Books

AI agents don’t fail because they forget everything. They fail because they remember badly. This book shows you how to engineer memory that stays accurate, efficient and useful over time. From SQLite and PostgreSQL to vector indexes and multi-agent systems, you’ll learn what it takes to build agents that can run for days without losing the plot.

Ein Playbook gegen die agentische Drift — 29 Leitplanken, um KI-generierten Code prüfbar, ehrlich und auditierbar zu halten, destilliert aus über 27 Jahren Projekt- und Programmleitung in regulierten Branchen.

Build fast, secure and portable applications with WASI. Start with the fundamentals, then move into components, WIT, Wasmtime and real production patterns using Rust, C, Go and JavaScript. From sandboxed plugins to serverless and edge workloads, this practical guide gives you the skills to take WebAssembly from your first experiment to production.

Master modern Delphi from the ground up and build software that’s ready for the real world. From Object Pascal and VCL to FireMonkey, FireDAC, REST, concurrency and testing, this hands-on guide shows you how to write clean, maintainable applications with RAD Studio 13 Florence, backed by practical examples and proven techniques.

Most asyncio tutorials introduce async and await on page one and ask you to take the runtime on faith. This book does it the other way around. You build a working event loop inthirty lines of plain Python — no asyncio import — and meet the keywords as labels for parts of a runtime you have already watched run. By the end, async Python stops beingintimidating and starts being readable.

Big O is not about seconds. It is about what happens to your work when your input gets ten times bigger, and that is the question interviewers are really asking. This book builds the notation from a list of names you can watch being searched, then hands you twenty everyday jobs in ten pairs and asks you to name the shape of each one.

Vector databases give you a similarity metric, an index with four tuning parameters, acompression option and a way to filter — and almost no guidance on what any of it costs. This book builds each one from scratch and measures it. The proximity graph, the invertedfile, the product quantiser: implemented in NumPy, included with the text, and checkedagainst exhaustive search — so every recall figure here is exact rather than estimated.

Both parts of the Transition Playbook in one 139-page volume: the mental models, the orchestration patterns, and two 30-day plans for moving from writing code to directing agents.

Supabase wired into Claude and Cursor over MCP, with RLS designed for agent access, service_role blast radius contained, and ten failure modes diagnosed.

Measure where LLM context costs accumulate, then cut them with deduplication, summarization, truncation and cache exploitation, with a cost model that shows the ROI of each.

Master Spring Boot from the ground up and learn what it takes to build software that is ready for the real world. From Java fundamentals to secure microservices, testing and production deployment, this practical guide turns modern Spring Boot concepts into skills you can confidently put to work.

Prompting has more advice than evidence. This book measures it instead: a model reading apattern it has never seen, the same model failing at a task in one pass and solving itperfectly in four, a decoder that guarantees a format instead of improving the odds, and amodel that is 2.4% accurate while 78.6% confident. Six central claims are built from scratch and measured on a single CPU core. Everythingtaken from published research sits in a grey box marked "Not measured here" — so you neverhave to guess which is which.

Build crawlers that perform at scale without becoming a security liability, then learn to spot and stop the bots targeting your systems. Packed with production-ready code, real-world architectures and practical case studies, this book takes you deep into crawling, fingerprinting, bot detection, WAFs, machine learning and incident response.

Specification Engineering turns complex ideas into clear, workable specifications. This practical guide takes you from core principles to advanced methods for defining, validating, managing and evolving requirements across products, software, systems and services. Built for real-world use, it gives you the tools to create specifications that people can understand and act on.

Confucius never touched a computer, but he knew quite a lot about software. He has much to say about problems of knowledge and information, as well as right action under ambiguity, threats and constraints. Read as a set of commentaries on The Analects, these essays treat Confucius as an early theorist of the flow of information through rites, names and rules; the cyborg sage tangled in the half-built machine of the feudal state.