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HALF OFF new MEAPs!Just announced! Agent Design Patterns
AI agents are showing up everywhere—and most of them are being built by trial and error. This guide distills the experience of a growing community of agent builders into 20+ composable, reusable patterns for building AI agents that are reliable, efficient, controllable, and easy to reason about. In this uniquely-valuable book, author and NVIDIA Research scientist Peter Belcak gives you a durable engineering vocabulary and design intuition that outlasts any new model release. [Read more] 5 chapters of this MEAP are available now, with more to follow soon!
Just announced! Algorithms Every Programmer Should Know
Traditional algorithm textbooks rely on encyclopedic depth, mathematical rigor, and pseudocode. This book takes a human approach, placing you in a reading group where three individuals discuss, question, and reason through key computer science algorithms. Each chapter builds intuition through relatable analogies and discussion before applying the algorithm to practical systems like routing, scheduling, string search, caching, and optimization. [Read more] 6 chapters of this MEAP are available now, with more to follow soon!
Accelerate AI training and inference
Written for readers without prior GPU experience, author Harshwardhan Fartale introduces Triton's block-level programming model to simplify CUDA threading. Focused on modern hardware and LLMs, this book teaches Python-based GPU programming by profiling workloads, spotting bottlenecks, and applying key optimizations like coalescing, tiling, shared memory, reductions, and fusion. [Read more] 4 chapters of this MEAP are available now, with more to follow soon!
Building Specialized AI Systems Fine tuning models, agents, and applications
Authors Walid Amamou, CEO of UbiAI.tools and Alessandro Negro, Chief Scientist at GraphAware, walk you through the complete process of building production-grade AI systems around Specialized Language Models. In it, you'll learn how to choose the right pretrained base models, and how to work directly with supervised fine-tuning and modern parameter-efficient techniques including LoRA, QLoRA, DoRA, adapters, and Half Fine-Tuning. [Read more] 3 chapters of this MEAP are available now, with more to follow soon!
Clean Applications with Hexagonal Architecture Building maintainable microservices and modular monoliths
If you’ve ever stared at a class and asked “where does this code belong?” this book ends the guesswork. Author Enrique Medina Montenegro shows you how to take advantage of an architecture that gives every class exactly one reason to exist and one place to live. Each chapter adds a new layer, until the architecture enforces itself through executable specifications. [Read more] 6 chapters of this MEAP are available now, with more to follow soon!
Learn how to build web applications that work for everyone. Rather than treating accessibility as a checklist, this important book offers simple and practical design decisions to break down the real barriers that challenge users who experience difficulty with sight, hearing, or mobility. [Read more]
4 chapters of this MEAP are available now, with more to follow soon!
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Expert practitioner Greg Biegel guides you hands-on through every layer of the digital twin stack. You will build a home-scale twin by setting objectives, streaming IoT data, generating 3D models via phone, extracting insights using computer vision and OCR, modeling reality with knowledge graphs, and deploying machine learning and agentic AI for autonomous decisions—all using proven, scalable industrial techniques. [Read more]
Build an AI Agent (From Scratch)
LLM-powered AI agents are the next leap in applied AI, capable of reasoning and collaboration to achieve even complex, multi-step goals. Using new protocols like MCP and A2A, agents can use software tools, retrieve relevant knowledge, and adapt to feedback. This book guides you step by step in creating an AI agent from the ground up, with clear, detailed explanations you can follow to build your own custom assistants! [Read more]
An illustrated guide for programmers and other curious people
Creating AI applications doesn’t have to be complex! This book strips away the geekery, and shows you exactly how to build Q&A systems, custom agents, and other powerful AI apps using low-code tools. Simple explanations and fun illustrations guide you step by step on your journey from AI user to AI maker. [Read more]
The surprising power of beauty in software development
Software development is an inherently creative activity that takes technical skill as well as artistry and craftsmanship. This unique book shows you how to improve the performance of your applications and your satisfaction as a developer by writing code that’s elegant, effortlessly comprehensible and a joy to maintain. [Read more] 5 chapters of this MEAP are available now, with more to follow soon!
The Well-Grounded Rubyist, Fourth Edition
You don’t need to know every Ruby function to be a grounded Rubyist—just master core principles! This updated edition of our bestseller uses practical examples to guide you effortlessly from your first program to advanced topics like reflection, threading, and recursion. [Read more]
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