The books behind the guides.

Bruce Lansky

A comprehensive guide for expecting parents to choose the perfect baby name by providing over 100,000 options, detailed information, and a practical step-by-step decision-making process.

Ro Gorell, Gillian Jones

A practical, dip-in reference toolkit of 50 proven, adaptable coaching tools that equip coaches, managers, and individuals to develop and empower people across every situation from goal setting and confidence to hybrid working and neurodivergence.

Lorilee Craker

A curated, opinionated guide that mines great books and literary figures for 470 meaningful, stylish baby names, profiling each for popularity, image, and cultural resonance.

John Ousterhout

Software complexity is the root enemy of programmer productivity, and every design decision should be evaluated by how much it reduces or increases complexity in the system as a whole.

Ian Taylor M.B

A hands-on manual showing HR and recruitment practitioners how to design, sell, and run valid assessment and development centres that measure competency through observable behaviour rather than inferred internal states.

Erich P. Prien, Leonard D. Goodstein

A step-by-step practitioner's manual arguing that a competent job analysis is the indispensable foundation of every human resource function, complete with eight ready-to-use job-family templates.

Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, Gene Kim

Using rigorous, survey-based scientific research across thousands of organizations, Accelerate identifies the 24 measurable capabilities that drive high software delivery performance, which in turn drives organizational performance, employee satisfaction, and competitive advantage.

Roberto Infante

A hands-on developer guide that takes you from LLM prompt basics through advanced RAG, multi-tool agents, multi-agent systems, and the Model Context Protocol using LangChain, LangGraph, and LangSmith.

Chip Huyen

A comprehensive engineering guide for building production-ready AI applications on top of foundation models, covering the full stack from evaluation and prompt engineering to RAG, finetuning, inference optimization, and deployment architecture.

Robert M. Emmerichs Cheryl Y. Marcum

A concise argument that strategic workforce planning succeeds only when senior executives actively lead it, translating strategic intent into an aligned set of human resource policies that shape the future workforce.

Robert M. Emmerichs Cheryl Y. Marcum

A practical, replicable methodology that any organization can use to link its strategic intent to concrete human resource decisions through a structured, four-step workforce planning process.

Rui Pedro Machado

A practical guide to modern analytics engineering that shows how to transform raw data into trustworthy, meaningful data models at scale using SQL and dbt while honoring foundational data modeling principles.

Harry J. W. Percival & Bob Gregory

A practical guide to applying Domain-Driven Design, Test-Driven Development, and Event-Driven Architecture patterns in Python to build maintainable, testable, and loosely coupled systems.

Thornton G.C., Rupp D.E.

A comprehensive guide to designing, implementing, and validating assessment centers for various human resource functions, differentiating between strategies for prediction, diagnosis, and development.

Eric Groves

A comprehensive resource guide for parents seeking harmonious and thematically linked names for siblings, organized by phonetic, alliterative, and cultural criteria.

Lisa Shaw, Andrea Norville

A comprehensive baby-naming reference that organizes thousands of boys' and girls' names by risk level so parents can choose a name their child can actually live with happily.

Gill Rapley, Tracey Murkett

A guide arguing that babies of around six months can and should feed themselves whole family foods from the start, skipping purées and spoon-feeding altogether.

Blitzscaling is the strategy of prioritizing speed over efficiency in an environment of uncertainty to achieve massive, market-dominating scale faster than competitors.

Ashley Davis

A hands-on, practical guide that takes developers from zero to a fully deployed, continuously delivered microservices application using Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform—cutting through the steep learning curve by building a real video-streaming platform step by step.

Ashley Davis

A hands-on, project-driven guide that walks developers from zero to a fully deployed, production-ready microservices application using Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, and Terraform.

Manning (MEAP)

A hands-on guide to building LLM agents and multi-agent systems from scratch by developing your own educational framework with support for tools, MCP, Skills, memory, human-in-the-loop, and the A2A protocol.

Manning (MEAP)

A hands-on guide to building autonomous AI agents from scratch by focusing on the core principle of Context Engineering, empowering developers to understand, debug, and create their own agent frameworks.

Sam Newman

A practitioner's guide to designing, building, and operating fine-grained distributed systems—microservices—that can be developed and deployed independently around business domains.

