Название: Applied Reinforcement Learning: Business optimization and LLM fine-tuning (MEAP v3)
Автор: Hadi Aghazadeh
Издательство: Manning Publications
Год: 2026
Страниц: 303
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf, epub + code
Размер: 33.9 MB

Optimize business processes, people, and resources using AI and the power of reinforcement learning. Whether you’re finding the best delivery route, establishing efficient schedules, or maximizing profit with dynamic pricing, success in business can come down to the right optimizations. AI tools like large language models can help. When you tune them to your specific business data, they really start to shine! Applied Reinforcement Learning teaches the essentials of business optimization using reinforcement learning and AI models through relevant and useful business applications. You’ll apply RL to supply chains, marketing and ad campaigns, logistics, and even optimizing AI chatbots. Graphics, code samples, and math-lite explanations demonstrate the core theories of RL in an intuitive and illustrative way. For readers comfortable with business processes and intermediate level programming. No advanced math or specialist AI knowledge is required.

Название: .NET Aspire Made Easy (MEAP 9)
Автор: Fiodar Sazanavets
Издательство: Manning Publications
Год: 2026
Страниц: 304
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true), epub
Размер: 18.7 MB

Write distributed apps naturally on your local machine using .NET Aspire! .NET Aspire radically simplifies the process of building distributed applications! With this powerful tool, you can design, code, and run distributed systems on your local dev machine, even replicating cloud services such as Azure Cosmos DB and Azure Storage. Aspire includes the templates and packages you need to create a complete distributed environment on your local machine, including Kubernetes orchestration, observability, and database integration, all from your familiar Visual Studio IDE. Traditionally, building distributed applications was very hard. Developers had to launch different processes, emulate various services, and disable some parts of the application to make it even possible to run on a development machine. Aspire changed all of it. The whole distributed application can now be launched locally in a single process, and all of its services can be easily debugged. Just like Docker before it, Aspire enabled applications to run in a development environment the same way they can be run in production. For .NET developers who know C#. No experience with distributed applications needed.

Название: Laws of Software Engineering
Автор: Milan Milanovic
Издательство: First Principles Consultancy, PR
Год: 2026
Страниц: 246
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true), epub + Extra
Размер: 44.8 MB

A collection of principles and patterns that shape software systems, teams, and decisions. Conway's Law. Brooks's Law. Goodhart's Law. Hyrum's Law. If you've been writing software long enough, you've recognized these rules even before you knew their names. If you had an opportunity to see a failed rewrite, or a time that is getting bigger but slower, you hit into these rules. These patterns have been showing up in software projects for over fifty years. Experienced engineers know them, but they learned them the hard way. These lessons were never in one place, where you could read them. They lived in academic papers from the 1960s, but also in some blog posts that get shared once and forgotten. I also found them in discussions and code reviews. Each chapter covers where the law came from, how it actually works, what it looks like in the real world, and how it connects to other laws in the book. That last part matters. Some of these principles reinforce each other, and others directly conflict. The "Related Laws" sections throughout the book show you where those connections are. This is important because in practice, engineering is about tradeoffs, not rules.

Название: Build an AI Agent (From Scratch): Agents that reason, plan, and act autonomously (MEAP v5)
Автор: Jungjun Hur, Younghee Song
Издательство: Manning Publications
Год: 2026
Страниц: 390
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf, epub + code
Размер: 26.9 MB

Build a working AI agent that can reason, plan, and execute multi-step tasks! 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! In Build an AI Agent (From Scratch), bestselling author Jungjun Hur and AI expert Younghee Song guide you through creating a complete research assistant agent framework. You’ll learn how agents function under the hood—all without hidden abstractions, black boxes, or framework lock-in. You will implement each piece as you develop a mental model of how agents really work. You may have heard of agent-building frameworks like LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, or OpenAI Agents. These frameworks make it easy to build agents quickly, but they also hide what's actually happening inside. This book takes a different approach: we'll build agents from scratch, understanding every component before relying on any framework. For Python developers and AI practitioners. All examples run on a standard laptop.

Название: Quantization and Fast Inference: A practitioner’s guide to efficient AI (MEAP v1)
Автор: Vivek Kalyanarangan
Издательство: Manning Publications
Год: 2026
Страниц: 155
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true), epub
Размер: 13.1 MB

A practitioner’s guide to efficient AI. Today's AI models demand a lot of memory, compute, and server horsepower--which quickly translates into cost. Quantization and Fast Inference show you how you can optimize AI models without architectural redesigns or task-specific compression. It reveals practical techniques for quantization, systematically reducing numerical precision to achieve faster inference, lower memory usage, and cheaper deployment--all with minimal accuracy loss. From quantization fundamentals to runtime packaging, the book gives you a complete and comprehensive overview of the full quantization pipeline. It starts by deriving quantization mapping from first principles, and then builds your knowledge and skill through techniques for production-tested PTQ and QAT workflows and a fully-compressed deployment. For ML engineers and researchers experienced in Python.

