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Extremely Hardcore: Inside Elon Musk's Twitter

by Zoë Schiffer  · 13 Feb 2024  · 343pp  · 92,693 words

the Twitter Spaces team, which previously had around a hundred employees and now had just three. Spaces technology relied on servers that Twitter rented from Amazon Web Services (AWS). Unfortunately, these servers were “insanely underprovisioned,” according to an employee who’d worked on them. In the past, the technology had been able to

The Everything Blueprint: The Microchip Design That Changed the World

by James Ashton  · 11 May 2023  · 401pp  · 113,586 words

by the flexibility of scaling usage up and down to meet demand. So-called cloud computing was on the rise but for a long time Amazon Web Services (AWS) was as unassuming as its leader. Jassy was a fan of chicken wings which created a handmade ‘wheel of fortune’ to spin and select

Arm could grab 50 per cent of the market for cloud computing processors by 2026, a striking jump.6 Much of that was down to Amazon Web Services and its Graviton chip, but Huawei and others had also turned to Arm. Microsoft and Google began using Arm-based chips made by the expanding

The Deep Learning Revolution (The MIT Press)

by Terrence J. Sejnowski  · 27 Sep 2018

benefit. Alexa, a wildly popular digital assistant operating in tandem with the Amazon Echo smart speaker, responds to natural language requests based on deep learning. Amazon Web Services (AWS) has introduced toolboxes called “Lex,” “Poly” and “Comprehend” that make it easy to develop the same natural language interfaces based on automated test-to

How Boards Work: And How They Can Work Better in a Chaotic World

by Dambisa Moyo  · 3 May 2021  · 272pp  · 76,154 words

When Negotiating on Behalf of Others.” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 98, no. 2 (2018): 256–257. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0017094. Amazon Web Services. “Teach Tomorrow’s Cloud Workforce Today.” AWS Educate. https://aws.amazon.com/education/awseducate/. Americans for Carbon Dividends. “The Solution.” www.afcd.org/the-solution

Designing Reactive Systems: The Role of Actors in Distributed Architecture

by Hugh McKee  · 5 Sep 2016  · 31pp  · 9,168 words

computer system has a small number of cores, and common small or medium-sized servers may have 4 to 16 processing cores. (Just looking at Amazon Web Services instances, you can see it’s possible to provision cloud instances with 128 processor cores and 2 terabytes of in-memory RAM.) For memory (RAM

Applied Artificial Intelligence: A Handbook for Business Leaders

by Mariya Yao, Adelyn Zhou and Marlene Jia  · 1 Jun 2018  · 161pp  · 39,526 words

technical knowledge, these represent excellent solutions for quickly integrating AI capabilities into your company’s workflow . If you already store data and build applications on Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, or Apple’s iOS platform, using tightly integrated machine learning solutions like AWS Rekognition or Apple’s Core ML can

Nervous States: Democracy and the Decline of Reason

by William Davies  · 26 Feb 2019  · 349pp  · 98,868 words

it often retain control over the data that results. The US government outsources IT services in areas of the greatest importance to national security, with Amazon Web Services hosting classified systems for the CIA for example. Among the things we don’t know is quite how effective platforms are in influencing our behavior

Work in the Future The Automation Revolution-Palgrave MacMillan (2019)

by Robert Skidelsky Nan Craig  · 15 Mar 2020

that. Even in the core of the business, they do not own massive computer servers or anything. Instead, they rent them out from platforms like Amazon Web Services. Effectively, the Uber model has been to try to own as little as possible. But what they do own is the technological platform that connects

, who can actually do AI, are going to have major power and influence in the economy. For instance, for economic impacts we might think about Amazon Web Services or Google Cloud building up AI that they can rent out to other businesses that are too data-poor to build their own AI. They

Subscribed: Why the Subscription Model Will Be Your Company's Future - and What to Do About It

by Tien Tzuo and Gabe Weisert  · 4 Jun 2018  · 244pp  · 66,977 words

SaaS companies founded over the last ten years are starting to see real gains in market share. Hardware is shifting as well—the success of Amazon Web Services has convinced IT buyers to shift from big, expensive capex-based installations to opex-based rental agreements. The big firms are struggling to catch up

