Books

Go beyond the basics and learn how to get the most from RocksDB. This practical guide explains the architecture behind its speed, shows how to tune it for real workloads and helps you solve performance issues with confidence. Packed with code examples and production-focused advice, it is built for developers who need storage that scales.

Can you defeat the dragon? In The Dragon's Code, you won't just read about Python. You'll use it to create a real terminal adventure game from scratch. Explore mysterious rooms, battle monsters, solve puzzles, collect treasure, and face a dragon in an adventure where every chapter unlocks a new game mechanic and a new programming skill. No experience required.Just curiosity and a little courage!

Build, secure and run reliable mail servers with confidence. This practical guide walks you through Postfix and Dovecot from the ground up, covering everything from core email protocols to high availability, performance tuning and automation. Packed with real configurations and clear explanations you can use in production.

Discover how to build fast, elegant and reliable software with Julia. Starting from the basics, this book guides you through real-world projects, performance optimization and production-ready techniques. Whether you work in data science, engineering or research, you'll gain the skills to write Julia code with confidence.

Whether you're opening R for the first time or ready to tackle real data projects, this book helps you build practical skills that stick. Follow clear lessons, hands-on examples and complete code as you progress from the basics to data visualization, machine learning, web apps and professional R workflows.

The firewall attackers actually bypass is human. This practical guide reveals the psychology, tactics, and real-world cases behind phishing, vishing, BEC, and deepfake social engineering, then hands you the frameworks, red team methods, and incident response playbooks to build a genuine human firewall.

A complete, idiomatic guide to modern JavaScript for developers coming from other languages. Master ES2025 features, async patterns, the DOM, and the tooling ecosystem through runnable examples and clear explanations of what to use and why.

614 pages. 16 chapters. 27+ years of plant-floor experience. Everything you need to design, operate, maintain, and optimize industrial boilers and steam systems in FMCG and modern manufacturing — in one professional reference. Most boiler books stop at theory. This one follows every concept with its plant-floor consequence — fuel cost, steam quality, maintenance, safety.

Hack combines the speed and flexibility of PHP with the safety of modern static typing, making it a powerful choice for building reliable applications. This book takes you from the basics to advanced concepts with practical examples, clear explanations and real-world techniques that help you write clean, maintainable Hack code with confidence.

You're half right about the slop. Here's how to make Claude Code leverage without lowering your standards.

When the stones of faith are forced to float under RFID tags and divine wrath must wait for network clearance, who truly wins the war for Lanka? A luminous, devastating reimagining of the Ramayana in which the platform becomes the final god.

Thinking is Rust

Learn to build fast, scalable asynchronous applications in C with libuv, the cross-platform library behind Node.js. Through practical examples and clear explanations, you'll master event-driven programming and write high-performance software that runs efficiently across Linux, macOS and Windows.

He needed no army—only the architecture a nation had built to know itself. Thirty days of soft invitation. Then the red lights. A conquest so complete it ends with rain falling on the grateful and the conquered alike.