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Software Development eBooks

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  • Reflections on Management

    How to Manage Your Software Projects, Your Teams, Your Boss, and Yourself

    by Watts Humphrey, William Thomas ...
    A Lifetime of Invaluable Management Insights from Legendary Software Quality Guru Watts S. HumphreyIn 1986, Watts S. Humphrey made an outrageous commitment: a promise to transform software development. As the pioneering innovator behind SEI's Capability Maturity Model (CMM), Personal Software Process (PSP), and Team Software Process (TSP), Humphrey has more than met that promise. But his ... Read more

    £21.29

  • The Psychology of Software Teams

    by Cat Hicks ...
    To build the future, we need new ways of supporting software teams. This book will give you a secret weapon: the psychology that creates resilience for developers, sustainable practices for software teams, and innovation for organizations. You’ll learn from rigorous empirical evidence gathered from top engineering organizations and thousands of developers around the world, revealing powerful ... Read more

    £18.99

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  • Rust Web Development

    With warp, tokio, and reqwest

    by Bastian Gruber ...
    Create bulletproof, high-performance web apps and servers with Rust.In Rust Web Development you will learn:Handling the borrow checker in an asynchronous environmentLearning the ingredients of an asynchronous Rust stackCreating web APIs and using JSON in RustGraceful error handlingTesting, tracing, logging, and debuggingDeploying Rust applicationsEfficient database accessRust Web Development</em.. ... Read more

    £26.99

  • Release It!

    Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software

    by Michael T. Nygard ...
    A single dramatic software failure can cost a company millions of dollars - but can be avoided with simple changes to design and architecture. This new edition of the best-selling industry standard shows you how to create systems that run longer, with fewer failures, and recover better when bad things happen. New coverage includes DevOps, microservices, and cloud-native architecture. Stability ... Read more

    £23.79

  • Fundamentals of Metadata Management

    Uncover the Meta Grid and Unlock IT, Data, Information, and Knowledge Management

    by Ole Olesen-Bagneux ...
    Whether it's to adhere to regulations, access markets by meeting specific standards, or devise data analytics and AI strategies, companies today are busy implementing metadata repositories—metadata tools about the IT, data, information, and knowledge in your company. Until now, most of these repositories have been implemented in isolation from one another, but that practice lies at the core of ... Read more

    £39.29

  • Understanding Control Flow

    Concurrent Programming Using μC++

    by Peter A. Buhr ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    The control-flow issues presented in this textbook are extremely relevant in modern computer languages and programming styles. In addition to the basic control-flow mechanisms, virtually all new computer languages provide some form of exceptional control flow to support robust programming introduced in this textbook. Also, concurrency capabilities are appearing with increasing frequency in both ... Read more

    £38.29

  • Regular Expression Pocket Reference

    Regular Expressions for Perl, Ruby, PHP, Python, C, Java and .NET

    by Tony Stubblebine ...
    This handy little book offers programmers a complete overview of the syntax and semantics of regular expressions that are at the heart of every text-processing application. Ideal as a quick reference, Regular Expression Pocket Reference covers the regular expression APIs for Perl 5.8, Ruby (including some upcoming 1.9 features), Java, PHP, .NET and C#, Python, vi, JavaScript, and the PCRE regular ... Read more

    £6.89

  • Grokking Data Structures

    by Marcello La Rocca ...
    Don’t be perplexed by data structures! This fun, friendly, and fully illustrated guide makes it easy to learn useful data structures you’ll put to work every day.Grokking Data Structures makes it a breeze to learn the most useful day-to-day data structures. You’ll follow a steady learning path from absolute basics to advanced concepts, all illustrated with fun examples, engaging industry stories, ... Read more

    £26.99

  • Attachments

    Is there such a thing as love before first sight? The romantic comedy we all need to read in 2026

    by Rainbow Rowell ...
    'Heartwarming, romantic and great fun' CLOSEREveryone in the newsroom knows that somebody is monitoring their emails, but Beth and Jennifer don't believe anyone would read their never-ending conversations. But Lincoln does, it's his job, and Beth and Jennifer's hilarious, no-holds-barred emails are the best part of his day.The only problem is he's starting to fall in love with Beth, and yet she ... Read more

    £5.99

  • How to Avoid a Climate Disaster

    The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need

    by Bill Gates ...
    In this urgent, authoritative book, Bill Gates sets out a wide-ranging, practical - and accessible - plan for how the world can get to zero greenhouse gas emissions in time to avoid a climate catastrophe.Bill Gates has spent a decade investigating the causes and effects of climate change. With the help of experts in the fields of physics, chemistry, biology, engineering, political science, and ... Read more

    £7.99

  • The Hard Thing About Hard Things

    Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers

    by Ben Horowitz ...
    Ben Horowitz, cofounder of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz and one of Silicon Valley’s most respected and experienced entrepreneurs, offers essential leadership advice on building and running a startup—practical wisdom for managing the toughest problems business school doesn’t cover, based on his popular ben’s blog.While many people talk about how great it is to start a business, very ... Read more

