Books

A practical book aimed for those familiar with functional programming in Scala who are yet not confident about architecting an application from scratch. Together, we will develop a purely functional application using the best libraries in the Cats ecosystem, while learning about design patterns and best practices.

A master class on the fundamentals and principles of functional programming. It contains 20 programming challenges with detailed solutions and 44 quizzes with answers and explanations. Moreover, 84 diagrams graphically illustrate how concepts and techniques work. Two real-world use cases show how to apply functional programming in practice.

Have you wondered what makes functional programming such a big deal, but haven't been able to get through any of the explanations? We wrote this book for you. Four years in the making! Phone-friendly: the code listings are easily readable without phone gymnastics. This is a small book—it took an enormous amount of effort to make it so! Also available as a Print Book.

A Functional Programming book from beginner to advanced without skipping a single step along the way. In my 40 years of programming, I've felt that programming books always let me down, especially Functional Programming books. So, I wrote the book I wish I had 5 years ago. Functional Programming will never be easy, but it can be easier.

Explore the event-driven architecture (EDA) in a purely functional way. Learn to design and develop distributed systems that scale. Identify common design patterns in such systems. Take your functional programming skills to the next level by joining me in developing a distributed system powered by Apache Pulsar and Fs2 streams, all in Scala 3!

This book offers beginners and backend developers with practical guidance on developing robust server-side applications with Java 17. Each chapter is structured around hands-on examples, real-world challenges, and step-by-step solutions tailored to Java professionals aiming to elevate their expertise in backend systems.

Stop debating code style. Start engineering code. Every developer brings personal preferences. Every AI tool channels different training examples. The result? Inconsistent codebases, endless code reviews, and technical debt that compounds silently. Java Backend Coding Technology introduces a radical idea: reduce the space of valid choices until there's essentially one good way to do most things. Not through rigid frameworks, but through a small set of patterns that make structure predictable, refactoring mechanical, and business logic visible. The code you write, your teammate writes, and your AI assistant generates will look the same -- because the patterns leave no room for subjective variation.

Build It with Nitrogen: the Fast Off the Block Erlang Web Framework, guides web developers step-by-step through construction of highly reliable web applications. Nitrogen is designed for no-fuss development. It abstracts HTML and JavaScript into syntactically consistent elements and actions; preserves the scalability benefits of Erlang.

Everywhere you look, programming languages are gaining functional features. The problem is that it's not the individual features that make functional programmers happy, it's the way that your approach to writing software and the features work together to help you write simple code to solve interesting problems. This concise, practical ebook will help you discover why F# is such a popular language with those who have spent time learning its secrets. 

Elegant Design Principles distils decades of design wisdom into 95 actionable principles spanning core OO, SOLID/GRASP, package design, reliability and a forward‑looking AI‑first approach. Explore the Design Pyramid to understand how quality attributes, smells and principles interconnect; learn to manage complexity through high cohesion, low coupling and clear abstractions; and adopt modern practices like test‑driven development and semantic modularity. From novices seeking a roadmap to experts embracing AI‑assisted workflows, this book equips you to create systems that are robust, maintainable and elegant—today and in the AI‑driven future.

This book goes beyond simple Scala usage and covers some advanced topics. It explores techniques that are usually considered non-trivial and shows their use in real projects. We cover type classes, iteratees, category theory and look at some purely functional libraries. If you already know Scala but want to go deeper, this is the book for you.

Python's best kept secret is its built in support for functional programming. Even better, it allows functional programming to be blended seamlessly with procedural and object oriented coding styles. This book explains what functional programming is, how Python supports it, and how you can use it to write clean, efficient and reliable code.

Joy of Elixir guides first-time programmers through the paces of learning their first programming language in a fun and enjoyable way.