Books

This 2025 edition of Docker Deep Dive is a true masterpiece. The best-selling Docker book is up-to-date with the hottest Docker technologies and the latest industry trends. This edition includes a brand-new chapter on Docker Model Runner for fast, private LLM-based apps. You won't find a better and more up-to-date book on Docker. Hand-crafted and kept up to date over the past 9 years by best-selling author Nigel Poulton.

Master AI-powered infrastructure automation with this hands-on guide to building production-ready MCP servers and AI agents in Go. Transform from manual AWS operations to intelligent automation that understands your environment and makes smart decisions while keeping humans in control.

Stop just reacting to problems; start engineering true reliability. "On-Call In Action" equips you with hands-on SRE strategies, proven incident management lifecycles, and effective alerting techniques. Build a world-class on-call capability that keeps your services running 24/7 and your team thriving.

"Tired of manual server setups that feel like reinventing the wheel every time?What if you could write down your server settings once—like a recipe—and let the computer do the rest? No more ‘oops, I forgot that checkbox.’ No more ‘Why is Server 7 acting weird?’Config as Code is the DevOps secret to consistency, speed, and sanity. And this book is your backstage pass."

The ultimate practical guide designed to fast-track your technical skills without the fluff. Whether you are a developer, student, or DevOps engineer, this essential reference delivers actionable insights to solve real-world problems instantly. Master your craft and stream-line your workflow today!

AWS Amplify Gen 2 lets you build full-stack applications on AWS with a TypeScript-first workflow. This book covers authentication, data modeling, serverless backends, AI integrations, security and deployment through practical examples that help you build production-ready applications faster.

Quantum computing is ready for developers. Quantum Applications on AWS Braket is a practical, code-first guide to building and running quantum applications on AWS Braket with hands-on Python examples and real quantum hardware.

Whether you're deploying your first AWS application or managing cloud infrastructure at scale, The Practical AWS Guide helps you design, build, secure, automate and operate reliable AWS environments. Through practical examples, real-world architectures and proven best practices, you'll learn the skills needed to build scalable, secure and cost-effective solutions with confidence.

Master AWS IoT Core with this hands-on, comprehensive guide. Learn how to securely connect, manage, and scale your IoT device fleets using MQTT, AWS IoT Greengrass, bulk enrollments, and OTA updates. From edge hardware setups to cloud analytics and Zero Trust security, build enterprise-grade architectures today.

Most tutorials about AWS Lambda stop at simple examples. Real-world systems are much more complex.From Zero to Production with AWS Lambda is a practical guide for developers who want to move beyond “Hello World” and build reliable serverless systems that actually run in production.This book explains how AWS Lambda works under the hood, how to design maintainable serverless architectures, and how to integrate Lambda with services like API Gateway, DynamoDB, SQS, and EventBridge.Instead of focusing on theory, the book emphasizes real engineering practices: observability, error handling, security, testing strategies, deployment pipelines, and cost optimization.If you want to understand how to design, build, and operate production-ready serverless applications, this guide will help you get there.

Throughout the book, we use a car-search platform as a unifying example. From ingestingdata about car listings to enriching, it with analytics and providing real-time search results, thisplatform showcases the challenges and opportunities of modern data platforms. By followingits journey, you will gain actionable insights that can be applied to a wide range of domains.Building the software platforms is not just about technology; it’s about solving real-worldproblems with creativity within the given guardrails both financial or engineering. This bookwill be guiding you through every phase of design, implementation, and evolution. Let’s buildthe future of data platforms together.

The "It Works on My Machine" Excuse Ends Today. Understand Docker. Ship with Confidence. Own Production. This book is written for front-end developers who are tired of using Docker without truly understanding it. Instead of abstract theory or backend-centric explanations, it teaches Docker in a clear, practical way—aligned with how front-end engineers think and how real front-end applications are built and shipped.You’ll work with a real GitHub repository, follow real production workflows, and learn how to build, run, and deploy a React.js application using Docker—ending with a full deployment to Amazon EC2. Every step is explained with purpose, so you understand not just what to do, but why it works.By the end of the book, Docker will no longer feel like a black box. You’ll know how to create reliable builds, debug problems with confidence, and take ownership of your production environment as a front-end developer.If you want to stop guessing, stop copying commands, and finally ship front-end applications with confidence—this book is for you.

Your Code Works Locally. Now, Make It Run for the World. 🌍 Mastered Python? Now face the ultimate challenge: Production. Volume 8: Cloud-Native Python, DevOps & LLMOps takes you beyond the IDE and into the data center. Learn to containerize with Docker, orchestrate with Kubernetes, and serve 70B+ parameter models with enterprise-grade LLMOps. Don’t just write software—architect it.

Understand the challenges of CI/CD on Kubernetes and explore Tekton’s architecture through theoretical explanations and a dedicated hands-on section with real-world examples.Beyond the basics, this guide provides a solution to the dashboard's security limitations, teaching you how to implement an authentication and access control layer using Keycloak, OAuth2, and Kubernetes Impersonation.