    £12.99

  • Agile Project Management Methodology for Beginners: Scrum Project Management for Beginners

    by Andy Webb ...
    The older rigid traditional models of delivering changes has been replaced with an agile way of delivering changes. The world of apps, and internet driven economy means that any change has to be delivered almost overnight with no scope for delays and the consumer wants things almost immediately.Agile provides that project management methodology to help you get the results immediately.Written for ... Read more

    £2.49 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Monte Carlo Simulation For Scrum

    by Stephen Angood ...
    This eBook shows you how to run Monte Carlo Simulation for Scrum and provides 2 free downloadable Excel templates to allow you to do it. It provides detailed instructions on how to set it up with a step by step guide. In addition there are free videos to supplement the instructions to make it easier. ... Read more

    Free

  • The Manager's Path

    A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change

    by Camille Fournier ...
    Managing people is difficult wherever you work. But in the tech industry, where management is also a technical discipline, the learning curve can be brutal—especially when there are few tools, texts, and frameworks to help you. In this practical guide, author Camille Fournier (tech lead turned CTO) takes you through each stage in the journey from engineer to technical manager.From mentoring ... Read more

    £17.29

  • The Staff Engineer's Path

    A Guide for Individual Contributors Navigating Growth and Change

    by Tanya Reilly ...
    For years, companies have rewarded their most effective engineers with management positions. But treating management as the default path for an engineer with leadership ability doesn't serve the industry well--or the engineer. The staff engineer's path allows engineers to contribute at a high level as role models, driving big projects, determining technical strategy, and raising everyone's skills ... Read more

    £19.49

  • Engineering Management for the Rest of Us

    by Sarah Drasner ...
    A lot of Engineering Managers and leaders studied for years and years to become the best Engineer they possibly could be... and then they were promoted.It can be very tough for those of us who didn't go into Engineering with the distinct concept that we would become managers, but still want to do our best to support our teams.I wrote this book because there's so much no one told me about ... Read more

    £7.69

  • SQL in 30 Pages

    by U.Q. Magnusson ...
    For those of you who need to quickly ramp up on SQL, but have no time to plow through a 600-page tome, this is for you. SQL in 30 Pages is a brief e-booklet of fewer than 4,000 words, designed to get you into SQL as fast as possible, as easily as possible. There is no bull in this Micro-Manual by popular online teacher U.Q. Magnusson. From the very first page you will learn about the basic ... Read more

    £2.49 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ry's Git Tutorial

    by Ryan Hodson ...
    Git is a free version control system known for its speed, reliability, and non-linear development model. Its popularity among open-source developers makes Git a necessary tool for professional programmers, but it can also do wonders for your personal coding workflow. You'll be able to experiment with new ideas, radically refactor existing code, and efficiently share changes with other developers ... Read more

    Free

  • The Mythical Man-Month, Anniversary Edition: Essays On Software Engineering

    Essays on Software Engineering

    by Frederick P. Brooks Jr. ...
    Few books on software project management have been as influential and timeless as The Mythical Man-Month. With a blend of software engineering facts and thought-provoking opinions, Fred Brooks offers insight for anyone managing complex projects. These essays draw from his experience as project manager for the IBM System/360 computer family and then for OS/360, its massive software system. Now, 20 ... Read more

    £16.99

  • JavaScript: The Good Parts

    The Good Parts

    by Douglas Crockford ...
    Most programming languages contain good and bad parts, but JavaScript has more than its share of the bad, having been developed and released in a hurry before it could be refined. This authoritative book scrapes away these bad features to reveal a subset of JavaScript that's more reliable, readable, and maintainable than the language as a whole-a subset you can use to create truly extensible and ... Read more

    £11.59

  • Building Android Applications for Beginners

    by Steve Taylor ...
    This book is aimed at people with little or no understanding of developing applications or any experience with Java or computer programming in general.Rather than immediately delving into details, the book focuses instead on constructing simple Android examples that can immediately be seen to work. As an example, some very simple but yet powerful graphics are developed, the image on the book's ... Read more

    £3.49 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Code

    The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software

    by Charles Petzold ...
    The classic guide to how computers work, updated with new chapters and interactive graphics"For me, Code was a revelation. It was the first book about programming that spoke to me. It started with a story, and it built up, layer by layer, analogy by analogy, until I understood not just the Code, but the System. Code is a book that is as much about Systems Thinking and abstractions as it is about ... Read more

    £20.19

  • Essential Tools for Running a Business

    by Aleksandar Olic ...
    As a software company, we need tools to collaborate, code, promote our product, and support our customers. This book lists every tool we use and how it helps us.The list is a result of running a business for over 9 years. We started off with only a few basic tools, mainly for coding; as we grew, our needs grew with us: we needed to improve how we track our marketing campaigns, create designs and ... Read more

    Free

  • Site Reliability Engineering

    How Google Runs Production Systems

    by Niall Richard Murphy, Betsy Beyer, Chris Jones, Jennifer Petoff ...
    The overwhelming majority of a software systemâ??s lifespan is spent in use, not in design or implementation. So, why does conventional wisdom insist that software engineers focus primarily on the design and development of large-scale computing systems?In this collection of essays and articles, key members of Googleâ??s Site Reliability Team explain how and why their commitment to the entire ... Read more

    £22.39