Books

Linux is one of the best decisions you can make for your computer — but knowing where to start is the hard part. This guide walks you through everything: choosing a distribution, installing it, and using it confidently every day. It was written by Jay LaCroix of Learn Linux TV, for complete beginners. No prior experience required.

When a license renewal lands at 567% of last year's bill, renting your infrastructure stops being a strategy. This is the escape tunnel: a complete production build of Apache CloudStack 4.22 LTS — KVM, Ceph, OS10 leaf-spine — across a three-city UK estate, written by an engineer with 32 years of building the real thing. Own your cloud down to the last packet.

Linux Advanced for SysAdmin is designed to elevate your expertise, focusing on the intricate tasks critical for managing enterprise-level Linux environments. This book is structured to provide comprehensive insights and practical experiences across seven key areas, transforming you into a proficient and capable system administrator.This book will transform you into a proficient and capable system administrator, ready to tackle the challenges of modern IT infrastructure. By mastering these advanced topics, you will be wellequipped to manage and optimize large-scale Linux environments, ensuring their security, performance, and reliability

Whether you're learning PowerShell or managing enterprise environments, this book is a practical reference for Windows PowerShell 5.1 and PowerShell 7+. It covers core concepts, scripting, automation and administration with clear examples based on official Microsoft documentation.

Take OpenTelemetry from theory to production. This practical guide shows you how to design, deploy and operate observability at scale, with real configurations, proven architecture patterns and hands-on guidance for performance, security, troubleshooting and cost. Built for engineers who need telemetry that works when it matters.

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.

A practical guide to finding threats that never need to touch disk. Explore Windows internals, memory forensics, EDR telemetry and network detection through safe labs and real investigative methods. Built for defenders who want to understand what happens in memory, spot suspicious behavior and turn evidence into reliable detections.

The Linux command line has come a long way. This practical guide explores the modern tools that make everyday terminal work faster, cleaner and more enjoyable. Learn ripgrep, fd, bat, eza, fzf, zoxide, btop, dust and more, with real-world workflows and tips for leaving old-school Unix habits behind.

Learn how to use Zabbix for building scalable and customizable enterprise monitoring solutions through detailed recipes, guiding you to overcome issues in infrastructure performance and enhance your monitoring setup by leveraging Zabbix 7 features.

Troubleshooting Linux systems can feel like solving a mystery—but the right strategies make all the difference. This ebook teaches practical techniques, tools, and real-world approaches that help you diagnose problems faster and fix them with confidence.

Build a powerful AI assistant that runs entirely on your own hardware. The Ollama Assistant Handbook takes you from installation to a production-ready assistant with memory, tools, voice, vision, and automation through practical, hands-on examples you can use immediately.

Stop treating PostgreSQL like slightly broken MySQL and start using it the way it was designed.

Jellyfin makes self-hosting your media library look easy, but getting it right takes more than installing a server. This practical guide covers architecture, deployment, administration and optimization, helping you build a reliable setup that works smoothly for local and remote users alike.

Take a practical journey through SGLang, from its core architecture to real-world deployment and optimization. Built for engineers who need to run LLM inference reliably at scale, this handbook breaks down the tools, techniques and operational know-how needed to build and maintain production-ready SGLang systems.

Building fast LLM inference is about far more than turning the right knobs. This book takes you inside vLLM and the systems behind it, showing how memory, scheduling, GPUs and distributed serving shape real-world performance. Learn how to measure what matters, find bottlenecks and build inference infrastructure that scales without wasting money.