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Paperback. Zustand: New. HIGHLIGHT A fast-paced, hands-on tutorial that both teaches and entertains beginners as they learn Python 3 while building several complete applications. DESCRIPTION Python 3 is an open-source programming language that can be used to develop any application imaginable-business, games, web, and more. We think it should be just as much fun to learn Python as it is to use it. And we know that fun learning gets better results. Hello! Python is a fast-paced, entertaining introduction to Python, for readers new to Python and programming. In this book, User Friendly cartoon characters offer commentary and snide side comments, as the book moves quickly from "hello world" into practical techniques. Each one is illustrated with a hands-on example. Along the way, readers will learn to build several simple Python applications including a multi-user adventure game and an MP3 player. KEY POINTS . Demonstrates complete applications over the course of the book . Entertaining style with User Friendly graphics . Emphasizes Python's large standard library of tools and code to give programmers a head start on larger programs.…

Hardback. Zustand: New. Learn how AI-assisted coding using ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot can dramatically increase your productivity (and fun) in writing regular expressions and other programmes. "How these tools can be both so very amazing in what they produce, and simultaneously so utterly doltish in their numerous failures, is the main thing this book tries to understand. For reasons I attempt to elucidate throughout, of all the domains of computer programming, games with regular expressions are particularly well suited for getting a grasp on the peculiar behaviors of AI." From the Preface For programmers of any experience level - no experience with AI coding tools is required. Regular Expression Puzzles and AI Coding Assistants is the story of two competitors. On the one side is David Mertz, an expert programmer and the author of the Web's most popular Regex tutorial. On the other are the AI powerhouse coding assistants, GitHub Copilot and OpenAI ChatGPT. Here's how the contest works: David invents 24 Regex problems he calls puzzles and shows you how to tackle each one. When he's done he has Copilot and ChatGPT work the same puzzles. What they produce intrigues him. Which side is likelier to get it right? Which will write simple and elegant code? Which one makes the smartest use of lesser-known Regex library features? Read the book to find out. David also offers AI best practices, showing how smart prompts return better results. By the end, you'll be a master at solving your own Regex puzzles, whether you use AI or not. About the technology Ground-breaking large language model research from OpenAI, Google, Amazon, and others, have transformed expectations of machine-generated software. But how do these AI assistants, like ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot, measure up against regular expressions-a workhorse technology for developers used to describe, find, and manipulate patterns in the text? Regular expressions are compact, complex, and subtle. Will AI assistants handle the challenge.…

Paperback. Zustand: New. Description Progressive Web Apps are built with a collection of technologies, design concepts, and Web APIs that work in tandem to provide an applike experience on the mobile web. Progressive Web Apps takes readers, step-by-step, through real world examples and teaches them how to build fast, engaging, and reliable websites. This book is written with stand-alone chapters, letting readers learn about particular features of interest without having read previous chapters.   Key features . Hands- on examples . Stand-alone chapters . Step-by-step guide   Audience Readers should have some experience with developing websites using HTML, CSS and JavaScript.   About the Technology Progressive Web Apps let you create fast, resilient applications that benefit users regardless of their connection speed or device constraints.…

Paperback. Zustand: New. Hello World! Third Edition is a fun, easy-to-use guide with copious illustrations and engaging examples. It takes the reader on a playful tour of basic programming concepts and then puts those concepts together to make fun and useful programs. It uses Python, a programming language that is one of the easiest to read, write, and understand. Like the previous two editions, Hello World! Third Edition is not just for kids. While the tone is light and engaging, it doesn't "talk down" to the reader, and beginners of any age will love its readability and sense of humor. Written by Warren Sande and his son, Carter, it is full of examples that will get you thinking and learning. Reviewed by professional educators, this book is kid-tested and parent-approved. You don't need to know anything about programming to use the book, just the basics of using a computer. If you can start a program and save a file, you can learn to program using this book!     Uses free open source software Lots of graphics, cartoons, and fun examples Complete set of practice questions and exercises Illustrated in full color.…

Paperback. Zustand: New. Electron is a framework for building cross-platform desktopapplications with web technologies. It combines Google Chrome'scontent module with Node.js, letting users use their web developmentskill set to build applications that run natively on all major platforms. Electron in Action guides the reader, step-by-step, as they learn tobuild desktop applications that run on Windows, OSX, and Linux. Bythe end, readers will be ready to build their own professional desktopapplications using the web tools and technologies they already know. KEY FEATURES . Hands-on learning. Step-by-step guide. Real-world examples This book is for web developers who want to use their existing skill setto create desktop applications that wouldn't be possible inside of thetraditional browser environment. No experience building desktopapplications needed. ABOUT THE TECHNOLOGYElectron is a runtime that allows you to create desktop applications withHTML, CSS, and JavaScript. AUTHOR BIO Steven Kinney is the Director of the Front-End Engineering program at theTuring School of Software and Design and a front-end developer.Previously, he was Director of Educational Technology at the Council forEconomic Education and a New York City teacher for seven years.…

