24 Best technology books like Software Architecture: The Hard Parts: Modern Trade-Off Analyses for Distributed Architectures by Neal Ford

Cover of Software Architecture: The Hard Parts: Modern Trade-Off Analyses for Distributed Architectures by Neal Ford

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…

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

By: Eric Evans

4.15

Format: 560 pages, Hardcover

"Eric Evans has written a fantastic book on how you can make the design of your software match your… read more

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  • architecture
  • engineering
  • programming
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  • nonfiction
  • design
  • technical
  • software
  • technology

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

By: Gene Kim , Jez Humble , Patrick Debois , John Willis

3.76

Format: 6 pages, Paperback

Increase profitability, elevate work culture, and exceed productivity goals through DevOps practice… read more

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  • computer science
  • technical
  • nonfiction
  • programming
  • software
  • technology
Cover of Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code by Kent Beck, Erich Gamma, Martin Fowler, Don Roberts

3. Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code

By: Kent Beck , Erich Gamma , Martin Fowler , Don Roberts

4.06

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

As the application of object technology--particularly the Java programming language--has become com… read more

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  • programming
  • computer science
  • nonfiction
  • technical
  • software
  • technology
Cover of Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager by Michael Lopp

4. 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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  • software
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  • nonfiction
  • programming

5. Grokking Algorithms An Illustrated Guide For Programmers and Other Curious People

By: None

5.00

Format: None pages,

An algorithm is nothing more than a step-by-step procedure for solving a problem. The algorithms yo… read more

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6. 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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7. Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software

By: Erich Gamma , Richard Helm , Ralph Johnson , None

3.46

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Capturing a wealth of experience about the design of object-oriented software, four top-notch desig… read more

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8. Designing Data-Intensive Applications

By: None

4.62

Format: None pages, ebook

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9. The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering

By: Frederick P. Brooks Jr.

3.36

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Few books on software project management have been as influential and timeless as The Mythical Man-… read more

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10. Building Microservices: Designing Fine-Grained Systems

By: Sam Newman

4.45

Format: 864 pages, Paperback

Distributed systems have become more fine-grained in the past 10 years, shifting from code-heavy mo… read more

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11. 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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12. 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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  • engineering
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  • programming
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13. Clean Architecture

By: Robert C. Martin

4.23

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

Building upon the success of best-sellers The Clean Coder and Clean Code, legendary software crafts… read more

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  • computers
  • engineering
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  • programming
  • computer science
  • nonfiction
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"The only way to go fast, is to go well."

-Robert C. Martin, Clean Architecture

"All race conditions, deadlock conditions, and concurrent update problems are due to mutable variables."

-Robert C. Martin, Clean Architecture

"I'm a programmer. I like programming. And the best way I've found to have a positive impact on code is to write it."

-Robert C. Martin, Clean Architecture

"Any organisation that designs a system will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organisation's communication structure"

-Robert C. Martin, Clean Architecture

Cover of Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow by Matthew    Skelton

14. 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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  • engineering
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Cover of Modern Software Engineering: Doing What Works to Build Better Software Faster by David  Farley

15. 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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Cover of The Staff Engineer's Path: A Guide for Individual Contributors Navigating Growth and Change by Tanya Reilly

16. 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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  • engineering
  • computer science
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  • nonfiction
  • programming
  • software
  • technology
"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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17. 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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  • computers
  • engineering
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Cover of Fundamentals of Software Architecture: An Engineering Approach by Mark   Richards

18. 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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  • architecture
  • engineering
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  • technical
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  • technology
Cover of System Design Interview – An insider's guide by Alex Xu

19. 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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  • architecture
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Cover of Learning Domain-Driven Design: Aligning Software Architecture and Business Strategy by Vladik Khononov

20. 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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  • architecture
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Cover of An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management by Will Larson

21. An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management

By: Will Larson

4.10

Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition

There’s a saying that people don’t leave companies, they leave managers. Management is a key part o… read more

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Cover of Understanding Distributed Systems: What every developer should know about large distributed applications by Roberto Vitillo

22. 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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Cover of Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time by Titus Winters

23. 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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"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

24. 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

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Cover of Software Architecture: The Hard Parts: Modern Trade-Off Analyses for Distributed Architectures by Neal Ford

25. 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

Similar categories in Neal Ford's Software Architecture: The Hard Parts: Modern Trade-Off Analyses for Distributed Architectures book and Neal Ford's Software Architecture: The Hard Parts: Modern Trade-Off Analyses for Distributed Architectures

  • computers
  • engineering
  • architecture
  • programming
  • computer science
  • nonfiction
  • design
  • technical
  • software
  • technology
Cover of Fundamentals of Data Engineering: Plan and Build Robust Data Systems by Joe Reis

26. Fundamentals of Data Engineering: Plan and Build Robust Data Systems

By: Joe Reis

4.25

Format: 426 pages, Paperback

Data engineering has grown rapidly in the past decade, leaving many software engineers, data scient… read more

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Cover of Monolith to Microservices: Evolutionary Patterns to Transform Your Monolith by Sam Newman

27. Monolith to Microservices: Evolutionary Patterns to Transform Your Monolith

By: Sam Newman

4.29

Format: 255 pages, Paperback

How do you detangle a monolithic system and migrate it to a microservices architecture? How do you … read more

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"The code that changes together, stays together."

-Sam Newman, Monolith to Microservices: Evolutionary Patterns to Transform Your Monolith

"As developers, we often react badly when we see duplication. We worry about the extra cost of managing duplicate copies of information, and are even more concerned if this data diverges. But sometime…"

-Sam Newman, Monolith to Microservices: Evolutionary Patterns to Transform Your Monolith

"By breaking our application into individual, independently deployable processes, we open up a host of mechanisms to improve the robustness of our applications. By using microservices, we are able to …"

-Sam Newman, Monolith to Microservices: Evolutionary Patterns to Transform Your Monolith

"Resilience versus Robustness. Typically when we want to improve a system’s ability to avoid outages, handle failures gracefully when they occur and recover quickly when they happen, we often talk abo…"

-Sam Newman, Monolith to Microservices: Evolutionary Patterns to Transform Your Monolith

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28. The Software Architect Elevator: Redefining the Architect's Role in the Digital Enterprise

By: Gregor Hohpe

4.42

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

As the digital economy changes the rules of the game for enterprises, the role of software and IT a… read more

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"Evolving a widely reused resource also requires coordination because changes must be compatible with all existing systems or users. Such coordination can slow down innovation... Some digital companie…"

-Gregor Hohpe, The Software Architect Elevator: Redefining the Architect's Role in the Digital Enterprise

Cover of Code That Fits in Your Head : Heuristics for Software Engineering (Robert C. Martin Series) by Mark Seemann

29. Code That Fits in Your Head : Heuristics for Software Engineering (Robert C. Martin Series)

By: Mark Seemann

4.10

Format: 406 pages, Paperback

The latest title in Addison Wesley's world-renowned Robert C. Martin Series on better software deve… read more

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  • computers
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  • computer science
  • nonfiction
  • technical
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30. Software Architecture Metrics

By: Christian Ciceri

3.41

Format: 215 pages, Paperback

Software architecture metrics are key to the maintainability and architectural quality of a softwar… read more

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  • computers
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Cover of System Design Interview – An Insider's Guide: Volume 2 by Alex Xu

31. 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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24 Top nonfiction books like Software Architecture: The Hard Parts: Modern Trade-Off Analyses for Distributed Architectures by Neal Ford

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

Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code

Kent Beck , Erich Gamma , Martin Fowler , Don Roberts

4.06

Transform Your Habits

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

Michael Lopp

4.11

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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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