16 best-selling technical books like Staff Engineer: Leadership Beyond the Management Track by Will Larson

Cover of Staff Engineer: Leadership Beyond the Management Track by Will Larson

Staff Engineer: Leadership Beyond the Management Track

By: Will Larson

4.07

Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition

At most technology companies, you’ll reach Senior Software Engineer, the career level for software …

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1. Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager

By: Michael Lopp

4.11

Format: 188 pages, Paperback

Managing Humansis a selection of the best essays from Michael Lopp's web site, Rands in Repose. Dra… read more

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  • business
  • technology
  • nonfiction
  • programming
  • software
  • management
  • leadership

2. The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master

By: Dave Thomas , Andy Hunt

3.28

Format: 404 pages, Paperback

-- Ward Cunningham Straight from the programming trenches, The Pragmatic Programmer cuts through th… read more

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3. Designing Data-Intensive Applications

By: None

4.62

Format: None pages, ebook

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4. The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win

By: Gene Kim , George Spafford , Kevin Behr

4.16

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

Bill is an IT manager at Parts Unlimited. It's Tuesday morning and on his drive into the office, Bi… read more

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5. The Manager's Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change

By: Camille Fournier

3.75

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Managing people is difficult wherever you work, but the tech industry as a whole is pretty bad at i… read more

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6. Accelerate: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations

By: Nicole Forsgren

4.06

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Does technology actually matter? And how can we apply technology to drive business value? For years… read more

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  • programming
  • engineering
  • business
  • computer science
  • technology
  • nonfiction
  • technical
  • software
  • management
  • leadership
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7. Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow

By: Matthew Skelton

4.21

Format: 240 pages, ebook

Effective software teams are essential for any organization to deliver value continuously and susta… read more

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  • programming
  • engineering
  • business
  • computer science
  • technology
  • nonfiction
  • technical
  • software
  • management
  • leadership
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8. Modern Software Engineering: Doing What Works to Build Better Software Faster

By: David Farley

4.18

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Improve Your Creativity, Effectiveness, and Ultimately, Your Code In Modern Software Engineering, … read more

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  • engineering
  • computer science
  • technical
  • nonfiction
  • programming
  • software
  • technology
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9. The Staff Engineer's Path: A Guide for Individual Contributors Navigating Growth and Change

By: Tanya Reilly

4.40

Format: 335 pages, Paperback

For years, companies have rewarded their most effective engineers with management positions. But tr… read more

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  • programming
  • engineering
  • business
  • computer science
  • technology
  • nonfiction
  • technical
  • software
  • management
  • leadership
"What will Future You wish that Present You had done?"

-Tanya Reilly, The Staff Engineer's Path: A Guide for Individual Contributors Navigating Growth and Change

"Yes, you can be an introvert. No, you can't be a jerk."

-Tanya Reilly, The Staff Engineer's Path: A Guide for Individual Contributors Navigating Growth and Change

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10. A Philosophy of Software Design

By: John Ousterhout

4.21

Format: 190 pages, Paperback

This book addresses the topic of software how to decompose complex software systems into modules (… read more

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  • engineering
  • computer science
  • technical
  • nonfiction
  • programming
  • software
  • technology
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11. Fundamentals of Software Architecture: An Engineering Approach

By: Mark Richards

4.26

Format: 419 pages, Paperback

Although salary surveys worldwide regularly identify software architect as one of the top ten best … read more

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  • engineering
  • computer science
  • technical
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  • programming
  • software
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12. System Design Interview – An insider's guide

By: Alex Xu

4.29

Format: 324 pages, Kindle Edition

The system design interview is considered to be the most complex and most difficult technical job i… read more

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  • engineering
  • computer science
  • technical
  • nonfiction
  • programming
  • software
  • technology
Cover of Learning Domain-Driven Design: Aligning Software Architecture and Business Strategy by Vladik Khononov

13. Learning Domain-Driven Design: Aligning Software Architecture and Business Strategy

By: Vladik Khononov

4.47

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

Building software is harder than ever. As a developer, you not only have to chase ever-changing tec… read more

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  • engineering
  • computer science
  • technical
  • nonfiction
  • programming
  • software
  • business
  • technology
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14. Understanding Distributed Systems: What every developer should know about large distributed applications

By: Roberto Vitillo

4.38

Format: 234 pages, ebook

Learning to build distributed systems is hard, especially if they are large scale. It's not that th… read more

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  • engineering
  • computer science
  • technical
  • nonfiction
  • programming
  • software
  • technology
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15. Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time

By: Titus Winters

4.20

Format: 599 pages, Paperback

The approach to and understanding of software engineering at Google is unlike any other company. Wi… read more

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  • programming
  • engineering
  • computer science
  • nonfiction
  • technical
  • software
  • management
  • technology
"Sometimes, the best thing you can do is just say, “I don’t know."

