Articles on what Leanpub's books and courses teach, topic by topic, created from their free samples and with every source cited. If you want to learn something, and discover dozens of books and courses in the process, these are a great place to start!
From the Manifesto to Scrum, Kanban, user stories, OKRs, retrospectives, coaching, the engineering practices underneath, and what agile means when AI joins the team, as told through the free samples of the Leanpub books about agile.
53 books cited
From what a language model is and where it helps to giving it a job, running AI projects and governing agents that act, AI for business as told through the descriptions, contents and free samples of the Leanpub books about it.
28 books cited · 1 course cited
From accounts, Regions and the shared responsibility model to infrastructure as code, Lambda, containers, generative AI and the Cloud Practitioner exam, Amazon Web Services as told through the free samples of the Leanpub books about it.
49 books cited
From a first Android Studio project and the Kotlin language through Views and Jetpack Compose, Retrofit and RxJava, testing, security and the Kotlin Multiplatform and Flutter alternatives, Android development as told through the free samples of the Leanpub books about it.
48 books cited · 3 courses cited
From the perceptron to language models and agents, the field as told through the free samples of the Leanpub books about machine learning, deep learning and AI at work.
44 books cited · 1 course cited
From mining, keys and Bitcoin script to Solidity contracts, platform trade-offs, Cardano's funded projects and enterprise adoption, blockchain and cryptocurrency as the Leanpub books about them set them out in their descriptions, contents and free samples.
39 books cited
From strategy, organisation design and the leading of teams to measurement, change, the running of a meeting and the satire of all of it, business and management as told through the descriptions, contents and free samples of the Leanpub books about them.
33 books cited
From Sun Tzu, the OODA loop and Wardley Maps to goals and measures, the creation of categories and the place of technology and AI, business strategy as told through the descriptions, contents and free samples of the Leanpub books about it.
31 books cited · 1 course cited
From pointers and undefined behaviour to concepts, ranges and coroutines, from a bare-metal STM32 to a database engine built from scratch, the two languages and their ecosystem as told through the free samples of the Leanpub books about C and C++.
58 books cited
From the first year of code and the first job to seniority without management, engineering leadership, hiring and the mentoring of juniors in the age of AI, careers in technology as told through the free samples of the Leanpub books about them.
30 books cited
From renting a virtual machine by the hour to serverless functions, infrastructure as code and platform teams, the field as told through the free samples of the Leanpub books about AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and running systems in the cloud.
48 books cited
From coaching conversations, agile teams and leaders who stand behind their people to self-coaching, working lives and daily habits, coaching as told through the free samples of the Leanpub books about it.
36 books cited
From bits, registers and processors to PC building, boot firmware, small boards and the first supercomputers, computer hardware as told through the free samples of the Leanpub books about it.
29 books cited · 1 course cited
From discrete mathematics and the theory of computation through algorithms, the algebra of types, parsers, processors, operating systems, storage engines and distributed systems, computer science as told through the free samples of the Leanpub books about it.
28 books cited
From the laws of giving advice and the business of an independent practice to agile coaching, workshops and the work of changing organisations, consulting as told through the free samples of the Leanpub books about it.
36 books cited · 1 course cited
From block cipher modes, key derivation and certificates to OpenPGP keys, the post-quantum migration and identity systems, cryptography as told through the free samples of the Leanpub books about it.
25 books cited
The craft of defending and attacking computers and networks, from cryptography and web application security to penetration testing, digital forensics and incident response, told through the free samples of the Leanpub books about cybersecurity.
46 books cited
From a first statistics course to pandas and the tidyverse, forecasting, conformal prediction and the data pipeline, the field as told through the free samples of the Leanpub books about data science.
59 books cited
From choosing a chart and drawing a first line graph in D3 to dashboards, maps, plotting in R and Python and data journalism, data visualization as told through the free samples of the Leanpub books about it.
24 books cited
From Codd's relational model to B+trees, PostgreSQL internals, NoSQL and vector stores, the subject as told through the free samples of the Leanpub books about databases and SQL.
40 books cited
From hand-managed servers to deployment pipelines, infrastructure as code, Kubernetes and the on-call rota, the practice as told through the free samples of the Leanpub books about DevOps.
53 books cited
From disk images, Windows artefacts and triage to malware analysis, memory dumps and AI-assisted investigation, digital forensics as the Leanpub books about it set it out in their descriptions, contents and free samples.
16 books cited
From the architect who rides between board room and engine room to cloud and platform strategy, product culture, data and the organisation's own beliefs, digital transformation as told through the free samples of the Leanpub books about it.
39 books cited · 1 course cited
From a process that looks elsewhere for its files to a control plane that keeps a thousand pods converging on a manifest, containers as told through the free samples of the Leanpub books about Docker and Kubernetes.
52 books cited · 1 course cited
From microcontrollers and single-board computers to sensors, buses, firmware design and connected devices, embedded systems and the Internet of Things as told through the free samples of the Leanpub books about them.
48 books cited
From the architect's role and the frameworks that describe an enterprise to business architecture, services, people and the integration of systems, enterprise architecture as told through the free samples of the Leanpub books about it.
38 books cited
From pure functions, immutable data and composition to algebraic types, monads, optics and type-level design, in Haskell, PureScript, Elm, Scala, Clojure, Elixir and F# and in the mainstream languages that borrowed from them, functional programming as told through the free samples of the Leanpub books about it.
