Need to achieve more with less? Improve dev, team & workflow performance.

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Businesses have slashed budgets this year.

That means you're going to have to find ways to reinvent, adapt and do more with less.

How do you do that?

By starting with what's closest to you:

Below you'll find a selection of our top picks below, helping you to adapt, improve your performance and take advantage of new opportunities as they arise:

Workflow improvements:

Jump Start Git, 2nd Edition

Whether you're a Git newbie or you've been using it for some time but only really scratching the surface of its capabilities, this book will help you to gain a deep understanding of how Git works, and how to use it to streamline your workflow.

Visual Studio Code: End-to-End Editing and Debugging Tools for Web Developers

This up-to-date guide covers all of the essential components of Visual Studio Code, including the editing features of the workspace, advanced functionality such as code refactoring and key binding, and integration with Grunt, Gulp, NPM, and other external tools.

Browser Devtool Secrets

Browser development tools have evolved from basic consoles to fully integrated development environments. It’s become possible to alter and inspect any aspect of your web application, but few of us venture beyond the basics. In this guide, we’ll explore the features you may not have considered.

Jenkins Fundamentals

Jenkins Fundamentals teaches you everything you need to know about installing, setting up, configuring, and integrating a Jenkins server with your project to speed up the product development life cycle. You will learn how to deploy via Docker and integrate with Git. Next you will move on to understanding bespoke plugins and services to further customize your workflow, and dynamically adjust your build requirements when pushing to production.

Docker Cookbook Second Edition

Docker is an open source platform for building, shipping, managing, and securing containers. This book includes practical exmaples showing you how to manage containers efficiently; how to integrate with orchestration tools such as Kubernetes; and best practices on improving the efficiency and security of containers.

Code improvements:

Performance Tools

Build better with performance tools to make your sites and apps run faster. Packed with more than 23 performance tools such as Pingdom, GTmetrix, PHP-FPM tuning, Chrome's Dev Console, Siege and more, to improve load performance and improve user experience.

Performance Project

Build skills in fast web performance with practical projects utilising Symfony flex, PHP and Blackfire, MySQL, Perception, Pingdom, Varnish and more.

Front End Performance

Bigger doesn't always mean better – especially if it's a slow user experience. Covering browser support, WordPress themes, image loading, CSS selectors and animations, prefetching and a lot more, this book will give you the tools and skills to build fast, delightful websites and apps.

Jump Start Web Performance

This practical, short book provides advice, tips, and best practice for improving website performance, ranging from quick, five-minute configuration changes to major website overhauls, concentrating on front-end activities and server configurations to optimize the code delivered to a browser.

Team improvements:

The DevOps Adoption Playbook

This award-winning book provides actionable, real-world guidance on implementing DevOps in large-scale enterprise IT environments, explaining how to achieve high-value innovation and optimization with low cost and risk, and exceed traditional business goals with higher product release efficiency.

The Art of Working Remotely

If you work from home, a coworking space, or coffee shop, this book is for you. Discover how to set up a quality workspace. Learn the behaviors and practices that contribute to remote worker success. You, too, can thrive in a distributed workplace.

Building Test-Driven Developers

In this book Chris draws on his experience of helping developers build the skills needed to become good at testing. His views on what to do when there are no tests but you want some, or what to do with a test suite nobody likes will challenge your thoughts on what testing is really about.

Influencing Virtual Teams

Learn the psychological secrets of persuasion that influence your remote employees to do what you need them to do. In "Influencing Virtual Teams" you'll get step-by-step tactics that you can implement straightaway with your team to improve your team's engagement and commitment to doing their work.

Scrum: Novice to Ninja

Create a highly effective and flexible work process. Using a practical team example, you'll learn why scrum works so well, the roles, rituals, artifacts and contracts in a scrum process, as well as the lifecycle of a story, adapting and transitioning to scrum.

Practical Kanban

This book will give you practical answers to these questions: Are we using Kanban properly? How can we improve our Kanban? How can we scale our Kanban? How can our work become more predictable? How can we prioritize?

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