Books

What happens when AI starts making the decisions behind your database queries? This practical guide explores how modern optimizers work, then shows how machine learning and reinforcement learning can improve them. Learn to build, test and deploy AI-driven optimization systems that deliver real performance gains.

What really happens inside a database file? Learn to read binary data like a map, uncover hidden structures and turn raw bytes into a working understanding of how storage engines work. With hands-on examples from SQLite, PostgreSQL, InnoDB and more, this book shows you how to reverse engineer unfamiliar formats from the ground up.

What really happens between typing a SQL query and getting a result? Build a database engine from the ground up in Rust and find out. You’ll work through storage, indexing, concurrency, recovery and query processing while turning each chapter’s code into one working system.

What really happens when PostgreSQL executes your query? Follow a SQL statement through every stage of PostgreSQL's internal pipeline—from raw text to returned results—and gain the deep understanding that transforms how you write, tune, and debug database applications.

Data engineers are the unsung heroes who make analytics and data-driven applications possible.  This handbook introduces the fundamentals of what it's like to work with data, and the skills and concepts needed to develop "data products" in the real world.

When your database outgrows simple optimizations, it's time to think bigger. Lift the Elephant goes beyond query tuning to reveal actionable strategies for scaling PostgreSQL, from partitioning to high-availability architectures. Built on lessons from scaling Hubstaff, this is your playbook for navigating the challenges of database growth.

Explore the power of Rust with "Rust Projects: Write a Redis Clone". This hands-on guide takes you through building a Redis-inspired database from the ground up, introducing key programming concepts like TCP connections, the RESP protocol, and concurrency. Following the CodeCrafters challenge, this book gradually builds your skills, making complex topics accessible. Whether you're new to Rust or looking to deepen your understanding, this project-based journey offers practical, real-world insights into modern systems programming. The book contains 40% discount code for CodeCrafters.io!

Stop only using databases — start understanding them. A living study of PostgreSQL internals for backend engineers: how pages, indexes, and WAL actually work, written clearly while learning, not after mastery.

Stop treating PostgreSQL like slightly broken MySQL and start using it the way it was designed.

Most data engineering projects fail not because of technology—but because of design.Design-Driven Data Engineering reveals a powerful new approach: start with business design, shape clarity through information modeling, and only then build systems that scale. This book gives you the frameworks, blueprints, and real-world patterns to design architectures aligned with business value, analytics needs, and modern AI-era requirements. Whether you’re an engineer, architect, analyst, or technical lead, this guide shows you how to turn complexity into clarity—and build data systems that actually work.

Entwickler:innen haben heute eine Vielzahl von Optionen, wenn es um die Wahl einer Datenbank für ihre Anwendung geht. Dieses Buch gibt einen Überblick über Datenmodelle, Konzepte zur Skalierung und Betriebsformen – von relationalen Systemen über dokumenten- und graphbasierte Ansätze bis hin zu Zeitreihen- und Vektordatenbanken. Es bietet Hilfestellung bei der Auswahl und Einordnung für unterschiedliche Anwendungsszenarien.

Readers will learn discrete mathematical abstracts as well as its implementation in algorithm and data structures shown in various programming languages, such as C, C++, PHP, Java, C#, Python and Dart. This book combines two major components of Mathematics and Computer Science under one roof.

The software landscape is more crowed than ever! New frameworks seem to arrive weekly.  There are tons of books out there about mastering specific frameworks, but here is one to help you master the one constant factor, no matter where you are:  constructing the source code. Build great things in any programming notation; the rules are inside...

Master practical system design with 62 parts covering distributed systems, scalability, databases, security, and production architecture. A comprehensive engineering handbook with real-world examples, diagrams, and decision frameworks.