Books

An evolutionary book about how to catalyse improvement, promote awareness, boost ownership, develop competencies, and facilitate barrier removal.

What is a good software architecture? Why should we bother structuring the code and spending time testing it? If you like spending hours debugging your programs or staying late at the office to recover from a buggy deploy in production this book is definitely NOT for you!

New to PHP? Coming back to PHP after a hiatus? Been writing PHP for a decade? Whatever your level, you'll learn something here. 

GitOps has caused quite some fuss on Twitter and KubeCon, and still continues to do so. This book aggregates the essence of GitOps to help clear up the confusion. This book answers the following questions:What is GitOps?Why should I use GitOps?How does GitOps work?How to get started with GitOps on Kubernetes?What's the Future of GitOps?

Everyone blames development for being slow. But what if the real bottleneck isn't your engineering team at all? After 25 years as an engineering manager and CTO, and 8 years coaching technology leaders through their biggest challenges, Stephan Schmidt has discovered an uncomfortable truth: you can squeeze out 10-20% by optimizing development, but you'll never reach the next level that way.  The real lever? Decisions. Meetings. The six months an idea bounces around before anyone writes a line of code.  This mini-book shows you how to measure and optimize the entire journey from idea to revenue—not just the coding part. You'll learn 10 practical rules to slash time to market, including how to build a decision culture that doesn't stall, why working in parallel actually slows you down, and how understanding MVP stages can free up development capacity.  Stop blaming your developers. Start fixing what actually matters.

Eric Zimmerman's Tools are free, open-source, and widely taught around the world. This is the official manual for all of his command line and GUI tools.

In this ebook, learn why zebras have stripes, why SARS-CoV-2 spread so quickly around the planet, how to train a computer to classify cellular images, and more!

Stop writing YAML and boilerplate! This book is your guide to the next evolution of DevOps, teaching you to partner with AI to generate production-ready infrastructure, pipelines, and automation with simple English prompts. Stop being just a builder and become a director of systems, amplifying your expertise and shipping better software, faster.

In this book you will learn the following: Build Console appsCreate Web APIsTest your codeCreate and publish reusable packages that others can consumeOrganize your files in a projectWork with files and directoriesParse text with the string library and regular expressions.

Quantitative finance in Python: a hands-on, interactive look at the QuantLib library through the use of Jupyter notebooks as working examples.

This book explains the philosophy behind Leanpub, from its origin in "a book is a startup" to the present form. Lean Publishing is the act of publishing an in-progress book using lightweight tools and many iterations to get reader feedback, pivot until you have the right book and build traction once you do.

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.

Building generative AI application is not only about LLM choice and prompt engineering, but also about the well-architected cloud solution.

This book teaches you how to assemble and lead a data science enterprise so that your organization can move towards extracting information from big data. This book is based on the acclaimed Johns Hopkins Executive Data Science Specialization. Printed copies of this book are available through Lulu.