Battle for the Bird: Jack Dorsey, Elon Musk, and the $44 Billion Fight for Twitter's Soul

by Kurt Wagner  · 20 Feb 2024  · 332pp  · 127,754 words

and was the president of the camera company GoPro. As summer morphed into fall, one candidate emerged from the pack: Andy Jassy, the head of Amazon Web Services, the retail giant’s incredibly successful and underrated cloud computing division. Jassy had been at Amazon since 1997, earning the trust of CEO Jeff Bezos

Who Is Government?: The Untold Story of Public Service

by Michael Lewis  · 18 Mar 2025  · 186pp  · 61,027 words

The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked Age

by Reid Hoffman, Ben Casnocha and Chris Yeh  · 15 Jan 2014  · 102pp  · 29,596 words

The Great Reversal: How America Gave Up on Free Markets

by Thomas Philippon  · 29 Oct 2019  · 401pp  · 109,892 words

Rule of the Robots: How Artificial Intelligence Will Transform Everything

by Martin Ford  · 13 Sep 2021  · 288pp  · 86,995 words

Forward: Notes on the Future of Our Democracy

by Andrew Yang  · 15 Nov 2021

The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness

by Morgan Housel  · 7 Sep 2020  · 209pp  · 53,175 words

The Price of Tomorrow: Why Deflation Is the Key to an Abundant Future

by Jeff Booth  · 14 Jan 2020  · 180pp  · 55,805 words

The Future Is Asian

by Parag Khanna  · 5 Feb 2019  · 496pp  · 131,938 words

Billionaire, Nerd, Savior, King: Bill Gates and His Quest to Shape Our World

by Anupreeta Das  · 12 Aug 2024  · 315pp  · 115,894 words

Rocket Billionaires: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the New Space Race

by Tim Fernholz  · 20 Mar 2018  · 328pp  · 96,141 words

The Fourth Industrial Revolution

by Klaus Schwab  · 11 Jan 2016  · 179pp  · 43,441 words

The Automatic Customer: Creating a Subscription Business in Any Industry

by John Warrillow  · 5 Feb 2015  · 186pp  · 49,251 words

Binge Times: Inside Hollywood's Furious Billion-Dollar Battle to Take Down Netflix

by Dade Hayes and Dawn Chmielewski  · 18 Apr 2022  · 414pp  · 117,581 words

Deploying OpenStack

by Ken Pepple  · 26 Jul 2011  · 90pp  · 17,297 words

The Big Fix: How Companies Capture Markets and Harm Canadians

by Denise Hearn and Vass Bednar  · 14 Oct 2024  · 175pp  · 46,192 words

The Globotics Upheaval: Globalisation, Robotics and the Future of Work

by Richard Baldwin  · 10 Jan 2019  · 301pp  · 89,076 words

Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom

by Grace Blakeley  · 11 Mar 2024  · 371pp  · 137,268 words

Arriving Today: From Factory to Front Door -- Why Everything Has Changed About How and What We Buy

by Christopher Mims  · 13 Sep 2021  · 385pp  · 112,842 words

Nothing but Net: 10 Timeless Stock-Picking Lessons From One of Wall Street’s Top Tech Analysts

by Mark Mahaney  · 9 Nov 2021  · 311pp  · 90,172 words

The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-First Century's Greatest Dilemma

by Mustafa Suleyman  · 4 Sep 2023  · 444pp  · 117,770 words

Pattern Breakers: Why Some Start-Ups Change the Future

by Mike Maples and Peter Ziebelman  · 8 Jul 2024  · 207pp  · 65,156 words

Think Like a Rocket Scientist: Simple Strategies You Can Use to Make Giant Leaps in Work and Life

by Ozan Varol  · 13 Apr 2020  · 389pp  · 112,319 words

Bezonomics: How Amazon Is Changing Our Lives and What the World's Best Companies Are Learning From It

by Brian Dumaine  · 11 May 2020  · 411pp  · 98,128 words

Agile Project Management With Kanban

by Eric Brechner  · 25 Feb 2015

Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire

by Brad Stone  · 10 May 2021  · 569pp  · 156,139 words

That Used to Be Us

by Thomas L. Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum  · 1 Sep 2011  · 441pp  · 136,954 words