Paperback. Zustand: New. DESCRIPTION Angular 2 is a JavaScript-based development platform for building dynamic, interactive web applications, SPAs, and mobile apps. Angular applications can be built with JavaScript or TypeScript. TypeScript offers great IDE support and the TypeScript compiler helps coders quickly find and fix errors. TypeScript feels familiar, much like using ES6 with the same standard and third-party libraries, idioms, and tools. TypeScript supports classes, modules, annotations, and lazy loading and minimizes the amount of code for supporting the framework's life cycle, letting developers focus on writing the application code. Angular 2 Development with Typescript teaches the reader Angular 2, while it also teaches TypeScript and how to take advantage of its benefits. This hands-on book begins with an overview of Angular 2 architecture and an introduction to the online auction application that will be developed throughout the book. It teaches TypeScript and how to write classes, interfaces, and generics, as well as how to transpile TypeScript code into today's JavaScript that can be deployed in all Web browsers. More topics include data and views, user interaction with forms, and communicating with servers. Finally, the book shows how to test and deploy Angular 2 applications.   KEY FEATURES . Lots of hands-on examples . Teaches the TypeScript language . Shows how to convert TypeScript into JavaScript that can be deployed in all Web browsers  AUDIENCE This book is for developers with a working knowledge of JavaScript. No prior exposure to AngularJS is needed.   ABOUT THE TECHNOLOGY Angular 2 is a newer, faster, completely-revised version of the popular AngularJS. It's a JavaScript-based development platform for building dynamic, interactive web applications, SPAs, and mobile apps.…

Hardback. Zustand: New. Use SQL to get the data you need in no time at all! Learn to read and write basic queries, troubleshoot common problems, and control your own business data in just 24 short lessons-no programming experience required! In  Learn SQL in a Month of Lunches you'll master useful SQL skills like: Write your own SQL queriesSee only the data you need in large datasetsEasily filter, sort, and cluster dataMaster basic data manipulation techniquesSafely create, update, and delete data Structured Query Language (SQL) is the standard way to get specific datasets out of large relational databases. If you use Excel, Tableau, or PowerBI to crunch business data, you've probably seen a lot of SQL already. And guess what? It's easy to master the most useful parts of SQL! In just a few quick lessons, you can learn to write your own queries, modify existing SQL statements, and add a new superpower to your bag of tricks. Learn SQL in a Month of Lunches introduces you to the most useful parts of SQL for business data analysis. This practical book gives you instantly-useful techniques starting from the first short chapter. 25-year SQL veteran Jeff Iannucci makes SQL a snap through hands-on lab exercises, relevant code examples, and easy-to-understand language.   About the technology   For decades, Structured Query Language has been the standard way to talk to relational databases. Unlike many programming languages, SQL is easy to read and understand once you get the hang of it. You don't need to be a data scientist-or even a tech professional-to master the most powerful features. For business data analysts, learning SQL empowers you to create better reports, uncover market insights, and freely explore large databases on your own.…

Paperback. Zustand: New. DESCRIPTION In today's world, user interfaces have to be highly dynamic, asynchronous, and reliable. To meet these demands, the programming world is undergoing a radical shift towards something called Functional Reactive Programming (FRP), or just Reactive Programming. FRP offers programmers a new way to construct their applications so that they respond directly to change. And developers spend less time tracing obscure problems and more time focusing on what their code should be doing. Grokking Reactive User Interfaces teaches programmers a new way of thinking about programs and data as well as how to build robust and extensible user interfaces. This well-illustrated book presents lots of concrete, real-world problems and then shows how FRP helps to solve them. It begins by looking at examples that get readers into the mindset of data flows and goes on to introduce the concept of a View Model. Readers also learn how FRP enables them to better manage change and introduce new features. The final part of this book focuses on higherlevel application design concerns and strategies as you look at architectural approaches and frameworks that work well with FRP thinking. KEY FEATURES . Provides lots of illustrations and real-life app examples . Teaches a new way of thinking about programs and data . Using FRP in day-to-day programming . Teaches how to handle increasing complexity in UIs AUDIENCE Readers should have a basic understanding of mobile UI development and be familiar with traditional object-oriented programming paradigms. ABOUT THE TECHNOLOGY FRP offers a new way to construct applications so that they respond directly to change. FRP is not a typical technology B that obviously and immediately replaces an inferior technology A. It's more of a way of thinking rather than a mechanical solution.…

