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Master Claude Code as an agentic coding and engineering platform for building governed AI workflows, autonomous agents, developer tooling, and enterprise-ready automation through practical patterns and deployment strategiesKey FeaturesDeploy AI-assisted development workflows securely across teams and production pipelinesUnderstand Claude Code’s architecture, memory design, orchestration models, and execution flowCreate reusable AI capabilities using Skills, Hooks, and MCP servers across your development workflowsBook DescriptionClaude Code is evolving from a coding assistant into a programmable platform for building intelligent development workflows. As teams adopt AI-assisted development, the challenge is no longer just generating code but building reliable systems that can be extended, governed, and integrated into daily work. This book shows how to turn Claude Code into a structured development platform.You will learn to add persistent project context, create reusable capabilities, coordinate agents, automate routine checks, and connect Claude Code with the tools behind modern delivery. Drawing on concrete engineering examples, the book covers scalable workflows for individual projects, teams, and enterprise environments. You will discover ways to improve consistency, enforce standards, manage risks, and keep control as AI becomes part of the development lifecycle.Through hands-on examples, you will build extensible workflows, integrate external systems, automate governance, and support continuous delivery. The book also covers security, debugging, cost management, and adoption strategies that help teams move from experimentation to production use. By the end, you will be able to design and manage Claude Code-powered environments that improve productivity while supporting quality, reliability, and maintainability.What you will learnAnalyze Claude Code's layered architecture and execution modelCoordinate specialized agents for complex app development tasksDesign persistent project intelligence using memory systemsDevelop reusable capabilities through structured SkillsAutomate quality and governance with event-driven HooksIntegrate external databases and services using MCP standardsBuild programmable workflows with the Agent SDKApply enterprise deployment patterns for secure, scalable AI adoptionWho this book is forThis book is for full-stack developers, software engineers, DevOps practitioners, technical architects, engineering managers, and AI enthusiasts who want to integrate Claude Code into modern software delivery processes. Readers should have basic programming knowledge and familiarity with development tools. Whether you are exploring AI-assisted development for personal productivity or implementing organization-wide automation, this book provides the architectural understanding and practical guidance needed to build governed, efficient, and extensible AI-powered development workflows.

A rigorous, code-first guide to RAG engineering by a bestselling AI author. Master data ingestion, chunking, embeddings, vector storage, hybrid retrieval, reranking, and evaluation from the ground up.Free with your book: DRM-free PDF version + access to Packt's next-gen Reader*Key FeaturesEngineer RAG systems layer by layer, from ingestion to evaluationMaster hybrid retrieval, reranking, and index optimization strategiesLearn through a dialogue-driven, code-first teaching style used by 10,000+ of studentsBook DescriptionMost developers can spin up a RAG pipeline in an afternoon using LangChain or LlamaIndex. Far fewer understand why retrieval fails or how to fix it. This book is for those who want to go deeper.RAG From First Principles dismantles the retrieval-augmented generation stack layer by layer, explaining how documents are ingested and parsed, why chunking strategy directly impacts answer quality, how embedding models encode meaning, what happens inside a vector database, and how sparse and dense retrieval interact in a hybrid system. Written by Jia Huang, a research engineer and bestselling AI author, it brings both research depth and production experience to one of AI's most critical engineering disciplines.Structured as a progressive dialogue between a seasoned engineer and two students, the book surfaces the questions practitioners actually ask. Each chapter builds on the last, covering topics from data import and chunking to embedding selection, index design, hybrid search, and post-retrieval processing, before moving on to response generation, evaluation, and advanced paradigms including GraphRAG, Agentic RAG, and Modular RAG.By the end, you'll have the architectural understanding to optimize, debug, and extend your RAG systems with confidence.*Email sign-up and proof of purchase requiredWhat you will learnParse and ingest diverse document types like PDFs, tables, images, web pages, and structured dataApply the right chunking strategy for your content type and retrieval goalsSelect, compare, and fine-tune embedding models for your domainDesign vector indexes and choose the right similarity metrics for production useImprove result quality with reranking methods including RRF, cross-encoders, and ColBERTIntegrate retrieval results into generation pipelines using prompt engineering and Self-RAGWho this book is forThis book is for AI engineers, ML practitioners, and software developers building LLM-powered applications who want a deeper understanding of how retrieval actually works, not just how to call a framework. It is ideal for readers who have built a basic RAG pipeline and now want architectural clarity, optimization strategies.Technical leads and architects designing production AI systems will find its systematic treatment of indexing, hybrid search, reranking, and evaluation particularly valuable. Familiarity with Python and foundational LLM concepts is assumed.