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Web services

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• Application software

• Cloud computing

• 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)

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

• 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)
• Cloud Computing for Science and Engineering (prepublication version, 2017), by Ian Foster and Dennis B. Gannon (HTML at cloud4scienceng.org)
• 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)

• Data-Intensive Text Processing With MapReduce (prepublication version, 2010), by Jimmy Lin and Chris Dyer (PDF at umd.edu)

• 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)
• Embedded Software Development With eCos (2003), by Anthony J. Massa (PDF at phptr.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)
• Apache Jakarta Commons: Reusable Java Components, by Will Iverson (PDF at phptr.com)
• Java Application Development on Linux, by Carl Albing and Michael Schwarz (PDF at phptr.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)

• 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)

• 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)