Mastering Claude for Developers

Mastering Claude for Developers is a developer-focused, practical manual for building production applications with Claude.

This 15-chapter book covers Claude APIs and SDKs, model selection, advanced prompt engineering, system messages, streaming integration patterns, and robust error handling. It dives into token efficiency, context management, tool-use patterns (function calling), and safety/stewardship approaches to reduce hallucination and unsafe outputs. The book also walks you through building microservices, orchestrating Claude in serverless environments, monitoring and observability, and privacy/compliance approaches for real-world deployments.

What you'll learn: how to choose Claude model variants, design structured prompts and system messages, integrate external tools, implement streaming and retries, optimize token usage, and deploy Claude services with observability and governance.

Who this book is for: software engineers, prompt engineers, ML engineers, DevOps and SRE professionals, and technical product leads who want to build robust, secure, and scalable applications on Claude.