Books

Learn SysML v2 with the ultimate guide for all skill levels in MBSE. Authored by insiders, it's your key to unlocking the full potential of system modeling and a passport to mastering your MBSE.

Hands on Labs to prepare you for a career in Linux or system engineering. Built by the Professional Linux User's Group to focus on exactly what the professional needs in the enterprise.

Local Intelligence shows you how to run large language models entirely on your Mac with Apple Silicon. Learn to use tools like Ollama, MLX, and llama.cpp, understand quantization, and build real local AI applications with open-source code.

"If you intend to use machine learning to solve business problems at scale, I'm delighted you got your hands on this book." —Cassie Kozyrkov, Chief Decision Scientist at Google "Foundational work about the reality of building machine learning models in production." —Karolis Urbonas, Head of Machine Learning and Science at Amazon

This is the classic volume on every variety of technical review of programs, designs, tests, documentation, plans, requirements, ...

Application sandboxing is the foundation of secure modern computing. This book explores the principles, architectures, and technologies behind containers, virtual machines, browser sandboxes, WebAssembly, and more, explaining how they isolate untrusted code, where their security boundaries break down, and how to choose the right approach for real-world systems.

A pattern language for event sourced applications and reliable distributed systems. Examples are written in the Python programming language. Now includes event-oriented introductions to the pattern language scheme of Christopher Alexander, the process philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead, and the person-centred psychology of Rogers and Rosenberg.

Errors drive us crazy. Computers can reduce errors, but in a minute can multiply a single error a million times. To use a computer successfully, you need to know more about errors than you ever imagined.

This book is a quick foray into the world of deep learning-based computer vision and abnormal equipment sound detection. The readers are introduced to the ease with which powerful equipment and product quality monitoring solutions can be built using sound and visual data.

This book familiarizes readers with the world of LLM and agentic AI, and helps them quickly gain a working-level knowledge of building useful agentic AI solutions for process industry operations. With no prerequisites required, practical demo applications, and a hands-on approach adopted throughout, this book makes advanced AI technologies accessible to process engineers and data scientists alike. It aims to help process data scientists and engineers take their first confident steps into Agentic AI world, understand the full picture, and build a strong enough foundation to keep learning and building on their own. Also available here.

This short book introduces process data scientists to knowledge graphs and GraphRAG, a powerful combination that overcomes the limitations of vanilla RAG when answering the kind of cross-document, relationship-heavy questions that process engineers usually care about. With a hands-on, application-driven approach, the book walks readers through the complete pipeline: designing an ontology for plant data, using LLMs to extract entities and relationships from incident reports, building and querying the graph in Neo4j, and finally assembling everything into a demo web application.

This is your complete guide to building rhythmic, waste-free production cells that deliver quality at speed—just in time.

Master cloud security with confidence using this comprehensive CCSP study guide. Covering all six CCSP domains, it combines clear explanations, real-world examples, and exam-focused practice to help you succeed on the certification exam while building practical cloud security skills for your career.

Unlock the hidden potential of your engine with nitrous oxide (NOS) systems, one of the most powerful and precise performance enhancers available. This volume provides a comprehensive, engineering-focused guide to safely installing, tuning, and optimizing nitrous systems for maximum performance and reliability.

Build a Linux operating system from source with only the components you need. Learn how the kernel, boot process, system utilities, libraries and package management work together while gaining the practical skills to build and maintain your own Linux distribution.