Books

Most Kubernetes books teach you YAML. This one teaches you to build a datacenter.You start with #!/usr/bin/env bash. You finish with one command that provisions, reloads, and tears down a complete multi-service cluster. No magic. No black boxes. Just you, Bash, and the cloud-native platform you built yourself.

You've been programming Rails applications for a while and have a solid handle on most Active Record concepts. In this book you'll find a series of practical deep dives into interesting Active Record topics, concepts, and surprises. We'll dig into joins, scopes, strict validations, has_one, Active Record internals, and more.

A hands-on guide to designing, building, testing, and deploying secure stdio and SSE MCP servers in Python and TypeScript (447 manuscript pages).

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.

The ECBA study guide that explains the near-miss — not just the right answer. 9 domains, 100+ practice questions, full rationales. Aligned to Blueprint V1.1 and the 2026 Handbook.

A practical backend interview reference covering modern Python and Django development (397 manuscript pages).

Fifty RF‑101 Voodoos arrived in Vietnam. Forty‑seven were shot down in a year. The pilots who survived didn't fly faster aircraft — they cycled through the OODA loop faster than the missiles chasing them. Jeff Sutherland was one of them. He went on to co‑create Scrum. Now, six decades later, he is running AI agents through daily sprints at machine speed — and this book is the playbook for how to do it without getting shot down.

Learn C by proving your code correct before you write it. The same methodology behind certified aerospace and medical systems - now applied to learning C from the ground up.

This series of test-driven small coding puzzles lets you code a database from scratch (no dependencies).We'll cover KV storage engines, LSM-Tree indexes, SQL, concurrent transactions, ACID, etc.

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.

The definitive guide on Lean-Agile forecasting that gives you all the tools you need in order to answer your customers' most important question.

All of the basic topics to get you from zero to junior pentester level - covering off everything you need to know to start breaking into web application penetration testing industry or looking for flaws on bug bounties. (LTR101)

A practical guide to fine-tuning Large Language Models (LLMs), offering both a high-level overview and detailed instructions on how to train these models for specific tasks.Get the paperback version here. Get the Kindle version here.

Reverse engineering gets a powerful upgrade with Claude Code. Learn how to investigate, understand and reconstruct software you’re authorized to analyze, while keeping evidence, accuracy and reproducibility at the center. From legacy systems to modern codebases, this book turns AI into a practical partner for serious software analysis.

Build fast, modern web applications with Python and FastAPI. Starting with your first endpoint, you’ll develop a real application step by step while learning databases, authentication, WebSockets, testing, Docker and deployment. By the end, you’ll know how to turn Python code into secure, production-ready systems.