Lab Rats: How Silicon Valley Made Work Miserable for the Rest of Us

by Dan Lyons  · 22 Oct 2018  · 252pp  · 78,780 words

Architecting For Scale

by Lee Atchison  · 25 Jul 2016  · 255pp  · 55,018 words

Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives

by Tim Harford  · 3 Oct 2016  · 349pp  · 95,972 words

Platform Capitalism

by Nick Srnicek  · 22 Dec 2016  · 116pp  · 31,356 words

The Airbnb Story: How Three Ordinary Guys Disrupted an Industry, Made Billions...and Created Plenty of Controversy

by Leigh Gallagher  · 14 Feb 2017  · 290pp  · 87,549 words

Secrets of Sand Hill Road: Venture Capital and How to Get It

by Scott Kupor  · 3 Jun 2019  · 340pp  · 100,151 words

Platform Scale: How an Emerging Business Model Helps Startups Build Large Empires With Minimum Investment

by Sangeet Paul Choudary  · 14 Sep 2015  · 302pp  · 73,581 words

Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft's Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone

by Satya Nadella, Greg Shaw and Jill Tracie Nichols  · 25 Sep 2017  · 391pp  · 71,600 words

Rentier Capitalism: Who Owns the Economy, and Who Pays for It?

by Brett Christophers  · 17 Nov 2020  · 614pp  · 168,545 words

Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making

by Tony Fadell  · 2 May 2022  · 411pp  · 119,022 words

Money Men: A Hot Startup, a Billion Dollar Fraud, a Fight for the Truth

by Dan McCrum  · 15 Jun 2022  · 361pp  · 117,566 words

Inner Entrepreneur: A Proven Path to Profit and Peace

by Grant Sabatier  · 10 Mar 2025  · 442pp  · 126,902 words

It's Not TV: The Spectacular Rise, Revolution, and Future of HBO

by Felix Gillette and John Koblin  · 1 Nov 2022  · 575pp  · 140,384 words

When McKinsey Comes to Town: The Hidden Influence of the World's Most Powerful Consulting Firm

by Walt Bogdanich and Michael Forsythe  · 3 Oct 2022  · 689pp  · 134,457 words

Abolish Silicon Valley: How to Liberate Technology From Capitalism

by Wendy Liu  · 22 Mar 2020  · 223pp  · 71,414 words

Rocket Dreams: Musk, Bezos and the Trillion-Dollar Space Race

by Christian Davenport  · 6 Sep 2025  · 441pp  · 127,950 words

Pegasus: How a Spy in Your Pocket Threatens the End of Privacy, Dignity, and Democracy

by Laurent Richard and Sandrine Rigaud  · 17 Jan 2023  · 350pp  · 115,802 words

The Authoritarian Moment: How the Left Weaponized America's Institutions Against Dissent

by Ben Shapiro  · 26 Jul 2021  · 309pp  · 81,243 words

Amazon: How the World’s Most Relentless Retailer Will Continue to Revolutionize Commerce

by Natalie Berg and Miya Knights  · 28 Jan 2019  · 404pp  · 95,163 words

Cogs and Monsters: What Economics Is, and What It Should Be

by Diane Coyle  · 11 Oct 2021  · 305pp  · 75,697 words

No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram

by Sarah Frier  · 13 Apr 2020  · 484pp  · 114,613 words

Peers Inc: How People and Platforms Are Inventing the Collaborative Economy and Reinventing Capitalism

by Robin Chase  · 14 May 2015  · 330pp  · 91,805 words

The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon

by Brad Stone  · 14 Oct 2013  · 380pp  · 118,675 words

Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems

by Martin Kleppmann  · 16 Mar 2017  · 1,237pp  · 227,370 words

Life After Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy

by George Gilder  · 16 Jul 2018  · 332pp  · 93,672 words

The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies

by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee  · 20 Jan 2014  · 339pp  · 88,732 words

