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First Principles in Scrum: OpenClaw Scrum and Scrum@Scale

Create Trust at Machine Speed

Jeff Sutherland

Fifty RF‑101 Voodoos arrived in Vietnam. Forty‑seven were shot down in a year. The pilots who survived didn't fly faster aircraft — they cycled through the OODA loop faster than the missiles chasing them. Jeff Sutherland was one of them. He went on to co‑create Scrum. Now, six decades later, he is running AI agents through daily sprints at machine speed — and this book is the playbook for how to do it without getting shot down.

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  • The Effective Software Engineer

    Stefan Ellersdorfer

    What makes a software engineer truly effective? Beyond writing code, effectiveness comes from ethics, sustainable practices, collaboration, and the courage to adapt. The Effective Software Engineer guides you from clean coding habits to organizational empowerment, bridging the gap between developers and leaders.

  • Modern Networking

    Declan Moran

    Modern networks like the Internet — explained as simply as possible — but no simpler.

  • Spring Boot 4 In Practice

    Jitin Kayyala

    Spring Boot 4 changes everything you thought you knew about building Java applications. Virtual threads make blocking code fast again. Native images deliver instant startup. First-class API versioning finally solves the "how do we evolve our APIs?" problem. But here's the catch: upgrading isn't just a dependency bump. Jakarta EE 11, new auto-configuration patterns, GraalVM constraints, and reactive vs. virtual threads— getting it right requires understanding the *why* behind every change. This book is your production-ready guide to Spring Boot 4 and Spring Framework 7. Written for intermediate developers who need more than "hello world" tutorials. Learn how to: • Build cloud-native microservices that scale • Migrate from Boot 3 safely and incrementally • Design APIs with built-in versioning and resilience • Choose between reactive, virtual threads, and native images • Secure distributed systems with JWT and OAuth2 • Implement observability that actually helps you debug production issues 300+ pages. 27 chapters. Real code. Real architecture. Real problems solved.

  • Build Your Own Coding Agent

    J. Owen

    Skip the black-box frameworks. Build a production-grade AI coding agent from scratch in pure Python - cloud or local, tested with pytest, all in a single file.

  • Be a Learning Machine

    Alberto Souza

    You’ll just need the Five Essential Elements of Learning Through five essential elements, you’ll gain the ability to learn anything deeply—no matter how complex the subject. These five pillars of effective learning will become lifelong tools, guiding you every time you set out to truly master new knowledge and retain it permanently. If you're ready to stop passively consuming information and start truly mastering it, this book is for you.

  • Modern GPU Architecture Second Edition

    gareth thomas

    Graphics Pipeline Design and Hardware ImplementationModern GPUs are the most complex and efficient parallel processors ever created—and this book shows you exactly how they work at the hardware level.Unlike typical graphics or programming guides, this volume takes you inside the GPU itself: how instructions flow through pipelines, how memory hierarchies sustain bandwidth, how shader cores and fixed-function units cooperate to render billions of pixels per second.

  • Someone Else's Breach

    Yolonda Smith

    You've got forty vendors, a hundred integrations, and a SOC 2 report that tells you exactly nothing about what happens when one of them gets compromised. Your dependency map lives in someone's head. Your exposure estimate is a shrug. Your decision process is whoever talks loudest in the emergency meeting. And when it's over, every lesson learned evaporates before the next incident hits. Someone Else's Breach is the framework that replaces all of it — a quantitative, repeatable system for knowing what you're exposed to, deciding what to do about it, and getting better every time. From proactive resilience design to AI-augmented detection, this is the practitioner's guide to surviving incidents you didn't cause but can't ignore.

  • 10X ORG – Powered by Org Topologies

    Alexey Krivitsky, Craig Larman, Roland Flemm

    #1 Best Seller in Management Science (Amazon International, France, Germany, Netherlands, Poland, Sweden – Feb 2026) and in other categories. Available worldwide on Amazon (Hardcover, Paperback, Kindle) and across all major digital platforms, including Leanpub, Apple Books, and Google Play. Learn how to drive your organizational performance with people and AI to 10X and beyond — in impact and relevance.

  • The AI Coverup: Are We Really Hallucinating?

