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Most teams don’t suffer from a lack of effort—they suffer from a lack of alignment. Goals are misaligned, boundaries are unclear, and work often centres on internal priorities instead of user needs— resulting in frustration and delays. User Needs Mapping: Aligning Teams Around What Matters offers a practical, visual way to reconnect organisations with the people they serve. Instead of guessing at structure or copying someone else’s model, this book shows you how to expose hidden dependencies, identify genuine user needs, and make better choices about team design and responsibilities. Through real-world case studies and step-by-step guidance, you’ll learn how to navigate tensions between wants, needs, and feasibility, create clarity of purpose, and build teams that deliver meaningful outcomes. Whether you’re a leader, product manager, architect, or change agent, this book equips you to turn complexity into clarity and enable teams to flow faster—aligned around what matters.

The Cybernetic Enterprise CTO Playbook turns strategy into execution for modern technology leaders. It equips CTOs with actionable plays, assessments, and transformation roadmaps to build adaptive, AI-augmented, and feedback-driven organizations. Learn how to align people, process, and technology into one living system that senses, decides, and evolves faster than its environment changes.

? What if coding meant… dialoguing to create? This book is not just a technical guide. It is the outcome of a two-voice conversation between Samuel Bastiat, a seasoned practitioner of agility and software development, and me, a large language model. Together, we experimented, challenged ideas, and structured conversational patterns to: ? Clarify your needs ? Test hypotheses ?️ Co-build robust architectures Inside, you’ll find concrete prompts, co-creation methods, and a reflection on the future of tech roles.Neither dogma nor ultimate truth — simply an exploration of new ways to think and collaborate. ? Welcome to the era of augmented development.

Born from year one of The Coder Cafe, the newsletter trusted by 3,000+ readers, this contains distills timeless concepts to help you master the fundamentals of software engineering: code health, testing, distributed systems, critical thinking, and more.Written by Teiva Harsanyi, Google SWE and published author, it supports your growth as an engineer, one concept at a time.

What does it really mean to be an architect in the age of AI? If you are a software architect or stepping into the role of AI architect, this question is already shaping your path. Just as we once moved from monoliths to services and from infrastructure to the cloud, we are now designing for intelligent systems that must be explained and trusted. Dear Software and AI Architect is the guide the industry has been missing. Drawing on two decades of practice, field stories, and lessons learned, it shows you how to navigate ambiguity, balance trade-offs, and build trust that scales. You will gain real-world insight into architecting with both software craftsmanship and AI intelligence, use AI as a partner in your craft, and apply enduring principles, patterns, and practices across teams and enterprises. With 50+ caselets, expert voices, and the Architect’s V-Impact Canvas, this book equips you to lead with clarity, build with context, and thrive in the era of AI engineering.

Ready to conquer software complexity? This book provides a practical introduction to Domain-Driven Design with Spring Boot, giving you the essential patterns to start building more robust and business-aligned applications. It's your clear starting point for applying DDD principles without getting bogged down in theory.

Build bulletproof Spring Boot microservices—from monolith migration to domain-driven design and event-driven patterns—while mastering the production essentials of resilience, observability, and zero‑downtime delivery. Turn complex domains into clean, scalable services with bounded contexts, aggregates, repositories, and domain events, then ship faster with rate‑limited APIs, backoff‑retries, and Kubernetes rollouts. If leading Java teams to reliable, cloud‑ready microservices is the goal, this is the hands‑on guide that gets systems into production with confidence.

Build AI agents that truly remember, reason, and act—entirely on user devices. Move beyond prompt engineering to create autonomous systems with graph-based memory using SQLite and LibSQL. Learn to implement hypergraphs, metagraphs, and vector search for privacy-first AI that scales to millions of entities. From personal knowledge graphs to production mobile apps, master the three pillars of agent autonomy: tools, memory, and reasoning. Real code, working examples, battle-tested in production. The future of AI is local, private, and in your hands.

What kills good engineers? Why do AI projects fail despite massive investment? How do you build systems that scale not just technically, but humanly?In the fast-moving world of software development, we're drowning in tutorials, frameworks, and "best practices" — but starving for wisdom. Philosophical Wednesdays with AI Powered Architect cuts through the noise to tackle the questions that matter: the messy intersection of code, cognition, and organizational reality.Why simplicity is expensive. Why ready beats perfect. Why your mental models determine your system's fate.Whether you're architecting distributed systems, implementing AI agents, or simply trying to survive another sprint, this book offers the conceptual frameworks to navigate complexity with clarity. Because in a world of infinite technical possibilities, the most important skill isn't coding — it's thinking.

The essential companion to The Cybernetic Enterprise: a precise, reference-only Body of Knowledge that distills the foundations of modern, AI-powered organizations. Get crisp definitions, origins, interfaces, and canonical sources across Cybernetics, Systems Thinking, Lean, Agile, Architecture, Platform Engineering, AI & CPS, and DevOps, so teams share one vocabulary and make better decisions faster.

