Books

From Zero to Production with Spring Boot and AWS. All you need to know to get a Spring Boot application into production with AWS. No previous AWS knowledge required. Go to stratospheric.dev for a tour of the contents. (Spanish translation of Stratospheric)

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.

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.

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.

Looking for ways to kick off your DevOps career? Let's go on a journey together to AWS cloud, Linux, containers, Kubernetes, IaC, and CI/CD pipelines.

Understand DynamoDB through visual explanations of access patterns, keys, queries, consistency, data modeling, and reliable operations.

Build a practical understanding of AWS from account foundations to production architecture. Visual explanations connect networking, compute, data, security, automation, recovery, and cost with implementation and troubleshooting.

Diagnose, debug, and fix every Helm failure — 40+ real-world scenarios with battle-tested solutions. ⎈

Managed WordPress hosting is convenient until the bill grows or something breaks and you cannot see why. This book takes you from an empty AWS account to a secured, monitored, backed-up production site, with every command tested on a real server and every step explained. By the end you will know how to run it, protect it, restore it, and fix it at three in the morning.

A comprehensive technical guide to Python-driven cloud architecture, infrastructure automation, serverless engineering, security, distributed systems, and large-scale AWS operations.Modern cloud infrastructure is more than a collection of virtual machines and managed services. It is a programmable environment in which networking, identity, compute, storage, databases, messaging, and observability must work together as a coherent system. Building reliable cloud platforms requires software engineering discipline, automation, security controls, and a detailed understanding of how these services interact.Mastering AWS: Advanced Python Engineering is a 100-chapter technical reference for senior software engineers, DevOps specialists, cloud architects, platform engineers, and developers seeking to build sophisticated AWS environments with Python.

"Is your EKS cluster running on borrowed time?Every 4 months, Kubernetes releases a new version—and AWS only supports the last four. Falling behind isn’t just risky—it’s a ticking time bomb. Security vulnerabilities, unsupported workloads, and forced emergency upgrades can cripple your operations, costing you 3-5x more in downtime and stress.But what if you could upgrade your EKS clusters with zero downtime, zero stress, and zero surprises?In Amazon EKS Upgrade Playbook, you’ll uncover the step-by-step, battle-tested strategies to plan, execute, and validate upgrades like a pro—so you can stay ahead, avoid disasters, and deploy with confidence.Upgrade smarter. Upgrade safer. Upgrade now."

Cloud networks rarely fail in obvious ways. A DNS lookup breaks, a route disappears or traffic vanishes somewhere between clouds. This book shows you how to understand what is really happening, build networks that hold up under pressure and troubleshoot failures with confidence across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Kubernetes and hybrid environments.

"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!