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800 pages. 11 chapters. The full forecasting stack in Python — from ARIMA to foundation models — with production-grade code and proper evaluation. No hype.

This book supplements the DM for CS Specialization at Coursera and contains many interactive puzzles, autograded quizzes, and code snippets. They are intended to help you to discover important ideas in discrete mathematics on your own. By purchasing the book, you will get all updates of the book free of charge when they are released.

AI engineering is becoming one of the most valuable and in-demand areas of software development, and Python, LangChain, and LangGraph are core skills for building the systems behind it. Learn how to turn basic Python knowledge into production-grade backend and agentic AI applications—and move toward an engineering niche centered on building and controlling AI rather than competing with it.

Skip the black-box frameworks. Build a production-grade AI coding agent from scratch in pure Python - cloud or local, tested with pytest, all in a single file.

A model that wins on MAPE can lose money on the shelf. A 15% accuracy gain can hide a 12% bias. An interval that looks tight can be wrong a third of the time.Forecast metrics are decision instruments, not neutral truth detectors — and most teams are still choosing them by habit. This book shows where MAE, MAPE, sMAPE, WAPE, MASE, RMSSE, CRPS, pinball loss, energy scores, bias measures and cost-based metrics help, and where they quietly mislead.Twelve chapters take you from elicitation and baselines through intermittent demand, probabilistic and hierarchical scoring, and the accuracy–utility gap, to a production evaluation system with monitoring, drift detection, alerting and governance. Every metric arrives with its assumptions, every criticism carries a remedy, and a retrospective Walmart M5 case study runs throughout, with Python listings and reproducibility checks.For demand planners, forecasting data scientists, ML engineers and analytics leads who need evaluation choices they can defend. Measure what matters.

A model that wins on MAPE can lose money on the shelf. A 15% accuracy gain can hide a 12% bias. An interval that looks tight can be wrong a third of the time.Forecast metrics are decision instruments, not neutral truth detectors — and most teams are still choosing them by habit. This book shows where MAE, MAPE, sMAPE, WAPE, MASE, RMSSE, CRPS, pinball loss, energy scores, bias measures and cost-based metrics help, and where they quietly mislead.Twelve chapters take you from elicitation and baselines through intermittent demand, probabilistic and hierarchical scoring, and the accuracy–utility gap, to a production evaluation system with monitoring, drift detection, alerting and governance. Every metric arrives with its assumptions, every criticism carries a remedy, and a retrospective Walmart M5 case study runs throughout, with Python listings and reproducibility checks.For demand planners, forecasting data scientists, ML engineers and analytics leads who need evaluation choices they can defend. Measure what matters.

Build a compiler to learn how programming languages work. Use low-level assembly to learn how computers work. Walks through a minimal yet complete compiler. Compiles a static-typed language into x64 ELF executables.Simple interpreter.Bytecode compiler.x64 assembly & instruction encoding.Translate bytecode to x64 code.Generate binary executables.

The Databricks platform and data-engineering playbook for the engineers who own pipelines, govern catalogs, and keep workloads on schedule. Sixteen chapters on Unity Catalog, Lakeflow, identity, observability, and performance. Azure examples; concepts mapped to AWS and GCP.

It's a practical book. We're going to build something real together, a University API, and we're going to grow it chapter by chapter until it looks like a system you'd be proud to deploy. We'll start with a few endpoints, give it databases, make it concurrent, lock it down with authentication, wrap it in containers, and finally split it into cooperating services that talk over the network.

For those who want to build controlled, reproducible AI systems entirely within their own infrastructure, this book is the most practical and implementation-focused trainer. Instead of relying on external APIs or cloud-hosted intelligence services, this book clearly demonstrates how Apache Spark can orchestrate data preparation, model training, batch inference, reporting, and LLM acceleration in a disciplined and transparent way.

The Python interview guide written from the interviewer's side of the table. 35 chapters. Every benchmark measured. Every line of code verified. What senior engineers actually get asked — and what separates the ones who get the offer.