Название: Quantum Machine Learning: Artificial Intelligence for Smart Internet of Things Applications
Автор: R. Bala Krishnan, N. Rajesh Kumar, Subramaniyaswamy V.
Издательство: Wiley-Scrivener
Год: 2026
Страниц: 628
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 47.8 MB

Revolutionize your IoT infrastructure with this guide to mastering quantum-enhanced Machine Learning algorithms and theoretical frameworks that are shattering the boundaries of classical computing to deliver unprecedented network performance and security. In a world increasingly reliant on interconnected devices and data-driven insights, the limitations of classical computing become ever more apparent. The convergence of Quantum Computing, Machine Learning, and the Internet of Things (IoT) heralds a new era of technological advancement, one where the boundaries of computational possibility are continually redefined. This book offers an in-depth examination of how quantum algorithms are utilized to improve the performance, security, and efficiency of IoT devices and networks. It connects theoretical concepts with practical applications, providing a comprehensive look at fundamental principles and advanced techniques in this rapidly growing field. For researchers and engineers in Machine Learning, Quantum Computing, Data Science, the Internet of Things.

Название: Grokking Software Architecture: A friendly guide for programmers and other curious people (MEAP v1)
Автор: Matt Erman
Издательство: Manning Publications
Год: 2026
Страниц: 182
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf, epub
Размер: 16.4 MB

A friendly guide for programmers and other curious people. A “software architecture” defines the fundamental, high-level structure of a software system, acting as a blueprint for its components, their relationships, and how they interact. As a developer, having a command of the principles, patterns, and vocabulary of software architecture empowers you to contribute meaningfully throughout an application’s lifecycle—from its initial design to its deployment in production. Grokking Software Architecture is a fast-paced introduction to the foundational ideas of software architecture, written for developers and aspiring architects. Creative illustrations and diagrams, hilarious disaster stories, “in action” missions, and a full repository of example code teach you how to spot design mistakes and understand architectural tradeoff decisions. For junior and mid-level software developers and aspiring architects. Includes examples in C#, Java, Python, and jаvascript.

Название: Advanced Functional Programming with Elixir: Model Behavior, Manage Complexity, and Maximize Maintainability
Автор: Joseph Koski, Adaobi Obi Tulton
Издательство: Pragmatic Bookshelf
Год: November, 2025 (Version: P1.0)
Страниц: 231
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true), epub
Размер: 10.1 MB

Use advanced functional programming principles, practical domain-driven design techniques, and production-ready Elixir code to build scalable, complex systems from simple, reusable components. Combine advanced functional programming concepts with production-ready Elixir and proven domain-driven design techniques to write cleaner, more thoughtful software. You’ll explore foundational ideas like equality, ordering, predicates, monoids, and monads—then go beyond syntax as you develop intuition for composing logic, modeling behavior, and growing systems. With a focus on maintainable, declarative code over theory, you’ll gain practical, composable patterns you can apply right away. This book is for developers who want to sharpen how they think about code. You might already be working in Elixir, or you might come from another language and are curious about functional programming or even about Elixir itself. No prior functional programming experience is required, just the ability to write basic programs in any modern language along with curiosity, patience, and a willingness to explore new ideas.

Название: Ассемблер и программная модель процессоров x86/64
Автор: Андрей Жуков
Издательство: БХВ-Петербург
Год: 2024
Страниц: 399
Язык: русский
Формат: pdf (true) +code
Размер: 23.3 MB

Книга является практическим пособием по программной модели процессоров i80x86/64. Простейшие элементы этой модели (переменные, константы, методы адресации и система команд) изучаются с помощью ассемблера a86, отладчика d86. 32-битные возможности i80x86, включая защищенный режим, вентили, исключения и прерывания, привилегии, страничное преобразование, исключения, LDT и TSS, а также 64-битные режимы процессора x64 с исключениями и прерываниями в long mode изучаются с использованием ассемблера nasm. Электронный архив на сайте издательства содержит исходные тексты примеров и необходимые для работы файлы. Для программистов.

Название: C++ - это просто. 3-е издание
Автор: Яшавант Канеткар
Издательство: БХВ-Петербург
Год: 2023
Страниц: 332
Язык: русский
Формат: pdf, epub
Размер: 10.5 MB

Доступно изложены основы синтаксиса языка C++ и объектно-ориентированного программирования. Описаны функции C++, подробно рассмотрены классы и объекты, инкапсуляция, наследование, полиморфизм, система ввода-вывода C++. Даны советы и рекомендации по разработке современных приложений. Приведены примеры использования шаблонов и библиотеки стандартных шаблонов, описана обработка исключений. Отдельная глава посвящена расширенным возможностям C++. Для начинающих программистов. Поскольку большинство профессиональных программ на C++ используют стандартную библиотеку шаблонов для работы с наборами данных, я посвятил ей отдельную главу. C++ претерпел множество редакций от C++98 до C++11, C++14 и C++17. В настоящий момент большинство компиляторов C++ полностью реализовали функции C++14, чего не скажешь про версию С++17. По этой причине я протестировал все программы этой книги на компиляторах C++14.