Paperback. Zustand: New. Explore the fascinating and rich world of Secret Key cryptography! This book provides practical methods for encrypting messages, an interesting and entertaining historical perspective, and an incredible collection of ciphers and codes-including 30 unbreakable methods. In   Secret Key Cryptography: Ciphers, from simple to unbreakable  you will: Measure the strength of your ciphers and learn how to guarantee their securityConstruct and incorporate data-compression codesGenerate true random numbers in bulkConstruct huge primes and safe primesAdd an undetectable backdoor to a cipherDefeat hypothetical ultracomputers that could be developed decades from nowConstruct 30 unbreakable ciphers Secret Key Cryptography  gives you a toolbox of cryptographic techniques and Secret Key methods. The book's simple, non-technical language is easy to understand and accessible for any reader, even without the advanced mathematics normally required for cryptography. You'll learn how to create and solve ciphers, as well as how to measure their strength. As you go, you'll explore both historic ciphers and groundbreaking new approaches-including a never-before-seen way to implement the uncrackable One-Time Pad algorithm. about the technology Secret Key cryptography is the backbone of all modern computing infrastructure. Secret Key ciphers use the same key to encrypt and decrypt messages. Properly designed, these algorithms are efficient and practical. Some Secret Key approaches are uncrackable, even under attacks backed by supercomputers or quantum technology! about the book Secret Key Cryptography  teaches anyone how to create a wide range of ciphers-even if you have no background in math or creating codes. You'll combine Secret Key techniques to achieve ciphers that are effectively uncrackable and avoid common pitfalls that result in strong-looking but weak ciphers. The book reveals scores of different cipher methods, including both historic examples and current innovations in the field. RETAIL SELLING POINTS . Measure the strength of your ciphers and learn how to guarantee their security . Construct and incorporate data-compression codes . Generate true random numbers in bulk . Construct huge primes and safe primes . Add an undetectable backdoor to a cipher . Defeat hypothetical ultra computers that could be developed decades from now . Construct 30 unbreakable ciphers AUDIENCE For professional engineers, computer scientists, and cryptography hobbyists. No advanced math knowledge is required.…

Paperback. Zustand: New. GitOps and Kubernetes introduces a radical idea-managing your infrastructure with the same Git pull requests you use to manage your codebase. In this in-depth tutorial, you'll learn to operate infrastructures based on powerful-but-complex technologies with the same Git version control tools most developers use daily.   GitOps and Kubernetes is half reference, half practical tutorial for operating Kubernetes the GitOps way. Through fast-paced chapters, you'll unlock the benefits of GitOps for flexible configuration management, monitoring, robustness, multi-environment support, and discover tricks and tips for managing secrets in the unique GitOps fashion.   Key Features ·   Multiple-environments management with branching, namespace, and configuration ·   Access Control with Git, Kubernetes, and Pipeline ·   Using Kubernetes with Argo CD, JenkinsX, and Flux ·   Multi-step deployment strategies like Blue-Green, Canary in a declarative GitOps model   For developers familiar with Continuous Delivery principles and the basics of Git and Kubernetes.   About the technology The tools to monitor and manage software delivery and deployment can be complex to set up and intimidating to learn. But with the "GitOps" method, you can manage your entire Kubernetes infrastructure with Git pull requests, giving you a single control interface and making it easy to assess and roll back changes!   Billy Yuen, Alexander Matyushentsev, Todd Ekenstam, and Jesse Suen are principal engineers for the Intuit platform. They are widely recognized as industry leads in GitOps for Kubernetes, having presented numerous related talks at industry conferences.…

Paperback. Zustand: New. Improving existing code-refactoring-is one of the most common tasks you'll face as a programmer.   Five Lines of Code  teaches you clear and actionable refactoring rules that you can apply without relying on intuitive judgements such as "code smells." It's written for working developers, guiding you step by step through applying refactoring patterns to the codebase of a 2D puzzle game. Following the author's expert perspective-that refactoring and code smells can be learned by following a concrete set of principles-you'll learn when to refactor your code, what patterns to apply to what problem, and the code characteristics that indicate it's time for a rework. Thanks to this hands-on guide, you'll find yourself programming faster while still delivering high-quality code that your teammates will love to work with. about the technologyRefactoring is a fact of life. All code is imperfect, and refactoring is a systematic process you can use to improve the quality of your codebase. Whatever your architecture, choice of OO language, or skill as a programmer, the continuous design improvements of refactoring make your code simpler, more readable, and less prone to bugs. You'll be amazed at the productivity boost of adding refactoring to your code hygiene routine-it's quicker to hammer out bad code and then improve it than spending hours writing good code in the first place! about the book Five Lines of Code  teaches working developers the shortcuts to quality code. You'll follow author Christian Clausen's unique approach to teaching refactoring that's focused on concrete rules, and getting any method down to five lines or less to implement! There's no jargon or tricky automated-testing skills required, just easy guidelines and patterns illustrated by detailed code samples. Chapter by chapter you'll put techniques into action by refactoring a complete 2D puzzle game. Before you know it, you'll be making serious and tangible improvements to your codebase. what's inside The symptoms of bad codeThe extracting method, introducing strategy pattern, and many other refactoring patternsModifying code safely, even when you don't understand itWriting stable code that enables change-by-additionProper compiler practicesWriting code that needs no commentsReal-world practices for great refactoring about the readerFor developers who know an object-oriented programming language. about the author Christian Clausen  works as a Technical Agile Coach teaching teams how to properly refactor their code. Previously he worked as a software engineer on the Coccinelle semantic patching project, an automated refactoring tool. He has an MSc in computer science, and five years' experience teaching software quality at a university level.…