A hands-on guide to downloading, running, serving, and maintaining open-weight LLMs on your own machine (492 manuscript pages).

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.

RAG, Agent Bricks, the Multi-Agent Supervisor with MCP, Lakebase, MLflow 3, Lakehouse Monitoring, Feature Store, Vector Search. Every AI surface Databricks shipped at GA in 2025 and 2026, taught by a practitioner, current to 2026. What you will learn - Build RAG pipelines with Vector Search, embedding models, and citation grounding- Ship Agent Bricks for classification and information extraction- Orchestrate specialist agents with the Multi-Agent Supervisor and MCP- Use Lakebase as the operational Postgres layer for AI apps and agents- Detect data and model drift with Lakehouse Monitoring; wire alerts to retraining- Manage the ML lifecycle with MLflow 3 and the UC Model Registry- Govern features across training and serving with Feature Store (offline + online)- Serve foundation and custom models with AI Gateway controls Who this book is for Data engineers, ML engineers, and AI/ML architects who know PySpark and the Databricks platform and now need to ship production AI. Volume 3 is the recommended prerequisite. Table of Contents 1. Databricks SQL in Production. Warehouses, materialized views, three latency signals (admission, compilation, execution), the full dashboard backend wiring.2. External BI: Tableau, Power BI, dbt. Performance tips that take a dashboard from sluggish to instant, dbt configuration at incremental scale, the seam between BI and the lakehouse.3. AI/BI Dashboards. Anatomy of a Lakeview dashboard, draft vs published flow, the Dashboard Agent's reliable patterns, the five-grant permission model.4. Genie: Natural-Language Analytics. Grounding sources, the priority rule, the SQL Genie actually writes, the questions Genie answers cleanly versus the ones that confuse it.5. AI SQL Functions. ai_query, ai_parse_document, ai_extract for PDFs and HTML, univariate forecasts, the daily cost math for production AI SQL pipelines.6. Model Serving. Endpoints, the three fields that decide capacity and cost, the chat-completion payload, the five moving pieces of a production recommender.7. Foundation Models. Five major providers, the External Models config, the vendor-swap pattern (Claude to Gemini in hours, not weeks), the three habits that keep swap cost low.8. Vector Search and RAG. Six delta-sync arguments, three chunking strategies compared, the RAG function your app imports, end-to-end answer evaluation with traces.9. MLflow 3 and UC Model Registry. Versions, aliases, tags (and what each is not for), five tracking calls and what each one writes, the experiment-to-production lifecycle.10. Feature Store. Why SDP is the right producer, the six-file project layout, four parity-failure classes between offline and online stores and what causes each.11. MLOps as a Practice. Seven sources every incident reads from, three deploy patterns (canary, shadow, blue-green), three retrain strategies, five golden signals for an ML endpoint.12. Lakehouse Monitoring: Drift Detection. Six monitor parameters, the loop from drift alert to retraining, what to do when the baseline table is missing.13. Distributed Deep Learning. Three signals that force distributed training, picking the flavor (data, model, hybrid) from the bottleneck, four pieces of GPU memory worked out for a 7B model.14. Agent Bricks. Declarative classification and information-extraction agents, eval-set ingredients, the pre-compute pattern that makes small seed sets work.15. Multi-Agent Supervisor and MCP. The supervisor build, synthetic-turn evaluation, three real conversations end to end, the auth-passthrough chain across child agents.16. Lakebase: Operational Postgres for AI. Five alternatives compared, sub-10ms reads for AI apps, the lineage from Delta source through SDP into Postgres and onward to the endpoint.17. Capstone: Retail Intelligence App. Ten stages, each anchored to an earlier chapter. The smoke test that confirms every stage of the platform is reachable, the new-data path through the recommender.18. Certification and What's Next. The certification paths that actually map to the book, and the reading list the on-call team uses when something breaks.

Pull a model onto a machine you own, shape it with a Modelfile, fine-tune your own adapter, and build a chat app that calls tools and talks to an MCP server, all running on your own hardware. By the end, you'll know exactly where owning your AI beats renting it, and where it doesn't.