modernization
    Recover Hidden Business Rules, Build a Verification Harness, and Modernize Critical Systems Without Breaking Production
    Thomas De Vos

    Legacy modernization is an evidence problem before it is a code-generation problem. Use Claude Code to recover hidden behavior, build a verification harness, and move critical systems in controlled, reversible slices without handing production decisions to AI. Includes 26 practical chapters, 86 diagrams, and a runnable companion lab.

  5. Systems Thinking for Agentic AI
    Systems Thinking for Agentic AI
    A Software Architect’s Guide to Building Reliable LLM and Agent Systems
    Ediz Najim

    An LLM is not an AI system.Systems Thinking for Agentic AI shows software engineers and architects how to design reliable AI applications with prompts, RAG, tools, memory, orchestration, guardrails, evaluation, observability, and runtime control.Move beyond chatbot demos and learn how to build production-ready agentic AI systems you can reason about, measure, debug, operate, and improve

  6. Switching to Linux
    Switching to Linux
    A Practical Guide for Windows and Mac Users
    Jay LaCroix

    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.

  7. Jetpack Compose 메커니즘
    Jetpack Compose 메커니즘
    @Composable의 모든 작동 원리를 파헤치다.
    Jaewoong

    이 책은 컴포즈 컴파일러, 런타임, UI 레이어, 그리고 성능 튜닝에 이르기까지 컴포즈의 모든 것을 탐구합니다. Jetpack Compose의 내부 소스 코드를 한 줄 한 줄 읽어 내려가며 특정 설계가 왜 그렇게 결정되었는지 그 이면을 설명하고, 여러분이 매일 작성하는 코드를 내부 메커니즘과 연결해 줍니다. 이 책을 읽고 나면 컴파일러와 런타임, UI 계층의 동작 시스템이 머릿속에 완성될 것이고, 궁극적으로 여러분이 일상에서 작성하는 컴포즈 프로젝트의 성능을 크게 향상시킬 수 있습니다. 코스 (영문): Jetpack Compose Mechanisms | 하드커버 종이책 (영문) | ISBN-13: 9798185354780

  8. The Leprechauns of Software Engineering
    The Leprechauns of Software Engineering
    How folklore turns into fact and what to do about it
    Laurent Bossavit
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  9. The Model Context Protocol
    The Model Context Protocol
    A Complete Guide to Building Connected AI Applications
    Steve Publications

    Discover how the Model Context Protocol is transforming the way AI applications connect to tools, data, and external systems. With clear explanations and practical guidance, this book shows you how to build, secure, and deploy production-ready MCP solutions, from your first server to enterprise-scale AI applications.

  10. Trading Systems Developer Interview Guide (C++ Edition)
    Trading Systems Developer Interview Guide (C++ Edition)
    Insider's Guide to Top Tech Jobs in Finance
    Jeff Vogels and Mark Thunderberg

    This book will help you with interview preparation for landing high-paying software engineering jobs in the financial markets industry – Hedge Funds, Banks, Algo Trading firms, HFT firms, Exchanges, etc. Questions that are comparable difficulty level to those asked at top financial firms.

  11. Frontend System Design Interviews
    Frontend System Design Interviews
    A Practical Guide to Frontend System Design Through Frameworks and Real-World Case Studies
    Juntao Qiu

    You know how to build frontend applications. But can you explain how you would design one when the requirements are vague, the constraints keep changing, and you only have 45 minutes?Frontend System Design Interviews gives you a practical framework for structuring that conversation, making trade-offs, and going deep on the problems that actually change the architecture.

  12. DMVCFramework Mastery
    DMVCFramework Mastery
    Building Production-Grade Delphi Applications from Beginner to Expert
    Steve Publications

    Take your Delphi skills beyond the basics and learn how to build real-world web applications with DMVCFramework. From your first REST API to secure, scalable services, this practical guide covers the tools, patterns and techniques you need to build, test and deploy production-ready applications with confidence.

  13. Mastering PDF Parsing
    Mastering PDF Parsing
    Building a PDF Reader from the ISO 32000-2 Specification
    Steve Publications

    Go beyond using PDF libraries and learn how the format really works. This book walks you through building a complete PDF reader from scratch using the ISO 32000-2 specification, with clear explanations, written in C++ code and a parser that handles real-world PDF files from the ground up.

  14. Surviving Distributed Systems: A Practical Field Guide
    Surviving Distributed Systems: A Practical Field Guide
    A Practical Field Guide to Resilience, Concurrency, and Fault Tolerance
    Artur Ostapyshyn

    Happy-path architecture is a myth. When downstream dependencies degrade, naive retries trigger thundering herds, thread pools exhaust in seconds, and dual-writes silently corrupt financial balances. Surviving Distributed Systems is an unvarnished, production-tested field guide for senior backend engineers. Packed with architectural diagrams and modern Java 21 code, this book teaches you how to design, isolate, and harden high-concurrency systems so they survive catastrophic cascading failures.

  15. The Linux Virtual Filesystem
    The Linux Virtual Filesystem
    Architecture, Implementation, and Administration from Kernel Internals to Cloud-Native Systems
    Steve Publications

    The Linux Virtual Filesystem is the abstraction that unifies every filesystem in Linux behind a single interface. This book explores its architecture, kernel implementation, and modern applications, giving system administrators, developers, and kernel engineers the knowledge to understand, troubleshoot, and extend the VFS.