Hardback. Zustand: New. Your users ask for AI magic, but deadlines and budgets feel brutal. Machine learning tutorials overwhelm, filled with Python, servers, and expensive GPU advice. You already master React and Next.js, now leverage them to deliver intelligence. This book introduces JavaScript friendly tools that integrate AI without hidden complexity. Build chatbots, summarizers, and knowledge systems, all streaming responses in real time. Maintain full control over costs, latency, privacy, and the final user experience.  Vercel AI SDK setup: Create fast, streaming conversations that feel natural on every device.  LangChain.js pipelines: Chain retrieval, reasoning, and generation with clear, modular JavaScript functions.  Context management patterns: Preserve chat history to deliver consistent, helpful, brand-aligned answers.  RAG knowledge base: Provide cited responses from company documents, boosting trust and accuracy.  Voice interview assistant: Transcribe speech, generate feedback, and improve preparation with immediate insights.  Build AI into Your Web Apps by Senior Staff Engineer Theo Despoudis, teaches proven AI integration techniques using only JavaScript, React, and Next.js.  Follow three complete projects: a ChatGPT-style bot, a document summarizer, and a RAG corporate assistant. Each chapter combines diagrams, runnable notebooks, and step-by-step code to turn theory into deployable features.  Finish able to evaluate AI services, tune latency and spend, and explain design choices to stakeholders. Your next release ships smarter, faster, and under budget.  Perfect for React and Next.js developers who want practical AI features without a data-science detour.…

Hardback. Zustand: New. Build stable, maintainable Rust applications by applying these important code and architectural design patterns.In Rust Advanced Techniques you'll learn how to apply important design patterns including: Fluent interfaces for creating delightful APIsThe Builder pattern to encapsulate data and perform initializationImmutable data structures that help you avoid hard-to-debug data race conditionsFunctional programming patternsAnti-patterns and what not to do in Rust Rust Advanced Techniques introduces reusable best practices that will help you solve common programming problems and ensure your code is easy for others to understand. Learn when to use each design pattern, as well as when to break it. This practical guide catalogs, documents, and describes both how classic design patterns work with Rust, and the new Rust-specific patterns that will help you master the language.…

Paperback. Zustand: New. Deploying a machine learning model into a fully realized production system usually requires painstaking work by an operations team creating and managing custom servers.   Cloud Native Machine Learning  helps you bridge that gap by using the pre-built services provided by cloud platforms like Azure and AWS to assemble your ML system's infrastructure. Following a real-world use case for calculating taxi fares, you'll learn how to get a serverless ML pipeline up and running using AWS services. Clear and detailed tutorials show you how to develop reliable, flexible, and scalable machine learning systems without time-consuming management tasks or the costly overheads of physical hardware. about the technologyYour new machine learning model is ready to put into production, and suddenly all your time is taken up by setting up your server infrastructure. Serverless machine learning offers a productivity-boosting alternative. It eliminates the time-consuming operations tasks from your machine learning lifecycle, letting out-of-the-box cloud services take over launching, running, and managing your ML systems. With the serverless capabilities of major cloud vendors handling your infrastructure, you're free to focus on tuning and improving your models. about the book Cloud Native Machine Learning  is a guide to bringing your experimental machine learning code to production using serverless capabilities from major cloud providers. You'll start with best practices for your datasets, learning to bring VACUUM data-quality principles to your projects, and ensure that your datasets can be reproducibly sampled. Next, you'll learn to implement machine learning models with PyTorch, discovering how to scale up your models in the cloud and how to use PyTorch Lightning for distributed ML training. Finally, you'll tune and engineer your serverless machine learning pipeline for scalability, elasticity, and ease of monitoring with the built-in notification tools of your cloud platform. When you're done, you'll have the tools to easily bridge the gap between ML models and a fully functioning production system.   what's inside Extracting, transforming, and loading datasetsQuerying datasets with SQLUnderstanding automatic differentiation in PyTorchDeploying trained models and pipelines as a service endpointMonitoring and managing your pipeline's life cycleMeasuring performance improvements about the readerFor data professionals with intermediate Python skills and basic familiarity with machine learning. No cloud experience required. about the author Carl Osipov  has spent over 15 years working on big data processing and machine learning in multi-core, distributed systems, such as service-oriented architecture and cloud computing platforms. While at IBM, Carl helped IBM Software Group to shape its strategy around the use of Docker and other container-based technologies for serverless computing using IBM Cloud and Amazon Web Services.…

Paperback. Zustand: New. Functional programming is a way of thinking about programs that emphasizes functions, while avoiding state mutation. C# includes a number of functional features and libraries, enabling us to take advantage of these benefits.   Functional Programming in C# teaches readers to apply functional thinking to real-world scenarios. They'll start by learning the principles of functional programming, and how they translate in the C# language. By the end of this book, readers will be able to integrate functional techniques, making their C# programs robust and maintainable, and helping them to become more well rounded developers.   Key Features: ·    Introduction to functional programming ·    Real-world examples ·    Integrate functional techniques ·    Become a well rounded developer   This book is designed to help C# programmers with an OOP background understand functional thinking.   About the Technology:   Functional programming is a way of thinking about programs that emphasizes functions, while avoiding state mutation. It allows us to write elegant, intention-revealing code, that shines in testability and support for concurrency.…

