Books by Alira Vexel
94 titles available, newest first by original publication date.

Linux Kernel Performance Engineering: Understand Scheduling, Memory, I/O, Networking, Filesystems, Interrupts, NUMA, eBPF, Profiling, and Kernel-Level
Alira Vexel
$29.99

Vmware Cloud Foundation 9 in Production: Build and Operate Modern Private Clouds with vSphere 9, ESX, vSAN, NSX, VKS, VCF Automation, Operations, Terr
Alira Vexel
$29.99

Production AI on Kubernetes: Build and Operate LLM Inference and Agentic AI Platforms with vLLM, KServe, KubeRay, Kueue, NVIDIA GPUs, Inference Gatewa
Alira Vexel
$30.99

Proxmox Private Cloud in Production: Build Enterprise-Grade Private Clouds with Proxmox VE 9, Ceph, SDN, High Availability, Proxmox Backup Server, Dat
Alira Vexel
$29.99

FreeBSD in Production: Build and Operate Secure FreeBSD Servers with ZFS, Jails, bhyve, PF, Networking, Automation, Backups, and Performance Tuning
Alira Vexel
$30.99

Nftables in Production: Build Modern Linux Firewalls with Docker, Kubernetes, WireGuard, IPv6, NAT, VLANs, Ansible, GitOps, and Zero-Trust Network Sec
Alira Vexel
$27.99

OpenVPN in Practice: Build Production-Ready VPNs with OpenVPN 2.7, Access Server, Zero Trust, DCO, PKI, MFA, Site-to-Site Networking, Docker, Cloud, a
Alira Vexel
$27.99

Fortios 8 Secure Networking in Practice: Build and Operate Production FortiGate Firewalls with Secure SD-WAN, ZTNA, SASE, VPN, HA, FortiManager, Forti
Alira Vexel
$29.99

Ubiquiti Unifi Gateway in Practice: Build Secure Home, Homelab, and Business Networks with VLANs, Zone-Based Firewalls, IDS/IPS, Multi-WAN, WireGuard,
Alira Vexel
$29.99

Modern DHCP & IPAM in Practice: Build Production-Ready IPv4 and IPv6 Addressing with Kea DHCP, Windows Server 2025, DNS, High Availability, NetBox, Au
Alira Vexel
$28.99

Proxmox Backup Server in Practice: Build Ransomware-Resilient Backup and Disaster Recovery for Proxmox VE with ZFS, S3 Storage, 3-2-1 Protection, Encr
Alira Vexel
$29.99

Grafana Observability in Practice: Build Production-Ready Monitoring Platforms with Grafana 13, OpenTelemetry, Alloy, Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, Pyrosco
Alira Vexel
$29.99

Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) Passthrough in Practice: Build High-Performance Virtual Machines, AI Workstations, and Private AI Infrastructure with P
Alira Vexel
$28.99

Modern API Gateways in Production: Build Secure, Scalable API Platforms with Kong, Envoy Gateway, Kubernetes Gateway API, Apache APISIX, NGINX, OAuth
Alira Vexel
$31.99

NGINX for Homelabs & Self-Hosting: Build a Secure Reverse Proxy Platform for Docker, Proxmox, Home Assistant, Kubernetes, Cloudflare, TLS, and Self-Ho
Alira Vexel
$28.99

NGINX in Production: Build Secure, High-Performance Application Delivery with Reverse Proxying, Load Balancing, API Gateways, Docker, Kubernetes Gatew
Alira Vexel
$29.99

OPNsense Firewall in Practice: Build Secure Homelab and Small-Business Networks with VLANs, Multi-WAN, WireGuard, Suricata, Zenarmor, High Availabilit
Alira Vexel
$27.99

pfSense Firewall in Practice: Build Secure Homelab and Small-Business Networks with VLANs, Multi-WAN, WireGuard, OpenVPN, pfBlockerNG, Suricata, High
Alira Vexel
$29.99

Production Lakehouse Engineering with DuckDB: Build Production-Ready Analytics Platforms with DuckLake, Apache Iceberg, Delta Lake, Parquet, S3, dbt,
Alira Vexel
$28.99

Cloudflare in Production: Build Secure, High-Performance Web Infrastructure with Cloudflare Zero Trust, CDN, WAF, DDoS Protection, Workers, R2, D1, Te
Alira Vexel
$24.99

Software Bill of Materials in Practice: Build Secure Software Supply Chains with SBOM, CycloneDX, SPDX, Syft, Grype, Trivy, Dependency-Track, VEX, SLS
Alira Vexel
$26.99

Modern VPNs in Practice: Build Secure Remote Access, Private Mesh Networks, and Self-Hosted VPN Infrastructure with WireGuard, Tailscale, Headscale, N
Alira Vexel
$30.99

NGINX AI Gateway in Practice: Build Production-Ready LLM Infrastructure with NGINX, Kubernetes Gateway API, vLLM, Ollama, AI Inference Routing, MCP, S
Alira Vexel
$29.99

