Series: Tech Today

A practical and up-to-date roadmap to securing cloud containers on AWS, GCP, and Azure Securing Cloud Containers: Building and Running Secure Cloud-Native Applications is a hands-on guide that shows you how to secure containerised applications and cloud infrastructure, including Kubernetes. The authors address the most common obstacles and pain points that security professionals, DevOps engineers, and IT architects encounter in...

A practical and accessible guide to Microsoft's Copilot Studio In Microsoft Copilot Studio Quick Start, author Jared Matfess delivers an easy-to-read and hands-on guide to navigating Microsoft's newest generative AI platform. From introductions to the Copilot ecosystem and Copilot Studio to building your first custom agent, publishing it across different environments, and measuring its results so you can optimise its...

Architect, migrate, and manage Windows Server on Azure In Running Windows Server 2025 on Microsoft Azure, 5-time Microsoft MVP, William Panek, walks you through the migration of business-critical Windows Server workloads to Azure while ensuring hybrid cloud agility and advanced security. You'll learn how to extend on-premises deployments of Windows Server to the Azure cloud using hybrid services that offer...

A hands-on technical and industry roadmap for aspiring data engineers In Data Engineering for Beginners, big data expert Chisom Nwokwu delivers a beginner-friendly handbook for everyone interested in the fundamentals of data engineering. Whether you're interested in starting a rewarding, new career as a data analyst, data engineer, or data scientist, or seeking to expand your skillset in an existing...

A from-scratch roadmap to building generative AI solutions on AWS with Amazon Bedrock In Using Amazon Bedrock: Learn to Architect, Secure and Optimize Generative AI Applications on AWS, accomplished Software Engineer, developer advocate, and AWS Community Builder, Renaldi Gondosubroto delivers an in-depth walkthrough of Amazon Bedrock, the keystone generative AI service on the Amazon Web Services cloud. Gondosubroto offers a...

A hands-on, beginner-friendly intro to web application pentesting In A Beginner's Guide to Web Application Penetration Testing, seasoned cybersecurity veteran Ali Abdollahi delivers a startlingly insightful and up-to-date exploration of web app pentesting. In the book, Ali takes a dual approach—emphasising both theory and practical skills—equipping you to jumpstart a new career in web application security. You'll learn about common...

Discover the utility of your organisation’s data with Microsoft Power BI In Beginning Power BI for Business Users: Learning to Turn Data into Insights, accomplished data professional and business intelligence expert Paul Fuller delivers an intuitive and accessible handbook for professionals seeking to use Microsoft’s Power BI to access, analyse, understand, report, and act on the data available to their...

Embrace emerging AI trends and integrate your operations with cutting-edge solutions Enterprise AI in the Cloud: A Practical Guide to Deploying End-to-End Machine Learning and ChatGPT Solutions is an indispensable resource for professionals and companies who want to bring new AI technologies like generative AI, ChatGPT, and machine learning (ML) into their suite of cloud-based solutions. If you want to...

The definitive guide to leveraging AWS for generative AI GenAI on AWS: A Practical Approach to Building Generative AI Applications on AWS is an essential guide for anyone looking to dive into the world of generative AI with the power of Amazon Web Services (AWS). Crafted by a team of experienced cloud and software engineers, this book offers a direct...

Get more out of your data with step-by-step tutorials for the Excel features you need to know. Excel remains the most popular tool for organising and analysing data, and today's professionals are expected to have a high degree of fluency with it. Complex Excel tools such as Pivot Tables, PowerQuery, and PowerPivot can help you manage and report on data...

Learn to build cost-effective apps using Large Language Models In Large Language Model-Based Solutions: How to Deliver Value with Cost-Effective Generative AI Applications, Principal Data Scientist at Amazon Web Services, Shreyas Subramanian delivers a practical guide for developers and data scientists who wish to build and deploy cost-effective large language model (LLM)-based solutions. In the book, you'll find coverage of...

Learn to leverage Microsoft's new AI tool, Copilot, for enhanced productivity at work. In Microsoft 365 Copilot At Work: Using AI to Get the Most from Your Business Data and Favourite Apps, a team of software and AI experts delivers a comprehensive guide to unlocking the full potential of Microsoft's groundbreaking AI tool, Copilot. Written for people new to AI,...

Skillfully deploy Microsoft SharePoint Premium to automate your organisation’s document processing and management. In Microsoft SharePoint Premium in the Real World: Bringing Practical Cloud AI to Content Management, a team of veteran Microsoft AI consultants delivers an insightful and easy-to-follow exploration of how to apply SharePoint's content AI and advanced machine learning capabilities to your firm’s document processing automation project....