Paperback. Zustand: New. Networks split, nodes crash, and customers are left waiting. Modern systems must handle failures, scale reliably, and recover quickly. Yet many engineers face outages, inconsistent data, and confusing architecture choices. What if you could approach software design like a distributed architect and build systems that stay live, consistent, and resilient even under extreme conditions? With the right mental models and proven strategies, you can stop reacting to problems and start designing for reliability from the start. Big-picture frameworks: Spot weak points early and protect production before users notice. Partitioning strategies: Slice data smartly, boosting throughput without losing consistency. Replication tactics: Keep services live when servers disappear or regions burn. Consensus protocols decoded: Align every component fast, eliminating split-brain chaos. Failure detection toolkit: Isolate and recover from outages with minimal customer pain. Durable execution guidance: Design operations that survive restarts, redeploys, and traffic spikes. Think Distributed Systems by veteran engineer Dominik offers a confident roadmap through modern distributed challenges. The book delivers concise, visual mental models covering partitioning, replication, consensus, and failure handling. Each chapter blends clear explanations with field-tested patterns, turning abstract concepts into everyday engineering decisions. You will leave able to reason about any distributed service, predict its breaking points, and craft architectures that scale and stay correct under pressure. Ideal for software engineers, architects, and technical leads who own cloud-native or microservice platforms and refuse to be surprised by failure.…

Paperback. Zustand: New. Running your systems in the cloud doesn't automatically make them secure. To create secure applications and infrastructure on AWS, you need to understand the tools and features the platform provides and learn new approaches to configuring and managing them. Written by security engineer Dylan Shields,   AWS Security  provides comprehensive coverage on the key tools and concepts you can use to defend AWS-based systems. You'll learn how to honestly assess your existing security protocols, protect against the most common attacks on cloud applications, and apply best practices to configuring Identity and Access Management and Virtual Private Clouds. about the technology Rapid iteration, easy scaling, and huge savings have caused a mass migration to AWS. However, running in the cloud requires you to modify the security practices you use in on-prem infrastructure. Users of AWS who fail to adapt run the risk of exposing their business and their customers to an attack. Luckily, AWS comes with a stack of tools and services that offer a high level of control over your cloud security. about the book AWS Security  is an invaluable guide that you'll want to have on hand when you're facing any cloud security problem. With a cookbook-style delivery, it's filled with well-documented examples and procedures you can apply to common AWS security issues. This book covers best practices for access policies, data protection, auditing, continuous monitoring, and incident response. You'll also explore several deliberately insecure applications, including a social media site and a mobile app, learning the exploits and vulnerabilities commonly used to attack them and the security practices to counter those attacks. With this practical primer, you'll be well prepared to evaluate your system's security, detect threats, and respond with confidence. what's inside Securely grant access to AWS resources to coworkers and customersDevelop policies for ensuring proper access controlsLock-down network controls using VPCsRecord audit logs and use them to identify attacksTrack and assess the security of an AWS accountCommon attacks and vulnerabilities about the reader For software and security engineers building and securing AWS applications. about the author Dylan Shields  is a software engineer working on Quantum Computing at AWS. Previously, Dylan was the first engineer on the AWS Security Hub team. He has also worked at Google Cloud, focusing on the security and reliability of their serverless data warehouse, BigQuery.…

Hardback. Zustand: New. Contract testing is a simple, reliable way to make sure that each service and API plays nice with other components so you can deploy independently and safely.In a microservices-first world, traditional testing struggles to keep up with all the potential interactions in a large, loosely-coupled system. Contract testing checks the compatibility of an API or service by validating it against an agreed contract. This straightforward method uncovers integration issues early and adds valuable transparency to compatibility expectations.In Contract Testing in Action you'll learn: The core concepts and practices of contract testingTesting microservices with PactConsumer-driven and bi-directional testingBuilding a contract testing frameworkConverting API integration tests to contract tests Contract Testing in Action introduces the practice of contract testing through engaging hands-on examples. You'll learn how to introduce contract tests for multiple different types of communication, from REST APIs to GraphQL. By the end of this practical guide, you'll be comfortable with advanced contract testing concepts like can-i-deploy, provider states, and webhooks. You'll even get tips on how to introduce contract testing to your team and other business stakeholders.…

Hardback. Zustand: New. Learn how to create, train, and tweak large language models (LLMs) by building one from the ground up! In  Build a Large Language Model (from Scratch) bestselling author Sebastian Raschka guides you step by step through creating your own LLM. Each stage is explained with clear text, diagrams, and examples. You'll go from the initial design and creation, to pretraining on a general corpus, and on to fine-tuning for specific tasks. Build a Large Language Model (from Scratch) teaches you how to: Plan and code all the parts of an LLMPrepare a dataset suitable for LLM trainingFine-tune LLMs for text classification and with your own dataUse human feedback to ensure your LLM follows instructionsLoad pretrained weights into an LLM Build a Large Language Model (from Scratch) takes you inside the AI black box to tinker with the internal systems that power generative AI. As you work through each key stage of LLM creation, you'll develop an in-depth understanding of how LLMs work, their limitations, and their customization methods. Your LLM can be developed on an ordinary laptop, and used as your own personal assistant.   About the technology  Physicist Richard P. Feynman reportedly said, "I don't understand anything I can't build." Based on this same powerful principle, bestselling author Sebastian Raschka guides you step by step as you build a GPT-style LLM that you can run on your laptop. This is an engaging book that covers each stage of the process, from planning and coding to training and fine-tuning.…

