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🎉 Big news to share! 🎉 I'm beyond excited to announce that the first two chapters of my FOURTH book are now live for early release on O'Reilly! 📚✨ "Microsoft Certified Azure Developer Associate (AZ-204) Study Guide" is officially available for you to start reading. This book is the result of months of research, writing, and technical reviews from some of the best minds in the industry. This one means a lot to me. Not just because it's my fourth book but because it's launching right before Christmas, my second favourite time of the year (obviously, my birthday is the first 😂). If you've ever wanted to boost your cloud development skills or prepare for the AZ-204 certification, I wrote this with you in mind. I created it to make your learning journey simpler, clearer, and more achievable. To start reading, you can create an account on O'Reilly and get a 10-day free trial. The link is here ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/eWEDvt84 Thank you for your support, encouragement, and belief in my mission to make cloud education more accessible. I hope this book becomes a go-to resource on your certification journey. If you're trying to get Azure certified soon, please plan to read this ❤️

✨ July Conversations: Top Featured Interviews ✨ In July, HRTech Series hosted inspiring conversations with leaders shaping the future of HR, technology, and workplace innovation. Revisit their valuable insights: 🎙️ Debra Squyres, Chief Customer Officer at Bonusly Discover how Bonusly is redefining employee recognition to boost engagement and workplace culture. 👉 Read the full interview - https://lnkd.in/gbXDtwup 🎙️ Laura Baldwin, President at O'Reilly Explore the intersection of learning and technology, and how O’Reilly is empowering professionals to upskill. 👉 Read the full interview - https://lnkd.in/dyMfixrN 🎙️ Frank Wolf, CSO & Co-Founder at Staffbase Learn how Staffbase is transforming employee communication to drive alignment and productivity. 👉 Read the full interview - https://lnkd.in/gyY9-weZ 🎙️ Bruce van Wyk, CEO at PaySpace by Deel Understand how PaySpace by Deel is revolutionizing global payroll solutions with innovative tech. 👉 Read the full interview - https://lnkd.in/d8ZF3EXs 🎙️ Nazuk Jain 👩💻, VP of Product & Innovation at PayQuicker Dive into PayQuicker’s approach to streamlining payments and driving innovation in financial solutions. 👉 Read the full interview - https://lnkd.in/dKx5f_yW 💡 Don’t miss these conversations packed with actionable strategies and industry trends. #HRTech #EmployeeExperience #Innovation #Leadership #FutureOfWork #HRInsights #HRTechSeries

Everyone in your organization—not just tech teams—needs to be up to speed with #GenAI to keep ahead of your competition. So give them access to the O’Reilly AI Academy, with hand-selected essential tracks and more content tailored to your employees’ roles so they can learn to put GenAI to work. https://bit.ly/3MBSrgO #AIAcademy #BeAIReady

Composed of 16 chapters, this book provides practical guidance to help organizations understand the importance of lifecycle concepts, needs, requirements, verification, and validation activities, enabling them to successfully and effectively implement these activities during #ProductDevelopment, #SystemsEngineering, and #ProjectManagement: https://bit.ly/3DiSbBN

Look what arrived just in time for Christmas! 🖼️ 🎄 I've been looking forward to the arrival of my framed book cover for a long time. Now I just need to get it on the wall... What will take longest, the frame arriving or me getting it on the wall? 😂 #book #softwareDevelopment #softwareDesign #softwareArchitecture #communication

My brother Andrew Harmel Law’s O'Reilly book is out now! It’s a sort of post-post-Agile idea - a way to remove hierarchy and enable teams to work together, consulting the right people and removing obstacles to flow, to reach the best outcomes. It’s primarily for developers. But I think anyone interested in teams like moi could read it too (I intend to read it and will probably go on about it anyway 👀).

A new version of my e-book, Apprendre Microsoft Azure is also now available on in French! 🇫🇷 To French-speaking friends and followers, if you are interested to review the quality of this translated online version, please let me know by comments or DM. Read the french version of my book, Learning Microsoft Azure: Cloud Computing and Development Fundamentals (O'Reilly) 🔗 https://lnkd.in/dqYb7UXq #microsoftazure #learningmicrosoftazurebook #oreillybook #apprendremicrosoftazure #learnazureinfrench

Wondering whats in my new 481-page book Facilitating Software Architecture for O'Reilly? Why not listen to one of the two AI-generated podcasts dedicated to it. They are *amazing*. https://lnkd.in/ePRmxmHA

📚 Many friends have recently asked me about getting deeper into LLMs - beyond just prompting. "How do I actually understand what's happening under the hood?" Here's my top 5 reading list for anyone looking to truly grasp LLM fundamentals and implementation: 1) "Hands-On Large Language Models" by Jay Alammar & Maarten Grootendorst - Excellent practical guide, Amazing Illustrations and code exmplaes 2) "Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch)" by Sebastian Raschka, PhD - Perfect for understanding core architecture. Goes into details also about e.g. data preprocessing. 3) "Building LLM Powered Applications" by Valentina Alto - Great for real-world implementation, heavy focus on using open-source libraries like LangChain 4) "Natural Language Processing with Transformers" by Lewis Tunstall, Leandro von Werra & Thomas Wolf - Essential for understanding the backbone of modern LLMs. Naturally Hugging Face focused, which is good. 5) "Understanding Deep Learning" by Simon Prince - Amazing theoretical foundation. Has the most math, but explained in very friendly way and easy to follow step-by-step. This stack has been invaluable in moving from "using" to "understanding" LLMs. Hope it helps others on the same journey! Am I missing any resources? Any more recommendations from the crowd? #AI #MachineLearning #LLM

Join Ben Lorica 罗瑞卡 and Thomas Smoker for a discussion of #GraphRAG, one of the hottest topics of the last few months. GraphRAG goes a step beyond RAG to make the output of language models more consistent, accurate, and explainable. But what is a graph? A graph is a way of structuring data. In the end, it’s the structure that’s important, along with the work you do to create that structure: https://bit.ly/4iMnJQY