Books

A practical guide to Microsoft Desired State Configuration (DSC), the cross-platform configuration management tool for Windows, Linux, and macOS. Learn how to author configuration documents, work with built-in resources, adapters, and build custom resources.

Learn everything there is to know about Shodan from the founder himself. The book covers all aspects from the website through to the developer API with exercises to help test your understanding.

Introduction to Statistics for the Life and Biomedical Sciences is the 4th official OpenIntro book and has been written to be used in conjunction with a set of self-paced learning labs. These labs guide students through learning how to apply statistical ideas and concepts discussed in the text with the R computing language.

Official companion guide to the OWASP Juice Shop. Being a web application with a vast number of intended security vulnerabilities, the OWASP Juice Shop is supposed to be the opposite of a  best practice  or  template application  for web developers: It is an awareness, training, demonstration and exercise tool for security risks in modern web apps.

This book is your easy way to start learn famous DevOps tools, explains why you should choose it and how you can use all the tools together. The main focus is GitLab and Jenkins. We are positive that this book helps to make the first step for engineers who think about changing their career as a lot of our students did.

From machine learning to natural language processing, this book will guide you through the cutting-edge world of AI-powered data products. You'll learn how to harness the power of AI to create products that are smarter, faster, and more efficient than anything your competitors can dream of.

Most teams don’t suffer from a lack of effort—they suffer from a lack of alignment. Goals are misaligned, boundaries are unclear, and work often centres on internal priorities instead of user needs— resulting in frustration and delays. User Needs Mapping: Aligning Teams Around What Matters offers a practical, visual way to reconnect organisations with the people they serve. Instead of guessing at structure or copying someone else’s model, this book shows you how to expose hidden dependencies, identify genuine user needs, and make better choices about team design and responsibilities. Through real-world case studies and step-by-step guidance, you’ll learn how to navigate tensions between wants, needs, and feasibility, create clarity of purpose, and build teams that deliver meaningful outcomes. Whether you’re a leader, product manager, architect, or change agent, this book equips you to turn complexity into clarity and enable teams to flow faster—aligned around what matters.

The comprehensive, current PGP and GnuPG reference: from air-gapped key generation to YubiKey provisioning, Git signing, email encryption, and emergency recovery. Can't afford it? I got you -- scroll to end of description

Level up your C++, get the tools working for you, eliminate common problems, and move on to more exciting things!

Learn Kotlin programming the fun way, with oodles of illustrations and concrete explanations, in a book that steps through the concepts one at a time in order to help you build a solid mental model of the language. Whether you're new to Kotlin, or just looking to fill in some gaps of knowledge, Kotlin: An Illustrated Guide has got you covered!

GitHub Actions Essentials is your definitive guide to mastering the world of GitHub Actions. From setting up your first workflow to exploring advanced techniques and best practices, this comprehensive resource covers everything you need to know to streamline your development process

You want to analyse, understand and capture the subject matter of a domain, typically because you want to build a software system in that domain? You're looking for abstractions to describe and ultimately execute said subject matter? Then this book is for you: it's chock-full of experience and practices for tackling this challenge.

This book provides a guided tour along the wide range of ML methods that have proven useful in process industry. Step-by-step instructions, supported with real process datasets, show how to develop ML-based solutions for process monitoring, predictive maintenance, fault diagnosis, soft sensing, and process control. Also available at Google Play.