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• Invisible Engines: How Software Platforms Drive Innovation and Transform Industries (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2006), by David S. Evans, Andrei Hagiu, and Richard Schmalensee (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)
• OpenMP Application Program Interface (version 5.0; 2018) (HTML and PDF with commentary at openmp.org)
• The Java EE 6 Tutorial (c2013), by Eric Jendrock, Ricardo Cervera-Navarro, Ian Evans, Devika Gollapudi, Kim Haase, William Markito, and Chinmayee Srivathsa (HTML at PDF at Oracle)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Perl and LWP (online edition, 2007), by Sean M. Burke (HTML at interglacial.com)
• Software Engineering for Internet Applications (Cambridge. MA: MIT Press, 2006), by Eve Astrid Andersson, Philip Greenspun, and Andrew Grumet (HTML at greenspun.com)

• Kubernetes Patterns: Reusable Elements for Designing Cloud-Native Applications (Sebastopol, CA et al.: O'Reilly Media, 2019), by Bilgin Ibryam and Roland Huss (PDF at redhat.com)
• Elasticsearch: The Definitive Guide (Creative Commons edition; c2015), by Clinton Gormley and Zachary Tong (HTML with commentary at elastic.co)
• Android 4 App Development Essentials (c2014), by Neil Smyth (illustrated HTML with commentary at techotopia.com)
• Java Platform, Enterprise Edition: The Java EE Tutorial, Release 7 (c2014), by Eric Jendrock, Ricardo Cervera-Navarro, Ian Evans, Kim Haase, and William Markito (HTML at PDF at Oracle)
• Speaking JavaScript: An In-Depth Guide for Programmers (originally published 2014), by Axel Rauschmayer (HTML with commentary at speakingjs.com)
• Developing Backbone.js Applications (originally published 2013), by Addy Osmani (HTML with commentary at addyosmani.com)
• Apache Jakarta Commons: Reusable Java Components (c2005), by Will Iverson (PDF at pearsoncmg.com)
• Embedded Software Development With eCos (2003), by Anthony J. Massa (PDF at pearsoncmg.com)
• High Performance Browser Networking (Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly, c2013), by Ilya Grigorik (illustrated HTML with commentary at hpbn.co)
• The Java EE 6 Tutorial (c2013), by Eric Jendrock, Ricardo Cervera-Navarro, Ian Evans, Devika Gollapudi, Kim Haase, William Markito, and Chinmayee Srivathsa (HTML at PDF at Oracle)
• Exploring Lift (c2012), by Derek Chen-Becker, Marius Danciu, and Tyler Weir (PDF and HTML with commentary at liftweb.net)
• Simply Lift (c2011), by David Pollak (HTML at liftweb.net)
• Mobile Design and Development (electronic edition, originally published 2009), by Brian Fling (HTML with commentary at Wayback Machine)
• Getting Real: The Smarter, Faster, Easier Way to Build a Successful Web Application (2006), by 37signals (Firm) (HTML with commentary at 37signals.com)
• GTK+ / Gnome Application Development, by Havoc Pennington (HTML at linuxtopia.org)
• Java Application Development on Linux, by Carl Albing and Michael Schwarz (PDF at pearsoncmg.com)
• The Java Web Services Tutorial, by Eric Armstrong, Stephanie Bodoff, Debbie Carson, Maydene Fisher, Scott Fordin, Dale Green, Kim Haase, and Eric Jendrock (HTML at sun.com)
• Microservices Best Practices for Java, by Michael Hofmann, Erin Schnabel, and Katherine Stanley (multiple formats at IBM)
• Test-Driven Development With Python, by Harry Percival (illustrated HTML with commentary at obeythetestinggoat.com)
• Gamification at Work: Designing Engaging Business Software, by Janaki Kumar and Mario Herger (HTML with commentary at interaction-design.org)

• Developing Web Applications with Haskell and Yesod (free online editions for various versions), by Michael Snoyman (HTML with commentary at yesodweb.com)
• Web2py: Complete Reference Manual, by Massimo Di Pierro (HTML and PDF with commentary at web2py.com)

• Test-Driven Development With Python, by Harry Percival (illustrated HTML with commentary at obeythetestinggoat.com)

• China's Algorithms of Repression: Reverse Engineering a Xinjiang Police Mass Surveillance App (in English, Chinese, Arabic, and other languages; New York: Human Rights Watch, 2019), by Maya Wang (illustrated HTML and PDF files with commentary at hrw.org)

• Microservices Best Practices for Java, by Michael Hofmann, Erin Schnabel, and Katherine Stanley (multiple formats at IBM)

• RESTful Web Services (2007), by Leonard Richardson and Sam Ruby (multiple formats with commentary at crummy.com)
• The Tower and the Cloud: Higher Education in the Age of Cloud (c2008), ed. by Richard N. Katz (PDF and HTML files with commentary at Educause)