Manning (MEAP)

This book provides a comprehensive engineering framework for building, deploying, and maintaining reliable, trustworthy, and production-ready AI systems powered by Large Language Models.

Ellyn Satter

To raise a healthy, competent eater, parents must establish a division of responsibility by providing nutritious food at regular times and then trusting their child to decide how much, or whether, to eat.

Robert C. Martin

A distillation of timeless, paradigm-independent rules of software architecture that show how to structure systems so that policy is separated from detail, dependencies point toward high-level business rules, and options are kept open for as long as possible.

Marshall Goldsmith, Laurence S. Lyons

A compilation of essays from the world's top coaches, this book provides a comprehensive guide to the principles, practices, and applications of executive coaching for developing leaders and driving organizational change.

Steve McConnell

A comprehensive guide to software construction that details the principles and practices for writing high-quality, maintainable code to manage complexity and improve programmer productivity.

Bruce Griffiths, Enrique Washington

A practical guide to understanding, building, and implementing competency models as the foundational common language that integrates every talent management system in an organization.

Ganesh Shermon

A comprehensive and practical guide for designing, implementing, and managing a competency-based Human Resource Management system to align employee capabilities with organizational strategy and drive competitive advantage.

Humble, JezFarley, David

A comprehensive guide to revolutionizing software delivery by automating the build, deploy, test, and release process, enabling rapid, reliable, and low-risk releases through a practice called the Deployment Pipeline.

Emily Oster

An economist provides a data-driven framework to help new parents navigate the overwhelming decisions of early childhood, from birth to preschool, by replacing anxiety and conventional wisdom with evidence and personalized choice.

A field-tested marketing model explaining why disruptive high-tech products stall between early enthusiasts and mainstream buyers, and how to bridge that gap to achieve market dominance.

Immanuel Trummer

A hands-on guide showing developers and data scientists how to use large language models—across text, tables, images, audio, and graphs—to build effective, cost-efficient data analysis pipelines in Python.

Piethein Strengholt

A pragmatic guide for large enterprises to transition from bottleneck-prone centralized data architectures to a scalable, federated model by applying principles from data mesh, data fabric, and domain-driven design.

Dehghani, Zhamak

A decentralized sociotechnical approach for managing analytical data at scale that shifts ownership to business domains, treats data as a product, and is supported by a self-serve platform and federated computational governance.

James Densmore

A practical blueprint for building, orchestrating, validating, and maintaining modern data pipelines that reliably move and transform data for analytics, data science, and machine learning.

A project-driven Python bootcamp that teaches data science by solving five realistic, open-ended case studies spanning probability, statistics, machine learning, NLP, and network analysis.

Alex Petrov

A deep dive into the internal algorithms and data structures of database systems, focusing on how they store data locally in storage engines and coordinate across multiple nodes in distributed systems.

A comprehensive textbook that introduces the mathematical foundations, modern practical techniques, and advanced research topics of deep learning for students and software engineers.

Martin Kleppmann

A deep, principles-first guide to the architecture of reliable, scalable, and maintainable data systems, explaining the trade-offs behind databases, distributed systems, and data processing.

Chip Huyen

A holistic, iterative framework for designing production-ready machine learning systems that are reliable, scalable, maintainable, and adaptive across every stage from data engineering to continual learning.

Eric Evans

Domain-Driven Design argues that the key to building complex, long-lived software is tightly coupling a rich, collaboratively developed domain model to every aspect of the implementation, from code to team communication.

Manning (MEAP)

A practical guide for engineers to build, optimize, and deploy cost-effective and secure small language models (SLMs) on commodity hardware for specialized, real-world applications.

Ville Tuulos

A practical guide to building human-centric infrastructure that empowers data scientists to develop, deploy, and operate machine learning applications end-to-end without becoming DevOps experts.

Manning (MEAP)

A practical guide for engineers and technology leaders on how to build, manage, and scale internal developer platforms as products to accelerate software delivery, reduce developer cognitive load, and drive business value.

Emily Oster

An economist applies rigorous data analysis and decision theory to pregnancy, debunking conventional wisdom and empowering expectant mothers to make personalized, evidence-based choices.

A concise, practical playbook for startup founders to fairly and objectively divide equity ownership among co-founders and protect that split with vesting schedules.

