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Everything you need to know about Retrieval Augmented Generation in one human-friendly guide. Augmented Generation (or RAG) enhances an LLM’s available data by adding context from an external knowledge base, so it can answer accurately about proprietary content, recent information, and even live conversations. RAG is powerful, and with A Simple Guide to Retrieval Augmented Generation, it’s also easy to understand and implement!

In Agile Leadership Toolkit, longtime agile leader Peter Koning provides a practical and invaluable steering wheel for agile leaders and their teams. Drawing on his extensive experience helping leaders drive more value from agile, Koning offers a comprehensive toolkit for continuously improving your environment.

Manning's best-selling Java 8 book has been revised for Java 9 and 10! In Modern Java in Action, you'll build on your existing Java language skills with the newest features and techniques. Modern Java in Action connects new features of the Java language with their practical applications. It will help you expand your existing knowledge of core Java as you master modern additions like the Streams API and the Java Module System, explore new approaches to concurrency, and learn how functional concepts can help you write code that’s easier to read and maintain.

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.

Peter Seibel interviews 15 of the most interesting computer programmers alive today in Coders at Work, offering a companion volume to Apress’ highly acclaimed best-seller Founders at Work by Jessica Livingston. As the words “at work” suggest, Peter Seibel focuses on how his interviewees tackle the day-to-day work of programming, while revealing much more, like how they became great programmers, how they recognize programming talent in others, and what kinds of problems they find most interesting.

Today's tech unicorns develop software differently. They've developed a way of working that lets them scale like an enterprise while working like a startup. These techniques can be learned. This book takes you behind the scenes and shows you how companies like Google, Facebook, and Spotify do it. Leverage their insights, so your teams can work better together, ship higher-quality product faster, innovate more quickly, and compete with the unicorns.

Are you aspiring to become an AWS Certified Developer? Are you looking for a comprehensive resource to prepare for the AWS Certified Developer exam? Look no further! This book is your ultimate guide to acing the AWS Certified Developer certification by providing you with a robust set of practice test questions and detailed answers to help you succeed.

Are you ready to turn your gaming passion into reality? This book is your ultimate guide to mastering Godot game development. No prior experience needed! Dive into the exciting world of Godot and learn step-by-step how to design captivating 2D and 3D environments, program engaging gameplay mechanics, and create stunning visual effects. Imagine building your dream games and impressing friends and potential employers with your skills. This book series equips you with the essential knowledge and hands-on practice to become a confident Godot developer. Don't miss out on this opportunity!

Building apps no longer requires years of coding experience, complex setups, or deep technical knowledge. With Google Antigravity, a new generation of builders can move from idea to working product faster than ever. Build with Google Antigravity is a practical, beginner-friendly guide that walks you through shipping your first real app in just one week. This book is written for non-coders, vibe coders, founders, and creators who want to build fast without getting stuck in frameworks, setup friction, or developer overwhelm.

As they did with the revised edition of YOU: The Owner’s Manual, Dr. Roizen and Dr. Oz have updated their classic, international bestseller on diet. This nearly three million copy seller is filled with new information on emotional eating, the latest fad diets, maintaining a healthy lifestyle...

This book is dedicated to helping JavaScript Full Stack Developers interview for new positions, capture the job offer of their dreams and move up the career ladder. It is primarily geared toward "Full Stack front-end" developers. Along with answering technical JavaScript questions, the book also covers other front-end languages such as Angular, Express, MongoDB, Node.js, and more.

AWS Lambda in Action is an example-driven tutorial that teaches you how to build applications that use an event-driven approach on the back end. Starting with an overview of AWS Lambda, the audiobook moves on to show you common examples and patterns you can use to call Lambda functions from a web page or a mobile app. The second part of the audiobook puts these smaller examples together to build larger applications. By the end, you'll be ready to create applications that take advantage of the high availability, security, performance, and scalability of AWS.

This book explores the principles, practices, and tools of Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) to help organizations build a seamless software delivery pipeline. It covers everything from the fundamental concepts and benefits of CI/CD to the practical implementation and best practices. The book starts by introducing CI/CD and its importance in modern software development. It explains how CI/CD addresses challenges such as manual processes, deployment delays, and quality issues.

Software is eating the world—transforming industries from finance to retail, from media to transportation. Yet healthcare remains stubbornly resistant to digital transformation. In Inedible, healthcare innovator Mariano García-Valiño diagnoses this anomaly, explaining why healthcare continues to lag behind and revealing how it can finally leap forward. Drawing from decades of experience at the intersection of healthcare and technology, García-Valiño identifies the root cause: today’s healthcare systems were built for an era dominated by acute, infectious diseases. That era has passed.

Real-World Machine Learning will teach you the concepts and techniques you need to be a successful machine learning practitioner without overdosing you on abstract theory and complex mathematics. By working through immediately relevant examples in Python, you'll build skills in data acquisition and modeling, classification, and regression. You'll also explore the most important tasks like model validation, optimization, scalability, and real-time streaming. When you're done, you'll be ready to successfully build, deploy, and maintain your own powerful ML systems.

Unmitigated vulnerabilities in the software supply chain continue to pose a significant risk to organizations and our nation. This paper builds on the previously released Recommended Practices Guide for a software supply chain’s development, production and distribution, and management processes, to further increase the resiliency of these processes against compromise.

Untangle the mesh of complex data with this user-friendly manual to SQL. Imagine a world overflowing with data – numbers, stats, facts, all buzzing around, waiting to tell a story. There's one common element that can help you navigate this vast sea of data – Structured Query Language (SQL).

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.

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.

The AI revolution is happening now. Software developers who embrace AI will be best positioned to thrive in the future. This concise book provides a crucial foundation in the core concepts driving this transformative technology, including: Machine Learning: How algorithms learn from data to make predictions.