58 books cited
From the game loop and a first small game to engines, browser frameworks, multiplayer architecture, production and generative AI, game development as told through the free samples of the Leanpub books and courses about it.
41 books cited · 10 courses cited
From a first module and gofmt to slices, goroutines, generics and the runtime, production services, Kubernetes operators and the databases, games and graphics people build with it, the Go language as told through the free samples of the Leanpub books about Go.
41 books cited
From projects, the control plane and Cloud Run to networking, BigQuery, Firebase, migration and the certification exams, Google Cloud as told through the free samples of the Leanpub books about it.
26 books cited · 1 course cited
From idempotent playbooks and declared state to Terraform, Pulumi, Vagrant, testing, AWX and GitOps, infrastructure as code as told through the free samples of the Leanpub books about it.
48 books cited
From a first Xcode project and the Swift language through UIKit, SwiftUI, Core Data, architecture patterns, Core ML and the App Store, with the cross-platform alternatives beside them, iOS development as told through the free samples of the Leanpub books about it.
52 books cited
From the JVM and the first class to lambdas, records and virtual threads, Spring Boot, JPA and JUnit, Groovy and the wider JVM, the Java language and its ecosystem as told through the free samples of the Leanpub books about Java.
59 books cited
The programming language of the web, from its 1995 origins to today's frameworks, runtimes and tools, as told through the free samples of the Leanpub books about it.
60 books cited
From the first week as a tech lead to the CTO's office, through hiring and reshaping teams, coaching, facilitation, retrospectives, leading change, reading metrics and the structure of the organisation itself, leadership and engineering management as told through the free samples of the Leanpub books about it.
45 books cited
From the Toyota Production System and its two pillars to Kanban, flow metrics, Lean Startup experiments and the Theory of Constraints, Lean as told through the free samples of the Leanpub books about it.
39 books cited
From positioning against incumbents and the first paid sale to search, advertising and privacy, selling to businesses, customer success and the online shop, marketing and sales as told through the descriptions, contents and free samples of the Leanpub books about them.
29 books cited · 1 course cited
From Gauss's method and the limit to characteristic curves, Bayes' theorem, categories built from toy bricks and the calculus inside a neural network, mathematics as told through the free samples of the Leanpub books about it.
51 books cited
From tenants, subscriptions and resource groups to infrastructure as code, migration, Cosmos DB, AI services, identity and disaster recovery, Microsoft Azure as told through the free samples of the Leanpub books about it.
35 books cited
From the path of a single query and the planner's row estimates to durability settings, window functions, PL/pgSQL and the frameworks built on top, PostgreSQL as told through the free samples of the Leanpub books about it.
19 books cited
From the help system and the object pipeline to tools, modules and tests, Active Directory, Exchange and Desired State Configuration, PowerShell as told through the free samples of the Leanpub books about it.
43 books cited
From the first weeks of an inherited project to estimating, critical chain scheduling, Kanban, programmes and the case against projects altogether, project management as told through the free samples of the Leanpub books about it.
35 books cited
From a first program to the interpreter's internals, Django to pandas to PyTorch, the language as told through the free samples of the Leanpub books about Python.
58 books cited
From pull systems, constraints and the reading of a chart to the cost of silence, the handling of mistakes and the quality coach in a software team, quality management as told through the descriptions, contents and free samples of the Leanpub books about it.
29 books cited · 1 course cited
From kinematics, sensors and state estimation to ROS 2, simulation, humanoids in the workplace and robots modelled on animal brains, robotics as the Leanpub books about it set it out in their descriptions, contents and free samples.
30 books cited
From ownership and the borrow checker to traits, async and the compiler's own pipeline, and on to servers, WebAssembly and neural networks, the Rust language as told through the free samples of the Leanpub books about it.
24 books cited
From the accountabilities, events and artefacts of the framework to retrospectives, user stories, flow metrics, scaling and Scrum teams of AI agents, Scrum as told through the free samples of the Leanpub books about it.
43 books cited · 2 courses cited
From what an architect actually does to monoliths, microservices, hexagons, event sourcing and platforms, the discipline as told through the free samples of the Leanpub books about software architecture.
54 books cited · 1 course cited
From the first failing unit test to mutation testing, Selenium, the load test before launch day and the leading of testers, the practice as told through the free samples of the Leanpub books about software testing.
52 books cited
From the first conversation with a customer to the term sheet, through product-market fit, metrics that mean something, pricing, growth, the lead investor and the side business built on nights and weekends, startups and entrepreneurship as told through the free samples of the Leanpub books about them.
27 books cited
From general systems theory and the laws of regulation to systems engineering with models, SysML, requirements, feedback control and the systems view of software, systems thinking as told through the free samples of the Leanpub books about it.
29 books cited · 1 course cited
From the invention of the button and the rules of a touch screen to accessibility guidelines, user research and design systems built in code, UX and product design as told through the descriptions, contents and free samples of the Leanpub books about them.
17 books cited
From the first HTML page to HTTP, CSS and the JavaScript frameworks, PHP with Laravel and Symfony, testing and deployment, the craft as told through the free samples of the Leanpub books about web development.
66 books cited