-Titus Winters, Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time

"Google and Stack Overflow are great sources of opinions and information, but they’re no substitute for actual human experience."

-Titus Winters, Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time

"Programming is the immediate act of producing code. Software engineering is the set of policies, practices, and tools that are necessary to make that code useful for as long as it needs to be used an…"

-Titus Winters, Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time

"Making good engineering decisions is all about weighing all of the available inputs and making informed decisions about the trade-offs. Sometimes, those decisions are based on instinct or accepted be…"

-Titus Winters, Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time

Cover of Staff Engineer: Leadership Beyond the Management Track by Will Larson

16. Staff Engineer: Leadership Beyond the Management Track

By: Will Larson

4.07

Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition

At most technology companies, you’ll reach Senior Software Engineer, the career level for software … read more

Similar categories in Will Larson's Staff Engineer: Leadership Beyond the Management Track book and Will Larson's Staff Engineer: Leadership Beyond the Management Track

  • programming
  • engineering
  • business
  • computer science
  • technology
  • nonfiction
  • technical
  • software
  • management
  • leadership
Cover of Software Architecture: The Hard Parts: Modern Trade-Off Analyses for Distributed Architectures by Neal Ford

17. Software Architecture: The Hard Parts: Modern Trade-Off Analyses for Distributed Architectures

By: Neal Ford

4.28

Format: 459 pages, Paperback

There are no easy decisions in software architecture. Instead, there are many hard parts--difficult… read more

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  • engineering
  • computer science
  • technical
  • nonfiction
  • programming
  • software
  • technology
Cover of The Software Engineer's Guidebook: Navigating senior, tech lead, and staff engineer positions at tech companies and startups by Gergely  Orosz

18. The Software Engineer's Guidebook: Navigating senior, tech lead, and staff engineer positions at tech companies and startups

By: Gergely Orosz

4.12

Format: 413 pages, Paperback

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  • programming
  • engineering
  • business
  • computer science
  • technology
  • nonfiction
  • technical
  • software
  • management
  • leadership
Cover of Tidy First?: A Personal Exercise in Empirical Software Design by Kent Beck

19. Tidy First?: A Personal Exercise in Empirical Software Design

By: Kent Beck

3.95

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

Messy code is a nuisance. "Tidying" code, to make it more readable, requires breaking it up into ma… read more

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  • engineering
  • computer science
  • technical
  • nonfiction
  • programming
  • software
  • technology
Cover of Engineering Management for the Rest of Us by Sarah Drasner

20. Engineering Management for the Rest of Us

By: Sarah Drasner

4.20

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

A lot of Engineering Managers and leaders studied for years and years to become the best Engineer t… read more

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  • programming
  • engineering
  • business
  • computer science
  • technology
  • nonfiction
  • technical
  • software
  • management
  • leadership
Cover of System Design Interview – An Insider's Guide: Volume 2 by Alex Xu

21. System Design Interview – An Insider's Guide: Volume 2

By: Alex Xu

4.49

Format: 424 pages, Paperback

System Design Interview - An Insider's Guide (Volume 2) This book can be seen as a sequel to the b… read more

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  • computer science
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17 best-selling nonfiction books like Staff Engineer: Leadership Beyond the Management Track by Will Larson

Transform Your Habits

Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager

Michael Lopp

4.11

Transform Your Habits

Accelerate: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations

Nicole Forsgren

4.06

Transform Your Habits

Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow

Matthew Skelton

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Modern Software Engineering: Doing What Works to Build Better Software Faster

David Farley

4.18

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17 best-selling nonfiction books like Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow by Matthew Skelton

Transform Your Habits

Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software

Eric Evans

4.15

The DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations

Gene Kim , Jez Humble , Patrick Debois , John Willis

3.76

Transform Your Habits

Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager

Michael Lopp

4.11

Transform Your Habits

Accelerate: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations

Nicole Forsgren

4.06

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