Whether it's in Java, .NET, or Ruby on Rails, getting your application ready to ship is only half the battle. Did you design your system to survivef a sudden rush of visitors from Digg or Slashdot? Or…
Shelve Release It!: Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software (Pragmatic Programmers)
Data is at the center of many challenges in system design today. Difficult issues need to be figured out, such as scalability, consistency, reliability, efficiency, and maintainability. In addition, w…
Straight from the programming trenches, The Pragmatic Programmer cuts through the increasing specialization and technicalities of modern software development to examine the core process--taking a …
Shelve The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master
Even bad code can function. But if code isn't clean, it can bring a development organization to its knees. Every year, countless hours and significant resources are lost because of poorly written code…
Shelve Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
Building upon the success of best-sellers The Clean Coder and Clean Code, legendary software craftsman Robert C. "Uncle Bob" Martin shows how to bring greater professionalism and discipline to applica…
Although salary surveys worldwide regularly identify software architect as one of the top ten best jobs, no decent guides exist to help developers become architects. Until now. This practical guide pr…
Shelve Fundamentals of Software Architecture: An Engineering Approach
There are no easy decisions in software architecture. Instead, there are many hard parts--difficult problems or issues with no best practices--that force you to choose among various compromises. With …
Shelve Software Architecture: The Hard Parts: Modern Trade-Off Analyses for Distributed Architectures
Distributed systems have become more fine-grained in the past 10 years, shifting from code-heavy monolithic applications to smaller, self-contained microservices. But developing these systems brings i…
Shelve Building Microservices: Designing Fine-Grained Systems
"This book is a breakthrough, a lyrical, powerful, science-based narrative that actually shows us how to get better (much better) at the things we care about."--Seth Godin, author of Linchpin
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Shelve Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise
"Eric Evans has written a fantastic book on how you can make the design of your software match your mental model of the problem domain you are addressing. "His book is very compatible with XP. It is n…
Shelve Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software
Messy code is a nuisance. "Tidying" code, to make it more readable, requires breaking it up into manageable sections. In this practical guide, author Kent Beck, creator of Extreme Programming and pion…
Shelve Tidy First?: A Personal Exercise in Empirical Software Design
Does technology actually matter? And how can we apply technology to drive business value? For years, we've been told that the performance of software delivery teams doesn't matter—that it can't provid…
Shelve Accelerate: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations
This book addresses the topic of software how to decompose complex software systems into modules (such as classes and methods) that can be implemented relatively independently. The book first introduc…
Few books on software project management have been as influential and timeless as The Mythical Man-Month. With a blend of software engineering facts and thought-provoking opinions, Fred Brooks offers …
Shelve The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
The approach to and understanding of software engineering at Google is unlike any other company. With this book, you'll get a candid and insightful look at how software is constructed and maintained b…
Shelve Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time
”This book takes an impossibly broad area of computer science and communicates what working developers need to understand in a clear and thorough way.” - David Jacobs, Product Advance Local
For years, companies have rewarded their most effective engineers with management positions. But treating management as the default path for an engineer with leadership ability doesn't serve the indus…
Shelve The Staff Engineer's Path: A Guide for Individual Contributors Navigating Growth and Change
Nate Silver built an innovative system for predicting baseball performance, predicted the 2008 election within a hair's breadth. He solidified his standing as the nation's foremost political forecaste…
Shelve The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—But Some Don't
As the application of object technology—particularly the Java programming language—has become commonplace, a new problem has emerged to confront the software development community. Significant numbers…
Shelve Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
You want increased customer satisfaction, faster development cycles, and less wasted work. Domain-driven design (DDD) combined with functional programming is the innovative combo that will get you the…
Shelve Domain Modeling Made Functional: Tackle Software Complexity with Domain-Driven Design and F#
To most of us, learning something “the hard way” implies wasted time and effort. Good teaching, we believe, should be creatively tailored to the different learning styles of students and should use st…
Shelve Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning
What will you learn from this book? If you're a software developer looking for a quick on-ramp to software architecture, this handy guide is a great place to start. From the authors of Fundamentals of…
Shelve Head First Software Architecture: A Learner's Guide to Architectural Thinking
"David Marquet is the kind of leader who comes around only once in a generation ... his ideas and lessons are invaluable" — Simon Sinek, author of Start With Why
Captain David Marquet was used to givin…
Shelve Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders
The system design interview is considered to be the most complex and most difficult technical job interview by many. This book provides a step-by-step framework on how to tackle a system design questi…
Shelve System Design Interview – An insider's guide
In this must-have for anyone who wants to better understand their love life, a mathematician pulls back the curtain and reveals the hidden patterns—from dating sites to divorce, sex to marriage—behind…
Shelve The Mathematics of Love: Patterns, Proofs, and the Search for the Ultimate Equation (TED Books)
Developers of enterprise applications (e.g reservation systems, supply chain programs, financial systems, etc.) face a unique set of challenges, different than those faced by their desktop system and …
Shelve Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture
Effective software teams are essential for any organization to deliver value continuously and sustainably. But how do you build the best team organization for your specific goals, culture, and needs? …
Shelve Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow
Winner of the 2011 Jolt Excellence Award!Getting software released to users is often a painful, risky, and time-consuming process. This groundbreaking new book sets out the principles and technical pr…
Clears out the mumbo jumbo and muddled thinking underlying too many strategies and provides a clear way to create and implement a powerful action-oriented strategy for the real world Developing and im…
Shelve Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters
