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The rise of AI coding tools is reshaping the software industry—bringing both disruption and unprecedented opportunity. For many software professionals, relying on a single job is no longer enough; building a profitable side income has become essential for financial security. Practical Software Side Hustles is your no-nonsense guide to navigating this new reality and securing your future.

Developer platforms promise to rewrite the laws of IT physics: they boost innovation through standards; they speed up development while assuring compliance; and they reduce cognitive load without restricting choice. Building such an in-house platform, or even deploying one, is far from easy, though. This book condenses a decade of building and rolling out platforms into practical advice for platform teams and users.5300+ happy readers! Also as Paperback edition

A companion book for implementing Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. Targeted end-users, super-users and administrators, this book covers many of the challenges you're faced when implementing a cloud-based ERP system. From setting up the system and creating the first company to user customizations and integration. Updated to 2026 Wave 1 v28.

What IT policies should a higher education institution actually have? The CampusCISO IT Policy Framework answers that question with an inventory of 17 policies, 24 standards, and seven sector-wide gaps, grounded in annual research that now spans 400+ institutions, including every R1 research university in the United States.

Unlock the secrets of high-performing tech organizations with 'All Hands on Tech.' Drawing from 40+ years of experience across corporate giants and digital-native companies, this guide offers battle-tested strategies to transform your software development process, boost innovation, and deliver real business value at scale. Learn how to:• Align your tech strategy with business goals• Structure teams for maximum impact and innovation• Implement agile and DevOps practices at scale• Foster a culture that attracts and retains top talent• Deliver value consistently and rapidly Whether you're a CTO, engineering manager, or aspiring tech leader, you'll find actionable insights to transform your organization. This Minimum Viable Book (MVB) is a work in progress, inviting community input to shape its evolution into an indispensable resource for tech leadership.

You are not losing velocity because your engineers are slow. You are losing velocity because every line of untested code is a landmine your team laid for itself — and sooner or later, someone steps on it. This is the book that explains why. No syntax. No tutorials. Just the argument, the evidence, and the standard your team should already be held to. A 30-minute read that changes how you lead software quality forever.

Unleash the full power of ChatGPT in your life and work with "ChatGPT: the AI Appliance". Dive deep into the AI that's changing the digital landscape and learn how the "black box" mindset can help you with prompt engineering, response evaluation, and more. Turn the "black box" into your personal toolkit for success!

Visual Collaboration Tools is a book for teams building software. It describes tools that help us in our daily job, and also present field stories from different practitioners.

Big migrations rarely fail because of code alone. The Migration Architect’s Handbook shows how to untangle dependencies, design the right repository strategy and move complex systems forward without bringing the organization to a halt. Built on real-world lessons, it turns daunting modernization efforts into practical, manageable work.

Building an impressive AI agent demo is easy. Running one in production—reliably, at scale, with governance—is where most enterprises get stuck. Agentic Orchestration shows how BPMN-based process orchestration governs AI agents at scale, drawing on real deployments across banking, telecom, and healthcare. Reasoning without orchestration is expensive chaos. This book shows the way out.

Learn how to create profitable Facebook Ads and Google Ads that generate more traffic, leads, and sales. This practical step-by-step guide teaches you how to target the right audience, optimize your campaigns, reduce wasted ad spend, and maximize your return on investment.

Master copywriting by doing it: 16 modules, 35+ templates, 16 worksheets, and a full portfolio project — learn to write copy that gets read, clicked, and acted on.

Software and infrastructure only create value when they pull in the same direction as the business. This book shows IT leaders how to get there: from shaping IT strategy and the architecture roadmap to the daily discipline of IT and architecture governance, all built on a pattern-based approach that adapts to your organization rather than forcing it into a template.Grounded in established frameworks such as TOGAF, COBIT, and ITIL, it pairs solid fundamentals with numerous real-world examples — and gives growing weight to compliance and IT security, now central concerns of any IT management agenda.This English edition is based on the German standard work on the subject, fully revised in its 4th edition (late 2024). It is current with TOGAF 10 and reflects recent developments in business-oriented enterprise architecture — including the open-source tool EDGY and patterns for digital strategy — alongside the latest trends in IT risk management and cybersecurity architecture.

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Turn "our Shopware store feels slow" into a measurable 30-day plan: one fix a day, each with a before/after metric. Field-tested engineering on caching, Elasticsearch, Redis and CDN — not generic tips.