A concise, practical handbook that walks early-stage startup founders through understanding angel investors and successfully raising angel capital.

A concise, practical handbook teaching early-stage founders how to estimate, justify, and negotiate a reasonable pre-money valuation for their startup.

A plain-English field guide that demystifies startup investment term sheets and preferred share rights so founders can negotiate funding deals intelligently before paying lawyers.

Chris Pegula, Frank Meyer

A practical, humorous, dude-to-dude guide that walks expectant fathers through prepping for conception, all three trimesters, birth, and life with a newborn while insisting they don't have to lose their identity to become great dads.

A systematic playbook for turning aggressive growth goals into predictable, achievable outcomes by mastering seven interlocking ingredients of hypergrowth used by the world's fastest-growing SaaS companies.

Joe Reis, Matt Housley

A comprehensive guide to planning and building robust, scalable data systems by focusing on the timeless principles of the data engineering lifecycle rather than specific, ephemeral technologies.

Mark Richards & Neal Ford

A comprehensive modern engineering guide that equips architects and aspiring architects with the analytical frameworks, architectural styles, and soft skills needed to make principled trade-off decisions in an ever-evolving software ecosystem.

David Foster

A hands-on technical guide to building generative deep learning models that can paint, write, compose music, and play games by teaching machines to create original content through VAEs, GANs, RNNs, and reinforcement learning.

Dave Bechberger & Josh Perryman

A hands-on guide that teaches developers how to model, query, and build production applications on graph databases using Apache TinkerPop's Gremlin language, illustrated through the end-to-end development of a restaurant recommendation app called DiningByFriends.

Barry Cushway

A practical reference handbook providing over 200 ready-to-use model job descriptions across all major business functions, together with guidance on how to write, structure, and apply job descriptions for human resource purposes.

Marc Weissbluth

A pediatrician's guide to establishing healthy sleep habits in children from infancy to adolescence by understanding and working with their natural biological rhythms to prevent and solve sleep problems.

Adele Faber, Elaine Mazlish

A practical, skills-based guide teaching parents specific communication techniques that respect both children's and parents' feelings while fostering cooperation, autonomy, and self-esteem.

Joanna Faber, Julie King

A practical guide for parents of children ages 2-7 on using respectful and creative communication techniques to handle emotions, engage cooperation, and resolve conflict peacefully.

Dr. Tony Miller

A practitioner's workbook showing how to transform old retrospective manpower planning into strategic, predictive HR Analytics that creates measurable, bottom-line value.

Michaeleen Doucleff

A stressed Western mom learns ancient, time-tested parenting techniques from Maya, Inuit, and Hadzabe cultures to raise cooperative, confident, and calm children.

Ina May Gaskin

Legendary midwife Ina May Gaskin empowers women to reclaim childbirth from a fear-based medical procedure into a natural, positive, and potentially ecstatic life event by trusting their bodies' innate wisdom.

A comprehensive textbook detailing the methods, research, and applications of job and work analysis as the foundational tool for effective and legally defensible human resource management.

Michael Armstrong, Ann Cummins

A practical guide to designing, implementing, and maintaining analytical job evaluation schemes that produce fair, defensible grade and pay structures while achieving equal pay for work of equal value.

Frans Poels

A practitioner's technical guide to designing, running, and defending systems that evaluate the relative weight of jobs and translate those weights into fair, competitive, and flexible pay structures.

Denis Magda

A hands-on developer guide that reveals the full breadth and depth of PostgreSQL's capabilities—from classic relational features to JSON, full-text search, generative AI, time series, geospatial, and message queuing—arguing that one database is often all you need.

Alistair Croll, Benjamin Yoskovitz

A practical guide to using the right metrics at the right stage of a startup to validate problems, build products people want, and grow a sustainable business faster.

Rothwell, William J.Graber

A strategic playbook for rethinking work and staffing by clarifying measurable customer-driven outcomes first, then designing lean-but-agile work processes and a flexible talent pool to achieve them at optimal cost and speed.

Valliappa Lakshmanan, Sara Robinson

A catalog of thirty reusable design patterns that provide proven solutions to common challenges in data preparation, model building, and MLOps for machine learning practitioners.

Andriy Burkov

A practical, end-to-end guide to the engineering principles and best practices required to successfully build, deploy, and maintain machine learning systems in production.