    Edward W. Barnard

    What was so unusual and special about Cray Research? We accomplished, repeatedly, what nobody else on the planet was able to match. High-Performance Computing is not merely parallelism and large-scale systems. That is the public-facing decoy version.

  • The Software Developers’ Guidebook

    David Farley and Bernard McCarty (Editor)

    A practical handbook packed with real-world advice to help you write better code, adopt effective developer habits, and build great software.

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Top Books

  1. The SysML v2 Book
    Practical Insights and Comprehensive Reference
    Tim Weilkiens and Vince Molnár

    Learn SysML v2 with the ultimate guide for all skill levels in MBSE. Authored by insiders, it's your key to unlocking the full potential of system modeling and a passport to mastering your MBSE.

  2. Why We Still Suck At Resilience
    Organizational Dynamics
    Adrian Hornsby

    Your organization does all the right things. They practice chaos engineering, GameDays, and load testing. They conduct incident reviews and operational readiness reviews. Yet the same types of incidents keep recurring. This book examines why resilience practices so often fail to build resilience, revealing the organizational dynamics that systematically transform learning mechanisms into compliance theater and what you can do to navigate them consciously.

  3. Фундамент архітектури
    База, якої вас ніколи не вчили
    Сергій Немчинський

    Чому проєкт-цукерочка через рік перетворюється на непідтримуване пекло? Тому що вас ніколи не вчили базі. Ця книга — єдина система координат, яка нарешті збере ваші розрізнені знання про ООП, GRASP, SOLID та GoF в одну цілісну картину.

  4. Super Study Guide: Transformers & Large Language Models
    Afshine Amidi and Shervine Amidi

    A clear, illustrated guide to large language models, covering key concepts and practical applications. Ideal for projects, interviews, or personal learning.

  5. Build Your Own Coding Agent
    The Zero-Magic Guide to AI Agents in Pure Python
    J. Owen

    Skip the black-box frameworks. Build a production-grade AI coding agent from scratch in pure Python - cloud or local, tested with pytest, all in a single file.

  6. The Sovereign Engineer
    AI Literacy for Software Professionals
    Russ Miles

    AI is an amplifier. It magnifies whatever engineering discipline — or lack of it — already exists, which means the bottleneck was never AI's capability; it is the collaboration space you design around it. This book is a six-level progression from early AI panic to sovereign engineering: the discipline of designing the environment in which human and artificial intelligence produce work worth keeping. It moves past prompting into the practices that compound — verification, habitat engineering, specification-first development, and the platform discipline that scales the practice across teams. The habitat is yours to design. Let's build it well.

  7. Understanding Eventsourcing
    Planning and Implementing scalable Systems with Eventmodeling and Eventsourcing
    Martin Dilger

    The first book to combine Eventmodeling & Eventsourcing to plan software systems of any size and complexity. NEW CHAPTER "Dynamic Consistency Boundary" COMPANION ONLINE COURSE FOR FASTER LEARNING

  8. The Object Oriented Way
    Christopher Okhravi (PhD)

    The Few Simple Ideas Behind Every Object Oriented Pattern and Principle.

  9. Claude Code: Building Production Agents That Actually Scale
    Thomas De Vos

    A best-selling book. The practitioner's guide to Claude Code in production. Thirty-one chapters covering the agent loop, tools, hooks, MCP, the Claude Agent SDK, permissions, multi-agent orchestration, evals, observability, and cost engineering. Includes a full walkthrough of Anthropic's financial services reference agents. Code from real production systems, not toy examples.

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Top Bundles

  1. Residues and The Philosophy of Software Architecture
    Barry O’Reilly

    This bundle includes the books “Residues: Time, Change and Uncertainty in Software Architecture” and “The Architect’s Paradox: Uncertainty and the Philosophy of Software Architecture” by Barry M O’Reilly. The books complement each other, with Residues giving a practical description of how to apply residuality theory and The Architect’s Paradox...

  2. Modern GPU Architecture and Programming Complete Bundle
    gareth thomas

    A 7-book GPU collection covering architecture, CUDA, assembly, PTX, SASS, and parallel computing. Learn how to move from high-level programming to low-level execution and optimize performance across modern GPU systems.