Expand your C++ knowledge quickly and efficiently with this advanced resource. In the newly revised sixth edition of Professional C++, veteran software engineer and developer Marc Gregoire delivers yet another volume that raises the bar for advanced programming manuals. Covering almost all features of the new C++ standard codenamed C++23, the book offers case studies with working code that’s been...

Update and upgrade your JavaScript skillset for ES 2023 with the ultimate JavaScript guide for pros Professional JavaScript for Web Developers, 5th edition, is the gold standard in intermediate-to-advanced JavaScript programming development books. The author dives directly into the inner workings of JavaScript to help you clean up your code and become a more sophisticated and talented JavaScript developer. From...

Accelerate your programming with the most popular AI coding tool on the market: GitHub Copilot. In Programming with GitHub Copilot: Write Better Code — Faster, veteran software developer and GitHub community hero Kurt Dowswell delivers an insightful and hands-on exploration of GitHub's powerful, new AI coding assistant, Copilot. Discover how to use the tool's capabilities to push the boundaries of...

A concise handbook for the most common tools used in modern Java development Good Java developers learn Java syntax, how to create loops and switches, and can work out a lambda filter stream. But great Java developers need to understand the vast ecosystem of tools and frameworks for collaboration, testing, building, and more. In Real-World Java®: Helping You Navigate the...

Securely harness the full potential of OpenAI’s artificial intelligence tools in Azure Securing Microsoft Azure OpenAI is an accessible guide to leveraging the comprehensive AI capabilities of Microsoft Azure while ensuring the utmost data security. This book introduces you to the collaborative powerhouse of Microsoft Azure and OpenAI, providing easy access to cutting-edge language models like GPT-4o, GPT-3.5-Turbo, and DALL-E....

Make your next Amazon Web Services deployment secure and private Dive into the world of cloud security with Securing the AWS Cloud: A Guide for Learning to Secure AWS Infrastructure by Brandon Carroll, a comprehensive guide crafted for those eager to fortify their Amazon Web Services (AWS) deployments. Whether you are starting from scratch or looking to enhance an existing...

Immerse yourself in the offensive security mindset to better defend against attacks In The Active Defender: Immersion in the Offensive Security Mindset, Principal Technology Architect, Security, Dr. Catherine J. Ullman delivers an expert treatment of the Active Defender approach to information security. In the book, you’ll learn to understand and embrace the knowledge you can gain from the offensive security...

A top-to-bottom discussion of website bot attacks and how to defend against them In The Reign of Botnets: Defending Against Abuses, Bots and Fraud on the Internet, fraud and bot detection expert David Senecal delivers a timely and incisive presentation of the contemporary bot threat landscape and the latest defense strategies used by leading companies to protect themselves. The author...

The long-awaited x64 edition of the bestselling introduction to Intel assembly language In the newly revised fourth edition of x64 Assembly Language Step-by-Step: Programming with Linux, author Jeff Duntemann delivers an extensively rewritten introduction to assembly language with a strong focus on 64-bit long-mode Linux assembler. The book offers a lighthearted, robust, and accessible approach to a challenging technical discipline,...

A crystal-clear and practical blueprint to software disassembly x86 Software Reverse-Engineering, Cracking, and Counter-Measures is centred around the world of disassembling software. It will start with the basics of the x86 assembly language and progress to how that knowledge empowers you to reverse-engineer and circumvent software protections. No knowledge of assembly, reverse engineering, or software cracking is required. The book...

Create, implement, and scale commercially successful generative AI applications that solve real-world problems In A Developer's Guide to Integrating Generative AI into Applications, software developer, technology educator, and author Chris Minnick explains exactly how to design and implement scalable generative AI applications. The book walks you through building production-ready GenAI applications, covering the key architectural choices, integration patterns, and design...

Unlock the future of programming on the Ethereum blockchain with Solidity smart contracts Explore and learn smart contract development on the Ethereum blockchain with Beginning Solidity: Learn to Program Smart Contracts with Solidity by Alexandros Dolgov. This book is a guide to taking your first steps and becoming comfortable with Solidity programming, providing accessible learning material for existing and aspiring...

Discover the power of open-source observability for your enterprise environment In Mastering Observability and OpenTelemetry: Enhancing Application and Infrastructure Performance and Avoiding Outages, accomplished engineering leader and open-source contributor Steve Flanders unlocks the secrets of enterprise application observability with a comprehensive guide to OpenTelemetry (OTel). Explore how OTel transforms observability, providing a robust toolkit for capturing and analysing telemetry data...

Build production-grade multi-agent AI systems with LangChain, LangGraph, and MCP Practical Multi-Agent AI Systems: How to Architect, Build, and Scale Next-Generation AI Systems That Work in the Real World walks through a complete, production-grade multi-agent system as a continuous project example. Using LangChain, LangGraph, MCP, A2A, and language models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Amazon Bedrock, the book covers knowledge retrieval,...