Software Engineering

As an engineering leader, you will never get to the bottom of the list by working faster. Learn to lead your team as a single system across product, engineering, and people.

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.

Master Dart from the ground up with clear explanations, practical examples and real-world techniques. Explore everything from core language features to advanced patterns, async programming, isolates and modern Dart 3.x tools that help you build fast, reliable apps for Flutter, the web, servers and the command line.

Discover the power of Common Lisp through a clear, practical guide that takes you from your first S-expression to advanced macros, CLOS and the condition system. Learn not just how Lisp works but why it remains one of the world's most influential programming languages.

Take your Flutter skills from beginner to professional with a practical guide to building production ready applications. Learn Dart, master Flutter's core concepts, integrate real world services, optimize performance, and confidently publish polished apps to the App Store and Google Play.

This book is a practical guide to building and running local AI systems in 2026. Learn how to choose hardware, run modern LLMs, build RAG pipelines and AI agents, and deploy secure, efficient infrastructure while keeping full control of your models and data.

Stop debating code style. Start engineering code. Every developer brings personal preferences. Every AI tool channels different training examples. The result? Inconsistent codebases, endless code reviews, and technical debt that compounds silently. Java Backend Coding Technology introduces a radical idea: reduce the space of valid choices until there's essentially one good way to do most things. Not through rigid frameworks, but through a small set of patterns that make structure predictable, refactoring mechanical, and business logic visible. The code you write, your teammate writes, and your AI assistant generates will look the same -- because the patterns leave no room for subjective variation.

Design Patterns in Modern Perl shows all 23 classic “Gang of Four” patterns implemented in real, runnable modern Perl. See each pattern in bless/Class::Mite, Moo, and class/Object::Pad, with tests and benchmarks you can run yourself. Use it as a practical handbook for designing, refactoring, and modernising serious Perl applications.

STOP building fragile AI wrappers. START designing resilient AI systems. Lots of companies are trying to make their small AI experiments into big products, but they don't have a good plan. Engineers need a practical guide to build these new AI systems the right way - so they can handle scale, be reliable, and won't cost too much. This book is that guide. It explains how to design systems that use AI models. This book breaks down the architecture of real AI applications, like an AI-powered code editor or a smart learning app. It gives you a deep, practical look at the real-world challenges and solutions for building these systems. It discusses system design concepts for systems that use LLMs.

Most teams don’t suffer from a lack of effort—they suffer from a lack of alignment. Goals are misaligned, boundaries are unclear, and work often centres on internal priorities instead of user needs— resulting in frustration and delays. User Needs Mapping: Aligning Teams Around What Matters offers a practical, visual way to reconnect organisations with the people they serve. Instead of guessing at structure or copying someone else’s model, this book shows you how to expose hidden dependencies, identify genuine user needs, and make better choices about team design and responsibilities. Through real-world case studies and step-by-step guidance, you’ll learn how to navigate tensions between wants, needs, and feasibility, create clarity of purpose, and build teams that deliver meaningful outcomes. Whether you’re a leader, product manager, architect, or change agent, this book equips you to turn complexity into clarity and enable teams to flow faster—aligned around what matters.

AI is an amplifier. It magnifies whatever engineering discipline — or lack of it — already exists, which means the bottleneck was never AI's capability; it is the collaboration space you design around it. This book is a six-level progression from early AI panic to sovereign engineering: the discipline of designing the environment in which human and artificial intelligence produce work worth keeping. It moves past prompting into the practices that compound — verification, habitat engineering, specification-first development, and the platform discipline that scales the practice across teams. The habitat is yours to design. Let's build it well.

Ready to learn Java without getting lost in theory? Start with your first program, then work your way up to virtual threads, testing, observability and container deployment. With Java 26 and complete code that actually compiles, you’ll build the skills to create software fit for production.

“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

We can find a solution to every problem – if we can agree on what exactly the problem is. Understanding problems and communicating requirements is the subject of this book. Many different terms are used for this (business analysis, system analysis, requirements engineering, etc.) and there are many job titles for those involved. Business analysis and requirements engineering are two sides of the same coin: as an entrepreneur, you want to streamline your organizational and operational structures and make them more effective. As a product developer, you want to find unique selling points for your existing or new products, whether it's price, quality, or performance. As an IT department, you want to understand these requirements in order to deliver great products and systems. This book presents a pragmatic and agile approach to dealing with requirements. It provides you with methods, notations, and many practical tips for effectively handling requirements between clients and contractors.

Are you a mobile tester looking to learn something new? Are you a software tester, developer, product manager or completely new to mobile testing? Then you should read this book as it contains lots of insights about the challenging job of a mobile tester from a practical perspective.