Books

Prepare to survive Summit and take full advantage with this helpful, concise "manual."

A book about how to be a scientist the modern, open-source way.

The Microservices Primer gives a short introduction to Microservices: What they are, why they are useful and how to learn more about them. It is meant as a quick read for the busy developer, architect and manager and is a great start into the world of Microservices.

This book describes the algorithms and procedures used to fit statistical models to data. The material covered is taught in the Advanced Statistical Computing course in the Department of Biostatistics at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

A rigorous treatment of linear models for self learning data scientists. This book is only available in pdf form.

Just Enough Linux aims at getting you comfortable with some of the commands used in Linux and to hopefully help you 'get' Linux.

The comprehensive, current PGP and GnuPG reference: from air-gapped key generation to YubiKey provisioning, Git signing, email encryption, and emergency recovery.

Unlock the black box of Deep Learning. This book takes you on a journey from the humble dot product to the elegant complexity of Backpropagation via Matrix Calculus. No magic, just math and code. Perfect for developers who want to understand the 'why' and 'how' behind the equations, derived step-by-step from first principles.

A practical field guide for using AI assistants at work—and engineering them in production. Learn the standards that prevent “sounds right, wrong” outputs: specs, grounding, tools, evals, guardrails, and cost control.

This book is a follow-up to my prior books: Understanding Agile Values and Principles (available on InfoQ.com for free) and Adopting Agile Values and Principles.You can get this book for free but if you pay the suggested price and I can verify that on Leanpub, I will offer you a free, 1-hour coaching/training session using your chosen online collaboration tool (e.g., zoo, Microsft Teams).

You already know how to work hard. The question is whether you know when to stop.Most frameworks optimize effort. The Ishi Spiral governs it. It is a discipline of self-governance that sustains performance under pressure without drifting into burnout or grinding past the point where continuation is still justified. The Guide is the Companion to 'Ishi: the Discipline of Determined Intent'.

Stop building toy APIs. Learn how to design, structure, validate, test, and deploy real backend applications using Python and FastAPI — step by step, from zero to production-ready.