O Reilly Media: 1789 books
XMPP: The Definitive Guide
Building Real-Time Applications with Jabber Technologies
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2009
This practical book provides everything you need to know about the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP). This open technology for real-time communication is used in many diverse applications such as instant messaging, Voice over IP, real-time collaboration, social networking, microblogging,...
Articulating Design Decisions
Communicate with Stakeholders, Keep Your Sanity, and Deliver the Best User Experience
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
Talking to people about your designs might seem like a basic skill, but it can be difficult to do efficiently and well. And, in many cases, how you communicate about your work with stakeholders, clients, and other non-designers is more critical than the designs themselves—simply because the most...
Excel 2003: The Missing Manual
The Missing Manual
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2004
Whether you are an Excel neophyte, a sophisticate who knows the program inside out, or an intermediate-level plodder eager to hone your skills, Excel: The Missing Manual is sure to become your go-to resource for all things Excel. Covering all the features of Excel 2002 and 2003, the most recent versions...
AI for Game Developers
Creating Intelligent Behavior in Games
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2004
Advances in 3D visualization and physics-based simulation technology make it possible for game developers to create compelling, visually immersive gaming environments that were only dreamed of years ago. But today's game players have grown in sophistication along with the games they play. It's no...
Site Reliability Engineering
How Google Runs Production Systems
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
The overwhelming majority of a software system’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,...
Docker: Up & Running
Shipping Reliable Containers in Production
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2015
Updated to cover Docker version 1.10
Docker is quickly changing the way that organizations are deploying software at scale. But understanding how Linux containers fit into your workflow—and getting the integration details right—are not trivial tasks. With this practical guide, you’ll...
Beyond Blame
Learning From Failure and Success
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2015
Failure is inevitable and a postmortem analysis, conducted in an open, blameless way, is the best way for IT techs and managers to learn from outages and near-misses. But when the "root cause" is determined to be "human error" (or worse, particular humans), the real causes and...
by Thomas Eisenmann
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
If you want salient advice about your startup, you’ve hit the jackpot with this book. Harvard Business School Professor Tom Eisenmann annually compiles the best posts from many blogs on technology startup management, primarily for the benefit of his students. This book makes his latest collection...
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The New How [Paperback]
Creating Business Solutions Through Collaborative Strategy
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
What people are saying about The New How
"How are you going to get rid of your Air Sandwich if you don't even know what it is? Provocative and practical at the same time."
--Seth Godin, author of Linchpin
"The New How is informative and provides exciting insights because...
The Art of Lean Software Development
A Practical and Incremental Approach
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2009
This succinct book explains how you can apply the practices of Lean software development to dramatically increase productivity and quality. Based on techniques that revolutionized Japanese manufacturing, Lean principles are being applied successfully to product design, engineering, the supply chain,...
Don't Get Burned on eBay
How to Avoid Scams and Escape Bad Deals
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2006
Lots of books tell you how to buy and sell on eBay. But what if something goes horribly awry? Do you have to chalk it up to a "lesson learned," lick your wounds and move on? Not a chance. Don't Get Burned on eBay offers relevant lessons based on real-life stories posted on eBay's Answer...
Funded
The Entrepreneur's Guide to Raising Your First Round
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2016
The venture capital world is often intimidating and hard to navigate, even for the most seasoned entrepreneurs. But it doesn’t have to be. Entrepreneurs who run effective fundraising processes don’t do it by accident. With this book, you’ll learn what it takes to successfully raise a round of...
Cloud Security and Privacy
An Enterprise Perspective on Risks and Compliance
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2009
You may regard cloud computing as an ideal way for your company to control IT costs, but do you know how private and secure this service really is? Not many people do. With Cloud Security and Privacy, you'll learn what's at stake when you trust your data to the cloud, and what you can do to keep your...
Practical UNIX and Internet Security
Securing Solaris, Mac OS X, Linux & Free BSD
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2003
When Practical Unix Security was first published more than a decade ago, it became an instant classic. Crammed with information about host security, it saved many a Unix system administrator from disaster. The second edition added much-needed Internet security coverage and doubled the size of the...