Tailwind CSS 4 in Practice: Build Modern Responsive UIs, SaaS Dashboards, Design Systems, and Production-Ready Web Apps with React, Next.js, TypeScrip
Alira Vexel
$25.99

IntelliJ IDEA in Practice: Build High-Productivity AI-Assisted Development Workflows with JetBrains AI, Junie, Spring Boot, Docker, Kubernetes, Testin
Alira Vexel
$27.99

JetBrains IDEs in Practice: Build High-Productivity AI-Assisted Development Workflows with IntelliJ IDEA, PyCharm, WebStorm, Git, Docker, Testing, Ref
Alira Vexel
$28.99
Local AI on Linux in Practice: Build Private LLM Servers, GPU Workstations, Ollama Apps, Dockerized AI Services, and Self-Hosted AI Infrastructure wit
Alira Vexel
$30.99
ZTNA in Practice: Replace Legacy VPNs with Zero Trust Network Access, SASE, SSE, Identity-Based Security, and Secure Remote Access Architectures
Alira Vexel
$30.99
Production-Grade Reverse Proxies in Practice: Build Secure, High-Availability Traffic Front Doors with NGINX, HAProxy, Caddy, Traefik, TLS, Docker, an
Alira Vexel
$28.99
SQLite in Production: Design, Tune, Replicate, and Deploy High-Performance SQLite Systems with WAL, FTS5, JSONB, Litestream, LiteFS, Turso, and Cloudf
Alira Vexel
$31.99
Cilium for Bare-Metal & Hybrid Kubernetes: Build eBPF Networking, Gateway API Ingress, BGP Load Balancing, Cluster Mesh, Hubble Observability, and Tet
Alira Vexel
$31.99
Modern Neovim for Developers: Build a Fast, Modern Coding Environment with Lua, Native LSP, Tree-sitter, lazy.nvim, Telescope, and Debugging Workflows
Alira Vexel
$29.99
Modern Authorization in Practice: Build RBAC, ABAC, ReBAC, and Policy-as-Code for SaaS, APIs, Kubernetes, and Cloud-Native Applications with OPA, Ceda
Alira Vexel
$28.99
YAML for Kubernetes & GitOps: Master Kubernetes Manifests, Helm Charts, Kustomize Overlays, and Declarative Delivery Workflows for Production-Ready Pl
Alira Vexel
$29.99
Change Data Capture in Practice: Build Real-Time Data Pipelines with Debezium, Kafka Connect, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Lakehouse Upserts into Iceberg, D
Alira Vexel
$29.99
QEMU & KVM Virtualization in Practice: Build High-Performance Linux Hypervisors with libvirt, virt-manager, qcow2, VFIO Passthrough, Live Migration, a
Alira Vexel
$29.99
Cloud-Native SLO Engineering: Build Service Level Objectives with Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Kubernetes, and Error Budgets for Reliable Moder
Alira Vexel
$28.99
OpenStack Private Cloud in Production: Build Modern Private Clouds, Migrate VMware Workloads, and Operate Production-Ready OpenStack with Ceph, Kubern
Alira Vexel
$32.99
OpenShift Virtualization in Production: Migrate VMware Workloads, Run VMs Beside Containers, and Build Reliable Hybrid Infrastructure with KubeVirt, M
Alira Vexel
$27.99
KubeVirt in Production: Migrate VMware VMs to Kubernetes with OpenShift Virtualization, Forklift/MTV, CDI Images, Live Migration, CSI Snapshots, and H
Alira Vexel
$32.99
Kubernetes API Gateway with Gloo: Build Production-Grade Gateway API Architectures with Envoy, Secure Ingress, Rate Limiting, GitOps, and Multi-Cluste
Alira Vexel
$29.99
Trivy for Kubernetes & DevSecOps: Build Secure Container Pipelines with SBOM, Supply Chain Scanning & CI/CD Automation Using GitHub Actions, Jenkins,
Alira Vexel
$29.99
Building Data Mesh Systems: Design, Govern, and Scale Domain-Driven Data Platforms Without Chaos
Alira Vexel
$25.99
Modern Software-Defined Networking (SDN): Design, Automate, and Secure Programmable Networks for Cloud, Kubernetes, and Zero-Trust Environments
Alira Vexel
$25.99
KVM Internals & Operations: From Virtual Machines to Cloud Platforms
Alira Vexel
$25.99
Envoy Proxy Deep Dive: L7 Routing, Observability & Zero-Trust Traffic Control for Modern Cloud-Native Systems
Alira Vexel
$26.99
FastAPI in Production: Build High-Performance APIs for AI, Cloud, and Modern Backend Systems
Alira Vexel
$24.99
Vector Databases in Practice: Build RAG & AI Search with Qdrant, Milvus & Open-Source Tooling
Alira Vexel
$25.99