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Continuous Delivery is a set of holistic principles and practices to reduce time to market and provide an organization with a strategic competitive advantage, but adoption is invariably a challenging and time-consuming journey. Before adoption, the current time to market and desired time to market are often unknown, which makes alignment and collaboration between individuals, teams, and departments difficult. During adoption practices, techniques, and tools are often introduced without acceptance criteria, with makes it hard to assess and learn from the impact of changes.

Know what's causing application development waste so you can turn the tide. This is the audiobook your systems integrator and your application software vendor don't want you to hear. Enterprise IT (information technology) is a $3.8 trillion-per-year industry worldwide. Most of it is waste. However, the waste is hard to see, after being so marbled through all the products, processes, and guiding principles. That is what this audiobook is about. We must see, understand, and agree about the problem before we can take coordinated action to address it.

If you're looking for an effective and proven approach to product management - one that recognizes that the majority of product managers enter the field with little or no training and must learn through trial and error - this is the book for you. Take Charge Product Management guides you step-by-step along the product management path with tips, tactics, and tools to make you and your products more successful.

Robotics at its best! Discover a book that tells you what you should do and how! Instead of jumping right into the instructions, this book will provide you first with all the necessary concepts that you need in order to make the learning process a whole lot easier. This way, you're sure not to get lost in confusion once you get to the more complex lessons provided in the latter chapters. Examples are provided for a more knowledgeable approach to your learning.

Poornima Vijayashanker has founded three startups and personally guided 100+ people who have launched products that make six and seven figures per year. Everyone started with varying levels of technical and business know-how - or none at all - but everyone was passionate about an idea. Now, Poornima travels around the country teaching people how to bring their ideas to life. With the right road map in front of you, you can launch a winning software product, too.

Packed with tactical insight into the app creation process as well as strategic tips for entrepreneurs, How I Turned $430 into More Than $300,000 is more than an inspiring self-help guide. It's a blueprint for creating and sustaining a profitable, successful business.

This is an all-purpose toolkit for your programming career. It has been built by Jordan Hudgens over a lifetime of coding and teaching coding. It helps you identify the key questions and stumbling blocks that programmers encounter, and gives you the answers to them! It is a comprehensive guide containing more than 50 insights that you can use to improve your work, and to give advice in your career. The book is split up into three topic areas: Coder Skills, Freelancer Skills, and Career Skills, each containing a wealth of practical advice.

Achieving high accuracy in AI systems requires careful consideration of various factors, including data quality, algorithm selection, model complexity, evaluation metrics, domain-specific challenges, and ongoing learning and adaptation. While AI systems have demonstrated remarkable accuracy in many applications, continuous research and development efforts are needed to further improve accuracy and address the challenges associated with real-world deployment.

Artificial intelligence plays a major role in our lives now, and its pervasive influence spreads faster by the day. This book is for the curious who ponder not just how AI will shape our future but how we can shape AI to reflect our highest values and aspirations. It's for those seeking to understand the profound changes AI promises for our personal lives, careers, and the very fabric of society. And it's all told in an accessible narrative to inform and entertain.

Reinaldo Aguiar ist ein Forscher und angehender Stratege mit Erfahrung in Software-Engineering, Technologie und Hochfinanz. Seine Karriere konzentrierte sich auf die Verbesserung von Suchtechnologien und den Aufbau von Systemen, die Millionen an Einnahmen für große Konzerne generiert haben.

In today’s fast-paced digital world, success hinges on more than just writing code—it’s about creating a culture that brings development and operations together with shared goals, trust, and rapid delivery. DevOps Culture offers a comprehensive guide to transforming your organization into a high-performing, collaborative, and resilient software powerhouse. This book goes beyond tools and automation to explore the mindset, values, and practices that define successful DevOps adoption. You'll discover how to break down silos, improve feedback loops, and foster continuous learning across teams.

AI is transforming software development, shifting programmers from writing code to collaborating with AI in an intent-driven workflow. Vibe coding—a prompt-first, exploratory approach where you describe what you want in natural language and let a large language model fill in the blanks—represents a radical shift in the developer's role from writing code to directing it. However, vibe coding comes with a serious caveat: Like a high-speed exploratory vehicle, it can take you off the beaten path quickly.

En el panorama profesional actual, acelerado y en constante evolución, es esencial mantenerse a la vanguardia. Microsoft Copilot, un innovador asistente impulsado por IA, está diseñado para ayudar a profesionales como tú a alcanzar nuevos niveles de productividad y eficiencia.

What do you need to know to be a successful software engineer? Undergraduate curricula and bootcamps may teach the fundamentals of algorithms and writing code, but they rarely cover topics vital to your career advancement. With this practical book, you'll learn the skills you need to succeed and thrive. Authors Nathaniel Schutta and Dan Vega guide your journey with pointers to deep dives into specific topic areas that will help you understand the skills that really matter as a software engineer.

How will software development and operations have to change to meet the sustainability and green needs of the planet? And what does that imply for development organizations? In this eye-opening book, Anne Currie, Sarah Hsu, and Sara Bergman provide a unique overview of this topic—discussing everything from the likely evolution of national grids to the effect those changes will have on the day-to-day lives of developers.

Create your very first video game without any prior coding experience!! Would you like to get ahold of simple, effective, and compatible steps that will enable you to be an excellent problem solver while game programming? Do you want to start game coding without worrying if you’re smart enough to get it right? If your answer is yes to any of these questions, you’ve got to listen to this book!

In recent years, DevOps has become an increasingly popular approach to software development and delivery. It brings together the practices of software development and IT operations to enable faster and more efficient delivery of software. One of the key components of DevOps is release management, which is the process of planning, scheduling, coordinating, and deploying software releases.

Whether you're a budding programmer or an experienced developer looking to sharpen your skills, this comprehensive guide will take you from the fundamentals of PHP to the creation of fully interactive, data-driven websites. Starting with an introduction to PHP's history and its significance in web development, this book systematically guides you through every aspect of server-side scripting. Learn the essentials of PHP syntax, variables, and control structures, and discover how to write clean, efficient code that powers some of the most popular websites today.

A love letter to Dark Souls and a guided tour of its world. The book leverages interviews with the game's creator Hidetaka Miyazaki, as well as original analysis to uncover the mystery of what makes the game so riveting, enduring, and influential.

WordPress is a widely-used content management system (CMS) that has been empowering millions of websites since its launch in 2003. Initially created as a blogging platform, WordPress has grown into a comprehensive tool suitable for a variety of web projects, ranging from personal blogs and small business websites to large-scale e-commerce platforms and corporate sites. One of the standout features of WordPress is its user-friendly interface. The dashboard is intuitive and easy to navigate, making it accessible even for those with limited technical expertise.