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  1. eBPF for Systems Engineers
    eBPF for Systems Engineers
    From First Principles to Production Deployments
    Steve Publications

    Discover how eBPF is changing Linux systems engineering. Starting with the fundamentals, this book walks you through building, debugging and deploying real eBPF programs for observability, networking, security and performance. Learn practical techniques you can use with confidence in production across modern Linux environments.

  2. The Distributed Systems Handbook
    The Distributed Systems Handbook
    Design, Implement, and Operate Production-Grade Systems Using Modern Engineering Practices
    Steve Publications

    Distributed systems can feel overwhelming until you build one yourself. This book takes you from core networking and concurrency concepts to a complete production-ready platform in Go. Every chapter adds real working code so you learn not just the theory but how reliable systems are built and run at scale.

  3. BlackHat Ruby
    BlackHat Ruby
    Building Offensive Security Tools, Exploit Frameworks, and Vulnerability Research Instrumentation
    Steve Publications

    Build offensive security tools that go beyond simple scripts. BlackHat Ruby shows how to create scanners, fuzzers, protocol analyzers and exploit frameworks with clean, practical Ruby code. Along the way you'll see how these techniques work, where the legal boundaries are and how defenders spot and stop them.

  4. NVIDIA DGX Spark: The Complete AI Development and Deployment Platform
    NVIDIA DGX Spark: The Complete AI Development and Deployment Platform
    From Hardware Architecture to Production LLMs, RAG Systems, Agents, and Enterprise AI
    Steve Publications

    Build serious AI systems on NVIDIA DGX Spark with a practical guide that goes far beyond setup. Learn to deploy LLMs, create RAG pipelines, orchestrate AI agents, and optimize performance for real production workloads. Whether you are experimenting or scaling enterprise AI, this book shows you how to get there.

  5. ENTERPRISE AI ARCHITECTURE AND THE MODERN AI STACK
    ENTERPRISE AI ARCHITECTURE AND THE MODERN AI STACK
    VOLUME II — RUNNING THE STACK
    Padmanabham Venkiteela

    Designing AI is only half the journey. Learn how to deploy, secure, govern, monitor, and scale Enterprise AI systems for production with practical architectures and proven operational strategies.

  6. ENTERPRISE AI ARCHITECTURE AND THE MODERN AI STACK
    ENTERPRISE AI ARCHITECTURE AND THE MODERN AI STACK
    VOLUME I — DESIGNING THE STACK
    Padmanabham Venkiteela

    Enterprise AI is more than LLMs and chatbots. Learn how to design secure, scalable, and production-ready AI systems using a vendor-neutral architecture that connects data, models, agents, APIs, governance, and enterprise integration into one modern AI stack.

  7. The Linux Virtual Filesystem
    The Linux Virtual Filesystem
    Architecture, Implementation, and Administration from Kernel Internals to Cloud-Native Systems
    Steve Publications

    The Linux Virtual Filesystem is the abstraction that unifies every filesystem in Linux behind a single interface. This book explores its architecture, kernel implementation, and modern applications, giving system administrators, developers, and kernel engineers the knowledge to understand, troubleshoot, and extend the VFS.

  8. Intelligent Markets
    Intelligent Markets
    Building AI-Driven Algorithmic Trading Systems from First Principles to Production
    Steve Publications

    Artificial intelligence is reshaping financial markets. Intelligent Markets shows you how to build production-ready AI trading systems from first principles, combining market fundamentals, practical architecture, and fully runnable code to create autonomous agents that can research, execute, and manage trades in live markets.

  9. Inside macOS
    Inside macOS
    Architecture, Kernel, and Systems Programming on Apple's Operating System
    Steve Publications

    macOS powers millions of devices, but few developers ever explore what lies beneath its polished interface. Inside macOS explains how the XNU kernel, Mach, BSD, Apple Silicon, APFS, and modern security technologies work together, giving systems programmers, security researchers, and engineers a deep understanding of Apple's operating system.

  10. AEO in Practice
    AEO in Practice
    Get the Sites You Build Cited by AI
    Leandro Salerno

    Make ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude and Google AI cite the sites you build. A code-first AEO/GEO guide for developers and agencies — with a production-tested Next.js boilerplate.

  11. Distributed Systems in Go
    Distributed Systems in Go
    A Complete Guide to Building Cloud-Native Distributed Go Systems
    Joel Bryan Juliano

    Build a cloud-native distributed system in Go with authentication, databases, Kafka, gRPC, circuit breakers, and distributed tracing. Each chapter teaches a pattern and extracts it into a reusable platform SDK. By the final chapter, you'll have six deployable services, a complete platform SDK, and the patterns to build the next one faster.

  12. Large Scale Edge Computing Systems Engineering
    Large Scale Edge Computing Systems Engineering
    Design Optimization, and Operation of Edge Systems at Scale
    gareth thomas

    If You’re Designing Edge Systems the Way Blog Posts Describe Them…You’re Already Behind.Most edge computing material sounds impressive—until you try to deploy it at scale.Then the failures show up: Latency explodes. State breaks. Control planes collapse. Security assumptions fail. Operations become unmanageable.That’s because edge computing is not a product category. It’s a large-scale distributed systems problem—with harsher constraints than the cloud.This book is written for people who actually have to make those systems work.

  13. Humanoid Robotics in China 2026 Edition
    Humanoid Robotics in China 2026 Edition
    A Complete Industry Catalog and Technical Atlas
    gareth thomas

    China is transitioning from industrial robotics dominance to national-scale humanoid robot deployment. This 2026 edition delivers a systems-level, engineering-driven analysis of how that transition is unfolding—across hardware design, AI control architectures, manufacturing supply chains, policy frameworks, and real-world deployment.

  14. AI-Augmented Software Engineering
    AI-Augmented Software Engineering
    Tools, Practices, and Ethics
    Goziechukwu Chima-Duru

    Imagine writing production-grade code with fewer errors, sprint reviews that highlight real insights instead of guesses, and teams that spend less time debugging and more time innovating. This isn’t science fiction, it’s the future of software engineering. AI-Augmented Software Engineering unlocks the practical power of AI tools while grounding you in ethical best practices. Discover how to automate the mundane, amplify your creativity, and shape intelligent systems that serve users all without sacrificing trust, quality, or integrity.Welcome to the next wave of engineering designed with intelligence, driven by values.

  15. The Meta-Engineer - 10x Was the Floor
    The Meta-Engineer - 10x Was the Floor
    Building Autonomous AI Systems with Claude Code
    James Phoenix

    AI coding gets interesting when you stop asking for snippets and start building systems that compound. This book teaches you how to use Claude Code to design prompts, verification layers, context pipelines, and autonomous loops that pick up tasks, write code, run tests, and keep shipping, with runnable TypeScript examples throughout.