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I'm happy to share the news that <drumroll> our book, Effective Behavior Driven Development, is FINISHED and has been sent to production. And, it's deal of the day on October 26th! hubs.la/Q03L7kXM0 Forewords by @davefarley77.bsky.social and Gojko Adzic @manning.com

Halloween Sale starts Oct. 26! Once activated, each sale continues thru the 1st: The sales: • Oct. 26: 20% off Annual Pro sub • Oct. 27: Half off MEAPs • Oct. 28: Half off eBooks • Oct. 29: $10 liveProjects & liveVideos • Oct. 30: Half off pBooks • Oct. 31: 20% off Team sub • Nov. 1: Everything

#P99CONF is going strong! Last day is tomorrow — don't miss out!

The complete manuscript of LLM Customization and Fine-Tuning ( @manning.com, MEAP, with Weehyong Tok) is now in Early Access. New: full fine-tuning, distillation, preference optimization, and production. One model, one dataset, from prompting to deployment. hubs.la/Q04nJFBn0

Book of the Day: Functional Programming in C++ by Ivan Čukić meetingcpp.com/mcpp/books/b... #cplusplus #cpp

#Postgres doesn't have a #GettingStarted page 😭 #Developer, educator, student, beginner? Come tell us how we fix that and what you'd like to see there. #PostgreSQL #Training Materials WG, @pgconf.eu Community Events Day, 23 Oct in Valencia, Spain. 👇 2026.pgconf.eu/community-ev... #PGConfEU #Dev

"Is it good?" sounds like a simple question. But good at what? For who? Under what conditions? And what happens when it gets things wrong? Our new MEAP, Evaluating AI Systems teaches you how to ask the right questions so you can trust the answers. Half off through Oct. 20th: hubs.la/Q04zQDjh0

Marketing said they wanted a promotional video showing the book "in the wild". I'm assuming the Puget Sound shellfish research laboratory's beach counts as "in the wild".

One of the conferences we support every year! And it's a great one. Check out the schedule and get your tickets ↓

Your code compiles. The tests pass. The linter is happy. And it can still be wrong in ways that matter most. Memory Safe C++ digs into the kinds of memory-safety problems that hide behind those green checks, especially in safety-critical software. Half off through Oct. 7th: hubs.la/Q04zf2bK0

Lots of great Manning books being featured ↓ P.S. #P99CONF is awesome. You should go.

Interesting thread if you want a peek into how things work "behind the scenes" here at Manning ↓

I think we’d all feel a better if we logged off and took a breather outside away from a screen

There's a certain kind of satisfaction in realizing something that looked way too complicated is actually something you can play with. Grokking Parallel Programming starts small, builds up to CUDA, & lets you practice in the browser without a GPU. Half off through tomorrow: hubs.la/Q04y8Cm50

Another great Manning author: @denodell.bsky.social. His book, Fast by Default, is all about being proactive and working with performance in mind from the get-go. That way, you have more time to build the stuff your users will love. The book: hubs.la/Q04y54-p0

Ever wonder how a recommendation system decides what to put in front of you? There's a lot more going on than "you liked X, so here's Y." Data, ranking, cold starts, evaluation, and now LLMs, RAG, and agents all play a role. AI Recommender Systems teaches you the ins and outs: hubs.la/Q04xQnv20

Reminder! NodeConf.eu is almost here! Just a couple more weeks. We hope you'll be able to join us in person, but if you can't we will be live streaming the talks. Until then, while you're waiting for CI to finish or the AI agent to finish, you can try to make it to lunch github.com/jasnell/prom...

Your promotion process may be scattered across CI jobs, scripts, PRs, and manual approvals. 🙋 See how Kargo brings promotion, verification, governance, and audit history into one control plane: buff.ly/6cHY7DZ #Kargo #GitOps

At this the point, people independently discover the same problems when they build agents. It might be time to start naming those patterns. Because shared language makes it easier for people to learn from each other. Agent Design Patterns starts that conversation. Learn more: hubs.la/Q04xbQ_20

A great Manning book ↓

Our annual Labor Day Sale is live 🥳

All right, so you inherited bad database. Improper encodings, 100-column tables, missing indexes, a huge temp_1 table nobody remembers creating. The recording of my July LinkedIn Live on inheriting a bad #PostgreSQL #database is now up. vyruss.org/blog/linkedi... #Postgres @manning.com

🐍🎧 Exploring Complex Systems & Maintainable Data Science Pipelines What are the key characteristics of complex systems? Christopher Trudeau is back on the show this week with another batch of PyCoder's Weekly articles and projects. realpython.com/podcasts/rpp...

Deal of the Day August 24: Save 45% on my book Fast by Default and other selected titles @manning.com : hubs.la/Q03-d27Y0

A short blog about my #Cpp #Books buontempoconsulting.blogspot.com/2026/08/lear... to help you decide if you want one of them

A lot of Manning authors. Check it out! And it's one of the annual conferences we sponsor :)

Another great C++ Manning book!

LLMs are impressive. But, there are tradeoffs. If you need precision, consistency, or domain expertise, being impressive may not be important. When your priorities are the former, Building Specialized AI Systems can teach you how to adapt pretrained language models. Get it here: hubs.la/Q04t6-Cg0

Looking forward to @renderatl.com next week. If you're there, and you see me. Ask me about my book and you might receive one of five special @manning.com e-book discount codes good for any book in the Manning catalog that I have to give away.

Couple weeks ago I had my buddy @ericlippert.com on the podcast to talk about his book Fantastic Adventures in Data Structures and Algorithms, and now the book is out! Manning Publications Co. hubs.la/Q03Q9Q9y0 It's on sale right now in early access

People get upset that we're not able to do things that big publishers do. Like print all of our books in color. Then, occasionally, we get keyboard warriors that fight for us instead of against us. Being a small publisher is hard sometimes. Other times, it's pretty great.

Your app should belong to you. Not your framework, database, or a third-party API. Hexagonal architecture keeps those dependencies at the edges so core apps can stay independent. Clean Apps with Hexagonal Architecture shows you how to put that into practice. 50% off thru 8/19: hubs.la/Q04rVMnH0

great sale going on — now extended through sunday 🥳 p.s. feel free to wish @naomiceder.tech a belated happy birthday for good measure 🥰

Oh very cool: Vanilla Web by Maximiliano Firtman, a whole book on build web apps without a framework library www.manning.com/books/vanill...