Technical Books

  Julia for Data Analysis Have you tried Julia? Discover everything you need to know to take full advantage of this amazing language to read, write, transform, analyze, and visualize data—everything you need for an effective data pipeline.

  Podman in Action Secure, rootless containers for Kubernetes, microservices, and more Discover Podman, a next-generation container engine that builds on what Docker brought and adds more security and management options! This book quickly gets to grips with Podman’s unique advantages over Docker, and helps you learn how easy it is to migrate your Docker-based infrastructure.

  Experimentation for Engineers From A/B testing to Bayesian optimization Discover a toolbox for optimizing machine learning systems, quantitative trading strategies, and more. The tests in this unique, practical guide will quickly reveal which approaches and features deliver real results for your business.

  Think Like a Founder Anecdotes of an incorrigible entrepreneur New MEAP!  Discover the good, the bad, and the ugly of succeeding with a tech startup from nine-time company founder Jothy Rosenberg. Part memoir and part survival guide, it covers everything that a new founder/CEO needs to prepare for, like developing an effective go-to-market strategy, mastering the leadership skills you’ll need to be a great CEO, and even what to do to avoid the worst that can topple other startups!

  Learn Rust in a Month of Lunches New MEAP!   One month. One hour a day. That’s all it takes to start writing Rust code! This new MEAP teaches you to write super fast and super safe Rust code in just 22 short lessons. Crystal-clear explanations and focused, relevant examples make it accessible to anyone with a beginning understanding of another language like Python or Java.

  The Well-Grounded Java Developer, Second Edition Learn both the modern innovations and timeless fundamentals you need to know to become a Java master. Understanding Java from the JVM up gives you a solid foundation to grow your expertise and take on advanced techniques for performance, concurrency, containerization, and more.

  Migrate SQL Server to Azure Discover how to successfully migrate a SQL Server database to the cloud in just a few days. To achieve optimal performance with minimal downtime, you’ll learn how to configure your database migration and proceed with migrating your on-premises database efficiently. You’ll finish by using the Azure portal and SQL Server Management Studio to verify that your database settings were implemented—and that your migration was successful.

  Delivery Notes Data Entry Automation with Python Delivery Notes Data Entry Automation with Python Learn to automate repetitive manual data processes using Python and the most popular Python automation libraries. You’ll write scripts that can identify field IDs on web forms that correspond to the PDF documents, and automatically populate the web forms with information extracted from your PDFs.

  Grokking Continuous Delivery Keep your codebase release-ready. A continuous delivery pipeline automates version control, testing, and deployment with minimal developer intervention. Master the tools and practices of continuous delivery, and you’ll be able to add features and push updates quickly and consistently.

  Effective Software Testing A developer's guide Go beyond basic testing! Great software testing makes the entire development process more efficient. This book reveals a systemic and effective approach that will help you customize your testing coverage and catch bugs in tricky corner cases.

  BDD in Action, Second Edition Communication skills, collaborative practices, and automation tools that ensure everyone from developers to non-technical stakeholders are in agreement on the goals of a project. Revised and expanded in a second edition, the book contains new techniques for incorporating BDD into large-scale development practices such as Agile and DevOps.  

  The Programmer’s Brain What every programmer needs to know about cognition Take advantage of your brain’s natural processes to be a better programmer. Techniques based in cognitive science make it possible to learn new languages faster, improve productivity, reduce the need for code rewrites, and more. This unique book will help you achieve these gains.

  Skills of a Successful Software Engineer A best practices guide for succeeding on a software development team. The book reveals how to optimize both your code and your career, from achieving a good work-life balance to writing the kind of bug-free code delivered by pros

  Good Code, Bad Code Think like a software engineer Software development is a team sport. For an application to succeed, your code needs to be robust and easy for others to understand, maintain, and adapt. In this fast-paced guide, Google software engineer Tom Long teaches you a host of rules to apply, along with advice on when to break them!

  The Creative Programmer Creativity is essential to being a successful programmer. The stories, examples, and groundbreaking research in this book will help you unleash your creative potential!

  Build a Stock-Tracking CLI With Async Streams in Rust Use the unique and lesser-known features of the Rust language to finish a prototype of a FinTech command line tool. You’ll step into the shoes of a developer working for Future Finance Labs, an exciting startup that’s aiming to disrupt mortgages, and help out with building its market-tracking backend.

  Parallel and High Performance Computing Efficient parallel programming can save hours—or even days—of computing time. Discover performance techniques guaranteed to boost your code’s effectiveness. You’ll learn to evaluate hardware architectures and work with industry standard tools such as OpenMP and MPI.

  Python Concurrency with asyncio It’s easy to overload standard Python and watch your programs slow to a crawl. The asyncio library was built to solve these problems by making it easy to divide and schedule tasks. It seamlessly handles multiple operations concurrently, leading to apps that are lightning fast and scalable.

  Grokking Concurrency A friendly guide for any developer who’s perplexed about concurrency. It focuses on the fundamentals, explaining concurrent programming and asynchrony in a math- and jargon-free way.

  Learn Concurrent Programming with Go Thanks to its baked-in concurrency models, Google’s Go is one of the best languages you can use to learn and apply concurrent programming to your systems. This book demystifies concurrency, explaining complex topics using simple language, easy-to-follow visuals, and relevant examples you’ll face every day as a developer.  

  AWS for Non-Engineers This friendly, fast-paced guide is perfect for anyone puzzled by the cloud! Learn the fundamentals of Amazon Web Services, and be ready to ace your AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Exam.

  Application Security Program Handbook A guide for software engineers and team leaders Stop dangerous threats and secure your vulnerabilities without slowing down delivery. This book is a one-stop guide to implementing a robust application security program, detailing a flexible approach that can adapt and evolve to the new and emerging threats you’ll be facing in the future!

  Data For All Take control of your personal data. Learn how companies manipulate and exploit your data and what you can do to access, delete, and monetize it yourself. This book empowers everyone—from tech experts to the general public—to control how third parties use your personal data for your own benefit.

  Wagtail CMS in Action With Django and Python With Django and Python Upgrade your content management system! Build real-world websites, blogs, and e-commerce web apps with the Python-based Wagtail CMS. 

  React Quickly, Second Edition Learn the skills you need to build React applications quickly! This fully revised second edition introduces functional components, React hooks, static site generators, and more, with brand-new sample projects ranging from an interactive menu to an online bookstore!