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New MEAP! Evaluation and Alignment, The Seminal Papers
Building trustworthy AI
It's a fundamental truth that all software—even AI systems—is broken. AI engineers who can diagnose faults and refine systems to align with business needs are in high demand. Evaluation and Alignment, The Seminal Papers expands the foundational research into judging and adapting AI systems into a collection of practical techniques you can use on the job.
As you trace the progression from surface-level text matching, to semantic similarity, to judgment-based evaluation, you'll build the mental models necessary to choose the right metrics, detect
failure modes, and close the loop from evaluation to alignment. You'll employ a "working backwards" methodology that begins with what your system must get right, which directs you to the appropriate evaluation approach. Soon, you'll be making more informed tradeoffs, and expertly balancing helpfulness, safety, and brand voice in your models! [Read more]
3 chapters of this new MEAP are available now with more to follow soon!
Healthcare IT systems are extraordinarily complex, highly regulated, and intensely private. They can also literally be a matter of life or death! Developers specializing in healthcare IT need to understand this unique set of constraints and how they affect application design, development, and deployment. Healthcare IT delivers the skills and domain knowledge you need to become an effective contributor to—or leader of—a healthcare IT team!
In this engaging book, author William Laolagi explores an end-to-end Electronic Health Record (EHR) application. You'll appreciate how he demystifies industry standards like HL7 and FHIR and shows you how to integrate modern approaches like event-driven messaging and AI within regulatory boundaries. As you go, you'll develop the ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders using accurate healthcare IT terminology and learn the benefits of differentiating your skill set in this challenging field. [Read more]
3 chapters of this new MEAP are available now with more to follow soon!
It's never been easier to generate high-quality code quickly. Most delay, waste, and fragility in software development persists because end-to-end delivery systems are burdened with unnecessary steps, complex infrastructure, and needless ceremony. Lean Software Engineering: Fix the system, not the code introduces an AI-aware systems thinking approach adapted for the modern software development lifecycle, targeting the bottlenecks where high-value improvements live.
In this book, author Leigh Griffin demonstrates how Lean thinking can shape quality, operational cost, and long-term maintainability in a workflow that includes coding agents and other modern tools. Instantly familiar concrete examples ground each concept, including pull request reviews, debugging scenarios, and CI/CD workflows that mirror real-world engineering practice. [Read more]
3 chapters of this new MEAP are available now with more to follow soon!
New MEAP! Retrieval Augmented Generation, The Seminal Papers
Principles for architecting reliable and verifiable AI
Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) is a standard process for grounding LLM prompts in user-specified content rather than relying only on a model's training data. RAG has grown from a simple prompt engineering workflow into a sophisticated set of data analysis, storage, and retrieval techniques. Retrieval Augmented Generation, The Seminal Papers explores 12 foundational research papers that explain why RAG works, how it's built, and what makes it different from other approaches.
This authoritative book explores the papers that define RAG's enduring architectural pattern. Author Ben Auffarth traces RAG's evolution from the foundational breakthroughs of REALM, RAG, and DPR to advanced architectures like FiD and Atlas. As you master the patterns behind RAG, you'll better understand tradeoffs, diagnose failures, and effectively evaluate and improve your own RAG implementations. [Read more]
5 chapters of this new MEAP are available now with more to follow soon!
Now in print! Grokking AI Algorithms, Second Edition
How AI solves complex problems
You know you can solve a problem with AI—but how? Which algorithm do you pick and how do you properly implement it? Grokking AI Algorithms, Second Edition makes it simple and easy to understand the most core and common AI approaches. You'll learn how to understand problem types, map real-world tasks to those problems, and how to design and implement the right algorithm—all following clear visual examples, pseudocode, and learning-oriented examples.
most important AI algorithms using relatable illustrations, interesting examples, and thought-provoking exercises. Written in simple language and with lots of visual references and hands-on code examples, it helps you build a natural intuition into how intelligent systems learn, plan, and adapt. This second edition has been thoroughly revised, with new chapters on large language models, image generation, and more. [Read more]
Now in print! Kubernetes in Action, Second Edition
Deploying and managing containers and cloud-native applications
Kubernetes is the de facto standard for deploying containerized distributed applications. This powerful platform acts as an operating system for containers and clusters, reducing the need to micro-manage network and server infrastructure. Used daily by millions of developers, administrators, and architects, Kubernetes is must-know enterprise software.
Kubernetes in Action, Second Edition is the definitive guide to developing and deploying software with Kubernetes. Built on the bestselling first edition, this
end-to-end revision provides up-to-date coverage on structuring Kubernetes-based applications and taking advantage of the Kubernetes API. You'll also discover other key topics like configuration, attaching storage, scaling, and zero-downtime maintenance. [Read more]
content of this book, is now part of a more encompassing product called the Microsoft Agent Framework. So, to provide you with content that's up to date and aligned with Microsoft's new direction, author Daniel Costea has been working hard on significant revisions. In this release, you'll find new, completely updated versions of chapters 1-4.
.NET Aspire Made Easy >> Chapter 10, "Adding Legacy Apps to Aspire and Working with AI Agents" >> The author of this invaluable resource has decided that the manuscript wouldn't be complete without a chapter on how to modernize systems that are currently using a previous version of Aspire, how to leverage tooling to add existing (non-Aspire) applications to Aspire, how to integrate Aspire solutions with AI coding assistants, and more—helping you meet the future head on with Aspire!
Vanilla Web >> Chapter 7, "Web Components" >> Explore a design pattern whose importance becomes more evident as your Vanilla Web applications grow, and see for yourself how it makes them easier to reason about, test, and maintain.
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