Books

CCDE Design Labs – Volume I challenges you with realistic, scenario-driven network design problems inspired by the complexity and decision-making expected at the CCDE level.Work through evolving business requirements, technical constraints, architecture trade-offs, exhibits, and unexpected changes then compare your decisions against detailed answers and design rationale.Built for experienced network engineers and architects who want to sharpen their design judgment, challenge their assumptions, and prepare for advanced real-world network design.

Most people use HTTP daily, but few understand its inner workings.This "Build Your Own X" book dives deep,teaching basics from scratch for a clearer understanding of the tools and tech we rely on.Network programming.Protocols & communication.HTTP in detail.WebSocket & concurrency.

Most ENCOR guides tell you what a protocol does. This one shows you the whole configuration, the output that proves it works, and the exact line that tells you when it doesn't.

When a 2,048-GPU training cluster running a 400-billion-parameter model sees its iteration time double without triggering a single alert, firing a CPU panic, or dropping a single packet, you don't have a machine health problem : you have a coordination failure. Beyond Uptime is the definitive field guide for Site Reliability Engineers, platform leads, and cloud architects tasked with keeping frontier AI compute running at peak efficiency. Moving beyond deceptive "GPU Utilization" charts, this book uncovers the hidden mechanics of barrier synchronization, lossless network congestion cascades (PFC/ECN), silent PCIe downtraining, and Silent Data Corruption (SDC). Packed with eBPF tracing methods, streaming gNMI telemetry rules, statistical tail analytics (MAD/CUSUM), and dynamic circuit-breaker strategies, Beyond Uptime gives you the battle-tested framework needed to isolate stragglers in minutes rather than days. Stop paying the silent tax on your AI infrastructure!

Read the book, do the labs, and gain your CCNP/CCIE Automation certification.

With "Mastering Python Network Automation," you can streamline container orchestration, configuration management, and resilient networking with Python and its libraries, allowing you to emerge as a skilled network engineer or a strong DevOps professional

Modern networks like the Internet — explained as simply as possible — but no simpler.

Understand wireless from first principles — seven domains, forty original diagrams, and ten real-world field scenarios that turn exam facts into engineering instinct.

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.

Learn everything there is to know about building and maintaining your own home or workplace virtual lab environment on the most popular hypervisors today!

Read a book, do some labs and take the exam!

Build real-world software by coding a Redis server from scratch.Network programming. The next level of programming is programming for multiple machines. Think HTTP servers, RPCs, databases, distributed systems.Data structures. Redis is the best example of applying data structures to real-world problems. Why stop at theoretical, textbook-level knowledge when you can learn from production software?Low-level C. C was, is, and will be widely used for systems programming and infrastructure software. It’s a gateway to many low-level projects.From scratch. A quote from Richard Feynman: “What I cannot create, I do not understand”. You should test your learning with real-world projects!

A capture that's too big, a complaint that's too vague: this book teaches you to get from there to the packets that explain it. Twenty chapters and 80 exercises on real captures take you from your first capture to TLS decryption, scan detection and your own Lua dissector, with the output of commands run in the lab cited on the page so you can check it yourself.

See what your network traffic is really revealing. This practical guide breaks down TLS fingerprinting, JA3/JA4 and HTTP client identification, then shows you how to put them to work with Python, Go and Rust. From protocol internals to production pipelines, learn how to identify clients at scale without losing sight of privacy or operational reality.

Build OpenStack with confidence, from your first deployment to production at scale. This hands-on guide walks you through planning, configuration, security, daily operations and troubleshooting with practical examples and proven techniques. A dependable resource for admins, DevOps engineers and cloud architects.