Books

Architecture is still often considered as black art. If you develop large hardware/software systems maybe including mechanical or electrical components, this book is for you. Source Code is not enough to understand complex embedded systems. This is where arc42 as a pragmatic and practical template comes into the game. Read some real-life examples!

The practical Windchill reference for administrators, developers and PLM consultants: 27 problem-to-fix cards, 25+ Java API recipes, admin routines and ready-to-use scripts.

Take your Delphi skills beyond the basics and learn how to build real-world web applications with DMVCFramework. From your first REST API to secure, scalable services, this practical guide covers the tools, patterns and techniques you need to build, test and deploy production-ready applications with confidence.

You don’t need massive compute or big-tech resources to build real AI. This hands-on guide shows you how to build and fine-tune your own small language model—from scratch—using accessible tools like Google Colab. Learn transformers step-by-step, train and align models on your own data, and deploy practical AI systems that run on consumer GPUs. If you’ve ever wondered “Can I build my own model?”—this book proves the answer is yes.

Happy-path architecture is a myth. When downstream dependencies degrade, naive retries trigger thundering herds, thread pools exhaust in seconds, and dual-writes silently corrupt financial balances. Surviving Distributed Systems is an unvarnished, production-tested field guide for senior backend engineers. Packed with architectural diagrams and modern Java 21 code, this book teaches you how to design, isolate, and harden high-concurrency systems so they survive catastrophic cascading failures.

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.

This textbook provides an in-depth analysis on personal finance that is both practical and straightforward in its approach. It has been written in such a way that the readers can gain knowledge without getting overwhelmed by the technical terms. Suitable for both beginners and advanced learners.

Understand wireless from first principles — seven domains, forty original diagrams, and ten real-world field scenarios that turn exam facts into engineering instinct.

Build Claude into a reliable specialist for your domain. The Claude Skills Handbook takes you from the first idea through architecture, implementation, testing, security, deployment and monitoring, with practical patterns and working examples throughout. Learn how to build Skills that scale, stay maintainable and work in the real world.

Network traffic can look like noise until you know what to look for. This practical guide shows you how to investigate unfamiliar protocols, analyze packet captures and build reliable workflows with Claude Code. Learn to reverse engineer traffic, test your assumptions and turn raw network data into findings you can trust.

Static code analysis is more than running a linter and fixing warnings. This book shows how to build practical analysis pipelines with Claude Code and deterministic tools, combining AI-driven insights with reliable checks to improve code quality and security across projects of any size.

MCP can transform the way you work with Claude Code. This practical guide takes you from the basics to production, showing you how to connect tools, build integrations, automate workflows and ship reliable, secure solutions you can use right away.

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.

Ecosocial Design is a digestible (if lengthy) call to upgrade our actions for people, planet and all life forms. It extends the substantial earth-care notions of permaculture into the cultural realm. The presentation also imagines you as a significant actor in this critical work and provides some means whereby you might access the support you need.

This book offers practical guidance on managing data as a product, drawing from real-world experience to empower you to implement your own data product-centric approach.