Paperback. Zustand: New. "I am in awe of this book, it is a very good read and has tons of interesting lessons for any engineer." - Tim van Deurzen Your brain responds in a predictable way when it encounters new or difficult tasks. This unique book teaches you concrete techniques rooted in cognitive science that will improve the way you learn and think about code. In The Programmer's Brain: What every programmer needs to know about cognition you will learn: - Fast and effective ways to master new programming languages- Speed reading skills to quickly comprehend new code- Techniques to unravel the meaning of complex code- Ways to learn new syntax and keep it memorized- Writing code that is easy for others to read- Picking the right names for your variables- Making your codebase more understandable to newcomers- Onboarding new developers to your team Learn how to optimize your brain's natural cognitive processes to read code more easily, write code faster, and pick up new languages in much less time. This book will help you through the confusion you feel when faced with strange and complex code, and explain a codebase in ways that can make a new team member productive in days! about the technologyUnderstanding the cognitive functions that govern the way your brain thinks about coding will help you work smarter, not harder. You'll improve your productivity, reduce your need for constant rewrites, and say goodbye to spending late nights struggling with new languages. about the bookThe Programmer's Brain explores the way your brain works when it's thinking about code. In it, you'll master practical ways to apply these cognitive principles to your daily programming life. You'll improve your code comprehension by turning confusion into a learning tool, and pick up awesome techniques for reading code and quickly memorizing syntax. This practical guide includes tips for creating your own flashcards and study resources that can be applied to any new language you want to master. By the time you're done, you'll not only be better at teaching yourself-you'll be an expert at bringing new colleagues and junior programmers up to speed. about the readerFor programmers who have experience working in more than one language. about the authorDr. Felienne Hermans is an associate professor at Leiden University in the Netherlands. She has spent the last decade researching learning and teaching programming. Felienne is an award-winning educator, the creator of the Hedy programming language for novice programmers, and a host of Software Engineering Radio-one of the world's largest programming podcasts.…

Hardback. Zustand: New. Deliver code reviews that consistently build up your team and improve your applications."Looks Good To Me" offers a unique approach to delivering meaningful code reviews that goes beyond superficial checklists and tense critical conversations. Instead, you'll learn how to improve both your applications and your team dynamics."Looks Good To Me" teaches you how to: Understand a code review's benefits and processBuild an objective code review practiceClarify responsibilities: reviewee, reviewer, and team lead/managerEstablish manageable guidelines and protocolsAutomate code quality with lintingCompose effective commentsCombine reviews with pair programming, mob programming, and developer rotations This one-of-a-kind guide comes from expert author, instructor, and international speaker Adrienne Braganza, who has spent 10 years pioneering her thoughtful, empathetic approach to code reviews. Inside, you'll find comprehensive coverage of every part of the code review process, from choosing a system to keeping reviews manageable for everyone involved.…

Paperback. Zustand: New. By dividing large applications into separate self-contained units, Microservices are a great step toward reducing complexity and increasing flexibility.   Spring Microservices in Action, Second Edition  teaches you how to build microservice-based applications using Java and the Spring platform. This second edition is fully updated for the latest version of Spring, with expanded coverage of API routing with Spring Cloud Gateway, logging with the ELK stack, metrics with Prometheus and Grafana, security with the Hashicorp Vault, and modern deployment practices with Kubernetes and Istio. about the technologyMicroservices break up your code into independent interconnected services that require careful forethought and design. Fortunately, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, and Spring Cloud Gateway simplify the tedious plumbing and infrastructure setup required for microservice applications. Spring Boot removes the boilerplate code involved with writing a REST-based service. Spring Cloud provides a suite of tools for the discovery, routing, and deployment of microservices to the enterprise and the cloud. Spring Cloud Gateway provides a clear and effective routing to APIs, with a single entry point into a system. Together, they make it a snap to spin up Spring applications as microservices and wire them together into a reliable, scalable system. about the bookFully updated and upgraded for the latest version of Spring,   Spring Microservices in Action, Second Edition  is an expanded revision of a Manning bestseller. In it, you'll learn how to build microservice-based applications using Java and the Spring platform and how to efficiently monitor and log your microservices operations. Throughout the book, carefully selected real-life examples expose microservice-based patterns for configuring, routing, scaling, and deploying your services. You'll see how Spring's intuitive tooling can help augment and refactor existing applications with microservices and how Spring Cloud Gateway makes it easy to handle multiple APIs with a single tool. You'll also pick up best practices for using Spring with modern deployment platforms based on Kubernetes and Istio.   what's inside Core microservice design principlesMicroservices best practicesUsing docker containers to run microservicesManaging configuration with Spring Cloud Config and Hashicorp Vault for sensitive informationClient-side resiliency with Hystrix, and RibbonManaging application metrics with Prometheus and GrafanaIntelligent routing using Spring Cloud GatewayDistributed tracing with Spring Cloud Sleuth, Zipkin and ELK StackDeploying Spring Cloud applications with Kubernetes and Istio about the readerThis book is written for developers with Java and Spring experience. about the authors John Carnell  is a senior cloud engineer with twenty years of experience in Java.   Illary Huaylupo Sánchez  is a software engineer with an MBA in IT management and over twelve years o.…