Chris Richardson

A comprehensive pattern-language guide that teaches developers and architects how to design, build, test, deploy, and incrementally migrate to microservice-based applications by applying proven architectural and design patterns.

Sam Newman

A practical, pattern-driven guide to incrementally decomposing existing monolithic systems into microservice architectures while managing organizational change, data migration, and the growing pains that follow.

Frederick P. Brooks

A seasoned manager of IBM's OS/360 distills why large software projects fail and argues that conceptual integrity, achieved through disciplined human organization rather than added manpower, is the key to building usable systems on time.

Cynthia Gabriel

A doula-anthropologist's practical and emotional guide to achieving an unmedicated, intervention-minimal birth within the constraints of a modern hospital.

Lewis Tunstall, Leandro von Werra

A hands-on guide for data scientists and machine learning engineers to build, train, and optimize state-of-the-art language applications using transformer models with the Hugging Face ecosystem.

Keith Hurst

A practical guide that equips NHS managers and workforce planners to determine cost-effective numbers and grade mixes of nurses by systematically measuring patient dependency, nursing activity, and quality of care.

Po Bronson, Ashley Merryman

A book that dismantles common parenting wisdom by revealing the surprising, and often counterintuitive, findings from the new science of child development.

Michael Dell, James Kaplan

The founder and CEO of Dell Technologies recounts his journey from starting a PC company in his dorm room to executing the largest tech leveraged buyout and acquisition in history, proving that long-term vision and core values can triumph over short-term market pressures.

Alexis Dubief

A practical, evidence-informed, and humor-laced guide that teaches modern parents how to establish healthy, independent sleep for their babies and young children.

Joanne Stone, Keith Eddleman

A comprehensive, medically-sound, and reassuring week-by-week guide for expectant parents, covering everything from conception and lifestyle changes to labor, delivery, and postpartum care in an easy-to-understand format.

Unknown

A practical guide equipping primary care trust managers with data, methods, and algorithms to plan and develop community and primary care workforces that match staffing size and mix to local population health needs.

Oliver Dürr, Beate Sick & Elvis Murina

A hands-on guide to building probabilistic deep learning models using the maximum likelihood principle and Bayesian inference, implemented in Python with Keras and TensorFlow Probability.

Martin Fowler

A guide to improving the design of existing software by applying a series of small, behavior-preserving changes called refactorings, enabling faster development and higher quality code.

Cathy Chen, Niall Richard Murphy

A practical guide to operating machine learning systems reliably in production by applying Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles across the entire ML lifecycle.

Michael Armstrong, Helen Murlis

A comprehensive guide to designing and implementing strategic reward systems that attract, retain, and motivate employees to drive organizational performance.

Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson

A contrarian guide arguing that building a real business is simpler, leaner, and faster than conventional wisdom suggests—if you act now, stay small, and stop imitating big companies.

A systematic, experiment-driven process for iterating from your initial startup vision (Plan A) to a business model that actually works before you run out of resources.

G. Pascal Zachary

A hard-driving, legendary programmer leads a hand-picked team of engineers on a grueling, multi-year death march at Microsoft to create Windows NT, the most complex and ambitious operating system ever built for personal computers.

Betsy Beyer, Chris Jones, Jennifer Petoff & Niall Murphy

Google's Site Reliability Engineering organization reveals the principles, practices, and cultural norms that allow software engineers to run the world's largest production systems with high reliability, rapid velocity, and sublinear operational scaling.

Neal Ford, Mark Richards, Pramod Sadalage & Zhamak Dehghani

A rigorous, trade-off-driven guide to the most difficult structural, data, and communication decisions architects face when designing and evolving modern distributed systems.

Titus Winters, Tom Manshreck

Google engineers explain how to build sustainable software that lasts by focusing on the intersection of culture, processes, and tools required to manage code at scale and over time.

Chambers, William AndrewZaharia, Matei

A comprehensive guide to Apache Spark, a unified engine for large-scale data processing, focusing on its modern structured APIs to empower data scientists and engineers to build efficient and scalable data applications.

Craig Walls

A hands-on guide for Java developers to build production-grade generative AI applications using Spring AI, covering everything from basic prompting to RAG, tools, MCP, multimodal generation, observability, security, and autonomous agents.