The AI-First Company

by Ash Fontana  · 4 May 2021  · 296pp  · 66,815 words

Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software

by Nadia Eghbal  · 3 Aug 2020  · 1,136pp  · 73,489 words

What Algorithms Want: Imagination in the Age of Computing

by Ed Finn  · 10 Mar 2017  · 285pp  · 86,853 words

Futureproof: 9 Rules for Humans in the Age of Automation

by Kevin Roose  · 9 Mar 2021  · 208pp  · 57,602 words

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

by Shoshana Zuboff  · 15 Jan 2019  · 918pp  · 257,605 words

The Silent Intelligence: The Internet of Things

by Daniel Kellmereit and Daniel Obodovski  · 19 Sep 2013  · 138pp  · 40,787 words

Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe

by Roger McNamee  · 1 Jan 2019  · 382pp  · 105,819 words

Learning Ansible 2 - Second Edition

by Fabio Alessandro Locati  · 21 Nov 2016

Surveillance Valley: The Rise of the Military-Digital Complex

by Yasha Levine  · 6 Feb 2018  · 474pp  · 130,575 words

What Would Google Do?

by Jeff Jarvis  · 15 Feb 2009  · 299pp  · 91,839 words

Mastering ElasticSearch

by Rafal Kuc and Marek Rogozinski  · 14 Aug 2013  · 480pp  · 99,288 words

Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems

by Martin Kleppmann  · 17 Apr 2017

The Practice of Cloud System Administration: DevOps and SRE Practices for Web Services, Volume 2

by Thomas A. Limoncelli, Strata R. Chalup and Christina J. Hogan  · 27 Aug 2014  · 757pp  · 193,541 words

Terraform: Up and Running: Writing Infrastructure as Code

by Yevgeniy Brikman  · 13 Mar 2017

The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty

by Benjamin H. Bratton  · 19 Feb 2016  · 903pp  · 235,753 words

Hacking Growth: How Today's Fastest-Growing Companies Drive Breakout Success

by Sean Ellis and Morgan Brown  · 24 Apr 2017  · 344pp  · 96,020 words

The Connected Company

by Dave Gray and Thomas Vander Wal  · 2 Dec 2014  · 372pp  · 89,876 words

Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future

by Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson  · 26 Jun 2017  · 472pp  · 117,093 words

One Click: Jeff Bezos and the Rise of Amazon.com

by Richard L. Brandt  · 27 Oct 2011  · 222pp  · 54,506 words

Dual Transformation: How to Reposition Today's Business While Creating the Future

by Scott D. Anthony and Mark W. Johnson  · 27 Mar 2017  · 293pp  · 78,439 words

Beautiful security

by Andy Oram and John Viega  · 15 Dec 2009  · 302pp  · 82,233 words

Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations

by Thomas L. Friedman  · 22 Nov 2016  · 602pp  · 177,874 words

Exponential Organizations: Why New Organizations Are Ten Times Better, Faster, and Cheaper Than Yours (And What to Do About It)

by Salim Ismail and Yuri van Geest  · 17 Oct 2014  · 292pp  · 85,151 words

Building Microservices

by Sam Newman  · 25 Dec 2014  · 540pp  · 103,101 words

The New Digital Age: Transforming Nations, Businesses, and Our Lives

by Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen  · 22 Apr 2013  · 525pp  · 116,295 words