  3. Modern GPU Architecture and Programming Complete Bundle
    gareth thomas

    The GPU Architecture and Programming Bundle brings together four advanced technical books that explore how modern GPUs are designed, programmed, and optimized for high-performance computing.

  4. Beyond Context Graphs : Agentic Memory , Causual Graphs , Promise Graphs and decision traces
    Volodymyr Pavlyshyn

    How to make agents adopted to enterprice grade tasks

  5. Event Sourcing
    Martin Dilger and Greg Young
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  6. C++20, C++17, and Move Semantics
    Nicolai M. Josuttis

    C++20, C++17, and MoveSemantics - The Complete Guides

  7. HPC Tradecraft for Computer Scientists: What We Stopped Teaching
    Edward W. Barnard

    Cray Research was unusual in that we accomplished, repeatedly, what nobody else on the planet was able to accomplish. We never wrote down how we did it, until now.

  8. Architecture and Decoupling
    Matthias Noback

    This bundle combines two of the most recent books by Matthias Noback, which together offer some serious material that will definitely level up your skills in web application development with a focus on long term maintainability, testing, and domain-driven design.

  9. Big Kotlin pack
    Marcin Moskała
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In The Leanpub Podcast, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp interviews authors and special guests about their lives & careers, their areas of expertise and the issues of the moment, and their experiences as writers. Every episode is deeply researched and covers areas that are equally of human interest, general interest, and professional interest.
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Alexey Krivitsky, Co-Author of 10X ORG

Episode: #330Runtime: 01:02:10Released: 2026-05-15

Alexey Krivitsky - In this Leanpub podcast episode, Len Epp interviews Alexey Krivitsky, co-creator of Org Topologies and co-author of 10X ORG. They discuss how organizations can become more adaptive, effective, and AI-enabled through better structural design, team interactions, and leadership practices. Alexey shares insights from decades of experience redesigning organizations, exploring how companies can combine people, technology, and AI to improve performance and stay relevant in a rapidly changing world.

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Top Courses

  1. Stratospheric - From Zero to Production with Spring Boot and AWS
    Hands-on online course to learn all you need to know to get a Spring Boot application into production with AWS.
    Philip Riecks, Björn Wilmsmann, and Tom Hombergs

    Hands-on online course to learn all you need to know to get a Spring Boot application into production with AWS. Visit our landing page for a tour of the contents. Make sure to get familiar with all available bundle options before enrolling.

  2. The Hundred-Page Language Models Course
    Andriy Burkov

    Master language models through mathematics, illustrations, and code―and build your own from scratch! This course includes nearly three hours of exclusive video interviews with the author, covering questions related to each of the six lessons included in the course.

  3. Generative AI in a Nutshell
    How to Survive and Thrive in the Age of AI
    Henrik Kniberg

    This is a fast-paced, practical, and visual guide to the strange new world of Generative AI. It is like an extended version of Henrik's viral video with the same name.

  4. Patterns of Application Development Using AI
    Obie Fernandez

    Unlock the power of AI in your applications with this groundbreaking course on AI-driven application architecture. Discover practical patterns and principles for building intelligent, adaptive, and user-centric software systems that harness the potential of large language models. This course includes exclusive video interviews with the author.

  5. Microservices Masterclass
    David Farley and CourseAI

    Microservices are a great approach for building software at scale. But although the ideas at the root of microservices may sound simple, this is not a simple approach. There are several big traps along the way, and it's important to avoid them...

  6. Manifest Android Interview Course
    The ultimate guide to cracking Android & Compose technical interviews.
    Jaewoong

    To ace your next Android developer job interview, focus on truly understanding the concepts, not just memorizing answers, and practicing how to apply them. With over 250 quiz questions, 370 practical and follow-up questions with full answers, and 60+ pro tips, this course helps you sharpen skills, understand the why, and prepare for real-world technical challenges. ISBN: 979-8285926436

  7. The Kubernetes Course
    Nigel Poulton

    This course is based on the 2025 edition of the best-selling Kubernetes book, that has been fully updated for the latest versions of Kubernetes and the latest industry trends. You won't find a better and more up-to-date book-based course on Kubernetes. Hand-crafted over the past 8 years by best-selling author Nigel Poulton.

