Books

A working engineer’s introduction to tall-building design: one reference tower, eleven worked examples, and an honest account of where a screening calculation stops.

A comprehensive technical guide to Python-driven cloud architecture, infrastructure automation, serverless engineering, security, distributed systems, and large-scale AWS operations.Modern cloud infrastructure is more than a collection of virtual machines and managed services. It is a programmable environment in which networking, identity, compute, storage, databases, messaging, and observability must work together as a coherent system. Building reliable cloud platforms requires software engineering discipline, automation, security controls, and a detailed understanding of how these services interact.Mastering AWS: Advanced Python Engineering is a 100-chapter technical reference for senior software engineers, DevOps specialists, cloud architects, platform engineers, and developers seeking to build sophisticated AWS environments with Python.

Passage 1 — Chapter 8, "Data Quality: Can the Board Trust Its Own Numbers": what bad data actually costs a leader Business folklore has long carried a caustic image: a machine that hands back garbage on the way out once it has been fed garbage on the way in — the old saying that poor input inevitably produces poor output, which this book already invoked earlier to explain why data quality went neglected for so long. It is worth taking that image seriously here and translating it into terms a leader can act on: exactly how much the input garbage costs a company, and by what test to recognize the moment a figure on a board slide becomes too risky to trust. Passage 2 — Chapter 9, "Analytics for Business: Data Warehousing and Metadata": a scene that stays with the reader Picture a board meeting: a single figure sits on the screen — quarterly revenue, say, or the share of customers who defected to a competitor — and one of the directors simply asks where that number came from. The pause that falls over the room while someone runs off to fetch an explanation from whoever put the report together says more about the state of trust in a company's analytics than any presentation ever could. Passage 3 — Chapter 11, "Data Management Maturity Assessment": maturity as something measured, not graded The practical conclusion for a leader is this: a maturity rung is not a verdict of "good" or "bad" — it measures how controlled and predictable a company's data work actually is. The higher the rung, the fewer surprises, and the more accurately a leader can forecast the consequences of decisions built on that data. Passage 4 — Chapter 13, "Managing Organizational Change in Data Management": the book's closing argument Taken together, the material across all thirteen chapters gives a leader a coherent view of data — from understanding it as a business asset to a concrete toolkit for leading organizational change. The architectural choices, technological infrastructure, and quality-control procedures examined earlier remain unrealized potential until someone at the most senior level of management personally takes on the work of carrying people through resistance and turning that potential into the company's everyday working habit.

Learn Dart the right way — from your very first "Hello, World" to advanced topics like Foreign Function Interface, code generation, and modern Dart 3 pattern matching.This comprehensive, 32-chapter guide is designed for complete beginners as well as developers who want a deep, structured reference to Dart — the language behind Flutter and a growing number of command-line and backend applications.What you'll learn:Dart fundamentals: variables, data types, operators, and control flowFunctions, collections (List, Set, Map), and sound null safetyObject-oriented programming: classes, inheritance, mixins, and interfacesGenerics and robust exception handlingAsynchronous programming with Future, async/await, and StreamsModern Dart 3 features: records, pattern matching, and sealed classesExtension methods and zero-cost extension typesIsolates and concurrency for true parallelismDart FFI for calling native C librariesCreating, testing, and publishing your own Dart packagesCode generation with build_runner and json_serializablePub workspaces for monorepo projectsEffective Dart linter rules and professional best practicesEvery chapter includes clear explanations and runnable code examples you can try immediately in DartPad or your local environment. A complete course index at the start and a quick-reference cheat sheet at the end make this book easy to navigate and revisit.Whether you're a student, a self-taught developer, or preparing to build your first Flutter app, this book gives you a solid, complete foundation in Dart — one chapter at a time.

AI is changing fast, and so are the security risks that come with it. This practical guide shows security and technology leaders how to govern, secure and assure AI systems from design through deployment and beyond. Packed with proven frameworks, controls and real-world guidance, it turns complex AI security requirements into practical action.

A flexible, beginner-friendly plant-based system designed to support IBS, diabetes, digestion, and overall wellness. Includes 5 EcoVolt Living guides in one unified digital bundle.

The first ITIL®-aligned practice guide to structure Customer Success as a complete organisational capability. It brings comprehensive IT service management thinking into CS, integrating governance, processes, people, information, technology, partners, and continual improvement into a coherent operating model, with practical methods and tools to design, govern, assess, and improve it.

Good software is not about following rules. It is about knowing when they apply. This book explores the judgment behind building software that lasts, from choosing simplicity over cleverness to balancing today’s needs with tomorrow’s costs. Practical, thoughtful and focused on decisions, not dogma.

A practical implementation framework covering 22 essential data center operational domains. Assess gaps, establish priorities and build a controlled improvement roadmap.

Unlock the Power of Google Cloud Platform!"As a professional, I'm not paid just for what I know but for my thought process and the decisions I take to make my architecture optimal." — Sudhanshu Jaiswal🌟 Ever wondered how to harness the full potential of Google Cloud Platform?GCP - A Walkthrough is your ultimate guide to mastering the cloud with expert insights, strategic decision-making, and hands-on best practices. Whether you're migrating workloads, optimizing costs, or building scalable architectures, this book equips you with the knowledge to design, deploy, and manage GCP solutions like a pro.From cost optimization and IAM to big data, AI, and security, dive into a comprehensive walkthrough that transforms your cloud journey. Stop guessing—start optimizing!

Turn complex technology risks into clear, evidence-based executive decisions through visual flows, practical guidance, and a fully fictional enterprise case.

Unlock the full potential of Claude Fable 5.1 with practical prompting techniques built for real-world work. Learn how to get better results from coding, research and complex workflows, avoid common mistakes and build reliable AI systems with proven strategies and ready-to-use prompts.

A modern, practical guide to remote work—how it evolved, what it changed, and how to build a sustainable, productive routine in the new world of work.

Learn PostgreSQL the way you will actually use it — from your first SELECT to indexes, query plans, row-level security, backups, partitioning, replication, and pgvector. 501 pages, 23 chapters, one support-ticketing database that grows with you, and every listing verified against a live PostgreSQL 18.4 before it went to print.

Challenge your programming skills with 100 original problems inspired by mathematics, computational thinking, and algorithmic reasoning. Designed to be programming-language independent, Logic2Code helps students and self-learners strengthen logic, creativity, and problem-solving ability through progressively engaging challenges.