The Network Imperative: How to Survive and Grow in the Age of Digital Business Models

by Barry Libert and Megan Beck  · 6 Jun 2016  · 285pp  · 58,517 words

Bank 3.0: Why Banking Is No Longer Somewhere You Go but Something You Do

by Brett King  · 26 Dec 2012  · 382pp  · 120,064 words

Chaos Engineering: System Resiliency in Practice

by Casey Rosenthal and Nora Jones  · 27 Apr 2020  · 419pp  · 102,488 words

Puppet 3 Cookbook

by John Arundel  · 25 Aug 2013  · 274pp  · 58,675 words

Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World

by Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler  · 3 Feb 2015  · 368pp  · 96,825 words

Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia

by Anthony M. Townsend  · 29 Sep 2013  · 464pp  · 127,283 words

Engineering Security

by Peter Gutmann

Blockchain: Blueprint for a New Economy

by Melanie Swan  · 22 Jan 2014  · 271pp  · 52,814 words

Platform Revolution: How Networked Markets Are Transforming the Economy--And How to Make Them Work for You

by Sangeet Paul Choudary, Marshall W. van Alstyne and Geoffrey G. Parker  · 27 Mar 2016  · 421pp  · 110,406 words

Woke, Inc: Inside Corporate America's Social Justice Scam

by Vivek Ramaswamy  · 16 Aug 2021  · 344pp  · 104,522 words

Open for Business Harnessing the Power of Platform Ecosystems

by Lauren Turner Claire, Laure Claire Reillier and Benoit Reillier  · 14 Oct 2017  · 240pp  · 78,436 words

The Fifth Domain: Defending Our Country, Our Companies, and Ourselves in the Age of Cyber Threats

by Richard A. Clarke and Robert K. Knake  · 15 Jul 2019  · 409pp  · 112,055 words

The Four: How Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google Divided and Conquered the World

by Scott Galloway  · 2 Oct 2017  · 305pp  · 79,303 words

API Marketplace Engineering: Design, Build, and Run a Platform for External Developers

by Rennay Dorasamy  · 2 Dec 2021  · 328pp  · 77,877 words

The Metaverse: And How It Will Revolutionize Everything

by Matthew Ball  · 18 Jul 2022  · 412pp  · 116,685 words

Augmented: Life in the Smart Lane

by Brett King  · 5 May 2016  · 385pp  · 111,113 words

Stake Hodler Capitalism: Blockchain and DeFi

by Amr Hazem Wahba Metwaly  · 21 Mar 2021  · 80pp  · 21,077 words

The Smartphone Society

by Nicole Aschoff

Talk to Me: How Voice Computing Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Think

by James Vlahos  · 1 Mar 2019  · 392pp  · 108,745 words

Internet for the People: The Fight for Our Digital Future

by Ben Tarnoff  · 13 Jun 2022  · 234pp  · 67,589 words

The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World's Most Coveted Microchip

by Stephen Witt  · 8 Apr 2025  · 260pp  · 82,629 words

Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America

by Alec MacGillis  · 16 Mar 2021  · 426pp  · 136,925 words

Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology

by Anu Bradford  · 25 Sep 2023  · 898pp  · 236,779 words

Seeking SRE: Conversations About Running Production Systems at Scale

by David N. Blank-Edelman  · 16 Sep 2018

Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World

by Malcolm Harris  · 14 Feb 2023  · 864pp  · 272,918 words

Docker: Up & Running: Shipping Reliable Containers in Production

by Sean Kane and Karl Matthias  · 14 May 2023  · 433pp  · 130,334 words

Docker in Action

by Jeff Nickoloff and Stephen Kuenzli  · 10 Dec 2019  · 629pp  · 109,663 words

The Nature of Software Development: Keep It Simple, Make It Valuable, Build It Piece by Piece

by Ron Jeffries  · 14 Aug 2015  · 444pp  · 118,393 words

Docker: Up & Running: Shipping Reliable Containers in Production

by Sean P. Kane and Karl Matthias  · 15 Mar 2018  · 350pp  · 114,454 words

Vassal State

by Angus Hanton  · 25 Mar 2024  · 277pp  · 81,718 words

Data Wrangling With Python: Tips and Tools to Make Your Life Easier

by Jacqueline Kazil  · 4 Feb 2016

The End of Big: How the Internet Makes David the New Goliath

by Nicco Mele  · 14 Apr 2013  · 270pp  · 79,992 words

Late Bloomers: The Power of Patience in a World Obsessed With Early Achievement

by Rich Karlgaard  · 15 Apr 2019  · 321pp  · 92,828 words

The Launch Pad: Inside Y Combinator, Silicon Valley's Most Exclusive School for Startups