  8. Machine Learning Made Simple
    8 Pillar Machine Learning Algorithms in Python
    Finxter and Lukas Rieger

    This course gives you an intuitive understanding of the eight most important machine learning algorithms. It helps you get started using them in your own projects NOW -- in a single line of Python code. After finishing this course, you'll be able to select, understand, and implement the top 8 machine learning algorithms in your own projects.

  9. Practical Kotlin Deep Dive Course
    Unlocking the 'How' and 'Why' behind Kotlin fundamentals and internal mechanisms.
    Jaewoong

    Takes you from "how to use Kotlin" into "how Kotlin really works," revealing internal implementations, demystifying bytecode and compiler behavior, and uncovering the internals that shape the language. With hands-on Code Playgrounds for immediate practice and 158 interactive assessments to test and reinforce your understanding, this course doesn't just show you why everything is the way it is, it challenges you to prove you've mastered it.  ISBN: 979-8243872744 

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Top Tracks

  1. AI Masterclass
    Henrik Kniberg, Obie Fernandez, and Andriy Burkov

    About the Track: AI Masterclass Artificial Intelligence is reshaping the way we live, work, and build technology. The AI Masterclass Track brings together three powerful courses from world-class experts to give you a comprehensive, practical, and hands-on education in the age of AI. Whether you want to understand the big picture, apply AI...

  2. 14 C# Courses Bundle
    EngineerSpock

    Taking this bundle, you'll get a comprehensive set of courses that cover almost the whole surface of the .NET framework.The big topics that are covered:WPFMVVMSpecFlow and SeleniumLINQMultithreading and Parallel ProgrammingC# in Depth: Puzzles and GotchasAlgorithms and Data Structures in C#VS and R#and engineering practices:Unit Testing with...

  3. Kotlin for developers
    Marcin Moskała

    This is the complete track to learn about essential Kotlin features and get ready for working in Kotlin in daily basis. It starts from essentials, and on the way reaches advanced topics like efficient collection processing or DSL creation.

  4. 7 Course-Bundle: Shut Up and Code Python + PyCharm + Coding Interview + Machine Learning + One-Liners + Regex + Lambdas
    Finxter, Lukas Rieger, and Shubham Sayon

    "Shut up and code." Laughter in the audience. The hacker had just plugged in his notebook and started sharing his screen to present his super-smart Python script. "Shut up and code" The letters written in a white literal coding font on black background was the hackers' home screen background mantra. At the time, I was a first-year computer...

  5. Real World Python
    Lukas Rieger and Finxter

    Learn Python the Practical Way - In this course you learn all the basics of the Python programming language. It contains exercises, explanatory videos, an example solution and a quiz. This will enable you to apply your skills to a wide range of real world problems.A collection of more Python exercises - Exercises with solutions to continue...

  6. A Simple Path to Python Success
    Finxter, Lukas Rieger, and Shubham Sayon

    Python is the fastest-growing major programming language on the planet. This practical course set will teach you Python in a hands-on, highly practical way that guarantees your success. All you need to go from zero to completing your own Python projects in a relaxed, student-centric, and fun environment. Create yourself a new skill that'll bring...

  7. Design and Architecture Fundamentals in C#
    EngineerSpock

    Taking this course bundle, you'll learn:SOLID principles (SRP, OCP, ISP, LSP, DIP) in-depthMeta principles: DRY, KISS, YAGNI, SoC, CQS, Law of Demeter, PoLADependency Injection in Depth: IoC or DI containers, best practices, and anti-patternsFunctional Programming in C#: purity and side effects, functional C# features, immutability,...

  8. Game Studio Starter Kit (6 Game Collection)
    Stephen Gose

    This is the perfect Game Studio starter kit for launching your online dream business. This kit contains 6 tutorials books to help you create 9 different online game mechanics. You could have all 9 games ready in a day for each game. Start your Game Studio today.

  9. WPF + MVVM
    EngineerSpock

    Learn both WPF and MVVM to build fully functional UI-applications with the modern UI-building framework, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF).MVVM will help you to build WPF apps in a correct way from the software design perspective.

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