Developer platforms promise to rewrite the laws of IT physics: they boost innovation through standards; they speed up development while assuring compliance; and they reduce cognitive load without restricting choice. Building such an in-house platform, or even deploying one, is far from easy, though. This book condenses a decade of building and rolling out platforms into practical advice for platform teams and users.5300+ happy readers! Also as Paperback edition

The book covers every topic in the latest CCSP exam syllabus, with more than 400 pages organized in a format that makes it easy to drill down on specific exam domains and concepts at-a-glance, making it an essential exam resource for anyone who aims to prepare for the exam without wasting time or money.

The book covers every topic in the latest CISSP exam syllabus, organized in a format that makes it easy to drill down on specific exam domains and concepts at-a-glance, making it an essential exam resource for anyone who aims to prepare for the exam without wasting time or money.

Tired of paying the "container tax" for bursty, event-driven workloads? It's time to elevate your cloud architecture. Building Serverless Applications with WebAssembly & Spin walks you through constructing a robust, multi-component Rust app from scratch. You will master Spin, learn about the underlying Wasm Component Model, and ship your app seamlessly to both Kubernetes and edge runtimes. Ditch heavy base images, eliminate cold starts, and master the future of lightweight, secure serverless compute.

Ansible is a simple, but powerful, server and configuration management tool. Learn to use Ansible effectively, whether you manage one server—or thousands.

Linux is one of the best decisions you can make for your computer — but knowing where to start is the hard part. This guide walks you through everything: choosing a distribution, installing it, and using it confidently every day. It was written by Jay LaCroix of Learn Linux TV, for complete beginners. No prior experience required.

Learn the basic principles that govern how distributed systems work and how you can design your systems for increased performance, availability and scalability. Understand the basic algorithms and protocols used to solve the most common problems in the space of distributed systems.

A companion book for implementing Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. Targeted end-users, super-users and administrators, this book covers many of the challenges you're faced when implementing a cloud-based ERP system. From setting up the system and creating the first company to user customizations and integration. Updated to 2026 Wave 1 v28.

Lean Enterprise Architecture (LEA) redefines EA as a lean, value-driven discipline that bridges strategy, business, and technology. Instead of static blueprints, it shows you how to build adaptive architectures, enable transformation, and create measurable impact. Whether you are an enterprise architect, IT strategist, or business leader, LEA equips you to lead with clarity and influence.

When a license renewal lands at 567% of last year's bill, renting your infrastructure stops being a strategy. This is the escape tunnel: a complete production build of Apache CloudStack 4.22 LTS — KVM, Ceph, OS10 leaf-spine — across a three-city UK estate, written by an engineer with 32 years of building the real thing. Own your cloud down to the last packet.

A typed, signed-deliverable playbook for the enterprise-scale Oracle 19c → Azure migration. Across fifteen chapters, thirteen signed JSON deliverables chain end-to-end from Migration Assessment Bundle to Decommissioning Readiness Report. Defensible at a code review. Sign-off-ready for a director.

JSON succeeded not because it was better--XML had schemas, namespaces, and 10 years of tooling, but because it understood modularity in ways XML never could. This book deconstructs how a deliberately incomplete format defeated a comprehensive standard, then shows you the production patterns (JSON Schema, JSONB, MessagePack, versioning strategies) that make JSON systems scale from prototype to billions of requests.

2025 edition! Brought to you by best-selling author and global training guru Nigel Poulton, Getting Started with Docker is the fastest way to wrap your head around Docker and AI. It's packed with hands-on examples, including a multi-container chatbot app that integrates with Docker Model Runner for local AI. When you've finished the book, you'll be ready to use Docker in real-world projects.

A practical guide to Microsoft Desired State Configuration (DSC), the cross-platform configuration management tool for Windows, Linux, and macOS. Learn how to author configuration documents, work with built-in resources, adapters, and build custom resources.

Understanding Kubernetes can be difficult or time-consuming. I've created this collection of sketchnotes about Kubernetes in order to explain the Cloud technology in a visual way.