Books

Stop Guessing. Start Diagnosing Laptop Motherboards Like a Technician.Discover how laptop motherboard circuits work, identify SMD components, trace power failures, and troubleshoot common no-power, no-display, and charging problems using a systematic approach. This illustrated 115-page repair guide features 33 chapters, practical diagnostic methods, 12 repair case studies, and an eight-week learning plan to help beginners and technicians develop stronger board-level troubleshooting skills.

Get the speed of C++ without the crashes. This 2026 edition takes you from your first Cargo project to production-ready Rust, covering ownership, lifetimes, traits, async, unsafe code, embedded systems, and WebAssembly. Packed with runnable code and honest trade-offs, it gives you the mental models to write fast, safe software with confidence.

Pass the CCSP on your first attempt. This 2026 guide covers all six domains, the new adaptive (CAT) exam format, and the August 2026 outline refresh with AI security woven throughout. Clear explanations, exam-style reasoning, and a proven study plan take you from registration to certificate.

You can generate code faster than you can review it. That asymmetry is the real challenge of AI-assisted development — and almost nobody talks about it. Vibe Coding with OpenCode teaches the other half of the skill: not how to make AI write code, but how to make AI write code you can actually trust.

Build reliable, production-ready search systems with embeddings and neural reranking. Learn how to turn semantic meaning into relevant results, refine retrieved content and deliver better context for AI-generated answers. With hands-on Python examples and practical architectures, this book takes you from core concepts to real-world RAG systems.

AI-generated content is everywhere, but how do you know what is real? The AI Forensics Handbook explores the science behind detecting synthetic text, images, video and audio, revealing the signals AI leaves behind and the methods used to uncover them. Practical, rigorous and grounded in real-world limitations, this is a guide to understanding what detection can really prove.

Static code analysis is more than running a linter and fixing warnings. This book shows how to build practical analysis pipelines with Claude Code and deterministic tools, combining AI-driven insights with reliable checks to improve code quality and security across projects of any size.

From the Linux basics to advanced development workflows, this practical guide shows you how to turn Linux into a powerful software development environment. Learn the command line, work with popular programming languages, use containers and CI/CD, debug and profile applications and build skills you can use every day.

Everyone has access to the same models — yet the results differ by an order of magnitude, and the difference isn't in the prompts. This book gives you a method: see your work with AI as a system where control belongs to whoever holds more variety — and stay the one in control.

Go beyond writing code and learn what it takes to build software that lasts. Fundamentals of Software Engineering walks you through requirements, architecture, testing, deployment and production using practical trade-offs and a real-world case study. Follow TaskFlow from its first requirement to a system built to scale, evolve and survive the real world.

Build web scrapers that survive the real world. This hands-on guide takes you from Scrapy fundamentals to scalable production systems, with practical patterns for asynchronous crawling, clean data pipelines, testing, deployment and resilient architectures. Packed with runnable Python examples, it gives you the skills to scrape smarter, faster and at scale.

SIMD can make software dramatically faster, but getting it right takes more than knowing a few intrinsics. This book shows you how vectorization really works, how to avoid costly mistakes and how to turn ordinary code into fast, production-ready software with techniques you can use again and again.

AI coding agents can move fast, but speed without clear intent creates expensive mistakes. This practical guide shows how Behavior-Driven Development turns specifications into a reliable contract between you and autonomous coding systems, helping agents build the right thing, catch problems earlier and produce software you can trust.

Master CSS from your first selector to production-ready stylesheets. Learn how the cascade, layout and browsers really work while building practical projects along the way. Whether you're starting from scratch or sharpening your skills, you'll learn to write CSS that's clean, fast and built to last.

A hands-on guide to running PostgreSQL in production, from schema design and indexing to replication and disaster recovery. Build three real systems: a multi-tenant SaaS app, an analytics warehouse, and a real-time event pipeline. For developers ready to move beyond the basics.