Hardback. Zustand: New. .NET MAUI in Action shows you how to use the cutting-edge MAUI framework to write apps that will run on Windows, Android, macOS and iOS platforms using your existing .NET development skills. This book reveals essential MAUI development techniques through hands-on example applications in every chapter. You will learn cross-platform development quickly as you start building your own rich apps. Ideal for experienced developers, this book will help you Set up your environment for cross-platform developmentWrite an interactive UI in XAML using out-of-the-box controlsApply the MVVM pattern to build maintainable codeExtend your control library with custom controlsStructure your app using common navigation paradigmsBuild fully custom-drawn controls with the MAUI Graphics LibraryUse common device features like GPSUse DevOps tools to automate deployment and testing About the technology .NET MAUI is a new .NET workload for building apps that run on iOS, MacOS, Android, and Windows. It is a simple, easy-to-use evolution of Xamarin.Forms that allows you to share the same code across cloud, web, desktop, and mobile. Best of all, you get access to the entire ecosystem of .NET tools. You can keep using your favourite stack to develop amazing UIs and share code with other components of your solution.…

Paperback. Zustand: New. Spring Boot in Practice covers dozens of handy Spring Boot development techniques, from basic functions to hidden features you probably didn't even know existed. Each recipe is built around a realworld problem, complete with a full solution and thoughtful discussion. You'll work your way from fundamentals to advanced functionalities as you take deep dives into auto-configuration, security implementation, and even support for reactive application development. Learn how to work with Spring Boot and Kotlin, handling connections for multiple platforms, and how Spring Boot can simplify building microservices and APIs. You're sure to keep this practical book on hand as a reference as you build your next Spring Boot apps. About the TechnologySpring is the most popular Java framework for building medium- to enterprise-scale applications. Spring Boot abstracts away complex configurations so you can stay focused on fulfilling business requirements. More than just a "must-learn" technology for anyone building Java-based web applications, Spring Boot has become a "must-master" framework.…

Hardback. Zustand: New. Deliver code reviews that consistently build up your team and improve your applications."Looks Good To Me" offers a unique approach to delivering meaningful code reviews that goes beyond superficial checklists and tense critical conversations. Instead, you'll learn how to improve both your applications and your team dynamics."Looks Good To Me" teaches you how to: Understand a code review's benefits and processBuild an objective code review practiceClarify responsibilities: reviewee, reviewer, and team lead/managerEstablish manageable guidelines and protocolsAutomate code quality with lintingCompose effective commentsCombine reviews with pair programming, mob programming, and developer rotations This one-of-a-kind guide comes from expert author, instructor, and international speaker Adrienne Braganza, who has spent 10 years pioneering her thoughtful, empathetic approach to code reviews. Inside, you'll find comprehensive coverage of every part of the code review process, from choosing a system to keeping reviews manageable for everyone involved.…

Paperback. Zustand: New. 3rd. Almost 50 years ago, the C language defined modern computer programming. This book shows you why C is still as powerful and popular as ever, with an inside look at the new C23 standard.For programs that need to be small, fast, and unfailingly reliable, C is still the gold standard. Whether you're writing embedded code, low-level system routines, or high-performance applications, C is up to the challenge. This unique book by Jens Gustedt, a member of the ISO C standards committee, gets you up to speed with C23.In Modern C, Third Edition you'll: Learn C basics, core features, and advanced conceptsLeverage major C23 improvements for security, reliability, and performanceWrite portable code that runs anywhereBuild multi-threaded applications with atomics and synchronizationCreate robust and resilient software with error handlingUse type-generic programming for reusable code C powers more software than any other language-from embedded devices to distributed systems. In Modern C, Third Edition you'll learn to harness C's full potential using the latest tools and techniques. After a quick review of the fundamentals perfect for beginners or coders who haven't used C in a while, this book guides you to mastery of C23, the latest ISO standard.…

Hardback. Zustand: New. Learn how to create, train, and tweak large language models (LLMs) by building one from the ground up! In  Build a Large Language Model (from Scratch) bestselling author Sebastian Raschka guides you step by step through creating your own LLM. Each stage is explained with clear text, diagrams, and examples. You'll go from the initial design and creation, to pretraining on a general corpus, and on to fine-tuning for specific tasks. Build a Large Language Model (from Scratch) teaches you how to: Plan and code all the parts of an LLMPrepare a dataset suitable for LLM trainingFine-tune LLMs for text classification and with your own dataUse human feedback to ensure your LLM follows instructionsLoad pretrained weights into an LLM Build a Large Language Model (from Scratch) takes you inside the AI black box to tinker with the internal systems that power generative AI. As you work through each key stage of LLM creation, you'll develop an in-depth understanding of how LLMs work, their limitations, and their customization methods. Your LLM can be developed on an ordinary laptop, and used as your own personal assistant.   About the technology  Physicist Richard P. Feynman reportedly said, "I don't understand anything I can't build." Based on this same powerful principle, bestselling author Sebastian Raschka guides you step by step as you build a GPT-style LLM that you can run on your laptop. This is an engaging book that covers each stage of the process, from planning and coding to training and fine-tuning.…