by Randall Stross  · 4 Sep 2013  · 332pp  · 97,325 words

Seven Databases in Seven Weeks: A Guide to Modern Databases and the NoSQL Movement

by Eric Redmond, Jim Wilson and Jim R. Wilson  · 7 May 2012  · 713pp  · 93,944 words

Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber

by Mike Isaac  · 2 Sep 2019  · 444pp  · 127,259 words

The Mesh: Why the Future of Business Is Sharing

by Lisa Gansky  · 14 Oct 2010  · 215pp  · 55,212 words

Mastering Blockchain: Unlocking the Power of Cryptocurrencies and Smart Contracts

by Lorne Lantz and Daniel Cawrey  · 8 Dec 2020  · 434pp  · 77,974 words

Digital Bank: Strategies for Launching or Becoming a Digital Bank

by Chris Skinner  · 27 Aug 2013  · 329pp  · 95,309 words

Humans Need Not Apply: A Guide to Wealth and Work in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

by Jerry Kaplan  · 3 Aug 2015  · 237pp  · 64,411 words

Roads and Bridges

by Nadia Eghbal  · 139pp  · 35,022 words

Succeeding With AI: How to Make AI Work for Your Business

by Veljko Krunic  · 29 Mar 2020

HBase: The Definitive Guide

by Lars George  · 29 Aug 2011

Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain: Bitcoin, Blockchain, Ethereum & Smart Contracts

by David Gerard  · 23 Jul 2017  · 309pp  · 54,839 words

@War: The Rise of the Military-Internet Complex

by Shane Harris  · 14 Sep 2014  · 340pp  · 96,149 words

The Second Intelligent Species: How Humans Will Become as Irrelevant as Cockroaches

by Marshall Brain  · 6 Apr 2015  · 215pp  · 56,215 words

WikiLeaks and the Age of Transparency

by Micah L. Sifry  · 19 Feb 2011  · 212pp  · 49,544 words

The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding From You

by Eli Pariser  · 11 May 2011  · 274pp  · 75,846 words

Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World

by Clive Thompson  · 26 Mar 2019  · 499pp  · 144,278 words

Industry 4.0: The Industrial Internet of Things

by Alasdair Gilchrist  · 27 Jun 2016

CTOs at Work

by Scott Donaldson, Stanley Siegel and Gary Donaldson  · 13 Jan 2012  · 458pp  · 135,206 words

The Business Blockchain: Promise, Practice, and Application of the Next Internet Technology

by William Mougayar  · 25 Apr 2016  · 161pp  · 44,488 words

Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley

by Antonio Garcia Martinez  · 27 Jun 2016  · 559pp  · 155,372 words

The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future

by Kevin Kelly  · 6 Jun 2016  · 371pp  · 108,317 words

Clojure Programming

by Chas Emerick, Brian Carper and Christophe Grand  · 15 Aug 2011  · 999pp  · 194,942 words

Hadoop: The Definitive Guide

by Tom White  · 29 May 2009  · 933pp  · 205,691 words

Wild Ride: Inside Uber's Quest for World Domination

by Adam Lashinsky  · 31 Mar 2017  · 190pp  · 62,941 words

Ctrl Alt Delete: Reboot Your Business. Reboot Your Life. Your Future Depends on It.

by Mitch Joel  · 20 May 2013  · 260pp  · 76,223 words

Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies

by Reid Hoffman and Chris Yeh  · 14 Apr 2018  · 286pp  · 87,401 words

Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy

by Lawrence Lessig  · 2 Jan 2009

Graph Databases

by Ian Robinson, Jim Webber and Emil Eifrem  · 13 Jun 2013  · 201pp  · 63,192 words