האם אתה סמנכ"ל או ראש הנדסה השוקל מהו מודל הנדסת האיכות המתאים ביותר לחברה שלך?האם אתה מנהל הנדסה שהוטל עליו להטמיע מודל מאמן איכות?האם אתה מוביל בדיקות או בודק תוכנה העובר לתפקיד מאמן איכות? מדריך מאמן האיכות הוא המדריך המעשי שלך למעבר למודל שבו כל הצוות אחראי על האיכות, ובמיוחד מהנדסי התוכנה מתכננים, בונים, בודקים ותומכים בתוכנה. גרסה מודפסת: כריכה רכה וקשה זמינות ב-אמזון. השתמשו באתר אמזון של המדינה שלכם (למשל, Amazon.com.au עבור אוסטרליה) כדי למזער את זמן המשלוח והעלות.

É VP ou Diretor de Engenharia e está a considerar qual o melhor modelo de engenharia de qualidade para a sua empresa? É diretor de Engenharia encarregue de implementar um Modelo de Coach de Qualidade? É líder de testes ou testador de software a transitar para uma função de coach de qualidade? O Manual do Coach de Qualidade é o seu guia prático para a transição para um modelo onde toda a equipa é responsável pela qualidade e, em particular, onde os engenheiros de software desenham, constroem, testam e dão suporte ao software. Versão impressa: Disponível em capa mole e capa dura na Amazon. Utilize o site da Amazon do seu país (por exemplo, Amazon.com.au para a Austrália) para minimizar o tempo e custo de envio.

Είστε Αντιπρόεδρος ή Επικεφαλής Μηχανικής και εξετάζετε το καλύτερο μοντέλο ποιοτικής μηχανικής για την εταιρεία σας;Είστε διευθυντής Μηχανικής στον οποίο έχει ανατεθεί η εφαρμογή ενός Μοντέλου Συμβούλου Ποιότητας;Είστε επικεφαλής δοκιμών ή ελεγκτής λογισμικού που μεταβαίνει σε ρόλο συμβούλου ποιότητας; Το Εγχειρίδιο του Συμβούλου Ποιότητας είναι ο πρακτικός σας οδηγός για τη μετάβαση σε ένα μοντέλο όπου ολόκληρη η ομάδα είναι υπεύθυνη για την ποιότητα και ειδικότερα οι μηχανικοί λογισμικού σχεδιάζουν, κατασκευάζουν, δοκιμάζουν και υποστηρίζουν το λογισμικό. Έντυπη έκδοση: Η έκδοση σε μαλακό και σκληρό εξώφυλλο είναι διαθέσιμη στο Amazon. Χρησιμοποιήστε τον ιστότοπο Amazon της χώρας σας (π.χ., Amazon.com.au για την Αυστραλία) για να ελαχιστοποιήσετε τον χρόνο και το κόστος αποστολής.

Jeste li potpredsjednik ili voditelj inženjerstva koji razmatra najbolji model inženjerstva kvalitete za svoju tvrtku? Jeste li direktor inženjerstva zadužen za uvođenje modela Coacha kvalitete? Jeste li voditelj testiranja ili softverski tester koji prelazi u ulogu coacha kvalitete? Priručnik za Coacheve kvalitete vaš je praktični vodič za prelazak na model u kojem cijeli tim preuzima odgovornost za kvalitetu, a posebno softverski inženjeri koji dizajniraju, grade, testiraju i održavaju softver. Tiskano izdanje: Meki i tvrdi uvez dostupni su na Amazonu. Koristite Amazon stranicu za vašu zemlju (npr. Amazon.com.au za Australiju) kako biste minimizirali vrijeme i troškove dostave.

क्या आप एक VP या इंजीनियरिंग प्रमुख हैं जो अपनी कंपनी के लिए सर्वोत्तम गुणवत्ता इंजीनियरिंग मॉडल पर विचार कर रहे हैं?क्या आप एक इंजीनियरिंग निदेशक हैं जिन्हें क्वालिटी कोच मॉडल को लागू करने का कार्य सौंपा गया है?क्या आप एक टेस्ट लीड या सॉफ्टवेयर टेस्टर हैं जो क्वालिटी कोच की भूमिका में स्थानांतरित हो रहे हैं? द क्वालिटी कोच हैंडबुक आपकी व्यावहारिक मार्गदर्शिका है जो आपको एक ऐसे मॉडल की ओर ले जाएगी जहां पूरी टीम गुणवत्ता की मालिक होती है और विशेष रूप से सॉफ्टवेयर इंजीनियर्स सॉफ्टवेयर को डिजाइन, निर्माण, परीक्षण और समर्थन करते हैं। प्रिंट संस्करण: पेपरबैक और हार्डकवर Amazon पर उपलब्ध हैं। शिपिंग समय और लागत को कम करने के लिए अपने देश की Amazon साइट का उपयोग करें (जैसे, ऑस्ट्रेलिया के लिए Amazon.com.au)।