Paperback. Zustand: New. Recognize and avoid these sixty common PostgreSQL mistakes!The best mistakes to learn from are ones made by other people! In PostgreSQL Mistakes and How To Avoid Them you'll explore dozens of common PostgreSQL errors so you can easily avoid them in your own projects.In PostgreSQL Mistakes and How To Avoid Them you'll learn how to: Avoid configuration and operation issuesMaximize PostgreSQL utility and performanceFix bad SQL practicesSolve common security and administration issuesEnsure smooth migration and upgradesDiagnose and fix a bad database Fixing a PostgreSQL mistake can be tricky and time-consuming, especially when you're making risky live changes to an in-use system. PostgreSQL Mistakes and How To Avoid Them helps you spot and sidestep problems in setup, admin, querying, migrating, upgrading, and more. Follow these tested best practices to ensure top performance and future-proof your database systems for seamless change and growth. Each of the 60 mistakes is carefully described and accompanied by a demo, along with an explanation that expands your knowledge of PostgreSQL internals and helps you to build a stronger mental model of how the database engine works.…

Hardback. Zustand: New. 1st. Want LLM power without the LLM price tag? Crave models that fit your data, laptop, and budget? Stop renting GPUs you cannot afford. Start building Domain-Specific Small Language Models today. Own your AI stack, end to end.  Model sizing best practices: pick the smallest architecture that still delivers top-tier accuracy.  Open-source toolchain: leverage Hugging Face, PEFT, and quantization libraries for zero-license freedom.  Fine-tuning workflows: adapt existing checkpoints to niche datasets in hours, not weeks.  Commodity hardware deployment: run chat, code, or bio models locally on a single GPU or CPU.  Retrieval-augmented generation: fuse SLMs with RAG pipelines for grounded, up-to-date answers.  Cost-control checklists: slash cloud spends and eliminate dependency on expensive foundation APIs.  Domain-Specific Small Language Models, by AI director Guglielmo Iozzia, is a field guide packed with runnable Python code and real-world engineering insight.  Step-by-step chapters demystify transformer architecture, quantization, and PEFT fine-tuning, then walk you through building RAG systems and autonomous agents that rely solely on SLMs. Clear diagrams, annotated notebooks, and troubleshooting tips keep learning smooth.  You will finish with reusable templates, deployment scripts, and the confidence to deliver performant language models under tight hardware and budget constraints.  Perfect for Python-savvy machine-learning engineers, data scientists, and technical leads who need domain-tuned AI now.…

Paperback. Zustand: New. Learn Anthos directly from the Google development team! Anthos delivers a consistent management platform for deploying and operating Linux and Windows applications anywhere-multicloud, edge, on-prem, bare metal, or VMware. In  Google Anthos in Action you will learn: How Anthos reduces your dependencies and stack-bloatRunning applications across multiple clouds and platformsHandling different workloads and dataAdding automation to speed up code deliveryModernizing infrastructure with microservices and Service MeshPolicy management for enterprisesSecurity and observability at scale In a cloud-centric world, all deployment is becoming hybrid deployment. Anthos is a modern, Kubernetes-based cloud platform that enables you to run your software in multicloud, hybrid, or on-premises deployments using the same operations tools and approach. With powerful automation features, it boosts your efficiency along the whole development lifecycle.  Google Anthos in Action demystifies Anthos with practical examples of Anthos at work and invaluable insights from the Google team that built it. about the technology Anthos is built on a simple concept: write once, and run anywhere-whether that's on-prem, in any public cloud, on the edge, or all three. As the first truly multicloud platform from a major provider, Anthos was designed with the practical goals of balancing cost, efficiency, security, and performance. Anthos lets you simplify your stack, deliver software faster with cloud-native tooling, and automatically integrate high levels of security into your deployments. about the book Google Anthos in Action comes directly from the Anthos team at Google. This comprehensive book takes a true DevOps mindset, considering Google-tested patterns for how an application is designed, built, deployed, managed, monitored, and scaled. Developers will love how having a consistent platform across clouds brings a massive performance boost by standardizing the application across deployment targets, as well as how Anthos makes it easy to modernize legacy applications to cloud native infrastructure. Operations pros will appreciate how simple it is to integrate Anthos with CI/CD pipelines, automate security and policy management, and work with enterprise-level Kubernetes. Each concept is fully illustrated with exercises and hands-on examples, so you can see the power of Anthos in action. RETAIL SELLING POINTS   . How Anthos reduces your dependencies and stack-bloat  . Running applications across multiple clouds and platforms  . Handling different workloads and data . Adding automation to speed up code delivery  . Modernizing infrastructure with microservices and Service Mesh  . Policy management for enterprises  . Security and observability at scale  AUDIENCE  For software and cloud engineers with knowledge of Kubernetes.…