Gergely Orosz

Master the fundamental principles of distributed systems with this book, making it a must-read for cloud application builders and experienced engineers. You'll save valuable time by learning how all the components fit together seamlessly.

Maximize the Middle: A guide to succeeding in business and creative projects by Scott Belsky. Focus on the often overlooked but vital "messy middle" stage of any project. Learn from Belsky's experiences building Behance, working at Adobe, and advising successful start-ups including Airbnb, Pinterest, and Uber. Discover essential strategies to endure and optimize the middle miles of your own journey, bolstering your confidence and fortifying your plans.

Discover the inside story of how the Android operating system came to be in this engaging and accessible book. From its tenuous beginnings as a tiny startup to the large team at Google delivering an operating system to over 3 billion devices worldwide, learn about the people who made it happen. Author Chet Haase captures the developers' stories in their own voices, chronicling the team's journey from kernel level to application development and everything in between. Find out how Android succeeded against strong, entrenched competition to become the operating system it is today.

Unleash the potential of software developers to enable growth, solve business problems, and drive digital transformation. From banking to retail, every industry is turning digital, and companies need the best software to win customers. Jeff Lawson, software developer turned CEO, provides a new playbook for helping management utilize this valuable workforce. Developers are the creative workforce who can solve major business problems and create hit products, yet most companies treat them like digital factory workers. Learn how to understand, motivate, and invest in your developers' success to build great digital products and experiences. Ask Your Developer to succeed in the digital economy.

Data is at the center of many challenges in system design today. Difficult issues need to be figured out, such as scalability, consistency, reliability, efficiency, and maintainability. In addition, we have an overwhelming variety of tools, including relational databases, NoSQL datastores, stream or batch processors, and message brokers. What are the right choices for your application? How do you make sense of all these buzzwords? In this practical and comprehensive guide, author Martin Kleppmann helps you navigate this diverse landscape by examining the pros and cons of various technologies for processing and storing data. Software keeps changing, but the fundamental principles remain the same. With this book, software engineers and architects will learn how to apply those ideas in practice, and how to make full use of data in modern applications.