Books

Looking to get into modern network management tools that are in the open-source? This is the place for you. This will get you up and running quickly with modern tools such as Nautobot, Grafana, Prometheus, and Hashicorp Vault. This is the modern stack that is being deployed by many of the largest companies!

Learn Bash the way it should be taught: by building one real, tested backup tool — not toy examples — one Git commit at a time.

Whether you’re exposing APIs to partners, building microservices, or connecting legacy systems, API Gateways sit at the heart of your infrastructure. This book takes you step by step through architecture, security, traffic control, OpenAPI validation, and real-world deployment. With vendor-neutral guidance and practical examples using the open-source Membrane API Gateway, it’s a hands-on resource for API developers, architects, and platform teams.

Snort 3 was officially released in 2021, after a decade in development, and it is a powerful, full-featured IDS platform. Learn how to install it on just about any modern Debian-based Linux distro, and start using it today!

Peer-to-peer (P2P) networks are fascinating! P2P networks can scale to thousands, millions or even billions of individual peers collaborating without a central, coordinating entity. These peers can be run by individuals or organizations - each contributing resources towards the total capacity of the network. This book explores how!

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

324 pages on the whole of the SSCA 300-740 v2.0 blueprint — zero trust, identity, policy, Cisco Secure Access and security operations — taught from first principles, with 260 practice questions and 48 diagrams.

Build real-time data systems that can keep up with the demands of production. Streaming at Scale takes you under the hood of Apache Flink, covering state, event time, exactly-once processing, performance, Kubernetes and more. With runnable examples and practical lessons, it shows how to build systems that are fast, reliable and ready to scale.

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.

Take your IPv6 skills beyond the basics. Advanced IPv6 Engineering covers real-world network design, routing, security, automation and operations at scale, with practical examples for Linux, enterprise networks, cloud, containers and Kubernetes. Built for engineers who need to deploy, secure and manage IPv6 with confidence.

A brilliant engineer with no evidence is reduced to guessing, while an ordinary engineer with good evidence looks like a genius. Everything in this book is an attempt to get you to think differently. You don't need a huge team to do this. You don't need to get anyone's approval for a budget, and you don't have to rewrite any services. What you need is a system that tells you the truth about itself, and you need it before the incident rather than during it.As a team, we'll build that system together on one small storefront, and we'll do it the way real teams build, which is to say not perfectly but in order.

A practical reference for securing real-world OT, ICS and SCADA environments.Roadmap for engineers, CISOs, and consultants to master industrial cybersecurity. Learn to secure ICS, SCADA, and Industry 4.0 environments, apply IEC 62443 & NIS 2, and build robust defense-in-depth architectures—from real-world attack analysis to practical incident response.

Whenever I've worked on a service, there's always been a morning when it stops being a demo. Then traffic arrives from somewhere nobody planned for, a nightly job overruns into the working day, and a number somebody chose months ago turns out to be wrong. That morning was a different story, though. The thing that separates a survival program from one that doesn't is a set of habits, and those habits can be learned. So, this second edition is organised around them rather than around syntax.

In this book, we plan before we act, we preview before we commit, we gate on evidence rather than on hope, and we write the recovery before we take the risk. By the time you get to the last chapter, you'll be familiar with the switches over NETCONF, server provisioning, building overlays, traffic inspection, cloud network provisioning, Kubernetes resource application, RDMA fabric validation, inference traffic routing, and reporting your findings through an interface that an assistant can query.

Take control of your storage with FreeCORE: The Complete Guide. From your first installation to advanced ZFS management, network shares, security, backups and performance tuning, this practical guide shows you how to build, manage and troubleshoot a reliable NAS with confidence, whether you are running a home lab or a production environment.