John Carnell Illary Huaylupo Sánchez

A hands-on, pattern-driven guide for Java/Spring developers to design, build, secure, deploy, and operationalize production-ready microservices using Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Docker, and Kubernetes.

Will Larson

A practical field guide to reaching and thriving in Staff-plus engineering roles—technical leadership positions that exist beyond the management track.

Ross Sparkman

A practical guide for business and HR leaders on how to design and implement a data-driven Strategic Workforce Planning (SWP) function that aligns an organization's talent with its corporate strategy to drive future growth and performance.

A comprehensive guide to large-scale data processing that unifies batch and streaming paradigms through a principled model, enabling robust, correct, and low-latency analysis of unbounded, out-of-order data by reasoning about what is computed, where in event time, when in processing time, and how results are refined.

Schweyer, Allan

A comprehensive guide to leveraging web-based technologies and best practices to strategically manage the entire talent lifecycle—from recruitment to retention—and build a sustainable competitive advantage in the knowledge economy.

Matthew Skelton Manuel Pais [Skelton

A practical model for designing and evolving technology teams—using four fundamental team types and three interaction modes—to achieve fast, safe flow of software delivery by respecting cognitive load and harnessing Conway's law.

Bruce Lansky

An annual almanac-style guide that decodes current baby-naming trends, popularity rankings, and pop-culture influences while offering more than 20,000 names with meanings and origins for expectant parents.

An almanac-style guide that reads the cultural tea leaves of pop culture, celebrity, royalty, and media to forecast which baby names are rising, falling, and worth choosing, paired with a dictionary of more than 20,000 names.

Anntoinette D. Lucia, Richard Lepsinger

A practical, nontechnical how-to guide for identifying the skills, knowledge, and characteristics that drive superior job performance and building validated competency models that strengthen every human resource management system.

Norma J. Watts

An introductory guide to "Nameology," a system based on Pythagorean numerology that decodes the personality traits hidden within a first name to help readers choose the perfect baby name or better understand themselves and others.

Laura Wattenberg

A data-driven field guide that helps expectant parents navigate the stressful, modern world of baby naming by decoding name styles and trends to find a choice they will love for a lifetime.

David Dubois, William Rothwell

A step-by-step practitioner's guide for designing, implementing, and evaluating a competency-based multi-rater (360-degree) assessment system and linking its results to individual development contract planning within an organization.

William J. Rothwell, David D. Dubois

A step-by-step practitioner's toolkit for winning organizational support for and building competency models that link employee characteristics to strategic business performance.

Becky Alexander

A practical, comprehensive guide to planning and conducting a personal, non-religious (or partly religious) baby naming ceremony tailored to your family in the UK.

Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois & John Willis

A comprehensive prescriptive guide showing how any technology organization—from legacy enterprise to digital native—can adopt DevOps principles and practices to simultaneously achieve faster flow, higher reliability, better security, and a more humane workplace.

June Rifkin

A comprehensive guide offering 50,000 baby names with their origins and meanings, along with practical advice to help expectant parents navigate the naming process and find the perfect name for their child.

Emily Oster

An economist-mom applies business-school decision-making frameworks and data analysis to help parents navigate the bigger, more consequential choices of the elementary school years.

Alison Gopnik

Developmental psychologist Alison Gopnik argues that good caregiving is not goal-directed 'parenting' that shapes children into particular adults, but a form of unconditional love that provides a stable, rich environment in which unpredictable, variable children can explore, learn, and create their own futures.

Seema Sanghi

A practical, end-to-end handbook for understanding, designing, and implementing competency models in organizations to drive superior individual and organizational performance.

Mark Alan Wilson, Winston Bennett, Jr.

A comprehensive handbook for students, researchers, and practitioners detailing the methods, systems, applications, and science of work analysis in modern organizations.

Harvey Karp

A pediatrician reveals that newborns cry so much because they are effectively born three months too soon, and that imitating the womb via five simple techniques (the 5 S's) triggers an innate 'calming reflex' that soothes crying and boosts sleep.

A battle-tested founder-CEO argues that the hardest parts of building a company have no formula, and shares the raw, unscripted lessons of leading through near-death crises, layoffs, and impossible decisions.

