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Kubernetes has become the dominant container orchestrator, but many organizations that have recently adopted this system are still struggling to run actual production workloads. In this practical book, four software engineers from VMware bring their shared experiences running Kubernetes in production and provide insight on key challenges and best practices.

There are countless ways to put deep learning to good use: improved medical imaging, credit card fraud detection, long range weather forecasting. PyTorch puts these superpowers in your hands, providing a comfortable Python experience that gets you started quickly and then grows with you as you - and your deep-learning skills - become more sophisticated.

Although first developed within the gaming industry, the principles of Atomic Scaling can be applied to any organization. Whether you are involved in startups or Fortune 500 companies, discover how you can exponentially increase your customer base, revenue, and profit while lowering overhead. Quit playing games with your bottom line. Instead, explore bold new ways to fulfill your mission and increase your impact.

Design has become the key link between users and today’s complex and rapidly evolving digital experiences, and designers are starting to be included in strategic conversations about the products and services that enterprises ultimately deliver. This has led to companies building in-house digital/experience design teams at unprecedented rates, but many of them don’t understand how to get the most out of their investment.

Author Brendan Burns demonstrates how you can adapt existing software design patterns for designing and building reliable distributed applications. Systems engineers and application developers will learn how these long-established patterns provide a common language and framework for dramatically increasing the quality of your system. This fully updated second edition includes new chapters on AI inference, AI training, and building robust systems for the real world.

In a world of digital overload and never-ending work demands, Microsoft Copilot stands as a breakthrough in productivity. What once took hours—summarizing reports, formatting presentations, calculating forecasts—can now be done in minutes with precision and personalization. This book is a guide for professionals ready to integrate AI into their daily work, not as a novelty, but as a core tool for speed, clarity, and strategic thinking.

This book offers an unflinching look at the creative and structural challenges of storytelling in interactive media. Drawing on over 30 years of industry experience, Kelly Vero explores the rich interplay between narrative, design and technology, making the case for why story is foundational to...

You have an iPhone app idea that could change everything. But you don't have a computer science degree, you've never learned Swift programming, and hiring a developer costs $50,000 or more. What if none of that mattered anymore? Build iOS Apps with Claude and Xcode shows you exactly how to create and publish real iOS apps using AI assistance, even if you've never programmed before. This isn't theory or fluff. It's a proven, step-by-step system that takes you from blank Xcode project to published App Store app in weeks, not years.

Three years ago, 32-year-old Markus "Notch" Persson of Stockholm was an unknown and bored computer programmer. Today, he is a multi-millionaire international icon. Minecraft, the "virtual Lego" game Markus crafted in his free time, has become one of the most talked about activities since Tetris. Talked about by tens of millions of people, in fact.It is the story of unlikely success, fast money, and the power of digital technology to rattle an empire. And it is about creation, exclusion, and the feeling of not fitting in.

Feel overwhelmed by Artificial Intelligence (AI)? Turn fear into fascination with this guide.

This book is for engineering leaders and experienced developers who want to build serious software with AI—and actually unlock the leverage it offers. It introduces a clear, step-by-step workflow that makes this approach reliable, repeatable, and scalable. You’ll learn a practical, disciplined approach to building applications—not with AI as a co-pilot, but as the primary developer.

You have brilliant app ideas. Claude Code is ready to help you build them. But the moment someone says "open your terminal and run npm install," you freeze. That black screen feels like a wall between you and your dreams. You're not alone. Thousands of smart, capable people abandon their coding journey at this exact moment. They can master spreadsheets, run businesses, and learn complex software, but the terminal feels impossibly intimidating.

Cloud native security isn't a game for individual players. It requires team collaboration with a platform that can help cloud security engineers, developers, and operations people do their best work. That's what the cloud native application protection platform (CNAPP) delivers. With this guide, you'll learn how CNAPPs can help you consolidate security through DevSecOps across cloud native technologies, practices, and application lifecycles.

Messy code is a nuisance. "Tidying" code, to make it more readable, requires breaking it up into manageable sections. In this practical guide, author Kent Beck, creator of Extreme Programming and pioneer of software patterns, suggests when and where you might apply tidyings to improve your code while keeping the overall structure of the system in mind. Instead of trying to master tidying all at once, this book lets you try out a few examples that make sense for your problem. If you have a big function containing many lines of code, you'll learn how to logically divide it into smaller chunks.

Lean UX has become the preferred approach to interaction design, tailor-made for today’s agile teams. In the second edition of this award-winning book, leading advocates Jeff Gothelf and Josh Seiden expand on the valuable Lean UX principles, tactics, and techniques covered in the first edition to share how product teams can easily incorporate design, experimentation, iteration, and continuous learning from real users into their Agile process.

In Next Level Website Design, Greg Merrilees, designer trusted by industry leaders and Hollywood A-listers, reveals the exact system he's used to transform over 2000 websites from expensive digital brochures into revenue-generating machines.

The most human-friendly book on machine learning Somewhere buried in all the systems that drive artificial intelligence, you'll find machine learning―the process that allows technology to build knowledge based on data and patterns. Machine Learning For Dummies is an excellent starting point...

Centralized data warehouses, the long-time de facto standard for housing data for analytics, are rapidly giving way to multi-faceted cloud data platforms. Companies that embrace modern cloud data platforms benefit from an integrated view of their business using all of their data and can take advantage of advanced analytic practices to drive predictions and as yet unimagined data services.

The profession of Agile Coaching is, in a word, confusing. Bob Galen has written Extraordinarily Badass Agile Coaching to help alleviate the confusion. The book centers on the Agile Coaching Growth Wheel as the competency and skill maturity model to baseline your agile coaching skills against. Its core goal is to “raise the bar” as to what true excellence looks like and to help you establish a personal development and growth plan. Consider this book that maps to coaching badassery, personal growth, and client service.

This book teaches the complex, sometimes confounding, and often beautiful art of directing live performance for videogames. Starting from a clear and comprehensive introduction to the nuts and bolts of directing on the motion capture floor and in the voiceover booth, the book dives deeper with concrete examples from the author’s 25-year career directing seminal games from the early years to today’s blockbusters.