Software Engineering

Serious developers know that code can always be improved. With each iteration, you make optimizations - small and large - that can have a huge impact on your application’s speed, size, resilience, and maintainability. In Seriously Good Software: Code That Works, Survives, and Wins, author, teacher, and Java expert Marco Faella teaches you techniques for writing better code. You’ll start with a simple application and follow it through seven careful refactorings, each designed to explore another dimension of quality.

“How do I make my user stories smaller?” “What is the right size for a user story?” “What is the difference between an Epic and a Story? And where do Tasks and Sub-Tasks fit in?” Allan Kelly found himself answering these questions, and similar ones, again and again so...he sat down to write the answers and this book was born.

For a beginner, programming can seem like something scary or hard to do. With all the technical terms and concepts out there, as well as the numerous programming languages available at your disposal, it is so important - now more than ever before - to build a strong foundation. When you understand the fundamentals of programming, learning any programming language is a piece of cake. In addition, programming is not just all about coding; it is also about knowing how to plan your work, how to set deadlines, how to communicate with team members, how to use existing components, etc.

The Art of Unit Testing, Second Edition guides you step-by-step from writing your first simple tests to developing robust test sets that are maintainable, readable, and trustworthy. You'll master the foundational ideas and quickly move to high-value subjects like mocks, stubs, and isolation, including frameworks such as Moq, FakeItEasy, and Typemock Isolator.

Learn about blockchain and the software behind Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies. This book will guide the listener on a journey to understanding the underlying software behind Bitcoin and other mainstream cryptocurrencies, like Ethereum, TRX and many others.

If you need to learn Spring, look no further than this widely beloved and comprehensive guide! Fully revised for Spring 5.3, and packed with interesting real-world examples to get your hands dirty with Spring. Over the years, Spring in Action has helped tens of thousands of developers get a major productivity boost from Spring. This new edition of the classic best seller covers all of the new features of Spring 5.3 and Spring Boot 2.4 along with examples of reactive programming, Spring Security for REST Services, and bringing reactivity to your databases.

Are you ready to unlock the full power of AI in your daily work, business, or creative projects? Mastering Prompt Engineering is your essential audio guide to writing smarter prompts, building intelligent workflows, and thriving in an AI-first world—no technical background required.

Master Photoshop without any previous knowledge with this easy-to-follow audio course. Listen to this expert-taught Photoshop audio tutorial, and learn image editing, retouching, and color correcting for beginners. Find out how to use Photoshop shapes and layers, how to retouch photos, and more.

1881 - Special Agent Gillian Hamilton is a magic caster with the Federal Bureau of Magic and Steam. He’s sent to Shallow Grave, Arizona, to arrest a madman engineer known as Tinkerer, who’s responsible for blowing up half of Baltimore. Gillian has handled some of the worst criminals in the Bureau’s history, so this assignment shouldn’t be a problem. But even he’s taken aback by a run-in with the country’s most infamous outlaw, Gunner the Deadly.

El siglo XXI es el de la sociedad de la información y las nuevas tecnologías: todo ello no sería posible sin la enorme industria del software que le sirve de base. No obstante, los desarrolladores de software no aprovechan todas las oportunidades para desempeñar una carrera profesional de éxito, cometiendo siempre los mismos errores una y otra vez. Un buen proyecto software tiene que ver con habilidades creativas y artísticas más que aquellas necesariamente técnicas.

Master advanced .NET techniques with a focus on actual value delivered by working within a modular, clean architecture. Microsoft Data Platform MVP Dino Esposito explains key clean architecture concepts with a mix of pragmatism and design discipline and helps you solidify your knowledge through a real-world project.

The ultimate guide of how-to templates with real-world examples that demystify the art and science of AI prompt writing, offering clear frameworks, proven templates, and step-by-step instructions. This empowering guide reveals the exact formulas behind successful prompts with structured templates, troubleshooting guides, and practical exercises. Develop the critical thinking skills needed to achieve consistent, high-quality AI outputs.

This audiobook is the first part of a trilogy to follow Software Wasteland. In Software Wasteland, we detailed the current poor state of application software development. We offered some tactical advice for reducing some of the worse of the excess. This is the first book in the "what to do instead" trilogy. From the age of punched cards to today's internet-driven systems, one thing has stayed fairly constant: software vendors and their implementers have been driving the enterprise IT industry. This is changing.

Artificial intelligence (AI) has rapidly transformed industries like healthcare, finance, manufacturing, and entertainment, boosting efficiency and productivity. However, many fear AI will replace human jobs, especially in software engineering. This book, "Why AI Will Not Eliminate Software Engineering Jobs," addresses these concerns.

Hypothesis-Driven Development (HDD) is an emerging approach to digital product management for both business people and engineers. It emphasizes rigorous, continuous experimentation as a way to both minimize waste and focus teams’ creative capabilities in directions that drive growth and innovation.

Whether you’re building for high-FPS gaming, workstation-level editing, or just a fast everyday machine, Build Your Beast empowers you to build, optimize, and master your own custom computer—with style.

Code Smarter. Build Faster. Master Python Efficiency. Are you ready to write cleaner, faster, and more powerful Python code—without wasting hours on trial and error? In Code Faster with Python: Essential Hacks for Speed and Efficiency, author Maxen Ford delivers an action-oriented guide to help you boost your coding speed, eliminate repetition, and streamline your development process. This audiobook is your shortcut to mastering high-performance Python.

To ensure that applications are reliable and always available, more businesses today are moving applications to AWS. But many companies still struggle to design and build these cloud applications effectively. With this practical guide, software, DevOps, and cloud engineers will learn how to implement resilient designs and configurations in the cloud using hands-on independent labs.

Are you frustrated or disenchanted by the results of your Agile approach? Does Agile sound like a good idea, but you're not sure how to explain it beyond roles, practices, and meetings? Is your team going through the motions, but it's still business as usual? The missing piece is the Agile mindset - the thinking that makes Agile processes work.

Learn how to master Agile software development practices. This book teaches you how you can adopt Agile development practices into your organization the right way.