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  1. Cloudflare and the Modern CDN
    Cloudflare and the Modern CDN
    How the Internet Edge Actually Works
    Steve Publications

    A practical look at how the modern Internet edge really works. Explore DNS, BGP, TLS, HTTP/3 and the architecture behind content delivery, then apply that knowledge to building, securing and optimizing Cloudflare in production. No marketing fluff, just the engineering behind the edge.

  2. Architecture at Machine Speed
    Architecture at Machine Speed
    Building Go Systems That Humans and AI Can Safely Change
    Nathan B. Crocker

    AI can write code at machine speed. Can your architecture keep up? Architecture at Machine Speed shows how to build Go systems that remain coherent as humans and AI agents change them at unprecedented velocity. Through a real-world application built from the ground up, you'll learn to turn architectural intent into explicit boundaries, enforceable constraints, and automated safeguards—because when code becomes abundant, coherence becomes the scarce resource.

  3. FROM RUNTIME TO DISTRIBUTION
    FROM RUNTIME TO DISTRIBUTION
    VOLUME III
    Grigorios Agathangelidis

    From containers and Kubernetes to autoscaling, observability, Prometheus, Grafana, SLOs, security, and production failure. Volume III shows how distributed architecture becomes an operable, measurable, evidence-driven production system.

  4. Local First Software Development
    Local First Software Development
    Building Software That Works Without the Cloud
    Steve Publications

    What if your software did not need the cloud to work? Local First Software Development shows you how to build fast, reliable apps that work offline and sync when needed. Learn practical patterns for data, security and synchronization while exploring how local-first systems can grow from simple personal tools into large collaborative applications.

  5. From Services to Runtime
    From Services to Runtime
    Grigorios Agathangelidis

    Microservices aren't built with boxes on a diagram—they're built with owned truth, stable contracts, idempotent messages, and controlled failure.

  6. The Distributed Systems Handbook
    The Distributed Systems Handbook
    Design, Implement, and Operate Production-Grade Systems Using Modern Engineering Practices
    Steve Publications

    Distributed systems can feel overwhelming until you build one yourself. This book takes you from core networking and concurrency concepts to a complete production-ready platform in Go. Every chapter adds real working code so you learn not just the theory but how reliable systems are built and run at scale.

  7. Backpressure in Microservices
    Backpressure in Microservices
    Bounded Queues, Worker Pools, Cancellation, Drop Policies, and Overload Control in Go
    Luca Sepe

    Stop overload from becoming unbounded queues, goroutines, and downstream calls. Build bounded backpressure that fails predictably.

  8. The Scalable SaaS Architecture Handbook
    The Scalable SaaS Architecture Handbook
    Designing Systems That Grow Without Breaking
    Steve Publications

    Scaling isn't just about handling more traffic. The Scalable SaaS Architecture Handbook shows you how to design SaaS systems that remain reliable, maintainable, and efficient as they grow, using proven patterns and real-world lessons.

  9. API Rate Limiting & Throttling
    API Rate Limiting & Throttling
    Distributed Quotas, Kubernetes Protection, Tenant Fairness, and Go Middleware
    Luca Sepe

    Another Production Field Manual: protect APIs before overload becomes an outage with rate limiting, throttling, and tenant fairness.

  10. Circuit Breaker and Retries with Exponential Backoff
    Circuit Breaker and Retries with Exponential Backoff
    Resilient Microservice Calls, Failure Containment, Kubernetes Operations, and FinOps Impact
    Luca Sepe

    Learn how to stop retry storms, contain dependency failures, and make resilient microservice calls observable, bounded, and production-ready.

  11. The Kubernetes Platform Engineer Interview Guide
    The Kubernetes Platform Engineer Interview Guide
    Advanced Controllers, Syncers, Multi-Tenancy, API Scalability, and Staff-Level System Design
    Luca Sepe

    Prepare for Kubernetes platform engineering interviews like a Staff Engineer. Learn how controllers, informers, syncers, finalizers, API scalability and multi-tenancy behave in real systems, then put it all into practice with a hands-on workspace-syncer capstone project. A practical guide to reasoning, designing, debugging, and explaining Kubernetes control-plane systems.

  12. THE COMPLETE BEGINNER TO PROFESSIONAL WEBSITE CREATION AND GROWTH GUIDE
    THE COMPLETE BEGINNER TO PROFESSIONAL WEBSITE CREATION AND GROWTH GUIDE
    A Step-by-Step Blueprint for Building, Launching, Managing, and Growing Professional Websites No Experience Required
    AHMAD ABUBAKAR MUSTAFA

    The Complete Beginner to Professional Website Creation and Growth Guide takes you step by step through the entire website-building journey—from choosing a domain and hosting to designing, launching, optimizing, securing, and growing a professional website. Whether you're starting a blog, business website, portfolio, or online store, this guide gives you the knowledge and confidence to succeed.

  13. Mastering Elasticsearch
    Mastering Elasticsearch
    A Complete Guide from Fundamentals to Production Mastery
    Steve Publications

    Mastering Elasticsearch is a hands-on guide to building fast, scalable search and analytics systems. It covers core concepts, index design, Query DSL, relevance tuning, vector search, and production operations with practical examples in Python, Java, JavaScript, and REST.

  14. Architecting Agentic Systems
    Architecting Agentic Systems
    Engineering Dependable AI Agents
    Damian Beresford

    You shipped the demo. The model worked. Now production is coming, and the demo is not a system. An agentic system is a distributed-systems engineering problem — the reliability lives in the shell, not the model.

  15. El libro de la Web3
    El libro de la Web3
    Cómo entender la próxima era de internet
    Bruno Galvao

    Todos hemos oído hablar de la Web3, de las criptomonedas, de las cadenas de bloques (blockchains), de los NFT y de las DAO. Casi nadie sabe decir, con claridad, qué **es** en realidad cada una de esas cosas, ni si se trata del futuro de internet o de una manera elaborada de perder dinero. **El libro de la Web3** por fin le da una respuesta directa.