13 Top technical books like Kill It with Fire: Manage Aging Computer Systems (and Future Proof Modern Ones) by Marianne Bellotti

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Kill It with Fire: Manage Aging Computer Systems (and Future Proof Modern Ones)

By: Marianne Bellotti

4.16

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

Kill It with Fire chronicles the challenges of dealing with aging computer systems, along with soun…

If you liked the technical plot in Kill It with Fire: Manage Aging Computer Systems (and Future Proof Modern Ones) by Marianne Bellotti , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters

By: Richard P. Rumelt

4.13

Format: 320 pages, Unknown Binding

Clears out the mumbo jumbo and muddled thinking underlying too many strategies and provides a clear… read more

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  • business
  • nonfiction
  • management
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2. High Output Management

By: Andrew S. Grove

4.35

Format: None pages, Paperback

The essential skill of creating and maintaining new businesses--the art of the entrepreneur--can be… read more

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  • business
  • nonfiction
  • management

3. Thinking in Systems: A Primer

By: Donella H. Meadows , None

3.57

Format: None pages, Paperback

Meadows' Thinking in Systems, is a concise and crucial book offering insight for problem solving on… read more

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4. Choke: What the Secrets of the Brain Reveal About Getting It Right When You Have To

By: Sian Beilock

3.50

Format: 24 pages, ebook

Why do the smartest students often do poorly on standardized tests? Why did you tank that interview… read more

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5. 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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6. 80/20 Running: Run Stronger and Race Faster by Training Slower

By: Matt Fitzgerald , Robert Johnson

3.20

Format: None pages, Paperback

TRAIN EASIER TO RUN FASTER This revolutionary training method has been embraced by elite runners--w… read more

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7. Designing Data-Intensive Applications

By: None

4.62

Format: None pages, ebook

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8. Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship

By: Robert C. Martin

4.44

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Even bad code can function. But if code isn t clean, it can bring a development organization to its… read more

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9. Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture

By: Wil Wheaton , David Kushner

3.99

Format: 11 pages, Paperback

Masters of Doomis the amazing true story of the Lennon and McCartney of video games: John Carmack a… read more

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10. 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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11. 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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12. Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

By: Edmund Conway

4.52

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil, and lithium. These fundamental materials have created empires, razed… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • business
  • technology
"You can get anything you want from anywhere in the world at a bargain price, but don't [whatever you do] expect to understand how it was made or how it got to you."

-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

"Brothers and sisters,’ said the man. ‘I want to tell you this. The greatest thing on earth is to have the love of God in your heart, and the next greatest thing is to have electricity in your house.’…"

-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

"To say that concrete is everywhere is hardly an exaggeration. Despite the fact that we only began mass producing this mixture of sand, aggregates and cement just over a century ago, there are now mor…"

-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

"A few years ago some geologists sifted through the data [and] estimated that the amount of sand, soil and rock we humans mine and quarry and dredge each year is some 24 times greater than the amount …"

-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

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13. Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making

By: Tony Fadell

4.33

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Written for anyone who wants to grow at work—from young grads navigating their first jobs to CEOs d… read more

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  • business
  • nonfiction
  • management
  • technology
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14. The Unicorn Project

By: Gene Kim

4.08

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The Phoenix Project wowed over a half-million readers. Now comes the Wall Street Journal Bestsellin… read more

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  • business
  • computer science
  • technical
  • programming
  • software
  • management
  • technology
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15. 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
  • nonfiction
  • technical
  • software
  • management
  • technology
Cover of Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches from the Wrong Side of History by Nellie Bowles

16. Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches from the Wrong Side of History

By: Nellie Bowles

4.05

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From former New York Times reporter Nellie Bowles, a look at how some of the most educated people i… read more

Similar categories in Nellie Bowles's Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches from the Wrong Side of History book and Marianne Bellotti's Kill It with Fire: Manage Aging Computer Systems (and Future Proof Modern Ones)

  • nonfiction
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17. 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
  • nonfiction
  • technical
  • software
  • management
  • technology
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18. 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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19. 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
  • nonfiction
  • technical
  • software
  • management
  • 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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20. 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
  • programming
  • computer science
  • nonfiction
  • technical
  • software
  • technology
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21. 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
  • nonfiction
  • programming
  • software
  • technology
Cover of Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better by Jennifer Pahlka

22. Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better

By: Jennifer Pahlka

4.42

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

“The book I wish every policymaker would read.” ― Ezra Klein, The New York Times A bold call to… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • business
  • technology
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23. What Is ChatGPT Doing... and Why Does It Work?

By: Stephen Wolfram

3.91

Format: 141 pages, Kindle Edition

Nobody expected this—not even its creators: ChatGPT has burst onto the scene as an AI capable of wr… read more

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  • computers
  • engineering
  • nonfiction
  • programming
  • computer science
  • technology
Cover of Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time by Titus Winters

24. 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

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

26. 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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  • computers
  • engineering
  • programming
  • computer science
  • nonfiction
  • technical
  • software
  • technology
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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  • computers
  • engineering
  • programming
  • computer science
  • nonfiction
  • technical
  • software
  • business
  • technology
"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

Cover of Wiring the Winning Organization: Liberating Our Collective Greatness through Slowification, Simplification, and Amplification by Gene Kim

28. Wiring the Winning Organization: Liberating Our Collective Greatness through Slowification, Simplification, and Amplification

By: Gene Kim

4.32

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In this powerful new book, bestselling and award-winning authors Gene Kim and Dr. Steve Spear prese… read more

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  • engineering
  • business
  • nonfiction
  • software
  • management
Cover of Kill It with Fire: Manage Aging Computer Systems (and Future Proof Modern Ones) by Marianne Bellotti

29. Kill It with Fire: Manage Aging Computer Systems (and Future Proof Modern Ones)

By: Marianne Bellotti

4.16

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

Kill It with Fire chronicles the challenges of dealing with aging computer systems, along with soun… read more

Similar categories in Marianne Bellotti's Kill It with Fire: Manage Aging Computer Systems (and Future Proof Modern Ones) book and Marianne Bellotti's Kill It with Fire: Manage Aging Computer Systems (and Future Proof Modern Ones)

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

30. 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
  • nonfiction
  • technical
  • software
  • management
  • technology
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31. Saturation Point

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

3.93

Format: 165 pages, Hardcover

A group of scientists and soldiers are hunted by mysterious enemies in a terrifying new climate thr… read more

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Transform Your Habits

Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters

Richard P. Rumelt

4.13

Transform Your Habits

High Output Management

Andrew S. Grove

4.35

Transform Your Habits

Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

Edmund Conway

4.52

Transform Your Habits

Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making

Tony Fadell

4.33

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Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

Charles Duhigg

4.05

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Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things

Adam M. Grant

4.12

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Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

Cal Newport

3.73

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Making Work Visible: Exposing Time Theft to Optimize Work & Flow

Dominica Degrandis

4.10

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