Andriy Burkov

A compact, practical field guide to the core ideas, algorithms, and workflow of modern machine learning, distilling decades of research into what actually matters in practice.

A scientific, management-driven approach to building startups under extreme uncertainty by maximizing validated learning through rapid Build-Measure-Learn cycles.

Simone Davies

A practical parent's guide to applying Montessori principles at home to raise curious, capable, and responsible toddlers by understanding their developmental needs, preparing the environment, and being a calm, respectful guide.

Gene Kim, Kevin Behr & George Spafford

A reluctant new VP of IT Operations must save a struggling manufacturing company from itself by transforming chaotic, firefighting IT practices into disciplined, flow-optimized DevOps delivery—before the business collapses under the weight of its own technical debt.

Andrew Hunt & David Thomas

A comprehensive philosophy and toolkit for software developers who want to take ownership of their craft, career, and code quality through pragmatic, adaptable, and deliberate practices.

Gergely Orosz

A career-spanning field manual that explains the skills, behaviors, and judgment software engineers need to grow from entry-level developer through senior, tech lead, and staff/principal roles at tech companies and startups.

Tracy Kidder

The inside story of how a small, driven team of engineers at Data General built a next-generation 32-bit minicomputer under crushing deadlines and against internal competition, revealing that great machines are made of human passion, obsession, and voluntary sacrifice.

Tanya Reilly

A practical guide for senior individual contributors navigating the ambiguous staff engineer role by mastering big-picture thinking, cross-team project execution, and organizational influence without direct authority.

A step-by-step operating manual that teaches founders to search for a repeatable, scalable, profitable business model using the Customer Development process rather than blindly executing a business plan.

David Edwards

A practitioner's guide to making Strategic Workforce Planning actually work in real organizations by treating it as a human, risk-focused, collaborative discipline rather than a dry forecasting exercise.

Daniel J. Siegel, Tina Payne Bryson

A neuroscience-informed parenting guide that teaches parents to turn everyday struggles into opportunities to integrate their child's developing brain so the child can survive difficult moments and thrive emotionally, socially, and intellectually.

Marco Peixeiro

A hands-on practitioner's guide to understanding, applying, fine-tuning, and comparing foundation models—from TimeGPT to LLM-based approaches—for time-series forecasting and anomaly detection.

Bunmi Laditan

A comedic survival guide arguing that toddlers' maddening behavior is a normal developmental fact, so parents should lower their standards, ditch perfectionism, and take care of themselves.

Gabriel Weinberg, Justin Mares

A practical playbook for startups to systematically find the customer acquisition channel that will unlock rapid growth, using a repeatable testing framework across nineteen distinct traction channels.

A practical operating system (EOS) that helps entrepreneurial leaders strengthen six key components of their business to gain traction and realize their vision.

Simon J. D. Prince

A comprehensive conceptual guide to deep learning that builds from fundamental supervised learning through generative models and reinforcement learning, candidly acknowledging what remains unknown about why deep learning works.

Brad Feld, Jason Mendelson

A comprehensive guide for entrepreneurs to demystify venture capital financing, master term sheet negotiations, and build successful, long-term partnerships with investors.

Manning (MEAP)

A guide for software engineers to transition from chaotic 'Vibe Coding' to a disciplined 'Vibe Engineering' methodology, enabling the safe and effective integration of AI assistants into the software development lifecycle through rigorous verification and system design.

Heidi Murkoff, Sharon Mazel

A comprehensive guide for aspiring parents on how to optimize their health, lifestyle, and finances to improve their chances of conceiving and having a healthy pregnancy.

Heidi Murkoff, Sharon Mazel

A comprehensive week-by-week guide for expectant parents covering everything from conception and pregnancy symptoms to childbirth, postpartum recovery, and potential complications.

Lydia Cillie-Schmidt

A practical, tool-driven manual that guides HR professionals and line managers through the full seven-phase process of strategic and operational workforce planning to ensure the right people with the right skills are in place to achieve organisational strategy.

Unknown

A curated anthology of practitioner articles and case studies on how the NHS can plan, recruit, develop, and retain its workforce amid chronic staff shortages.

Michael C. Feathers

A battle-tested field guide for software developers who must safely change, test, and improve code they didn't write and can barely understand.