The New Kingmakers

by Stephen O'Grady  · 14 Mar 2013  · 56pp  · 16,788 words

How to Turn Down a Billion Dollars: The Snapchat Story

by Billy Gallagher  · 13 Feb 2018  · 359pp  · 96,019 words

The Truth Machine: The Blockchain and the Future of Everything

by Paul Vigna and Michael J. Casey  · 27 Feb 2018  · 348pp  · 97,277 words

Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Story of Anonymous

by Gabriella Coleman  · 4 Nov 2014  · 457pp  · 126,996 words

Always Day One: How the Tech Titans Plan to Stay on Top Forever

by Alex Kantrowitz  · 6 Apr 2020  · 260pp  · 67,823 words

The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America

by Margaret O'Mara  · 8 Jul 2019

Ubuntu 15.04 Server with systemd: Administration and Reference

by Richard Petersen  · 15 May 2015

Your Computer Is on Fire

by Thomas S. Mullaney, Benjamin Peters, Mar Hicks and Kavita Philip  · 9 Mar 2021  · 661pp  · 156,009 words

WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us

by Tim O'Reilly  · 9 Oct 2017  · 561pp  · 157,589 words

The Business of Platforms: Strategy in the Age of Digital Competition, Innovation, and Power

by Michael A. Cusumano, Annabelle Gawer and David B. Yoffie  · 6 May 2019  · 328pp  · 84,682 words

Modern Monopolies: What It Takes to Dominate the 21st Century Economy

by Alex Moazed and Nicholas L. Johnson  · 30 May 2016  · 324pp  · 89,875 words

Architecting Modern Data Platforms: A Guide to Enterprise Hadoop at Scale

by Jan Kunigk, Ian Buss, Paul Wilkinson and Lars George  · 8 Jan 2019  · 1,409pp  · 205,237 words

Principles of Web API Design: Delivering Value with APIs and Microservices

by James Higginbotham  · 20 Dec 2021  · 283pp  · 78,705 words

Reset

by Ronald J. Deibert  · 14 Aug 2020

You've Been Played: How Corporations, Governments, and Schools Use Games to Control Us All

by Adrian Hon  · 14 Sep 2022  · 371pp  · 107,141 words

Python for Unix and Linux System Administration

by Noah Gift and Jeremy M. Jones  · 29 Jun 2009  · 603pp  · 141,814 words

Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy as We Know It

by Kashmir Hill  · 19 Sep 2023  · 487pp  · 124,008 words

AIQ: How People and Machines Are Smarter Together

by Nick Polson and James Scott  · 14 May 2018  · 301pp  · 85,126 words

The Measure of Progress: Counting What Really Matters

by Diane Coyle  · 15 Apr 2025  · 321pp  · 112,477 words

Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires

by Douglas Rushkoff  · 7 Sep 2022  · 205pp  · 61,903 words

RDF Database Systems: Triples Storage and SPARQL Query Processing

by Olivier Cure and Guillaume Blin  · 10 Dec 2014

API Design Patterns

by Jj Geewax  · 19 Jul 2021  · 725pp  · 168,262 words

Sickening: How Big Pharma Broke American Health Care and How We Can Repair It

by John Abramson  · 15 Dec 2022  · 362pp  · 97,473 words

The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI

by Ray Kurzweil  · 25 Jun 2024

Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter

by Kate Conger and Ryan Mac  · 17 Sep 2024

On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything

by Nate Silver  · 12 Aug 2024  · 848pp  · 227,015 words

Ajax: The Definitive Guide

by Anthony T. Holdener  · 25 Jan 2008  · 982pp  · 221,145 words

Solr 1.4 Enterprise Search Server

by David Smiley and Eric Pugh  · 15 Nov 2009  · 648pp  · 108,814 words

Ansible Playbook Essentials

by Gourav Shah  · 29 Jul 2015  · 178pp  · 33,275 words

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