Software Engineering

Are you intrigued by the world of AI and data engineering? Do you find yourself captivated by the potential of these technologies to transform businesses and industries? If so, Data Engineering and AI for Beginners is the introductory guide you've been searching for. In today’s fast evolving digital landscape where data is lifeblood, those who harness its flow hold the keys to game-changing insights. This book addresses the very challenges and questions that have been on your mind: What is Data Engineering? How Does AI Fit into the Picture? Is This for Me, a Beginner? What Tools and ...

"A glimpse of Google: An engineer's journey through the tech giant" offers a unique insider perspective on the fascinating world of software engineering at Google. Through the lens of a seasoned engineer's personal experiences, this book delves into the culture, processes, and values that underpin Google's approach to building and maintaining some of the world's most complex and innovative software systems. Beyond the lines of code, this book explores the non-technical aspects that make Google's engineering culture so distinctive. Discover how collaboration, open communication, and a focus ...

In this book, Melissa Perri explains how laying the foundation for great product management can help companies solve real customer problems while achieving business goals. By understanding how to communicate and collaborate within a company structure, you can create a product culture that benefits both the business and the customer. You'll learn product management principles that can be applied to any organization, big or small.

This practical handbook provides a step-by-step guide for you to get the best Continuous Delivery Pipeline for your software. Written by Dave Farley - the inventor of the Continuous Delivery Deployment Pipeline and author of the award-winning book "Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation”. Dave Farley shares his advice and experience in this essential handbook on how to build, use and improve your Continuous Delivery Pipeline. This books explains what a Continuous Delivery Deployment Pipeline is, the key components and stages, ...

Information architecture (IA) is far more challenging - and necessary - than ever. To guide you through this broad ecosystem, this popular guide - now in its fourth edition - provides essential concepts, methods, and techniques for digital design that have withstood the test of time. UX designers, product managers, developers, and anyone involved in digital design will learn how to create semantic structures that will help people engage with your message.

From J.J.F. Reibel (MBA, M.S. Cybersecurity and Information Assurance, M.S. Data Analytics), the writer of numerous #1 Computer Science titles, comes C++ Programming, serving as both a stand alone C++ guide as well as a sequel to his previous publication, C Programming. Topics include: - C++ Basics - Additions to C++ from C - System Programming - Object-Oriented Programming - Network Programming - Data Programming - Gaming and Robotics

In Talk Tech To Me: The Non-Technical Guide to Technology Recruiting, Brian Fink takes on the stress and strain of difficult technology concepts and simplifies them for the modern recruiter. Fink's impassioned wit and humor tackle the high's and low's of technical recruiting with a unique perspective - a perspective that is intended to help you find, engage, and partner with tech professionals. Whether you are just starting your journey as a technical recruiter or delving into your next decade, this book offers you the opportunity to stretch your professional capabilities while elevating ...

Unlock the secrets to designing scalable, resilient, and high-performing systems with the System Design Workbook! This hands-on guide provides developers with the practical knowledge and tools to tackle real-world system design challenges. Whether you're preparing for technical interviews, optimizing existing systems, or building robust architectures, this workbook is your essential resource.What You'll Learn: Core system design concepts, including scalability, bottleneck identification, and trade-offs. Effective strategies for data partitioning and replication to handle large-scale data. ...

Transform your career prospects with this practical, no-fluff guide to Python programming. Whether you're looking to land a tech job, start freelancing, or launch profitable side hustles, this audiobook is your fast track to success.

"Thinking Like a CTO" (2nd Edition) is a comprehensive and insightful book that delves into the mind of a Chief Technology Officer (CTO), providing a wealth of knowledge and practical strategies to navigate the complex world of technology leadership. Authored by Umut Gökbayrak, a seasoned CTO with extensive experience in startups and large enterprises, this book offers a deep understanding of the challenges, responsibilities, and opportunities that come with the role. Throughout the book, Gökbayrak shares his expertise and real-world experiences, guiding readers through key areas of ...

Unlock the potential of Generative AI with this Large Language Model production-ready playbook for seamless deployment, optimization, and scaling. This hands-on guide takes you beyond theory, offering expert strategies for integrating LLMs into real-world applications using retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), vector databases, PEFT, LoRA, and scalable inference architectures. Whether you're an ML engineer, data scientist, or MLOps practitioner, you’ll gain the technical know-how to operationalize LLMs efficiently, reduce compute costs, and ensure rock-solid reliability in production.

In Understanding Software, Max Kanat-Alexander, Technical Lead for Code Health at Google, shows you how to bring simplicity back to computer programming. Max explains to you why programmers suck, and how to suck less as a programmer. There's just too much complex stuff in the world. Complex stuff can't be used, and it breaks too easily. Complexity is stupid. Simplicity is smart.

Nearly 20 years after the Agile Manifesto was first presented, the legendary Robert C. Martin (“Uncle Bob”) reintroduces Agile values and principles for a new generation - programmers and nonprogrammers alike. Martin, author of Clean Code and other highly influential software development guides, was there at Agile’s founding. Now, in Clean Agile: Back to Basics, he strips away misunderstandings and distractions that over the years have made it harder to use Agile than was originally intended.

Effective Software Testing teaches you a systematic approach to software testing that will ensure the quality of your code. It’s full of techniques drawn from proven research in software engineering, and each chapter puts a new technique into practice. Follow the real-world use cases and detailed code samples, and you’ll soon be engineering tests that find bugs in edge cases and parts of code you’d never think of testing! Along the way, you’ll develop an intuition for testing that can save years of learning by trial and error.

The Definitive Guide to Groovy Programming

A complete guide on how to get your first programming job from a hiring manager, even if you are changing careers, a transitioning military veteran, don't have a degree, or want to make more money. I made a career switch from sales and with no coding experience to becoming a software engineer (with no degree) and am now a senior software engineering manager (hiring manager) at the largest tech company in the world leading teams of dozens of engineers. This is how I did it.

O3DE is an open source, large scale 3D, game, and, simulation engine. With over 2 million lines of code, it is not easy to discover all the great features and technical elements. This guide is intended to help engineers navigate the most commonly used and necessary functionality to extend, improve or use O3DE for games, simulations, film, and, any other interactive media.

User story mapping is a valuable tool for software development, once you understand why and how to use it. This insightful book examines how this often misunderstood technique can help your team stay focused on users and their needs without getting lost in the enthusiasm for individual product features. Author Jeff Patton shows you how changeable story maps enable your team to hold better conversations about the project throughout the development process. Your team will learn to come away with a shared understanding of what you’re attempting to build and why.

In keeping with the parable style, Patrick Lencioni begins by telling the fable of a woman who, as CEO of a struggling Silicon Valley firm, took control of a dysfunctional executive committee and helped its members succeed as a team. Story time over, Lencioni offers explicit instructions for overcoming the human behavioral tendencies that he says corrupt teams. Succinct yet sympathetic, this guide will be a boon for those struggling with the inherent difficulties of leading a group.

This book provides a short summary and overview of data structures, algorithms, and machine learning. It is meant to introduce these topics to those new to programming for data analysis and engineering as well as provide a means for those familiar in these topics to explore them in Ruby.