This book is designed to help you master API development using the Django REST Framework (DRF). Written for seasoned developers, this book offers practical, hands-on guidance to becoming an expert in using DRF, providing in-depth coverage of the framework's features and best practices and their application in API development.

Harness the power of AI through Microsoft’s Azure platform, AI Foundry. Azure AI Foundry includes a versatile and powerful suite of tools designed to cater to the needs of developers, data scientists, and organizations aiming to leverage AI for transformative outcomes.

The Book of R is a comprehensive, beginner-friendly guide to R, the world’s most popular programming language for statistical analysis. Even if you have no programming experience and little more than a grounding in the basics of mathematics, you’ll find everything you need to begin writing programs in R.

Learn how to quickly work out what your Java code is doing so you can understand when and why it misbehaves.

Everything you need to know about using the tools, libraries, and models at Hugging Face—from transformers, to RAG, LangChain, and Gradio.

From first principles to production-ready code, Latency teaches you how to make your software faster at every layer of the stack. You’ll learn what latency really is, how it differs from bandwidth, and why it matters for user experience. Then, guided by practical examples, you’ll apply Little’s Law, design lock-free algorithms, and architect caching systems that scale. You’ll discover how your code runs differently on distributed systems, databases, and operating systems, and understand the common latency-causing issues in each situation.

Hackers know how important your APIs are, and they also know how to find the weak spots in your API security. As a result, APIs have become principal vectors of attack against apps and sites. Secure APIs: Design, build, and implement shows you reliable methods you can use to counter cracks, hacks, and attacks on your internal and external APIs.

Combine knowledge graphs with large language models to deliver powerful, reliable, and explainable AI solutions.

Maximize your portfolio, analyze markets, and make data-driven investment decisions using Python and generative AI.

An effective developer platform means one thing: productivity. Effective Platform Engineering introduces platform engineering as a discipline, teaching you what goes into a great developer platform and then showing you how to develop your own.

Discover the full power of modern C programming, with an inside look at the new C23 standard.